Baroque Ensemble LUX
Baroque Ensemble Lux are exciting group of early music specialists and accomplished soloists based in UK.
They have become regulars in the London Handel Festival, performed with finalists of the competition, and a winner of 2015, Josep-Ramon Olivé and to name a few. They have given many concerts in the Thursday Live concert series at the Handel House Museum where they have performed to sell-out audiences. The ensemble was invited to perform in the prestigious Georgian Concert Society Series in Edinburgh.
Asako Ogawa harpsichord / director
Japanese born harpsichordist based in London performs as a soloist and continuo players. Asako founded Baroque Ensemble LUX in 2007 with graduates from GSMD and RAM.
She gives regular performance in the London Handel Museum concert series, and London Handel Festival. Asako teaches as a baroque repertoire coach at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, London. Already established as a collaborative pianist trained at GSMD, Asako studied harpsichord at the Historical Performance Department there and obtained PGDip after directing Brandenburg Concerto No.5 awarded a fellowship position in the following year. She was selected to take part in the master class with Ton Koopman, Colin Tilney, Bob van Asperen, and Christophe Rousset. In 2006/2007 she was offered a scholarship to participate Aestas Musica where she played continuo for Fairy Queen and Indian Queen by Purcell under the director Laurence Cummings. Amongst many prizes she was awarded were the Browadwood Early Keyboard Ensemble Competition(finalist), Handel Singing Competition (Accompanist Award). Her performance with Dereck Walton and Anna Divine in Brighton Early Music Festival was on air in BBC3 Early Music Show . Her recent project of concert series Goldberg Variations in London and Japan met enthusiastic reception.
She studied harpsichord with Nicholas Parle, James Johnstone and Laurence Cummings.
Iva Fleischhansová baroque violin
Iva studied in Prague at the Academy of Performing Arts with Nora Grumlikova. In 1994 she came to the UK to do postgraduate studies at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester with Lydia Mordkovich. Fired with enthusiasm for period performance, she also studied with Pauline Nobes and Andrew Manze. While in Prague, Iva was co-leader of the Suk Chamber Orchestra and a member of the Talich Chamber Orchestra. Since settling in the UK she has worked with Manchester Camerata, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, the London Festival Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the London Classical Players, the Academy of Ancient Music, the Sixteen and others and toured with them extensively in Europe, America and Japan. She regularly performs with the renowned Czech pianist Tomas Visek, harpsichordists Douglas Hollick and Luke Green and in a duo with her husband, the violinist Mark Butler, and makes recordings for films and for Czech Radio.
Haru Sekiya baroque violin
Haru started the violin at the age of six under the direction of Ms Junko Isono. In 1995 she moved to England to study at the Purcell Music School, and subsequently studied at the Royal Academy of Music, graduating with a First Class Honours degree in Bachelor of Music. She has played extensively in venues around the UK as a soloist and a chamber musician, including appearances at the Handel Festival, Japan Festival and Leicester Early Music Festival. She has also participated in various orchestral concerts under the baton of such conductors as Sir Colin Davis, Yan Pascal Tortelier and Vladimir Ashkenazy. Due to her own experience of playing-induced back problems, she has studied osteopathy in order to understand the postural issues affecting musicians. She now combines her work as an osteopath in London alongside her violin teaching and performing engagements.
Geoffrey Irwin baroque viola
Geoff studied viola at the Royal Academy of Music and historical viola at Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He has played with leading early music groups including the English Baroque Soloists and Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, and has recorded with the Gabrieli Consort and Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique. He teaches viola at The Latymer School.
Nikolay Ginov baroque cello / Viola da Gamba
Nikolay is originally from Plovdiv, Bulgaria. He plays baroque, classical and modern cello, bass violin and viola da gamba. As a baroque and classical cellist, he has toured throughout Europe with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and performed in major festivals, including the BBC Proms, the “Darkness and Light” concert series at Kings Place with Laurence Cummings, and the Montisi Festival in Italy. Nikolay has been also giving regular recitals at the Handel House Museum and London Handel Festival and has performed in the prestigious Georgian Concert Society Series in Edinburgh in 2015. In 2005, already established as a modern cellist, he began to explore Historical Performance Practice by taking private lessons with Alison McGillivray. He was offered the Peter le Huray Award in 2005 and the Leverhulme Award in 2007 from the Royal Academy of Music, which enabled him to study baroque & classical cello with Jennifer Ward Clarke and viola da gamba with Jonathan Manson. Nikolay graduated from the Royal Academy of Music in June 2008 with Distinction and a Dip RAM for an outstanding final recital. He was also awarded the John McAslan Prize.
Eva Caballero baroque flute
Eva has a busy and varied musical career performing with period instrument orchestras and ensembles in the UK and abroad.
In 2009 she took part in the Ann and Peter Law OAE Experience. After that she has freelanced with leading orchestras such us Gabrieli Consort & Players, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the Sixteen, Music for Awhile, Dunedin Consort, Armonico Consort and International Baroque Players {UK}, Le Concert Lorrain {France} and Opera in Concert {Toronto, Canada}. She has also given recitals at Raynham Hall, Wallace Collection, Handel House Museum and St Martin-in-the-Fields, among others.
Eva is also an enthusiastic educator and works as a flute teacher in North London.
Katarina Đorđević baroque violin
Katarina holds a Master of Arts in baroque violin from the Royal Academy of Music in London where she studied with Simon Standage and a Master of Music from the Academy of Music in Belgrade where she studied violin with Vesna Stanković. Katarna performs regularly in UK festivals , such as the English Haydn Festival in Bridgnorth and Brecon Baroque Festival in Wales.
Her performances in London include major venues such as the Handel House Museum, Foundling Museum, leading the Royal Academy of Music Baroque Orchestra for the Bach Unwrapped series at Kings Place; performing Italian music with Rachel Podger at Wigmore Hall, regular performances of Bach with Florilegium Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall, opera performances at the Royal College of Music’s Britten Theatre, and BBC Radio 3 In Tune live broadcast of Bach’s Coffee Cantata with the Royal Academy of Music baroque ensemble.
Katarina regularly performs as leader and soloist of the Belgrade Early Music Studio period instruments ensemble, New Trinity Baroque, New Belgrade Opera, Belgrade Festival of Early Music and Makris Symphony Orchestra in her hometown Belgrade, Serbia
