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EUBO Development Trust prize at the MA International Competition was awarded to ANNE FREITAG, traverso. Click here to read Anne's biography.
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EUBO Development Trust prize at the MA International Competition!
Flanders Festival Bruges organizes every year the famous International Contests "Musica Antiqua". This year the competition for traverso, baroque violin, baroque cello and viola da gamba takes place between 6th and 13th of August 2011, and for the first time EUBO Development Trust offers a prize for the most promising young European musician of the competition. Read more about the International Competition Musica Antiqua.
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Counting the days! EUBO 2011 will start rehearsing on Tuesday 19 July in Echternach, Luxembourg. The programme on this tour is titled ‘Bach and Sons’ offering an unique possibility to get familiar with the musical differences between “father” Johann Sebastian Bach and the generation that came after him. The first concert is on 28 July in SS Pierre-et-Paul in Echternach. From Luxembourg the tour will continue to Portugal, Italy and Ireland. Read more about the tour and get information about the venues.
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Sunday 18 December 2011 EUBO will perform in Oxford, United Kingdom. Click on this link for more information about A Seasonal Celebration at the Church of St John the Evangelist in Oxford.
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Audition courses to recruit members of EUBO 2011 took place in Echternach, Luxembourg, from 8 to 14 April. A list of the members of EUBO 2011 can be found here.
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The European Commission has announced that it is to renew its agreement with EUBO for the next three years, 2011-2013. EUBO is an official Cultural Ambassador for the European Union.
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In 2011 EUBO will have a residency for the first time at Collegio Ghislieri, Pavia, Italy. Find out more here
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EUBO performed Mozart's Requiem with Edward Higginbottom and New College Choir Oxford on 12 January 2011 - recorded and broadcast live by BBC Radio 3.
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You can download EUBO's programme book for 2010 here.
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EUBO is grateful to the Ministry of Culture in Luxembourg for its support to the orchestra in 2010.
August 2010
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On 22 May 2010, EUBO performed at the Lufthansa Festival for Baroque Music in London, with 50 former members of the orchestra, to recreate the atmosphere of Corelli's concerts in Rome at the beginning of the 18th century. To see videos on youtube, click here:
And to see some pictures, click here.28 May 2010
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In November, EUBO worked for the first time with wonderful violinist Petra Müllejans. To read reviews about the various concerts, click here and to see pictures of the tour click here.
The musicians are now preparing their last concerts for this year: under the direction of Edward Higginbottom and with New College Choir Oxford, they will give a series of performances of Handel's Messiah. This last tour will bring the orchestra to Oxford-UK, Echternach-Luxembourg, Darmstadt-Germany, Riga-Latvia and Burgos, Pamplona and Logrono in Spain.
4 December 2009
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After another successful tour under the direction of Lars Ulrik Mortensen, and with Swedish soprano Anna Jobrant, which brought the young EUBO-musicians to Luxembourg, Germany, Hungary and UK (to read press reviews, click here), the orchestra will go on tour again very soon. EUBO will be directed for the first time by one of the two directors of Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, violinist Petra Müllejans. After a short residency at Kloster Michaelstein in Blankenburg, Germany, the orchestra will perform in Germany, Portugal and Bulgaria. To see all the dates, click here.
6 November 2009
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First tour EUBO 2009 and Edinburgh International Festival
The new members of EUBO had a successful first tour, performing in Luxembourg, Slovenia (where the president of the Republic, Danilo Türk attended the concert), Italy, Germany and France. To see pictures of the tour, click here.
The next performances will take place at the International Festival in Edinburgh on 25th August under the direction of Chiara Banchini, and on 26th August under the direction of Lars Ulrik Mortensen and with Soprano Maria Keohane.
For the concert on 25th August, 60 musicians have been invited from the most recent EUBO generations to recreate the atmosphere of Corelli’s performances in Rome at the beginning of the 18th century.
(August 2009)
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EUBO Programme Book 2009
Download a pdf version here.
(August 2009)
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Find out more about the European Union Baroque Orchestra in a recently produced film:
-"baroque rocks" (12 minutes)
-"presto presentation" (2 minutes)
(March 2009)
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OUT NOW : Bach, Fux and Rameau recorded with Music Director Lars Ulrik Mortensen
EUBO has just released its newest CD, which the 2007 Orchestra recorded under the direction of Lars Ulrik Mortensen. It features a Suite from Concentus Musicus by Fux, the Orchestral Suite No 1 in C BWV1066 by JS Bach and a Suite from Rameau's opera Zoroastre.
Order now! Go to The Gift of Music or send an email to [email protected].
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EUBO Programme Book 2008
Download a pdf version here.
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Read about the EUBO in articles on the European Commission's London office website (in English; April 2008) or in the Luxemburger Wort (in German; January 2009).
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10-year planning diaries available - place your order now!
EUBO has produced a new edition of its now famous (A4) 10-year planning diary covering the period 2006 to 2015. View a sample page (actual size A4). Copies are available from the EUBO office priced £6 (UK) or €10 (Europe ex UK) each, including postage and sales tax (VAT). Payment by credit card or sterling cheque only.
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