The Istituto Italiano di Cultura will host a presentation of the ‘season opener‘ concert: Frescobaldi & The Glories of Rome. The event will introduce some of the brilliant music and musicians of early 17th-century Rome, including Girolamo Frescobaldi (organist at San Pietro for over thirty years!), Luigi Rossi, Stefano Landi and others. Arias and madrigals, dance music, variations, sacred music and early sonatas will be explored in this informal talk, which will also include live and recorded musical examples, projected images, and a Q&A.
Speaker: Alison Melville of the Toronto Consort, Artistic Director of the group’s upcoming concerts Frescobaldi & the Glories of Rome.
Friday, October 12, 2018 – 6:30pm-7:30pm
IIC Gallery – Istituto Italiano di Cultura – 496 Huron St., Toronto
Free admission
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Alison Melville‘s career as a performer on historical flutes and recorders has taken her across Canada and to the USA, Iceland, Japan, New Zealand and Europe, most recently to Spain, Switzerland and Finland. A member of Toronto Consort and Ensemble Polaris, and Artistic Director of the Bird Project, she often appears as orchestral player and soloist with the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, and has performed with a multitude of other chamber ensembles, orchestras, opera and theatre companies and festivals in venues ranging from Tokyo’s Bunkamura Hall and NYC’s Carnegie Hall to cinemas, convents, gardens, libraries, barns, ferries, school gymnasiums, and prisons.