Event overview
Music Research Series and Historical Musicology present Zak Ozmo in this afternoon lecture.
Zak Ozmo is a music director, lutenist, and a scholar in historical performance who resides in Britain. He is the artistic and music director of acclaimed period instrument ensemble L'Avventura London.
In addition to his busy performing schedule, Žak holds the post of Director of Early Music at the University of Hull. He has also been active as a lecturer in historical performance practice, collegium director, and lute teacher for various early music societies and at the University of Oxford, Royal College of Music in London, University of Southern California in Los Angeles, and the University of California at Fullerton. As an extension of his educational activities, in 2011 he formed the London Community Baroque Orchestra (now functioning as an educational arm of L'Avventura London) based at the Foundling Museum in London, which he also directs. The goal of the organization is to provide training in historical performance practice to its members and to present high-level musical performances. Žak has been a recipient of various prestigious awards, prizes, and scholarships including a Society for Theatre Research award for reconstructing and recording music from English ballad operas and the Dowland Prize for Lute at the John Kerr Competition in Kent.
Žak's writings on historical performance practice have been translated into French, German, Spanish, and Korean, and appear in some of the leading journals and magazines in the field. His affinity for re-discovering and reviving lost musical repertoires has led to an ongoing affiliation with the groundbreaking Ballad Operas Online database through Oxford University Digital Libraries, while his current projects for publication include an edition of eighteenth-century lute concerti for A-R Editions, supervision of the lute section of Francesco Geminiani Opera Omnia for Ut Orpheus Edizioni (general editor: Christopher Hogwood), and a new project for Bärenreiter. Further, he frequently presents his research at conferences in Europe and North America; recent presentations include those at the 16th Biennial International Conference on Baroque Music in Salzburg; the SECEM, the Universidade Nova de Lisboa; the Handel, Purcell, and Literature conference at Senate House, University of London; the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies; and the Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society in Philadelphia (USA).
Free event, all welcome
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 25 Nov 2014 | 5:00pm - 6:30pm |
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