Tenebre in Luce: Baroque Music for Lent

Friday, March 6, 2015 at 6:30pm

The singers of voce CONCITATO provide a musical journey through darkness and light in keeping with the Lenten season.  This program will feature the sacred works of Carlo Gesualdo and Claudio Monteverdi.  Experience the haunting chromaticism of Gesualdo’s 1603 Sacrae Cantiones, and discover how Monteverdi applied new text to his “Lamento d’Arianna” to create the equally expressive “Pianto della Madonna” for Lent.

St. Isaac Jogues Church

1 Community Street, East Hartford, CT

Free will offering.

HENRY REX: Tudor Music for the Chapel Royal

Sunday, January 25, 2015 at 4:00pm

First Church of Christ Congregational presents voce CONCITATO as part of their "Arts in the Center" concert series.  Enjoy the shimmering music of Tudor England as heard through the ears of Henry VIII in his Hampton Court chapel.

Featuring sacred works by Thomas Tallis and William Byrd, including both composers' Mass for Four Voices and Tallis' famed Nine Tunes for Archbishop Parker's Psalter.

First Church of Christ Congregational

12 South Main Street, West Hartford, CT

Admission: $10 for adults; children under 12 free with a donation for the West Hartford food pantry.

Advent Meditation: Sacred Music of the Renaissance

Saturday, December 6, 2014 at 5:00pm & 6:30pm

voce CONCITATO will serve as guest musicians for the Saturday Vigil Service at St. Thomas the Apostle Church in West Hartford.  Following the Mass, the ensemble will offer an Advent Meditation concert.  Featured on this program is Orlando de Lassus' mysterious "Prophetiae Sibyllarum" - an adventurous setting of twelve of the prophecies of the ancient sibyls which foretell the coming, life, and mission of Christ through imaginative and sometimes cryptic poetry.  A selection of Christmas motets by Byrd and Philips will round out the program.

5:00pm - Vigil Mass

6:30pm - Advent Meditation Concert

St. Thomas the Apostle Church

872 Farmington Avenue, West Hartford, CT

Suggested Donation: $10 Adults/$5 Students (Meditation Only)

Monteverdi: Innovator and Dramatist

Saturday, November 15, 2014, 5:30pm

A sampler of Monteverdi's breadth of work, featuring his Mass for 4 Voices (1650) and the breathtaking Lamento d'Arianna - the only remnant of his opera "L'Arianna", along with a selection of his famous madrigals.

SS. Cyril and Methodius Church

55 Charter Oak Avenue, Hartford, CT

Suggested donation: $10 Adults/$5 Students

Presented as part of the Concert Series at SS. Cyril and Methodius in Hartford.

Connecticut ACDA Convention

Saturday, October 18, 2014

The members of voce CONCITATO will present an interest session, "Exploring the Neglected World of Vocal Chamber Music", as well as participate in a masterclass with internationally acclaimed vocal sextet The Western Wind!

Central Connecticut State University

1615 Stanley St, New Britain, CT

Amore e Morte

Sunday, May 11, 2014, 7:00pm

Our official, full-length debut concert! Through the sacred music of Anerio and Palestrina followed by the wildly inventive madrigals of Gesualdo and Monteverdi, we'll explore themes of love and death as heard by the ears of the Italian Renaissance!

St. Patrick-St. Anthony Church

285 Church Street, Hartford, CT

Suggested donation: $10 Adults/$5 Students

Easter II Service

Sunday, April 27, 2014, 11:00am

voce CONCITATO provides a choral prelude, as well as hymns and anthems for the Easter II Service at the Cathedral of St. Joseph in Hartford.  We appear as guest artists of the Cathedral in collaboration with director of music and organist, Dr. Ezequiel Ménendez.

Cathedral of St. Joseph

140 Farmington Avenue, Hartford, CT

Lenten Meditation

Friday, March 28, 2014, 7:30pm

voce CONCITATO presents a short program preceding a service of the Stations of the Cross at St. Isaac Jogues Church in East Hartford.  Selections include works by Tallis, Palestrina, Byrd and others.  The performance will also feature projections by artist/designer Moana McAuliffe.

St. Isaac Jogues Church

1 Community Street, East Hartford, CT

Free admission.