2009 - 2010 Season
“…Like a well-tun’d chime he was, full of celestiall witchcraft, winning all to admiration, and love personall…” — Thomas Campion
CELESTIALL WITCHCRAFT: The Private Music of the Princes of Wales
Parthenia, with guest viol virtuoso Wendy Gillespie
Sunday, October 18, 2009, 4 p.m.
Corpus Christi Church
529 West 121st Street near Broadway
All seats $25, open seating; student tickets $10 at the door
Music for 3,4,5 viols from the courts of Henry and Charles, Princes of Wales by Alfonso Ferrabosco II, Thomas Lupo, Orlando Gibbons, Giovanni Coprario, and William Lawes
This concert is presented as part of Daniel Pearl World Music Days.
AMERICAN GARDEN/ENGLISH ROSES
Parthenia, with guest ensemble The Rose Consort of Viols
Tuesday, February 23, 2010, 8 p.m.
Corpus Christi Church
529 West 121st Street near Broadway
All seats $25, open seating; student tickets $10 at the door
English gambist Alison Crum brings her acclaimed consort of viols for a rare New York appearance.
Click here to download the program.
HOT OFF THE PRESS! 2010 Edition:
New Music for Viols by Fromm Foundation Award Winners
Frances White and David Glaser
with Harold Rosenbaum, moderator
Movable type – Early Printed Music
Thursday, May 6, 2010 at 8 p.m.
Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street, New York, NY
Tickets for this event are $25, and include a tour of the current exhibition of illuminated manuscripts and books at Yeshiva University Museum starting at 7:30 pm.
Join Parthenia and composers Frances White and David Glaser in a unique discussion of innovations in printing technology during the 500-year history of the viola da gamba that led to increased flurries of viol playing and composition. Moderated by Harold Rosenbaum, conductor of The New York Virtuoso Singers, the multi-media event will be followed by a performance of the Fromm Award winning works and a reception and informal Q&A.
2009 ~ 2010 CONCERT SEASON
at Corpus Christi Church
PARTHENIA is an ensemble-in-residence at Corpus Christi Church, one of New York City's premiere early music venues located in Morningside Heights, a vibrant neighborhood which is home to Columbia University, Riverside Church, The cathedral of St. John the Divine, Grant's Tomb, the Manhattan School of Music, as well as many cafes and restaurants.
529 West 121st Street, near Columbia University in Manhattan.
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
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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
ARTEK, Parthenia, and Piffaro
Wednesday, January 20, 2010, 8 p.m.
Saint Ignatius-Loyola Church
980 Park Avenue at 84th Street
Tickets available through ARTEK: $50, $35 & $20 ($40, $25 & $10). To order, please go to artekearlymusicny.org, or call the GEMS box office at (212) 866-0468
PARTHENIA ON TOUR
WHEN MUSIC & SWEET POETRY AGREE
with Paul Hecht, actor, and Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek, mezzo-soprano
April 22, 2010 at 8 pm - PENN Humanities Forum, Philadelphia, PA
April 23, 2010 at 7:30 pm - St. James Episcopal Church, Lancaster, PA
April 24, 2010 at 8 pm - Market Square Concerts, Mechanicsburg, PA
June 13, 2010 at 5pm - Rockport Chamber Music Festival, Rockport, MA
A TUDOR SONGBOOK
with Julianne Baird, soprano and Christa Patton, harp
An evening of spirited English music for viols and voice, featuring songs, dance suites, and fantasias from early Tudor through Elizabethan days.
July 10, 2010 at 7:30pm – Madison Early Music Festival, Madison, WI
SINGLE CONCERT TICKETS
To Order Tickets
- by phone 212.358.5942
- on line at GEMSNY.ORG