Name: Exquisite Harmonies - Canberra
Start: 2025-03-16T14:00:00+11:00
Location: Greenaway Studio 164 Namatjira Drive, Chapman ACT 2611

Greenaway Studio welcomes The Marais Project, featuring Jennifer Eriksson (viola da gamba) and Anthony Abouhamad (harpsichord), who will be presenting an exquisite selection of music for viol & harpsichord.
‘There is something special about hearing historical music being performed on the instruments for which they were originally composed. And there’s a visceral pleasure in watching consummate musicians perform gorgeously crafted wooden musical instruments in an acoustic setting.’
- Review of The Marais Project’s ‘Exquisite Harmonies’ program, City Hub, September 2024
This quite special program literally takes listeners through a playlist of the finest baroque music for the viola da gamba – the menu including suites and sonatas for viola da gamba by Telemann and Carl Friedrich Abel. In addition, there is a ‘Grand Suite’ Jenny has assembled with music by Sainte-Colombe, Caix d’Hervelois, Marin Marais and Forqueray - a venerable ‘who’s who’ of French baroque viola da gamba composers and virtuosi! Anthony will also play several solos by Couperin and improvise in the style of Telemann.
No two musical instruments better typify the early music revolution of recent decades than the harpsichord and the 7-string viola da gamba. Unlike the violin and brass families whose members evolved but remained in use across the 17th to 20th centuries, the viol and the harpsichord had all but disappeared by the late 1700s. They returned to concert stages in the 1960s and 70s and have not left the podium since! Over the years they have built their own fan base of admirers.
The Marais Project’s Jenny Eriksson and Anthony Abouhamad have performed together for many years. Most recently appearing together on the ensemble’s ‘Australian Monody.’