We have been very lucky in Melbourne over the past few months, playing host to the likes of @peter.croton and Jakob Lindberg. Suffice to say the inaugural Melbourne International Lute Festival was fabulous, congrats to all who participated! . . #lut
What a truly epic production! Congratulations @lacompania1600, @orchestravictoria, and @victorianopera for the amazing world premiere of Galileo! . #opera #earlymusic #guitar #theorbo #music 📷 Charlie Kinross
Last night was a new experience: a rehearsal punctuated by the screams of the Luna Park rollercoaster riders...😂 @1steph1violin @palaistheatre @victorianopera
Getting continuo ready again...scores have arrived for Richard Mill's new opera 'Galileo', performed by @victorianopera and La compania: Premiere performance, Wednesday December 20 at the Palais Theatre! . . 📷 Ben Fon, from a 2020 (masked up) produ
It's well known that the lute case is the most coveted of all cat beds...🐈. . . . #kitten #lute #classicalmusic #cat #music #earlymusic #guitar
The real MVPs hanging out before our concert @melbrecital last night...
And that's a wrap on the first of many recording sessions for the PhD! 🎤🎙️ The project will see me record the ~70 pieces in the Cosens lute book... Lucky I have three and a half years to do it! 😂😂 . . #lute #phd #earlymusic #homestudio #m160 #cla
I hope Johnny Dowland would be proud ❤️ My immense gratitude is sent to @kenmurrayguitarist and Rosemary Hodgson for getting me over the finish line. Here's to the next journey: performance PhD! Disclaimer: some editing may have occured in this ima
'Summoning the Muses' . . Action shot from the weekend's fringe show, featuring ballads, fantasy melodies and game music. . 📸 @lilstapics . #bard #bardcore #larp #lute #witcher #skyrim #fantasy #games #renaissance #costume #musician #earlymusic #gui
Huge shout-out to my awesome bunch of first year Music History students who gave me this INCREDIBLE end of semester gift! Best of luck to you all in the coming exams and thanks for being a joy to teach!
70 minutes! Glad that one's behind me 😏 I believe this is the first ever masters lute recital in Melbourne and...possibly... Australia (which is just wild). Thank you @lauren.burns.sop for the 'canto Bello' ❤️ and Rosemary Hodgson for your exception
Pretty snazzy Venue! 😎 Thanks to all who came out for Saturday's concert with La Compania! Was great to be back on stage and remembering what performing feels like again! #melbournerecitalcentre #melbourne #arts #band #guitar #baroqueguitar #perfo
Big thank you to the UoM video and audio production team for a long but rewarding day of filming. We are making a new lecture/performance series focusing on historical performance practice for the university. Suffice to say none of the crew had ever
A little snippet from yesterday's lecture recital presented to the faculty of fine arts and music (UoM). Full presentation and performance can be found at: caseyfitzpatrick.com/journal . #lute #lutesong #renaissance #classicalsinger #earlymusic #clas
Theorbow. . . . #earlymusic #lute #theorbo #continuo #music #classicalmusic #classicalguitar #red
Historically informed performance with the optional 'Fear of the plague' expansion pack 😷😏😅 . Congratulations to the star of the show @rebecca.lynchwells ❤️👏👏🔥🔥 . #covidsafe
Melbourne officially has a new lute maker!! Fantastic result @sachar_amos_guitars, you have made an exceptional instrument and far exceeded what I thought possible for a first lute! This is modelled on a Michael Lowe 7c, a beautiful and practical ins
It's often the everyday, overlooked aspects of 16th and 17th century life that fascinate me most. The amount of work that went into making this lute case (with it's own set of ribs!) is phenomenal. Detail you just never see anymore in the age of fibr
Long before both world wars, before the first combustion engine was invented, before electricity powered our homes and cars took us where we needed to go, before the Eiffel Tower existed and even before slavery was abolished in the British Empire, th