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Creating the artwork for Dussek's Messe Solemnelle . Artist Spotlight, Academy of Ancient Music, October 2020
‘Amidst the glorious pre-concert buzz of artists, musicians, technicians and gathering audience, I was shown to a sound-booth at the rear of Barbican Concert Hall, a space usually designated for the purposes of ‘instantaneous translation’ – my impromptu painting studio for the night. Continue reading on AAM's website or here.
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12th OCT 2020
J L Dussek, Messe Solemnelle Album Release
I am delighted to announce the release of the latest recording on AAM Records, Jan Ladislav Dussek’s Messe Solemnelle, now available for sale on AAM's website and from all good retailers, and streaming on Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer and beyond.
Continuing the Academy of Ancient Music’s mission to explore, reveal and preserve the great treasure house of baroque and classical music, this setting was discovered languishing in a Florentine library by AAM music director Richard Egarr after more than two centuries of neglect. Likely receiving only a single performance in the composer’s lifetime, the Messe is ‘typical of Dussek,’ Egarr writes. ‘Hugely colourful, dynamic, flexible and with an advanced harmonic and modulatory daring, particularly in the extensive fugues. His orchestration and sense of drama is unlike his contemporaries, and by this I mean the generation of Mozart, not Beethoven! It is much more “Romantic” in its intentions and palette. In short, Dussek is a figure who deserves a great deal more attention.'
The release is presented in premium packaging with a full-colour booklet containing numerous articles and notes on the work’s context and relevance, in line with other notable recent releases Handel Brockes-Passion and Valls Missa Regalis.
I am thrilled to share this under-appreciated work with you, and hope that you enjoy discovering Dussek’s exciting and enigmatic soundworld as much as we have in the year since we gave the work its modern premiere. The perfect addition to any music-lover’s library, especially those seeking new musical adventures.
Happy listening, and all best wishes,
John McMunn | Chief Executive
Academy of Ancient Music
AAM Mailshot, 2nd October 2020
BBC Music Magazine, February 2020
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Huge success for AAM's new edition of Handel's Brockes-Passion... |
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas Edition 2019
The Academy of Ancient Music appoints visual artist Emma Safe as Artist in Residence
Monday, September 23, 2019
The Academy of Ancient Music (AAM) has appointed visual artist Emma Safe as Artist in Residence for the 2019/20 season. Safe will attend rehearsals and concerts throughout the year and create visual works of art in-situ, inspired by the rhythms and sounds she hears, responding to situations physically, and never changing her drawings after an event.
Emma Safe comments: “I’m delighted to be working with the Academy this year. There are so many different ways of responding to music visually, and this opportunity allows me to explore those angles. For me, music has a texture and physicality the same way drawing does. To draw from such incredible music is a dream project. I’m very excited to see what will happen and where it will take me.”
Safe trained at the Liverpool School of Art in the early 1990s, and subsequently spent several years as an Art Critic writing for publications including Art Monthly, [a-n] Magazine, The Guardian and Metro Life. She left journalism to pursue her own art work in the early 2000s, and has since developed a method of drawing and painting which uses external stimuli to influence the rhythm of the work and explore particular themes.
Safe also takes up the post of Hogwood Fellow for the 2019/20 season. The position builds on the legacy of AAM founder the late Christopher Hogwood, by seeking to further our understanding of, and relationship with early music. Safe succeeds Sandy Burnett, who held the position for the 2018/19 season, and Professor Robert Levin, AAM’s inaugural Hogwood Fellow in 2017/18.
Speaking about the appointment, AAM Chief Executive Alexander Van Ingen comments: “Emma’s inspirational art is as compelling as it is visceral; dramatic and full of energy. Her work in response to AAM’s 300th anniversary performance of Handel’s Brockes-Passion features throughout the CD artwork (released on October 4th) exploring the dramatic tension of the narrative, and adds a new dimension to appreciate and absorb Handel and Brockes’ masterpiece of music and poetry. I’m thrilled to welcome Emma to AAM this season, and look forward to us inspiring each other through audible and visual art-forms to increase our audience’s opportunity to engage with art in all its forms, from the 1600’s to the modern day.”
Monday, September 23, 2019
The Academy of Ancient Music (AAM) has appointed visual artist Emma Safe as Artist in Residence for the 2019/20 season. Safe will attend rehearsals and concerts throughout the year and create visual works of art in-situ, inspired by the rhythms and sounds she hears, responding to situations physically, and never changing her drawings after an event.
Emma Safe comments: “I’m delighted to be working with the Academy this year. There are so many different ways of responding to music visually, and this opportunity allows me to explore those angles. For me, music has a texture and physicality the same way drawing does. To draw from such incredible music is a dream project. I’m very excited to see what will happen and where it will take me.”
Safe trained at the Liverpool School of Art in the early 1990s, and subsequently spent several years as an Art Critic writing for publications including Art Monthly, [a-n] Magazine, The Guardian and Metro Life. She left journalism to pursue her own art work in the early 2000s, and has since developed a method of drawing and painting which uses external stimuli to influence the rhythm of the work and explore particular themes.
Safe also takes up the post of Hogwood Fellow for the 2019/20 season. The position builds on the legacy of AAM founder the late Christopher Hogwood, by seeking to further our understanding of, and relationship with early music. Safe succeeds Sandy Burnett, who held the position for the 2018/19 season, and Professor Robert Levin, AAM’s inaugural Hogwood Fellow in 2017/18.
Speaking about the appointment, AAM Chief Executive Alexander Van Ingen comments: “Emma’s inspirational art is as compelling as it is visceral; dramatic and full of energy. Her work in response to AAM’s 300th anniversary performance of Handel’s Brockes-Passion features throughout the CD artwork (released on October 4th) exploring the dramatic tension of the narrative, and adds a new dimension to appreciate and absorb Handel and Brockes’ masterpiece of music and poetry. I’m thrilled to welcome Emma to AAM this season, and look forward to us inspiring each other through audible and visual art-forms to increase our audience’s opportunity to engage with art in all its forms, from the 1600’s to the modern day.”
AAM/YouTube Monday 23rd September 2019
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Galleria Farini, Exhibition Catalogue and Review, selected extracts, Paris, June 2019
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Translation coming soon.
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Birmingham New Street Station Assisted Travel Lounge
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Three of my works are on display in Birmingham New Street's new Assisted Travel Lounge (new June 2019). The new lounge is situated near the entrance to platform 2B, next to Camden Food Co./near the Red Lounge and provides a welcoming waiting space for people with additional mobility and sensory needs.
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PHOTO: NETWORK RAIL
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Royal Academy of Arts, Summer Exhibition 2017, #RA Summer ‘Studio life: tips from the Summer Exhibition artists’.
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dpa light review, No. 33, Special Edition - October 2017
Read dpa's light review here, Oxford's Radcliffe Camera illuminated for Light of Heritage Night III and a photograph taken of me drawing at the event. Night of Light is my drawing from the night.
artspace 46, Leamington Studio Artists Magazine, Birmingham art scene focus, Summer 2017. (Recent editions of artspace available online here ).
Birmingham Post, Life Magazine, 23rd July 2015
Heritage Railway, ISSUE 222, November 17 - December 14, 2016
