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Looking backward

A group recently formed by several professional musicians from Wellington to specialise in early music will give its first Christchurch recital tomorrow in St Alban’s Methodist Church. Merivale. The group takes its name, Ensemble Dufay, from a fifteenth-century composer, Guillaume Dufay, whose works the five perform, with thoseof other Renaissance conn posers from Italy, France, England, and the Netherlands.

The leader of the group is Robert Oliver (middle), who sings tenor and plays the viol and rebec. A member of the Troubadours, he returned recently from a study visit to Europe. The other singers are Geoffrey Coker (counter-tenor, second from right) and Greer Garden (soprano, right), who also plays the harp. They are joined by Andrea Oliver (recorders and flutes) and the Australian lute-player Bill Bower. Greer Garden returned

to New Zealand in 1977 from Canada, where she was on the music staff of Laval University. She has appeared in early-music concerts in London, Paris, and Montreal. Geoffrey Coker, who is also lead singer in the Wellington Baroque Players, was a member of the famous choir of King’s College, Cambridge, before his return to New Zealand. Andrea Oliver, was formerly an oboist in the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.

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Press, 17 April 1979, Page 8

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200

Looking backward Press, 17 April 1979, Page 8

Looking backward Press, 17 April 1979, Page 8

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