2009-2010 Season

Celebrating the art of the English Viol Consort
at Corpus Christi Church

SPECIAL EVENTS

MUSIC FOR AN ELIZABETHAN CHAPEL MASS

Parthenia and The Stamford Schola Gregoriana (Scott Turkington, Dir.), with James Miller, trumpet and cornett

With guest trumpeter James Miler, and The Stamford Schola Gregoriana, Parthenia recreates a program of music for an English Catholic Devotional Service such as would have been held in secrecy during the reign of Elizabeth I. Works by William Byrd, Anthony Holborne, and Christopher Tye, and others, including instrumental consort music, music for brass (cornetto, cornetto muto and natural trumpet) and organ, and selections of Sarum Chant, the medieval English chant from Salisbury Cathedral.

Wednesday, June 09, 2010, 7:30 p.m.

The Morgan Library & Museum, 225 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016

Tickets: $35 for Non-Members; $25 for Members
Please call (212) 685-0008 ext. 560 or e-mail tickets@themorgan.org for information.

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EARLY MUSIC EXPOSED
(organized by New York Early Music Central (NYEMC), a project of the Early Music Foundation)

The Art of Persuasion: A Musician’s Rhetoric
A lecture-demonstration featuring Parthenia, with Gary Thor Wedow, lecturer, Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek, mezzo-soprano, and Paul Hecht, actor
- & -
The Jigge Is Up: Dance in Shakespeare’s Time
Featuring the New York Historical Dance Company, Dorothy Olsson and Kaspar Mainz, Co-Directors, with Flying Forms, an instrumental ensemble

Saturday, March 13, 2010, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium
82nd Street and Fifth Avenue
$20.00
Tickets available through http://www.metmuseum.org/tickets/calendar/view.asp?id=2964

MONTEVERDI'S VESPERS OF 1610
A special 400th anniversary celebration

Wednesday, January 20, 2010, 8 p.m.

ARTEK, Parthenia, and Piffaro
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LATEST RECORDING

Les Amours de Mai

Parthenia's new cd Les Amours de Mai has just been released on the MSR Classics label, featuring Love songs from Renaissance France with Julianne Baird and Robert Mealy.
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AMERICAN GARDEN/ENGLISH ROSES

Tuesday, February 23, 2010, 8 p.m.

Parthenia, with guest ensemble The Rose Consort of Viols
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Click here to download the program.

BONUS

HOT OFF THE PRESS! 2010 Edition:
Dramatic and sublime new works for viols

Thursday, May 6, 2010, 8 p.m.

Parthenia,featuring compositions by David Glaser and Frances White
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PARTHANIA ON TOUR

WHEN MUSIC & SWEET POETRY AGREE

(with Paul Hecht, actor, and Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek, mezzo-soprano)
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A TUDOR SONGBOOK

(with Julianne Baird, soprano)
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REPRESENTATION by:

Wendy Redlinger, Senior Artist Representative
GEMS Live!

Email: wredlinger@gemsny.org || Phone: 802-254-6189