CONGIOIA
  • Home
  • About
  • Director
  • Artists
  • Media
    • CD Recordings
    • Videos >
      • Sublime Vocal Gems of the German Baroque Era
      • Coffee Cantata
      • Bach in Leipzig
      • Inspired by Goethe
      • Bach and More Bach
      • Musical Antidotes to a Plague
      • Baroque Virtuosi at the Dresden Court
      • Exhilirating Baroque Cantatas, Arias, and Sonatas
  • Concerts
    • Current Concerts
    • Past Concerts
  • Membership
  • Contact

Past Concerts:
​2011

Con Gioia's performances in 2011.

“PLAY from the SOUL” (CPE Bach):
Heeding the Composer’s Advice
A Harpsichord Recital

Picture




​Sunday, October 16, 2011 4:00 p.m. 

Neighborhood Unitarian Universalist Church of Pasadena
301 Orange Grove Boulevard
Pasadena, CA 91103

Preethi de Silva
Internationally acclaimed soloist and Artistic Director of Con Gioia 
performing on her unique German-style harpsichord made by John Phillips 

“Ms. de Silva has a profound understanding of CPE Bach’s idiosyncratic language.” 
                                                                                              --Early Music, UK

C.P.E. Bach
     Fantasia in A major, H. 278 (Wq. 58/7)
     Sonata in G minor, H.47 (Wq. 65/17)
Preethi de Silva
     Pas de deux and Prelude
     J. S. BachPartita no. 4 in D Major, BWV 828
D. Scarlatti
​     Two Sonatas
     Jacques DuphlyLa Forqueray and Chaconne in F

Artists

Ticket Prices

General admission: $25
Seniors, Friends of Con Gioia, EMA, SCEMS: $20: 
Students with ID, children under 12: $12
Tickets available at www.congioia.org or mail a check before October 9 to: Con Gioia 1020 Kent Drive, Claremont, CA 91711.  For further information, call 909.624.0638

The Food of Love

Sunday, March 6, 2011 3:00 p.m. 
At an historic residence in San Marino, CA  91108
Address will be printed on tickets
Picture




​Michael Maniaci and Brenda Rae in Glimmerglass Opera's 2007 
production of Orphée et Eurydice
Photo: George Mott/Glimmerglass Opera.

Artists

"The amazing male soprano Michael Maniaci [is] headed for a major career."
                                                            --New York Times

"[Preethi de Silva] moves effortlessly from wit to virtuosity to expressive or 
fantastic passages, rarely crossing the narrow dividing line between the 
expressive and self-indulgent."
                                                            --Early Music (Oxford, UK)
Michael Maniaci, Male soprano
M. Anne Rardin, baroque violin
Danielle Cummins
, baroque violin
Denise Briesé
, viola da gamba and violone
Jason Yoshida
, baroque guitar and lute
Preethi de Silva, director, harpsichord

Click here for artists' bios
Michael Maniaci's website

Henry Purcell
     Selection of songs and airs
Giulio Caccini
     Selections from Le Nuove musiche
Barbara Strozzi
     Cantata: Lagrime mie
Nicola Porpora
     Alto Giove  (Polifemo)
Bach
     Laudamus te (Mass in B minor)
      Schliesse mein Herze (Christmas Oratorio)
Handel
     Arias from Giulio Cesare, Imeneo, Flavio, and Agrippina
      Chaconne in G with 21 Variations for Solo Harpsichord

Ticket Prices

Admission to concert & reception: $75, by prior reservation ONLY (until 10 a.m.,on 3/5/2011)
Or please send a check by 3/1/2011 to Con Gioia, 1020 Kent Drive, Claremont, CA 9171
For more information, call 909.624.0638
​
E-mail: [email protected]
​

Con Gioia is a member of Early Music America, 
which is commemorating its 25th anniversary

Proudly powered by Weebly
  • Home
  • About
  • Director
  • Artists
  • Media
    • CD Recordings
    • Videos >
      • Sublime Vocal Gems of the German Baroque Era
      • Coffee Cantata
      • Bach in Leipzig
      • Inspired by Goethe
      • Bach and More Bach
      • Musical Antidotes to a Plague
      • Baroque Virtuosi at the Dresden Court
      • Exhilirating Baroque Cantatas, Arias, and Sonatas
  • Concerts
    • Current Concerts
    • Past Concerts
  • Membership
  • Contact