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Viola da Gamba Concert Calendar for Greater New York City
Winter/Spring 2024

Febryary 8, 2024, TBA
A Golden Wire Ensemble: Arnie Tanimoto and Parker Ramsey
Aspect Chamber Music Series
Bohemian National Hall, Blue Gallery
321 East 73rd Street
NYC
Time and details to be announced.

Saturday, February 17 at 3:30 pm
A Golden Wire Pop-Up: Consort music of Byrd, Dowland, Jenkins, Holborne, Ferrabosco and Mundy

St. John’s in the Village
 224 Waverly Place, Manhattan
A Golden Wire is expanding its horizons and cooking up some more English consort music to play in coming seasons. As such, we’re taking a week to invite colleagues near and far to join us in the city to try out some new repertoire! We’re incredibly humbled that Lucine Musaelian and Thomas Fields will be joining us from across the Atlantic, while Charlie Reed and Ryan Cheng will be taking time out of their busy New York City schedules to shoot down on the subway to the Village. 

This short program will be something between an open demonstration and a concert, containing favorite tunes by Byrd and Dowland, as well as some chestnuts by Holborne, Jenkins, Ferrabosco, and Mundy. Overall it will showcase our general love for all things weird and wonderful in early English music.
Arnie Tanimoto ~ viol; Parker Ramsay ~ harp: Lucine Musaelian ~ viol and voice; Ryan Cheng ~ viol; Thomas Fields ~ viol; Charles Reed ~ viol   
Admission: pay as you wish.

Friday, February 23, 2024, 8:00 pm
Parthenia Viols: Tomb Sonnets and Ryland Angel, with Jon Richards, actor

Classical Candlelight Concerts
First Reformed Church of Nyack
18 South Broadway, Nyack, NY 10960
Premiered by Parthenia in 2018, Martin Kennedy’s “Tomb Sonnets” sets historic texts by Petrarch (1304–1374), John Keats (1795-1821), and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) to transcendent music for countertenor and viol consort. Featuring countertenor Ryland Angel and actor Jon Richards, TOMB SONNETS will explore enduring themes of death, loss, and burial through works by Kennedy (1978), Giovanni Gabrieli (1557–1612), Jacques Arcadelt (1507–1568), Phillipe Verdelot (c. 1470–before 1552), and Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583–1643).
Presented by ArtsRock
Tickets: $55/40

Sunday, February 25, 3:00 pm
ARTEK: Money, Misery, Music: French Chansons

Saint Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church
552 West End Ave
New York 10024
Money – and the lack of it! – is a theme that echoes down the centuries. The ARTEK Singers perform chansons and intabulations by Josquin, Sermisy, Susato, Castro, Certon, Jacotin, and more. Singers Phillip Cheah, Richard Pittsinger, Andrew Fuchs, and Peter Becker will be accompanied by Grant Herreid on lute and Gwendolyn Toth on virginal. A special bonus performance for our audiences! ARTEK will be joined by The New York Waytes, a Renaissance wind band who follow the centuries-old tradition of town waytes, or watchpersons who are also virtuoso wind players. Banding together in musical celebration, with vibrance and life they bring grand architectures of sound and precious sonic gems of the renaissance into the 21st century.
Tickets: $50 preferred, $25 regular, $15 rear

Saturday, March 2, 2024, at 7:00 pm
ARTEK: After the Fire: Music of Erlebach

St. Ignatius of AntiochEpiscopal Church
522 West End Avenue
New York, NY 10024
Philipp Heinrich Erlebach (1657-1714) was Kapellmeister of the court of Thuringia for most of his life. He was known to be a prolific – and renowned – composer of over 1000 works including operas, cantatas, masses, and chamber music. Sadly, most of his music was destroyed in a fire in 1785 leaving us just a few compositions to get a glimpse of his genius. Cynthia Frievogel, violin; Arnie Tanimoto, viola da gamba; Daniel Swenberg, theorbo; and Gwendolyn Toth, harpsichord will perform selections from Erlebach’s beautifully expressive trios for strings. Soprano Laurie Heimes will sing some of the lovely sacred songs Erlebach wrote for the court in Harmonische Freude musicalischer Freunde (1697).

Saturday, March 9, 2024, 2–2:45 pm
A Musical Celebration of Women’s History Month
with Luthier Gabriela Guadalajara
and Leah Nelson, violinist/violist
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Fifth Avenue and 82 St.
The André Mertens Galleries for Musical Instruments
Admission free with museum admission

Saturday, March 9, 2024, 8:00 PM
Sunday March 10, 2024, 2:30
Parthenia Viol Consort: U.S. premiere of “Memento Nostri” by Calliope Tsoupaki

Church of St. Francis Xavier
46 West 16th Street, Manhattan
Parthenia joins the NYC-based choir Cantori New York, directed by Mark Shapiro, and the Farallon Recorder Quartet for the U.S. premiere of Calliope Tsoupaki’s “Memento Nostri”. Premiered in the Netherlands in 2021, Tsoupaki’s “Memento Nostri” was composed as a requiem in the Byzantine tradition, creating a mood of timelessness and expressing essence simply and clearly.
Tickets: Adult - $25 online, $30 at the door
Senior - $20 online, $25 at the door

Sunday, March 24 at 3 pm
Chloe Holgate & Katherine Wessinger, sopranos: Couperin: Leçons de Ténèbres & works by Purcell & Cozzolani
Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church,
921 Madison Avenue at East 73rd Street, Manhattan
CA Palm Sunday program featuring French Baroque master François Couperin's exquisite and expressive Leçons de Ténèbres, based on texts from the Lamentations of Jeremiah and intended to be sung during Holy Week. Also on the program are Chriara Margarita Cozzolani's duet O Dulcis Jesu, and two solo vocal works by Henry Purcell: the dramatic Blessed Virgin's Expostulation and poignant Evening Hymn. Accompanied by Adam Young ~ viola da gamba, and Andrew Henderson ~ harpsichord. Tickets may be purchased in advance or at the door.

Thursday, April 11, 2024, 7:00 pm
Parthenia Viols, with Christopher Morrongiello, lute: Italia mia
The Italian Academy at Columbia University
Library, 3rd floor
1161 Amsterdam Avenue, Manhattan
Italia Mia features a lavish selection of music from the Italian Renaissance for viol consort and lute. Join Parthenia, performing on a consort of viols from the 16th century, with lutenist Christopher Morrongiello in the library at Columbia’s Italian Academy for an intimate performance of works by 16th-century Italy’s most prominent composers.
Admission free

Saturday, May 4, 2024, 7:30 pm
Sunday, May 5, 2024, 3:00 pm
Mary Flagler Cary Hall
The DiMenna Center for Classical Music
450 W. 37th Street, Manhattan
UPON REFLECTION: An Opera in Ten Images

Words and Photographs by Wendy Steiner, Music by Frances White
WORLD PREMIERE
Sherezade Panthaki, soprano
Parthenia Viols, with Lawrence Lipnik, recorders
Parthenia’s commitment to performing the works of living composers continues this season with the world premiere of UPON REFLECTION: An Opera in Ten Images. With music by Frances White and libretto and images by Wendy Steiner, the chamber opera UPON REFLECTION is a multimedia experience that combines soprano voice, viol consort, recorders, and electronic sound. Join Parthenia, with Lawarence Lipnik doubling on recorders, and critically acclaimed soprano Sherezade Panthaki this spring at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music.
Tickets: $40 - $25.



 

 

 


 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 


                                                                                                      

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