Notations Podcast

Meet Vincent Dumestre, Director of Le Poème Harmonique, the stars of EMV’s next concert. In this interview, Sylvia and Vincent discuss the music of the Louvre and of Italian composers such as Francesco Cavalli who you...

Meet our first solo keyboardist of the 2023/24 Season, Mélisande McNabney in her interview hosted by Sylvia L'Ecuyer. From piano inaugurations to tales of her musical family, Mélisande is sure to get you excited about...

In episode 13 of Notations, EMV 2023 Artist-in-Residence Catalina Vicens chats with Suzie LeBlanc and Julia Halbert about her start in early music and how the works of Christine de Pizan and Martin le Franc have...

Meet EMV’s 2023 Next Generation Artists, soprano Ai Horton, violinist Elana Cooper and cellist Jessica Korotkin! In this interview, host Julia Halbert gets to know the Next Gen artists and learns about what they hope to...

In this episode of Intimate Conversations, Florence Bolton and Sébastien Marq of La Rêveuse share how they incorporate bird sounds into their programme. They also teach us about how birds have influenced musicians when...

In this episode of Notations, guests Bruce Dickey and Hana Blazikova discuss how and why the cornetto and voice work so beautifully together and why they try to imitate each other. In addition, host Sylvia L'Ecuyer digs...

In this episode of Intimate Conversations, host Sylvia L'Ecuyer sits down with three members of the Consone Quartet to discuss their journey as a group, the life and work of composer Fanny Mendelssohn and their upcoming...

Writer and broadcaster Bill Richardson sat down with Countertenor Reginald Mobley and Alexander Weimann, director of the Pacific Baroque Orchestra, for an Intimate Conversation about music, what it means to “raise your...

Ariel Abramovitch on how to construct a songbook from Spanish renaissance polyphony using intabulations, his project with soprano Maria-Cristina Kiehr, and how he secured lute song commissions from rock musicians John...

Sébastien Daucé, the youthful music director of the Ensemble Correspondances, speaks with Sylvia L’Écuyer about life at the Louvre in the 17th century, and the musical events enjoyed by the monarch Louis XIII.

In Episode 5 of Notations cellist and gambist Elinor Frey talks to Accademia del Piacere del Piacere's Fahmi Alqhai about early life in Syria, Middle Eastern influences on the music of Renaissance Spain and his love of...

Who was Maddalena Laura Lombardini Sirmen? Listen to Christina Hutten interviewing Elinor Frey on the life of this extraordinary violinist, harpsichordist, singer and composer, featured in our upcoming live performance...

In this episode, discover the 18th century Pardessus de viole, known at the time as the “women’s violin”, in a delightful discussion between broadcaster, storyteller and raconteur Bill Richardson and viola da gamba...

Singer, harpsichordist, scholar, and composer, Elam Rotem, speaks with Christina Hutten about his musical background, the sources of his inspiration, and his penchant for composing brand-new music in a...

In this first episode, Sylvia L’Écuyer speaks with baroque violinist Chloe Kim about the rehearsal process for Locatelli’s Concerto grosso in E-Flat, Opus 7 no 6 (Il Pianto d’Arianna) and Corelli’s Sonata in D minor...