Viola da Gamba Concert Calendar for Greater New York City
Winter/ Spring 2024-2025
Wednesday, January 1, 2025, 3:00 pm,
ARTEX: Holiday Concert
Saint Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church
552 West End Ave at West 87 Street, New York City.
Join us on New Year’s Day for some of Bach’s greatest hits! The ARTEK Singers, Saint Ignatius Choir, and ARTEK Orchestra will be led by director Gwendolyn Toth in a festive concert of our favorites.
Tickets: $15–$75
January 19, 2025, 4:00 pm.
A Golden Wire: A Garden in Winter
St Mary’s Church, Long Island City, NYC
With Arnie Tanimoto, viola da gamba, Jeremy Rhizor, violin, Ryan Cheng, violin and viola da gamba. Music of Reincken, Buxtehude, Schmelzer and Bach.
Thursday, January 23, 2005, 1;15 pm
Passiones Animae: Parisian Sensibilities
St. Malachy's Church,
239 West 49th Street, Manhattan
Nuria Canales Rubio ~ traverso; Ela Kodžas ~ violin; Ryan Cheng ~ violin & viola da gamba; Allen Maracle ~ violoncello
Nathan Mondry ~ harpsichord. Paris, city of dreams — not just today, but since centuries long gone. Following an invitation by four of Paris’ most prominent musicians, Telemann composed the Paris Quartets. That Telemann was able to capture/captivate the Parisian sensibility was clear from his own admission: “…they…procured for me in a very little time an almost universal renown.” Passiones Animae juxtaposes Paris Quartet No. 4 from “Nouveaux Quartuors” with three works from Paris’ own most famous composers of the time: Louis-Antoine Dornel, Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, and Jean Baptiste Barrière.
Admission Free
Parthenia: Continenetal Connections
The Church of Saint Luke in the Fields
487 Hudson St, New York, NY
The English viol consort music that we know and love so much was influenced by many continental musical fashions. Throughout the 16th and early 17th century, court composers and musicians, traveling in the entourage of their respective courts, interacted with their foreign counterparts. Some English and European composers traveled to look for work abroad to escape religious persecution at home. In this workshop we will explore the musical connections that flowed in both directions—from European countries to England and back again. These explorations will include Franco-Flemish music in England at the court of Henry VIII, Spanish influences at Mary Tudor’s court, the love of Italian music in Elizabethan England, and Danish and German connections with England when Anne of Denmark, the wife of James I, was the Queen. Guest artist: Caroline Nicolas, treble viol.
Tickets: $45-25
Wednesday, January 31, 7:00 pm, 2025
ARTEX: Italian Insanity
Saint Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church
552 West End Ave at West 87 Street, New York City.
World famous Baroque violinist Enrico Gatti returns to lead a workshop on Italian concertos with ARTEK and the young artist string Fellows of Italian Insanity.
Wednesday, February 1, 2025, 7:00 pm.
ARTEX: Italian Insanity
Saint Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church
552 West End Ave at West 87 Street, New York City.
World famous Baroque violinist Enrico Gatti returns to lead a workshop on Italian concertos with ARTEK and the young artist string Fellows of Italian Insanity.
Wednesday, February 8, 2025, 7:00 pm,
ARTEX: Musical Daydreams
Saint Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church
552 West End Ave at West 87 Street, New York City.
Albert Einstein said, “I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music.” The violinist Enrico Gatti is no different, with a long life of performing music, writing about music, discovering and editing unknown repertoire, and teaching the next generation. For this concert, we dream together of the 17th century in England, with chamber music of 17th-century English composers Jenkins, Simpson, Locke, Lawes and Matteis. Enrico Gatti, violin, Arnie Tanimoto, viola da gamba, Ryan Cheng, viola da gamba, Daniel Swenberg, theorbo, and Gwendolyn Toth, harpsichord.
$50 preferred, $25 regular, $15 rear.
Monday, February 10th, 2025, 6 to 8 pm.
Sonnambula: A Sound of Her Own: Music in the Time of the Estrado
The Hispanic Society Museum and Library
3741 Broadway, between 155 and 156 Streets
New York City
Dr. Elizabeth Weinfield leads Sonnambula, a historically-informed ensemble that brings to light unknown music for various combinations of early instruments with the lush sound of the viol at the core, to the Hispanic Society to perform a program inspired by the exhibition A Room of her Own: The Estrado and the Hispanic World. Featuring a pre-concert discussion between Elizabeth Weinfield and Alexandra Frantischek Rodriguez-Jack, curator of the exhibition A Room of Her Own: The Estrado and the Hispanic World.
Free admission
Thursday, February 13, 2025. 1:15 pn.
Abendmusik: War & Peace ~ Music in the Time of The Thirty Years War (1618 to 1648).
St. Malachy's Church,
239 West 49th Street, Manhattan
Vita Wallace ~ violin; Claire Smith Bermingham ~ violin; Lawrence Lipnik ~ tenor viol; Dan McCarthy ~ tenor viol; Patricia Ann Neely ~ bass viol. From 1618 to 1648 the Germanic region waged a complex series of wars. During this period German composers managed to find inspiration in Italy, Spain, and France, and fused adopted musical styles with their own, implying or expressing directly the challenges to survive in and around geographic areas under siege. Eyewitness accounts will be read in between sets.
Admission free.
Midtown Concerts • Hesperus: O Italia! Celebrating the Codex Faenza
St. Malachy's Church
239 West 49th Street, Manhattan
Hesperus celebrates its reincarnation as an Early Music Improv Collective with a program spotlighting the largest surviving collection of instrumental pieces before 1450, the Faenza Codex. The concert will feature performances of ten of the original French, Italian and English original pieces, their ornamented Faenza versions, and the musicians’ own improvisations in Faenza Codex-style.
Admission free
Thursday, March 20, 2025, 1:15 pm.
Midtown Concerts • Dan McCarthy: In Love with the Viola
St. Malachy's Church,
239 West 49th Street, Manhattan
Featuring Dan McCarthy’s serenading on different types of "violas" perhaps unfamiliar to audiences and many performers! Dan McCarthy ~ tenor viola, viola d'amore, alto viola, Arnie Tanimoto ~ viola da gamba, Marc Bellassai ~ harpsichord.
Admission free
Thursday, April 3, 2025, 1:15 pm.
Midtown Concerts • Caroline Nicolas and Jeffrey Grossman
St. Malachy's Church,
239 West 49th Street, Manhattan
All In The Family. Viola da gambist Caroline Nicolas and harpsichordist Jeffrey Grossman come together to present a musical portrait of compositions from the Bach Family. Featuring BWVs 1028 and 1029, as well as C.P.E. Bach’s plucky C Major Sonata.
Admission free
Sunday, April 27, 2025, 4:00 pm
Parthenia: Les Amours de Mai
The Church of Saint Luke in the Fields
487 Hudson St, New York, NY
Our spring concert features French Renaissance songs and dances marked by grace, balance and a wonderful sense of lightness, especially the song settings of poetry of Pierre de Ronsard by such composers as Claude le Jeune, Guillaume Costeley, Claude Goudimel, Eustache du Caurroy and others.
Parthenia, performing on a consort of viols in the style of those used in the 16th century, is joined by soprano Sherezade Panthaki and Renaissance lutenist Christopher Morrongiello.
$45 Premium section // Pay what you will general admission (suggested $25).
Thursday, May 1, 2025, 1:15 pm.
Midtown Concerts • Arnie Tanimoto and Friends
St. Malachy's Church,
239 West 49th Street, Manhattan
Twilight in Paris