EUBO Archives
Read messages of support for EUBO given in Brussels, November 2005
Commissioner Jan Figel' (Education, Training, Culture and Multilingualism):
"We need to invest in culture"
Patrick de Smedt, Chairman of Microsoft EMEA:
"EUBO inspires us with the passion and talent of their members"
James Elles MEP:
"this wonderful talent with musicians doesn't happen by chance"
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Latest EUBO CD released on the NAXOS label
In September 2005 Naxos released EUBO's latest CD of three opera suites by Jean-Philippe Rameau. Recorded under the direction of Roy Goodman and with concertmaster Nicolas Mazzoleni, this CD features three generations of the European Union Baroque Orchestra. The 1999 EUBO recorded a suite from Platee in Oxford, the 2001 EUBO recorded Pigmalion in Brussels and the 2003 orchestra returned to Oxford to record a suite from Dardanus. [Naxos 8.557490].
Read the most recent reviews here.
Copies of this CD are available from the EUBO office for £5.99 plus postage and packing. Email us for an order form.
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Programme Book 2005
EUBO's 2005 Programme containing all programmes, programme notes, biographies and messages of support from EP President Josep Borrell Fontelles and the Ministers of Culture from the 25 EU Member States.
Link to 2005 Programme Book (3MB pdf file)
Read messages of support from European Commissioner for Culture and Education Jan Figel' and from the 2005 EU Presidency Culture Ministers.
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MUSO magazine features EUBO in October 2005 edition click here for text
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EUBO makes its 50th country debut
'EUBO 2005' has just completed its 2005 tours (Tours 2005) with performances in Germany and Estonia, which were highly acclaimed by public and critics alike. Please look at the reviews (in German) from the concert in Bielefeld.
The concert in Podgorica in July was particularly special - it was the first time that the Orchestra had performed in Serbia and Montenegro, and becomes the 50th different country in which the Orchestra has performed. Is this an orchestral record?
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October - November tour 2004 : Prize-winning Soprano
Soprano Iwona Sobotka, first laureate of the 2004 Queen Elisabeth Competition of Belgium, joined EUBO for its third tour for performances and a CD recording of a Handel cantata Ero e Leandro. The young Polish soprano took first prize at the prestigious Queen Elisabeth Competition in Belgium in May and as a consequence was invited to tour with the European Union Baroque Orchestra under the direction of Lars Ulrik Mortensen. She began her singing studies in her native town of Mlawa, and continued at the Chopin Academy in Warsaw. In 2003 she moved to Madrid, where she currently works with Tom Krause. During her studies she was the recipient of a special award from the Polish soprano Zdzislawa Donat at a competition in Lodz. In her home country, Iwona has won many competitions and prizes including the Polish Song Competition in Warsaw in 2001, the International Ada Sari in Nowy Sazcz and at the Paderewski Competition in Bydgoszcz in 2003. Further afield, she has won prizes in Barcelona (International Singing Competition Francisco Viñas 2003) and at the 22nd International Belvedere Competition in Vienna. Her triumph at the 2003 �East & West Artists International Auditions� in New York City resulted in an invitation to make her recital debut at the Carnegie Hall in April 2005.
Iwona's collaboration with EUBO and Lars Ulrik Mortensen will be featured on a recording they made together in November at St Truiden in Belgium of Handel's Cantata 'Ero e Leandro'.
