This recital is the final event of the Sound, Image, Text symposium, hosted by the Centre for Art History and Theory in the ANU School of Art and Design.
The event is inspired by the digital critical edition of Jean-Benjamin de Laborde’s Choix de Chansons (1773), developed by an interdisciplinary team of art historians, musicologists and literary scholars from the Australian National University, University of Sydney, University of Oxford, and the Sorbonne.
Dr Erin Helyard, harpsichord. Erin is the Artistic Director and co-founder of the celebrated Pinchgut Opera and the Orchestra of the Antipodes (Sydney) and a Senior Lecturer at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. He regularly appears as a collaborator with the Australian Chamber Orchestra and Erin has distinguished himself as a conductor in dynamic performances with the Sydney, Adelaide, Tasmanian, and Queensland Symphony Orchestras, ACO Collective, the Australian National Academy of Music, the Australian Haydn Ensemble, and as a duo partner on historical pianos with David Greco (baritone) and Stephanie McCallum (piano).
Simon Rickard, musette. Simon is a specialist in historical bassoons. He has toured and recorded with countless period ensembles including Les Arts Florissants, the Gabrieli Consort, Pinchgut Opera, the Orchestra of the Antipodes, the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Opera Australia, the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Latitude 37, Genesis Baroque, the Australian Haydn Ensemble, Ironwood and La Compañia, as well as his own renaissance consort, Unholy Rackett, named for the bizarre renaissance woodwind instrument in which Simon is a leading specialist.
Lauren Lodge-Campbell, soprano. Lauren has recently performed such roles as the1st Witch in Purcell Dido and Aeneas with William Christie and Les Arts Florissants; Euridice in Charpentier La descente d’Orphee at the Vache Baroque Festival; Bach Christmas Oratorio with the Britten Sinfonia under Stephen Layton; a revival of Handel Hercules at the Händel-Festspiele Karlsruhe; Purcell King Arthur with the Gabrieli Consort; and Bach Magnificat with the Royal Northern Sinfonia under Nicholas McGegan. Lauren Lodge-Campbell was awarded both 2nd and Audience Prize at the 2018 Handel Singing Competition and was a member of Les Arts Florissants’ Le Jardin des Voix.
Louis Hurley, tenor. Louis is a Sydney-based tenor and the inaugural The Humanity Foundation Taryn Fiebig Scholar through Pinchgut Opera. After completing a Bachelor of Music and Graduate Diploma of Music at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA), Louis furthered his studies, as a Hazell Scholar, with a Master of Music at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, London under the tutelage of Adrian Thompson. Whilst in London, Louis performed at both the Wigmore Hall and the Barbican Hall. Louis has also performed with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and with Sydney Philharmonia Choirs.
This event is hosted by the Centre for Art History and Art Theory. This research was supported by the Australian Government through the Australian Research Council’s Discovery Projects funding scheme (Performing Transdisciplinarity DP170102666).
Enquiries: Associate Professor Robert Wellington, Director for the Centre for Art History and Art Theory, robert.wellington@anu.edu.au