Upcoming Events
(see also our Facebook page for latest news)
Fall 2024 (date tba)
release of our new CD
Call for the Mourning Women: Laments and lamentations in the Convents of 17th-Century Italy
Brilliant Classics
December 2024 (date and place tbd)
“Canti dei Conventi”
Masterclass & Concert with the class of baroque singing of the Conservatory of Bologna
Sunday, May 11, 2025
Musicking Conference residency, masterclasses
University of Oregon
Concert: Call for the Wailing Women: Laments and Lamentations in Italian Convents
https://oregonbachfestival.org/current-season-2/
May 2025 (date and program tbd)
Concert with Annalisa Pappano and Catacoustic
Kiefersfelden, Germany
https://www.catacoustic.com/annalisa-pappano
Past Events
4-7 July 2024
Call for the Mourning Women:
Laments and lamentations in the Convents of 17th-Century Italy
Recording for Brilliant Classics
1-8 May 2024
“Canti dei Conventi”
Workshop & Concerto con la classe di canto barocco del Conservatorio di Bologna, docente Gianluca Belfiori Doro
Oratorio di San Colombano, Bologna
Chiesa di Corpus Domini
15 December 2023
Musica Proibita
In un monastero femminile del ‘600
Oratorio di San Filippo Neri, Bologna, 20:30
https://www.culturabologna.it/events/cappella-artemisia-musica-proibita
3 December 2023
“Monache, musica e demoni”
Introductory conference to the performance of “Musica Proibita”
Centro Documentazione delle Donne
Via del Piombo 7, Bologna, 16:30
https://www.culturabologna.it/events/demoni-in-un-convento-del-seicento
18-19 November 2023
“Canti nel chiostro”
Conference and Workshop on Convent Music
with the Ensemble Concinentes, dir. Daniele Scolari
Sala Rossa del Palazzo Vescovile & Auditorium Manenti
Crema (CR)
25 February 2023
Presentation of CD Leonarda: A portrait of Isabella Leonarda
Piazza Verdi, Rai 3 Radio, 15:00
www.raiplaysound.it/programmi/piazzaverdi
18 February 2023
Isabella Leonarda: un atto d’amore
Presentation of CD Leonarda: A portrait of Isabella Leonarda
Museo di San Colombano, Bologna, 21:00
16 September 2022
Musica proibita in un monastero femminile del Seicento
Concerto con lettura, all’interno del Festival della Filosofia
Modena – Chiesa di S. Agostino
www.festivalfilosofia.it
August 2022
Release of CD Leonarda: A portrait of Isabella Leonarda
Brilliant Classics
10 June 2022
CANTI NEL CHIOSTRO:
musiche delle monache italiane del ‘600
Pieve Romanica di Sala Bolognese
26 May 2022 – Busseto (PR)
Il Seicento (in)esplorato
Musiche di Arconati, Beretta, Reina Vanzoglio
Monastero SS.Maria degli Angeli – via Provesi 39 – Busseto
Ore 16:15: presentation di Tito Olivato e Candace Smith
Ore 16:45: Concerto
15 May 2022
LE MONACHE D’ÆMILIA:
Raphaella Aleotti, Sulpitia Cesis, Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana
Ferrara, Pinacoteca Nazionale
https://gallerie-estensi.beniculturali.it/events/le-monache-daemilia-raphaella-aleotti-sulpitia-cesis-lucrezia-orsina-vizzana/
3 October 2021
Cathedral of Valvasone – Valvasone (PN
Soror mea, sponsa mea – Il Cantico dei Cantici nei Conventi
http://www.altolivenzacultura.it/altolivenzafestival-2021/
13 October 2020
Un ritratto di Isabella Leonarda ed altre monache compositrici
Trento Musica Antica
https://www.centrosantachiara.it/it/spettacoli/spettacoli/un-ritratto-di-isabella-leonarda-1620-2020-ed-altre-monache-compositrici
7-10 September 2020
Recording of A Portrait of Isabella Leonarda
Church of S. Cristina, Bologna
6 September 2020
Online presentation of
Project Isabella Leonarda, 1620-2020!
5 August 2020
Un ritratto di Isabella Leonarda
Teatro del Baraccano, Bologna
https://www.teatrodelbaraccano.com/un-ritratto-di-isabella-leonarda
9 October 2019
Le Monache degli Estensi:
Sulpitia Cesis & Raphaella Aleotti
Sassuolo, Chiesa di San Francesco
https://www.grandezzemeraviglie.it/festival-2019
10 July 2019
Res plena Dei (A Thing Full of God)
Convent Music for a Few Voices and Instruments
Stary Sacz, Poland
http://festiwal.wstarymsaczu.pl/
2-5 May 2019
Workshop for historic instruments & voices
VESPERS IN THE CONVENT
Artist in residence: Candace Smith
Alpirsbach, Germany
http://altemusikalpirsbach.com/workshop—alpirsbacher-festival-f%C3%BCr-alte-musik.html
October 2018
release of CD “Lacrime amare: Bianca Maria Meda motets (Brilliant 95736)
9 November 2017
Canti di Questi Chiostri: musiche dei monasteri femminili a Bologna nel ‘600
Chiesa di S. Cristina, Bologna
September 2017
Recording of the motets of Suor Bianca Maria Meda (1691) for the Brilliant Classics label.
http://cappella-artemisia.com/suor-bianca-maria-meda/
5 June 2017
Stockholm Early Music Festival
The Nobility and Excellence of Women: Women composers in Italy around 1600
• 18 April – 1 May 2017
U.S. Tour:
INVINCIBLE! 17th-Century Italian Nuns Sing of Virgins and Martyrs