ClubMediéval 's first public performance took place in Antwerp, Belgium in the summer of 2010, witha programme of music by Paolo da Firenze.

This small club of friends from across Europe, in their twenties and thirties, weave their uniquemusical gifts into a rich fabric of vocal and instrumental polyphony, each contributing to a process ofexperimentation and improvement, until they are ready to invite their audience to be enveloped into
their creation.
Working with Capilla Flamenca, Mala Punica, Micrologus, Graindelavoix, Concerto Italiano, Jordi Savall,Los Musicos de Su Alteza and l’Arpeggiata amongst many others, the musicians of ClubMed havecome to understand that there is ‘truth’ in historically informed performance when each performer's
artistic authenticity is allowed to shine forth, and 'beauty' when these different personal truths canmeet. Within a spirit of openness and collaboration, the artistic leadership is provided by ThomasBaeté.
On the basis of its two first concerts the ensemble has already received critical acclaim, being
nominated as ‘Promising Talent of the Year 2010’ by the Flemish classical radio KLARA .

************Thomas Baeté (°1978) trained as a choirboy and violin player in his hometown of Oostende,Belgium. Later he took up the viola da gamba as an autodidact, before studying it in Brussels andBarcelona with Wieland Kuijken, Jordi Savall and Sophie Watillon.
He took masterclasses with Paolo Pandolfo.
Currently, he also regularly performs on the medieval fiddle and he can be seen (and heard onrecordings) performing with Mala Punica (Pedro Memelsdorff), Capilla Flamenca, Graindelavoix.
Thomas was invited to play with the baroque orchestras La Petite Bande and Les Agrémens.
He is a founding member of the group la Roza Enflorese, which performs sefardic music, andWith the dutch ensemble The Spirit of Gambo, he explores his passion for viol consort music.
In addition to this he works as a viola da gamba and medieval music teacher in Brussels and Leuven.
All these activities have taken him throughout Europe from Stockholm to Napoli, and further on toMarocco and North, Central and South America.
At the moment, he is invited as ‘Ami d’Amuz’, to develop his personal projects at the prestigious
concert hall AMUZ in Antwerp.

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ClubMediéval offers for this season two programmes of (mainly Italian) polyphony from the 14thcentury in refined and vivid colours, blending voices and period instruments, bringing into the light aforgotten musical landscape:

GENTIL PENSIER, SPLENDIDO CONSIGLIO--------The love songs of Abbot Don Paolo da Firenze
Girand’un bel falcon (madrigal, instrumental version)
Amor, tu solo’l sai (ballata)
Lena virtù (ballata)
Una cosa di veder (ballata)
Ventilla con tumulto (madrigal)
Poc’anno di mirar (ballata, instrumental version)
Sofrir m’estuet (ballata)
Non più infelice (madrigal, instrumental version)
Perch’i’ non seppi passar (ballata, uncertain attribution to Paolo)
Perchè vendetta( ballata)
Ma’,ria, ver di me pietà (ballata)Lasso, grev’è’l partir (ballata)
ClubMediéval isOlalla Aleman and Francesca Cassinari, sopranos
Raffaele Giordani, tenor
Elisabeth Seitz, psalterion
Guillermo Perez, organetto
Thomas Baeté, fiddles***********A DIVINE COMEDYor Guelfs and Ghibellins and their musical propaganda
PROLOGUEGlorieuse Vierge Marie
Ich warne dich vil (Spruch XIII)

Adam de la Halle
Wizlaw von Rügen

ACT I
O canenda vulgo/Rex quem Metrorum
Sequentia Rex regum
La Nobil Scala
Girando un bel falcon
O in Italia felice Liguria

Philippe de Vitry
anon
anon
Paolo da Firenze
Jacopo da Bologna

ACT II
Dal bel castel
Lo lume vostro
Isabella (istampitta)
Or qua, compagni

anon
Jacopo da Bologna
anon
Maestro Piero

ACT III
Gloria Clemens artifex
Inclite flos
Poc’anno di mirar
Soufrir m’estuet
Ducalis sedes inclita/ Stirps Mocenicoanon
Mayhuet de Joan alias
matheus de sancto johanne
Paolo da Firenze( Dim. Margit Übellacker)
Paolo da Firenze
Antonio Romanus

ClubMediéval is :Olalla Aleman,soprano
Marketa Cuckrova, mezzo
Daan Verlaan, tenor and harp
Raffaele Giordani, tenor
Tomas Maxe, bass
Elisabeth Seitz, psalterion
Guillermo Perez, organetto
Thomas Baeté, fiddles************

CONTACTS :Thomas Baeté
thomasbaete@hotmail.com
0032(0)475 52 49 27
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