Concert Promotion

As well as promoting the individual groups, Calliope Productions has put on two influential concert series since its formation in 1999.  

Brighton Early Music Festival

Together with soprano Deborah Roberts of Musica Secreta and the Brighton Consort, we promoted the first early music festival in Brighton from 1st to 6th October 2002.  We attracted warm, enthusiastic and appreciative audiences who seemed to be as excited about the festival as we are.  For more information about the 2002 Festival and about further plans, visit www.bremf.org.uk. 

Unsung Heroines – Women Composers in Early Music

series of 6 concerts, North London, Autumn 1999  

• 800 years of music

• by 16 women composers

• from the 12^th to the early 19^th centuries

 The concerts included music by:

• Hildegard of Bingen – medieval abbess

• Beatriz de Dia – 12^th century troubadour

• Barbara Strozzi – 17^th century Italian singer/composer

• Elizabeth Claude Jacquet de la Guerre - French baroque star

• And the UK premiere of the first opera ever written by a woman - Francesca Caccini’s La Liberazione di Ruggiero, written in 1625. 

Unsung Heroines achieved wide coverage in the national, local and music press, together with a series of 5 interviews on BBC Radio 4's Woman’s Hour and live interviews on Radio 3. 

Medieval Nights – series of medieval winter concerts

a series of 4 concerts,  Brighton - 2000 

Included lively Spanish songs and the contemplative chant of Hildegard von Bingen.   Calliope groups Mediva and Third Voice were joined by the theatrically inspired group, Fifth Element.