We composed seven songs inspired by the lute songs of John Dowland, to the poems of John Donne, William Shakespeare and Anonymous.
You are welcome to listen to the raw and uncut demos.

Special thanks to Heinz Müller, Ranjit Prasad and David Leeuwarden.

This project was made possible by Deutscher Musikrat Funding

Frank Pschichholz is working on a Recomposing John Dowland project. Those are songs composed by Frank to texts of John Donne, William Shakespeare and other Elizabethan poets and inspired by John Dowland.

The project has been made possible through Deutscher Musikrat funding.

The Schoole of Night, together with Capella de la Torre, Cum Decore choir and Playpad Circus has opened the Kommen und Gehen Festival on 12 August 2022.

“Heinrich Schütz und seine Kinder. Musikalischer Festivalzug”

You can read more under: https://www.kommenundgehen.org/programm-2022/musikalischer-festivalzug

The Schoole of Night is currently working on John Dowland’s First Booke of Songs or Ayres (1597) – a long reaching project that will include concerts, seminars, videos and recordings.

Photos: Marcel Schröder

On 22 March 2022 an official opening of the Saxonian Film Academy (Sächsische Filmakademie) took place in Görlitz. The Schoole of Night was also there and presented a programme with songs of John Dowland.

The Schoole of Night

Maria Skiba & Frank Pschichholz

https://saechsische-filmakademie.de/aktuelles/feierliche-eroeffnung-filmakademiehttps://saechsische-filmakademie.de/aktuelles/feierliche-eroeffnung-filmakademie

The Schoole of Night will perform the programme De Mysterio Magno during the series Bautzener Kammerkonzerte (Bautzen chamber concerts).

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The Schoole of Night

Maria Skiba – soprano, Stefan Dedek – trombone, sackbutt, Frank Pschichholz, lute, electric guitar and artistic direction

16 October 2021, Maria-und-Martha-Kirche, August-Bebel-Platz, Bautzen, 19.30

https://www.bautzen.de/tourismus-kultur-freizeit/veranstaltungen/kammerkonzerte

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On September 26, 2021 we will perform two concerts with the programme around the Thirty-Years War Nun stärcke Dich mein Hertz in the Kanonenhof in Dresden.

16.00 and 19.00

Church in the Kanonenhof (Kirche im Kanonenhof der Ev.-ref. Gemeinde zu Dresden)

Brühlscher Garten 4, 01067 Dresden

The Schoole of Night

Maria Skiba – soprano and Frank Pschichholz – theorbo

with Marius Winzeler – lecture

Offenes Palais unterwegs

More under: https://offenespalais.wordpress.com/unterwegs/

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The Schoole of Night will perform Manfred Stahnke’s „wohlgestimmete gebärende Harmoney“ – Annäherungen an Jacob Böhme again.
This time during the celebrations of the 950th anniversary of the city of Görlitz in Summer 2021.

The concert will take place on 11 September 2021 in the church of St. Nicholas (Nikolaikirche) in Görlitz at 17.00.

more under: https://www.ekbo-termine.de/veranstaltung_im_detail403456.html?PHPSESSID=e8pspsim3s2jb3gib55il3ph01&popup=1&css=none

und: http://www.wirsindgoerlitz.de/projekt/glaube-wissen-kunst/wohlgestimmete-gebaerende-harmoney-annaeherungen-an-jacob-boehme/

Robert Dowland’s A Musicall Banquet (1610) is the second CD in the series “The John Dowland Pilgrimage”. It was released by Bremen Radiohall Records in February 2021.

https://www.bremenradiohallrecords.de/de/cds/label-katalog/a-musicall-banquet-brhcd2001