Carolyn Anderson Surrick

Carolyn Anderson Surrick can be an American grasp from the viola da gamba, a mature string device rather just like a little cello that’s held in the lap. A citizen of Annapolis, situated on Chesapeake Bay, Surrick is really a pioneer in innovative development that links Baroque and Renaissance music (especially dance and well-known music) to traditional Celtic music, like the oldest Euro-American folk music. This route, she says, started the very first time she experienced a chance to play a lent gamba, when she was 16. She instantly decided this is the instrument on her behalf and analyzed with a number of teachers. Learning to be a gambist always meant studying ancient music background and interpretation, therefore she acquired a grasp of arts in musicology at George Washington University or college. She was the creator of Outfit Galilei, a distinctive ensemble called after Vincenzo Galilei, the composer, mathematician, and musical theorist who was simply also the daddy of the fantastic astronomer Galileo Galilei. She clarifies that Vincenzo was worried that in the past due Renaissance music experienced lost its enthusiasm and become faraway from its target audience which she discovers a parallel in her personal time. Outfit Galilei’s exclusive quality, as Surrick offers said, is because its being truly a “Celtic/early music crossover group,” because the Outfit is mostly described. Surrick views the group to be somewhere in the centre floor among a traditional string quartet, a genuine devices period ensemble, as well as the Irish group The Chieftains. The five ladies who will be the users of Outfit Galilei included in this play viola da gamba, violin, and Celtic fiddle, Renaissance and Irish/Celtic harp, oboe, and tube and fiddle and frequently has a visitor designer as percussionist. Surrick may be the head of the business, although she uses the word “ringleader and navigatrix.” She as well as the various other people delight in locating connections, like a common usage of modal melodies, therefore the transitions from Renaissance airs also to straight-ahead Irish dance music and so on aren’t jarring. Surrick in addition has been an associate of Voices of the Golden Age group as well as the Smithsonian Chamber Players. She made an appearance on-screen being a musician within the film The Pelican Short. She has produced seven cds with Outfit Galilei on brands including Telarc, and single albums with Dorian. The Ensemble’s promotion says, when she actually is not composing, speaking with the press, or “…considering up new interesting things for the group to try, you’ll find her speaking with trees and shrubs from horseback or bike or kayak, or whispering encouragement to some cooking pumpkin pie.”