NEWSLETTER
New York, NY (June 24, 2024) — TENET Vocal Artists – the acclaimed early music ensemble led by Artistic Director Jolle Greenleaf – today announces its 2024 Fall/Winter and 16th series, which explores 17th-century Italian music, autobiographical work, and a deep dive into rarely heard works by Polish baroque composers. The first three NYC performances feature music by Stanisław Sylwester Szarzyński, Heinrich Schütz, Mikolaj Zieleński, Dietrich Buxtehude, and Adam Jarzębski; Francesco Petrarca; and Francesca Caccini, Sigismondo D’India, Barbara Strozzi, and Claudio Monteverdi.
Artistic Director Jolle Greenleaf shares, “TENET’s 2024-25 series will bring fresh voices and new ideas. I’ve asked several singer colleagues to share passion projects with TENET’s audience this year, and two of those will take place this fall. We are also thrilled to be collaborating with Philadelphia-based Piffaro, the Renaissance Band for a project honoring Petrarch.”
Kicking off TENET’s 2024-25 season is Exultemus on Saturday, September 21, 2024 at 6:00 pm. With this performance at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Exultemus explores the proliferation of 17th-century Italian chamber music in churches and courts throughout Poland and Germany. From Gabrieli’s influence in Krakow and Dresden to the likeness of Frescobaldi in Lübeck, this performance introduces audiences to the far reaches of Italian genres and style embedded within the music of Stanisław Sylwester Szarzyński, Heinrich Schütz, Mikolaj Zieleński, Dietrich Buxtehude, and Adam Jarzębski. This concert is curated by Paulina Francisco.
On Friday, October 18, 2024 at 8:00 pm, TENET presents a free concert of the autobiographical Trionfi “Triumphs” in partnership with the esteemed renaissance band Piffaro at Columbia University’s St. Paul’s Chapel in honor of the 650th anniversary of the death of Francesco Petrarch. Petrarch was the founder of humanism and the most influential poet of the Italian Renaissance, with an exploration of his Triumphs through Renaissance music. Composed and revised over thirty years, Francesco Petrarca’s Trionfi “Triumphs” is a series of poems in which the poet witnesses a succession of powerful forces through six allegorical figures: Love, Chastity, Death, Fame, Time, and Eternity. Petrarch’s description of falling in love, experiencing unrequited love, and grieving death are universal human experiences and a quest for truth. Piffaro, the acclaimed Renaissance Band, and TENET Vocal Artists come together to honor the 650th anniversary of the death of Francesco Petrarch, founder of humanism and the most influential poet of the Italian Renaissance. This performance is curated by Grant Herreid with Piffaro. Prior to the October 18 performance, this program will be presented in Philadelphia on Piffaro’s series.
TENET concludes 2024 with Ariadne Unbound on Saturday, November 16, 2024 at 6:00 pm at Park Avenue Christian Church. In this concert, TENET retells the story of Ariadne in a lively and dramatic pastiche of 17th-century Italian music. With an intimate cast of six, each singer embodies the main characters of Ariadne, Theseus, and the inhabitants of the island of Naxos. The tale is told through duets, arias, madrigals, and opera scenes by Francesca Caccini, Sigismondo D’India, Barbara Strozzi, and Claudio Monteverdi. This performance is curated by Elisa Sutherland.
Additional 2024-25 season programming includes Sisters of the Moon on Friday, February 21, 2025 at 6:00 pm at St. Malachy’s-The Actors Chapel, Confessions on Saturday, March 22, 2025 at 6:00 pm at St. Luke in the Fields, and Rosettes on Saturday, April 26, 2025 at 6:00 pm at Good Shepherd-Faith Pres Church. Further details to be announced at a later date.
Concert Information
Exultemus
Saturday, September 21, 2024 at 6:00 pm
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church | 3 West 65th Street | New York, NY
Tickets: Single tickets on sale August 1, 2024. (2024-25 ticket price range: $16-$60)
Link: https://tenet.nyc/exultemus
Program:
Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1701)
Jubilate Domino, omnis terra
O Wie Selig Sind
Missa Brevis
Adam Jarzębski
Chromatica
Jacek Różycki (1635-1703)
Exultemus Omnes
Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672)
O du allersüssester und liebster Herr Jesu
O süsser Jesu Christ
Stanisław Sylwester Szarzyński (fl.1692-1713)
Sonata a due violini con basso pro organo
Veni Sancte Spiritus
Mikolaj Zieleński (c.1550 - c.1615)
In monte oliveti
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Triomphi
Presented in Partnership with Partnership with Piffaro
Friday, October 18, 2024 at 8:00 pm
St. Paul's Chapel | 1160 Amsterdam Ave | New York, NY
Tickets: Free
Link: https://tenet.nyc/triomphi
Program:
Triomphi: A Poet’s Vision of Love and Truth
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Ariadne Unbound
Saturday, November 16, 2024 at 6:00 pm
Park Avenue Christian Church | 1010 Park Avenue | New York, NY
Tickets: Single tickets on sale August 1, 2024. (2024-25 ticket price range: $16-$60)
Link: https://tenet.nyc/unbound
Program:
Barbara Strozzi (1619-1677)
Silencio nocivo
I baci
L’affetto humano
La riamata da chi amata
Sigismondo D’India (1582-1629)
Odi quel rosinguolo
Io vidi in terra
Voi ch’ascoltate in rime sparse
Ardo, lasso, o non ardo?
Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
A quest’olmo
Al lume delle stelle
Altri canti d'Amor
Tempo la cetra
Francesca Caccini (1587-1640)
Lasciatemi qui solo
Io veggi i campi
Excerpts from La liberazione di Ruggiero dall’isola d’Alcina
About TENET Vocal Artists
Preëminent New York City-based early music ensemble TENET Vocal Artists celebrates its 16th season in 2024-25. Under Artistic Director Jolle Greenleaf, TENET Vocal Artists has won acclaim for its innovative programming, virtuosic singing, and command of repertoire that spans the Middle Ages to the present day.
Highlights from the past decade involve performances of all of J.S. Bach’s vocal masterworks including St. Matthew Passion, St. John Passion, Christmas and Easter Oratorios, Bach's motets, and Mass in B Minor. TENET has offered multiple performances of Handel’s Messiah and has appeared on tours of Italy, Germany, and the UK. Other special projects featured Schütz’s Musikalische Exequien, a three-year cycle of Carlo Gesualdo’s Tenebrae Responsories, a staged production of Charpentier’s Les plaisirs de Versailles, works by Purcell and his contemporaries celebrating music’s patron St. Cecilia, two surveys of medieval music, commissioned works by Reena Esmail and Caroline Shaw, and original theatrical performances highlighting works composed by, for, and about women in 17th century Italy.
Renowned for their interpretations of Renaissance and Baroque repertoire, TENET Vocal Artists' distinguished soloists have been praised for their pristine one-voice-to-a-part singing “to an uncanny degree of precision” (The Boston Globe). From 2010-2020, TENET's highly praised Green Mountain Project gave annual performances honoring Claudio Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 and other reconstructed Vespers featuring music by Monteverdi, Chiara Margarita Cozzolani, Giovanni Gabrieli, Antoine Charpentier, Michael Praetorius, and their contemporaries. The project’s final appearance in 2020 culminated in several concerts in Venice, Italy.
A driving force in cultivating the New York City early music community, TENET Vocal Artists has collaborated regularly with acclaimed instrumentalists, instrumental ensembles, and performing organizations. Some of our most memorable collaborations have been with Dark Horse Consort, Ensemble Caprice, Five Boroughs Music Festival, Quicksilver Baroque, and the Sebastians.
TENET Vocal Artists performs regularly at venues across New York and the Tri-state area including Carnegie Hall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Caramoor, Columbia University, Yale University, and more. Further afield, TENET Vocal Artists has performed at the Festival Casals de Puerto Rico, Berkshire Bach Festival, Cambridge Early Music Festival, Connecticut Early Music Festival, Costa Rica International Music Festival, Kultursommer Nordhessen, Montreal Baroque Festival, and many other prominent locations throughout the United States, Canada, Latin America, and Europe. www.tenet.nyc
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