We are delighted to be featuring these distinguished artists on November 6, as Camerata gives its first live performance since March 2020. We will begin this new season with a moment of remembrance for victims of the pandemic.

Then, appropriately, we will look towards Camerata’s past, and our ensemble’s many concerts and live recordings of early American music, but also toward a vibrant future, as we focus intently on the African-American contribution to our shared spiritual heritage.

Please welcome our colleagues, old and new, to the concert stage. We’ll be there!

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Our peripatetic Artistic Director has just returned from a European tour. These first live performances since the pandemic took place before enthusiastic audiences and full houses in the Netherlands, Italy and Slovenia. Included was an extended interview on national French radio around the up and coming release of our new Harmonia Mundi CD, Hodie Christus Natus Est.

Welcome collaborators were regular Camerata vielle player Shira Kammen in the Netherlands, and in Italy and Slovenia, lutenist Fabio Accurso. “[Azéma’s] voice is perfect for these early repertoires – it has clear, direct, but also earthly qualities – an angelic presence…”says the Grržeta Blog of her last performance in Slovenia. Anne says that she loved appearing again before the warm Dutch public, and making new friends in Italy and Slovenia. “I hope we can enlarge the Camerata circle with such lovely projects,” says Anne, adding that she is eager to work on our new intown 2021-2022 season. 

This tour was made possible in part with the help of a grant from the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation through the generous funding of the National Endowment for the Arts, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Howard Gilman Foundation, and The Trust for Mutual Understanding.

As the last days of summer lead to the equinox and the start of the new season, we share with you a Renaissance litany of saints by the great Heinrich Isaac (c.1450-1517), hoping that good spiritual energy will follow in the weeks and months to come. This track is excerpted from our recent CD Treasures of Devotion (available for purchase HERE). The soloists are tenors Michael Barrett and Dan Hershey. 

Our times are troubled, but we persevere. Camerata offers, during this week of repentance and renewal in the Jewish community, “Adon Olam — Lord of the World,” a beautiful medieval hymn text sometimes sung on the mornings of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. The awesome musical setting, in Venetian double-choir style, is by Salamone Rossi Ebreo of Mantua (1570-1630). May the sun soon rise on a world at peace!