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3.00 on Sunday 16 July
DIVERTISSEMENTS CHINOIS
at St Mary Magdalene Church, Major Ln, Thornham Magna, Eye, Suffolk, IP23 8ER
Philippa Hyde: soprano
Agnes Chin: guzheng
William Summers: baroque flute
Ibrahim Aziz: viola da gamba
​Yeo Yat-Soon: harpsichord

'FIRST ENCOUNTERS' 
Musical Journeys from the Dawn of the Global World


We are delighted to bring our project exploring the musical links between 17th and 18th century China and Europe to this beautiful and historic venue in the heart of rural Suffolk. The programme will include Chinese music from the Ming and Qing dynasties complemented with music from their contemporaries in England France and Italy, including Caccini, Gabrieli, Purcell and Rameau. In a further exploration of 'Musical Journeys' around the world we also include the music of two composers of African descent: Ignatius Sancho, who was born on a slave ship and settled in London, and Jospeh Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, who was born in Guadeloupe to a French father and a mother who was a slave from Senegal, and settled in Paris.

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7.00 on Saturday 15 July 2023
YEO YAT-SOON virginals
at Garrick's Temple to Shakespeare, Hampton Court Road, Hampton, TW12 2EJ

'ABOVE ALL OUR PHOENIX' - a repeat of the programme from 4 June (see below).


​Tickets: £12.00 (£5.00 students and under-18) available in advance from www.lokimusic.co.uk/


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3.00pm on Sunday 4 June 2023
FOLLIA at Walpole Old Chapel, 2 Halesworth Road, Walpole, Halesworth, Suffolk IP19 9AZ

'ABOVE ALL OUR PHOENIX' - a concert to mark the 400th anniversary of the death of William Byrd (c.1540 - 1623). Byrd was one of the most versatile and prolific composers in British history. His long life spanned the last half a century of the Tudor Age and the first decades of Stuart rule. Byrd's vast output of solo keyboard music was preserved in a vast array of surviving manuscript sources and he was involved in the first printed keyboard music in England - Parthenia "
the first musicke that ever was printed for the Virginalls" published in around 1612. This recital will include Byrd's keyboard music from throughout his career as well as music by his contemporaries.

​Tickets: £12.00 (£5.00 students and under-18) available in advance from www.lokimusic.co.uk/

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Tuesday 4 April 2023
DIVERTISSEMENTS CHINOIS at Westminster Abbey Choir School, London
Agnes Chin: guzheng
Yeo Yat-Soon: harpsichord


'FIRST ENCOUNTERS' 
Musical Journeys from the Dawn of the Global World - an Educational Workshop

This is a private event, but we are delighted that for the first of the educational aspects of the Divertissements Chinois project we will hosted by one of the most prestigious musical establishments in the world... (they are fitting us in between their rehearsals for the coronation!)

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​7.30 on Saturday 24 March 2023
DIVERTISSEMENTS CHINOIS at Church of St Michael and All Saints, London, W4 1LW
Agnes Chin: guzheng
Yeo Yat-Soon: harpsichord


'FIRST ENCOUNTERS' 
Musical Journeys from the Dawn of the Global World

This is part of a series of concerts explores the music which spanned the continents of Europe and Asia in the 17th and 18th centuries. The rich culture of the Ming and Qing dynasties is reflected in the music from the time of Matteo Ricci, an Italian Jesuit missionary (left) who brought the first clavichord to China and Chinese melodies transcribed by Jean Joseph Marie Amiot (another Catholic missionary  and long-time resident of Beijing. The programmes also include Indian Hindustani Airs arranged for harpsichord by William Hamilton Bird (an Irish musician and long-time resident of Kolkata), and the music of Jean-Philippe Rameau (a French composer whose works were performed in Beijing).


Tickets: £15.00 (£7.50 students; £4.00 Ashbourne College students)

in advance from: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/Follia-Events/t-avzknmj
or £16.00 (£7.50 students; £4.00 Ashbourne College students) at the door

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7.30pm on Friday 23 March 2023
FOLLIA and THE STANESBY PLAYERS at Church of St Michael and All Saints, London, W4 1LW
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Andrew Collis: recorder   
William Summers: baroque flute
Diane Moore and Joanna Lawrence: baroque violins
Jospeh Lowe: baroque viola   
Ibrahim Aziz: baroque cello
Yeo Yat-Soon: harpsichord

with contributions from A level music students from Ashbourne Independent Sixth Form College

'A CORNUCOPIA OF BAROQUE CONCERTOS'

Programme includes:
J S Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No.5
Handel: Concerto Grosso in D minor, Op.3, No.5
Sammartini: Recorder Concerto in D major
String Concertos by Vivaldi

We are delighted to join forces with Ashbourne College to present a concert of baroque concertos, with some performed by the outstanding A level student at Ashbourne. Do join us in the beautiful setting of this Queen Anne Revival Church near Turnham Green.


Tickets: £15.00 (£7.50 students; £4.00 Ashbourne College students)
in advance from: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/Follia-Events/t-lnemprn 
or £16.00 (£7.50 students; £4.00 Ashbourne College students) at the door

We are very grateful to Ashbourne Independent Sixth Form College for sponsoring this concert.

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2022 CONCERT SERIES:
DIVERTISSEMENTS CHINOIS
Yeo Yat-Soon: harpsichord
Agnes Chin: guzheng

'FIRST ENCOUNTERS' - Musical Journeys from the Dawn of Globalisation

I am delighted to be presenting a series of concerts which explores the fascinating musical cross-currents which ran between Europe and Asia in the 17th and 18th centuries. This was a time of interesting cultural contacts made and sustained primarily by Jesuit missionaries who travelled to and settled in China. These include Matteo Ricci who lived under the Ming Dynasty in the late 16th and early 17th centuries and Jean Joseph Marie Amiot who worked for the Qing Dynasty Emperor Qianlong in the late 18th century. In addition to their wide-spanning scholarship in and translations from Chinese, both  men also wrote about Chinese music. A contemporary of Amiot's was the artist Giuseppe Castiglione who combined Chinese and European artistic styles (see painting on the left). I will also be performing selections from 'The Oriental Miscellany' - transcriptions for harpsichord of 'Airs of Hindoostan' by the Irish musician William Hamilton Bird, who lived in Calcutta.


​For details of of individual concerts see the full listing below. 
For a publicity flyer for the series and to watch a YouTube promotional video see below.​

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3.30 on Thursday 8 December 2022

YEO YAT-SOON and AGNES CHIN
at the Music Gallery, Horniman Museum, 110 Forest Hill Road, London, SE23 3PQ


Yeo Yat-Soon: harpsichord
Agnes Chin: guzheng

'FIRST ENCOUNTERS' 
Musical Journeys from the Dawn of the Global World
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​This is a shortened version of the programme on 8 October (see below). I am delighted to return to the Horniman Museum to play on their splendid, historic Jacob Kirckman harpsichord from 1772.


​Free Entry
Further details: ​https://www.horniman.ac.uk/event/hear-it-live/ ​

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12.00 on Friday 25 November 2022

YEO YAT-SOON 
at the Conference on Music in Eighteenth Century Britain, Foundling Museum, 40 Brunswick Square
London,WC1N 1AZ.

I am delighted to be presenting a paper at this event entitled 'First Encounters - Musical Journeys between Europe and Asia from the Dawn of the Global World'.  The presentation will include some performances for which I shall be joined by Agnes Chin on the guzheng.


Further details: ​https://foundlingmuseum.org.uk/event/conference-on-music-in-eighteenth-century-britain/

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7.30 on Monday 14 November 2022

YEO YAT-SOON and AGNES CHIN
at Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DG

Yeo Yat-Soon: harpsichord
Agnes Chin: guzheng

'FIRST ENCOUNTERS' 
Musical Journeys from the Dawn of the Global World

​This is a shortened version of the programme on 8 October (see above).


Further details: www.fitz.cam.uk 

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7.30pm on Saturday 12 November 2022
FOLLIA at St Mary's Parish Church, Hampton, TW12 2EB

William Summers: baroque flute
Diane Moore: baroque violin
Ibrahim Aziz: viola da gamba
Agnes Chin: guzheng
Yeo Yat-Soon: harpsichord
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'FIRST ENCOUNTERS' 
Musical Journeys from the Dawn of the Global World




This fascinating programme traverses the world to follow how musicians worked through extraordinary cultural cross-currents at the dawn of the global world. We will be perform music by Ignatius Sancho (born on a Trans-Atlantic slave ship and died a prosperous man of letters in London) and Jospeh Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges (born in Guadeloupe to a French father and a mother who was a slave from Senegal, who became a champion fencer, an officer in the French army and a distinguished musician, given the nickname 'the black Mozart). We will also play music from China, by Lam Kiqua (a visitor to London from Canton) and transcriptions by Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, a French Jesuit priest who spent over forty years in Beijing.


​Further details and ticketing to be announced. www.lokimusic.co.uk 

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3.30 - 4.00 on Thursday 13 October 2022

​YEO YAT-SOON atthe Music Gallery, Horniman Museum, 110 Forest Hill Road, London, SE23 3PQ

Yeo Yat-Soon: harpsichord

'FIRST ENCOUNTERS' 
Musical Journeys from the Dawn of the Global World
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A concert as part of the Horniman Museum's Black History Month programme. Composers include Ignatius Sancho and Jospeh Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges (see concert above for biographical details) together with their English and French contemporaries Thomas Arne and Jean-Philippe Rameau. Played on the historic Jacob Kirckman harpsichord from 1772.

​Free entry

Further details: ​https://www.horniman.ac.uk/event/hear-it-live/ 

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Click on YouTube link on the left to watch a taster video for my Black History Month concert at the Horniman Museum.
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7.30 on Saturday 8 October 2022
YEO YAT-SOON and AGNES CHIN
at Garrick's Temple to Shakespeare, Hampton Court Road, Hampton, TW12 2EJ

Yeo Yat-Soon: harpsichord
Agnes Chin: guzheng

'FIRST ENCOUNTERS' 
Musical Journeys from the Dawn of the Global World

This is part of a series of concerts explores the music which spanned the continents of Europe and Asia in the 17th and 18th centuries. The rich culture of the Ming and Qing dynasties is reflected in the music from the time of Matteo Ricci, an Italian Jesuit missionary (left) who brought the first clavichord to China and Chinese melodies transcribed by Jean Joseph Marie Amiot (another Catholic missionary  and long-time resident of Beijing. The programmes also include Indian Hindustani Airs arranged for harpsichord by William Hamilton Bird (an Irish musician and long-time resident of Kolkata), and the music of Jean-Philippe Rameau (a French composer whose works were performed in Beijing).

Tickets: £12.00 (£5.00 students and under-18) available in advance from https://www.lokimusic.co.uk

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1.00 on Friday 7 October 2022

YEO YAT-SOON and AGNES CHIN
at the Barber Lunchtime Concert Series, Elgar Concert Hall, Bramall Music Buiding,
University Of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT


Yeo Yat-Soon: harpsichord
Agnes Chin: guzheng

'FIRST ENCOUNTERS' 
Musical Journeys from the Dawn of the Global World

​This is a shortened version of the programme on 8 October (see above).

Free entry. Further details: https://barber.org.uk/events/firstencounters 

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12.30 on Thursday 22 September 2022

YEO YAT-SOON and AGNES CHIN
at Leatherhead Concert and Arts Society, Leatherhead Methodist Church, Church Road, Leatherhead, KT22 8AY


Yeo Yat-Soon: harpsichord
Agnes Chin: guzheng

'FIRST ENCOUNTERS' 
Musical Journeys from the Dawn of Globalisation

​This is a shortened version of the programme on 8 October (see above).


​Suggested donation £8 - £10 (www.musiconthursdays.org) 

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4.00 and 7.00 on Monday 12 September 2022
FOLLIA at Marble Hill House, Richmond Road, Twickenham, TW1 2NL

William Summers: baroque flute
Sam Stadlen: viola da gamba
Yeo Yat-Soon: harpsichord

'BAROQUE MUSIC AT MARBLE HILL HOUSE'
We are delighted to return to the exquisite Georgian setting of Marble Hill House on the banks of the River Thames after its extensive restoration by English Heritage.

We will be performing a one-hour set of music from Georgian London to reflect the very specific historical background of this wonderful English Palladian building. There will be two separate performances of the programme, one at 4.00 and another at 7.00.

Tickets: £16 (£13 for English Heritage members) available from the Marble Hill House website www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/whats-on/marble-hill-baroque-music/

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6.00 on Sunday 11 September 2022
​FOLLIA at Heath Street Baptist Church, Hampstead, London NW3 1DN

Elin Harries: soprano
Diane Moore: baroque violin
Diane Terry: baroque violin
Gareth Deats: baroque cello
Yeo Yat-Soon: harpsichord

'FROM BAROQUE TO GALANT'
Vocal and instrumental music by Handel, Leo, J C Bach and Mozart

Tickets: £10 (£5 under 18) at the door.
​Further details and advance booking from www.tickettailor.com/events/heathstreetarts/746419#

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3.00pm on Sunday 4 September 2022
FOLLIA at Walpole Old Chapel, 2 Halesworth Road, Walpole, Halesworth, Suffolk IP19 9AZ

William Summers: baroque flute
Diane Moore: baroque violin
Sam Stadlen: viola da gamba
Yeo Yat-Soon: harpsichord

'BAROQUE CHAMBER MUSIC AT WALPOLE OLD CHAPEL'
Music by J S Bach, Telemann, Geminiani, Blavet and Morel.


Tickets: £12.00 (£5.00 students and under-18) available in advance from https://www.lokimusic.co.uk

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7.00 on Sunday 26 June 2022

FOLLIA at HIghgate United Reformed Church, Pond Square, South Grove, London, N6 6BA

Elin Harries: soprano
Ibrahim Aziz: viola da gamba
Yeo Yat-Soon: harpsichord

"A SUMMER'S EVE"
Music by Purcell, Croft, Yates and Boismortier

Tickets £10 in advance or £12 at the door cash/cheque only

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-summers-eve-an-hour-of-english-french
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7.00 on Saturday 18 June 2022
YEO YAT-SOON solo harpsichord
at Garrick's Temple to Shakespeare, Hampton Court Road, Hampton, TW12 2EJ

'MUSIC FROM THE GRAND TOUR' - a repeat of the programme from 8 May (see below) with quotations from the musical grand tour reminiscences published as The Present State of Music in France and Italy, by the English musician, scholar and composer Charles Burney in 1771. Burney was a good friend of David Garrick's and he appears with Garrick in one of the prints on the walls of Garrick's Temple to Shakespeare.

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Tickets: £12.00 (£5.00 students and under-18) available in advance from https://www.lokimusic.co.uk

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3.00pm on Sunday 8 May 2022
YEO YAT-SOON: solo harpsichord
at Walpole Old Chapel, 2 Halesworth Road, Walpole, Halesworth, Suffolk IP19 9AZ

'MUSIC FROM THE GRAND TOUR' - a journey following the route of an 18th century Grand Tour starting in London and travelling through Paris, Rome and Venice, with music by Handel, Balbastre, Domenico Scarlatti, M A Charpentier, Galuppi and Alessandro Marcello (arranged J S Bach.

I am delighted to returning to this extraordinarily historic building in the heart of rural Suffolk.


Tickets: £12.00 (£5.00 students and under-18) available in advance from https://www.lokimusic.co.uk

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7pm on Saturday 7 May 2022
FOLLIA at St Mary's Parish Church, Hampton, TW12 2EB

Elin Harries: soprano
Diane Moore: baroque violin
Diane Terry: baroque violin
Ibrahim Aziz: viola da gamba
Yeo Yat-Soon: harpsichord

'CUPID AND THE ROSE' or 'Mischief and Passion
Italian baroque and English early classical music by Ariosti, Handel, R. Langdon and G. Berg


Tickets in advance £12, (under 18s £7), streamed £10 from https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cupid-the-rose-tickets-306039852437
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7.30pm on Saturday 30 April 2022
FOLLIA and THE STANESBY PLAYERS at Church of St Michael and All Saints, London, W4 1TT

Katharina Spreckelsen: baroque oboe
Andrew Collis: recorder
William Summers: baroque flute
Diane Moore: solo baroque violin
Yeo Yat-Soon: solo harpsichord

Joanna Lawrence, Diane Terry: baroque violin
David Brooker: baroque viola
Ibrahim Aziz: baroque cello
Jonny Gee: baroque double bass
with contributions from A level music students from Ashbourne Independent Sixth Form College


'A CORNUCOPIA OF BAROQUE CONCERTOS'

Programme includes:
J S Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No.5, Violin Concerto in A minor
Handel: Concerto Grosso in B flat, Op.3, No.1
Albinoni: Oboe Concerto in D minor
Vivaldi: Recorder Concerto: 'Il Gardellino

This is our first large-scale concertos based concert since lockdown. We woule be delighted if you could join us in the beautiful setting of this Queen Anne Revival Church near Turnham Green


Tickets in advance £15, (students/under 18s £7.50) from https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/Follia-events
or at the door


We are very grateful to Ashbourne Independent Sixth Form College for sponsoring this concert.

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7.45pm on Thursday 17 March 2022
Addison Singers at Holy Innocents Church, Paddenswick Road, London, W6 0UB

Purcell, Dido and Aeneas
​Addison Singers
Conductor: Angela Sleeman
Dido: Victoria Mulley

I am delighted to be joining the Addison singers in this one-off concert performance of Purcell's magnificent masterpiece in miniature.

​Free entry - donations welcome.

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7.00pm on Saturday 12 March 2022
Follia at St Mary's Parish Church, Hampton, TW12 2EB

Elin Harries: soprano
William Summers: baroque flute and recorder
Diane Moore: baroque violin
Gareth Deats: baroque cello
Yeo Yat-Soon: harpsichord

'THE ENCHANTED FOREST' - virtuoso music from 18th century Italy, Germany and England by Scarlatti, Handel, Turner and Hasse


Tickets in advance £12, (under 18s £7), streamed £10 from https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/enchanted-forest-tickets-272707143437
All tickets at the door £14

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7.30pm on Saturday 12 February 2022
University of Birmingham Baroque-Classical Orchestra at the Elgar Concert Hall, Bramall Music Building, Birmingham B15 2TT

Conductor: Andrew Kirkman
Solo Harpsichord: Yeo Yat-Soon

​I am delighted to be joining the University Baroque-Classical Orchestra playing the solo in the Harpsichord Concerto in F minor, variously attributed to Wilhelm Friedemann, Carl Philipp Emmanuel and Johann Christian Bach(!). The programme also includes Sturm und Drang orchestral works by Haydn and Boccherini.

Tickets: £5 at the door