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In 1976 two amateur musicians met in Deià, Stephanie Shepard and Patrick Meadows. Neither had seriously touched an instrument for fifteen years, but they began again, playing recorder duets, trios and quartets with other amateurs. With Llullist Anthony Bonner they became familiar with the extensive repertoire for flute, recorder, and basso continuo. In 1978 they brought a harpsichord from England, along with numerous second-hand scores: Baroque trio sonatas, piano trios and quartets, sonatas for flute and piano, plus a method book for studying the cello, an instrument which, like the flute, he had studied briefly at Florida State University where students were required to study an instrument from each of the sections of the orchestra, plus piano basics and vocal performance - madrigals, choir, accompaniment.
That same summer, they moved to the house in the valley below Deià where they still live, and they installed the harpsichord, reading through the Haendel sonatas, many works by Telemann, Quantz, Bach, Loeillet, and trio sonatas with visitors.
Narcis Bonet, then musical director of l'Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris and who spent summers in nearby Lluch-Alcari, knocked on their door one afternoon in August, having heard that there was a harpsichord and some musicians getting together. For the annual celebration of the Feast of Carmen he wanted to organize a concert in the tiny chapel. So with Canadian violinist Vera Blum and an English oboist and a cellist, flutes and recorders, and Narcis on the keyboard they played a program in the chapel of Lluch-Alcari and then in the church in Deià.
Christophe Coin
The next year they formed various combinations under the name Tafelmusik with visiting and resident musicians and played five or six concerts in the Deià church, passing the collection plate for the musicians. By now Patrick was playing the harpsichord, cello, or flute as needed, and on a couple of occasions the double bass. He formed and directed a choir which practiced on Thursdays during most of the year, and got together a chamber orchestra made up of members of the Palma Orchestra and visitors to the island - a harpsichordist and violinist from Hannover, a soprano from the Schola Cantorum a recorder and baroque flute soloist from Berlin, a cellist from the Liceu opera orchestra of Barcelona. Stephanie was also singing now, and performed not only as one of the recorder soloists in the Brandenburg 4 and the Telemann Concerto for flute and recorder, but also sang contralto in the choir for performances of Pergolesi and in quartets of Spanish music. Patrick Meadows
HISTORIAL BREU DEL FESTIVAL DE DEIÀ
Intérprets mallorquins que va participar en el Festival de Deià 1978-1998
Grups Mallorquins en el Festival de Deià
Compositors Mallorquins en el Festival de Deià
Artistas Internacionals
In 1985, with the help of Antoni Colomar and Josefina Sintes, Association Amics de la Música Clàssica (Friends of Music), also known as Alma Concerts (Alma = the soundpost of the violin, and Alma = the soul), was formed, with one of the principal aims to give young musicians an opportunity to play before an international audience.
1978 - Va fundar el Festival de Deià.
1978 - 1997 promédi anual de 15 concerts de música de cambra en Son Marroig (amb piano) o en l'església parroquial de Deià (senza piano).
1985 - La Consellería de Turismo presenta una medalla de plata en recognició de l'iniciativa dels concerts en Son Marroig.
1985 - Fundació de la Associació "Amics de la Música Clássica" - Alma Concerts.
1988 - estrena de El bon senyor Karnak, Ópera de Cámbra en Mallorquí (Josep M0 Llompart - Carl Mansker).
1989 - estrena de l'obra 'Deya', d'Antoni Girard (Premio Velázquez) per a orquestra de cordes (New American Chamber Orchestra), i quartet de vent com a soloistes (Epsilon de Londres).
1990 - estrena del Quintet per a Clarinet i Quartet de Cordes d'Antoni Girard - Solista Walter Seyfarth de la Filarmónica de Berlín amb el Quartet Komitas d'Armenia.
1997 - James Stevenson presenta un clavicèmbal de dos teclats al Festival de Deià.
1998 - Estrena de l'obra The Song of Creation, de Bartomeu Artigues, per a piano, quartet, y soprano.
1998 - Aaron Jay Kerner, Premi Pulitzer, estrena la seva obra en memória de John Lennon.
1998 - Estrena de Dos Impromptus Mallorquines de José Hernán Cibils, compositor argentí, per a clarinet, contrabaix i piano.
1998 - Estrena de Dansa y Fuga VII, Op. 34 i Ballade, Op 41. Núm. 1 de Carl Mansker.
Artistes d'any 2000
Artistes d'any 2001
Rafael Adrover
Augustí Aguiló
Miguel Angel i Xisco Aguiló
Antoni Aragón
Miguel Ballester
Gabriel Bauzá
Xisco Blanco
Francesc Bonnin
Juan Brunet
Xavier Carbonell
Gonzalo Augusto
Luis/Elisabeth Correa
Rosa Cuellar
Jaume Dalamanca
Los Valldemossas
Miguel Estelrich
Ramón Ferrán
Maria del Carme Fullana
Ignacio Furió
Teresa Garcia
Maruja Gaya
Petra Genestra
Bartomeu Jaume
Mari Paz Juan Castro
Mra. Victoria Lassalle
Joanna Llabres
Gori Marcus
Gabriel Martí
Pascual Martinez
Maria Jose Martorell
Joan Más
Joan Moll
Roberto Moragon
Xavier Morell
Isabel Morey Suau
Serafin Nebot
Margarita Obrador
Lluis Oliver Argells
Margalida Palou
Pep Xisco Palou
Juan Pared
Maria Luisa Payeras
Margalida Pons
Carles Ponseti
Pere Pou
Margalida Puigserver
Isabel Rosselló
Maria Rotger
Luis Sampol
Mari Carmen Sanz
Francisco Sard
Miguel Angel Segura
Maria Luisa Torres
Concepción Vadell
Marc Vaquer
Antoni Vicens
entre altres
Orquestra Simfònica de Palma
Camerata Sa Nostra
Pro Arte
Studium
Quartet de Corda Opus 18
Jove Acadèmia Instrumental
Aires Sollerics
Septet de l'Orquestra Simfònica
Quintet de Vent de l'Orquestra Simfònica
Syntagma Cuarteto Vocal
A. Lliteras - Arias
B. Samper - Cançons
Torrandell - Duos i Trios
Tintorer - Quartetino, Quartet, Trio
Josep Prohens - peces per a piano
Capllonch - Quartet i Cançons
Mas Porcel - Cançons i obres per a piano
Bartomeu Artigues - sonata per a flauta, i Song of Creation
Joan Mª Thomás - obres per a cor, obres per a piano
Brodsky Quartet
Amati String Quartet
Quintet de Vent de la Sinfónica de Berlín
Trio Shostakovitch
Quartet "Camerata de Varsovia"
La Orquestra de Cambra KREMLIN
New American Chamber Orchestra
Quatuour Loewenguth
Suzanne Husson, pianista
Quartet Silvestri
Mark Drobinsky
Irina Edelstein
Wolfgang Leibnitz
Alexander Malter
Christoph Coin
Moscow Piano Quartet
Victor Yoran