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NORVIS News 4

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New Year – new website!
It is with great pleasure that we have launched our new NORVIS website in time for New Year 2016. The address remains norvis.org.uk but when you click on it you will see something different.
Try it!
Then contribute to it! The editor, Mark Lawrence, welcomes contributions, specially photographs and short comments. Up to date material is always the best, so look back over your pictures from last summer – maybe there is one for a caption competition? All additions to the site will be at the editor’s discretion, but it would be lovely for him to have lots to choose from. (Send to norvisweb@gmail.com please.)
Many thanks to Linda Hill, who has provided us with a super website for many years, and to Jil Segerman for her photographic contributions. Linda has been a great help during the transfer and we are grateful to her and also to Mark for all the work he has put into creating the new site.
Hopefully I’ll be emailing again soon to let you know that brochures are out and applications open.
Best wishes for health and happiness and lots of music-making in 2016.
Harriet Gilfillan
NORVIS Applications Secretary
NORVIS is a registered charity, no 1014801

Welcome, Oliver Webber

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Welcome to our new baroque strings tutor, Oliver Webber, who will join us at NORVIS for the first time in 2016, following the sad death of Duncan Druce.

OW photo 2sOliver Webber is the director of the Monteverdi String Band, known for their innovative work on string consort repertoire, and a principal player and guest leader with the Gabrieli Consort and the London Handel Festival. He is an expert in historical gut strings, while other research interests include ornamentation, historical bows, and Italian poetry and its influence on the music of the 17th century.

Duncan Druce (1939-2015)

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Duncan Druce, long-standing and beloved baroque strings tutor at NORVIS, passed away on 12th October after a short illness. You may like to read more about Duncan in his obituary.

Obituary by Stephen Plaistow in The Guardian.

Duncan Druce, who has died aged 76, was an exceptional musician whose gifts as composer, string player, musicologist, teacher and writer fed into each other and ran deep. He was of a naturally quiet demeanour, but is likely to be remembered for a big project: his imaginative reconstruction and completion of the Requiem Mass left unfinished by Mozart when he died in 1791. (Read more in The Guardian.)

 

NORVIS News 3

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Dear Early music enthusiast
December is well and truly here and the rain is lashing against the window – but I am snug inside and thinking about next summer!
Just thought I’d let you know that the committee are very frustrated that next year’s brochure and application form are not out yet, but there is a vital piece of information that is still missing, despite Jane’s best efforts. I’ll let you know when it is available and prepare myself for a flood of applications.
Following the sad news of Duncan Druce’s sudden death in October, we are pleased to announce that the string tutor for 2016 will be Oliver Webber, an eminent Baroque violinist who, amongst other things, directs the Monteverdi String Band, regularly leads the Gabrieli Consort and Players and makes his own strings. Once again, we are very fortunate to have a knowledgeable and inspiring specialist to join our team of tutors.
If people are asking you for Christmas/birthday present suggestions, why not ask for a contribution to NORVIS fees? Or something to spend at the shops while you are there? Or a train ticket so you can go a bit further afield that usual for a playing session with NORVIS friends? Or a piece of music you enjoyed playing last summer? Or (in due course) some new music so you can start practising for next summer?
So here’s wishing you peace in the busy-ness of Christmas preparations. Hope to be in touch again soon!
Best wishes
Harriet
NORVIS is a registered charity, no 1014801