The Fine Hand

Thank you Wiener Konzerthaus and Festival Resonanzen for a magical evening in » Die Frauenzimmer « . We were overjoyed to premier our new program to such an enthusiastic audience! Looking forward to future opportunities to share our fantastical dream of Tudor women’s songs and poetry.

Special thanks to Saki The Artist for creating our beautiful costumes and helping to bring each queen to life.
Anne-Kathryn Olsen
Mara Winter
Carla Babelegoto
Bor Zuljan
Elizabeth Sommers
Vincent Kibildis
Leonardo Bortolotto

Tonight at Festival Resonanzen in the Wiener Konzerthaus: we debut our new program, The Frauenzimmer. The show is almost sold out so hurry and get the last few tickets for this very special performance!
Info here:

The Fine Hand | Wiener Konzerthaus Resonanzen The Fine Hand | 22.01.26 - Mozart-Saal

Join us TOMORROW at 5pm in Tivoli Hertz at the Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht for the debut of our program "The Songbook of Evangeline." We are so excited to share this beautifully eclectic program with you all!

with
Elizabeth Sommers
Vincent Kibildis
Leonardo Bortolotto
Thomas Baeté
Anne-Kathryn Olsen
Mara Winter

30 aug TivoliVredenburg / Hertz 17:00 Concert Saturday 30 August / 17:00 hrs - Utrecht, TivoliVredenburg / Hertz. Featuring works by Balbastre, Campra and Marais.

The Fine Hand got together this week for an intensive creation session, focused on the upcoming Utrecht premier of our new concert project:

LE CHANSONNIER D’EVANGÉLINE
Following the traces of the viol from Acadia to New Orleans

Info below. More updates and rehearsal videos coming soon…

About the Project:
A dozen viols were discovered in the walls of the Ursuline convent in Quebec City in the mid-19th century, likely concealed there during the 1759 Battle of Quebec. These instruments, three of which are now housed in New York’s Metropolitan Museum, represent what was once a vibrant but little-known tradition of viol playing– not only in the Ursuline House, but across colonial North America. The Ursuline convent of New Orleans, despite its many musical similarities with its Northern cousin, has no known surviving instruments and only one remaining musical manuscript. Le Chansonnier d’Evangéline imagines the journey of one of these mysterious viols in the context of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s epic poem Evangeline, published just before the instruments were discovered in Quebec. The poem follows Evangeline Bellefontaine, a young Acadian woman in the search for her love, Gabriel, during the British expulsion of the Acadians (1755–1764) from what are now the Maritime provinces of Canada, the Gaspé Peninsula and Maine. Her search spans North America, from Canada to Louisiana, and encounters the many diverse musical traditions therein.

Elizabeth Sommers, fiddle, baroque violin, tenor viol, and voice.
Vincent Kibildis, harp and voice.
Leonardo Bortolotto, bass viol and voice.
Thomas Baeté, bass and treble viol and voice.
Mara Winter, flutes, gaïta, and voice.
Anne-Kathryn Olsen, tenor viol, voice.

Anne-Kathryn Olsen Mara Winter Elizabeth Sommers

Sending it by the water yesterday at Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht. Thanks for the invitation and for the excellent support from the whole organizational staff of the festival. Thanks to the great audience who came and dreamed along with us!

Congrats Anne-Kathryn Olsen Mara Winter Elizabeth Sommers Isabella Shaw Vincent Kibildis Carla Babelegoto

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCTOxXoCxoE

Here's a beautiful tune written by our own Elizabeth Sommers. You can hear this and many more original compositions and arrangements based on historical sources next week at the Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht!

Send it by the Water - The Myth of the Ballad
August 29th, 5pm, TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht

I believe I'll go back home (live) - The Fine Hand I believe I'll go back home (live) Tune composed by Elizabeth SommersPerformed by The Fine Hand:Elizabeth Sommers; fiddleMara Winter; fluteVincent Kibildis; ...