Arti Shuffle Jonge Musici: Gaia Szames & Lóránt Illyés
Arti Shuffles Jonge Musici #3
De Arti Shuffles Jonge Musici is een samenwerking tussen Arti en het Conservatorium van Amsterdam. In deze concertserie krijgen jonge, veelbelovende musici de kans om podiumervaring op te doen en hun talent te presenteren op verschillende locaties. Bezoekers kunnen kennismaken met een nieuwe generatie musici in een afwisselend programma vol verrassende optredens
Arti Shuffles Jonge Musici: Gaia Szames & Lóránt Illyés
This programme is centred around the air de cour, the French court song that flourished from the late sixteenth century through the reign of Louis XIII. Written for voice and plucked-string instruments, these intimate songs were performed in salons and private chambers rather than on grand stages. Their themes revolve around love, longing, heartbreak, and pastoral imagery, populated by shepherds, shepherdesses, nymphs, and gods.
The programme traces the development of the genre through several generations of composers. Adrian Le Roy and Charles Tessier represent its early stages, when the air de cour was still closely connected to the Renaissance chanson. Le Roy was also a prominent music publisher and co-founder of the Ballard printing house, which would become the leading publisher of French court music for the next two centuries. Pierre Guédron, who directed music at the courts of Henri IV and Louis XIII, and his son-in-law and successor Antoine Boesset, helped shape the genre into a more expressive and theatrical form. Étienne Moulinié, music director to Gaston d'Orléans for more than three decades, brought a distinctive harmonic richness to the tradition. Bénigne de Bacilly, renowned as both a composer and singing teacher, left behind one of the most important treatises on ornamentation and performance practice of the period.
Much of the repertoire performed in this concert survives thanks to the publications of the Ballard family press. Together, these songs offer a rare glimpse into the intimate musical world of seventeenth-century France.
This is a programme built on subtle gestures, intimate expression, and careful listening.
Gaia Szames is an Argentinian soprano based in Amsterdam, specialising in Early Music. Her main focus lies in Italian monody and madrigals of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, as well as French music from the same period.
Active as both a soloist and ensemble singer, she has performed under the direction of Andrés Locatelli, Adrián van der Spoel, Eduardo López Banzo and others. She has explored a wide range of repertoires, including Spanish and Latin American polyphony with Jonatan Alvarado, Italian Renaissance polyphony with Claron McFadden and Mike Fentross, and Spanish and Italian monody with Ensemble La Primavera.
She earned her Bachelor's degree at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, completed a Master's degree in Advanced Vocal Ensemble Studies at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, and is currently pursuing a second Master's degree at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam with Xenia Meijer.
Lóránt Illyés is a Hungarian musician based in Amsterdam, specialising in Early Music. After earning a Bachelor's degree in Classical Guitar from the University of Szeged's Faculty of Music, he completed a Master's degree at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam.
He is currently pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Early Music at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, specialising in lute and theorbo, with a particular interest in Renaissance and Baroque repertoire.
Gaia Szames — soprano
Lóránt Illyés — lute and theorbo
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De Arti Shuffle is een publiek toegankelijk programma in kunstenaarsvereniging Arti et Amicitiae waarin beeldende kunst, performances, muziek, literatuur en film samenkomen.
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