Early Music students and alumni on tour with Fireworks Project

Fireworks in Versailles

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Many students and alumni from the CvA’s Early Music Department are touring Europe at the moment as members of the renowned Early Music ensemble Zefiro.

Many students and alumni from the CvA’s Early Music Department are touring Europe at the moment as members of the renowned Early Music ensemble Zefiro, co-founded by Alfredo Bernardini. They play a programme with works by Lully, Mouret, Donninger, Fischer, Fasch and Porpora, and Handel’s Music for the Royal Fireworks, with a fireworks show,  at the Händel Festspiele in Halle (Germany), in Milan, Grenoble, and at the Versailles Festival in France.

The CvA students and alumni who play in this very international group are Johannes Knoll, Daniel Lanthier, Neven Lesage, Maria Petrescu, Daniel Ramirez Escudero,  Yongcheon Shin, Gudrun Waldek and Tatjana Zimre, baoque oboe;  Inga Maria Klaucke, baroque bassoon; Daniele Bolzonella, Emmanuel Frankenberg, Antionia Riezu Gonzales, Gerard Serrano Garcia, Kathryn Zevenbergen, natural horn; and Mervyn Groot, timpani.

The  ‘Fireworks Project’ is a joint effort undertaken by the conservatories of Italy, France, Duitsland, Austria, Finland, the UK and the Conservatorium van Amsterdam.

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