Evelyn Nallen is an internationally acclaimed professional musician and has played widely in Europe, the USA and Australia with many performances at the Wigmore Hall. She teaches at the Royal Academy of Music, has students at the University of Cambridge and is possibly the only recorder player to have appeared on BBC Radois 1, 2, 3,, 4 and the World Service. She has given lectures and workshops on baroque perofrmance practice in Australia and the USA and has made a special study of baroque dance music, publishing articles on this research in The Consort, Windkanal and The Recorder Magazine.
Evelyn has re-created the score (the original is lost) of the first ever ballet, John Weaver's 1717 The Loves of Mars and Venus, from the theatre music of the time that would have been availabl,e to Weaver. She went on to create a company,The Weaver Ensemble, and devise and produce a show, performed exacrtly 300 years to the day after the first Drury Lane performance, at the Fitzwilliam Auditorium on 2 March 2017.
Other historically-based projects of hers include a programme, Dido's Got the Blues, (modelled on Purcell's Dido and Aeneas) with Respectable Groove, her innnovative early music/jazz group, and the leading French baroque dancer, Gilles Poirier. She is partiuclarly interested in "Authenticity" in Early Music and what that might mean in practice. She is currently working on a new version of Pygmalion, based on the Rameau opera, for the Wesver Ensemble.
Evelyn's approach is conversational, using audio and visual material as well as performing musical excerpts.
