Piffaro on Tour 2012-13
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Performance in the Galleries as a part of the 4th Annual Anne d’Harnoncourt Symposium
Sunday, Nov 4
Washington Revels
Christmas Revels, “The Ghosts of Haddon Hall”
Lisner Auditorium, The George Washington University, Washington DC
Dec 7-9, 14-16
The Cloisters/Metropolitan Museum of Art
Post-Christmas program in the Spanish Chapel
Thursday, Dec 27, 1 and 3 pm
Independence Presbyterian Church Music Series
Los Ministriles in the New World
Fri, Feb 8, 7:30 pm
Drew University
Los Ministriles in the New World
Wed, Feb 20, 8 pm
Chamber Music Society of Detroit
Los Ministriles in the New World
Sat, Mar 23, 8 pm
Past Season 2011-12
- Gettysburg College, Sunderman Conservatory of Music, Gettysburg PA
Saturday, September 23, 2011, 8 pm
www.gettysburg.edu/sunderman_conservatory/
This concert is an all-instrumental homage to the music of Spain that was brought from the Old World, interspersed with music that was developed in the New World, and will feature a wild array of secular songs, sacred motets, dances, and instrumental fantasias, all performed on Piffaro’s amazing collection of period instruments. Gettysburg College has invited Piffaro for a three day residency, as well as this performance, with lectures and masterclasses, and performances in area elementary school.
- Los Alamos Concert Association, Los Alamos NM
Sunday, October 16,2011, 4 pm
losalamosconcert.org
Piffaro visits the Southwest with its all-instrumental program of music from Spain and the New World. Watch for further details about a possible workshop for area early music players.
- All Saints’ Church, Wynnewood PA
Wednesday, November 9, 2011, 7:30 pm
www.allsaintswynnewood.org
A delightful program introducing Piffaro and its many different instruments, this hour-long performance features secular and sacred pieces, dances and arrangements of popular tunes, interspersed with engaging commentary about the music and the instruments.
- The Crosslands Concerts, Kennett Square PA
Thursday, November 10, 2011, 7:30 pm
kcc.kendal.org/features/CrosslandsResidentEvents.aspx
A delightful program introducing Piffaro and its many different instruments, this hour-long performance features secular and sacred pieces, dances and arrangements of popular tunes, interspersed with engaging commentary about the music and the instruments.
- Shepherd University, Shepherdstown, WV
Friday, November 11, 2011, 8 pm
www.shepherd.edu/musicweb/concerts.html
Motets, songs and dances from England, France, Germany and the Low Countries, all performed on Piffaro’s amazing collection of shawms, sackbuts, dulcians, recorders, bagpipes, guitar and lute.
- Houghton College, Houghton NY
Saturday, November 19, 2011, 8 pm
www.houghton.edu
Piffaro returns for the third time in its touring history to Houghton College with its all-instrumental performance of music from Spain and the New World.
- The Folger Consort, Washington DC
O Magnum Mysterium: Christmas Music from Renaissance Spain
December 9-18, 2011
www.folger.edu
Piffaro appears as a featured ensemble with members of The Folger Consort and singers Rosa Lamoreaux, soprano and William Sharp, baritone. The rich treasury of advent and Christmas music from the 16th-century Spanish Golden Age includes beautifully textured compositions by Victoria, Morales, andGuerrero. O Magnum Mysterium, based on a chant from the matin service sung Christmas morning, is performed along with other ethereal motets for voices and instruments, sonorous work for winds, spirited peasant songs, and brilliant instrument variations--offering a fresh and festive celebration of the season. All performances will be held in the intimate setting of the Elizabethan Theatre at the Folger Shakespeare Library.
- Park Street Christian Church, New York NY
Monday, January 9, 2012, 7:30 pm
New York audiences will hear this work by Philadelphia composer Kile Smith for the first time. Rave reviews have followed this exquisite piece since its composition in 2007 and its recorded release in 2009. Vespers is a special and mesmorizing work, not only for its sheer aural beauty, but because Smith truly created a transcendent sonority within the limits of the Renaissance instruments. “An ethereal, homogeneous synthesis [of old and new] with an immediately identifiable personality…..The spiritual solidity of his music is full of distinctive rewards.” [Philadelphia Inquirer]
- Gretna Music at Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown PA
Saturday, February 18, 2012, 7:30 pm
http://gretnamusic.org/etown/
Specially for this performance Piffaro will add a pair of Renaissance dancers to “trip the light fantastick toe” in a delightful exploration of music and dance as they were at the Rebirth of Western Civilization.
- Concert Forum, Spring House Estates, Lower Gwynedd PA
Saturday, February 25, 2012, 7:30 pm
A delightful program introducing Piffaro and its many different instruments, this hour-long performance features secular and sacred pieces, dances and arrangements of popular tunes, interspersed with engaging commentary about the music and the instruments.
- Early Music Now, Milwaukee WI
Saturday, March 17, 2012, 8 pm
www.earlymusicnow.org
With the violin band The King’s Noyse and soprano Ellen Hargis, Piffaro reprises this engaging program from its 25th anniversary season, and presents madrigals, dances and fantasias of the extraordinary Cipriano de Rore, Carlo Gesualdo, and the many others who helped usher in a new age in musical style.
- The Newberry Consort Series, Chicago IL
Sunday, March 18, 2012, 3 pm
www.newberryconsort.org
With the violin band The King’s Noyse and soprano Ellen Hargis, Piffaro reprises this engaging program from its 25th anniversary season, and presents madrigals, dances and fantasias of the extraordinary Cipriano de Rore, Carlo Gesualdo, and the many others who helped usher in a new age in musical style.
- Friends of Chamber Music, Kansas City MO
Saturday, March 24, 2012, 8 pm
www.chambermusic.org
With the violin band The King’s Noyse and soprano Ellen Hargis, Piffaro reprises this engaging program from its 25th anniversary season, and presents madrigals, dances and fantasias of the extraordinary Cipriano de Rore, Carlo Gesualdo, and the many others who helped usher in a new age in musical style.
- The Rose Ensemble Concert Series, St. Paul MN
April 20-22, 2012
www.roseensemble.org
The towns of Central and South America in the late 16th and early 17th centuries flourished with music fusing indigenous style with its Old World influences. Singers and instrumentalists join to present a musical story through villancicos, motets and mass movements that
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