Concert by Sambuca

Saturday 20 January 2007 7.30 p.m.

Kinson Community Centre, Pelhams Park, Millhams Rd, Kinson, Bournemouth.

Sambuca have a fantastic programme for you on 20th January. I know I keep saying this but this really is one not to miss! With music by William Byrd, Handel, Dowland, Praetorius, Takemitsu, Piazzolla, Vivaldi, Santiago de Murcia and more. All played on recorder, sopranino, digital horn, flute, ocarinas, lute, guitar, baroque guitar - need I say more - BE THERE! Tickets are on sale now.

It is well worth taking a look at the websites below, as not only will you be able to hear all the pieces on Sambuca's first CD you will also be able so see videos of them playing. You will also be able to read details about the lute and theorbo and also the history behind them.

Biography

Michael Copley has performed all around the world as member of The Cambridge Buskers and later The Classic Buskers, including performances in the Royal Albert Hall, the Royal Festival Hall and the Wigmore Hall in London, the Sydney Opera House, the Carnegie Hall in New York, and tours all over Europe, Japan, Canada, the United States and even Syria.

Michael has made solo appearances with the English Chamber Orchestra, the St Louis Symphony Orchestra, the Vancouver Symphony and the Academy of Ancient Music. He has recorded Vivaldi's recorder concertos for Deutsche Grammophon and Bach's Brandenburgs with I Musici for Phillips.

Peter Martin started playing the guitar while living as a child in Spain. He studied music at Churchill College in Cambridge, during which time he became a founder member of the English Guitar Quartet. In recent years, Peter has concentrated increasingly on the lute and its larger relative, the theorbo, and has studied with Rolf Lislevand, Andrea Damiani and Xavier Diaz Latorre.

He and Michael are also founder members of the Chuckerbutty Ocarina Quartet, which was in residence at the Dartington International Summer School in 2002, and which performed recently for the British Flute Society with guest ocarina player Sir James Galway. Until 2005, Peter was also a director of the international music agency Askonas Holt.

Sambuca - From deeply authentic baroque to wilfully unauthentic Mascagni, Sambuca present four hundred years of music plundered from all over Europe and beyond. Whether Handel or Vivaldi, modern classics by Piazzolla or Takemitsu, or world music from Bolivia or Macedonia, Sambuca's eclectic range of music has an immediate appeal to audiences from school children to the most serious early music specialists. Sambuca introduce their own programmes from the stage and can present concerts in most European languages and in Japanese.

Michael Copley and Peter Martin met as music students at Cambridge University and have been performing together ever since. Michael plays recorder, flute, bass flute, ocarina, panpipes, digital horn, quena and various rare and obscure woodwind instruments. Peter plays guitar, lute, baroque guitar, theorbo and charango.

In 2004/5, Sambuca's concerts include Cambridge Summer Recitals, the British Music Society of York, London's Barbican Centre, Salisbury International Festival, Göttingen Handel Festival and Kloster Michaelstein in Germany, and Mulhouse Baroque Festival in France, as well as many other appearances around the UK. They were selected for the Making Music Concert Promoters' Network for the 2004/5 season.

Sambuca's first CD, released in 2004 on the Seaview Music label, has been heard on BBC Radio 3's Late Junction, and the duo themselves appeared live on Radio 3's In Tune in July 2004.

Reviews

"A masterly display of virtuoso playing"

Anglia Polytechnic University, November 2004

"Ein Abend der Sonderklasse"

Göttinger Tageblatt, May 2004

"Sambuca proved to be a wonderful musical experience"

Purton Magazine, July 2003 (Rural Arts Wiltshire)