Past Events Calendar
N.B. For concerts taking place on a Sunday, bookings via Cambridge Live will close at 5pm the day before (Saturday). Tickets will still be available on the door.
Summer Concerts:'Venice in Cambridge'
30 July - 11 August 2017
* Summer Concerts Deal: Buy tickets for all three concerts below and save £2 per ticket.
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Prometheus and the Barber's Son
The Intrepid Academy, Directed by Philip Thorby Sunday 6 August, 4pm Girton College Cambridge Chapel 
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Sylvestro di Ganassi dal Fontego, the son of a barber from Bergamo, became the most famous instrumentalist in Venice. As well as being a “sonator” (instrumentalist) for the Doge, Sylvestro taught noble amateurs, was a noted painter and wrote three books on playing the recorder and viols. He worked with the great Adriaan Willaert, maestro di cappella at St Mark’s, whom he described as “the new Prometheus of divine harmony”. Our programme celebrates the ambitious and passionate barber’s son and the grave Flemish composer – two very different characters playing out their lives in the chapels, court and chambers of the Serenissima.
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The Faces of Venice
Philomel Wednesday 9 August, 8pm Great St Mary's Church, Cambridge 
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Venice and its people brought to life by Philomel, with the help of an array of instruments from recorders and viols to rebec and bagpipes. We walk the streets, navigate the canals and peer into churches, workshops, palaces. On the way we encounter carnival-goers and instrument-makers, princes and printers, musicians from the Ghetto and the nobles who danced to their tunes, the people drawn into the greatest trading city of its day and the people it sent out to the world. A vivid kaleidoscopic impression of a Venice which is partly imagined, partly real, and wholly magical.
There will be a pre-concert talk entitled 'Sound and Space in Renaissance Venice' by Deborah Howard, Professor Emerita of Architectural History at the University of Cambridge. This will take place in the Divinity School of St John's College at 7pm, after which we will walk to Great St Mary's for the concert at 8pm. |
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Made in Venice
The Students of CEM's Renaissance Course 2017 Friday 11 August, 7.30pm Girton College Cambridge Great Hall 
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Continuing with our Venetian theme, the 2017 Cambridge Early Music Renaissance course will explore the intimacy and intensity of the Venetian madrigals of Adriaan Willaert and Cypriano de Rore, as well as following in the the footsteps of Venetian masters from Sylvestro Ganassi to Giovanni Bassano. Join us in Girton College Great Hall as the students of the 2017 Renaissance course showcase some of the works explored during the week.
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