news
2006
To those of you who have been anxiously awaiting news, our apologies for being so lax. Sonnerie is a group lacking a computer fanatic, so we can be woefully remiss at updating the site.
Last year was a fairly busy one for us, unlike this year, due to disagreements with our agent (who is no now longer our agent). March was particularly busy, with a Music in the Round tour, visits to the States, Spain, and one to Italy as piano plus quartet with Haydn and the Gypsies. Sadly, for that concert, the piano quite literally cracked up 10 minutes before we were due on stage (our viola player came out in sympathy with it), and we were left having to perform minus Matthew, a somewhat lonely experience.
In August, flight chaos had us diverting to the Eurostar in order to get our instruments over to Innsbruck. Liz, the theorbo player, had, in true Liz style, left her passport at home, and was therefore on a train that arrived into waterloo 4 mins before the eurostar departure. Through some impressive crowd-scything-with-theorbo techniques, she actually managed to catch the train. The concert made a pleasant stress-free antidote to that.
Our other major travel hike of the year took us to Mexico as a string quartet for all of 3 days. Monica, needing time to practise, gave us the choice of having her along either to the press release or to the music school in Monterrey where we were to perform to 5-12 year olds. We chose the latter, resulting in a rather surreal press conference bursting with tv men, radio men, journalists, local dignitaries and the like, all expecting to see the big star, Monica, and instead getting us young 'uns. Joe did us proud, however, managing to waffle away while Hannah and I reinforced the general opinion of us being fluffly girls by being fluffly girls and getting nervous giggles.
2007
This year we will be doing a concert in the Wigmore hall after which you will be able to buy our newly released CD of the Bach violin concertos. So please do come! Finally, In september we will be recording 2 new CD's for ASV, both Bach.