On Tuesday, January 12, at 2000h the Manoel Theatre will be presenting the Fioretto Ensemble and alto Lydia Vierlinger in a concert of baroque music.
The programme will start with Telemann’s cantata, for alto, transverse flute and continuo Kein Vogel kann im Weiten fliegen from his Harmonischen Gottesdienst. It continues with Rameau’s Cinquième concert en trio for transverse flute, viola da gamba and harpsichord followed by another Telemann cantata, Seufzen, Kummer, Angst und Tränen scored for alto and continuo while Blavet’s five-movement La Lumage for transverse flute and continuo ends the first half. The second will include pieces by Handel and Telemann.
Linz-born alto Lydia Vierlinger is no newcomer to Malta. After studying piano and violin she studied voice and vocal pedagogy at Vienna’s University of Music and Performing Arts. She has worked with Diane Forlano in London and Herwig Reiter in Vienna where since 2004 she has served as associate professor teaching voice at her old University.
Over the years she has become widely acclaimed as a singer of old music and has worked with several well-known conductors such as among others Adam Fischer, René Clemencic, Martin Haselböck, Adrian Leaper, Michael Radulescu and Jörg Zwicker. She has appeared at all leading Austrian festivals and concert halls and several others abroad such as Le Mans, Salamanca, Barcelona, Venice, Perugia, Madrid, Amsterdam, Bayreuth, Berlin, Würzburg, Prague and New York.
She has several CDs to her credit including one featuring Brahms rarities, a solo CD of Handel arias, and a live recording of a previously lost Telemann opera, Pastorelle en Musique in the revival performance of which she had previously taken part.
The Fioretto Ensemble consists of 3 ladies namely Tilla Dotzler (viola da gamba) who is from Munich, Elke Eckerstorfer (harpsichord) from Linz and Judith Wigelbeyer (transverse flute) who is also Austrian, from Vöcklabruck.
All 3 ladies have studied in their native countries and abroad, have performed widely at home and abroad too and worked with leading tutors and collaborated with various renowned musicians.
Tilla Dotzler also specialises in baroque dance and teaches at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic. Elke Eckerstorfer eventually returned as tutor to Vienna’s University of Music and Performing Arts where she had also studied. Winner of many prizes she has recorded for radio and has recorded CDs. Judith Wigelbeyer started studying modern flute at Vienna’s University of Music and later took up the transverse flute. She teaches both instruments and like Tilla Dotzler, apart from Fioretto she also performs with other ensembles.
Booking is open via email on bookings@teatrumanoel.com.mt or by calling on 2124 6389. Alternatively one may purchase tickets online through
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