Representation
North America
Jon Aaron
Managing Director
Aaron Concert Artists
331 West 57th St. #344
New York 10019
Phone: 212-665-0313
E-mail: jon@aaronconcert.com
Europe
Valérie Lafont
Cinquièmes Cordes
131, rue Legendre
F-75017 Paris
Phone: +33 (0)1 40 35 71 56
E-mail: valerie@cinquiemescordes.com
Study with Sequentia
Since 1979 the members of Sequentia have taught hundreds of courses in medieval music performance, including summer music academies, workshops and masterclasses all over the world. Of the many young musicians who have attended these courses, a large number have gone on to professional careers in medieval music performance, and several of these have become members of the extended Sequentia performing ensemble.
Since 2005 Sequentia’s co-founder and director, Benjamin Bagby, has taught at the University of Paris, Sorbonne, in the context of a Master’s programme in medieval music performance practice which he directs together with Katarina Livljanic, director of the medieval music ensemble Dialogos.
Mr. Bagby also gives advanced private coaching and lessons to highly-motivated young professionals and ensembles.
Workshops and Courses
1-10 February and 20-27 April 2011
Teaching residence (with Katarina Livljanic and Thomas Forrest Kelly) at Harvard University, School of Music (for Harvard students only)10 March 2011
One-day masterclasses at Burg Fürsteneck, Germany25-26 March 2011
Teaching at University of Birmingham, UK (early music department)1-12 August 2011
Intensive summer course in medieval music: Vancouver Early Music Programme (Vancouver, BC, Canada)
For further information send an email to info@earlymusic.bc.caOctober 2011-June 2012
Benjamin Bagby (together with Katarina Livljanic, director of the ensemble Dialogos) teaches medieval performance practice as part of a professional Masters program at the University of Paris IV, Sorbonne. Final auditions for the 2011-12 academic year will be held in Paris on 19 September 2011.
For further information please click here: French | English16-18 December 2011
Three-day course (with Marc Lewon) on the German Minnesänger Heinric van Veldeke and his world (2 more sessions to follow in 2012).Alden-Biesen, Belgium
Upcoming Concerts
28 October 2011
Early Music In Columbus, USA
Chant Wars
13, 14, 15 January 2012
Musée National du Moyen Âge, Paris, France
Frankish Phantoms
25, 26 February 2012
Da Camera of Houston, USA
Fragments for the End of Time
News
Between Music and Story-telling
In the context of a performance by Sequentia of The Rheingold Curse at the Radovljica Early Music Festival (Slovenia) in August, 2011, Benjamin Bagby spoke with Katarina Šter. Read the English original version of the interview here
Bagby and Rodenkirchen on WDR3
In June, 2011, Benjamin Bagby and Norbert Rodenkirchen were interviewed by journalist Anna Austrup for a Sequentia 'Portrait' broadcast in the West German Radio's prestigious 3rd program, in conjunction with a live broadcast concert in Cologne's 'Romanesque Summer' concerts series.
Listen to the recorded interview (in German)
2011 Thornton Scholarship
Laura Osterlund is the recipient of the 2011 Barbara Thornton Memorial Scholarship.
Read more
Benjamin Bagby on WQXR
On January 23, 2011, Bagby joined host David Garland at New York's classical music station, WQXR, to share his insights on the challenges and pleasures of bringing medieval music to life, and to present recordings by Sequentia.
Listen to the recorded interview
Beowulf on DVD
Benjamin Bagby’s legendary performance of the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf (part I) recorded live in Helsingborg, Sweden.
Visit the Beowulf website