Les Voix Humaines are back in the NWT to grace our ears once again with this special Yellowknife performance, as founding member and most incredible gambist Susie Napper takes flight with the Russian harpsichordist Elizaveta Miller. Also featuring local baroque lutenist Tyler Hawkins, their collective programme ‘Adversaries in Love’ transports us to the connected worlds and unmatched genius of Gauthier, Marais, Abel, Bach(s) and Weiss, all played on authentic period instruments.
The viol duo, Les Voix Humaines, brings flair and brilliance to their performances! Susie Napper and Mélisande Corriveau have performed together as members of Les Voix Humaines Consort for two decades and collaborated on many projects. They have performed across Canada, in the USA, France and Belgium as a duo. They both play on historic viols by London luthier, Barak Norman.
The duo builds on decades of performances worldwide by Susie Napper and Margaret Little who’s musical complicity was compared to the skill of a pair of trapeze artists or the telepathic communion of jazz artists. Their many prizes and recordings are the foundation on which the new duo has built a creative repertoire and innovative style to inspire a new generation of music-lovers.
Anguille sous roche – Something Fishy, the duo’s latest recording and video features delicacies from the French repertoire offering humour, virtuosity and tenderness in a unique, creative programme. Last November they recorded a new CD of several iconic works by J.S. Bach arranged by Susie Napper for two viols.
The duo has been joined by many celebrated soloists including singers Suzie Leblanc, Daniel Taylor, Charles Daniels and Jonathon Adams and instrumentalists, Wieland and Bart Kuijken, Davide Monti and Nigel North. Susie Napper has the honour of performing with Russian harpsichordist Elizaveta Miller for this special performance in Yellowknife.
$45Adult, $35 Youth/Senior