{ "ok" : true, "artist" : { "name" : "Ireen Thomas", "page" : "ireen_thomas", "description" : "Lute sonatas from Mozart's time", "location" : "Den Haag, Netherlands", "bio" : "\"Despite the large church building not a single nuance of her gentle meditative playing was lost to the audience.\"\n- German critic, Wolfsburger Stadtblatt\n\n\"Subtle\" and \"with character\"\n- Dutch newspaper review, NRC Handelsblad\n\nIt all started at a young age with the guitar. But at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague (Netherlands) Ireen Thomas quickly switched to the lute studying with Toyohiko Satoh, with whom she later published a Catalogue of Contemporary Lute Music. Workshops and private lessons with Hopkinson Smith contributed to her refined manner of playing.\n\nWith the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra under the direction of Nicolaus Harnoncourt, Thomas performed several times in Bach's St. Johns Passion and with Edo de Waart as conductor, the operatic presentations of Wagner's Meistersinger von Nurnberg. With the Dutch Chamber Orchestra under Hartmuth Haenchen, she performed Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice. During The Holland Festival of Early Music she performed Emilio Cavalieri's Rappresentatione di Anima e di Corpo under Frans Moonen as conductor.\n\nIn keeping with the lute, Thomas has extensively played chamber music, from very old to very contemporary. From the medieval period she played using her owl feather plectrum and with singer and musicologist Dr. Rebecca Stewart to Mauricio Kagel's Musik fur Renaissance Instrumente and the young Greek composer Calliope Tsoupaki.\n\nAbout ten years ago Ireen's first love, the guitar, began to ogle her from the dusty corner in which it had been lying for 20 years. Since then it is particularly the romantic guitar which has inspired her to make several varied and unconventional programs such as:\n\nFrom Weiss via Mozart to Sor\nMozart's music, forms an interesting connection between the baroque lute and the romantic guitar as transcriptions of his works exist for both instruments. In addition to Mozart the program includes excellent music by Weiss, Hagen, Paganini and Sor.\n\nFor the Czar and the Miss from Cornewalle\nA contribution to the life and works of Fernando Sor.\n\nSatie and Sor on Lute and Guitar\nThe audience is be 'taken' to Paris and hears the romantic flamboyant music of Fernando Sor in contrast with the charming and singular tones of Erik Satie.", "photo" : "https://magnatune.com/artists/img/ireen_thomas1.jpg", "web_url" : "https://magnatune.com/artists/ireen_thomas/", "albums" : [{ "sku" : "ithomas-contemplations", "name" : "Contemplations", "artist" : { "name" : "Ireen Thomas", "page" : "ireen_thomas" }, "release_date" : "2012-08-12", "genres" : ["Classical","Classical Period","Renaissance","Avant-Garde","Instrumental"], "vocals" : "instrumental", "moods" : ["peaceful","meditative","reflective","ethereal","calm","nostalgic"], "uses" : ["meditation or yoga","spa or massage","study or focus","podcast background","documentary","period drama or history"], "energy" : 2, "instrumentation" : ["lute","classical guitar"], "sounds_like" : ["Erik Satie","Robert Ballard","Fernando Sor"], "summary" : "Lute and classical guitar interpretations of Satie, Ballard, and Sor—serene, refined, and historically evocative—ideal for contemplative, historical, or relaxing media projects.", "cover" : "https://magnatune.com/music/Ireen%20Thomas/Contemplations/cover_400.jpg", "web_url" : "https://magnatune.com/artists/albums/ithomas-contemplations/", "api_url" : "https://magnatune.com/api/albums/ithomas-contemplations", "buy_url" : "https://magnatune.com/buy/album?sku=ithomas-contemplations" },{ "sku" : "ithomas-indiansummer", "name" : "Indian Summer of the Lute", "artist" : { "name" : "Ireen Thomas", "page" : "ireen_thomas" }, "release_date" : "2010-08-28", "genres" : ["Classical","Baroque","Classical Period","Instrumental"], "vocals" : "instrumental", "moods" : ["tender","reflective","nostalgic","peaceful","elegant","melancholic"], "uses" : ["period drama or history","documentary","meditation or yoga","spa or massage","study or focus","podcast background"], "energy" : 2, "instrumentation" : ["baroque lute","solo lute","pre-classical instrumental"], "sounds_like" : ["Johann Friedrich Daube","Ferdinand Seidel","Rudolf Straube"], "summary" : "Solo baroque lute sonatas from Mozart's era, expressive and intimate, ideal for historical, reflective, or calming media projects.", "cover" : "https://magnatune.com/music/Ireen%20Thomas/Indian%20Summer%20of%20the%20Lute/cover_400.jpg", "web_url" : "https://magnatune.com/artists/albums/ithomas-indiansummer/", "api_url" : "https://magnatune.com/api/albums/ithomas-indiansummer", "buy_url" : "https://magnatune.com/buy/album?sku=ithomas-indiansummer" }] }, "license" : { "music_license" : "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 1.0 (CC BY-NC-SA 1.0)", "music_license_url" : "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/1.0/", "listening" : "Stream the free previews, or buy an album for $8 to download it in MP3, AAC, ALAC, FLAC, OGG or WAV. 100% of the price goes to the musician.", "non_commercial" : "Non-commercial projects may use the music under CC BY-NC-SA 1.0: credit the artist and Magnatune, and share alike.", "projects" : "Magnatune members may use any Magnatune music in their projects, commercial or not (videos, films, podcasts, games, apps, websites, adverts), including work for clients, under the Magnatune Project Licence. 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