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PROGRAMME

Lute Galanterie

SYLVIUS LEOPOLD WEISS | Sonate Nr. 49 in B-flat major

Allemande – Courante – Bourrée – Sarabande – Menuet - Presto

BERNHARD HAGEN | Sonata in C minor

Andante-Allgero-Allegretto

Andrew Maginley is the first professional black classical lute player in modern history. A concert soloist and accompanist, his international career has spanned more than thirty years. He specialises in lutes and early guitars and is a champion of the 18th-century baroque lute.

Andrew’s playing has been described as “beautiful” (Gramophone), “of the first rank” (International Records Review” and “mesmerizing” (Lute Society of America).

He has played with the world’s great opera houses and period music ensembles, and had the privilege of collaborating with many leading singers including Dame Sarah Connolly, Philippe Jaroussky, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Susan Graham, and Frederica von Stade.

As well as his work in baroque music, Andrew has featured in several productions of Mozart’s operas including Idomeneo at Salzburg Festival with Teodur Currentizs, and onstage in Don Giovani as a constant companion of the Don, named Django (Oper Krefeld), and as a recitative strumming hippie in Cosi fan tutte (Nederlands Opera with Danielle De Niese).

Recent projects include a guest residency at University of Sacramento Guitar Festival, offering recitals and masterclasses, and Handel Uncaged: Cantatas for Alto Lawrence Zazzo Countertenor Resonus Classics 2020. Andrew’s collaboration as a Chineke! artist began in 2020 with a project with Helena Bohnam Carter, Tobias Menzies and Jamael Westman, and continues with exciting projects currently under wraps.

Whilst Andrew has appeared on many recordings, these are his favourites: The Baroque Lute and Falckenhagen; the award-winning Calliope – English ‘baroque pop’ with his group The Frolick, plus opera recordings including Glyndbourne Opera’s Poppea (OAE/Haïm), Le Grand Ecurie’s Aggripina (Malgoire), Oper Stuttgart’s Alceste (Carydis) and Salzburg Mozartfestspiele’s Idomeneo (Freiburger Barock/Currentizs).

A fluent German-speaker Andrew’s translation of Bach and the Lute by Ingo Negwer will be published in 2022 by the English Lute Society. Andrew has a degree in fine arts and is a portraitist working with renaissance and baroque techniques, and the education officer for Hesketh-Hubbard to the Federation of British Artists.Currently a guest artist for the 2020/21 academic year at California State University, Stanislaus, Andrew has continued to give recitals online during the coronavirus pandemic and teaches lute and guitar. His special interests include: Black musicians in Early Music; Baroque art and music in 18th-century Europe and the Americas; the multi-ethnic heritage of lute/guitar techniques.