From deeply authentic baroque to wilfully unauthentic Mascagni, Sambuca present four hundred years of music plundered from all over Europe and beyond. Peter Martin performs on guitar, baroque guitar and lute with Michael Copley on flute, recorder, ocarina, and other woodwind instruments. Whether classic Handel sonatas, virtuosic Vivaldi concertos, sultry tangos by Piazzolla, or lively world music from Bolivia and Macedonia, Sambuca's eclectic range of music has an immediate appeal to audiences from school children to the most serious early music specialists.
Sambuca's recent concerts have included the Wales Millennium Centre, university concerts in Cambridge, Leicester, Reading, Sheffield and Southampton, Kloster Michaelstein in Germany, and Mulhouse Baroque Festival in France, as well as many other appearances around the UK. Sambuca's first CD has been heard on BBC Radio 3's Late Junction, and the duo themselves appeared live on Radio 3's In Tune.
Michael Copley, as a member of The Classic Buskers, has performed all over the world including appearances at the Royal Albert Hall, the Royal Festival Hall and the Wigmore Hall in London, the Sydney Opera House in Australia, Carnegie Halls in both Hamburg and New York. Michael has appeared as concerto soloist with the English Chamber Orchestra, the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, the Vancouver Symphony and the Academy of Ancient Music. He has recorded Vivaldi’s recorder concertos for Deutsche Grammophon and Bach’s Brandenburgs with I Musici for Philips. Michael has worked extensively in Bosnia at the Pavarotti Music Centre in Mostar, and as a result of this has developed a great interest in Balkan folk music and wind instruments.
Peter Martin started playing the guitar while living in Spain, and went on to study music at Cambridge University. In recent years he has concentrated increasingly on the lute and its larger relative, the theorbo. He is active as a solo recitalist, accompanist and continuo player. With Michael Copley, Peter is also a member of the Chuckerbutty Ocarina Quartet , which taught at Dartington summer school in 2002 and appeared in concert with Sir James Galway in 2004. He was a director of the music agency Askonas Holt in London until 2005, when he moved to France. Peter's website is at www.silvius.co.uk.
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