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Festive Baroque concert at De Maas Royal Rowing and Sailing Association

Quota Rotterdam Service Club is organising a festive Baroque concert on Sunday, 23 October, from 3.00 to 6.00 p.m., at De Maas Royal Rowing and Sailing Association (Koninklijke Roei- en Zeilvereeniging ‘De Maas’), Veerdam 1, Rotterdam. Tickets: €25.

All proceeds will go to the Quota Rotterdam Cystic Fibrosis project.

Internationally reknowned musicians Margaret Urquart, Robert Franenberg, Geert Bierling and Elisenda Pujals form the ensemble for this performance by the Baroque Orchestra. They will sing and play free.

- Cystic fibrosis in a common hereditary disease among young people and is incurable. Exercise is essential to protect the function of the organs. The Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam lacks the necessary exercise facilities.

Quota Rotterdam aims to buy exercise equipment for young patients at the hospital with this incurable disease.

Quota Rotterdam Service Club is a group of enterprising women who work very successfully for charitable projects. Quota Rotterdam is part of Quota International.

Tickets can be ordered by e-mail: Quotaconcert2011@hotmail.nl and by mobile: Liesbeth Gadron: 06 53 39 34 98.

Information on Quota is available at: www.quotanederland.nl
You can also contact Elisabeth Mac Lean

The video clip Quota in Action for Cystic Fibrosis (Quota in beweging voor Taaislijm), produced free of charge by artist Jos Looise, can be viewed on You-Tube.

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Robert Franenberg

Robert Franenberg, born in Los Angeles, California, studied at the California State University, Northridge, where he got his Bachelor of Music cum laude. In 1982 he came to the Netherlands to continue his study at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam (Anthony Woodrow). Since 1984 he has been working as double bassist in the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. He is also double bassist at the Orchestra of the 18th Century and the Baroque Orchestra of the Netherlands Bach Society. He has made recordings with Ton Koopman and Gustav Leonhardt and he often plays with the Gabrieli Consort & Players, London. He worked with the English Concert and he has made an European tour with the Bach Colleguim Japan.

Margaret Urquhart

Margaret (Maggie) Urquhart, born in Cheltenham, England. She studied double bass, violone and viola da gamba at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. She became a member of La Petite Bande (Sigiswald Kuijken), the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra (Ton Koopman), the Leonhardt Consort (Gustav Leonhardt) Collegium Vocale Gent (Philippe Herreweghe). Nowadays she is a member of the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century (Frans Bruggen) and the Amphion Ensemble. She is teaching contrabass/violone at the Hague Conservatory and at the Amsterdam Conservatory. In addition she also teaches at the University of Salamanca. She is also active as a chamber music performer taking part in many recordings.

Elisenda Pujals

Elisenda began her music studies as a violin player, receiving her Teaching Degree in 2000 at the Conservatori Professional de Vila-seca. In 2010 she graduated from the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, obtaining her Master's degree in singing. She has studied both Baroque and Contemporary music with Maria Acda, Barbara Hanninga, Michael Chance and Peter Kooij. She works with such early music specialists as Jos van Veldhoven, Eduardo López Banzo, Jaap ter Linden, Jordi Bonilla. She performs regularly with Vozes de Al Ayre Español and Allegoria Ensemble.
As a contemporary music singer, she has collaborated with some of the most leading ensembles such as the Ereprijs Orkest, Slagwerk Den Haag and Vocaal Lab, performing in the Muziekgebouw aan't IJ and the Bimhuis among other
venues. She performed with Reinbert de Leeuw, Jurjen Hempel and Wim Vos.

Geert Bierling

Geert Bierling (1956) studied organ, piano and harpsichord at the Rotterdam Conservatory and carillon at the Utrecht School of the Arts, and followed master classes with Ton Koopman and Jos van Immerseel. At the age of eighteen he was appointed organist of the Pelgrimvaderskerk in Rotterdam Delfshaven (historical organ by Bätz/Witte). Geert Bierling won first prize at the Albert Schweitzer Organ Competition (1978), was a prizewinner at the Bach Competition in Bruges (1985), and was awarded the silver medal of the Parisian Academy ‘Arts, Sciences, Lettres’ for his services to French organ culture (1989). In 1990 Geert Bierling became city carillonneur of Rotterdam, and in 1996 city organist as well. He presides over the Standaart organ in the Burgerzaal of the Town Hall (where he programmes the concert series 'Music in the Burgerzaal'), and the four-manual Flentrop organ in the Doelen concert hall. On these instruments he performs some twenty new programmes each year. As a soloist and ensemble player (harpsichord, organ and harmonium) he performs regularly with musicians from the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, the New Trombone Collective and the Stadsblazers of Rotterdam, and accompanies silent films on the organ and harmonium. After many years teaching the organ and harpsichord at the Fontys Conservatory in Tilburg, Geert Bierling resigned in 2009 to concentrate on research into eighteenth-century keyboard transcriptions (Bach, Walther and Vivaldi) and their performance. In the same year, he founded the Giudici Ensemble to perform Baroque and early classical chamber music on authentic instruments, and issued a first CD (Classical Records) of concertos for organ and strings by Mozart, which was warmly received by the press.