FREE EVENTS
St. Anselm’s Music Series
EMV is proud to present a series of intimate concerts at St. Anselm’s Church made possible by the generous support of the Drance Family. Each concert is followed by a small reception where audience members can engage with the musicians. Concerts are all admission-by-donation.
Music of Three Nations for violin and viola da gamba
Artists: Marc Destrube, violin; Natalie Mackie, viola da gamba
Natalie Mackie and Marc Destrubé perform solos and duos for violin and viola da gamba by composers from 18th century Germany, England and France.
Saturday, November 30, 2024 | 3:00 p.m.
St. Anselm’s Church
There will be a reception following the performance.
Tickets: by donation
These concerts are generously supported by the Drance Family
Marc Destrubé
Canadian violinist Marc Destrubé is equally at home as a soloist, chamber musician, concertmaster or director/conductor of orchestras and divides his time between performances of standard repertoire on modern instruments and performing baroque and classical music on period instruments.
As a concertmaster, he has played under Sir Simon Rattle, Kent Nagano, Helmuth Rilling, Christopher Hogwood, Philippe Herreweghe, Gustav Leonhardt and Frans Brüggen. He is co-concertmaster of the Orchestra of the 18th Century with which he has toured the major concert halls and festivals of the world. He was concertmaster of the CBC Radio Orchestra from 1996 to 2002, concertmaster of the Oregon Bach Festival Orchestra, and founding director of the Pacific Baroque Orchestra.
He is first violinist with the Axelrod String Quartet, quartet-in-residence at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C., where the quartet plays on the museum’s exceptional collection of Stradivari and Amati instruments. He has also performed and recorded with L’Archibudelli and is a member of the Turning Point and la Modestine ensembles and Microcosmos string quartet in Vancouver.
He has appeared as soloist and guest director with symphony orchestras in Victoria, Windsor, Edmonton and Halifax as well as with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Portland Baroque Orchestra and Lyra Baroque Orchestra. A founding member of Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, he has appeared with many of the leading period-instrument orchestras in North America and Europe including as guest concertmaster of the Academy of Ancient Music and of the Hanover Band.
Marc has recorded for Sony, EMI, Teldec, Channel Classics, Hänssler, Globe and CBC Records.
Natalie Mackie
Natalie Mackie studied cello at the Conservatoire de Musique (Québec), followed by a degree from the School of Music, University of British Columbia. While at UBC she was introduced to the viola da gamba, and following graduation, she pursued further studies at the Koninklijk Conservatorium in The Hague. Natalie has played with many ensembles in Canada and the US, including New World Consort, Les Coucous Bénévoles, Tafelmusik, Portland, and Seattle Baroque Orchestras, Les Voix Humaines, Tempo Rubato, Les Voix Baroque, Oregon Bach Festival Orchestra, Victoria Baroque, and Vancouver Intercultural Orchestra among others. Natalie is a member of Pacific Baroque Orchestra and the chamber ensemble “La Modestine”- both Vancouver-based ensembles. She has toured throughout Canada, Europe, and the US and recorded for Radio France, German Radio, BBC, CBC, and NPR, as well as the Canadian label Atma Classique. Natalie is a regular performer in the Pacific Baroque Festival, held annually in Victoria, BC, and teaches in the Baroque Orchestra Mentorship Program at the University of British Columbia.
Green College: Cultures of Performance
A series of free public performances by professional musicians in the intimacy of the Green College Coach House.
Music in Dante’s Commedia
Wednesday, October 23, 2024 | 5 p.m.
Coach House, Green College, UBC and livestreamed. A link will be made available soon.
Artists: Michele Pasotti, with members of La Fonte Musica (Italy)
Seven hundred years ago the great poet Dante Alighieri died. In the same precise years Ars Nova was born. Dante probably did not see Ars Nova music on paper, but he certainly listened to the polyphony of his time which was finding a new way to be written. In those years Philippe de Vitry and Johannes de Muris published their treatises on musical writing, which they call Ars Nova, a new way of writing music that will pave the way for a century of great musical creativity. The pieces that make up our program come from this century, the century of Ars Nova.
DanteNova therefore: an incandescent star of colors, fantasy, imagination. That of Dante and that of the Ars Nova masters.
Music accompanies the otherworldly journey that Dante imagines taking in the Commedia. This lecture recital retraces many of the places where music resounds: from the silences full of lamentations of Hell to the angelic concerts of Heaven through the celebration of sacred and courtly love of the Purgatory.
PROGRAMME
Excerpts from the programme Dante Nova: Music from Dante’s Commedia
Michele Pasotti
Since his beginnings with the electric guitar, Michele Pasotti plays and listens to very different musical genres.
He graduated in Lute with highest honours, studying with Massimo Lonardi, and specialized attending masterclasses by Hopkinson Smith and Paul O’Dette. At the Civica Scuola di Musica in Milan he later specialized in Renaissance music Theory and Counterpoint and deepened the study of late medieval practice both in Milan and Barcelona (Esmuc). At Rome’s University “Tor Vergata” he attended the specialization course Ars Nova in Europa, getting a first class degree.
He also received a first class degree in Theoretical Philosophy with a dissertation on Martin Heidegger.
From 2013 to 2018 Michele Pasotti held an Ars Nova course at the Civica Scuola di Musica di Milano. He is professor of Lute at the Conservatorio di Musica “B.Maderna” in Cesena He also gives lectures, either on musicological subjects, or to introduce and spread the knowledge of lutes and early music, also with Radio Broadcasts (Rai Radio 3).
He is founder and director of la fonte musica, the center of his musical life.
Beyond the activity with la fonte musica, he is called to conduct other ensembles like Capella Cracoviensis e Harmonia Cordis.
He plays regularly with Il Giardino Armonico, I Barocchisti, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Balthasar-Neumann Ensemble, Collegium Vocale, Arcangelo, Les Musiciens du Prince, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Il Ricercar Continuo, Coro e Orchestra Ghislieri, Sheridan Ensemble, Cecilia Bartoli.
He loves playing chamber music with Alena Dantcheva, and his trio Il Ricercar Continuo with Giulia Genini e Alessandro Palmeri.
He was guested by the most eminent musical seasons and concert halls in Europe, United States and Asia and was directed by Claudio Abbado, John Eliot Gardiner, Giovanni Antonini, Philippe Herreweghe, Thomas Hengelbrock, Diego Fasolis, Christophe Rousset, Andrea Marcon, Monica Huggett, Nathalie Stutzmann, Barthold Kujiken.
As a soloist (lutes, theorbo, baroque guitar) he has a repertoire that spans from the Middle Ages to the late Eighteenth century. He recorded a cd devoted to the great 17th century guitarist Francesco Corbetta (Dynamic).
He played in more than 70 recordings (beyond those for Deutsche Grammophon, Decca, EMI/Virgin Classics, Naïve, Warner, Sony/Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, SWR, Glossa, ORF, Ricercar, Avie, The Classic Voice, Amadeus) and took part in several live broadcasts (BBC, ORF, WDR, Radio Polskie, Rai Radio 3, Rete 2 of Rsi, France 2, France Musique, Mezzo).
La Fonte Musica
La fonte musica is an early music ensemble on period instruments, founded and led by Michele Pasotti.
La fonte musica was founded to interpret the astonishing musical season which goes from the end of the middle ages to the beginning of the humanism, with a particular focus on Italian Trecento. Our repertoire and research stretches until the end of Renaissance.
A constant and serious philological research is at the origin of every project together with a careful deciphering of rhetoric and grammar in order to understand and translate the creativity, refinement and beauty of ancient music with an experimental attitude for us today.
The ensemble has performed in the most prestigious early music festivals around Europe: Oude Muziek (Utrecht), Resonanzen (Konzerthaus, Vienna), MA Festival Bruges, Ravenna Festival, Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik, Laus Polyphoniae Antwerpen, Regensburg Tage Alte Musik, Wratislavia Cantans (Wroclaw), Herne Tage Alter Musik, Concerts Medieval du Musée de Cluny (Paris), Urbino Musica Antica, Festival Voix et Route Romane, Festival de Lanvellec, Musica Sacra Maastricht, Konzertsaal der Wiener Sängerknaben (Vienna), Festival Trigonale (Klagenfurt), Festival Povoa de Varzim, Festival Bachowski (Swidniça), Teatro la Fenice (Venise), Festival MiTo (Milan-Turin), Venetian Center for Baroque Music (Venise), Vespri in San Maurizio (Milan), Brighton Early Music Festival.
Enigma Fortuna, our 4 cds box containing the first recording of the complete work by Antonio Zacara da Teramo will be released at Alpha Classics in April 2021.
La fonte musica concerts and cd have been broadcasted by BBC (United Kingdom), Rai Radio Tre (Italy), ORF 1 (Austria), WDR (Germany), RBB kulturradio (Germany), Polskie Radio (Poland), NPO Radio 4 (Netherlands), Antena 2 (Portugal).
La fonte musica last cd “Metamorfosi Trecento”, released by the french label Alpha won the DIAPASON d’OR and Disco del Mese (Amadeus). DIAPASON elected “Metamorfosi Trecento” among The 100 records that all music lovers need to know.
“Metamorfosi Trecento” was also a finalist the best cd of the year (Early Music) at the International Classical Music Award (ICMA).
The first recording project “Le Ray au Soleyl. Musica alla corte pavese dei Visconti (1360-1410)” received the “Supersonic Award” by Pizzicato. DIAPASON rated the cd with 5 diapasons and reviewed it as an “impressive first disc”. It was also Disco del Mese and finalist for Disco dell’Anno on Amadeus.
For over seven years, EMV has offered an annual series of free lecture demonstrations at Green College at UBC, related to our season programming and designed to inform and grow our audience base. These events have been increasingly well-attended and have stimulated a dialogue between the organization and the local community regarding the wider context of our activities in the community. Early Music Vancouver has had a strong relationship with Green College since 1993, offering courses throughout the years and summers.
Mark Vessey | Principal of Green College
Dr. Mark Vessey has been the Principal of Green College at UBC since July 1, 2008. Prior to his appointment as Principal, Dr. Vessey had a long history with the College, having previously served as Acting Principal in 1998/99, and as a Faculty Member of Green College since 1994. Dr. Vessey obtained his B.A. in English at the University of Cambridge and his D.Phil. in Ancient History at the University of Oxford. He came to UBC in 1989 as an I. W. Killam Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English, and was appointed to a faculty position in that department in 1990. He held a Visiting Fellowship at All Souls’ College, Oxford, in 1997 and was Visiting Professor of Augustinian Studies at Villanova University in 2000. In 2001 he was awarded a Canada Research Chair in Literature / Christianity and Culture (renewed in 2005), and in 2005 won a Senior Killam Research Prize at UBC. Before taking up his position as Principal of the College, he served as Associate Head and Chair of the Graduate Program in English. He is a member of the UBC Senate, representing the Faculty of Arts, for the triennium 2008-11.
Dr. Vessey’s research focuses on processes of text-, canon- and discipline-formation in the Latin Christian culture of the later Roman Empire (4th to 6th centuries) and their role in the shaping of longer-term discourses and institutions of “western civilization,” particularly those associated with “literature.” He has published in the fields of Roman history, patristics, medieval studies, Latin and English Renaissance literatures, literary theory, and the history of the book. He is married to Dr. Maya Yazigi and they have a daughter, Leila.
