Fringe: Marta Gawlas & Natalia Olczak

Fringe: Marta Gawlas & Natalia Olczak

This concert is part of the free fringe programme of the Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht 2026.

This duo brings together traverso flautist Marta Gawlas and harpsichordist Natalia Olczak. Their collaboration is rooted in historically informed performance practice, with a focus on detail, musical rhetoric and conscious shaping of sound. Both artists have performed extensively across Europe with Cohaere Ensemble. As a duo, they explore an intimate dialogue between instruments, focusing on French and European music of the 17th and 18th centuries. In 2025, they recorded Compositrices, an album dedicated to 18th-century women composers, scheduled for release in May 2026.

Programme

• Anna Bon di Venezia

  Sonata No. 5 G minor for flute and basso continuo
  Allegro – Andante staccato – Allegro

  c1739-after 1767
• Wilhelmine von Bayreuth

  Sonata in A minor for Flute and Basso Continuo
  Affettuoso – Allegro – Presto

  1709-1758
• Anna Bon di Venezia

  Sonata No. 6 in G major for flute and basso continuo
  Largo – Allegro – Minuetto con variation

• Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre

  Sonata No. 5 in A minor for Violin and Harpsichord (Arr. for Flute and Basso Continuo)
  [sans titre] – Presto – Adagio – Courante – Aria
  
  Programme subject to change

  c1665-1729

Musicians

• Marta Gawlas, Natalia Olczak traverso