Past Performance Archive

HOUSE OF HABSBURG

A wealth of riches for viol quartet from the magnificent Habsburg musical dynasty.

Parthenia Viol Consort

The Church of St. Luke in the Fields
487 Hudson Street, Manhattan

This concert is made possible with a regrant from Gotham Early Music Scene from the federal program, Shuttered Venue Operators Grant.

Webcast 3/11 @7:30pm ET
Archive available 3/11 thru 3/25
Concert Program

Pre-Concert Talk by Art Conservator Kenneth Bé

In this behind-the-scenes look at viola da gamba player Kenneth Bé’s other life as Head of Paintings Conservation at the Ford Conservation Center in Omaha, Nebraska, Kenneth shows us details of several paintings from the time of the Habsburg Empire.
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This concert was part of our 2021-2022 NYC Concert Series

ITALIA MIA (Milwaukee, WI)

Extraordinary Venetian repertoire for viols and voice from the Renaissance.

Parthenia Viol Consort with Sherezade Panthaki, soprano

Early Music Now Concert Series
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

ITALIA MIA

Sumptuous Venetian repertoire for viols and voice from the Renaissance.

Parthenia Viol Consort with Sherezade Panthaki, soprano

The Church of St. Luke in the Fields
487 Hudson Street, Manhattan

This concert is made possible with funds from the New York State Council on the Arts Restart NY: Rapid Live Performance Grant.

Webcast 11/26 @7:30pm ET
Archive available 11/26 thru 12/9

Download the concert program: Parthenia Italia Mia Program NYC

This concert was part of our 2021-2022 NYC Concert Series

Coprario’s Italian Madrigals and Consorts: “It is time to die”

Brent Wissick, viol, with special guests Parthenia Viol Consort, David Morris, viol, and singers from the UNC faculty and N.C. Triangle

Moeser Auditorium in Hill Hall
The University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, North Carolina

WEBINAR: The Making of Donne Songs Without Words

A Choreographic Work for Viol Quartet and Baroque Harp
by Eleonor Sandresky

Parthenia Viol Consort, Eleonor Sandresky, composer, Christa Patton, harp
with Paul Hecht, actor, and Melissa Sanchez, Professor of English at U. Penn.

Parthenia and guests discuss the conception, composition and performance of Sandresky’s 2014 work, John Donne Songs Without Words, commissioned by Parthenia with a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts. We will explore our love of Donne’s poetry, the guiding aesthetic for this work, and talk about learning to use body movements while playing our instruments, and show videos of the 2015 premier.

Watch with us on May 13, and join in the conversation! This program will be archived through May 23.

This concert was part of our 2020-2021 NYC Concert Series

WEBCAST: A Reliquary for William Blake

Parthenia’s planned webcast of ‘A Reliquary for William Blake” with countertenor Daniel Moody, scheduled for Thursday, Feb 25^th, 2021 at 7:30pm ET, has been postponed to a future concert season when we can be with you in person.

In the meantime, we warmly invite you to join us for a free online event exploring related William Blake material, co-presented with the Morgan Library & Museum.

This concert was part of our 2020-2021 NYC Concert Series

Exuberance is Beauty: William Blake, the Viol, and the Book

Members of the New York viol consort Parthenia join Sheelagh Bevan, Andrew W. Mellon Associate Curator, Printed Books & Bindings, and Robinson McClellan, Assistant Curator of Music Manuscripts and Printed Music, in a webinar to explore the “exuberant beauty” of visionary poet William Blake (1757-1827) and the music he inspires in our time. Featuring Will Ayton’s 2002 song cycle scored for viola da gamba and voice, A Reliquary for William Blake, the program will be contextualized with an introduction to the Morgan’s exceptional holdings of Blake’s illuminated printing, such as Songs of Innocence and of Experience, followed by a conversation with curators and musicians.

This online program is co-presented by the Morgan Library & Museum and Parthenia.

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WEBCAST: As It Fell on a Holie Eve

Early English Christmas Music

Parthenia Viol Consort, Julianne Baird, soprano

Join Parthenia and guest Julianne Baird for a webcast of our beloved holiday program, from a performance on the 2012 Twelfth Night Festival at Trinity Wall Street.

Watch with us on Dec. 3, and join the artists in conversation after the show, hosted by Amherst Early Music Festival Executive Director, Marilyn Boenau!

This program will be archived through Dec. 13.

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This program was recorded live December 27, 2012, at Trinity Church in Manhattan.

This concert was part of our 2020-2021 NYC Concert Series

WEBCAST: Theatrical Music for Dramatic Times

Songs and instrumental pieces from the Elizabethan period to the Restoration

Parthenia Viol Consort, Daniel Moody, countertenor
with Motomi Igarashi, viol and Charles Weaver, lute
Host: Bliss Michelson

Join Parthenia and guests for a webcast of our most recent live performance, curated by WRTI program host and producer Bliss Michelson.

Watch with us on Oct. 1, and join the conversation after the show!
Program will be archived through Oct. 11.

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This program was recorded live February 7, 2020, at The Church of Saint Luke in the Fields in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village.

This concert was part of our 2020-2021 NYC Concert Series

ASTRIDE PEACE AND WAR || CONCERT CANCELLED

Cancelled

Five Boroughs Music Festival

Sublime fantasias by John Jenkins for four to nine viols and organ
LeStrange Viols and Parthenia Viol Consort, with Dongsok Shin, chamber organ

The Church of Saint Luke in the Fields
487 Hudson Street
New York, NY 10014

This concert was part of our 2019-2020 NYC Concert Series