These are my main collaborative programmes for the coming season. For further details please get in touch with me directly or with Robert White Artist Management via the Contacts page.
Being Dufay
John Potter tenor, Ambrose Field composer & live electronics
This programme, a re-envisioning of the work of Guillaume Dufay by composer Ambrose Field with specially commissioned videos from Michael Lynch, has been performed all over the world. Ambrose Field's new multimedia work is in development and should be completed in 2012. Both programmes last about an hour and require sound and video projection. The album is available on ECM, and there is a collage of images from the Perth Festival (Western Australia) performance on Michael Lynch's site here.
Conductus
John Potter & Christopher O'Gorman tenors, Michael Lynch video artist
To be launched at the York Early Music Festival in July and coinciding with the release of the first of three CDs on Hyperion (which also feature Rogers Covey-Crump), this is an hour-long programme of 12th century song, presenting the first results of the AHRC-funded Cantum Pulcriorem Invenire research project led by Mark Everist. The music is accompanied by specially commissioned films by Michael Lynch, a short example of which can be seen below. The programme will work well in concert halls with project facilities, but is ideal as a late-night, candle-lit event in a church (for which video projection facilities would need to be provided). There is a dedicated page on this site here.
The Dowland Project will be performing music from the 'night sessions' album when this is released by ECM in the Spring. There is a dedicated page on this site here.
Lute songs with Ariel Abramovich and others: programmes are available with between one and three lutes and vihuelas. 2012 is the anniversary year of Dowland's Pilgrim's Solace, and songs from this collection are featured in a number of versions. These are very flexible, and range from John Potter and Ariel Abramovich lute to an expanded ensemble with Anna Maria Friman soprano and Jacob Heringman lute. This larger ensemble has recently recorded music by Josquin and Victoria for ECM, and concert versions will be available when the CD is released. John Potter will continue to develop the 15th/16th century 'intabulation' repertoire accompanied by Jacob Heringman and Ariel Abramovich, with whom he also performs a variety of English and Italian lute song programmes.
Medieval song: programmes with Jan Walters (harp) include Troubadour and Trouvere songs and German Minnesang from the Carmina Burana. John Potter also gives solo recitals of medieval chant: in April he will present a late-night recital devoted to St Koloman in the Austrian abbey of Melk (for Austrian Radio ORF). There is a video of Bernard de Ventadorn's 'La dossa voz' below.