Chatham Baroque has announced its 2026-27 season. Here are the vocal performances on offer. Flute and pipe player Chris Norman and soprano Pascale Beaudin join Chatham Baroque in “Confluence: A Pittsburgh America 250 Concert,” a program of Baroque works and folk tunes from English, Irish, Scottish, and French sources exploring music from the era of the founding fathers. Performance Dates: {…}
Pittsburgh’s Chatham Baroque has unveiled its 2025-26 season. Here is a breakdown of upcoming vocal performances on offer. First up is “Christina, Sweden’s Queen of the Arts,” a survey of the music that Queen Christina of Sweden supported with her patronage. Audiences will hear music by Lully, Corelli, Scarlatti, and Carissimi. Soprano Pascale Beaudin will headline the concert. Performance Dates: Jan {…}
Chatham Baroque has announced its 2024-25 season. Here is a rundown of the vocal performances on offer. The Twelfth Night Ensemble will present “Apollo e Dafne” by Händel. The showcase will feature Roderick Williams OBE and NOla Richardson in the titular roles. Performance Date: Oct. 20, 2024 Soprano Pascale Beaudin leads a program titled “Louis, Louis – Songs & Dances of {…}
Chatham Baroque will present The Baltimore Consort’s performance “In Angel’s Wede: Music of Mary, Queen of Scots.” The concert will be held on Nov. 18 at Calvary Episcopal Church and will feature live narration by Emmy Award-winning television and radio personality Robert Aubry Davis. The event will also showcase Scottish, Italian, French, and English music highlighting different periods of Mary {…}
Leading period ensemble Chatham Baroque announces its “Chatham Baroque + Renaissance & Baroque 2023-24 Concert Series.” For the purposes of this article, only vocal works are included. Soprano Danielle Svonavec leads the Baltimore Consort’s “In Angel’s Wede – Music of Mary Queen of Scots.” Performance Date: November 18, 2023 Chatham Baroque and Calvary Episcopal Church present a program initiative for {…}
On February 19, 2023. Chatham Baroque will present Ensemble Dialogos’ run of “Barlaam and Josaphat.” This program sets to music the medieval Christian legend which adapts the story of the Buddha, drawing from the repertoires of Greek, Latin, Russian, Croatian, French, and Italian manuscripts. Among the featured performers are Katarina Livljanic, violinist and composer Albrecht Maurer, and flautist Norbert Rodenkirchen. {…}
Chatham Baroque is set to perform ‘The Isle of Delos” in February with soprano Sherezade Panthaki. The program will feature the sublime music of Èlisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, a keyboard prodigy in the court at Versailles turned composer extraordinaire. The performance will include Jacquet de la Guerre’s bucolic cantata for chamber ensemble and solo voice which sets a sensual, {…}
Pittsburgh Opera continues the 2022-23 season with a performance of Händel’s baroque opera “Ariodante” in association with Chatham Baroque. The showcase, which is scheduled for Jan. 21-29, 2023, will take place at the CAPA Theater in Pittsburgh. Taking on the title role will be Jazmine Olwalia, with Emily Richter as Ginerva. Polinesso will be interpreted by Chuanyuan Liu with Daniel {…}
Pittsburgh-based Chatham Baroque has announced its 2022-23 season. For the purposes of this article, our focus will be solely on vocal and operatic works. The first vocal performance of the year will feature soprano Sherezade Panthaki as she takes on the cantata “The Isle of Delos” alongside such instrumentalists as Kathryn Montoya, Kathie Stewart, Charlotte Mattax Moersch, Andrew Fouts, Patricia {…}
(Credit: Chatham Baroque Facebook Page) The Chatham Baroque has announced that it will relocate to the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary Campus in East Liberty/Highland Park. In that way, the organization will have its offices, rehearsal space, and a performance venue all in one location, enabling the ensemble to centralize many activities. “What first caught our attention about the PTS campus were {…}