Viola da Gamba Concert Calendar for Greater New York City
Fall /Winter 2024-2025
Friday, November 1, 2024, 7:00 pm
Parthenia and the New York Choral Society: Voices of Light / The Passion of Joan of Arc
Alice Tully Hall
1941 Broadway at, W 65th St, New York, NY
Parthenia Viol Consort members Beverly Au and Lisa Terry, with Motomi Igarashi, join the New York Choral Society for Voices of Light / The Passion of Joan of Arc, a stunning fusion of live music and cinema. Richard Einhorn’s dramatic score accompanies the silent film The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
Sunday, November 8, 2024, 7:00 pm
ARTEK: The Art of Bach
Saint Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church
552 West End Ave at West 87 Street, New York City.
Contrapuntal masterpieces by J.S. Bach, including selections from The Art of Fugue, the Musical Offering, and the Goldberg canons. With Cynthia Freivogel ~ violin, Arnie Tanimoto ~ viola da gamba, Daniel Swenberg ~ Baroque lute and Gwendolyn Toth ~ harpsichord.
Tickets: $50 Preferred, $25 Regular, $15 Rear
Sunday, November 9, 2024, 6:00 and 9:00 pm
Abendmusik and Gesualdo Six: Secret Byrd. An Immersive Staged Mass
St.
John the Divine
1047 Amsterdam Av
The composer William Byrd was a covert Catholic facing brutal persecution during the Counter-Reformation in the 16th century. Hear Byrd’s Mass for Five Voices as he intended: sung for worship in strictest secrecy.Created and directed by Barclay Arts and produced by Concert Theatre Works
General Admission $80-650.
Sunday, November 9, 2024, 7:00 pm
ARTEK: The Art of Bach
Saint Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church
552 West End Ave at West 87 Street, New York City.
Contrapuntal masterpieces by J.S. Bach, including selections from The Art of Fugue, the Musical Offering, and the Goldberg canons. With Cynthia Freivogel ~ violin, Arnie Tanimoto ~ viola da gamba, Daniel Swenberg ~ Baroque lute and Gwendolyn Toth ~ harpsichord.
Thursday, November 14, 2024, 1:15
As the Crow Flies: The Pearl Earring ~ Music of the Dutch Golden Age
St. Malachy's Church
239 West 49th Street, Manhattan
Eliana Estrada & Annemarie Schubert ~ violin
Cristina Prats-Costa & Ela Kodžas ~ violin, viola
Ryan Cheng ~ viola, viola da gamba
Luka Stefanović ~ violoncello
Dani Zanuttini-Frank ~ lute
Nathan Mondry ~ harpsichord, organ
Thursday, November 21, 1:00 pm, 2024
First Annual Paul Sperry Concert of American Music with Parthenia Viol Consort
Honoring the Legacy of Tenor Paul Sperry
Buchchwald Theater
Leonard and Claire Tow Center for the Performing Arts 2
920 Campus Road, Brooklyn, NY
Parthenia joins the Brooklyn College Department of Voice for an unforgettable afternoon celebrating the life and contributions of the late, beloved tenor Paul Sperry, a pioneering advocate for American song and vocal music. The concert will explore new works for voice and viols in a two-day residency culminating in a public performance. Composers commissioned by Parthenia (Will Ayton, Kristin Norderval, Phil Kline, and Richard Einhorn) will be mixed with other repertoire the students are working on by Charles Ives and H.T. Burleigh. This inaugural concert, dedicated to his memory, commemorates his enduring passion for artistry, expression, and the voices of our time.
Free admission .
Honoring the Legacy of Tenor Paul Sperry
Buchchwald Theater
Leonard and Claire Tow Center for the Performing Arts 2
920 Campus Road, Brooklyn, NY
Parthenia joins the Brooklyn College Department of Voice for an unforgettable afternoon celebrating the life and contributions of the late, beloved tenor Paul Sperry, a pioneering advocate for American song and vocal music. The concert will explore new works for voice and viols in a two-day residency culminating in a public performance. Composers commissioned by Parthenia (Will Ayton, Kristin Norderval, Phil Kline, and Richard Einhorn) will be mixed with other repertoire the students are working on by Charles Ives and H.T. Burleigh. This inaugural concert, dedicated to his memory, commemorates his enduring passion for artistry, expression, and the voices of our time.
Free admission .
Friday, Nov 22, 6:00 pm, 2024
Parthenia: New Music Symposium
Rehearsal Hall of the National Opera Center
330 7th Ave, 7th floor
Parthenia’s New Music Symposium consists of a Master Class with young artists performing the vocal repertoire written for Parthenia Viol Consort by composers Richard Einhorn and Phil Kline. The Master Class will be led by Amy Shoremount-Obra of Brooklyn College, and by Mr. Einhorn and Mr. Kline. A Composers Discussion Panel will follow, led by Jacob Bitinas of the Viola da Gamba Society of America, featuring composers Eleonor Sandresky and Robinson McClellan. Numerous past works premiered by Parthenia will be featured throughout the evening.
Free admission.
Friday, Nov 22, 7:30 pm, 2024
Ars Poetica: Conjuring Magic
Saint Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church
87th Street at West End Avenue, NYC
A musical voyage to the heart of Renaissance Italy and Spain. In literature and folklore, music often accompanies tales of enchantment and sorcery. From the Pied Piper’s hypnotic flute melodies to Orpheus' charming beasts with his lyre, stories abound with examples of music’s ability to enchant and control the supernatural. Inspired by this idea, the musicians of Ars Poetica bring their interpretive vision to the stage in a program of rarely performed virtuoso music. Featuring works of Diego Ortiz, Cipriano de Rore, Riccardo Rognoni, Vincenzo Bonizzi, Cipriano de Rore, Bartolome de Selma, and more.
Admission: $30 General, $15 Fixed Income, $10 Students
Tuesday, December 3, 7:00 pm, 2024
A Golden Wire: Baroque Music for Viola da Gamba and Harp
St. Paul's Chapel
1160 Amsterdam Ave., New York, NY
Bach's Library, with Arnie Tanimoto, viola da gamba, Parker Ramsay, baroque harp.
Tuesday, December 3, 7:30 pm, 2024
Fretwork and Iestyn Davies, countertenor: Lamentation
Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall
881 7th Avenue, Manhattan
Performing selections from their breathtaking Lamento album that comprises 17th-century German pieces for viol consort and voice — including works by J.C. Bach, Tunder, Scheidt, Schein, Buxtehude, and others — with organ and virginals player Silas Wollston adding to the music's warm resonance.
Tickets: $75–$90
Sunday, December 8, 4:00 pm, 2024
Parthenia: An Elizabethan Christmas
The Church of Saint Luke in the Fields
487 Hudson St, New York, NY
Following a long-treasured tradition of music for Christmas, the viols of Parthenia present a sparkling array of songs, dances and carols from Elizabethan England. Along with music by Thomas Morley, Anthony Holborne, Thomas Ravenscroft, Dr. John Bull and Tobias Hume, this concert features a wide variety of music by the celebrated master composer of England’s Golden Age, William Byrd. Guest artist: Elisa Sutherland, mezzo-soprano
Tickets: $45-25.
Thursday, December 19, 6:00 pm, 2024
Sonnambula: Passing Fancy ~ Beauty in a Moment of Chaos
Columbia University, St. Paul's Chapel
1160 Amsterdam Avenue, Manhattan
featuring works written by composers forced to hide their identities — social, religious, ethnic, racial, or otherwise. Hear the beauty of William Byrd (1540–1623) and Richard Dering (c. 1580–1630), two Catholic composers writing illicit church music in Protestant England; Leonora Duarte (1610–1678), a Jewish woman composing in the home while forced to live as a converso, or New Christian, in 17th-century Antwerp; Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre (1665–1729), whose lost works reemerge with a vengeance in our own time; and others.
Free Admission; Registration Required
All in-person guests must register by Wednesday, 12/18 at 11 am
Wednesday, January 1, 3:00 pm, 2025
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 | 4pm, 2025
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.
Sunday, January 26, 2025, 4:00 pm, 2025
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
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, 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 8, 7:00 pm, 2025
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.