Summertime (George Gershwin) - an arrangement by Philip Mayers and performed by Sheridan Ensemble members Mary Carewe (soprano), Florian Donderer (violin) & Philip Mayers (piano).

Summertime

A rock version of a 14th century piece played by Michele Pasotti (electric guitar) and Anna Carewe (cello) in the Sheridan Ensemble's concert "Subtilior" on 31.8.13 in Berlin. Doesn't this sound more like the 20th Century?

"Strinze la Man" by  Bartolino da Padova (ca. 1365 -1405) for electric guitar and cello

Live from our concert "Chacona, Lamento, Walking Blues" in the Kulturhaus Karlshorst, Berlin on 9th November 2013 - featuring Oli Bott (vibraphone), with Mary Carewe (vocals) and Anna Carewe (cello)

"Hit The Road Jack" (Percy Mayfield) - live with Sheridan Ensemble

Our live, spontaneous version of Bruno Maderna's composition for free instrumentation - ours was recorder, violin, cello and harpsichord !!! Recorded live at the 2009 Ultraschall Festival in  Berlin, with Gerd Lünenbürger (recorder), Yuki Kasai (violin), Anna Carewe (cello) and Petteri Pitko (harpsichord))

Bruno Maderna "Serenata Per Un Satellite" (Sheridan Ensemble)

Live from the 2012 "Ultraschall Festival", Berlin with Nina Janßen-Deinzer (bass clarinet), Gergely Bodoky (bass flute), Yuki Kasai (violin) and Anna Carewe (cello)

Romitelli "Domeniche alla Periferia dell'Impero": 1. Domenica

A live clip from our concert in Berlin on 9th November 2013 with the unusual combination of instruments alto flute (Gergely Bodoky), Baroque violin (Yuki Kasai), vibraphone (Oli Bott), cello (Anna Carewe) and theorbo (Michele Pasotti)......!!

John Dowland: "Lachrimae Antiquae" (Sheridan Ensemble)

An excerpt from our concert at the 2010 "Ultraschall" Festival in Berlin, with Nina Janßen-Deinzer (clarinet), Florian Donderer (violin), Anna Carewe (cello) and Philip Mayers (piano)

"Catch" - Thomas Adès (excerpt)

An excerpt of this amazing piece by Jonathan Harvey, recorded live at the 2010 "Ultraschall" Festival in Berlin, with Yuki Kasai (violin), Florian Donderer (viola) and Anna Carewe (cello)

Jonathan Harvey - String Trio (excerpt)

Here Gergely Bodoky (Renaissance flute) and Yuki Kasai (Baroque violin), accompanied by Michele Pasotti (Theorbo) and Anna Carewe (cello pizzicato), (along with some percussion by Oli Bott) are having fun during our concert at the Kulturhaus Karlshorst on 9th November 2013!

Claudio Monteverdi: "Zefiro Torna" (extract) with the Sheridan Ensemble

What an amazing composer - so modern, so expressive, so exciting! Here's our version with Yuki Kasai (violin), Fanny Paccoud (viola) and Anna Carewe (cello), live from the Kulturhaus Karlshorst on 31.8.2013

"Una Panthera" by Johannes Ciconia (around 1400) played by the Sheridan Ensemble

Carl Czerny: String Quartet in  A Minor, 4th Mvt

Live in Berlin 2013, this extraordinary 14th Century piece is played on an exotic set of instruments, including electric guitar and vibraphone......

"Ut Te Per Omnes" by Johannes Ciconia

An ensemble without artistic compromise, where the dreams of each individual member become reality - it is with this vision in mind that the cellist Anna Carewe founded the Sheridan Ensemble in 2007. The unique combination of instrumentalists who regularly work with some of Europe's leading orchestras and ensembles - a prize-winning Jazz artist, an international vocal star from the Musical and Cabaret world, a harpsichordist equally renowned for his interpretation of New and Baroque, as well as guests invited to join the ensemble for specific projects - serves as a melting pot for creativity with each member looking to cross the borders of his own musical world into a new realm.

With repertoire ranging from Diego Ortiz (around 1550), Dowland, Purcell, Couperin, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schubert, Brahms, Schoenberg up to 20th and 21st composers from the Classical or Jazz world or the greats of the Musical and Cabaret scene, such as Gershwin or Weill, the Sheridan Ensemble is at home presenting almost any programme, whether mainstream or utterly original.

A selection of past performances include "Pierrot Lunaire, Berlin Cabaret, Weill on Broadway" (in London and Stuttgart - with multimedia), "Handel in London" (in Helsinki - on original instruments), "Programme in Three Parts: Spectral, Minimal, Theatrical" (in Lodz), as well as their four programmes at the "Ultraschall" Festival in Berlin. Smaller ensemble groupings include the Duo programme "Cello meets Vibraphone" (500 years of music - part improvised) or the recordings of all seven known remaining string quartets of Carl Czerny, due to be released on CD in 2013.

The ensemble is named after the Irish writer, political satirist and politician Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751 - 1815), whose outspoken criticism of the British government on social and human rights issues once almost cost him his life. His friend Lord Byron once said of him: "Everything that Sheridan has done or chooses to do is par excellence the best of its kind" - words which serve both to inspire and challenge the musicians of the Sheridan Ensemble.

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