International Tropical Baroque
Music Festival XI

Maria Cristina Kiehr and Jean-Marc Aymes:
Concerto Soave

Saturday, February 27, 2010 at 8:00 PM

Maria Cristina Kiehr and Jean-Marc Aymes

St. Philip’s Episcopal Church (click here for map)
1142 Coral Way
Coral Gables, FL 33134

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The acclaimed period instrument ensemble from Paris provides an evening of music that would have been performed in the sumptuous gardens of Palazzo Ruspoli in Rome—cantatas and instrumental music by A. Scarlatti, Caldara and il caro sassone, the young Handel.

Concerto Soave is an ideal ensemble to approach music of the Italian seventeenth century. Four artists with successful solo careers, who know that this music has its heart in the ensemble experience and therefore play regularly in various formations of which they have often been the founders. Although soprano Maria Cristina Kiehr is often on the opera stage both in Europe and in her native Argentina, and although Jean-Marc Aymes is one of the eminent harpsichordists of his generation, with an important reputation as interpreter of Frescobaldi, they formed Concerto Soave early in their careers to explore music of seventeenth century Italy.

Mara Galassi and Gaetano Nasillo came both through the classical Italian training in Milan and gradually became fascinated by the older instruments and their music. Mara Galassi, while still principal harp of the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, was researching the history of the gothic to baroque harp. Her first recording was “Il Viaggio di Lucrezia”, a historical fantasy based of the travels of harpist Lucrezia Urbana between 1585 and 1615 and filled with the music of the seventeenth century. Gaetano Nasillo, shortly after leaving conservatory turned to the eighteenth century music for cello and even undertook a course in viola da gamba at the Schola Cantorum of Basel with Paolo Pandolfo. His many recordings of Boccherini and Geminiani have become almost canon. Both Mara Galassi and Gaetano Nasillo live and teach today in Milan.

 

Tickets for the performance are $35.00 General Admission, $45.00 or Preferred seating. Students up to the age of 18 are admitted free of charge. College and graduate students pay $5.00.

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