The 2006/2007 Season

Thursday, March 15, 2007

Leipzig 1723: Bach & the Cantata

North America's finest Bach ensemble performs with 18th-century instruments J.S. Bach's audition pieces for his most important job. Andrew Parrott conducts the Collegium’s period-instrument orchestra with Emily Van Evera (soprano), Kirsten Sollek (alto), Marc Molomot (tenor), and Curtis Streetman (bass). Bach as heard in Leipzig 284 years ago.

Thursday, February 7, 2007

Ancient & Traditional

On February 8th, 2007, The Collegium celebrated music education with a special concert bringing together accomplished students and professionals in a rare collaboration. Ancient & Traditional: Tunes from Around the World was a musical tour of medieval Europe, renaissance Spain, the Caribbean, and North America’s spiritual landscape that showcased the wonderful strides made by educators and children alike in The New York Collegium’s Music Education Program in public schools over the past five years.

Friday, January 12, 2007

Imperial Vienna

As Leopold I succeeded the Austrian throne in 1658, a musical shift in power began to sweep across Europe. Key posts long held by Italian composers began to fall to Austrian masters, and when Heinrich Biber and Johann Heinrich Schmelzer received appointments at Vienna and Salzburg, they pushed open the doors for a new generation. Devised by historic brass specialist Greg Ingles, who co-directed with acclaimed violinist Robert Mealy, The Collegium’s concert celebrated the emergence of these Austrian leaders with performances of Biber's striking Sonata in G Minor, Schmelzer's mournful Lamento sopra la morte, and the Ciaconna by the priest-violinist Philipp Jacob Rittler, a rousing work for trumpets and strings.

Friday, October 13, 2006

Music for the Sun King

Music of Jean-Baptiste Lully, the official composer to Louis XIV, graced Manhattan’s glittering new music room as The New York Collegium opened its ninth concert season. The Allen Room, located in the home of Jazz at Lincoln Center, features both dazzling architecture and intimate acoustics appropriate for chamber music or courtly entertainment à la Versailles. This sold-out concert proved a visual as well as musical spectacle with baroque dancers, trumpet fanfares, musette, hurdy-gurdy and an 18th century pochette joining the acclaimed period instrument players and singers of The Collegium. The performance played out in front of the room’s stunning 50' x 90' glass wall overlooking Central Park and the Manhattan skyline.