Apollo's Fire And Jeannette Sorrell Will Tour U.K. And Ireland
By: Stephi Wild Aug. 02, 2018
Following an acclaimed tour of the United States in June 2018, Apollo's Fire continues its 2018 summer touring season with performances throughout the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Italy. Led by founding Artistic Director and conductor Jeannette Sorrell, the acclaimed baroque orchestra's summer programs include Sorrell's critically celebrated Sugarloaf Mountain - An Appalachian Gathering program and works Bach, Vivaldi, Handel, and Telemann.
Created by Sorrell, Sugarloaf Mountain - An Appalachian Gathering explores the British, Celtic, and African-American roots of the soulful music of Appalachia. Apollo's Fire's 2018 U.K. and Ireland Summer Tour begins on August 12 with a return to the Aldeburgh Festival, followed by performances in Dublin (National Concert Hall of Ireland); Belfast, Derry, and Ballymena, Northern Ireland; and ending on August 19 at the National Opera House in Wexford, Ireland.
Apollo's Fire concludes its 2018 summer season on August 24 with a return to the Tuscan Landscapes Festival in San Quirico d'Orcia in Italy's Tuscany region.
Highlights of Apollo's Fire's 2018/19 touring season include the ensemble's return to New York City with the festive Christmas on Sugarloaf Mountain - An Appalachian Celebration program at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on December 16. In March 2019, Apollo's Fire will tour Florida and Wisconsin with its Virtuoso Bach & Vivaldi program. A full schedule of 2018/19 dates will be announced later.
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APOLLO'S FIRE 2018 U.K. and Ireland Tour
August 12, 2018
Aldeburgh Festival/Snape Proms
Aldeburgh, U.K.
National Concert Hall of Ireland
Dublin, Ireland
August 15, 2018
Belfast Castle
Belfast, Northern Ireland
August 17, 2018
Millennium Forum
Derry, Northern Ireland
August 18, 2018
Braide Arts Centre
Ballymena, Northern Ireland
August 19, 2018
National Opera House
Wexford, Ireland
APOLLO'S FIRE at the TUSCAN LANDSCAPES FESTIVAL
August 24, 2018
San Quirico d'Orcia, Italy
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Jeannette Sorrell, Artistic Director and founder of Apollo's Fire, the Cleveland Baroque Orchestra, is recognized internationally as one of today's most creative early-music conductors and harpsichordists.
Sorrell founded Apollo's Fire in 1992. Since then, she and the ensemble have built one of the largest audiences of any baroque orchestra in North America. Sorrell has led Apollo's Fire in sold-out concerts at Carnegie Hall, BBC Proms and Wigmore Hall in London, Madrid's Teatro Real, the Grand Théâtre de l'Opéra in Bordeaux, the Aldeburgh, Tanglewood, Aspen, Ravinia and Boston Early Music festivals, the Library of Congress, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, among others.
As a guest conductor, Sorrell has worked with many of the leading American symphony orchestras. Recent engagements include her debut with the National Symphony at the Kennedy Center conducting Handel's Messiah in December 2017. Her 2013 debut with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra as conductor and harpsichord soloist in the complete Brandenburg Concertos was hailed as "an especially joyous occasion" (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review). She has also appeared with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Utah Symphony, New World Symphony, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, the Seattle Symphony, the Opera Theatre of St. Louis with the St. Louis Symphony, Handel & Haydn Society, and the Cleveland Orchestra as guest keyboard artist.
Sorrell's extensive discography includes 26 albums with Apollo's Fire, including the complete Brandenburg Concertos and harpsichord concertos of Bach, Handel's Messiah, the Monteverdi Vespers and four creative crossover projects: Come to the River - An Early American Gathering, Sacrum Mysterium - A Celtic Christmas Vespers, Sugarloaf Mountain - An Appalachian Gathering, Sephardic Journey - Wanderings of the Spanish Jews. Sorrell's most recent recording, released in May 2018, is Songs of Orpheus with tenor Karim Sulayman and Apollo's Fire.
Sorrell holds an Artist Diploma from Oberlin Conservatory and an honorary doctorate from Case Western University. She studied conducting under Robert Spano, Roger Norrington, and Leonard Bernstein, and harpsichord with Gustav Leonhardt in Amsterdam. She won both First Prize and the Audience Choice Award in the 1991 Spivey International Harpsichord Competition. Sorrell is the recipient of two special awards from the National Endowment for the Arts for her work on early American music, an award from the American Musicological Society, and two different awards from the Cleveland Arts Prize. Passionate about guiding the next generation of performers, Ms. Sorrell has led many baroque projects for students at Oberlin Conservatory and is a frequent guest coach at the Cleveland Institute of Music.
Apollo's Fire, the Cleveland Baroque Orchestra, was founded in 1992 by the award-winning harpsichordist and conductor Jeannette Sorrell. Sorrell envisioned an ensemble dedicated to the baroque ideal that music should evoke the various Affekts or passions in the listeners. Apollo's Fire is a collection of creative artists who share Sorrell's passion for drama and rhetoric, and the orchestra has drawn national and international attention for its creative programming.
In March 2018, Apollo's Fire made its sold-out Carnegie Hall debut with its acclaimed A Night at Bach's Coffeehouse program, which was followed by the U.S. tour of a new production of Monteverdi's L'Orfeo with a reconstructed ending by ensemble cellist René Schiffer. Other North American tour engagements have included the Tanglewood, Aspen, and Ravinia festivals, the Boston Early Music Festival series, the Library of Congress, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, and major venues in Toronto, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Houston. The ensemble has performed two major U.S. tours of the Monteverdi Vespers (2010 and 2014) and a nine-concert tour of the Brandenburg Concertos in 2013.
Apollo's Fire has performed four European tours, including sold-out concerts at the BBC Proms in London, the Aldeburgh Festival (UK), Madrid's Teatro Real, London's Wigmore Hall, Bordeaux's Grand Théâtre, and venues in France, Austria, Italy and Portugal.
Apollo's Fire has released 26 commercial recordings and currently records for the British label AVIE, including the Monteverdi Vespers, Bach's Brandenburg Concertos & Harpsichord Concertos, a disc of Handel arias with soprano Amanda Forsythe titled "The Power of Love" and Jeannette Sorrell's four crossover programs - Come to the River - An Early American Gathering Sacrum Mysterium- A Celtic Christmas Vespers, Sugarloaf Mountain - An Appalachian Gathering, and Sephardic Journey - Wanderings of the Spanish Jews. Apollo's Fire released its latest recording, Songs of Orpheus with tenor Karim Sulayman, in May 2018.
For more information on Apollo's Fire: apollosfire.org
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