Upcoming Events

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)

Locandina

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

http://www.semf.se/

• 18 April – 1 May 2017
U.S. Tour:

INVINCIBLE! 17th-Century Italian Nuns Sing of Virgins and Martyrs

PROGRAMS AVAILABLE ON CD

All of our recordings are also available in concert, with forces that range from 3 or 4 voices and basso continuo to larger ensembles of voices and instruments. Descriptions of the programs are found on the Discography page. Please contact us for detailed programs and costs.