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Gibraltar's National Day: 10th September

5/9/2019

 
Gibraltar's National Day: 10th September
The National Day of Gibraltar will be marked by a week full of celebrations and events ranging from concerts to festivals meant to create a joyful atmosphere throughout.
http://www.visitgibraltar.gi/events/upcoming-events/national-day-56
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Conductor Marcello Rota with beloved tenor Andrea Bocelli will perform in the Europa Point Sports Complex in Gibraltar on September 9th 2019. Joined by the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra

´On the evening of Monday the 9th of September 2019 Andrea Bocelli will perform a unique repertoire from his chart-topping number one album, "Si”, along with a soul-stirring selection of arias, love songs and crossover hits. Andrea Bocelli has been thrilling audiences with his live performances for over 20 years, selling nearly 90 million records worldwide. He has performed for four US Presidents, two Popes and Royal families around the world. He even has a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.´
https://www.rpo.co.uk/whats-on/eventdetail/1345/83/andrea-bocelli-in-gibraltar


Marcello Rota Conductor
Andrea Bocelli Tenor
Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra

Europa Point Sports Complex
Gibraltar

José Carreras says ´Goodbye to London´

22/6/2019

 

José Carreras says goodbye to London as part of his farewell tour

José Carreras says goodbye to London as part of his farewell tour. GCE Heritage brings to the public a  farewell concert which will take place on the 16th June 2019 at 19:30. 

GCE Heritage presents The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra who will accompany José Carreras performing a repertoire of opera classics, conducted by David Giménez. The Sunday finale in London  will be extra special as José Carreras says goodbye to London as part of his farewell tour. Alongside a discography that includes over 160 recordings that range across classical and popular music, earning him several Gold and Platinum discs with over 80 million records sold in total, Carreras is one of the most accomplished tenors in history.

A spectacular concert for all as 
he is sure to retrace some of the roles for which he is most famous for not least the Verdi and Puccini  characters that he created. 
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COMPOSHER - Women Composers

13/6/2019

 

Women in Music

ComposeHER  live in the Theatre ´EartH´(Evolutionary Arts Hackney)  a multi-arts space for the 21st Century.

ComposHER is a new concert celebrating the best new music to moving picture, featuring a stunning roster of some of the best women composers writing for the screen today. The aim of the concert is not only to showcase this incredible talent in the UK, of composers scoring film, TV and more, but also to inspire the next generation of women composers and to seek to make this area of the industry as inclusive as possible for future generations. 

The composers being showcased are: Carly Paradis, Jessica Jones (selected by the NFTS to represent their alumni), Anne Nikitin, Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch, Kate Simko, Jessica Curry, Jocelyn Pook, Nainita Desai, Imogen Heap (music performed by LCO and SHE Choir), Alev Lenz, Claire M Singer and Amelia Warner.

article from  
https://earthackney.co.uk/calendar/composher

The Royal Society of Musicians

5/6/2019

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The Royal Society with Nicole Crespo O´Donoghue
​The Royal Society of Musicians is Britain’s oldest music charity and its aims remain as relevant today as they were in the earliest years – to provide immediate financial assistance to musicians unable to work due to accident, illness or old age. Being a charity run by musicians for musicians, the Society is uniquely placed to fully understand the challenges faced within the profession.

Haydel ´s book signed by Nicole Crespo O´Donoghue in the Royal Society of Musicians
The Royal Society of Musicians was founded in 1738 as the “Fund for Decay’d Musicians”. 228 members of the profession signed its Declaration of Trust; they included Arne, Boyce, Carey, Festing, Greene, Pepusch, Edward Purcell (son of Henry), Roseingrave, Sammartini, Stanley (the blind organist and composer) and, most valuably, Handel. The Society still maintains at Drummond’s Bank the account which Michael Festing (the first Secretary) opened in November 1738. From the beginning Handel took part in the annual concerts for the Fund’s benefit, and he bequeathed it £1,000 in a 1759 codicil to his Will.

Article from   http://www.royalsocietyofmusicians.org/history/

Nicole Crespo at Fiztroy square London signing the book of the Royal Society
Nicole Crespo O´Donoghue having the honour of signing the book of The Royal Society of Musicians
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Caption Corelli´s Mandolin UK tour 2019

4/4/2019

 
Pelagia´s concerto recording for Captain Corelli´s Mandolin UK tour 2019

Behind the scenes in the recording studio for the forthcoming tour of Captain Corelli's Mandolin with composer Harry Blake.
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CAPTAIN CORELLI’S MANDOLIN is an epic love story set on the Greek island of Cephalonia. It follows the lives of Dr Iannis, his beautiful, strong-willed daughter Pelagia and the Italian Captain Antonio Corelli, during the Italian and German occupation of the island in World War II. For CAPTAIN CORELLI’S MANDOLIN, Louis de Bernières won the 1995 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize – Overall Winner for Best Book, the 1995 Lannan Literary Award for Fiction and the 1994 Sunday Express Book of the Year. In 2001, the novel was adapted into a film starring Nicolas Cage and Penélope Cruz

CAPTAIN CORELLI’S MANDOLIN will be directed by Olivier and Tony Award nominee Melly Still and adapted by Evening Standard Award winner and Golden Globe and BAFTA Award nominee Rona 

CAPTAIN CORELLI’S MANDOLIN will have set and costume designs by Mayou Trikerioti, lighting design by Malcolm Rippeth, sound design by Jon Nicholls, projection design by Dom Baker for OD Vision and music composed by Harry Blake.
CAPTAIN CORELLI’S MANDOLIN is produced by Neil Laidlaw, Rose Theatre Kingston and Birmingham Repertory Theatre.
https://www.londontheatre1.com/theatre-news/captain-corellis-mandolin-tour-full-cast-announced/



Documentary with live performances Pablo de Sarasate's violins

10/11/2018

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https://www.thestrad.com/lutherie/pablo-de-sarasates-violins-a-short-documentary-with-live-performances/7783.article
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​Nicole Crespo O’Donoghue visits the Sarasate museum in Pamplona, Spain, and plays the great virtuoso’s Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume violin, as well as taking a close look at a Gand & Bernardel which was his graduation prize from the Paris Conservatoire.
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Pablo Sarasate´s Vuillaume Violin Sounds Again

8/11/2018

 
Pablo Sarasate Vuillaume Violin

110th Anniversary Pablo Sarasate
Pablo Sarasate´s Violin sounds again

http://www.agenda.navarra.com/event/110-aniversario-del-fallecimiento-de-pablo-sarasate/


The city of Pamplona commemorates the 110th anniversary of the death of the violinist and composer  Pablo Sarasate with a program of cultural activities including music, film , guided visits and the renovation of Pablo Sarasates tomb on Wednesday the 19th September till Sunday 23rd of September 2018.

The program begins on Wednesday 19 at 19:00 with the projection of the documentary produced and directed by Joaquín Calderón The King of the Violin.

The 20th September at 20:00 Concert with Nicole Crespo Sarasate´s Violin Sounds Again in which she will play compositions played on Sarasate´s own violin. 
The rectial will be a didactic presentation with short notes about the violin Vuillaume and the methods and response of the violin. Nicole is accompanied on the piano by Mark Kinkaid

Composed Documentary

7/11/2018

 

Exploring Performance Anxiety

Through the lens of professional classical musicians, Composedexplores the many ways we experience and can address performance anxiety.  International freelance.....

British Spanish Society 100th Anniversary

6/11/2018

 
​100th Anniversary Bringing cultures closer
The BritishSpanish Society is a registered charity whose object is to promote friendship and understanding between the people of Britain and Spain through knowledge of each other’s customs, institutions, history and way of life.

Issuu "La Revista"

1/11/2018

 
Nicole Crespo O´Donoghue interview with Issuu


The Anglo Spanish Society Review 228 Spring/Summer
In conversation with Nicole Crespo O´Donoghue
"La Revista"
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In the run up to the Society’s third annual Classical Concert violinist
Nicole Crespo O’Donoghue, who will be performing again this year in a recital
organized
by the Anglo-Spanish Society, speaks to La Revista about her Irish-Spanish
heritage and her musical ambitions.

The petite musician with a giant talent won a scholarship from the Diputación Foral de Bizkaia to attend the Royal Academy of Music and has her sights set on Carnegie Hall.
“My mother is Irish, born in Dublin and I, like my father was born in Bilbao but spent long summers in Ireland.
I always knew I would play the violin.


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On-Stage Violinist for Michael Flatley  -  Lord of the Dance

1/11/2018

 
Dangerous Games
Nicole will appear for specific dates on Michael Flatley's show 
    
"Lord of the Dace- Dangerous Games" currently at the Dominion Theatre , London UK
Show has been extended to the Playhouse Theatre, London.

In Co-Operation with BritishSpanish Awards Scholarship Society News

1/11/2018

 
Awards

Stradivarius Exhibition Ashmolean Museum Oxford

20/9/2018

 
Stradivarius
​Nicole Crespo plays a solo recital on the "Beech-Back" Stradivarius.



The Ashmolean Museum
  • The Ashmolean Museum brings together 20 of the finest surviving Stradivarius instruments for the first major UK show dedicated to the Italian maker. 
  • Attached to the University of Oxford

OperaUpClose

10/9/2018

 
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# PerformerUpClose interview

Violinist, Nicole O'Crespo Donoghue
Currently performing in OperaUpClose's production of Carmen at Soho Theatre. 

Previous to Carmen, you've worked with larger orchestras in bigger venues in relation to our quartet at Soho Theatre. How have you found the UpClose nature of Carmen, can you explain the positives and difficulties of downsizing opera? 
I am absolutely loving performing Carmen in a more intimate setting. I think its a fantastic idea because you can really connect with the audience and the viewers can truly see the singers and the musicians, they can notice small details that usually you might not see. It's true I perform regularly with larger orchestras but I also regularly perform as a soloist and chamber musician so this setting of just 4 players is very enjoyable for me and we each get to play some incredible melodies, its fantastic music. The only struggle I can think of is that sometimes there are very dramatic moments, as in the nature of any opera and you wish you could sound like a full orchestra to give that overwhelming effect but the composer Harry Blake has done an incredible job arranging Bizet's music and adding to that the fantastic musicians I'm getting to work with, it regains that powerful feeling right away.




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Artist of Onstage Offstage

10/9/2018

 
​Nicole becomes Artist of OnstageOffstage
Mozart

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