Parthenia Viol Consort to Present Italia Mia Season Opening Concet At Manhattan's Church Of St. Luke In The Fields

Parthenia, New York's premiere viol consort, will present Italia Mia, their season opening concert on Thursday, November 11 @ 7:30 PM at The Church of St. Luke in the Fields, 487 Hudson Street in Manhattan and online. The program, the first of Parthenia's 2021-22 NYC Concert Series, will also be webcast.

Parthenia will perform extraordinary Venetian repertoire for viols and voice from the Renaissance, with guest soprano Sherezade Panthaki in a program of canzonas, dances, madrigals, and motets by composers of the 16th and 17th centuries, including Monteverdi, Gabrieli, Willaert and Gesualdo.

The viola da gamba arrived in Italy in the late 15th century, and Venice was where it had its greatest flourishing. In this prosperous international setting ruled by cultivated patrons of the arts, an extraordinary synergy arose among composers, musicians, instrument builders, and publishers that led to some of the most beautiful music of the Renaissance.

In person performance tickets are $25 and webcast tickets are $10. Both can be ordered at https://parthenia.org/shop/italia-mia-concert-november-11-2021-730pm/. All in-person concert-goers will also receive a link to view the archived webcast performance.

Please note that proof of vaccination and masks will be required for admission to this concert.

For more information, contact Parthenia at https://parthenia.org/contact/.

Soprano Sherezade Panthaki's international success in music of the Baroque and beyond has been fueled by superbly honed musicianship; "astonishing coloratura with radiant top notes" (Calgary Herald); "a full, luxuriously toned upper range" (The Los Angeles Times), and passionately informed interpretations, "mining deep emotion from the subtle shaping of the lines" (The New York Times). Visit her at http://www.sherezadepanthaki.com/biography/.

Parthenia is a quartet of viols which animates ancient and contemporary music. Parthenia is presented in concerts and festivals across America including Bargemusic, Music Before 1800, Maverick Concerts, The Rockport Chamber Music Festival, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Miller Theatre and the Yale Center for British Art, and in Europe at the Regensburg Tage Alter Musik. The ensemble produces its own concert series in NYC, collaborating regularly with the world's foremost early music specialists including Piffaro, Julianne Baird, Paul O'Dette, Blue Heron and ARTEK. Parthenia actively commissions and premieres works by today's composers including Eleonor Sandresky, Richard Einhorn, Phil Kline, Frances White, Max Lifchitz, Will Ayton, Nicholas Patterson and Kristin Norderval. Parthenia's latest CD Nothing Proved, on the MSR Classics label, features music by Hildegard von Bingen, Frances White, Kristin Norderval, and Tawnie Olson. They are represented by Shirley Hunt, GEMS Live! Director of Booking and Artist Representation.

Parthenia is Beverly Au, Lawrence Lipnik, Rosamund Morley and Lisa Terry. Visit them at http://www.parthenia.org. They are the Early Music Ensemble in Residence at Stern College for Women.