From Trio Sonata to Trio Concertant.

The Vivaldi Project continues to explore the overlooked role of the string trio in chamber music history, from the Baroque trio sonata through its rich and varied Classical forms. The Trio will feature selections from their first, and soon-to-be-released second volume, of classical string trios, which include works by Campioni, J.C. Bach, Haydn and other masters of the period including a newly discovered trio from the Moravian Archives by Ignaz Klausek.

Praised for its brilliant and expressive playing, The Vivaldi Project presents innovative programs of Baroque and Classical string repertoire that combine scholarship and performance to both educate and delight audiences. The period instrument ensemble takes its name from the virtuoso violinist and innovative composer Antonio Vivaldi in recognition of his pivotal position between earlier Baroque and later Classical composers. The Vivaldi Project is receiving critical acclaim for its recent release of Discovering the Classical String Trio (MSR Records). 

Elizabeth Field, violin
Allison Edberg-Nyquist, violin/viola
Stephanie Vial, cello

1:15 - 2:00 pm
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Campagnoli's Caprices for Viola.

Kristina Giles is currently recording and annotating all 41 of Bartolomeo Campagnoli's Caprices for Viola. Published in 1814, this collection is a rare set of beautiful pieces written specifically for the viola, in a period when the instrument had yet to become anything but the middle voice of an ensemble. The virtuosic works are considered the violist's equivalent of Pagainini's Caprices for Violin. Kristina will perform a selection of her favorite caprices on classical viola.

Based in New York City, Kristina Giles (neé Hendricks) enjoys a creative and varied musical career. Trained as a classical violist, she has become known for her artistry on both the violin and viola and their baroque counterparts. She has performed throughout the United States, Europe, and China, and recorded solo improvisations on folk and country albums. She is the founder and executive director of The Colonials, America's only "Trout" quintet. www.kristinagiles.com

Kristina Giles, viola

1:15 - 2:00 pm
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François Couperin at 350.

François Couperin, called “François Le Grand,” is considered the most illustrious member of the Couperin family. His four books of keyboard suites contain some of the richest and most exquisite music of the French Baroque. To commemorate the 350th anniversary of his birth, this program will include selections from his Troisième Ordre and his magnificent Huitième Ordre in its entirety. Ms. Pechefsky will be performing both suites as part of an all-day Couperin marathon in Cambridge, UK, in November 2018.

Well known in the New York area, Rebecca Pechefsky has performed in such venues as Carnegie Hall’s Well Recital Hall, Merkin Hall, and the Morris-Jumel Mansion, where she and Brooklyn Baroque perform in a yearly series. Recent European engagements include recitals in in Tallinn (Estonian Harpsichord Festival), London (Handel House), Milan (Sforza Castle), Bologna, Amsterdam, Berlin, and Basel. Among her recordings for Quill Classics are the complete harpsichord music of François d’Agincour; Bach and His Circle (JPF Music Award, Best Classical Solo Album); Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1, praised in Fanfare as “excellent to the highest degree”; and Johann Ludwig Krebs @ 300. Her recording of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2, was released in the fall of 2017.

Rebecca Pechefsky, harpsichord

1:15 - 2:00 pm
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Music In The Time of Hamilton

This program celebrates the extraordinary energy and diversity of the music that was created, sung and played when Alexander Hamilton and his peers were fighting the American Revolution and creating the American Democracy.

The program features music commemorating battles and events of the Revolutionary War including The Liberty Tree sung to words by Thomas Paine, Bunker Hill by Andrew Law (1748-1821), Lamentation Over Boston (the Boston Massacre) by William Billings (1746-1800); the signing of the Declaration of Independence – Ode for the Fourth of July by Horatio Garnet (c.1790); songs celebrating George Washington (William Selby (1738-1798), and Alexander Hamilton’s favorite song (How Stands The Glass Around), sung at a banquet the week he was shot by Aaron Burr (who was at also in attendance at the banquet.)

Since 1969, the internationally acclaimed vocal sextet The Western Wind has devoted itself to the special beauty and variety of a cappella music. The Ensemble’s repertoire reveals its diverse background -- from Renaissance motets to Fifties rock ’n’ roll, from medieval carols to Duke Ellington, from complex works by avant-garde composers to the simplest folk melodies. In addition to maintaining a demanding performance schedule, which has included such venues as Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, The Ordway Theater, The Metropolitan Museum, The Frick Museum, The Jewish Museum, Folger Shakespeare Library, Library of Congress, and the Cleveland Museum of Art, The Western Wind regularly conducts workshops in ensemble singing. The workshops, attended by vocalists ranging from novice to professional, address the particular challenges of singing in small, largely un-conducted ensembles. www.westernwind.org

Linda Jones, Gayla Morgan, sopranos; William Zukof, countertenor; Todd Frizzell, David Vanderwal, tenors;
Paul An, bass; Rebecca Pechefsky, harpsichord

1:15 - 2:00 pm
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Schemelli Gasangbuch Project

Ryland Angel and Rick Erickson explore J.S. Bach's only songbook, filled with either new or figured sacred songs. They have commissioned new English versed translations to add new possibilities to this seldom heard work, along with free organ improvisations.

Born on St. Cecilia's day, the Grammy-nominated British counter-tenor Ryland Angel has built an international reputation on both the opera and concert stage, in repertoire ranging from the Baroque to new operatic commissions at major opera houses, concert halls and festivals throughout Europe and the USA. He has performed in Monteverdi’s Orfeo, Gavin Bryars’s Doctor Ox’s Experiment (English National Opera), Fairy Queen (Barcelona), Gluck’s Orfeo (Koblenz), Amadigi (Karlsruhe), Venus and Adonis (Flanders Opera), Dido and Aeneas (Opera Comique), The Play of Daniel (Spoleto), and Ballet Comique de La Royne (Geneva). Angel has sung on over 80 recordings including music of Buxtehude, Charpentier, Scarlatti, Stradella, Spears, O'Regan, Handel, Monteverdi, Purcell, Bach and on the film soundtracks of Jack Reacher -- never go back, Zoolander 2, Freedom, Le Petit Prince, La Peau, Henry 4th, Machete, The Mystery of Dante and the PBS TV special Heavenly Voices. Recent engagements include Doux Mensonges (Opera National de Paris), Agrippina(NYCO), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Florentine and Kansas Opera), Julius Caesar (Utah and Colorado Opera, Boston Baroque), Sant Alessio (Paris, London, New York), Carmina Burana (Lincoln Center/Prague Proms with CNSO), St. John Passion (Saint Thomas/Worcester Chorus), Classics and Rock (Seoul Philharmonic), Tesla (Dartmouth), Striggio Mass (Edinburgh Festival), Acis and Galatea (Houston) and Messiah (Handel and Haydn Society/Masterworks Chorus/Musica Sacra). Recent recordings include The Flaming Fire (MSR), Heart and Soul (Centaur), La Sposa (Solo Luminus) and Now Fatal Change (NMC). Ryland is a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Minnesota.

Rick Erickson is the Director of Bach Society Houston and Cantor at Christ the King Lutheran Church. He is also Instructor in music at the Shepherd School of Music, Rice University. A native of Wisconsin, Rick holds degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Superior, from which he also received the Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2009, the Master of Music Degree in Organ Performance and Literature and the Performer’s Certificate from the Eastman School of Music, where he also served for four years on the faculty of Improvfest. Rick has appeared as a conductor, church music lecturer, and hymn festival leader throughout the United States, and in Germany, Sweden, Australia and New Zealand. He has performed for conventions of the American Guild of Organists and the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians, among other music events. He has recorded for Naxos, JV Recordings, and Media 1517. This past summer Rick led the Bach Choir in performances in Germany, including at the Leipzig Bach Fest, becoming the first professional American choir to perform as part of this prestigious event. Prior to coming to Houston, Rick served for 22 years as Director of the celebrated Bach Vespers series in New York.

Ryland Angel, countertenor
Richard Erickson, organ 

1:15 - 2:00 pm
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Music in Five Parts.

This program explores the underplayed repertoire of five-part string music from the seventeenth and late sixteenth centuries. Witness a diversity of national styles from Italy to Austria and luxuriate in the rich textures of this music that is full of surprises and invention.

New Amsterdam Consort is an emerging New York City based string ensemble consisting of students and alumni of The Juilliard School. Its bread and butter is the wealth of beautiful and often overlooked consort-style music of the seventeenth century.

Isabelle Seula Lee, violin
Rachell Wong, violin
Andrew Gonzalez, viola
Dan McCarthy, viola
Keiran Campbell, cello
Robert Warner, harpsichord and director

1:15 - 2:00 pm
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O Envious Day

Canadian tenor Bud Roach returns to the Midtown Concert Series with "O Envious Day", accompanying himself on the theorbo with songs and arias by John Wilson, Henry Lawes, Nicholas Lanier, Claudio Saracini, and Domenico Melli. Presented with projected translations and historical readings on themes of night, day, and, of course, love.

Bud Roach has been recognized internationally for his ground-breaking achievements in historical performance and the self-accompanied practice. Musica Omnia recordings of arias by Grandi, Sances, as well as sacred canzonettas from the Chiavenna Oratory, leading his ensemble Capella Intima, have met with unanimous critical praise. "Revelatory concerts" (Early Music America, 2013) www.BudRoach.com

Bud Roach, tenor and theorbo

1:15 - 2:00 pm
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Giovanniana!

If you were a musician in Venice ca. 1600-30, you would have been surrounded by many people named Giovanni. Among them, a posse formed around Giovanni Gabrieli (1557-1612), who was the town’s most influential church musician, with a strong reputation that attracted musicians far and wide to study with him. This program includes some exciting instrumental music making use of both sonic spatial effects and flashy virtuosity from the pen of Gabrieli, his colleage Giovanni Bassano, and his pupils Giovanni Priuli, Giovanni Cesare, and Giovanni Picchi.

Considered one of the premiere ensembles of its kind in North America, the Washington Cornett and Sackbutt Ensemble (WCSE), directed by Michael Holmes, consists of historic brass instrument specialists based in Washington D.C., performing extensively and in high demand since 1998 in the Eastern U.S. with some of the more prominent historic vocal and instrumental groups in the American early music community. www.earlybrassdc.org

Stanley Curtis, cornetto
Patrick O'Connell, cornetto
Michael Holmes, cornetto & tenor sackbut
Barry Bocaner, alto & tenor sackbut
Aaron Moats, tenor sackbut
David Searle, tenor sackbut
Bozena Jedrzejczak-Brown, continuo keyboardist

1:15 - 2:00 pm
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Rosalind.

This concert is going to tell a story about a young English flutist. In 1651, the king of England Charles II was exiled to France. Well aware that exile could still be fun if you’re rich enough, Charles made sure to take a few of his favorite musicians with him. Our flutist, one Rosalind du Bois, disguises herself as a boy to join her teacher and the rest of the troupe. And she keeps a journal -- with her thoughts about the journey, alongside some of the music she and the others played together. It’s perfect for us: music that’s cut up and reconfigured, adapted to the troupe’s small size. It’s also music by and for people between places, mixing French and English styles and traditions and languages. Join us in exploring it, and in finding the intimacy that comes from small ensembles, from traveling and living and eating and drinking together.

Rumore Terribile was formed one afternoon in a small alley in Italy; we got yelled at for playing too loudly. Since then, we’ve continued searching for fun places, good music, communication and drama and language and power. There’s a lot of it in this music, and we hope to share it with you.

Salomé de France, viola da gamba
Martin Bernstein, recorders

1:15 - 2:00 pm
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Enchanting Voices: Music of Barbara Strozzi and Francesca Caccini.

Thanks to a combination of extraordinary musical gifts, strength of character, shrewdness, and the support of highly placed patrons, Francesca Caccini and Barbara Strozzi established themselves as composers with reputations on a par with the most famous of their male contemporaries. "Enchanting Voices" features brilliant arias from Strozzi's last published volume, and Caccini's famous lament Lasciatemi qui solo, her challenging response to Monteverdi's Lamento d'Arianna.

Soprano Elissa Edwards and lutenist/scholar Richard Kolb formed Canzonetta as a duo focussed on the vast untapped resources of 17th-century solo vocal repertoire. Their programs are largely based on Kolb's scholarly work in the field of 17th-century vocal chamber music, which includes the first modern edition of the complete works of Barbara Strozzi in seven volumes. www.canzonettaduo.com

Elissa Edwards, soprano
Richard Kolb, theorbo and archlute

1:15 - 2:00 pm
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Angels and Demons

In this concert we explore psychologically problematic manifestations in baroque music. Emmanuel Bach's musical depiction of the dialogue between an optimist and a pessimist sounds to us like an exploration of extremes verging on madness. Tartini claimed to have composed his sonata after a troubling dream in which the Devil himself appeared and played it for him. In Vivaldi's sonata, a virtuous soul is stalked by the Devil, struggles, and ultimately succumbs. Purcell's hallucinatory chaconne, Bach's dreamlike trio, and Vivaldi's manic "Folia" complete this emotional roller coaster of a program.

House of Time, known for its “fluency and command” (San Francisco Classical Voice) is dedicated to well-known and underperformed repertoire of the 17th through the 21st century played on period instruments. Members and guests include Juilliard and Curtis faculty and alumni of The Juilliard School, as well as prize-winners of major international competitions. Using the instruments and techniques of the past to express the vivid passions in the music, House of Time has moved audiences and keeps them coming back for more. Critics have declared oboist, Gonzalo X. Ruiz, “one of only a handful of truly superb baroque oboists in the world” (Alte Musik Aktuell); Tatiana Daubek, is known for her "sleekly elegant playing" (Gazettes Long Beach); Avi Stein, one of NYC’s finest, is described by The New York Times as “a brilliant organ soloist” and Beiliang Zhu, is described by The New Yorker as “elegant, sensual and stylishly wild”.

Tatiana Daubek, violin
Gonzalo X. Ruiz, oboe
Avi Stein, harpsichord
Beiliang Zhu, cello

1:15 - 2:00 pm
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SONGS of Feasting and Flames: A sephardic celebration of Hanuka.

SONGS of Feasting and Flames: A sephardic celebration of Hanuka is a festive mixture of sacred and secular songs focused on the feast of Hanuka. The music of the Sephardim was preserved by its women through oral tradition, passing down cautionary tales, love ballads and even recipes, from generation to generation. This stellar ensemble of female vocal superstars will sing both raucous party tunes, psalms, laments about the Maccabees and piyyutim (liturgical poems) accompanied by percussion, oud, ney, recorder and spoons.

Nell Snaidas + Daphna Mor & friends was formed in 2017 and made its debut on the WQXR Midtown Masters series. This ensemble is dedicated to exploring the the traditions of and influences on the music of the Sephardim both from Spain and the diaspora. The exchange among the rich musical cultures of Jews, Christians, and Muslims provides a fascinating mosaic of sound that demonstrates how much better we are when we live together peacefully with our neighbors.

Nell Snaidas, soprano, percussion
Daphna Mor, voice & winds
Rex Benincasa, percussion
Adam Good, oud
Kirsten Sollek, voice
Michele Kennedy, voice
Tracy Cowart, voice
Sian Ricketts, voice

1:15 - 2:00 pm
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Two Sonatas for Violin & Fortepiano by Wolfgang Amadé Mozart

Karen Marmer and Dongsok Shin will be performing an all-Mozart program, featuring two sonatas for violin and piano and a short solo piano selection.

Karen Marie Marmer studied violin at the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College with Israel Chorberg and Ruth Waterman and at the Yale School of Music with Syoko Aki. Her baroque violin studies were with Jaap Schroeder at Yale, Marilyn MacDonald at the Baroque Performance Institute at Oberlin and with Lucy van Dael at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. Her international career has included collaborations with Capriccio Stravagante (Paris), the Nederlandse Bach Vereniging (The Netherlands), Ensemble Baroque de Mateus (Portugal), the Smithsonian Chamber Orchestra (Washington, D.C.), Les Idées Heureuses (Montréal) and the American Bach Soloists in San Francisco. She has served as a principal player of the New York Collegium, American Classical Orchestra and the Grande Bande in New York, as well as the Stuttgart Baroque Orchestra for which she served as co-concertmaster from 1991-96. In 2010 Karen served as guest concertmaster of the venerable Bach Vespers at Holy Trinity series in New York City in a performance of Bach’s St. John Passion. She has performed under the batons of Ton Koopman, Frans Brüggen, William Christie, Philippe Herreweghe, Reinhard Goebel, Frieder Bernius and Gustav Leonhardt, among others, and has concertized throughout Europe with Marie Leonhardt.


Much in demand as a soloist and continuo player, Dongsok Shin has appeared with the American Classical Orchestra, ARTEK, Concert Royal, Early Music New York, Carmel Bach Festival, Mark Morris Dance Group, the New York Philharmonic, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. He has toured throughout North America, Europe, and Mexico, has been heard on numerous radio broadcasts nationally and internationally, and has recorded for ATMA Classique, Bridge Records, Dorian/Sono Luminus, Hänssler Classic, Helicon, Lyrichord, and Newport Classic. He was a founding member of the Mannes Camerata, receiving international critical acclaim as music director for their productions of early baroque operas, and he was a member, as well as a guest director of NYS Baroque in Ithaca, NY. https://www.rebelbaroque.com/

Karen Marmer, violin
Dongsok Shin, fortepiano

1:15 - 2:00 pm
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“A dispetto del tempo e della sorte” (in defiance of time and fate).

duoSeraphim presents a thorough exploration of Barbara Strozzi’s oeuvre -- and what made her voice so singular. She thrived as an independent woman in an era of absolute male dominance in every arena, all the while writing music of exquisite beauty and integrity, perhaps exceeding any other 17th century monodist. As a prolific composer and virtuoso singer (learning the trade from her father, a collaborator of Monteverdi’s) Strozzi defied many stereotypes of 17th-century Italian musician-hood and womanhood. As an unmarried mother of four in a society where reputation meant everything, and with no courtly patronage, Strozzi was a self-assured woman with business acumen who, by contrast, showed vulnerability through her body of work, which reveals to us that she was well-acquainted with love, loss, heartbreak.

Soprano Sarah Hawkey and viola da gambist Niccolo Seligmann are duoSeraphim, an ensemble bringing new perspectives to old repertoire, performing rarely heard music with intimacy and verve, and approaching historical performance with masterful ease and delightful enthusiasm. Now in their third season, they are touring their program of French baroque music centered on the songs of Moulinié, as well as their program of Italian songs exploring the baroque mastery of Monteverdi, Strozzi, and the predecessors to their masterful monody. duoSeraphim is also devoted to championing new works for gamba and voice. They were awarded a new music residency at Avaloch Farm Music Institute where they began workshopping a song cycle titled Matriarch with their composer-in-residence Abraham Z. Morrison. The 2018-2019 season includes the release of their first album, featuring the duo's core repertoire from the French and Italian baroque, as well as works by contemporary composers, including Matriarch and a re-imagined piece by Pulitzer Prize-winner Du Yun. We are overjoyed to return for our third season with the GEMS series. Please visit duoseraphim.org to learn more.


Sarah Hawkey, soprano
Niccolo Seligmann, viola da gamba

1:15 - 2:00 pm
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The Soft Complaining Flute.

The Salisbury Four presents selections from the medieval and Renaissance carol, canzonet, madrigal, and motet repertoire suited to its forces combining early winds, voices, and plucked strings.

The Salisbury Four is made up of artist-teachers from the faculties of Hofstra University; Innovation Academy Charter School; and Stern College, Yeshiva University, New York. The group's programs celebrate an international variety of medieval, Renaissance, and baroque ensemble music.

Judith Dansker, recorders
Christopher Morrongiello, lute, vihuela, guitar
Alicia dePaolo, voice
Marcia Young, voice and harp

1:15 - 2:00 pm
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Across Central Asia: Music from the Tang and Ottoman Courts.

The Silk Road was a living conduit of goods and ideas thriving from 500 to 1500 and connecting China to the Mediterranean. In a program featuring medieval recorder, kugo harp, oud and percussion, the Eurasia Consort explores Chinese and Ottoman music. What features linked the twain? The audience can decide.

Miyo Aoki, medieval recorder
Tomoko Sugawara, kugo harp
August Denhard, oud
Rex Benincasa, percussion

1:15 - 2:00 pm
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Period Work by and about Women

BALAM offers a new vision of contemporary dance emanating from an artful blend of diverse world dance styles and historical periods with Balinese theatre. The company's fusion repertoire presents a dance theatre that integrates traditional and contemporary choreography, eclectic music, striking masks, imaginative props, and vibrant costumes to create a performance that appeals to audiences of all ages and backgrounds.

Lisa Terry, baroque cello
Maureen Murchie, violin
Adam Cockerham, baroque guitar
Inma Heredia, actor
Carlos Fittante, choreographer and dancer

1:15 - 2:00 pm
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Poeticall Musicke.

A dazzling array of colors, textures, tonalities, and affects are elicited from two bass viols in the works of three masterful composer/performers of the seventeenth century: the eccentric Elizabethan courtier, Tobias Hume; the mysterious French esoteric, le Sieur de Sainte-Colombe; and the passionate Dutch virtuoso, Johannes Schenk.

John Mark Rozendaal has performed with Newberry Consort, King's Noyse, Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, Trio Settecento, Brandywine Baroque, and LeStrange Viols.

Adam Young has performed with groups such as Philharmonia Baroque, American Bach Soloists and Les Arts. He a student of Sarah Cunningham at the Juilliard School of Music.

John Mark Rozendaal, viola da gamba
Adam Young, viola da gamba

1:15 - 2:00 pm
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The Renaissance Reborn.

ALBA Consort presents Renaissance music from the Mediterranean of France, Spain, Italy, Turkey, Armenia and Sephardic music including works from Venice in an exciting time when East met West. And with variations by modern composer Leonard Lehrman of a Machaut viralei, truly, the Renaissance is Reborn.

Early Mediterranean ensemble ALBA CONSORT has performed at “University of Chicago Presents”; UC’s Oriental Institute; NYC’s Barge Music; Early Music Now, Milwaukee; Academy of Early Music, Michigan; for Chamber Music America; Hofstra University; with GEMS at the Greene Space (and WQXR radio); and CUNY.TV’s Classic Artist Showcase.

Margo Andrea, mezzo-soprano, vielle
Rex Benincasa, percussion, psaltery, voice
Christopher Morrongiello, lute, baroque guitar
Carlo Valte, oud

1:15 - 2:00 pm
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Ohimè!

Composed entirely of Monteverdi duets and solos, the arc of this program takes the listener from a “glass half-empty” to a “glass half-full” state of mind, portraying the relatable journey of love’s trials and tribulations.

The ensemble's namesake, Vivi Cantando, is derived from "O come sei gentile" found in Monteverdi's seventh book of madrigals. The name translated means "live singing." While they love collaborating with instrumentalists, their mission in creating this ensemble was to celebrate the singing arts and to create a true human experience through the sung word.

Julie Bosworth, soprano
Janna Critz, mezzo-soprano
Marc Bellassai, harpsichord
Niccolo Seligmann, bass viola da gamba & lirone 

1:15 - 2:00 pm
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