2017-2018 NYC Concert Series
Join us for our 2017-2018 concert season. We will be celebrating the release of our new recording.
CD RELEASE CONCERT: NOTHING PROVED – New works for viols, voice and electronics
CD cover collage by Colleen Cody, 2017
Meet composers and hear selections from Parthenia CD recordings, featuring our new release. Special guests include composers Kristin Norderval, Tawnie Olson, Frances White, Richard Einhorn, and baritone Malcolm Merriweather.
Picture Ray Studio
245 W. 18th St. in Manhattan
TOMB SONNETS: Voice and viols from across the centuries
Ryland Angel, photo by Karsten Moran
With guest Ryland Angel, tenor and countertenor, Parthenia presents the world premiere of Martin Kennedy’s “Tomb Sonnets,” along with song, fantasia and spoken word from Italy’s Renaissance, the age of the sonnet.
The Secret Theatre,
44-02 23rd Street,
Long Island City, Queens
(www.secrettheatre.com)
PURCELL’S ROOTS: Jacobean fantasies for six viols
Henry Frederick Prince of Wales
Parthenia and guests Annalisa Pappano, treble viol, and Motomi Igarashi, bass viol, present masterpieces from the sublimely creative Private Music of James I and Charles I, works which point the way to Henry Purcell.
The Church of St. Luke in the Fields
487 Hudson Street, Manhattan