MEDIEVAL MUSIC DAYS 2024 10th ANNIVERSARY!
MEDIEVAL MUSIC DAYS 2024 SCHEDULE:
Reverdies Montréal presents
Ballate e Danze
Italy during the 14th century
October 18-21, 2024
concerts with ensembles
La Fonte Musica, Reverdies Montréal & Comtessa
workshops/masterclass/ banquet
This year our Medieval Music Days will feature the music during the period of
Italian culture known as the trecento (“the 1300’s”),
a movement that helped define Italian musical style for centuries thereafter.
Trecento music spans roughly 1340 to 1410. Hundreds of compositions survived in several important manuscripts, thanks to the development of a
uniquely Italian approach to musical notation.
Westmount Park United Church Quebec
4695 de Maisonneuve blvd.Quebec
Westmount, Quebec
An immersive weekend in the fascinating musical world of long ago! Concerts and workshops, led by passionate and renowned musicians, gifted in
transmitting the breadth of their expertise with generosity and enthusiasm.
An experience for music-lovers and musicians and singers of all levels,
for those who wish to participate actively or simply to listen and discover
the beauty and lively spirit of medieval music
TICKETS FOR MEDIEVAL MUSIC DAYS 2024 (concerts, workshop, and banquet Oct 18-19)
(ACQ and CAMMAC members: $5 off on full package. Use promotional code ACQCAMMAC)
Friday October 18, 8:00 PM
Concert with ensembles Reverdies Montréal & Comtessa "The Rossi Codex"
The Codex Rossi is the oldest surviving Trecento manuscript. Most of its works are anonymous and
unique to this source. These secular compositions were written between 1320 and 1350 in
Padua and Verona, in the Veneto region of Italy. Their combination of declamation and virtuoso
fluidity became the hallmark of Italian music in the centuries that followed, and which still charms audiences today.
Rebecca Bain, mezzo, vièle, percussion
Gabrielle Cloutier, mezzo
Bruno Cognyl-Fournier, lute, gittern
Isabelle Douailly-Backman, vièle
Jean-François Daignault, tenor
Alain Vadeboncoeur, bass
Saturday October 19 - 10:00 AM:Conference
Saturday October 19 - 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM: Workshop for singers and instrumentalists
Discover the music of the Trecento in our participatory workshop led by Rebecca Bain,
Femke Bergsma and Alain Vadeboncoeur. Musicians and singers of all levels,
bring whatever instruments you have, your voices or just your ears -- all are welcome!
Saturday October 19 - 5:30 PM: Concert with Comtessa & friends: "Vaga Fanciulla"
Comtessa presents a program of Italian Ars Nova music, featuring works by Jacopo da Bologna,
Giovanni da Firenze, Andrea Stefani, Magister Pietro, Francesco Landini and Johannes Ciconia.
Comtessa's duo Isabelle Douailly-Backman and Gabrielle Cloutier
will this year welcome several new additions to create an all-female team of talented Montréal-based musicians.
Isabelle Douailly-Backman, vièle
Gabrielle Cloutier, mezzo
Élodie Bouchard, soprano, rebec
Leah Weitzner, soprano, vièle
Maria Gajraj, organetto
Esther-Ruth Teel, harpe
Femke Bergsma, alto, vièle
Saturday October 19 - 6:30 PM: The concert will be followed by a Banquet, featuring medieval recipes. Places are limited, please book early.
For their first appearance in Montreal, the ensemble La Fonte Musica presents
the visionary composer Zacara da Teramo, who truly bridged the Middle Ages and
the Renaissance in works where vitality, exuberance, and eccentricity all come together.
Sunday October 20 - 2:30 PM:
Concert at Salle Bourgie: "Enigma Fortuna, the music of Antonio Zacara da Teramo (1360-1416)
Michele Pasotti, luth and direction,
Francesca Cassinari, soprano
Alena Dantcheva, soprano
Gianluca Ferrarini, tenor
Massimo Altieri,tenor
Efix Puleo, viola da braccio,
Teodoro Baù, viola da gamba
For ticket purchases for any events on October 18 or 19, a 15% discount will be offered for the La Fonte Musica concert on October 20. A promotional code
for this discount will be sent with your Oct. 18/19 purchase confirmation.
TICKETS FOR LA FONTE MUSICA (Salle Bourgie)
Monday October 21: Masterclass with La Fonte Musica, for professionals and music students: Please contact us for details
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