La Liberazione di Ruggiero dall'Isola d'Alcina
an Opera by Francesca Caccini
With the Haymarket Opera Company
September 29-30 at 7:30pm & October 1, 2023 at 3pm
Jarvis Opera Hall, Holtschneider Performance Center at DePaul University, Chicago, IL
Sophie will sing the role of Alcina
Haymarket champions Francesca Caccini’s only surviving opera, La liberazione di Ruggiero dall’isola d’Alcina, in a spellbinding period production featuring a cast of virtuosi, a colorful orchestra of period instruments, and sets and costumes to conjure up an evil sorceress’s enchanted island. Peer beyond the palms to discover the beautiful, seductive, and evil sorceress Alcina!
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an Opera by Francesca Caccini
With the Haymarket Opera Company
September 29-30 at 7:30pm & October 1, 2023 at 3pm
Jarvis Opera Hall, Holtschneider Performance Center at DePaul University, Chicago, IL
Sophie will sing the role of Alcina
Haymarket champions Francesca Caccini’s only surviving opera, La liberazione di Ruggiero dall’isola d’Alcina, in a spellbinding period production featuring a cast of virtuosi, a colorful orchestra of period instruments, and sets and costumes to conjure up an evil sorceress’s enchanted island. Peer beyond the palms to discover the beautiful, seductive, and evil sorceress Alcina!
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Le Rossignol musical / The Musical Nightingale
with Blue Heron
Saturday, October 14, 2023 3pm , First Church in Cambridge, Cambridge, MA
Songs about love & freedom, nightingales & other musical birds from Le Rossignol musical (Antwerp, 1597), by Sweelinck, Le Jeune, Pevernage, De Rore & others – a program premiered at Antwerp’s Laus Polyphoniae festival in August 2023.
Preconcert lecture by Kate van Orden (Harvard University) at 2:15pm
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with Blue Heron
Saturday, October 14, 2023 3pm , First Church in Cambridge, Cambridge, MA
Songs about love & freedom, nightingales & other musical birds from Le Rossignol musical (Antwerp, 1597), by Sweelinck, Le Jeune, Pevernage, De Rore & others – a program premiered at Antwerp’s Laus Polyphoniae festival in August 2023.
Preconcert lecture by Kate van Orden (Harvard University) at 2:15pm
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Nightingales & other musical birds: Franco-Flemish songs from Okeghem to Pevernage
with Blue Heron, presented by University of Iowa School of Music
Tuesday, October 17, 2023, 7:30 p.m, Voxman Music Building Concert Hall, Iowa City, IA
Blue Heron presents you a fine selection of French chansons from the anthology Le Rossignol Musical des Chansons, published by Phalesius in Antwerp in 1597. You will hear music by composers who worked in Antwerp, such as the brilliant but largely unknown Andreas Pevernage, who was the Kapellmeister at the Cathedral of Our Lady in Antwerp from 1585 until his death in 1591. There will also be works by composers who had connections with the city, such as Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck and Claude Le Jeune.
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with Blue Heron, presented by University of Iowa School of Music
Tuesday, October 17, 2023, 7:30 p.m, Voxman Music Building Concert Hall, Iowa City, IA
Blue Heron presents you a fine selection of French chansons from the anthology Le Rossignol Musical des Chansons, published by Phalesius in Antwerp in 1597. You will hear music by composers who worked in Antwerp, such as the brilliant but largely unknown Andreas Pevernage, who was the Kapellmeister at the Cathedral of Our Lady in Antwerp from 1585 until his death in 1591. There will also be works by composers who had connections with the city, such as Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck and Claude Le Jeune.
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Let us Dance, Let us Sing
with Tiny Glass Tavern
Wednesday Nov 1st 2023 at 7.30pm, Edwards Church, Northampton MA
Thursday Nov 2nd 2023 at 7.30pm, Margaret Jewett Hall, First Church, Cambridge MA
Friday Nov 3rd 2023 at 7.30pm, Waterbury Congregational Church, Waterbury VT
“Let us Dance, let us Sing…let us revel and play: since old Time these delights will remove.” (Thomas Betterton, the librettist of Purcell’s The Dioclesian) Tiny Glass Tavern presents its biggest project yet with music that will make you want to dance! Let us treat you to our upbeat selections from a wide variety of styles, all culturally very specific, but together so relatable through its playfulness and embodied spirit: you’ll hear some 17th century hornpipes, jazz manouche, Art Song inspired by American and Spanish popular music, Brazilian sambas, French chansons, Klezmer, originals by Adam Simon and Paul Morton and much more.
Music by: Berry, Da Viola, De Falla, Jacquet de la Guerre, Morton, Price, Purcell, Reinhardt, Simon, Statman, Strozzi, Viardot, Vivaldi.
Musicians:
Kai-Ching Chang, piano,
Maya French, violin,
Fiona Gillespie, soprano, whistle,
Paul Holmes Morton, theorbo, banjo, baroque guitar, guitar
Grant Houston, violin
Lysander Jaffe, viola, violin
Benjamin Katz, harpsichord
Sophie Michaux, mezzo-soprano
Adam Simon, bass, mandolin, guitar, voice
Matthew Smith, cello
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with Tiny Glass Tavern
Wednesday Nov 1st 2023 at 7.30pm, Edwards Church, Northampton MA
Thursday Nov 2nd 2023 at 7.30pm, Margaret Jewett Hall, First Church, Cambridge MA
Friday Nov 3rd 2023 at 7.30pm, Waterbury Congregational Church, Waterbury VT
“Let us Dance, let us Sing…let us revel and play: since old Time these delights will remove.” (Thomas Betterton, the librettist of Purcell’s The Dioclesian) Tiny Glass Tavern presents its biggest project yet with music that will make you want to dance! Let us treat you to our upbeat selections from a wide variety of styles, all culturally very specific, but together so relatable through its playfulness and embodied spirit: you’ll hear some 17th century hornpipes, jazz manouche, Art Song inspired by American and Spanish popular music, Brazilian sambas, French chansons, Klezmer, originals by Adam Simon and Paul Morton and much more.
Music by: Berry, Da Viola, De Falla, Jacquet de la Guerre, Morton, Price, Purcell, Reinhardt, Simon, Statman, Strozzi, Viardot, Vivaldi.
Musicians:
Kai-Ching Chang, piano,
Maya French, violin,
Fiona Gillespie, soprano, whistle,
Paul Holmes Morton, theorbo, banjo, baroque guitar, guitar
Grant Houston, violin
Lysander Jaffe, viola, violin
Benjamin Katz, harpsichord
Sophie Michaux, mezzo-soprano
Adam Simon, bass, mandolin, guitar, voice
Matthew Smith, cello
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Fourteenth Century Avant-garde in Hawaii
With Les Délices, presented by Early Music Hawaii
Saturday, November 11, 2023, 7:30 pm, Lutheran Church of Honolulu, Honolulu, HI
Sunday, November 12, 2023, 3:30 pm, Christ Church Epicopal Kona, Kealakekua, HI
Unparalleled freedom of thought, fearless exploration of rhythmic complexity, and a desire to explore the limits of what is possible pervades the music of fourteenth-century avant-garde composers Guillaume de Machaut, Jacob Senleches, Johannes Suzoy, and others. Featuring Sophie Michaux (mezzo soprano), James Reese (tenor), Scott Metcalfe (vielle and harp), and Debra Nagy (voice, harp, and medieval winds).
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With Les Délices, presented by Early Music Hawaii
Saturday, November 11, 2023, 7:30 pm, Lutheran Church of Honolulu, Honolulu, HI
Sunday, November 12, 2023, 3:30 pm, Christ Church Epicopal Kona, Kealakekua, HI
Unparalleled freedom of thought, fearless exploration of rhythmic complexity, and a desire to explore the limits of what is possible pervades the music of fourteenth-century avant-garde composers Guillaume de Machaut, Jacob Senleches, Johannes Suzoy, and others. Featuring Sophie Michaux (mezzo soprano), James Reese (tenor), Scott Metcalfe (vielle and harp), and Debra Nagy (voice, harp, and medieval winds).
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SongRoots Polyphony Festival
with Culomba
Sunday November 19th, 2023, 7:30pm Concert, Concern Memorial Church, Vancouver, Canada
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with Culomba
Sunday November 19th, 2023, 7:30pm Concert, Concern Memorial Church, Vancouver, Canada
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Christmas in Medieval England
with Blue Heron
Friday, December 15, 2023, 8PM, First Church in Cambridge, Cambridge, MA
Saturday, December 16, 2023, 3PM & 8PM, First Church in Cambridge, Cambridge, MA
Our beloved English Christmas program returns after six years, refreshed & revised with new carols, chant & motets.
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with Blue Heron
Friday, December 15, 2023, 8PM, First Church in Cambridge, Cambridge, MA
Saturday, December 16, 2023, 3PM & 8PM, First Church in Cambridge, Cambridge, MA
Our beloved English Christmas program returns after six years, refreshed & revised with new carols, chant & motets.
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Handel's Messiah
with New England Classical Singers
Sunday, December 17, 2023, 4PM, Andover MA
David Hodgkins, conductor
Sophie Michaux, Alto Solo
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with New England Classical Singers
Sunday, December 17, 2023, 4PM, Andover MA
David Hodgkins, conductor
Sophie Michaux, Alto Solo
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Portraits in Song: Music from Renaissance Italy, from Ciconia to Petrucci
with Blue Heron
Sunday, January 14, 2024, 3pm, St. Philip’s in the Hills Episcopal Church, Tucson, AZ, Presented by Arizona Early Music
Saturday, January 20, 2024, 3pm, First Church in Cambridge, Cambridge, MA
Musical portraits of popes & nobles, lovers & spouses, patrons & friends, & theatrical personalities including a cocky cook & a desperately self-absorbed lover. Music by Ciconia, Du Fay, Busnoys, Isaac & others.
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with Blue Heron
Sunday, January 14, 2024, 3pm, St. Philip’s in the Hills Episcopal Church, Tucson, AZ, Presented by Arizona Early Music
Saturday, January 20, 2024, 3pm, First Church in Cambridge, Cambridge, MA
Musical portraits of popes & nobles, lovers & spouses, patrons & friends, & theatrical personalities including a cocky cook & a desperately self-absorbed lover. Music by Ciconia, Du Fay, Busnoys, Isaac & others.
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Song of Orpheus
With Les Délices
Friday, March 8, 2024, 7:30 pm, Knight Stage at Akron Civic Theater, Akron, OH
Saturday, March 9, 2024, 7:30 pm, Inlet Dance @ Pivot Center, Cleveland OH
Sunday, March 10, 2024, 4:00 pm, Pre-concert talk begins at 3:15 pm, Disciples Christian Church, Cleveland Hts, OH
Evocative music by Rameau, Courbois, and Jonathan Woody recounts Orpheus’ descent to the underworld. Featuring mezzo-soprano Sophie Michaux and baritone Jonathan Woody.
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With Les Délices
Friday, March 8, 2024, 7:30 pm, Knight Stage at Akron Civic Theater, Akron, OH
Saturday, March 9, 2024, 7:30 pm, Inlet Dance @ Pivot Center, Cleveland OH
Sunday, March 10, 2024, 4:00 pm, Pre-concert talk begins at 3:15 pm, Disciples Christian Church, Cleveland Hts, OH
Evocative music by Rameau, Courbois, and Jonathan Woody recounts Orpheus’ descent to the underworld. Featuring mezzo-soprano Sophie Michaux and baritone Jonathan Woody.
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Tasso & Wert: Italian Madrigals on texts by Petrarch and Tasso
with Blue Heron
Friday, March 22, 2024, 7pm, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center, Philadelphia, PA, Presented by University of Pennsylvania
Saturday, March 23, 2024, 8pm First Church in Cambridge, Cambridge, MA
Blue Heron’s exploration of the Italian madrigal continues with a new program featuring settings of dramatic scenes by Torquato Tasso, with music by the great Giaches de Wert & others.
Preconcert lecture by Emiliano Ricciardi (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) at 7:15pm
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with Blue Heron
Friday, March 22, 2024, 7pm, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center, Philadelphia, PA, Presented by University of Pennsylvania
Saturday, March 23, 2024, 8pm First Church in Cambridge, Cambridge, MA
Blue Heron’s exploration of the Italian madrigal continues with a new program featuring settings of dramatic scenes by Torquato Tasso, with music by the great Giaches de Wert & others.
Preconcert lecture by Emiliano Ricciardi (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) at 7:15pm
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The World of Johannes Okeghem
with Blue Heron
Saturday, April 13, 2024, 3pm First Church in Cambridge, Cambridge, MABlue Heron is at present very likely the only ensemble in the world to have sung every piece written by the great Johannes Okeghem. Building on this unique expertise, we present a selection of the master’s very best in the context of music by his contemporaries & colleagues.
Preconcert lecture by Sean Gallagher (New England Conservatory) at 2:15pm
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with Blue Heron
Saturday, April 13, 2024, 3pm First Church in Cambridge, Cambridge, MABlue Heron is at present very likely the only ensemble in the world to have sung every piece written by the great Johannes Okeghem. Building on this unique expertise, we present a selection of the master’s very best in the context of music by his contemporaries & colleagues.
Preconcert lecture by Sean Gallagher (New England Conservatory) at 2:15pm
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Past performances:
Blue Heron: Andreas Pevernage and Friends in Music Prints by Phalesius
with Blue Heron, Presented by Laus Polyphoniae 2023. Antwerp. Townscape – Soundscape
Monday, August 21, 2023, 1pm, Kammenstraat 81, 2000 Antwerpen, Belgium
The American vocal ensemble Blue Heron presents you a fine selection of French chansons from the anthology Le Rossignol Musical des Chansons, published by Phalesius in Antwerp in 1597. You will hear music by composers who worked in Antwerp, such as the brilliant but largely unknown Andreas Pevernage, who was the Kapellmeister at the Cathedral of Our Lady in Antwerp from 1585 until his death in 1591. There will also be works by composers who had connections with the city, such as Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck and Claude Le Jeune.
PerformersKim Leeds, Sophie Michaux, Margot Rood, cantus | Jason McStoots, James Reese, Aaron Sheehan, Sumner Thompson, tenor & countertenor | Paul Guttry, David McFerrin, bassus | Paul O’Dette, lute | Scott Metcalfe, artistic leader
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with Blue Heron, Presented by Laus Polyphoniae 2023. Antwerp. Townscape – Soundscape
Monday, August 21, 2023, 1pm, Kammenstraat 81, 2000 Antwerpen, Belgium
The American vocal ensemble Blue Heron presents you a fine selection of French chansons from the anthology Le Rossignol Musical des Chansons, published by Phalesius in Antwerp in 1597. You will hear music by composers who worked in Antwerp, such as the brilliant but largely unknown Andreas Pevernage, who was the Kapellmeister at the Cathedral of Our Lady in Antwerp from 1585 until his death in 1591. There will also be works by composers who had connections with the city, such as Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck and Claude Le Jeune.
PerformersKim Leeds, Sophie Michaux, Margot Rood, cantus | Jason McStoots, James Reese, Aaron Sheehan, Sumner Thompson, tenor & countertenor | Paul Guttry, David McFerrin, bassus | Paul O’Dette, lute | Scott Metcalfe, artistic leader
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Ockeghem: Missa Caput
with Blue Heron, Presented by Laus Polyphoniae 2023. Antwerp. Townscape – Soundscape
Sat, August 19, 2023, 10.15pm, Kammenstraat 81, 2000 Antwerpen, Belgium
Blue Heron from Boston (USA) connects 15th century England to the continent in music, through the commercial and cultural hub of Antwerp, which was also Johannes Ockeghem’s temporary place of work. The programme includes his Missa Caput, based on a unique English Gregorian chant, along with songs and motets by English composers whose music found its way across the Channel, such as Walter Frye and Robert Morton.
PerformersKim Leeds, Sophie Michaux, Margot Rood, cantus | Jason McStoots, James Reese, Aaron Sheehan, Sumner Thompson, tenor & countertenor | Paul Guttry, David McFerrin, bassus | Scott Metcalfe, artistic leader & harp
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with Blue Heron, Presented by Laus Polyphoniae 2023. Antwerp. Townscape – Soundscape
Sat, August 19, 2023, 10.15pm, Kammenstraat 81, 2000 Antwerpen, Belgium
Blue Heron from Boston (USA) connects 15th century England to the continent in music, through the commercial and cultural hub of Antwerp, which was also Johannes Ockeghem’s temporary place of work. The programme includes his Missa Caput, based on a unique English Gregorian chant, along with songs and motets by English composers whose music found its way across the Channel, such as Walter Frye and Robert Morton.
PerformersKim Leeds, Sophie Michaux, Margot Rood, cantus | Jason McStoots, James Reese, Aaron Sheehan, Sumner Thompson, tenor & countertenor | Paul Guttry, David McFerrin, bassus | Scott Metcalfe, artistic leader & harp
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Roomful of Teeth+ Attack Theatre
Blurred Bodies for International Conference of Dalcroze Studies
Saturday, August 4th 2023, 8.30pm, Carnegie Mellon University’s Philip Chosky Theater, Pittsburgh PA
Blurred Bodies is a concert for the voice and the body. An intertwining landscape of physicality and sound that will move us in new ways. Dancers flying and musicians falling through a mesmerizing performance of moving sound. Blurred Bodies brings Grammywinning vocal band Roomful of Teeth and Pittsburgh’s worldrenowned dance company, Attack Theatre together at Carnegie Mellon University’s Philip Chosky Theater in celebration of the International Conference of Dalcroze Studies.
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Blurred Bodies for International Conference of Dalcroze Studies
Saturday, August 4th 2023, 8.30pm, Carnegie Mellon University’s Philip Chosky Theater, Pittsburgh PA
Blurred Bodies is a concert for the voice and the body. An intertwining landscape of physicality and sound that will move us in new ways. Dancers flying and musicians falling through a mesmerizing performance of moving sound. Blurred Bodies brings Grammywinning vocal band Roomful of Teeth and Pittsburgh’s worldrenowned dance company, Attack Theatre together at Carnegie Mellon University’s Philip Chosky Theater in celebration of the International Conference of Dalcroze Studies.
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Her Story - by Julia Wolfe
Co-commissioned by the Nashville Symphony, Chicago Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Boston Symphony, National Symphony Orchestras and the Lorelei Ensemble
May 25th and 27th 2022 San Francisco Symphony
Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco, CA, Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor
July 28th 2022, Boston Symphony Orchestra
Tanglewood Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox/Stockbridge, MA
Written for Lorelei Ensemble and symphony orchestra to commemorate the centennial of the 1920 ratification of the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote, Her Story is the latest in a series of Wolfe's compositions highlighting monumental and turbulent moments in American history and culture. That the piece is having its world premiere in Nashville is no accident: Tennessee was the 36th and final state needed to ratify the 19th Amendment, and the world premiere comes mere weeks after the centennial of the August 18, 1920 ratification vote. NPR describes Julia Wolfe as "our labor documentarian, tackling historic issues that resonate today... By marrying history and music, Wolfe forces us to look to our past to protect our future." The immersive, visual performances will be directed by Anne Kauffman with scenic and lighting design by Jeff Sugg, costumes by Marion Talan, and produced by Bang on a Can.
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Co-commissioned by the Nashville Symphony, Chicago Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Boston Symphony, National Symphony Orchestras and the Lorelei Ensemble
May 25th and 27th 2022 San Francisco Symphony
Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco, CA, Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor
July 28th 2022, Boston Symphony Orchestra
Tanglewood Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox/Stockbridge, MA
Written for Lorelei Ensemble and symphony orchestra to commemorate the centennial of the 1920 ratification of the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote, Her Story is the latest in a series of Wolfe's compositions highlighting monumental and turbulent moments in American history and culture. That the piece is having its world premiere in Nashville is no accident: Tennessee was the 36th and final state needed to ratify the 19th Amendment, and the world premiere comes mere weeks after the centennial of the August 18, 1920 ratification vote. NPR describes Julia Wolfe as "our labor documentarian, tackling historic issues that resonate today... By marrying history and music, Wolfe forces us to look to our past to protect our future." The immersive, visual performances will be directed by Anne Kauffman with scenic and lighting design by Jeff Sugg, costumes by Marion Talan, and produced by Bang on a Can.
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There shall be no more sea
with Tiny Glass Tavern
Friday May 19th 2023 at 7:30pm - All Saints Episcopal Church, South Hadley MA
Saturday May 20th 2023 at 3pm, Swedenborg Chapel, Cambridge MA
With Sophie Michaux (voice)
Kai-Ching Chang (piano)
Adam Simon (voice+guitar+bass)
Chris Voss (voice+narration)
Kathleen Raine's poem "There Shall Be No More Sea" was the inspiration for this Tiny Glass Tavern program, centered around the awe the Ocean provokes in us, humans. Its power and mystery have sparked wonder, fear, imagination, admiration, and grief in poets and musicians all over the world and throughout the centuries. We will explore these emotions while sharing music by Antonio Vivaldi, Rebecca Clarke, Cecil Cohen, Gabriel Fauré, Henry Purcell, Adam Simon, Jacques Brel, Folk songs from England and more. Short stories and poems will be woven into the music by our narrator Chris Voss, and audience members should be prepared to join in on a sea shanty or two.
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with Tiny Glass Tavern
Friday May 19th 2023 at 7:30pm - All Saints Episcopal Church, South Hadley MA
Saturday May 20th 2023 at 3pm, Swedenborg Chapel, Cambridge MA
With Sophie Michaux (voice)
Kai-Ching Chang (piano)
Adam Simon (voice+guitar+bass)
Chris Voss (voice+narration)
Kathleen Raine's poem "There Shall Be No More Sea" was the inspiration for this Tiny Glass Tavern program, centered around the awe the Ocean provokes in us, humans. Its power and mystery have sparked wonder, fear, imagination, admiration, and grief in poets and musicians all over the world and throughout the centuries. We will explore these emotions while sharing music by Antonio Vivaldi, Rebecca Clarke, Cecil Cohen, Gabriel Fauré, Henry Purcell, Adam Simon, Jacques Brel, Folk songs from England and more. Short stories and poems will be woven into the music by our narrator Chris Voss, and audience members should be prepared to join in on a sea shanty or two.
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The Hispanic Diaspora
with the Lowell Chamber Orchestra
Saturday May 6th 2023 7:30pm, Durgin Hall, UMass Lowell, Lowell, MA
The classical music from hispanic composers is as varied as our standard repertoire, and this program will bring you music that shows a diversity in styles, palettes, and themes.
Program:
Romero - Fuga con Pajarillo
Bayolo - Cello Concerto “Orfei Mors”, with Leo Eguchi, soloist
De Falla - El Amor Brujo, with Sophie Michaux, mezzo-soprano
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with the Lowell Chamber Orchestra
Saturday May 6th 2023 7:30pm, Durgin Hall, UMass Lowell, Lowell, MA
The classical music from hispanic composers is as varied as our standard repertoire, and this program will bring you music that shows a diversity in styles, palettes, and themes.
Program:
Romero - Fuga con Pajarillo
Bayolo - Cello Concerto “Orfei Mors”, with Leo Eguchi, soloist
De Falla - El Amor Brujo, with Sophie Michaux, mezzo-soprano
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Songs & Dances for Isabella: Courtly music from Mantua & Ferrara, c. 1500
with Blue Heron
Saturday, April 29, 2023, 3pm , First Church in Cambridge, Cambridge, MA
Blue Heron singers will be joined by an ensemble of medieval instrumentalists – including, from Switzerland, fiddle player Anna Danilevskaia (artistic director, Solazzo Ensemble) and lutenist Miguel Rincón Rodriguez, and multi-instrumental virtuosa Debra Nagy (artistic director, Les Délices) from Cleveland – in a program of music connected to the great patroness Isabella d’Este of Ferrara, Marchesa of Mantua.
Sophie Michaux, mezzo-soprano
Jason McStoots, tenor
Debra Nagy, recorder, douçaine, harp
Anna Danilevskaia, fiddle
Miguel Rincón Rodriguez, lute
Scott Metcalfe, fiddle & harp
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with Blue Heron
Saturday, April 29, 2023, 3pm , First Church in Cambridge, Cambridge, MA
Blue Heron singers will be joined by an ensemble of medieval instrumentalists – including, from Switzerland, fiddle player Anna Danilevskaia (artistic director, Solazzo Ensemble) and lutenist Miguel Rincón Rodriguez, and multi-instrumental virtuosa Debra Nagy (artistic director, Les Délices) from Cleveland – in a program of music connected to the great patroness Isabella d’Este of Ferrara, Marchesa of Mantua.
Sophie Michaux, mezzo-soprano
Jason McStoots, tenor
Debra Nagy, recorder, douçaine, harp
Anna Danilevskaia, fiddle
Miguel Rincón Rodriguez, lute
Scott Metcalfe, fiddle & harp
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PRIVATE EVENT: Works in Progress
with Roomful of Teeth
Saturday, April 22, 2023, 3pm, NYC
Rose Bond, an animator, will collaborate with Roomful of Teeth, a vocal band, and inti figgis-vizueta, a composer, each pushing at the edges of their prescribed mediums. Together, they seek to create an original, tri-screen performance piece that amplifies new voices.
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with Roomful of Teeth
Saturday, April 22, 2023, 3pm, NYC
Rose Bond, an animator, will collaborate with Roomful of Teeth, a vocal band, and inti figgis-vizueta, a composer, each pushing at the edges of their prescribed mediums. Together, they seek to create an original, tri-screen performance piece that amplifies new voices.
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Nature's Cook
with Tiny Glass Tavern
Friday April 7th 2023, 7.30pm, A.P.E Gallery, Northampton MA
Saturday April 8th 2023, 5pm, The Lilypad, Cambridge MA
With Sophie Michaux (voice+accordion)
Paul Holmes Morton (voice+banjo+theorbo+guitar)
Benjamin Katz (harpsichord)
Adam Simon (voice+bass+mandolin)
Nature’s Cook is a musical reflection on the juxtaposition of life and death and a celebration of rebirth and freedom in our world, all this just in time for Passover and Easter. We’ll share an eclectic selection of music from the 17th century to our days, with Folk, Art and Pop songs by Claudio Monteverdi, Barbara Strozzi, Tarquinio Merula, Adam Simon, Björk, Klezmer tunes and more. This concert will include a World Premiere by Adam Simon, setting 17th century poet Margaret Cavendish's "Nature's Cook".
with Tiny Glass Tavern
Friday April 7th 2023, 7.30pm, A.P.E Gallery, Northampton MA
Saturday April 8th 2023, 5pm, The Lilypad, Cambridge MA
With Sophie Michaux (voice+accordion)
Paul Holmes Morton (voice+banjo+theorbo+guitar)
Benjamin Katz (harpsichord)
Adam Simon (voice+bass+mandolin)
Nature’s Cook is a musical reflection on the juxtaposition of life and death and a celebration of rebirth and freedom in our world, all this just in time for Passover and Easter. We’ll share an eclectic selection of music from the 17th century to our days, with Folk, Art and Pop songs by Claudio Monteverdi, Barbara Strozzi, Tarquinio Merula, Adam Simon, Björk, Klezmer tunes and more. This concert will include a World Premiere by Adam Simon, setting 17th century poet Margaret Cavendish's "Nature's Cook".
La Giuditta, an Oratorio by Alessandro Scarlatti
With the Haymarket Opera Company
Friday March 24 2023 at 7:30 at the Gannon Concert Hall, Chicago IL
Sophie will sing the role of Oloferne
Haymarket presents Alessandro Scarlatti’s dramatic 1693 oratorio La Giuditta. In a gripping tale of bravery in the face of tyranny, the beautiful widow Judith saves the people of Israel from the clutches of the oppressor Holofernes by seducing and then beheading him. Haymarket’s vocal and instrumental virtuoso soloists bring this searing and rarely performed seventeenth-century musical masterpiece to life. A head will roll.
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With the Haymarket Opera Company
Friday March 24 2023 at 7:30 at the Gannon Concert Hall, Chicago IL
Sophie will sing the role of Oloferne
Haymarket presents Alessandro Scarlatti’s dramatic 1693 oratorio La Giuditta. In a gripping tale of bravery in the face of tyranny, the beautiful widow Judith saves the people of Israel from the clutches of the oppressor Holofernes by seducing and then beheading him. Haymarket’s vocal and instrumental virtuoso soloists bring this searing and rarely performed seventeenth-century musical masterpiece to life. A head will roll.
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Her Story - by Julia Wolfe
Co-commissioned by the Nashville Symphony, Chicago Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Boston Symphony, National Symphony Orchestras and the Lorelei Ensemble
March 16-18 2023 Boston Symphony Orchestra
Symphony Hall, Boston MA, Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor
Written for Lorelei Ensemble and symphony orchestra to commemorate the centennial of the 1920 ratification of the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote, Her Story is the latest in a series of Wolfe's compositions highlighting monumental and turbulent moments in American history and culture. That the piece is having its world premiere in Nashville is no accident: Tennessee was the 36th and final state needed to ratify the 19th Amendment, and the world premiere comes mere weeks after the centennial of the August 18, 1920 ratification vote. NPR describes Julia Wolfe as "our labor documentarian, tackling historic issues that resonate today... By marrying history and music, Wolfe forces us to look to our past to protect our future." The immersive, visual performances will be directed by Anne Kauffman with scenic and lighting design by Jeff Sugg, costumes by Marion Talan, and produced by Bang on a Can.
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Co-commissioned by the Nashville Symphony, Chicago Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Boston Symphony, National Symphony Orchestras and the Lorelei Ensemble
March 16-18 2023 Boston Symphony Orchestra
Symphony Hall, Boston MA, Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor
Written for Lorelei Ensemble and symphony orchestra to commemorate the centennial of the 1920 ratification of the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote, Her Story is the latest in a series of Wolfe's compositions highlighting monumental and turbulent moments in American history and culture. That the piece is having its world premiere in Nashville is no accident: Tennessee was the 36th and final state needed to ratify the 19th Amendment, and the world premiere comes mere weeks after the centennial of the August 18, 1920 ratification vote. NPR describes Julia Wolfe as "our labor documentarian, tackling historic issues that resonate today... By marrying history and music, Wolfe forces us to look to our past to protect our future." The immersive, visual performances will be directed by Anne Kauffman with scenic and lighting design by Jeff Sugg, costumes by Marion Talan, and produced by Bang on a Can.
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The English Orpheus: The Musical Enchantments of Henry Purcell
with In Stile Moderno
Friday, March 3 2023, 7:30 pm, Brattleboro Music Center, Brattleboro VT
Saturday, March 4 2023, 7:30 pm, Church of the Good Shepherd, Watertown MA
Sunday, March 5, 4:00 pm, St. Michael's Episcopal Church, Bristol, RI
If Orpheus charmed humans, animals, and even the gods of the Underworld with his lyre, then Henry Purcell, known as the “English Orpheus,” did the same for kings, queens, and commoners alike with his compositions. In his short thirty-six years, he created an astounding 850 works of music or more—and they still captivate and enchant us centuries later. Our spring concert will be an intimate evening of Purcell songs that journey from the sublime to the irreverent and back again.
Agnes Coakley Cox, Sophie Michaux, Corey Dalton Hart, Adam Simon, voices; Nathaniel Cox, theorbo
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with In Stile Moderno
Friday, March 3 2023, 7:30 pm, Brattleboro Music Center, Brattleboro VT
Saturday, March 4 2023, 7:30 pm, Church of the Good Shepherd, Watertown MA
Sunday, March 5, 4:00 pm, St. Michael's Episcopal Church, Bristol, RI
If Orpheus charmed humans, animals, and even the gods of the Underworld with his lyre, then Henry Purcell, known as the “English Orpheus,” did the same for kings, queens, and commoners alike with his compositions. In his short thirty-six years, he created an astounding 850 works of music or more—and they still captivate and enchant us centuries later. Our spring concert will be an intimate evening of Purcell songs that journey from the sublime to the irreverent and back again.
Agnes Coakley Cox, Sophie Michaux, Corey Dalton Hart, Adam Simon, voices; Nathaniel Cox, theorbo
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Un petrarchino cantato: Petrarch’s Canzoniere in song
with Blue Heron
Sunday, February 19 2023 at 4pm, Music Before 1800, Corpus Christi Church, New York, NY
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with Blue Heron
Sunday, February 19 2023 at 4pm, Music Before 1800, Corpus Christi Church, New York, NY
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Fortuna & Fama: Josquin’s Missa Fortuna desperata & Dido’s lament
with Blue Heron
Saturday, February 11 2023 at 3pm, First Church in Cambridge, Cambridge, MA
A program on the themes of Fortuna (the goddess Fortune) and Fama (rumor, reputation), featuring Josquin Desprez’s sunny mass based on the song Fortuna desperata and a group of six settings of Dido’s last words, Dulces exuvie, by Josquin, Marbriano De Orto, Alexander Agricola, Johannes Ghiselin, Jean Mouton, and anonymous.
Kim Leeds, Reginald Mobley, Sophie Michaux, cantus
Jason McStoots, Aaron Sheehan, Sumner Thompson, tenor
Paul Guttry, Steven Hrycelak, David McFerrin, bassus
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with Blue Heron
Saturday, February 11 2023 at 3pm, First Church in Cambridge, Cambridge, MA
A program on the themes of Fortuna (the goddess Fortune) and Fama (rumor, reputation), featuring Josquin Desprez’s sunny mass based on the song Fortuna desperata and a group of six settings of Dido’s last words, Dulces exuvie, by Josquin, Marbriano De Orto, Alexander Agricola, Johannes Ghiselin, Jean Mouton, and anonymous.
Kim Leeds, Reginald Mobley, Sophie Michaux, cantus
Jason McStoots, Aaron Sheehan, Sumner Thompson, tenor
Paul Guttry, Steven Hrycelak, David McFerrin, bassus
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Ockeghem@600 Concert 12- Ockeghem Requiem
with Blue Heron
Friday, January 27, 2023, at 8pm, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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with Blue Heron
Friday, January 27, 2023, at 8pm, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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Falling asleep of reason
with Tiny Glass Tavern
Friday January 20th at 7pm - Haydenville Congregational Church - Haydenville MA - Tickets here
Saturday January 21st at 7pm - Christ Church - Cambridge MA - Tickets here
with Fiona Gillespie (voice+ fipple flute)
Paul Holmes Morton (voice+banjo+theorbo+guitar)
Sophie Michaux (voice+accordion)
Adam Simon (voice+mandolin+bass+guitar)
For Tiny Glass Tavern's VERY FIRST program, we will offer an eclectic selection of music by Claudio Monteverdi, Connie Converse, Paul Holmes Morton, Adam Simon, Barbara Strozzi, Björk, and more. It will include some sing along elements, so get ready to sing with us!
Suggested donation: $10-25.
with Tiny Glass Tavern
Friday January 20th at 7pm - Haydenville Congregational Church - Haydenville MA - Tickets here
Saturday January 21st at 7pm - Christ Church - Cambridge MA - Tickets here
with Fiona Gillespie (voice+ fipple flute)
Paul Holmes Morton (voice+banjo+theorbo+guitar)
Sophie Michaux (voice+accordion)
Adam Simon (voice+mandolin+bass+guitar)
For Tiny Glass Tavern's VERY FIRST program, we will offer an eclectic selection of music by Claudio Monteverdi, Connie Converse, Paul Holmes Morton, Adam Simon, Barbara Strozzi, Björk, and more. It will include some sing along elements, so get ready to sing with us!
Suggested donation: $10-25.
Her Story - by Julia Wolfe
Co-commissioned by the Nashville Symphony, Chicago Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Boston Symphony, National Symphony Orchestras and the Lorelei Ensemble
January 6-7th 2023 Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Chicago Symphony Center, Chicago, IL, Marin Alsop, conductor
Written for Lorelei Ensemble and symphony orchestra to commemorate the centennial of the 1920 ratification of the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote, Her Story is the latest in a series of Wolfe's compositions highlighting monumental and turbulent moments in American history and culture. That the piece is having its world premiere in Nashville is no accident: Tennessee was the 36th and final state needed to ratify the 19th Amendment, and the world premiere comes mere weeks after the centennial of the August 18, 1920 ratification vote. NPR describes Julia Wolfe as "our labor documentarian, tackling historic issues that resonate today... By marrying history and music, Wolfe forces us to look to our past to protect our future." The immersive, visual performances will be directed by Anne Kauffman with scenic and lighting design by Jeff Sugg, costumes by Marion Talan, and produced by Bang on a Can.
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Co-commissioned by the Nashville Symphony, Chicago Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Boston Symphony, National Symphony Orchestras and the Lorelei Ensemble
January 6-7th 2023 Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Chicago Symphony Center, Chicago, IL, Marin Alsop, conductor
Written for Lorelei Ensemble and symphony orchestra to commemorate the centennial of the 1920 ratification of the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote, Her Story is the latest in a series of Wolfe's compositions highlighting monumental and turbulent moments in American history and culture. That the piece is having its world premiere in Nashville is no accident: Tennessee was the 36th and final state needed to ratify the 19th Amendment, and the world premiere comes mere weeks after the centennial of the August 18, 1920 ratification vote. NPR describes Julia Wolfe as "our labor documentarian, tackling historic issues that resonate today... By marrying history and music, Wolfe forces us to look to our past to protect our future." The immersive, visual performances will be directed by Anne Kauffman with scenic and lighting design by Jeff Sugg, costumes by Marion Talan, and produced by Bang on a Can.
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A Preatorius Christmas
with Bach Collegium San Diego, directed by Ruben Valenzuela
Friday, December 9, 2022, 7.30 p.m., Saints Constantine and Helen Greek Orthodox Church, Cardiff, CA
Saturday, December 10, 2022, 7.30 p.m., All Souls’ Episcopal Church, San Diego, CA
Celebrating one of Germany's most influential seventeenth century composers whose music became the core repertoire for Northern Germany's prominent churches. A thrilling program of Praetorius' music as it might have been heard in a Christmas Lutheran Mass during the first half of the seventeenth century. Joined by Los Angeles-based ensemble Tesserae, specializing in the music of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
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with Bach Collegium San Diego, directed by Ruben Valenzuela
Friday, December 9, 2022, 7.30 p.m., Saints Constantine and Helen Greek Orthodox Church, Cardiff, CA
Saturday, December 10, 2022, 7.30 p.m., All Souls’ Episcopal Church, San Diego, CA
Celebrating one of Germany's most influential seventeenth century composers whose music became the core repertoire for Northern Germany's prominent churches. A thrilling program of Praetorius' music as it might have been heard in a Christmas Lutheran Mass during the first half of the seventeenth century. Joined by Los Angeles-based ensemble Tesserae, specializing in the music of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
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What if? Beehive Chamber Series
With Palaver Strings
Thursday, December 1st 2022, 8pm, The Lilypad, Cambridge, MA
Friday, December 2nd 2022, 7.30pm, Brattleboro Music Center, Brattleboro, VT
Saturday, December 3rd 2022, 3.30pm and 7.30pm, Mayo Street Arts, Portland ME
Our Chamber Series opener features beloved string quartet repertoire and collaborations with mezzo-soprano SophieMichaux. Join us for a deep dive into the emotional and sonic landscapes of Ravel, Bjork, Errollyn Wallen, Joe Hisaishi, and Caroline Shaw. These pieces meditate on themes of missed connections, lost chances, and “what-ifs,” asking: “Is this the life you would have hoped for?” “If you were gone, would I still know how to love and how to grow?” “What is it that I have that makes me feel your pain?”
Repertoire: Stonemilker by Björk, Daedalus by Errollyn Wallen, And So by Caroline Shaw, Ravel String Quartet in F Major, Only the Winds by Olafur Arnalds, and more.
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With Palaver Strings
Thursday, December 1st 2022, 8pm, The Lilypad, Cambridge, MA
Friday, December 2nd 2022, 7.30pm, Brattleboro Music Center, Brattleboro, VT
Saturday, December 3rd 2022, 3.30pm and 7.30pm, Mayo Street Arts, Portland ME
Our Chamber Series opener features beloved string quartet repertoire and collaborations with mezzo-soprano SophieMichaux. Join us for a deep dive into the emotional and sonic landscapes of Ravel, Bjork, Errollyn Wallen, Joe Hisaishi, and Caroline Shaw. These pieces meditate on themes of missed connections, lost chances, and “what-ifs,” asking: “Is this the life you would have hoped for?” “If you were gone, would I still know how to love and how to grow?” “What is it that I have that makes me feel your pain?”
Repertoire: Stonemilker by Björk, Daedalus by Errollyn Wallen, And So by Caroline Shaw, Ravel String Quartet in F Major, Only the Winds by Olafur Arnalds, and more.
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Mozart's Coronation Mass
with the Dartmouth College Handel Society, directed by Filippo Ciabatti
Tuesday November 15th 2022 at 7:30pm, Spaulding Auditorium, Hanover NH
The choral society fills the air with the sublime sounds of two of Mozart's treasured works, including Te Deum KV 141 for choir and orchestra—written by the music master at the early age of 13—and the evocative Coronation Mass KV 317 for soli, choir and orchestra, as well as Britten's profound Serenade for horn, strings and tenor.
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with the Dartmouth College Handel Society, directed by Filippo Ciabatti
Tuesday November 15th 2022 at 7:30pm, Spaulding Auditorium, Hanover NH
The choral society fills the air with the sublime sounds of two of Mozart's treasured works, including Te Deum KV 141 for choir and orchestra—written by the music master at the early age of 13—and the evocative Coronation Mass KV 317 for soli, choir and orchestra, as well as Britten's profound Serenade for horn, strings and tenor.
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Ockeghem@600 Concert 12: Requiem
with Blue Heron
Wednesday November 9th 2022 at 5:30pm, St Paul's Parish, Cambridge MA
with Blue Heron
Wednesday November 9th 2022 at 5:30pm, St Paul's Parish, Cambridge MA
Handel’s Dixit Dominus and Orlandini’s Mass
with Upper Valley Baroque, directed by Filippo Ciabatti
Saturday, October 29th 2022 at 7:30pm, St Thomas Episcopal Church, Hanover, NH
Sunday, October 30th 2022 at 3pm, St Thomas Episcopal Church, Hanover, NH
Sophie will sing the Alto Solo in Handel's Dixit Dominus
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with Upper Valley Baroque, directed by Filippo Ciabatti
Saturday, October 29th 2022 at 7:30pm, St Thomas Episcopal Church, Hanover, NH
Sunday, October 30th 2022 at 3pm, St Thomas Episcopal Church, Hanover, NH
Sophie will sing the Alto Solo in Handel's Dixit Dominus
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The Legacy of Larry Gordon
with Capital City Concerts
Friday, October 21, 2022, 7:30PM, College Street Congregational Church, Burlington VT
Saturday, October 22, 2022, 7:30PM, Unitarian Church, Montpelier VT
Last year, Vermont lost a musical legend. Larry Gordon’s musical influence spanned cultures, generations, and musical styles and his legacy lives on in singing communities across the globe. This musical celebration brings together the musical worlds Larry inhabited, from American shape-note, to Baroque and Renaissance music, to folk songs from Georgia, Corsica, and the Balkans. An ensemble of collaborators and proteges includes Sophie Michaux, Adam Simon, Lysander Jaffe, Lexi Ugelow, Karen Kevra, and Megan Henderson.
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with Capital City Concerts
Friday, October 21, 2022, 7:30PM, College Street Congregational Church, Burlington VT
Saturday, October 22, 2022, 7:30PM, Unitarian Church, Montpelier VT
Last year, Vermont lost a musical legend. Larry Gordon’s musical influence spanned cultures, generations, and musical styles and his legacy lives on in singing communities across the globe. This musical celebration brings together the musical worlds Larry inhabited, from American shape-note, to Baroque and Renaissance music, to folk songs from Georgia, Corsica, and the Balkans. An ensemble of collaborators and proteges includes Sophie Michaux, Adam Simon, Lysander Jaffe, Lexi Ugelow, Karen Kevra, and Megan Henderson.
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Ockeghem@600 Concert 12: Requiem
with Blue Heron
Thursday, October 13, 2022 at 8:00 PM, St. Mary’s Chapel, Boston College, Boston MA
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Friday, October 14, 2022 at 8:00 PM, Buckley Recital Hall, Amherst College, Amherst MA
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Saturday, Oct. 15 2022 at 3:00 pm, First Church, Cambridge MA
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One of the master’s most celebrated and mysterious creations, the earliest surviving polyphonic setting of the Mass for the Dead (known as the Requiem from the first word of the introit), together with motets honoring Ockeghem by Antoine Busnoys and Johannes Lupi – or, more likely, Lupus Hellinck.
Johannes Ockeghem (c. 1420-1497): Missa pro defunctis (Requiem); Il ne m’en chault; Missa De plus en plus: Agnus dei
Antoine Busnoys (c. 1430-1492): In hydraulis; Ma damoiselle, ma maistresse
Johannes Lupi (c. 1506-1539) or Lupus Hellinck (1493/4-1541); text by Erasmus of Rotterdam (late 1460s-1536): Ergo ne conticuit
Kim Leeds & Sophie Michaux, cantus
Jason McStoots, James Reese, Aaron Sheehan, Sumner Thompson, tenor
Paul Guttry & David McFerrin, bassus
with Blue Heron
Thursday, October 13, 2022 at 8:00 PM, St. Mary’s Chapel, Boston College, Boston MA
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Friday, October 14, 2022 at 8:00 PM, Buckley Recital Hall, Amherst College, Amherst MA
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Saturday, Oct. 15 2022 at 3:00 pm, First Church, Cambridge MA
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One of the master’s most celebrated and mysterious creations, the earliest surviving polyphonic setting of the Mass for the Dead (known as the Requiem from the first word of the introit), together with motets honoring Ockeghem by Antoine Busnoys and Johannes Lupi – or, more likely, Lupus Hellinck.
Johannes Ockeghem (c. 1420-1497): Missa pro defunctis (Requiem); Il ne m’en chault; Missa De plus en plus: Agnus dei
Antoine Busnoys (c. 1430-1492): In hydraulis; Ma damoiselle, ma maistresse
Johannes Lupi (c. 1506-1539) or Lupus Hellinck (1493/4-1541); text by Erasmus of Rotterdam (late 1460s-1536): Ergo ne conticuit
Kim Leeds & Sophie Michaux, cantus
Jason McStoots, James Reese, Aaron Sheehan, Sumner Thompson, tenor
Paul Guttry & David McFerrin, bassus
Tanglewood: The Planets - Gustav Holst
With the Lorelei Ensemble, conducted by Andris Nelsons
Thursday, September 22nd 2022 at 7:30pm Symphony Hall, Boston, MA
Friday, September 23rd 2022 at 1:30pm Symphony Hall, Boston, MA
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With the Lorelei Ensemble, conducted by Andris Nelsons
Thursday, September 22nd 2022 at 7:30pm Symphony Hall, Boston, MA
Friday, September 23rd 2022 at 1:30pm Symphony Hall, Boston, MA
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Her Story - by Julia Wolfe
Co-commissioned by the Nashville Symphony, Chicago Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Boston Symphony, National Symphony Orchestras and the Lorelei Ensemble
September 14-17th 2022 Nashville Symphony
Schermerhorn Symphony Center, Nashville, TN, Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor
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Written for Lorelei Ensemble and symphony orchestra to commemorate the centennial of the 1920 ratification of the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote, Her Story is the latest in a series of Wolfe's compositions highlighting monumental and turbulent moments in American history and culture. That the piece is having its world premiere in Nashville is no accident: Tennessee was the 36th and final state needed to ratify the 19th Amendment, and the world premiere comes mere weeks after the centennial of the August 18, 1920 ratification vote. NPR describes Julia Wolfe as "our labor documentarian, tackling historic issues that resonate today... By marrying history and music, Wolfe forces us to look to our past to protect our future." The immersive, visual performances will be directed by Anne Kauffman with scenic and lighting design by Jeff Sugg, costumes by Marion Talan, and produced by Bang on a Can.
See full PRESS RELEASE HERE
Co-commissioned by the Nashville Symphony, Chicago Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Boston Symphony, National Symphony Orchestras and the Lorelei Ensemble
September 14-17th 2022 Nashville Symphony
Schermerhorn Symphony Center, Nashville, TN, Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor
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Written for Lorelei Ensemble and symphony orchestra to commemorate the centennial of the 1920 ratification of the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote, Her Story is the latest in a series of Wolfe's compositions highlighting monumental and turbulent moments in American history and culture. That the piece is having its world premiere in Nashville is no accident: Tennessee was the 36th and final state needed to ratify the 19th Amendment, and the world premiere comes mere weeks after the centennial of the August 18, 1920 ratification vote. NPR describes Julia Wolfe as "our labor documentarian, tackling historic issues that resonate today... By marrying history and music, Wolfe forces us to look to our past to protect our future." The immersive, visual performances will be directed by Anne Kauffman with scenic and lighting design by Jeff Sugg, costumes by Marion Talan, and produced by Bang on a Can.
See full PRESS RELEASE HERE
Tanglewood: The Planets - Gustav Holst
With the Lorelei Ensemble, conducted by Thomas Adès
Sunday, August 7th 2022 at 2:30pm - Koussevitzy Music Shed, Tanglewood, Lenox, MA
Thomas Adès conducts Thomas Adès, Mozart, and Holst featuring Pamela Frank, violin, Antoine Tamestit, viola, and Lorelei EnsembleTickets and information
With the Lorelei Ensemble, conducted by Thomas Adès
Sunday, August 7th 2022 at 2:30pm - Koussevitzy Music Shed, Tanglewood, Lenox, MA
Thomas Adès conducts Thomas Adès, Mozart, and Holst featuring Pamela Frank, violin, Antoine Tamestit, viola, and Lorelei EnsembleTickets and information
Ready or Not Album Release Tour
With Palaver Strings
Tuesday, May 31st 2022 at 7pm, at Cove Street Arts, Portland MA
Thursday, June 2nd 2022 at 7pm, at the Brattleboro Music Centre, Brattleboro VT
Friday, June 3rd 2022, 7pm, at the Strand Rare Book Room, NYC, NY
Saturday, June 4th 2022, 4pm at the Barn, Taverton RI
Sunday, June 5th 2022, 3pm at The Cultural Center of Cape Cod, Yarmouth MA
Repertoire:
Arranged for Strings by Adam Simon: Lagrime mie by Barbara Strozzi, The Seal Man by Rebecca Clarke, Bewilderment and The Washerwomen by Florence Price, Chanson by Nadia Boulanger, and much more.
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With Palaver Strings
Tuesday, May 31st 2022 at 7pm, at Cove Street Arts, Portland MA
Thursday, June 2nd 2022 at 7pm, at the Brattleboro Music Centre, Brattleboro VT
Friday, June 3rd 2022, 7pm, at the Strand Rare Book Room, NYC, NY
Saturday, June 4th 2022, 4pm at the Barn, Taverton RI
Sunday, June 5th 2022, 3pm at The Cultural Center of Cape Cod, Yarmouth MA
Repertoire:
Arranged for Strings by Adam Simon: Lagrime mie by Barbara Strozzi, The Seal Man by Rebecca Clarke, Bewilderment and The Washerwomen by Florence Price, Chanson by Nadia Boulanger, and much more.
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So Trinken Wir Alle
With Long & Away
Friday, June 10th 2022 at 7:30pm - Shirley Meeting House, Shirley, MA
Saturday, June 11th , 2022 at 7pm - Moseley Hall, Church of the Advent, Boston, MA
$20 suggested donation
A brand new program celebrating the many delights of spring! Works for voices and viols by Lassus, Senfl, Marenzio and others explore the age old themes of love, nature, dancing, and drinks. This program is supported by the Gian Lyman Silbiger grant from the Viola da Gamba Society - New England.
Elise Groves, Sophie Michaux, Corey Dalton Hart, Stephan Griffin, voices
Karen Burciaga, Jane Hershey, Anne Legêne, Carol Lewis, James Perretta, viols
With Long & Away
Friday, June 10th 2022 at 7:30pm - Shirley Meeting House, Shirley, MA
Saturday, June 11th , 2022 at 7pm - Moseley Hall, Church of the Advent, Boston, MA
$20 suggested donation
A brand new program celebrating the many delights of spring! Works for voices and viols by Lassus, Senfl, Marenzio and others explore the age old themes of love, nature, dancing, and drinks. This program is supported by the Gian Lyman Silbiger grant from the Viola da Gamba Society - New England.
Elise Groves, Sophie Michaux, Corey Dalton Hart, Stephan Griffin, voices
Karen Burciaga, Jane Hershey, Anne Legêne, Carol Lewis, James Perretta, viols
An Intimate Encounter with Sophie Michaux
With Aston Magna in Newton
Thursday May 19th 2022, Food and Drink at 7pm, Music at 8pm, in Newton MA - RSVP for address
Dowland, Monteverdi, Strozzi, Purcell, and a surprise...
Sophie Michaux, Mezzo-soprano
Laura Jeppesen, Viola da Gamba
Catherine Liddell, Luth and Theorbo
With Aston Magna in Newton
Thursday May 19th 2022, Food and Drink at 7pm, Music at 8pm, in Newton MA - RSVP for address
Dowland, Monteverdi, Strozzi, Purcell, and a surprise...
Sophie Michaux, Mezzo-soprano
Laura Jeppesen, Viola da Gamba
Catherine Liddell, Luth and Theorbo
The Opera Columbus Cooper-Bing Competition Finals
Saturday, May 15th 2022 at 3pm, Southern Theatre, Columbus, OH
For the past 38 seasons, the Cooper-Bing Competition has been an internationally-recognized vocal competition that empowers and celebrates young, emerging artists. This competition discovers talent, reveals artistic opportunity, and engages the next generation into the professional opera community. Join us and cast your vote as finalists compete for a top prize of $10,000! You don’t want to miss this battle of the voices!
Finalists:
Sophie Michaux, Mezzo-Soprano
Aaron Crouch, Tenor
Alex DeSocio, Baritone
Nicole Woodward, Soprano
Wooyoung Yoon, Tenor
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Saturday, May 15th 2022 at 3pm, Southern Theatre, Columbus, OH
For the past 38 seasons, the Cooper-Bing Competition has been an internationally-recognized vocal competition that empowers and celebrates young, emerging artists. This competition discovers talent, reveals artistic opportunity, and engages the next generation into the professional opera community. Join us and cast your vote as finalists compete for a top prize of $10,000! You don’t want to miss this battle of the voices!
Finalists:
Sophie Michaux, Mezzo-Soprano
Aaron Crouch, Tenor
Alex DeSocio, Baritone
Nicole Woodward, Soprano
Wooyoung Yoon, Tenor
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Divine Songs: The Music of Johannes Ockeghem
With Blue Heron
Saturday, May 7, 2022 at 5 pm, St. Joseph Chapel, Milwaukee WI
Presented by Early Music Now
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Sunday, May 8, 2022 at 4 pm, Corpus Christi Church, New York, NY 10027
Presented by Music Before 1800
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With Blue Heron
Saturday, May 7, 2022 at 5 pm, St. Joseph Chapel, Milwaukee WI
Presented by Early Music Now
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Sunday, May 8, 2022 at 4 pm, Corpus Christi Church, New York, NY 10027
Presented by Music Before 1800
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Holy Manna
With Ruckus
Saturday, April 30th 2022 at 7.30pm Dumbarton Concerts, Washington DC
Holy Manna is a big, participatory singing that celebrates the vast history of the early American hymn and reflects on this repertoire's enduring legacy. Beginning with a brief “singing school” based on the practice of early music educators – Ruckus leads all present in a communitarian feast of song and history.
Holy Manna centers around the shape-note tradition and practice, a form of folk hymnody which was developed in 18th-century New England and found its home in the rural South. This traditional singing practice is punctuated by storytelling and a wide range of music that tells of the diverse history of the repertoire and reflects upon its contemporary resonance. With new compositions and arrangements, Ruckus connects these old hymns to ancient folk melodies, fiddle tunes, up to gospel, bluegrass and country blues.
Members of the ensemble may work in advance of performance with local singing groups for deeper community engagement and preparation - from grade school choruses to amateur choirs to university students to local shape note groups.
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With Ruckus
Saturday, April 30th 2022 at 7.30pm Dumbarton Concerts, Washington DC
Holy Manna is a big, participatory singing that celebrates the vast history of the early American hymn and reflects on this repertoire's enduring legacy. Beginning with a brief “singing school” based on the practice of early music educators – Ruckus leads all present in a communitarian feast of song and history.
Holy Manna centers around the shape-note tradition and practice, a form of folk hymnody which was developed in 18th-century New England and found its home in the rural South. This traditional singing practice is punctuated by storytelling and a wide range of music that tells of the diverse history of the repertoire and reflects upon its contemporary resonance. With new compositions and arrangements, Ruckus connects these old hymns to ancient folk melodies, fiddle tunes, up to gospel, bluegrass and country blues.
Members of the ensemble may work in advance of performance with local singing groups for deeper community engagement and preparation - from grade school choruses to amateur choirs to university students to local shape note groups.
MANY VOICES
With Blue Heron
Friday, April 22, 2022 at 8:00 pm at First Church in Cambridge, MA
Saturday, April 23, 2022 at 2:30 pm at First Church in Cambridge, MA
MANY VOICES is a celebration of diverse voices and styles. European music before 1600 is represented by the Salve regina for six voices by the 15th-century Flemish composer Jacob Obrecht and a pair of madrigals by one of the few published female composers of the 16th century, Vittoria Aleotti. Leaping forward to the 20th century, Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur’s Le Cantique des cantiques (1952) sets poetry from the Song of Songs, translated into French, in a rich texture of twelve solo voices. Boston’s own Grammy-nominated composer Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol brings us into the present day with Devran, a polyphonic work that marries Sufi Muslim texts, Renaissance counterpoint, and elements of traditional Middle Eastern music. Finally, we will perform a motet by Kevin Allen, from whom we commissioned a new piece for Christmas 2020.
The concert also features a guest appearance by Sanlikol’s ensemble DÜNYA, a collective specializing in music from Turkish traditions.
Free pre-concert talk by Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol (Dünya, New England Conservatory) 45 minutes before each concert
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With Blue Heron
Friday, April 22, 2022 at 8:00 pm at First Church in Cambridge, MA
Saturday, April 23, 2022 at 2:30 pm at First Church in Cambridge, MA
MANY VOICES is a celebration of diverse voices and styles. European music before 1600 is represented by the Salve regina for six voices by the 15th-century Flemish composer Jacob Obrecht and a pair of madrigals by one of the few published female composers of the 16th century, Vittoria Aleotti. Leaping forward to the 20th century, Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur’s Le Cantique des cantiques (1952) sets poetry from the Song of Songs, translated into French, in a rich texture of twelve solo voices. Boston’s own Grammy-nominated composer Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol brings us into the present day with Devran, a polyphonic work that marries Sufi Muslim texts, Renaissance counterpoint, and elements of traditional Middle Eastern music. Finally, we will perform a motet by Kevin Allen, from whom we commissioned a new piece for Christmas 2020.
The concert also features a guest appearance by Sanlikol’s ensemble DÜNYA, a collective specializing in music from Turkish traditions.
Free pre-concert talk by Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol (Dünya, New England Conservatory) 45 minutes before each concert
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The Lyndon Woodside Oratorio-Solo Competition Finals
Saturday, April 9th 2022 at 1:30pm, Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall, NYC
The Oratorio Society of NY presents the 45th Lyndon Woodside Oratorio-Solo Competition Finals Concert at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. Eight emerging classical singers perform major oratorio arias with piano accompaniment. OSNY Music Director Kent Tritle and a panel of distinguished judges choose winners and award cash prizes. The Solo Competition was inaugurated in 1977 to encourage the art of oratorio singing and to give emerging singers an opportunity to advance their careers.
Performers:
Sophie Michaux, Mezzo-Soprano
Bradyn Debysingh, Tenor
William Socolof, Bass-Baritone
Bryan Murray, Baritone
Morgan Balfour, Soprano
Eric Carey, Tenor
Joseph Parrish, Baritone
Julie Roset, Soprano
Erika Switzer, Piano
Kent Tritle, Music Director
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Saturday, April 9th 2022 at 1:30pm, Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall, NYC
The Oratorio Society of NY presents the 45th Lyndon Woodside Oratorio-Solo Competition Finals Concert at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. Eight emerging classical singers perform major oratorio arias with piano accompaniment. OSNY Music Director Kent Tritle and a panel of distinguished judges choose winners and award cash prizes. The Solo Competition was inaugurated in 1977 to encourage the art of oratorio singing and to give emerging singers an opportunity to advance their careers.
Performers:
Sophie Michaux, Mezzo-Soprano
Bradyn Debysingh, Tenor
William Socolof, Bass-Baritone
Bryan Murray, Baritone
Morgan Balfour, Soprano
Eric Carey, Tenor
Joseph Parrish, Baritone
Julie Roset, Soprano
Erika Switzer, Piano
Kent Tritle, Music Director
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Our Transcendental Passion - World Premiere by Paul Rudoi
With The Boston Cecilia
Saturday, April 2nd 2022 at 8pm, All Saints Parish, Brookline, MA
Sunday, April 3rd 2022 at 7pm, The Umbrella Arts Centre, Concord, MA
Michael Barrett, Conductor. Sophie Michaux, Carley deFranco, Daniel Lugo, Dana Whiteside, Soloists
Commissioned by The Boston Cecilia, Minnesota composer Paul Rudoi has composed Our Transcendental Passion, a concert-length work for chorus, soli, piano trio, percussion and Appalachian dulcimer. The libretto is based on the words of Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson, as well as those of lesser known and marginalized voices, Margaret Fuller and Elizabeth Palmer Peabody.
Just as Bach’s Passions allowed German audiences to remember their Lutheran heritage, this work will give American audiences the chance to consider Sacred Harp as a bedrock of musical material in connection with a movement that was at once spiritual and secular, historical and philosophical, personal and universal.
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With The Boston Cecilia
Saturday, April 2nd 2022 at 8pm, All Saints Parish, Brookline, MA
Sunday, April 3rd 2022 at 7pm, The Umbrella Arts Centre, Concord, MA
Michael Barrett, Conductor. Sophie Michaux, Carley deFranco, Daniel Lugo, Dana Whiteside, Soloists
Commissioned by The Boston Cecilia, Minnesota composer Paul Rudoi has composed Our Transcendental Passion, a concert-length work for chorus, soli, piano trio, percussion and Appalachian dulcimer. The libretto is based on the words of Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson, as well as those of lesser known and marginalized voices, Margaret Fuller and Elizabeth Palmer Peabody.
Just as Bach’s Passions allowed German audiences to remember their Lutheran heritage, this work will give American audiences the chance to consider Sacred Harp as a bedrock of musical material in connection with a movement that was at once spiritual and secular, historical and philosophical, personal and universal.
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This Tyrant, Love
With the Lorelei Ensemble and Kevin Payne, Lute
Friday, March 18th 2022 at 8pm, Longy School of Music, Pickman Hall, Cambridge MA
Monday, March 21st 2022 at 7:30pm, Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY
Thursday, March 24th 2022 at 8pm, Duke University, Baldwin Auditorium, Durham, NC
Friday, March 25th 2022 at 7:30pm, Episcopal Church of the Ascension, Knoxville, TN
Sunday, March 27th 2022 at 7:00 pm, Dallas, TX
Traverse through ancient and modern tales of love, lust, and longing, spanning centuries. Featuring virtuosic 17th century madrigals originating with the storied concerto delle donne of the Ferrara court, alongside striking modern works by Pulitzer-Prizing winning composer Caroline Shaw, Icelandic performance-artist Björk, and British songwriter Laura Mvula. Closing the program are selections from David Lang’s love fail, a meditation on the timelessness of love that weaves together details from medieval retellings of the story of Tristan and Isolde with stories from more modern sources, including words of Lydia Davis, Marie de France, Gottfried von Strassburg, Béroul, Thomas of Britain and Richard Wagner.
Caroline SHAW Dolce Cantavi
Claudio MONTEVERDI Ardo e scoprir, ahi lasso, io non ardisco
Luzzascho LUZZASCHI Troppo ben può
Luigi ROSSI Disperate speranze
BJÖRK Solstice
Laura MVULA She
David LANG Selections from love fail
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With the Lorelei Ensemble and Kevin Payne, Lute
Friday, March 18th 2022 at 8pm, Longy School of Music, Pickman Hall, Cambridge MA
Monday, March 21st 2022 at 7:30pm, Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY
Thursday, March 24th 2022 at 8pm, Duke University, Baldwin Auditorium, Durham, NC
Friday, March 25th 2022 at 7:30pm, Episcopal Church of the Ascension, Knoxville, TN
Sunday, March 27th 2022 at 7:00 pm, Dallas, TX
Traverse through ancient and modern tales of love, lust, and longing, spanning centuries. Featuring virtuosic 17th century madrigals originating with the storied concerto delle donne of the Ferrara court, alongside striking modern works by Pulitzer-Prizing winning composer Caroline Shaw, Icelandic performance-artist Björk, and British songwriter Laura Mvula. Closing the program are selections from David Lang’s love fail, a meditation on the timelessness of love that weaves together details from medieval retellings of the story of Tristan and Isolde with stories from more modern sources, including words of Lydia Davis, Marie de France, Gottfried von Strassburg, Béroul, Thomas of Britain and Richard Wagner.
Caroline SHAW Dolce Cantavi
Claudio MONTEVERDI Ardo e scoprir, ahi lasso, io non ardisco
Luzzascho LUZZASCHI Troppo ben può
Luigi ROSSI Disperate speranze
BJÖRK Solstice
Laura MVULA She
David LANG Selections from love fail
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Stay, Time: Lute Songs of John Dowland
with In Stile Moderno
Friday, March 11 2022, 7.30 pm Brattleboro Music Center, Brattleboro VT
Saturday, March 12 2022, 7.30 pm, Church of the Good Shepherd, Watertown MA
“Stay, time, awhile thy flying,” writes John Dowland in one of the most beautiful songs of his collection A Pilgrimes Solace. It’s a wish we can all relate to—as children grow, parents age, or milestones slip by—if only we could pause time in its relentless flight!
In our spring concert, we’ll share the closest thing we’ve found to a pause button on life: the intimacy of four-part singing around a table. We’ll reconvene the ensemble from our 2019 program “Come again,” this time for a journey through the work of John Dowland from his Firste Booke of Songes (1597) to A Pilgrimes Solace (1612). Deepening our work as an ensemble on historical pronunciation and facsimile reading, we will explore themes of timelessness, aging, darkness, and light in Dowland’s beloved and evergreen songs. Join us to press pause for an evening and enjoy this repertoire, with all its humor, intricacy, and pathos.
Agnes Coakley Cox, Sophie Michaux, Corey Dalton Hart, Adam Simon, voices; Nathaniel Cox, lute
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with In Stile Moderno
Friday, March 11 2022, 7.30 pm Brattleboro Music Center, Brattleboro VT
Saturday, March 12 2022, 7.30 pm, Church of the Good Shepherd, Watertown MA
“Stay, time, awhile thy flying,” writes John Dowland in one of the most beautiful songs of his collection A Pilgrimes Solace. It’s a wish we can all relate to—as children grow, parents age, or milestones slip by—if only we could pause time in its relentless flight!
In our spring concert, we’ll share the closest thing we’ve found to a pause button on life: the intimacy of four-part singing around a table. We’ll reconvene the ensemble from our 2019 program “Come again,” this time for a journey through the work of John Dowland from his Firste Booke of Songes (1597) to A Pilgrimes Solace (1612). Deepening our work as an ensemble on historical pronunciation and facsimile reading, we will explore themes of timelessness, aging, darkness, and light in Dowland’s beloved and evergreen songs. Join us to press pause for an evening and enjoy this repertoire, with all its humor, intricacy, and pathos.
Agnes Coakley Cox, Sophie Michaux, Corey Dalton Hart, Adam Simon, voices; Nathaniel Cox, lute
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Un petrarchino cantato - Petrarch’s Canzoniere in song
With Blue Heron
Friday, February 11th 2022 at Brookhaven at Lexington, Lexington, MA, Private Event
Saturday, February 12th 2022 at 2pm and 8pm at First Church in Cambridge, MA
A musical valentine of 16th-century madrigals setting poetry by Petrarch. Music by Arcadelt, Willaert, de Rore, Wert, Marenzio & others, with dramatic recitation of poems and other writings in Italian and in English translation.
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With Blue Heron
Friday, February 11th 2022 at Brookhaven at Lexington, Lexington, MA, Private Event
Saturday, February 12th 2022 at 2pm and 8pm at First Church in Cambridge, MA
A musical valentine of 16th-century madrigals setting poetry by Petrarch. Music by Arcadelt, Willaert, de Rore, Wert, Marenzio & others, with dramatic recitation of poems and other writings in Italian and in English translation.
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The Moon before Yule
With Seven Times Salt
Monday, December 20th 2021 at 7.30pm at Church of the Good Shepherd, Watertown, MA
This beloved annual tradition—our ninetenth!—features seasonal music of Europe, the British Isles, and the New World. This year's program includes French noels, Spanish villancicos, Sephardic songs, shapenote tunes, Irish reels, and more. Jollity guaranteed and audience participation encouraged, with a few surprises along the way.
Sophie Michaux, mezzo-soprano
Ari Nieh, bass
Karen Burciaga, violin, guitar, harp, voice
Dan Meyers, recorders, flutes, percussion, voice
Josh Schreiber, bass viol, voice
Matthew Wright, lute, bandora, voice
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With Seven Times Salt
Monday, December 20th 2021 at 7.30pm at Church of the Good Shepherd, Watertown, MA
This beloved annual tradition—our ninetenth!—features seasonal music of Europe, the British Isles, and the New World. This year's program includes French noels, Spanish villancicos, Sephardic songs, shapenote tunes, Irish reels, and more. Jollity guaranteed and audience participation encouraged, with a few surprises along the way.
Sophie Michaux, mezzo-soprano
Ari Nieh, bass
Karen Burciaga, violin, guitar, harp, voice
Dan Meyers, recorders, flutes, percussion, voice
Josh Schreiber, bass viol, voice
Matthew Wright, lute, bandora, voice
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Christmas in Baroque Germany: Praetorius, Scheidt, Schein & others
With Blue Heron and the Dark Horse Consort
Friday, December 17th 2021 at 8pm First Church in Cambridge, MA
Saturday, December 18th 2021 at 2pm and 8pm First Church in Cambridge, MA
With Blue Heron and the Dark Horse Consort
Friday, December 17th 2021 at 8pm First Church in Cambridge, MA
Saturday, December 18th 2021 at 2pm and 8pm First Church in Cambridge, MA
Ockeghem@600, Concert 10: Missa Quinti Toni
With Blue Heron
Friday, October 15th 2021 at 8pm First Church in Cambridge, MA
Saturday, December 18th 2021 at 2.30 pm First Church in Cambridge, MA
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With Blue Heron
Friday, October 15th 2021 at 8pm First Church in Cambridge, MA
Saturday, December 18th 2021 at 2.30 pm First Church in Cambridge, MA
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LadyMass: Immersive Film Experience
With The Episcopal Chaplaincy at Harvard
Tues, Sept 21 2021 at 7pm at The Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Boston MA
Music by Adam Jacob Simon, Directed by Kirsten Z. Cairns
What is sacred? What is it that rituals do? What ancient traditions should inspire us now? Where lies the magical and mystical in modern faith? Where do we sense Lady Wisdom at play? Might we hear Her call and meet the divine?
In our quest we must cross thresholds and traverse other worlds. Join us in this journey in an immersive film experience created by the Episcopal Chaplaincy at Harvard, with Director Kirsten Z. Cairns, Composer and Singer Adam Jacob Simon, and Filmmaker Ashlee Rose Scott.
LadyMass: the Film will be an experience that allows you to wander and explore, and then share in the viewing of a narrative film, all in the course of about a half hour. Protective pandemic protocols will be observed. Bring your mask. Bring an open mind. Leave behind your preconceptions. Walk in the labyrinthine path and let the absurd sing you its song, tell you its tale. What will you find?
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With The Episcopal Chaplaincy at Harvard
Tues, Sept 21 2021 at 7pm at The Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Boston MA
Music by Adam Jacob Simon, Directed by Kirsten Z. Cairns
What is sacred? What is it that rituals do? What ancient traditions should inspire us now? Where lies the magical and mystical in modern faith? Where do we sense Lady Wisdom at play? Might we hear Her call and meet the divine?
In our quest we must cross thresholds and traverse other worlds. Join us in this journey in an immersive film experience created by the Episcopal Chaplaincy at Harvard, with Director Kirsten Z. Cairns, Composer and Singer Adam Jacob Simon, and Filmmaker Ashlee Rose Scott.
LadyMass: the Film will be an experience that allows you to wander and explore, and then share in the viewing of a narrative film, all in the course of about a half hour. Protective pandemic protocols will be observed. Bring your mask. Bring an open mind. Leave behind your preconceptions. Walk in the labyrinthine path and let the absurd sing you its song, tell you its tale. What will you find?
Tickets and information here
Missa Fortuna desperata
With Blue Heron for the Laus Polyphoniae 2021 | JOSQUIN
Tuesday August 24th 2021 at 8pm CET - 2pm EST
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With Blue Heron for the Laus Polyphoniae 2021 | JOSQUIN
Tuesday August 24th 2021 at 8pm CET - 2pm EST
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8th Annual Handel Aria Competition
Friday, August 20 2021 at 7:30 pm CDT
Grace Episcopal Church on the Capitol Square, Madison, WI
Sophie Michaux is one of the 7 finalists for the 2021 Handel Aria Competition.
Accompanied by the Madison Bach Musicians under the direction of Trevor Stephenson.
A limited number of in-person tickets are on sale here. Tickets to the live-stream of the event are available here.
More information at https://handelariacompetition.org
Friday, August 20 2021 at 7:30 pm CDT
Grace Episcopal Church on the Capitol Square, Madison, WI
Sophie Michaux is one of the 7 finalists for the 2021 Handel Aria Competition.
Accompanied by the Madison Bach Musicians under the direction of Trevor Stephenson.
A limited number of in-person tickets are on sale here. Tickets to the live-stream of the event are available here.
More information at https://handelariacompetition.org
"Come Again" - Lute Songs of John Dowland for Four Voices
Monday, July 12th 2021 at 8pm EST
with In Stile Moderno
Presented by The Cambridge Society for Early Music
The ensemble In Stile Moderno bring new life to beloved and lesser-known lute songs by John Dowland and his contemporaries. The songs take on a new dimension in this program for four-voice ensemble and lute. With authentic Elizabethan pronunciation, otherwise unheard rhymes and puns jump to the ear, and a refreshingly direct, earthy timbre colors the language. Dowland’s virtuosic contrapuntal writing is showcased by the lute and four-voice texture. Join us around the table for a feast of whimsical, melancholy and touching music. Experience domestic music-making as it would have been enjoyed in a sophisticated home about 1600. The concert is free of charge, streamed online for one week. The singers: Agnes Coakley Cox, Sophie Michaux, Corey Dalton Hart & Adam Jacob Simon. Lute: Nathaniel Cox.
Monday, July 12th 2021 at 8pm EST
with In Stile Moderno
Presented by The Cambridge Society for Early Music
The ensemble In Stile Moderno bring new life to beloved and lesser-known lute songs by John Dowland and his contemporaries. The songs take on a new dimension in this program for four-voice ensemble and lute. With authentic Elizabethan pronunciation, otherwise unheard rhymes and puns jump to the ear, and a refreshingly direct, earthy timbre colors the language. Dowland’s virtuosic contrapuntal writing is showcased by the lute and four-voice texture. Join us around the table for a feast of whimsical, melancholy and touching music. Experience domestic music-making as it would have been enjoyed in a sophisticated home about 1600. The concert is free of charge, streamed online for one week. The singers: Agnes Coakley Cox, Sophie Michaux, Corey Dalton Hart & Adam Jacob Simon. Lute: Nathaniel Cox.
As with Rosy Steps
Spectacular Vocal Music by George Frideric Handel
Sunday, May 23rd 2021 at 2pm EST
Heather Gallagher and Sophie Michaux, Mezzo-sopranos
Yukiko Oba, Piano
Live Stream from the Chelmsford Center for the Arts
Direct Concert Link Here
Spectacular Vocal Music by George Frideric Handel
Sunday, May 23rd 2021 at 2pm EST
Heather Gallagher and Sophie Michaux, Mezzo-sopranos
Yukiko Oba, Piano
Live Stream from the Chelmsford Center for the Arts
Direct Concert Link Here
Le grant retthorique - Guillaume de Machaut
with Blue Heron and Les Délices
Saturday, April 17, 2021 at 7:30 PM
The “new forms and perfect amorous lays” of Guillaume de Machaut
Live pre-concert talk at 6:30 PM by Anne Stone (The Graduate Center, City University of New York, one of the world’s leading authorities on French music of the 14th century)
Tickets: $50 / $35 / $10 Click here for more information about virtual concerts.
with Blue Heron and Les Délices
Saturday, April 17, 2021 at 7:30 PM
The “new forms and perfect amorous lays” of Guillaume de Machaut
Live pre-concert talk at 6:30 PM by Anne Stone (The Graduate Center, City University of New York, one of the world’s leading authorities on French music of the 14th century)
Tickets: $50 / $35 / $10 Click here for more information about virtual concerts.
French Songs II: The Next Generation
with Blue Heron
Saturday, February 13, 2021 at 7:30 PM EST
Live pre-concert talk at 6:30 PM EST by Prof. Jane Alden (Wesleyan University)
Songs from the Leuven Chansonnier by Johannes Ockeghem, Antoine Busnoys, Robert Morton, Barbingant & Anonymous
Tickets: $50 / $35 / $10 Click here for more information about virtual concerts.
with Blue Heron
Saturday, February 13, 2021 at 7:30 PM EST
Live pre-concert talk at 6:30 PM EST by Prof. Jane Alden (Wesleyan University)
Songs from the Leuven Chansonnier by Johannes Ockeghem, Antoine Busnoys, Robert Morton, Barbingant & Anonymous
Tickets: $50 / $35 / $10 Click here for more information about virtual concerts.
Wonderous Love
The Lorelei Ensemble's 2020 Christmas concert
Concert available for rent today until Jan. 1st, 2021
A Blue Heron Christmas Special
Saturday, Dec.19th at 7.30 pm EST (preview here)
The Lorelei Ensemble's 2020 Christmas concert
Concert available for rent today until Jan. 1st, 2021
A Blue Heron Christmas Special
Saturday, Dec.19th at 7.30 pm EST (preview here)
Her Story by Julia Wolfe
With the Lorelei Ensemble
National Tour: A World Premiere Celebrating the Centennial of the 19th Amendment and First Vote for American Women
September 10, 11 and 12th 2020 - Nashville Symphony - Postponed due to COVID-19
November 12 and 14th 2020 - San Francisco Symphony - Postponed due to COVID-19
February 26 and 27th 2021 - Chicago Symphony - Postponed due to COVID-19
March 4, 5 and 6th 2021- National Symphony Orchestra - Postponed due to COVID-19
Dates TBD - Boston Symphony Orchestra - Postponed due to COVID-19
"Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex." Though we have yet to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, women have been battling for equality from the beginning of the nation. Her Story captures the passion and perseverance of women refusing subordination, demanding representation, and challenging the prejudice and power structures that have limited women’s voices. The dynamic singers of Lorelei team up with 5 major American orchestras to tell this important yet much neglected thread of American political history.
Julia Wolfe's Program notes
With the Lorelei Ensemble
National Tour: A World Premiere Celebrating the Centennial of the 19th Amendment and First Vote for American Women
September 10, 11 and 12th 2020 - Nashville Symphony - Postponed due to COVID-19
November 12 and 14th 2020 - San Francisco Symphony - Postponed due to COVID-19
February 26 and 27th 2021 - Chicago Symphony - Postponed due to COVID-19
March 4, 5 and 6th 2021- National Symphony Orchestra - Postponed due to COVID-19
Dates TBD - Boston Symphony Orchestra - Postponed due to COVID-19
"Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex." Though we have yet to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, women have been battling for equality from the beginning of the nation. Her Story captures the passion and perseverance of women refusing subordination, demanding representation, and challenging the prejudice and power structures that have limited women’s voices. The dynamic singers of Lorelei team up with 5 major American orchestras to tell this important yet much neglected thread of American political history.
Julia Wolfe's Program notes
Come again: Lute Songs of John Dowland and his Contemporaries
with In Stile Moderno
With the Cambridge Society for Early Music
Thursday, May 28th, 2020 8 PM - First Religious Society, Carlisle, MA CANCELED (because of COVID-19)
Friday, May 29th, 2020 8 PM - Congregational Church, Weston, MA CANCELED (because of COVID-19)
Saturday, May 30th, 2020 8 PM - The Salem Athenaeum, Salem, MA CANCELED (because of COVID-19)
Sunday, May 31st, 2020 4 PM - Ascension Memorial Church, Ipswich, MA CANCELED (because of COVID-19)
Monday, June 1st, 2020 7:30 PM - Christ Church, Cambridge, MA CANCELED (because of COVID-19)
Agnes Coakley Cox, Sophie Michaux, Corey Dalton Hart, Adam Simon, voices; Nathaniel Cox, lute
Beloved and lesser-known lute songs by John Dowland and his contemporaries take on a new dimension in the first concert of our season, which will be performed in historical pronunciation using facsimile table book editions of the music. In Stile Moderno appears for the first time as a four-voice ensemble with lute, bringing to life the poetry of Elizabethan England with the original pronunciation of the time. Otherwise unheard rhymes and puns jump to the ear and a refreshingly direct and earthy timbre colors the language, while Dowland’s virtuosic contrapuntal writing is showcased by the lute and four-voice texture. Join us around the table for a feast of whimsical, melancholy and touching music.
More information here
with In Stile Moderno
With the Cambridge Society for Early Music
Thursday, May 28th, 2020 8 PM - First Religious Society, Carlisle, MA CANCELED (because of COVID-19)
Friday, May 29th, 2020 8 PM - Congregational Church, Weston, MA CANCELED (because of COVID-19)
Saturday, May 30th, 2020 8 PM - The Salem Athenaeum, Salem, MA CANCELED (because of COVID-19)
Sunday, May 31st, 2020 4 PM - Ascension Memorial Church, Ipswich, MA CANCELED (because of COVID-19)
Monday, June 1st, 2020 7:30 PM - Christ Church, Cambridge, MA CANCELED (because of COVID-19)
Agnes Coakley Cox, Sophie Michaux, Corey Dalton Hart, Adam Simon, voices; Nathaniel Cox, lute
Beloved and lesser-known lute songs by John Dowland and his contemporaries take on a new dimension in the first concert of our season, which will be performed in historical pronunciation using facsimile table book editions of the music. In Stile Moderno appears for the first time as a four-voice ensemble with lute, bringing to life the poetry of Elizabethan England with the original pronunciation of the time. Otherwise unheard rhymes and puns jump to the ear and a refreshingly direct and earthy timbre colors the language, while Dowland’s virtuosic contrapuntal writing is showcased by the lute and four-voice texture. Join us around the table for a feast of whimsical, melancholy and touching music.
More information here
Spring Pops
with The Chorus of Westerly
Saturday May 16th 2020 at 6pm CANCELED (because of COVID-19)
Sunday May 17th 2020 at 2pm CANCELED (because of COVID-19)
George Kent Performance Hall, Westerly, RI
Andrew Howell, Conductor
Sophie Michaux, Alto Solo
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Ockeghem@600, Concert 10: Missa Quinti Toni
with Blue Heron
Saturday May 2 2020 at 5pm CANCELED (because of COVID-19)
St. Joseph Chapel, Milwaukee, WI
Sunday May 3 2020 at 5pm CANCELED (because of COVID-19)
St. Mark’s Episcopal ChurchGrand Rapids, MI
Friday May 15 2020 at 8pm
First Church in Cambridge, MA
Free pre-concert talk by Sean Gallagher (New England Conservatory) at 6:45 PM / Doors and box office open at 6:30 PM
The next installment in our complete Ockeghem cycle features his Missa quinti toni for three voices, motets, and a bouquet of songs, alongside movements from a wonderfully compelling three-voice Mass by John Plummer (without name, like Ockeghem’s) and songs by Antoine Busnoys and from the newly-rediscovered Leuven Chansonnier.
More information here
with Blue Heron
Saturday May 2 2020 at 5pm CANCELED (because of COVID-19)
St. Joseph Chapel, Milwaukee, WI
Sunday May 3 2020 at 5pm CANCELED (because of COVID-19)
St. Mark’s Episcopal ChurchGrand Rapids, MI
Friday May 15 2020 at 8pm
First Church in Cambridge, MA
Free pre-concert talk by Sean Gallagher (New England Conservatory) at 6:45 PM / Doors and box office open at 6:30 PM
The next installment in our complete Ockeghem cycle features his Missa quinti toni for three voices, motets, and a bouquet of songs, alongside movements from a wonderfully compelling three-voice Mass by John Plummer (without name, like Ockeghem’s) and songs by Antoine Busnoys and from the newly-rediscovered Leuven Chansonnier.
More information here
Dieterich Buxtehude's Membra Jesu Nostri
With the La Farge Ensemble
Friday April 10th 2020, 5.30 pm CANCELED (because of COVID-19)
Trinity Church of Boston, Boston, MA
Richard Webster, Conductor
Sophie Michaux, Alto Solo
In observance of Good Friday, the La Farge Ensemble (composed of a select group of singers from the Trinity Choirs) and instrumentalists perform Dietrich Buxtehude’s rarely-heard 1680 oratorio Membra Jesu nostri patientis sanctissima (The Most Holy Limbs of Our Suffering Jesus. Composed of seven brief cantatas, the hour-long work integrates vivid texts dedicated to the wounded limbs of the crucified Christ: feet, knees, hands, sides, breast, heart, and face. The overall effect is a moving meditation serving to evoke empathy, compassion, and, finally, comfort.
More information here
With the La Farge Ensemble
Friday April 10th 2020, 5.30 pm CANCELED (because of COVID-19)
Trinity Church of Boston, Boston, MA
Richard Webster, Conductor
Sophie Michaux, Alto Solo
In observance of Good Friday, the La Farge Ensemble (composed of a select group of singers from the Trinity Choirs) and instrumentalists perform Dietrich Buxtehude’s rarely-heard 1680 oratorio Membra Jesu nostri patientis sanctissima (The Most Holy Limbs of Our Suffering Jesus. Composed of seven brief cantatas, the hour-long work integrates vivid texts dedicated to the wounded limbs of the crucified Christ: feet, knees, hands, sides, breast, heart, and face. The overall effect is a moving meditation serving to evoke empathy, compassion, and, finally, comfort.
More information here
Vivaldi's Stabat Mater - Handel's Messiah
with the Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra
Sunday April 5th 2020, 7.30pm CANCELED (because of COVID-19)
Saint Patrick's Cathedral, Norwich, CT
Toshiyuki Shimada, Conductor; Sophie Michaux, Alto Solo
with the Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra
Sunday April 5th 2020, 7.30pm CANCELED (because of COVID-19)
Saint Patrick's Cathedral, Norwich, CT
Toshiyuki Shimada, Conductor; Sophie Michaux, Alto Solo
Our Transcendental Passion by Paul Rudoi
With The Boston Cecilia
Sunday March 29th 2020, 3pm CANCELED (because of COVID-19)
All Saints Parish, Brookline, MA
George Case, Conductor
Sophie Michaux, Alto Solo
Minnesota composer and former Cantus singer, Paul Rudoi is composing a concert length work entitled Our Transcendental Passion, with a libretto based on the words of Thoreau, Emerson, as well as those of lesser known and marginalized voices, Margaret Fuller and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Just as Bach's Passions allowed German audiences to remember their Lutheran heritage, this work will allow American audiences the ability to consider Sacred Harp as a bedrock of musical material in connection with a movement that was spiritual yet secular, historical yet philosophical, personal yet universal.
More information here
With The Boston Cecilia
Sunday March 29th 2020, 3pm CANCELED (because of COVID-19)
All Saints Parish, Brookline, MA
George Case, Conductor
Sophie Michaux, Alto Solo
Minnesota composer and former Cantus singer, Paul Rudoi is composing a concert length work entitled Our Transcendental Passion, with a libretto based on the words of Thoreau, Emerson, as well as those of lesser known and marginalized voices, Margaret Fuller and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Just as Bach's Passions allowed German audiences to remember their Lutheran heritage, this work will allow American audiences the ability to consider Sacred Harp as a bedrock of musical material in connection with a movement that was spiritual yet secular, historical yet philosophical, personal yet universal.
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Celebrate this festival!
with the Henry Purcell Society of Boston
Saturday March 21st 2020, 8pm CANCELED (because of COVID-19)
Cathedral Church of St Paul, Boston, MA
Taking celebratory odes from two occasions: The birthday of Purcell's favorite monarch, Queen Mary and the patron saint of music, Cecilia, the HPSOB will present “Celebrate this Festival.” by Henry Purcell and ”The Glorious Day is come” by John Blow. This concert features a full baroque orchestra with soloists and chorus, and also will hint at our 2020/21 season with a premiere of a contemporary composition by composer Adam Jacob Simon. This 2019 setting of John Dryden’s “Ode to Saint Cecilia,” foreshadows the HPSOB’s plan to hold a bi-annual celebration of the St. Cecilia day, commissioning or premiering a new work each year dedicated to the patron saint. Please join us!
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with the Henry Purcell Society of Boston
Saturday March 21st 2020, 8pm CANCELED (because of COVID-19)
Cathedral Church of St Paul, Boston, MA
Taking celebratory odes from two occasions: The birthday of Purcell's favorite monarch, Queen Mary and the patron saint of music, Cecilia, the HPSOB will present “Celebrate this Festival.” by Henry Purcell and ”The Glorious Day is come” by John Blow. This concert features a full baroque orchestra with soloists and chorus, and also will hint at our 2020/21 season with a premiere of a contemporary composition by composer Adam Jacob Simon. This 2019 setting of John Dryden’s “Ode to Saint Cecilia,” foreshadows the HPSOB’s plan to hold a bi-annual celebration of the St. Cecilia day, commissioning or premiering a new work each year dedicated to the patron saint. Please join us!
More information here
Che si può fare
A Recital of Barbara Strozzi's solo vocal music in the US, France, and Italy
With Benjamin Katz, Harpsichord
Paul Holmes Morton, Theorbo
Friday February 7th 2020, 7pm
St Paul's Cathedral, Boston, MA
at part of the WIMFest2020, in collaboration with the American Guild of Organists.
Sunday, March 1st 2020, 6pm (18h) CANCELED (due to the Coronavirus)
Église Saint François de Salles, Annecy, France
Thursday March 5th 2020, 6:30pm CANCELED (due to the Coronavirus)
Longhena library
Fundazione Cini, Venezia, Italy
A Recital of Barbara Strozzi's solo vocal music in the US, France, and Italy
With Benjamin Katz, Harpsichord
Paul Holmes Morton, Theorbo
Friday February 7th 2020, 7pm
St Paul's Cathedral, Boston, MA
at part of the WIMFest2020, in collaboration with the American Guild of Organists.
Sunday, March 1st 2020, 6pm (18h) CANCELED (due to the Coronavirus)
Église Saint François de Salles, Annecy, France
Thursday March 5th 2020, 6:30pm CANCELED (due to the Coronavirus)
Longhena library
Fundazione Cini, Venezia, Italy
All the way down
Recital of Art and Folk songs from England, Germany, France and the United States
Thursday Feb 20th 2020, 7:30pm
College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA
Sophie Michaux, Mezzo-soprano
Kai-Ching Chang, Piano
Recital of Art and Folk songs from England, Germany, France and the United States
Thursday Feb 20th 2020, 7:30pm
College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA
Sophie Michaux, Mezzo-soprano
Kai-Ching Chang, Piano
Christmas Pilgrimage
with Musicians of The Old Post Road
Friday December 13th 2019 at 8pm
Emmanuel Church, Boston, MA
Saturday December 14th at 7.30pm
Unitarian Universalist Church, Gloucester, MA
Sunday December 15th 2019 at 4pm
First Unitarian Church, Worcester, MA
Taking inspiration from the guiding light of Epiphany, this holiday program presents the modern-day premiere of a cantata about seeking and finding a new spiritual home: Christoph Graupner’s cantata Das Volk so im Finstern wandelt (The people that wandered in darkness). Telemann’s New Year cantata Der mit Sünden beleidigte Heiland, and seasonal pastorales by Heinichen and Pez round out the offerings.
With vocal soloists soprano Jessica Petrus, alto Sophie Michaux, tenor Jason McStoots, and baritone David McFerrin
More information here
with Musicians of The Old Post Road
Friday December 13th 2019 at 8pm
Emmanuel Church, Boston, MA
Saturday December 14th at 7.30pm
Unitarian Universalist Church, Gloucester, MA
Sunday December 15th 2019 at 4pm
First Unitarian Church, Worcester, MA
Taking inspiration from the guiding light of Epiphany, this holiday program presents the modern-day premiere of a cantata about seeking and finding a new spiritual home: Christoph Graupner’s cantata Das Volk so im Finstern wandelt (The people that wandered in darkness). Telemann’s New Year cantata Der mit Sünden beleidigte Heiland, and seasonal pastorales by Heinichen and Pez round out the offerings.
With vocal soloists soprano Jessica Petrus, alto Sophie Michaux, tenor Jason McStoots, and baritone David McFerrin
More information here
Come again: Lute Songs of John Dowland and his Contemporaries
with In Stile Moderno
Friday November 15 2019 at 7:30 pm
Brattleboro Music Center, VT
Saturday November 16 2019 at 7:30 pm
Friends Meeting at Cambridge, MA
Agnes Coakley Cox, Sophie Michaux, Corey Dalton Hart, Adam Simon, voices; Nathaniel Cox, lute
Beloved and lesser-known lute songs by John Dowland and his contemporaries take on a new dimension in the first concert of our season, which will be performed in historical pronunciation using facsimile table book editions of the music. In Stile Moderno appears for the first time as a four-voice ensemble with lute, bringing to life the poetry of Elizabethan England with the original pronunciation of the time. Otherwise unheard rhymes and puns jump to the ear and a refreshingly direct and earthy timbre colors the language, while Dowland’s virtuosic contrapuntal writing is showcased by the lute and four-voice texture. Join us around the table for a feast of whimsical, melancholy and touching music.
More information here
Duruflé Requiem
With the Choirs of the Trinity Church of Boston
Sunday, October 27th 2019, 6pm
Trinity Church of Boston, Boston, MA
Richard Webster, conductor
Alto solo, Sophie Michaux
More information here
With the Choirs of the Trinity Church of Boston
Sunday, October 27th 2019, 6pm
Trinity Church of Boston, Boston, MA
Richard Webster, conductor
Alto solo, Sophie Michaux
More information here
Pagliacci, by Ruggero Leoncavallo
With the Boston Lyric Opera
Friday September 27th 2019 at 7pm
Saturday September 28th 2019 at 7pm
Wednesday October 2nd 2019 at 7pm
Friday October 4th 2019 at 7pm
Sunday October 6th 2019 at 2.30pm
DCR Steriti Memorial Rink, Boston, MA
ICONIC MUSIC | JEALOUSY & PASSION | IMMERSIVE, ONE-OF-A-KIND INSTALLATION
When a traveling troupe arrives to perform in a bustling town, the secrets and jealousies among them threaten to explode onstage—with deadly consequences. BLO presents its first-ever Pagliacci through a carnival-style installation that mirrors the “play within a play” of the opera and invites audiences to step into the drama.
More information here
With the Boston Lyric Opera
Friday September 27th 2019 at 7pm
Saturday September 28th 2019 at 7pm
Wednesday October 2nd 2019 at 7pm
Friday October 4th 2019 at 7pm
Sunday October 6th 2019 at 2.30pm
DCR Steriti Memorial Rink, Boston, MA
ICONIC MUSIC | JEALOUSY & PASSION | IMMERSIVE, ONE-OF-A-KIND INSTALLATION
When a traveling troupe arrives to perform in a bustling town, the secrets and jealousies among them threaten to explode onstage—with deadly consequences. BLO presents its first-ever Pagliacci through a carnival-style installation that mirrors the “play within a play” of the opera and invites audiences to step into the drama.
More information here
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Concert For One: 1 Musician, 1 Listener, 1 Minute of Live Music
With the Celebrity Series of Boston Tuesday September 24th 2020, 12-1pm Thursday Septmeber 26th, 2020, 1-2pm Harvard Science Center Plaza, Cambridge, MA Over ten days this fall, Celebrity Series of Boston will give powerful, free music experiences to 5,000 people: one listener and one musician at a time. Based on a concept by violist and New England Conservatory graduate Rayna Yun Chou. Rayna created the project in Taiwan in 2016 in an effort to address concerns that classical music had become laden with the notion that it’s inaccessible to everyday people and that on the performers’ side, musicians were increasingly isolated from the people for whom they play. In Boston performances will happen inside two specially outfitted shipping containers. The event will focus on making, hearing, and being moved by beautiful music, up-close and personal. For more info visit www.concertforone.org. |
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Lorelei Ensemble
7.3.19 Association of Anglican Musicians Conference
Wednesday, July 3, 2019
Boston, MA
INFO AND TICKETS
7.3.19 Association of Anglican Musicians Conference
Wednesday, July 3, 2019
Boston, MA
INFO AND TICKETS
VERSAILLES: Portrait of a Royal Domain
Boston Early Music Chamber Opera Series
Paul O'Dette & Stephen Stubbs, Musical Directors
Gilbert Blin, Stage Director
Robert Mealy, Concertmaster
Melinda Sullivan, Dance Director
Saturday, June 15, 2019 at 8pm
New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall, Boston, MA
Friday, June 21, 2019, at 8pm and
Saturday, June 22, 2019, at 3pm
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA
Sunday, June 23, 2019, at 4pm
Caramoor Summer Music Festival
Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, NY
The GRAMMY Award–winning BEMF Chamber Opera Series returns with an encore performance of our November 2016 production inspired by the splendor of Versailles. King Louis XIV transformed his father’s pastoral hunting lodge at Versailles into a lavish palace that served as the seat of government and culture in France. Enjoy a musical feast from the height of the Sun King’s reign with two chamber operas—Charpentier’s Les Plaisirs de Versailles and Lalande’s Les Fontaines de Versailles—exalting the splendor and majesty of the palace and its gardens, alongside divertissements from Lully’s Atys—called the “King’s Opera” for the favor it enjoyed with Louis XIV. The refined elegance and expressive drama is brought to life by the all-star BEMF Vocal and Chamber Ensembles in a magnificent production featuring gorgeous costumes, Baroque dance, and sumptuous staging.
Produced in partnership with the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles
Boston Early Music Chamber Opera Series
Paul O'Dette & Stephen Stubbs, Musical Directors
Gilbert Blin, Stage Director
Robert Mealy, Concertmaster
Melinda Sullivan, Dance Director
Saturday, June 15, 2019 at 8pm
New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall, Boston, MA
Friday, June 21, 2019, at 8pm and
Saturday, June 22, 2019, at 3pm
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA
Sunday, June 23, 2019, at 4pm
Caramoor Summer Music Festival
Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, NY
The GRAMMY Award–winning BEMF Chamber Opera Series returns with an encore performance of our November 2016 production inspired by the splendor of Versailles. King Louis XIV transformed his father’s pastoral hunting lodge at Versailles into a lavish palace that served as the seat of government and culture in France. Enjoy a musical feast from the height of the Sun King’s reign with two chamber operas—Charpentier’s Les Plaisirs de Versailles and Lalande’s Les Fontaines de Versailles—exalting the splendor and majesty of the palace and its gardens, alongside divertissements from Lully’s Atys—called the “King’s Opera” for the favor it enjoyed with Louis XIV. The refined elegance and expressive drama is brought to life by the all-star BEMF Vocal and Chamber Ensembles in a magnificent production featuring gorgeous costumes, Baroque dance, and sumptuous staging.
Produced in partnership with the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles
Benefit Concert for Reproductive Justice
Monday, June 17, 2019 at 7:30pm
Distler Performance Hall, Granoff Music Center at Tufts University
20 Talbot Ave. Medford MA
Suggestion donation: $10, all proceeds go directly to SPARK
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Join us on Monday, June 17 at 7:30pm for a benefit concert in Distler Hall at the Granoff Music Center to support SPARK Reproductive Justice NOW. The concert aims to bring varied Boston-area musicians and concertgoers together to bring awareness to the reproductive justice movement as a critical response to the state of reproductive politics in the U.S. This concert was organized in direct response to the laws passed in Alabama, Louisiana, Missouri, Georgia, Ohio, Utah, Mississippi, Kentucky, and Arkansas and to the threat to reproductive justice that increases day by day, particularly in our southern states.
Our lineup of musicians includes raga and jazz pianist Utsav Lal, vocalist and composer Claire Dickson, saxophone and guitar duo Umbrella Pine, folk duo Sophie et Adam (joined by accordionist and Tufts faculty Michael McLaughlin), classical chamber group Craft Ensemble, vocalist and composer Melissa Weikart, guitarist duo Lautaro Mantilla (NEC faculty) and Chris Cretella, pianist Ran Blake (NEC faculty), and Gospel vocalist Nedelka Prescod (NEC and Berklee faculty). All of these artists have donated their time and talents to this cause.
Monday, June 17, 2019 at 7:30pm
Distler Performance Hall, Granoff Music Center at Tufts University
20 Talbot Ave. Medford MA
Suggestion donation: $10, all proceeds go directly to SPARK
facebook event
Join us on Monday, June 17 at 7:30pm for a benefit concert in Distler Hall at the Granoff Music Center to support SPARK Reproductive Justice NOW. The concert aims to bring varied Boston-area musicians and concertgoers together to bring awareness to the reproductive justice movement as a critical response to the state of reproductive politics in the U.S. This concert was organized in direct response to the laws passed in Alabama, Louisiana, Missouri, Georgia, Ohio, Utah, Mississippi, Kentucky, and Arkansas and to the threat to reproductive justice that increases day by day, particularly in our southern states.
Our lineup of musicians includes raga and jazz pianist Utsav Lal, vocalist and composer Claire Dickson, saxophone and guitar duo Umbrella Pine, folk duo Sophie et Adam (joined by accordionist and Tufts faculty Michael McLaughlin), classical chamber group Craft Ensemble, vocalist and composer Melissa Weikart, guitarist duo Lautaro Mantilla (NEC faculty) and Chris Cretella, pianist Ran Blake (NEC faculty), and Gospel vocalist Nedelka Prescod (NEC and Berklee faculty). All of these artists have donated their time and talents to this cause.
Lorelei & A Far Cry Orchestra
Friday, May 17, 2019 at 8pm
Jordan Hall
Boston, MA
INFO AND TICKETS
This program will include the world premiere of a new work by Kareem Roustom, that tells the stories of the women of the Odyssey - from the sorceress Circe to the deadly Sirens, from the ghost Of Odysseus’ mother to the resourceful Penelope. Other works to be announced.
Friday, May 17, 2019 at 8pm
Jordan Hall
Boston, MA
INFO AND TICKETS
This program will include the world premiere of a new work by Kareem Roustom, that tells the stories of the women of the Odyssey - from the sorceress Circe to the deadly Sirens, from the ghost Of Odysseus’ mother to the resourceful Penelope. Other works to be announced.
Edith Piaf Tribute Night
Tuesday, April 23rd 2019 at 8pm
Club Passim, Cambridge, MA
With Adam Simon, Guitar and Michael Mc Laughlin, Accordion
Tickets and information here
or Visit: www.SophieEtAdam.weebly.com
4.5.19 & 4.7.19 Lorelei at Harvard University Rising Voices Collegiate Treble Choral Festival
Friday, April 5, 2019
Saturday, April 6th, 2019
Sunday, April 7, 2019
Cambridge, MA
pin drop sessions 12: dance, dance, evolution
Palaver Strings+Culomba
Sunday April 7th 2019 at 7pm
Aeronaut Brewing Company, 14 Tyler Street, Somerville, MA
La Mappa Mundi draws a map of Europe, both real and imagined, through song and story. Palaver will be joined by prolific vocalists Sophie Michaux and Adam Jacob Simon for a uniquely collaborative program that travels the British Isles, Transylvania, and the Mediterranean, which have long captured the imaginations of composers and performers alike. Our program runs the gamut of baroque opera, madrigals, drinking songs, dance tunes, blurring the lines between “popular” music and “high art,” old and new, tradition and innovation. We will also perform lullabies with participants from the Lullaby Project, a songwriting partnership between Palaver musicians and expecting mothers.
PROGRAM
Shine You No More (arr. Jesse MacDonald)
DBR, Klap Ur Handz
Purcell: excerpts from Dido & Aeneas
Rossini “Tanti affeti” from “La Donna del Lago”
Corsican Trio (Culomba)
Pleasant and Delightful
-Intermission-
Spanish Renaissance Songs, "Ayo visto la mappamundi" & “El Sarao de la Chacona"
Boccherini, String Quintet Op. 30 No. 6
Bartok (Culomba)
Transylvanian dance set (Legenyes & Friss)
Tickets and more information: here
4.11.19 Lorelei at Bucknell University
Thursday, April 11, 2019
Weis Performance Center
Lewisburg, PA
4.14.19 Lorelei at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola
Sunday, April 14, 2019
Sacred Music in a Sacred Space
New York, NY
Friday, April 5, 2019
Saturday, April 6th, 2019
Sunday, April 7, 2019
Cambridge, MA
pin drop sessions 12: dance, dance, evolution
Palaver Strings+Culomba
Sunday April 7th 2019 at 7pm
Aeronaut Brewing Company, 14 Tyler Street, Somerville, MA
La Mappa Mundi draws a map of Europe, both real and imagined, through song and story. Palaver will be joined by prolific vocalists Sophie Michaux and Adam Jacob Simon for a uniquely collaborative program that travels the British Isles, Transylvania, and the Mediterranean, which have long captured the imaginations of composers and performers alike. Our program runs the gamut of baroque opera, madrigals, drinking songs, dance tunes, blurring the lines between “popular” music and “high art,” old and new, tradition and innovation. We will also perform lullabies with participants from the Lullaby Project, a songwriting partnership between Palaver musicians and expecting mothers.
PROGRAM
Shine You No More (arr. Jesse MacDonald)
DBR, Klap Ur Handz
Purcell: excerpts from Dido & Aeneas
Rossini “Tanti affeti” from “La Donna del Lago”
Corsican Trio (Culomba)
Pleasant and Delightful
-Intermission-
Spanish Renaissance Songs, "Ayo visto la mappamundi" & “El Sarao de la Chacona"
Boccherini, String Quintet Op. 30 No. 6
Bartok (Culomba)
Transylvanian dance set (Legenyes & Friss)
Tickets and more information: here
4.11.19 Lorelei at Bucknell University
Thursday, April 11, 2019
Weis Performance Center
Lewisburg, PA
4.14.19 Lorelei at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola
Sunday, April 14, 2019
Sacred Music in a Sacred Space
New York, NY
La Mappa Mundi
With Palaver Strings
Saturday March 23rd 2019 at 8pm
One Longfellow Square, Portland, (ME)
Sunday March 24th 2019 at 7pm
St John's Episcopal Church, Boston (MA)
Sophie Michaux, Alto solo
La Mappa Mundi draws a map of Europe, both real and imagined, through song and story. Palaver will be joined by prolific vocalists Sophie Michaux and Adam Jacob Simon for a uniquely collaborative program that travels the British Isles, Transylvania, and the Mediterranean, which have long captured the imaginations of composers and performers alike. Our program runs the gamut of baroque opera, madrigals, drinking songs, dance tunes, and a new commission by Simon, blurring the lines between “popular” music and “high art,” old and new, tradition and innovation. We will also perform lullabies with participants from the Lullaby Project, a songwriting partnership between Palaver musicians and expecting mothers.
PROGRAM
PURCELL excerpts from Dido & Aeneas
SPANISH Renaissance Songs, "Ayo visto la mappamundi" & “El Sarao de la Chacona"
ROSSINI “Tanti affeti” from “La Donna del Lago”
BARTOK “Ne hagyi itt”
BARTOK Romanian Dances
TRADITIONAL Transylvanian dance set, Corsican Paghiella, English Pub Songs
SIMON New Commission
Tickets and more information: here
With Palaver Strings
Saturday March 23rd 2019 at 8pm
One Longfellow Square, Portland, (ME)
Sunday March 24th 2019 at 7pm
St John's Episcopal Church, Boston (MA)
Sophie Michaux, Alto solo
La Mappa Mundi draws a map of Europe, both real and imagined, through song and story. Palaver will be joined by prolific vocalists Sophie Michaux and Adam Jacob Simon for a uniquely collaborative program that travels the British Isles, Transylvania, and the Mediterranean, which have long captured the imaginations of composers and performers alike. Our program runs the gamut of baroque opera, madrigals, drinking songs, dance tunes, and a new commission by Simon, blurring the lines between “popular” music and “high art,” old and new, tradition and innovation. We will also perform lullabies with participants from the Lullaby Project, a songwriting partnership between Palaver musicians and expecting mothers.
PROGRAM
PURCELL excerpts from Dido & Aeneas
SPANISH Renaissance Songs, "Ayo visto la mappamundi" & “El Sarao de la Chacona"
ROSSINI “Tanti affeti” from “La Donna del Lago”
BARTOK “Ne hagyi itt”
BARTOK Romanian Dances
TRADITIONAL Transylvanian dance set, Corsican Paghiella, English Pub Songs
SIMON New Commission
Tickets and more information: here
The Cherry Street Singers present
O Lead me - Art and Folk Songs sung and led
Music by Purcell, Rossini, Poulenc, Simon and others
Sunday March 17th 2019, 4pm
Plainfield Opera House, Plainfield VT
Sophie Michaux, Mezzo-soprano
Kai Ching Chang, Piano
Join mezzo Sophie Michaux and pianist Kai Ching Chang in a riveting program of songs and arias of choice from the baroque to the current day, including world premieres by Boston Composer Adam Simon, and audience-participatory singing! Music from Italy, France, England and the United-States.
O Lead me - Art and Folk Songs sung and led
Music by Purcell, Rossini, Poulenc, Simon and others
Sunday March 17th 2019, 4pm
Plainfield Opera House, Plainfield VT
Sophie Michaux, Mezzo-soprano
Kai Ching Chang, Piano
Join mezzo Sophie Michaux and pianist Kai Ching Chang in a riveting program of songs and arias of choice from the baroque to the current day, including world premieres by Boston Composer Adam Simon, and audience-participatory singing! Music from Italy, France, England and the United-States.
Luciano Berio’s Folk Songs - and Responses
With the ENSEMBLE/PARALLAX
Monday March 11th 2019, 8pm
Distler Performance Hall, Tufts University,
Sophie Michaux and Julia Cavallaro, Mezzo-sopranos
ENSEMBLE/PARALLAX performsBerio’s imaginative settings of well-known folk-songs alongside eleven new responses to each Berio song composed for the occasion by Tufts student, faculty, and guest composers.
Free; no tickets required
With the ENSEMBLE/PARALLAX
Monday March 11th 2019, 8pm
Distler Performance Hall, Tufts University,
Sophie Michaux and Julia Cavallaro, Mezzo-sopranos
ENSEMBLE/PARALLAX performsBerio’s imaginative settings of well-known folk-songs alongside eleven new responses to each Berio song composed for the occasion by Tufts student, faculty, and guest composers.
Free; no tickets required
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2.21.19–2.23.19 Lorelei and the Boston Symphony Orchestra
DEBUSSY Nocturnes PUCCINI Suor Angelica Thursday, February 21, 2019 I 8pm Friday, February 22, 2019 I 8pm Saturday, February 23, 2019 I 8pm Boston Symphony Hall Boston, MA INFO AND TICKETS 2.27.19 Lorelei at National ACDA Conference Wednesday, February 27, 2019 Kansas City, MO 3.1.19 Lorelei at Lawrence University Friday, March 1, 2019 I 8pm Artist Series Appleton, WI INFO AND TICKETS |
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Versailles: Portrait of a Royal Domain
with the Boston Early Music Festival
Les plaisirs de Versailles by Charpentier; Les Fontaines de Versailles by De Lalande
Saturday January 26th 2019, 8pm
The Sendesaal, Bremen, Germany
Paul O'Dette & Stephen Stubbs, Musical Directors
Gilbert Blin, Drama Coach
Robert Mealy, Concertmaster
Kathleen Fay, Executive Director
Sophie Michaux, Ceres
with the Boston Early Music Festival
Les plaisirs de Versailles by Charpentier; Les Fontaines de Versailles by De Lalande
Saturday January 26th 2019, 8pm
The Sendesaal, Bremen, Germany
Paul O'Dette & Stephen Stubbs, Musical Directors
Gilbert Blin, Drama Coach
Robert Mealy, Concertmaster
Kathleen Fay, Executive Director
Sophie Michaux, Ceres
G. F. Handel - Messiah
J. S. Bach - Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 62
Corelli: Christmas Concerto, Op. 6, No. 8 in G Minor
Richard Webster and Colin Lynch, Conductors
Sunday Dec 9th 2018 at 3pm
Trinity Church of Boston, MA
Alto Soloist
Tickets and more information: here
G. F. Handel - Messiah sing!
Friday Dec 7th 2018 at 7.30pm
All Saints Parish, Brookline, MA
Alto Soloist
Benefit concert for Project Bread
Tickets and more information soon to come
Friday Dec 7th 2018 at 7.30pm
All Saints Parish, Brookline, MA
Alto Soloist
Benefit concert for Project Bread
Tickets and more information soon to come
J. S. Bach - Magnificat
New England Classical Singers
David Hodgkins, Conductor
Sunday Dec 2nd 2018 at 3pm
Christ Church in Andover, MA
Soloist
Tickets and more information: here
Francesca Caccini - Alcina
Boston Early Music Festival
Paul O'Dette & Stephen Stubbs, Musical Directors
Gilbert Blin, Stage Director
Robert Mealy, Concertmaster
Melinda Sullivan, Dance Director
Saturday, November 24, 2018 at 8pm
Sunday, November 25, 2018 at 3pm
NEC's Jordan Hall, Boston, MA
Monday, November 26, 2018 at 7:30pm
Tuesday, November 27, 2018 at 7:30pm
Gilder Lehrman Hall, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY
Francesca Caccini came of age at the Medici court in Florence during the earliest years of opera as an art form. Both a composer and a performer, Caccini was one of the most important musical figures at court, and in 1625 she created the first opera by a woman composer, La liberazione di Ruggiero dall’isola d’Alcina.
Alcina is a gorgeous entertainment, full of wit, magic, and drama, with a demanding title role first sung by the composer herself. At the center of a struggle of illusion and destiny, the sorceress Alcina stands between the valiant magician Melissa and her quest to save the warrior Ruggiero.
Boston Early Music Festival Vocal Ensemble
Shannon Mercer, Alcina; Colin Balzer, Ruggiero; Kelsey Lauritano, Melissa
Mindy Ella Chu, David Evans, Daniel Friedley, Brian Giebler, David McFerrin, Jason McStoots, Sophie Michaux, Molly Netter, Ian Pomerantz, Margot Rood, & Teresa Wakim
Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Ensemble
Paul O'Dette, lute; Stephen Stubbs, lute & Baroque guitar; Robert Mealy & Julie Andrijeski, violin; Sarah Darling, viola; Erin Headley, Christel Thielmann, & Laura Jeppsen, viola da gamba; Kathryn Montoya & Heloise Degrugillier, recorder; Maxine Eilander, Baroque harp; Michael Sponseller, organ, regal & harpsichord
Tickets and more information: here
Boston Early Music Festival
Paul O'Dette & Stephen Stubbs, Musical Directors
Gilbert Blin, Stage Director
Robert Mealy, Concertmaster
Melinda Sullivan, Dance Director
Saturday, November 24, 2018 at 8pm
Sunday, November 25, 2018 at 3pm
NEC's Jordan Hall, Boston, MA
Monday, November 26, 2018 at 7:30pm
Tuesday, November 27, 2018 at 7:30pm
Gilder Lehrman Hall, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY
Francesca Caccini came of age at the Medici court in Florence during the earliest years of opera as an art form. Both a composer and a performer, Caccini was one of the most important musical figures at court, and in 1625 she created the first opera by a woman composer, La liberazione di Ruggiero dall’isola d’Alcina.
Alcina is a gorgeous entertainment, full of wit, magic, and drama, with a demanding title role first sung by the composer herself. At the center of a struggle of illusion and destiny, the sorceress Alcina stands between the valiant magician Melissa and her quest to save the warrior Ruggiero.
Boston Early Music Festival Vocal Ensemble
Shannon Mercer, Alcina; Colin Balzer, Ruggiero; Kelsey Lauritano, Melissa
Mindy Ella Chu, David Evans, Daniel Friedley, Brian Giebler, David McFerrin, Jason McStoots, Sophie Michaux, Molly Netter, Ian Pomerantz, Margot Rood, & Teresa Wakim
Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Ensemble
Paul O'Dette, lute; Stephen Stubbs, lute & Baroque guitar; Robert Mealy & Julie Andrijeski, violin; Sarah Darling, viola; Erin Headley, Christel Thielmann, & Laura Jeppsen, viola da gamba; Kathryn Montoya & Heloise Degrugillier, recorder; Maxine Eilander, Baroque harp; Michael Sponseller, organ, regal & harpsichord
Tickets and more information: here
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9.20.18 Lorelei & Cantus in Concert
Thursday, September 20, 2018 I 7:30pm Ordway Concert Hall, St. Paul, MN INFO AND TICKETS 9.22.18 Lorelei at Vassar College Saturday, September 22, 2018 Skinner Hall of Music Poughkeepsie, NY 9.23.18 Lorelei Impermanence CD Release Party Sunday, September 23, 2018 at 2pm Aeronaut Brewery, Somerville, MA 10.25.18 Lorelei at the University of Iowa Thursday, October 25, 2018 Voxman School of Music Iowa City, IA 11.9.18 Lorelei at Connecticut College Sunday, November 9, 2018 onStage Guest Artist Series New London, CT |
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The Cherry Street Singers present
O Lead me - Art and Folk Songs sung and led
Music by Purcell, Rossini, Strozzi, Poulenc, Simon and others
Sunday June 3rd 2018 at 4pm at St Paul's in Brookline (MA)
Sophie Michaux, Mezzo-soprano
Benjamin Katz, Harpsichord
Kai Ching Chang, Piano
Join mezzo Sophie Michaux, harpsichordist Benjamin Katz, and pianist Kai Ching Chang in a riveting program of songs and arias of choice from the baroque to the current day, including world premieres by Boston Composer Adam Simon, and audience-participatory singing! Music from Italy, France, England and the United-States.
Tickets: https://oleadme.brownpapertickets.com
$20 General Admission, $10 Students, Seniors, and Starving Artists
Beethoven - Mass is C Major
Haydn - Te Deum
Chorus of Westerly
Andrew Howell, Conductor
Saturday May 19th 2018 at 6pm
Sunday May 20th 2018 at 2pm
George Kent Performance Hall • 119 High Street, Westerly, RI 02891
Sherezade Panthaki, Soprano
Sophie Michaux, Mezzo soprano
Stefan Reed, Tenor
Timothy Jones, Bass
Tickets and more information: Here
Mozart - Mass in C Minor
Onion River Chorus
Larry Gordon, Conductor
Saturday May 12th 2018 at 7.30pm, Montpellier VT
Sunday May 13th at 7pm, Montpellier VT
Mary Bonhag, Soprano I
Sophie Michaux, Soprano II
Adam Simon, Tenor
John Harrison, Bass
Onion River Chorus
Larry Gordon, Conductor
Saturday May 12th 2018 at 7.30pm, Montpellier VT
Sunday May 13th at 7pm, Montpellier VT
Mary Bonhag, Soprano I
Sophie Michaux, Soprano II
Adam Simon, Tenor
John Harrison, Bass
Haydn - Schöpfungsmesse
Colby Symphony Orchestra, Colby Chorale, and Colby Kennebec Choral Society
Eric Christopher Perry, Conductor
Saturday April 28th 2018 at 7.30pm at Lorimer Chapel at Colby College, Waterville, ME
Sunday April 29th 2019 at 7.30 pm at Lorimer Chapel at Colby College, Waterville, ME
Mary Sullivan, Soprano
Sophie Michaux, Alto
Charles Blandy, Tenor
John David Adams, Bass
In the final concerts of the season, these ensembles present Haydn’s Mass No. 13 in B-flat Major, Schöpfungsmesse, also known as Creation Mass. Not to be confused with Haydn’s most famous oratorio, The Creation, this exuberant mass setting is a masterpiece in its own right. Also on the program are Bizet’s L’Arlésienne Suite No. 2 and the winner of the annual student concerto competition.
Free and open to the public
Colby Symphony Orchestra, Colby Chorale, and Colby Kennebec Choral Society
Eric Christopher Perry, Conductor
Saturday April 28th 2018 at 7.30pm at Lorimer Chapel at Colby College, Waterville, ME
Sunday April 29th 2019 at 7.30 pm at Lorimer Chapel at Colby College, Waterville, ME
Mary Sullivan, Soprano
Sophie Michaux, Alto
Charles Blandy, Tenor
John David Adams, Bass
In the final concerts of the season, these ensembles present Haydn’s Mass No. 13 in B-flat Major, Schöpfungsmesse, also known as Creation Mass. Not to be confused with Haydn’s most famous oratorio, The Creation, this exuberant mass setting is a masterpiece in its own right. Also on the program are Bizet’s L’Arlésienne Suite No. 2 and the winner of the annual student concerto competition.
Free and open to the public
Lorelei Ensemble
Tuesday, April 10, 7pm - Wenham, MA
First Church Wenham
Thursday, April 12, 7:30pm - Keene State College, NH
Redfern Arts Center
Friday, April 13, 8pm - Cambridge, MA
First Church Cambridge
Saturday, April 14, 8pm - Nahant, MA
Nahant Town Hall
Sunday, April 15, 3pm - Providence RI
Central Congregational Church
Concert with the Rhode Island Children's Chorus Chamber Choir
Tuesday, April 10, 7pm - Wenham, MA
First Church Wenham
Thursday, April 12, 7:30pm - Keene State College, NH
Redfern Arts Center
Friday, April 13, 8pm - Cambridge, MA
First Church Cambridge
Saturday, April 14, 8pm - Nahant, MA
Nahant Town Hall
Sunday, April 15, 3pm - Providence RI
Central Congregational Church
Concert with the Rhode Island Children's Chorus Chamber Choir
J.S. BACH MASS IN B MINOR
Sunday, March 25 2018, 2:30pm
Woodfords Congregational Church - 202 Woodford St, Portland, ME 04103
Robert Russell, Music Director
Sophie Michaux will sing Soprano 2 Soloist
Tickets and information: Here
Sunday, March 25 2018, 2:30pm
Woodfords Congregational Church - 202 Woodford St, Portland, ME 04103
Robert Russell, Music Director
Sophie Michaux will sing Soprano 2 Soloist
Tickets and information: Here
on Tour
World Premiere: THE_OPER&
by John Supko & Bill Seaman
Directed by Jim Findlay
Performed by Lorelei Ensemble
Thursday, March 8, 8pm - Von der Heyden Studio Theater, at Duke Arts Center, PURCHASE TICKETS
Friday, March 9, 8pm - Von der Heyden Studio Theater, at Duke Arts Center, PURCHASE TICKETS
Saturday, March 10, 3pm - Von der Heyden Studio Theater, at Duke Arts Center, PURCHASE TICKETS
Saturday, March 10, 8pm - Von der Heyden Studio Theater, at Duke Arts Center, PURCHASE TICKETS
Is technology making or breaking our world? That question is central to THE_OPER&, a bold new opera to be developed and premiered at Duke University that uses the high-drama framework of opera and advanced technology to explore ideas of apocalypse, renewal, and survival in the modern age. During each performance, a computer system preloaded with video, sound, and poetic text fragments generates an original world, specific to the room and audience. That world eventually cedes to entropy, disintegrating from disaster and destruction until it falls into chaos, only to be rebuilt. The cycle repeats. A voice — the system’s — narrates the action, expressing the computer’s consciousness as a chorus of voices responds to the changing environment. The score moves from minimal and ambient to complex, industrial textures, a soundscape linked to the rise and fall and rise of the world within the room.
The team behind THE_OPER& (pronounced “the operand”) is an accomplished one. John Supko, a Duke music professor and acclaimed composer, partnered with Duke art professor and “recombinant poetics” pioneer Bill Seaman to build both text and music; Seaman also contributed high-definition video. Award-winning director and designer Jim Findlay, a frequent Duke Performances collaborator and a Duke alumnus, is the production designer and director. Narrated by Seaman and sung by Boston’s heralded eight-voice Lorelei Ensemble, THE_OPER& is a multidisciplinary collaboration that evokes the opera of Robert Ashley, the linguistic games of Raymond Roussel, and the experimental productions of Robert Wilson. An allegory for our uncertain times and an examination of our interface with the technology we create, THE_OPER& asks essential questions about the kind of future we may pursue.
More information: Here
The team behind THE_OPER& (pronounced “the operand”) is an accomplished one. John Supko, a Duke music professor and acclaimed composer, partnered with Duke art professor and “recombinant poetics” pioneer Bill Seaman to build both text and music; Seaman also contributed high-definition video. Award-winning director and designer Jim Findlay, a frequent Duke Performances collaborator and a Duke alumnus, is the production designer and director. Narrated by Seaman and sung by Boston’s heralded eight-voice Lorelei Ensemble, THE_OPER& is a multidisciplinary collaboration that evokes the opera of Robert Ashley, the linguistic games of Raymond Roussel, and the experimental productions of Robert Wilson. An allegory for our uncertain times and an examination of our interface with the technology we create, THE_OPER& asks essential questions about the kind of future we may pursue.
More information: Here
Friday, February 9, 7:30pm - 5 BOROUGHS MUSIC FESTIVAL, NYC
The Church of St. Luke in the Fields
INFORMATION AND TICKETS HERE
Sunday, February 11, 4pm - YALE UNIVERSITY, CT
Marquand Chapel, Sterling Divinity Quadrangle
This event is FREE and open to the public
Thursday, February 15, 7pm - HILLSDALE COLLEGE, MI
College Baptist Church
Saturday, February 17, 2pm - CHAMBER MUSIC COLUMBUS, OH
Southern Theatre
INFORMATION AND TICKETS HERE
Thursday, March 1, 7:30pm - BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY, PA
Weis Center for the Performing Arts
INFORMATION AND TICKETS HERE
The Church of St. Luke in the Fields
INFORMATION AND TICKETS HERE
Sunday, February 11, 4pm - YALE UNIVERSITY, CT
Marquand Chapel, Sterling Divinity Quadrangle
This event is FREE and open to the public
Thursday, February 15, 7pm - HILLSDALE COLLEGE, MI
College Baptist Church
Saturday, February 17, 2pm - CHAMBER MUSIC COLUMBUS, OH
Southern Theatre
INFORMATION AND TICKETS HERE
Thursday, March 1, 7:30pm - BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY, PA
Weis Center for the Performing Arts
INFORMATION AND TICKETS HERE
The Christmas Revels
A Venetian Celebration of the Winter Solstice
December 8-27, 2017
Sanders Theatre,
45 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Megan Henderson, Music Director
A holiday tradition for more than four decades, The Christmas Revels is a joyful theatrical celebration of the winter solstice that travels the world each year showcasing cultural traditions including music, dance, folktales and rituals.
The 2017 Christmas Revels takes us to Renaissance Venice.
18 Performances - Matinees & Evenings
More information HERE
A Venetian Celebration of the Winter Solstice
December 8-27, 2017
Sanders Theatre,
45 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Megan Henderson, Music Director
A holiday tradition for more than four decades, The Christmas Revels is a joyful theatrical celebration of the winter solstice that travels the world each year showcasing cultural traditions including music, dance, folktales and rituals.
The 2017 Christmas Revels takes us to Renaissance Venice.
18 Performances - Matinees & Evenings
More information HERE
Northern Harmony
Northern Harmony’s Fall 2017 Tour
Northern Harmony, the unique world music choir based in Vermont, present a thrilling mix of world harmony traditions including South African songs and dances, traditional polyphony from Georgia, Corsica, and the Balkans, American shape-note singing and quartet gospel, and renaissance motets. They will have travelled Northern Harmony’s Fall 2017 Tour will start with a rehearsal week in Vermont in late August 2017 followed by two months touring in the UK, France, Switzerland and Italy, with a final week of performances in New England in early November.
New England Dates:
November 7th- Montpelier, VT,Unitarian Church, 7:30 concert
November 8th – Marlboro, VT, Marlboro College, 7:30 concert
November 9th – New Haven, CT, Yale University
November 10th - Hadley, MA, Wesley Methodist Church, 7:30 Concert
November 11th – Concord, MA, Masonic Hall, evening concert, afternoon workshop with Boston Harmony
November 12th – Boston, Trinity Church, 1:00 workshop, 3:00 concert https://www.eventbrite.com/e/northern-harmony-tickets-37916168280
Full Itinerary at: http://northernharmony.pair.com/northern-harmony/
Tsa Wela (South African) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHWwn2o56Do
Green wood (American): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JoEzAvMmCs
Woman Well (American): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f28Rfx0alOo
Albanian song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O140SNyOYmo
Northern Harmony’s Fall 2017 Tour
Northern Harmony, the unique world music choir based in Vermont, present a thrilling mix of world harmony traditions including South African songs and dances, traditional polyphony from Georgia, Corsica, and the Balkans, American shape-note singing and quartet gospel, and renaissance motets. They will have travelled Northern Harmony’s Fall 2017 Tour will start with a rehearsal week in Vermont in late August 2017 followed by two months touring in the UK, France, Switzerland and Italy, with a final week of performances in New England in early November.
New England Dates:
November 7th- Montpelier, VT,Unitarian Church, 7:30 concert
November 8th – Marlboro, VT, Marlboro College, 7:30 concert
November 9th – New Haven, CT, Yale University
November 10th - Hadley, MA, Wesley Methodist Church, 7:30 Concert
November 11th – Concord, MA, Masonic Hall, evening concert, afternoon workshop with Boston Harmony
November 12th – Boston, Trinity Church, 1:00 workshop, 3:00 concert https://www.eventbrite.com/e/northern-harmony-tickets-37916168280
Full Itinerary at: http://northernharmony.pair.com/northern-harmony/
Tsa Wela (South African) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHWwn2o56Do
Green wood (American): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JoEzAvMmCs
Woman Well (American): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f28Rfx0alOo
Albanian song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O140SNyOYmo
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Lorelei Ensemble
Rockport Music Friday, June 23, 2017 at 8pm at the Shalin Liu Performance Center, in Rockport, MA Heralded for its “warm, lithe, and beautifully blended” sound (New York Times) “impeccable musicality” (Boston Globe) and unfailing display of the “elegance, power, grace, and beauty of the human voice” (Boston Musical Intelligencer) Boston’s Lorelei Ensemble is quickly becoming recognized as a source of some of the most innovative and inventive programming in Boston and beyond. The ensemble performs works by Guillaume Du Fay and William Billings as well as commissions from today’s finest young contemporary composers like Joshua Bornfield, Peter Gilbert and Adam Jacob Simon. INFORMATION AND TICKETS HERE |
Witness
Lorelei Ensemble Boston Subscription Series
Saturday June 10th 2017 at 8pm - Marsh Chapel, Boston University
and Sunday June 11th 2017 at 4pm - Marsh Chapel, Boston University
Tickets - $15 Student/$30 General Admission
For its 10th anniversary, Lorelei commissions four new works for women's voices by four brilliant and timely composers: James Kallembach, Augusta Read Thomas, Shawn Kirchner, and Jonathan Woody. Modern spirituals by Thomas, Kirchner, and Woody serve as responses to Kallembach's The Death of Antigone, which parallels ancient martyrdom with 20th century activism. An extension of Lorelei's ongoing "New Americana" initiative (funded by New Music USA in 2014), "Witness" shifts its glance outward toward modern global crises, and offers four re-imaginings of a truly American genre as a vehicle toward global empathy and action.
http://www.loreleiensemble.com/1617-season/
Lorelei Ensemble Boston Subscription Series
Saturday June 10th 2017 at 8pm - Marsh Chapel, Boston University
and Sunday June 11th 2017 at 4pm - Marsh Chapel, Boston University
Tickets - $15 Student/$30 General Admission
For its 10th anniversary, Lorelei commissions four new works for women's voices by four brilliant and timely composers: James Kallembach, Augusta Read Thomas, Shawn Kirchner, and Jonathan Woody. Modern spirituals by Thomas, Kirchner, and Woody serve as responses to Kallembach's The Death of Antigone, which parallels ancient martyrdom with 20th century activism. An extension of Lorelei's ongoing "New Americana" initiative (funded by New Music USA in 2014), "Witness" shifts its glance outward toward modern global crises, and offers four re-imaginings of a truly American genre as a vehicle toward global empathy and action.
http://www.loreleiensemble.com/1617-season/
Come Slowly, Eden!
New songs, Hymns and Madrigals by Adam Simon
setting poetry of Emily Dickinson, Kathleen Raine, ee cummings and others
Friday May 26th 2017, at 7.30pm St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 15 St. Paul Street, Brookline, MA 02446
Sonja Tengblad, Soprano
Sophie Michaux, Alto
Alex Nishiban, Tenor
Adam Simon, Baritone
Lawson Daves, Bass
Christopher Staknys, Piano
Jeremy Harman, Cello
$20 Admission
$10Student/Senior/Starving Artist
Tickets available at http://comeslowlyeden.brownpapertickets.com/
Bach's B Minor Mass
with Trinity Church of Boston
directed by Richard Webster and Colin Lynch
Friday May 19th 2017 at 7.30pm at the Trinity Church of Boston, on Copley Square, Boston MA
Sophie Michaux will be the Alto Soloist
Lorelei and the Boston Symphony Orchestra
February 9th-11th 2017 at 8pm at the Boston Symphony Hall, Boston MA
March 2nd 2017, at 8pm, at Carnegie Hall, New York City, NY
Andris Nelsons conducts Ravel, Benjamin and Berlioz featuring countertenor Benjun Mehta and the Lorelei Ensemble
Artist & Program Information:
Andris Nelsons, conductor
Bejun Mehta, countertenor
Lorelei Ensemble,
Beth Willer, artistic director
RAVEL Le Tombeau de Couperin
George BENJAMIN Dream of the Song (BSO co-commission)
BERLIOZ Symphonie fantastique
https://www.bso.org/Performance/Detail/79668
http://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2017/3/2/0800/PM/Boston-Symphony-Orchestra/
February 9th-11th 2017 at 8pm at the Boston Symphony Hall, Boston MA
March 2nd 2017, at 8pm, at Carnegie Hall, New York City, NY
Andris Nelsons conducts Ravel, Benjamin and Berlioz featuring countertenor Benjun Mehta and the Lorelei Ensemble
Artist & Program Information:
Andris Nelsons, conductor
Bejun Mehta, countertenor
Lorelei Ensemble,
Beth Willer, artistic director
RAVEL Le Tombeau de Couperin
George BENJAMIN Dream of the Song (BSO co-commission)
BERLIOZ Symphonie fantastique
https://www.bso.org/Performance/Detail/79668
http://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2017/3/2/0800/PM/Boston-Symphony-Orchestra/
Versailles
Portrait of a royal domain, part of the Boston Early Music Festival
SUNDAY | NOVEMBER 27, 2016 | 3PM
New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall, Boston
BEMF Chamber Opera Series
Charpentier’s Les Plaisirs de Versailles
& Lalande’s Les Fontaines de Versailles
Paul O’Dette & Stephen Stubbs, Musical Directors
Gilbert Blin, Stage Director
Anna Watkins, Costume Designer
Robert Mealy, Concertmaster
BEMF Vocal Ensemble
Mireille Asselin, Jesse Blumberg, Olivier Laquerre, Mireille Lebel, Jason McStoots, Sophie Michaux, Aaron Sheehan, Teresa Wakim, & others
BEMF Chamber Ensemble
Portrait of a royal domain, part of the Boston Early Music Festival
SUNDAY | NOVEMBER 27, 2016 | 3PM
New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall, Boston
BEMF Chamber Opera Series
Charpentier’s Les Plaisirs de Versailles
& Lalande’s Les Fontaines de Versailles
Paul O’Dette & Stephen Stubbs, Musical Directors
Gilbert Blin, Stage Director
Anna Watkins, Costume Designer
Robert Mealy, Concertmaster
BEMF Vocal Ensemble
Mireille Asselin, Jesse Blumberg, Olivier Laquerre, Mireille Lebel, Jason McStoots, Sophie Michaux, Aaron Sheehan, Teresa Wakim, & others
BEMF Chamber Ensemble
