Concert with film
La Compositrice builds a bridge from the past to the present
Ensemble Phoenix Munich builds a bridge between works of Italian women composers of the early modern period, dances from a tablature book of Henriette Adelaide and music of three contemporary women composers, integrated into a multimedia video production.
The inspiration for this program idea "La Compositrice" was the discovery of a tablature book for guitar in the Bavarian State Library from the possession of Electress Henriette Adelaide of Bavaria (1636-1676). This art-loving Turin princess, it is said, brought Italian art and culture to the Bavarian court. She self-confidently presented herself in ballet productions before the court; some dances from the aforementioned tablature book will underscore this connection in concert.
The participation of music-making and composing women in the high culture of the Renaissance began in northern Italy. At the courts and in the monasteries of Ferrara, Mantua, Milan or Siena, highly respected female musicians such as Francesca Caccini, Barbara Strozzi, Maddalena Casulana as well as the nuns Isabella Leonarda, Vittoria Raffaella Aleotti, Caterina Assandra or Lucia Quinciani were active. Their works in the demanding genres of opera, madrigal, motet or sacred concerto have survived in numerous prints.
La Compositrice - this multimedia concert brings together female music of the early modern period and commissioned works by three female composers of today. In three chapters, the concert explores the visibility of women in music. In its transdisciplinary orientation, the interweaving of music with film, the project also addresses the visibility of the female in her ambivalence between iconization and idealization on the one hand, and in the possibility of expression on the other.
Ensemble Phoenix Munich commissioned Dorothea Hofmann, Helga Pogatschar and Catalina Rueda to write new works for this concert.
Music from Maddalena Casulana Mezari (c. 1544 - after 1586), Lucia Quinciani (1566?-1615?), Francesca Caccini (1587-1640), Barbara Strozzi (1619-1677), Isabella Leonarda (1620-1704), Dorothea Hofmann (1961*), Helga Pogatschar (*1966) and Catalina Rueda (*1989)
Photo: Josef Barlein (Left to right: Catalina Rueda, Dorothea Hofmann, Helga Pogatschar)
Contributors/Musicians:
Alena Hellerová – soprano | Kamila Mazalová – mezzo | Colin Balzer – tenor | Jan Čižmář – theorbo, guitar, lute | Ryosuke Sakamoto – lute, viola da gamba | Joel Frederiksen – bass, archlute, direction
Josef Bairlein - film/direction | Ulrike Keil - program idea, project management | Christian Ketels – camera, editing | Raphael Kurig – projection technology
Prices: 32,00 € | Reduced: 27,00 € (handicapped) and 16,00 € (students)
Direct through Ensemble Phoenix Munich: Tel. +49 89 8575604 / Email: epm@gmx.de
Tickets also through Munich Ticket (extra fees apply)
Stream: from 7.3.2022: 20 € (to be ordered via homepage).
Supported by
With friendly support from musica femina muenchen e.V., Cultural Department of the City of Munich and the Bavarian Music Fund Foundation.
