Stjernekoncert m. Emma Kirkby og Jakob Lindberg

kl. 19:30

Frihavnskirken, Willemoesgade 68, 2100 København Ø

Den britiske stjernesopran Dame Emma Kirkby er nok verdens mest anerkendte barok- og renæssancesanger. Med sin krystalklare stemme og stilrene tilgang har hun i årtier været en central skikkelse inden for tidlig musik og historisk opførelsespraksis. Hun har samarbejdet med førende ensembler og dirigenter verden over og modtaget adskillige priser for sine hundredevis af indspilninger. Hun ledsages af sin mangeårige musikalske partner, den svenske lutenist Jakob Lindberg. Svenske lutenist Jakob Lindberg er ligeledes blandt verdens førende specialister i tidlig musik. Han har i mange år fungeret som professor ved Royal College of Music i London og har opbygget en omfattende diskografi med værker fra renæssancen og barokken – herunder en komplet indspilning af solo-lutmusik af John Dowland. “Sopranen Emma Kirkby og lutenisten Jakob Lindberg udgør et fuldstændig perfekt musikalsk par og optræder i en sømløs forening af stil og udtryk… Kirkby og Lindberg, den udsøgte stemme og den fantastiske lutklang, fremstår som to halvdele af en helhed. De er ganske enkelt skabt til at optræde sammen.” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 2026 markerer 400-året for den engelske komponist John Dowlands død (1563–1626), en af renæssancens mest betydningsfulde komponister. Dowland er især kendt for sine dybt følelsesladede og melankolske aires og lutmusik. Sammen vil Kirkby og Lindberg fejre komponisten gennem et program, der ikke blot præsenterer Dowland selv, men nogle de vigtigste af landets komponister så der spændes en musikalsk bro fra Dowland til Purcell: Lawes, Lanier, Hunfry og John Blow. Velkommen til en helt særlig koncert på festivalen Stenbroens Barokdage. Entré: 150 kr. / 100 kr. for studerende og medlemmer af ”Foreningen Stenbroens Barokdage” Billetlink: https://billetto.dk/e/dame-emma-kirkby-jakob-lindberg-billetter-1913483 Dame Emma Kirkby: “For two decades, Emma Kirkby’s clear, agile voice has epitomised the pure sound of early music. She remains one of the treasures of the music world.”  Toronto Globe and Mail  Originally, Emma Kirkby had no expectations of becoming a professional singer. As a classics student at Oxford and then a schoolteacher she sang for pleasure in choirs and small groups, always feeling most at home in Renaissance and Baroque repertoire. She joined the Taverner Choir in 1971 and in 1973 began her Long association with the Consort of Musicke. Emma took part in the early Decca Florilegium recordings with both the Consort of Musicke and the Academy of Ancient Music, at a time when most college-trained sopranos were not seeking a sound appropriate for early instruments. She therefore had to find her own approach, with enormous help from Jessica Cash in London, and from the directors, fellow singers and instrumentalists with whom she has worked over the years.  Emma feels privileged to have been able to build further long-term relationships with chamber groups and orchestras, in particular London Baroque, Freiburger Barockorchester, LOrfeo (of Linz), The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Fretwork, the Purcell Quartet, and the London Handel Players; and now with some of the younger groups, such as Florilegium, Armonico Consort and Daniel Taylor's Theater of Early Music.  To date, she has made well over a hundred recordings of all kinds, from sequences of Hildegarde of Bingen to madrigals of the Italian and English Renaissance, cantatas and oratorios of the Baroque era, and works of Mozart, Haydn and J. C. Bach. Favourites among these projects were: “Handel—Opera Arias and Overtures" for Hyperion, Bach wedding cantatas for Decca, Bach Cantatas 82a and 199 for Carus, J.C.Bach Motets for CPO, and Byrd Consort Songs for Harmonia Mundi USA.  Since 2000 Emma's happiest collaboration has been with the Swedish record company, BIS. With them she has recorded Handel motets and cantatas, Christmas pieces and Couperin with London Baroque, lute songs with Anthony Rooley and Jakob Lindberg, songs by Amy Beach, and more, mostly in the magical acoustics of Laenna church in Sweden.  In 2009 BIS issued a compilation entitled "The Artistry of Emma Kirkby", drawing on nine CDs in all.  In 1999 Emma was voted Artist of the Year by Classic FM Radio listeners; in 2000 she received the Order of the British Empire, and 2007 saw her appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire. She was mater, Oxford University, and receive an Honorary Doctorate of Music. Most surprisingly of all, BBC Music Magazine, April 2007, in a survey of critics to find “The twenty greatest sopranos", placed Emma at number 10. While such media flurries can be discounted as parochial, partial, controversial, and outdated as soon as they appear, she was pleased at the recognition this implied for an approach to singing where ensemble, clarity and stillness are valued alongside the more usual features of volume and display.  Despite all the recording activity, Emma still prefers live concerts, especially the pleasure of repeating programmes with colleagues; every occasion, every venue and every audience combine to create something new from this wonderful repertoire. In 2019, Emma celebrated her 70" birthday with a concert at Wigmore Hall, and continued the celebrations with her programme ‘Dowland among Friends’ with Leamington Music in February 2020.©  Jakob Lindberg: Jakob Lindberg was born in Djursholm in Sweden and developed his first passionate interest in music through the Beatles. He started to play the guitar and soon became interested in the classical repertoire. From the age of fourteen he studied with Jörgen Rörby who also gave him his first tuition on the lute. After reading music at Stockholm University, he went to London to study at the Royal College of Music, where he further developed his knowledge of the lute repertoire under the guidance of Diana Poulton and decided towards the end of his studies to concentrate on renaissance and baroque music; he is now one of the most prolific performers in this field. Jakob has made numerous recordings for BIS, many of which are pioneering in that they present a wide range of music on CD for the first time. He has brought Scottish lute music to public attention, demonstrated the beauty of the Italian repertoire for chitarrone and recorded chamber music by Vivaldi, Haydn and Boccherini on period instruments. He is the first lutenist to have recorded the complete solo lute music by John Dowland and his 1992 recording of Bach's music for solo lute is considered to be one of the most important readings of these works. An active continuo player on the theorbo and arch lute, Jakob has worked with many well-known English ensembles including The English Concert, Taverner Choir, The Purcell Quartet, Monteverdi Choir, Chiaroscuro, The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and The Academy of Ancient Music. He is also in demand as an accompanist and has given many recitals with Emma Kirkby. He assisted Andrew Parrott in the musical direction of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas given by The Royal Swedish Opera at Drottningholm Court Theatre in 1995, and also directed from the chitarrone the much-acclaimed performances of Jacopo Peri’s Euridice given there in 1997. It is particularly through his live solo performances that he has become known as one of the finest lutenists in the world today, with concerts all over the globe from Tokyo and Beijing in the East to San Francisco and Mexico City in the West. In addition to his busy life as a performer, Jakob Lindberg teaches at the Royal College of Music in London where he succeeded Diana Poulton as professor of lute in 1979.