Edition 2024

Early Music Day takes place every year on 21 March, at the initiative of REMA. This celebration of more than a thousand years of music, through concerts and events taking place simultaneously around the world, is an opportunity for Europeans to (re)discover our musical heritage!

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Guided tour of Olivier Calmeille's violin and bow making workshop

21/03/2024 14:00 CET

Guided tour of Olivier Calmeille's violin and bow making workshop On-site

Atelier Scordatura France
6 Rue Boussairolles, 34000 Montpellier
The Atelier Scordatura is based in Montpellier in an exceptional setting: the Hôtel Faulquier, a 19th-century town house just a stone's throw from the Gare Saint-Roch railway station.
The Atelier Scordatura was born out of a meeting between two luthiers: Frédéric Becker, a luthier and bow maker specialising in classical instruments, who worked at the Hôtel Faulquier for almost forty years, and Olivier Calmeille, now the owner, a Montpellier luthier for fifteen years specialising in historic instruments and period fittings.
The Atelier Scordatura invites you to take a trip back in time and discover the wealth of classical and historical violin making, from restoration to the manufacture of bowed stringed instruments (from violins to double basses and violas da gamba).
 
Admission free, with registration by email at atelier@scordatura.fr
Antonio Caldara (1670-1736), “Maddalena ai Piedi di Cristo”

21/03/2024 21:00 CET

Antonio Caldara (1670-1736), “Maddalena ai Piedi di Cristo” On-site

ACCADEMIA DEL RICERCARE Italy
Piazza Sant'Eusebio, 10, 13100 Vercelli
 The period instruments orchestra "Accademia del Ricercare", lead by Luigi Pagliarini, will perform Antonio Caldara's Oratorio "La Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo" in the splendid setting of the church of Sant'Agnese in Vercelli. "Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo" was written in Venice probably between 1697 and 1698. Lodovici Forni's tight, cohesive libretto (also used by Bononcini in 1690) is based on Luke 7:36-50, with the addition of Martha from John 11:1-2 and 12:1-4. 
Musicians
 Arianna Stornello, Maddalena
Chiara Pontoriero, Marta
Sara Lacitignola, Amor Celeste
Rossella Giacchero, Amor Terreno
Stefano Gambarino, Christ
Mario Tahtouh, Pharisee
Yayoi Masuda, Efix Puleo, Francesco Bergamini, Artem Dzeganovskyi, violins
Elena Saccomandi, Alessandro Curtoni, violas
Daniele Bovo, cello
Gualtiero Marangoni, violone
Laura La Vecchia, theorbo
Claudia Ferrero, harpsichord

Luigi Pagliarini, conductor 
300 years of Spanish harpsichord music

21/03/2024 19:30 CET (21/03/2024 19:30 CET)

300 years of Spanish harpsichord music Online and On-site

Música Antigua Xixón Spain
Museo Casa Natal de Jovellanos, Jovellanos square, s/n, , 33201 Gijón/Xixón
The repertoire of this concert features Spanish music composed between XVI and XIX centuries, from Antonio de Cabezón to Mateo Antonio Pérez de Albéniz. The purpose of the concert is to show the evolution around harpsichord music in Spain by the hand of the awarded young performer, Inés Moreno, who has recently released the album 300 years of Spanish harpsichord music
Musicians
Inés Moreno Uncilla, harpsichord
Open rehearsals as part of the Sacred Music Festival - Ensemble Caravansérail

22/03/2024 13:00 CET

Open rehearsals as part of the Sacred Music Festival - Ensemble Caravansérail On-site

Festival de musique sacrée de Perpignan France
6 Rue François Rabelais, 66000 Perpignan
Title: Stabat mater for 10 voices by Domenico Scarlatti
Italian baroque music
 
Cast :
Ensemble Caravansérail
Bertrand Cuiller, conductor
Cécile Achille, Hasnaa Bennani, Rachel Redmond, Anaïs Bertrand, sopranos
Paul Figuier, Leandro Marziotte, altos
Olivier Coiffet, Tarik Bousselma, tenors
Étienne Bazola, Nicolas Certenais, basses
Bérengère Sardin, harp
Bruno Cocset, cello
Benoît Vanden Bemden, double bass
Jean-Luc Ho, organ
 
Programme:
Following its unprecedented public success in 2023, the Perpignan Festival of Sacred Music is continuing its journey with all the energy that drives it, to roll out, from 15 to 28 March in 2024, a programme illuminated by artistic beauty and the quintessence of the unspeakable.
 
As part of their concert on Friday 22 March, the orchestra's musicians will be previewing their work at free open rehearsals. A chance to go behind the scenes of the festival!
 
For its first appearance at the festival, the Caravansérail ensemble, led by its conductor Bertrand Cuiller, one of the most gifted harpsichordists of his generation, will present a programme dedicated to the virtuoso composer Domenico Scarlatti. Famous for having composed a magnificent corpus of 555 sonatas for harpsichord, he also bequeathed to posterity 21 sacred pieces. His Stabat mater, thought to have been composed for the Vatican's Capella Giulia, is certainly the most original and accomplished of his sacred vocal works. In creating this free and innovative piece, he freed himself from the principle of writing for a double choir, playing instead with the richness of a vocal fabric of ten real voices. More classical in tone but no less exciting and lively, the Te Deum is in the Italian tradition of the double choir, while the Missa Quatuor Vocum (known as the 'Madrid Mass') is marked by elegance and sobriety.

Admission subject to availability, with registration at lucie.zourray@lesmusesendialogue.com
Musicians
The adventure of the Caravansérail ensemble began in 2015. While in residence at Royaumont as harpsichordist, Bertrand Cuiller decided to embark on a great adventure: to create an ensemble that would be an extension of his activity as soloist and continuo player, and a new field for experimentation. Part chamber music group, part opera orchestra, Caravansérail tackles all the repertoires of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, including encounters with contemporary and new music.
The ensemble performs in France at the Théâtre de Caen, the Midsummer Festival in Hardelot, La Folle Journée in Nantes, the Festival de La Chaise-Dieu, the Abbey of Royaumont, the Château de Versailles, the Festival de Pontoise, the Théâtre de Cornouaille, the Théâtre de Besançon and the Théâtre Impérial in Compiègne; and in Europe at the Concertgebouw in Bruges, the Tage Alter Musik in Regensburg, the La Folia festival in Rougemont and Bozar - Brussels in particular.
In 2018, Caravansérail was chosen by co[opéra]tive for a major tour of Georg Friedrich Haendel's Rinaldo, directed by Claire Dancoisne.
In 2016, Bertrand Cuiller and Caravansérail recorded A Fancy, Fantasy On English Airs & Tunes for Harmonia mundi. The album was hailed by the critics and received 4F from Télérama and 4 stars from Classica.
The second album, Domenico Scarlatti, Stabat Mater and Other Works, was released in 2022.
Keen to pass on a rich cultural heritage to younger generations, Le Caravansérail has been running an immersive artistic and cultural education project since 2019 in partnership with the City of Montereau and the Drac Île-de-France.
Le Caravansérail is supported by the French Ministry of Culture, the Centre national de la musique and SPEDIDAM.
Guided tour of the harpsichord workshop

23/03/2024 14:00 CET

Guided tour of the harpsichord workshop On-site

Atelier « Clavecins Martine Argellies » France
11bis Rue des Soldats, 34000 Montpellier
Guided tour of the harpsichord workshop, which has been awarded the "Entreprise du patrimoine vivant" (Living Heritage Company) label, where instruments from various schools of harpsichord making are on display, each with a different sound.
 
 
Programme:
Martine Argellies has been making harpsichords since 1981. Her workshop, based in Montpellier, is one of the last remaining specialist harpsichord makers in France.
 
Her interest in the Baroque musical repertoire, of which the pedalless, plucked-string harpsichord is one of the emblems, and her attraction to craftsmanship have guided her professional choices. When she left her teens, she joined a friend who owned a piano shop. She then studied with a cabinetmaker, before spending a decade training on her own. With the two people around her now, she makes a dozen instruments a year, a quarter of which are exported.
 
Go to the website of the "Clavecins Martine Argellies" workshop

Free admission, registration by email argellies@free.fr - Tramway: line 3 stop Saint-Denis, line 4 stop Saint-Guilhem
Musicians
Martine Argellies has been making harpsichords since 1981. Her workshop, based in Montpellier, is one of the last remaining specialist harpsichord makers in France.
Musical tours of the Musée Fabre collections (Montpellier) - Armance Merle and Juliette Guichard

22/03/2024 11:00 CET

Musical tours of the Musée Fabre collections (Montpellier) - Armance Merle and Juliette Guichard On-site

Les Muses en dialogue France
39 Bd Bonne Nouvelle, 34000 Montpellier
Title: Music and painting - Mirrors of our emotions
 
Cast :
Armance Merle, recorders and baroque traverso
Juliette Guichard, viola da gamba
 
Programme :
As part of the European Early Music Days, the Musée Fabre is opening its doors to Armance Merle and Juliette Guichard. On a guided musical and pictorial tour, music and paintings reveal their secrets.
 
The flute and viola da gamba will resonate in this majestic setting during an original guided tour, revealing each work through the prism of emotions.
 
A musical tour of the Musée Fabre's permanent collections lasting around 1 hour.
Musicians
Juliette Guichard first encountered the viola da gamba at the age of 7. Fascinated by the sonorities it offers and the wide range of repertoires to which it is devoted, she decided, after ten years of study at the CRR in Angers alongside Eleanor Lewis-Cloué, to make it her great travelling companion. She is currently studying for a master's degree at the CNSMD Lyon with Myriam Rignol and at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis with Paolo Pandolfo, and enjoys exploring a wide range of musical worlds, from medieval repertoires (trio Ecco la Primavera) to contemporary creation (collectif Synérèse), (Synérèse collective), Latin American baroque (Transatlantique ensemble), French baroque (Les Étourdi-es ensemble) and music from the Mediterranean basin (Matica de Flor ensemble). She now performs on numerous stages in France and Switzerland, and continues to train with renowned violists and conductors such as Marianne Müller, Lucile Boulanger, Sébastien Daucé and Vincent Dumestre. An enthusiastic musician, she has developed a multi-faceted and colourful style of playing in which timbres and styles meet.

Armance Merle studied the recorder and traverso at the Meaux Conservatoire, alongside a degree in theatre. She went on to study the recorder at the CNSMD Lyon with Pierre Hamon, Sébastien Marq and Tiago Simas Freire, and the traverso at the CRR Lyon in 2020 with Serge Saïtta and Jean Brégnac. She then explored the possible horizons of these instruments. As part of the Synérèse collective, she created the multidisciplinary show Somnescence, linking music and dance, and joined the Transatlantique ensemble to explore early Latin American repertoire, as well as the ensembles Les Étourdi-es and La Nébuleuse to explore French baroque music. In 2023, she also recorded Télémaque and Calypso with the ensemble Les Ombres. She then joined the Consort de Passage to perform Renaissance and contemporary repertoire, and Ecco la Primavera, which brings medieval music to life through a chivalric tale. In 2022, her desire to explore new avenues also led her to begin work on the show Plantons-nous as part of the Les Grimpantes collective, which continues to develop this desire for multidisciplinarity.
Concert as part of the Sacred Music Festival - Ensemble Caravansérail

22/03/2024 21:00 CET

Concert as part of the Sacred Music Festival - Ensemble Caravansérail On-site

Festival de musique sacrée de Perpignan France
6 Rue François Rabelais, 66000 Perpignan
Title: Stabat mater for 10 voices by Domenico Scarlatti
Italian baroque music
 
Cast : 
Ensemble Caravansérail
Bertrand Cuiller, conductor
Cécile Achille, Hasnaa Bennani, Rachel Redmond, Anaïs Bertrand, sopranos
Paul Figuier, Leandro Marziotte, altos
Olivier Coiffet, Tarik Bousselma, tenors
Étienne Bazola, Nicolas Certenais, basses
Bérengère Sardin, harp
Bruno Cocset, cello
Benoît Vanden Bemden, double bass
Jean-Luc Ho, organ
 
Programme:
Following its unprecedented public success in 2023, the Perpignan Festival of Sacred Music is continuing its journey with all the energy that drives it, to roll out, from 15 to 28 March in 2024, a programme illuminated by artistic beauty and the quintessence of the unspeakable.
 
As part of their concert on Friday 22 March, the orchestra's musicians will be previewing their work at free open rehearsals. A chance to go behind the scenes of the festival!
 
For its first appearance at the festival, the Caravansérail ensemble, led by its conductor Bertrand Cuiller, one of the most gifted harpsichordists of his generation, will present a programme dedicated to the virtuoso composer Domenico Scarlatti. Famous for having composed a magnificent corpus of 555 sonatas for harpsichord, he also bequeathed to posterity 21 sacred pieces. His Stabat mater, thought to have been composed for the Vatican's Capella Giulia, is certainly the most original and accomplished of his sacred vocal works. In creating this pieceFor its first appearance at the festival, the Caravansérail ensemble, led by its conductor Bertrand Cuiller, one of the most gifted harpsichordists of his generation, will present a programme dedicated to the virtuoso composer Domenico Scarlatti. Famous for having composed a magnificent corpus of 555 sonatas for harpsichord, he also bequeathed to posterity 21 sacred pieces. His Stabat mater, thought to have been composed for the Vatican's Capella Giulia, is certainly the most original and accomplished of his sacred vocal works. In creating this free and innovative piece, he freed himself from the principle of writing for a double choir, playing instead with the richness of a vocal fabric of ten real voices. More classical in tone but no less exciting and lively, the Te Deum is in the Italian tradition of the double choir, while the Missa Quatuor Vocum (known as the 'Madrid Mass') is marked by elegance and sobriety.
Musicians
The adventure of the Caravansérail ensemble began in 2015. While in residence at Royaumont as harpsichordist, Bertrand Cuiller decided to embark on a great adventure: to create an ensemble that would be an extension of his activity as soloist and continuo player, and a new field for experimentation. Part chamber music group, part opera orchestra, Caravansérail tackles all the repertoires of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, including encounters with contemporary and new music.
The ensemble performs in France at the Théâtre de Caen, the Midsummer Festival in Hardelot, La Folle Journée in Nantes, the Festival de La Chaise-Dieu, the Abbey of Royaumont, the Château de Versailles, the Festival de Pontoise, the Théâtre de Cornouaille, the Théâtre de Besançon and the Théâtre Impérial in Compiègne; and in Europe at the Concertgebouw in Bruges, the Tage Alter Musik in Regensburg, the La Folia festival in Rougemont and Bozar - Brussels in particular.
In 2018, Caravansérail was chosen by co[opéra]tive for a major tour of Georg Friedrich Haendel's Rinaldo, directed by Claire Dancoisne.
In 2016, Bertrand Cuiller and Caravansérail recorded A Fancy, Fantasy On English Airs & Tunes for Harmonia mundi. The album was hailed by the critics and received 4F from Télérama and 4 stars from Classica.
The second album, Domenico Scarlatti, Stabat Mater and Other Works, was released in 2022.
Keen to pass on a rich cultural heritage to younger generations, Le Caravansérail has been running an immersive artistic and cultural education project since 2019 in partnership with the City of Montereau and the Drac Île-de-France.
Le Caravansérail is supported by the French Ministry of Culture, the Centre national de la musique and SPEDIDAM.
Family workshops with Anaïs Ramage

23/03/2024 15:00 CET

Family workshops with Anaïs Ramage On-site

Les Muses en dialogue France
218 Bd de l'Aéroport international, 34000 Montpellier
Title : Family workshops with flutist Anaïs Ramage 
 
Programme : 
Passionate about early repertoire, Anaïs Ramage brilliantly obtained her recorder and early bassoon diplomas at the Schola Cantorum in Basel and the CNSM in Lyon. She is regularly contacted by prestigious ensembles such as Les Arts florissants, Le Concert Spirituel, Les Surprises, Vox Luminis, Café Zimmermann and many others, and has recorded numerous CDs while teaching at the Conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Montpellier. 

The workshop will provide an opportunity to discover the world of ancient flutes and bassoons, wind instruments in particular, but also the woodwinds and sizes of the instruments and their various specificities. The workshop will end with a short test for the youngest children.  
 
The workshop is free, but you need to register by phone on 04.99.06.27.49 or at the music bank.
Misteria Paschalia - Prelude | Early Music Day 2024

21/03/2024 21:00 CET (21/03/2024 21:00 CET)

Misteria Paschalia - Prelude | Early Music Day 2024 On-site

KBF Krakow Festival Office Poland
Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, ul. Kopernika 19, 31-529 Krakow
The concert by the Polish Radio Luslawice Choir will be devoted to polyphonic music relating to the story of Christ's passion. The repertoire will include works by 16th and 17th century Italian and English masters. The event is a prelude to this year's edition of the Misteria Paschalia Festival.
Musicians
Aleksandra Pirogowicz – soprano 
Polish Radio Choir – Lusławice 
Andrzej Zawisza – conductor 
La primavera di Bach

21/03/2024 21:04 CET

La primavera di Bach On-site

Associazione Mousike Vicenza Italy
Centro Storico di Vicenza , Contra San Rocco 26, 36100 Vicenza
Concerts between 17 and 21 March 2024 in the beautiful venues of Vicenza's historic centre.
In memoriam of Michael Radulescu, with Teatro Armonico and many artists.
Musicians
With Margherita Dalla Vecchia, Pier Damiano Peretti, Stefano Molardi, Enrico Viccardi, Francesco Galligioni, young students from the Verona Conservatory and Vicenza schools
Bach³

16/03/2024 20:00 CET

Bach³ On-site

AMUZ & Les Muffatti Belgium
Kammenstraat 81, 2000 Antwerpen
BACH³ – three solo instruments, three iconic works and three exceptional soloists: a fresh take on Bach’s Triple Concerto, the Fifth Brandenburg Concerto and Orchestral Suite No. 2. Les Muffatti treat you to a virtuoso, celebratory programme that is bound to put you in a fantastic mood!

In his second orchestral suite, composed in the period between 1724 and 1731, Bach takes a virtuoso approach to the dance suite genre. Besides having the character of a dance, the music has a sophisticated structure and requires particularly virtuoso playing from the soloists. Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, dedicated to Margrave Christian Ludwig of Brandenburg-Schwedt, is equally magnificent, with an exceptionally masterful part for the harpsichord. Finally, the lesser-known Triple Concerto for traverso, violin and harpsichord displays the three soloists in dazzling contrast to the instrumental ensemble. Bach based this concerto on previously composed material, the Prelude and Fugue in A Minor for harpsichord, BWV 894.

Program

J.S. Bach
Overture (Suite) no. 2 in B Minor for traverso, strings & basso continuo, BWV 1067
Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D Major for harpsichord, traverso, violin, strings & basso continuo, BWV 1050
Triple Concerto in A Minor for traverso, violin, harpsichord, strings & basso continuo, BWV 1044
Musicians
Frank Theuns, traverso
Sophie Gent, violin 
Bertrand Cuiller, harpsichord
Les Muffatti
Bach³

17/03/2024 17:00 CET

Bach³ On-site

RMVA & Les Muffatti Luxembourg
Église Saint-Pierre, 1 Pl. de l'Église , 7316 Steinsel
With Frank Theuns on traverso, Sophie Gent on violin and Bertrand Cuiller on harpsichord, Les Muffatti offer a fresh reading of Bach's Triple Concerto, Fifth Brandenburg Concerto and Suite in B minor.

The orchestral textures are diversified, with a more soloistic style in the Brandenburg Concerto and a fuller tutti in the Triple Concerto and the Suite. In the Suite, with the exception of the solo movements, we consider the flute to be a sensitive colour in the orchestral texture rather than a solo instrument to be emphasised at all costs.

These fuller tutti run counter to the recent fashion for "one per voice" performances, but we are convinced that this option is just as legitimate, and thirty years after the last symphonic versions, which probably suffered from a certain heaviness, with all the lessons of historically informed interpretation, we are convinced that we can take the audience on a journey through a renewed vision of these Bach monuments.

PROGRAMME 

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
- Overture (Suite) No. 2 BWV 1067 for flute, strings & continuo
- Brandenburgisches Konzert Nr. 5 BWV 1050 for harpsichord, flute, violin, strings & continuo
- Triple Concerto BWV 1044 for flute, violin, harpsichord, strings & continuo
Musicians
Frank Theuns, traverso
Sophie Gent, violin
Bertrand Cuiller, harpsichord
The Muffattis
Meet Diabolus in Musica

21/03/2024 15:00 CET

Meet Diabolus in Musica On-site

Ensemble Diabolus in Musica France
11 rue des Tanneurs, 37000 Tours
Diabolus in Musica opens its doors to you. Come and meet Nicolas Sansarlat, the ensemble's artistic director, and the team, who will be delighted to welcome you to their offices at 11 rue des Tanneurs in Tours.

Discussions on artistic projects, presentation of medieval instruments...

Thursday 21 March 2024, 3pm to 5pm
Free, booking recommended
Musicians
Nicolas Sansarlat, Artistic Director
Frédérique Alglave, Administrator
Audrey Legendre, Production and Distribution Manager
I Colori del Barocco

21/03/2024 16:00 CET (21/03/2024 16:00 CET)

I Colori del Barocco On-site

Be Ancient Be Cool Italy
Salone Odeo, Teatro Olimpico, Piazza Matteotti 11, 36100 Vicenza
A selection of chamber music by J. B. Boismortier, K. H. Graun, A. Caldara, J. J. Quantz on period instruments. A programme which showcases the many colours and timbres of baroque music, perfectly matching the beautiful setting of the Teatro Olimpico.
Musicians
Isobel Cordone, baroque violin
Giuseppe Falciglia, baroque oboe, oboe d'amore and recorder
Silvia Dell'Agnolo, chalumeau
Dario Pisasale, theorbo
Hymn of the Cherubim - Orthodox Church Music Concert

21/03/2024 18:00 CET (21/03/2024 18:00 CET)

Hymn of the Cherubim - Orthodox Church Music Concert On-site

Zespół Śpiewaków Miasta Katowice „Camerata Silesia” Poland
City house of culture „Szopienice-Giszowiec”, City house of culture „Szopienice-Giszowiec”, 1 Pod Lipami Square, 40-476 Katowice
The first day of spring has for years been associated with the Early Music Festival. This time we invite you to a classical garden, extraordinary music rich in colours and moods by artists of the turn of the era. Among them are: Maxim Berezovsky, ranked among the "Golden Three" composers of Ukrainian classical music of the 18th century, as well as Dmitry Bortniansky - composer, singer and conductor of Lemko origin, and Ukrainian composer and singer - Artem Wedel .

Concert performed by the Ensemble of Singers of the City of Katowice "Camerata Silesia" and Ukrainian composer and pianist Ivan Taranenko.
Musicians
Singers' Ensemble of the City of Katowice "Camerata Śląskie"  
Anna Szostak - conductor   
Ivan Taranenko - pianist
Telemann e Monteverdi

21/03/2024 16:30 GMT (21/03/2024 17:30 CET)

Telemann e Monteverdi Online and On-site

Conservatorio Alfredo Casella Italy
L'Aquila, De Martini, Via Dei Dauni, 2, 00185 Roma
PART I 
Alfredo Casella' Conservatory of Music - L'Aquila 
Ensemble music workshop for ancient instruments by Prof. Maria de Martini 
Mandolin Ensemble by Prof. Fabio Giudice
 
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767) 
Sonata in C Major TWV 41:C2 
Cantabile, Allegro, Grave, Vivace 
 
Triosonata in A minor TWV 42:a4 
Largo, Vivace, Affettuoso, Allegro 
 
Concerto in D Major TWV 40:202 
Adagio, Allegro, Grave, Allegro (transcription for four mandolins) 
 
Quartet in D minor TWV 43:D3 
Andante, Vivace, Largo, Allegro
 
PART II 
 
Project 1624-2024: 4 CENTURIES OF COMBAT. 
Claudio Monteverdi and the Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda on the 4th centenary of the first performance 
Coordination Prof. Massimo Salcito 

Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) 
Aria for several voices "Sì dolce 'l tormento" by Claudio Monteverdi, SV 332 
"Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda" by Claudio Monteverdi, SV 153 
Canzonetta for several voices "Fugge 'l verno dei dolori" 232 
 
Ensemble 'Alceo Toni': 
- Azzurra Di Marco 
- Arianna Giuliani 
- Vincenzo Ciccarelli 
- Wei Keke 
- Massimo Salcito, Harpsichord
Musicians
Performers: 
- Nina Taddei, Recorder 
- Maria de Martini, Recorder 
- Sayaka di Matteo, Baroque Violin 
- Antonio Lattanzi, Transverse Flute 
- Giordano D'Alfonso, Harpsichord 
- Alberto Lattanzi, Viola da Gamba 
- Felice Zaccheo, Viola da Gamba 
- Fabio Giudice, Mandolin 
- Stefano Pogelli, Mandolin 
- Fabio Refrigeri, Mandolin 
-Marco Battistelli, Mandolin
Telemania

21/03/2024 19:30 MSK (21/03/2024 17:30 CET)

Telemania Online and On-site

Gemeinde St.Catherine Lutheran church St.Petersburg Russian Federation
St.Catherine church St.Petersburg, Большой проспект Васильевского острова, 1/20, Санкт-Петербург, Россия, 199053, 199053 St.Petersburg
Monographic program with music by G.F. Telemann including his trio-sonatas, solo music for flute, violin, cello and cembalo
Musicians
Musica Antiqua Russica, Vladimir Shulyakovskiy
Concert – Ars Vocalis (Pôle d’art vocal de l’Ensemble Arianna) et étudiants du Département Voix et Musiques anciennes de la Cité des Arts de Montpellier

21/03/2024 20:00 CET

Concert – Ars Vocalis (Pôle d’art vocal de l’Ensemble Arianna) et étudiants du Département Voix et Musiques anciennes de la Cité des Arts de Montpellier On-site

Association Ars Musica-Montpellier France
43 Rue de l'Aiguillerie, 34000 Montpellier
Title: Italy versus Spain
 
Distribution : 
Ars Vocalis (Ensemble Arianna's vocal arts centre) 
Marie-Paule Nounou, conductor
 
Voice and Early Music Department of the Cité des Arts de Montpellier
Jean-Philippe Zielinski, conductor
 
Programme :
Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
Excerpts from the Mass for 4 voices
 
Marco Antonio Ingegneri (1535-1592)
Responses for Holy Week
 
Andrea Gabrieli (1533-1585)
Sancta et immaculata Virginitas
 
Mateo Flecha 'El Viejo' (1481-1553)
El Fuego - Excerpt from Ensaladas
Musicians
A mixed ensemble of around twenty singers supported by the Ars Musica-Montpellier Association, Ars Vocalis - Pôle d'art vocal de l'Ensemble Arianna welcomes anyone wishing to deepen their knowledge of the Renaissance and Baroque vocal repertoire. Each member, drawing on their own individual experience, puts their enthusiasm at the service of the ensemble, under the exacting and precise artistic guidance of Marie-Paule Nounou, in a rigorous rendition of some of the most prestigious works of a cappella polyphony or with a small instrumental ensemble. The repertoire gives pride of place to early Renaissance and Baroque music, but sometimes explores other repertoires with a view to the overall training and personal enrichment of each singer. In November 2023, the ensemble took part in the creation of the central part of Cantique Physique by Jean-Marc Fouché, composer in residence at the Cité des Arts.
Born in 2008 as a partner in concerts with Ensemble Arianna, he has performed in Languedoc-Roussillon in such works as Purcell's Anthems, excerpts from Handel's Messiah, Vivaldi's Gloria, Credo and Magnificat, Carissimi's Histoire de Jephté, Allegri's Miserere, Schütz's Seven Words of Christ on the Cross, and grand motets by Mondonville and Corrette. With the help of organist Frédéric Muñoz, he has restored Latin American pieces from the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. 
In masterclasses, he brings in prestigious singers and conductors to deepen his stylistic and vocal knowledge. In December 2015, tenor Gilles Ragon conducted a programme entitled Vivaldi, Albinoni, Caldara, Princes of Venice, and 2017 was dedicated to Monteverdi, under the passionate guidance of Gabriel Garrido, a great specialist in this composer. In 2023, countertenor Sebastian Monti led a programme of French music dedicated to Campra, Bernier and Clérambault.

In 2007, the Cité des Arts - Danse, Musique, Théâtre was classified as a Conservatoire à rayonnement régional (CRR) within the national network of public music, dance and drama teaching establishments by the Ministry of Culture.
As a result, its missions are as follows:
- to offer excellent teaching accessible to all, throughout the country, in conjunction with local schools, the national education system and broadcasting organisations;
- to help build children's personalities, development and self-fulfilment;
- to act as a resource centre for local schools and outside audiences in terms of amateur practice, while identifying and training tomorrow's professional artists, taking them to the gates of higher education and the profession of artist;
- offering excellent training to students on the road to professionalism through master classes and internships (training to become soloists and orchestral musicians), and extending the reach of these courses, which could form the basis of higher education in partnership with the university;
- educate children and young people for the performing arts by preparing them for live performances and encouraging them to experience the thrill of live performance.
Musical tours of the Musée Fabre collections (Montpellier) - Armance Merle and Juliette Guichard

22/03/2024 15:30 CET

Musical tours of the Musée Fabre collections (Montpellier) - Armance Merle and Juliette Guichard On-site

Les Muses en dialogue France
39 Bd Bonne Nouvelle, 34000 Montpellier
Title: Music and painting - Mirrors of our emotions
 
Cast :
Armance Merle, recorders and baroque traverso
Juliette Guichard, viola da gamba
 
Programme :
As part of the European Early Music Days, the Musée Fabre is opening its doors to Armance Merle and Juliette Guichard. On a guided musical and pictorial tour, music and paintings reveal their secrets.
 
The flute and viola da gamba will resonate in this majestic setting during an original guided tour, revealing each work through the prism of emotions.
 
A musical tour of the Musée Fabre's permanent collections lasting around 1 hour.
Musicians
Juliette Guichard first encountered the viola da gamba at the age of 7. Fascinated by the sonorities it offers and the wide range of repertoires to which it is devoted, she decided, after ten years of study at the CRR in Angers alongside Eleanor Lewis-Cloué, to make it her great travelling companion. She is currently studying for a master's degree at the CNSMD Lyon with Myriam Rignol and at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis with Paolo Pandolfo, and enjoys exploring a wide range of musical worlds, from medieval repertoires (trio Ecco la Primavera) to contemporary creation (collectif Synérèse), (Synérèse collective), Latin American baroque (Transatlantique ensemble), French baroque (Les Étourdi-es ensemble) and music from the Mediterranean basin (Matica de Flor ensemble). She now performs on numerous stages in France and Switzerland, and continues to train with renowned violists and conductors such as Marianne Müller, Lucile Boulanger, Sébastien Daucé and Vincent Dumestre. An enthusiastic musician, she has developed a multi-faceted and colourful style of playing in which timbres and styles meet.

Armance Merle studied the recorder and traverso at the Meaux Conservatoire, alongside a degree in theatre. She went on to study the recorder at the CNSMD Lyon with Pierre Hamon, Sébastien Marq and Tiago Simas Freire, and the traverso at the CRR Lyon in 2020 with Serge Saïtta and Jean Brégnac. She then explored the possible horizons of these instruments. As part of the Synérèse collective, she created the multidisciplinary show Somnescence, linking music and dance, and joined the Transatlantique ensemble to explore early Latin American repertoire, as well as the ensembles Les Étourdi-es and La Nébuleuse to explore French baroque music. In 2023, she also recorded Télémaque and Calypso with the ensemble Les Ombres. She then joined the Consort de Passage to perform Renaissance and contemporary repertoire, and Ecco la Primavera, which brings medieval music to life through a chivalric tale. In 2022, her desire to explore new avenues also led her to begin work on the show Plantons-nous as part of the Les Grimpantes collective, which continues to develop this desire for multidisciplinarity.
The Mosaic Suite. An homage to Johann Sebastian Bach

19/03/2024 18:30 GMT (19/03/2024 19:30 CET)

The Mosaic Suite. An homage to Johann Sebastian Bach On-site

Pablo Tejedor-Gutiérrez Spain
Stoke Newington Library , Church St, N16 0JS London
This concert aims to make a little celebration of the beginning of the Spring, the Early Music Day and JS Bach birthday! As a cellist, I owe JS some of the greatest joys of my life thanks to the microuniverse he created by composing the six cello suites for solo cello. Melancholy, exalted joy, deep thoughts, positive contemplation, exciting dances, moving atmospheres... Bach encapsulated so many feelings and ways of living through the sound in a couple of hours of music.
Musicians
Pablo Tejedor-Gutiérrez, baroque cello and piccolo cello (5 strings)
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