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"SIREN SONGS" April 5th, 20148:00PM
CONCERT ANNOUNCEMENTS! FREE! Courts to Convents: Women all-stars of the Baroque IIMusic of Women Baroque Composers:
Meda, Bembo, Jacquet de la Guerre and More!
Presented by
Gotham Early Music Scene's Midtown Concert Series!
325 Park Avenue at East 51st Street NYC
FREE - no tickets are necessary &
"SIREN SONGS"
Music of Baroque Women Composers
Friday February 21st7PMThe Olive Free Library4033 New York 28A, West Shokan, NY 12494$10 Suggested Donation at Door
"Winter Songs"
music of Vivaldi, Bach, and more.
Church of the Epiphany
York Ave. Between East 74th and 75th streets
New York City
8pm
TICKETS: $20 General $10 Students/Seniors - No one turned away! at the door
CONCERT ANNOUNCEMENT!FYER, FYER! Featuring Baroque Dancers:
Laura Careless and Marisol Cabrera
Monday October 7, 2013
8:00PM
The Gershwin Hotel
7 East 27th Street, NYC 10016
Tickets: At the door: $20 Gen/$10 Students/Sen.
PROGRAM:
Program:
Selections from Rebel's Les Elemens
Vivaldi "Summer" Violin Concerto in G minor, RV 315
Dowland: "Love those beams
Monteverdi: Chiome D'oro
Eccles: "I Burn..."
Selections from Eccles "Mad Lovers Suite"
and more!
SIREN Baroque kicks off its third season with Fyer, Fyer!, the first of four concerts exploring the ancient elements, in a special collaboration with the innovative baroque dancers Laura Careless and Marisol Cabrera.The program features blazingly passionate works by Morley, Monteverdi, Rebel, Scarlatti, and Handel, all of which use fire as a metaphor for nature’s wrath, spiritual zeal, lustful ardor, or the terrors of hell. With SIREN Baroque’s “impassioned performances” (Early Music America) accompanied by strikingly seductive choreography, it promises to be an evening to ignite the senses.
2013/14 Season Announcement
SIREN Baroque is proud to present their 3rd concert season: 2013/14. This year is full of exciting music and special guests and we hope to see you this year. Please sign up to receive our newsletter, details and other exciting news will be sent out periodically.
October 7th, 2013
"ELEMENTS - FIRE"
8:00PM
Friday December 20th, 2013
"Winter Songs"
8:00PM
Church of the Epiphany
York Ave. Between 74/75th streets, NYC
February 20th, 2014
Gotham Early Music Scene's Midtown Concert Series
"Women Part II"
St. Bart's Church Chapel, 54th street at Park Ave., NYC
1:15pm
April 5th, 2014
"Women Part II"
Drew University, Madison NJ
7:15pm pre-concert talk, 8:00pm Concert
May 8/9th 2014
End of Season Concert
Time/Place TBD
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http://sirenbaroque.wordpress.com/
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CONCERT ANNOUNCEMENT!
"SUMMER SONGS" - Music of Vivaldi, Purcell, Handel and more!
Please join us for a program of light and spirited vocal and instrumental summery songs. With special guest and SIREN, Emily Hale.
Saturday July 13th, 2013
Olive Free Library, West Shokan NY 12494
4:00PM
$10 Suggested donation at the door
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NEXT CONCERT!
Friday June 14th 2013
Boston Early Music Fringe Festival
"Women All-Stars of the Baroque Era"
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Church of the Covenant
67 Newbury St, Boston, MA 02116
Tickets: $10 at the Door, $5 Students/Seniors
CONCERT ANNOUNCEMENT!
Saturday, May 4 2013
The DiMenna Center
Tickets: $10 Students $15 Seniors $20 General
DIDO & AENEAS
with
Morningside Opera's production of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas focuses on the opera's most iconic moment, Dido's "Remember me, but not my fate," to explore notions of fame, memory, and public opinion in modern celebrity culture. In an age where social media defines public personae, whose fate can ever really be forgotten? Virgil's hero is recast as a Vice presidentlal hopeful, Troy Aeneas, with Dido Carthage as his secret super-starlet paramour. Belinda, Dido's publicist, sees the romance as a chance to bump Dido's ratings. The SourceHeiress, a bitter celebrity blogger who hates "all in prosp'rous state," tears the couple apart by manipulating public opinion as if by magic, leaving Dido only one tragic possibility for escape.
March 25th and 26th, 2013
DIXON PLACE THEATER
161A Chrystie Street, between Rivington and Delancey
A Valentine's Day Concert!
Please join us at 1:00PM this Thursday, February 14th for a little concert of our "Women All-Stars of the Baroque Era", it's short, sweet and best of all FREE!
St. Peters Church: Lexington Ave. at 54th Street, New York City
FREE!
PRESENTED BY Gotham Early Music Scene:
Antonio Canova's sculpture Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss
WE DID IT! We met our campaign goal!
Thank you Thank you Thank you! to all that participated in our CD campaign. We head into the studio - or rather - concert hall, to make our CD on February 11th and 12th. We expect the album to drop by late April!
With Love and Gratitude!
the SIRENS
OUR DEBUT CD CAMPAIGN IS LIVE!
On February 11th, 2013 we will head into the studio to record our "Women All-Stars of the Baroque Era" CD - a program that we began our ensemble with and played on tour in Mexico 2011. In this CD we highlight women composers of the Baroque Era: Barbara Strozzi, Elizabeth Jaquet de la Guerre, Isabella Leonarda, Francesca Caccini and more! This music is riviting, moving, lush and we feel needs to be heard! Help us out by donating (Partially Tax-Deductible!!) at:
www.indiegogo.com/sirenbaroque
Midtown Concert February 14th, 2013
We are overjoyed to participate in ARTEK's Midtown Concert Series February 14th, 2013
All concerts take place at Saint Peter's Church on Lexington Avenue at 54th Street on Thursdays at 1:15 and last approximately 35 minutes.
photo by: Adrian Buckmaster. Styling: Candice Manacchio
CONCERT ANNOUNCEMENT!
CANCELLED DUE TO SANDY!
SEASON OPENER!
2012-13 SEASON ANNOUNCED!
We are thrilled to announce our 2012/13 Concert season! We will be performing on some wonderful projects with some amazing people and hope that you will all make it out to see and hear us. Ticket information coming soon!
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October 28, 2012 4:00PM
Season Kickoff Concert Caffe Vivaldi
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November 30 (Time/Place TBD) & December 2nd 2012 2:00PM 809 Jefferson Ave, Brooklyn
Bach concerto/cantata program featuring our violinist Heym and Soprano Brittany Palmer
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February 14th, 2013
GEM's Midtown Concert Series "Women All-Stars" program
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May 2013
“Sirens’ Captive” concert featuring reknowned violinist Marc Destrube
** January 2013, we plan to record and release our debut album (“Women All-Stars of the Baroque Era”), to return to Mexico for a three-city tour **
SIREN and Company XIV to collaborate at the Philladephia Museum of Art!
Twilight in Arcadia
Friday, August 3, 2012
5:00 p.m. - 8:45 p.m.
Siren Baroque, a New York-based all women chamber ensemble, along with special guests from the acclaimed Company XIV theater company, present a pastiche of classical music works about the earthly dreams of paradise, immortality, love, and illusions of grandeur by composers including Caldera, Vivaldi, Scarlatti, Purcell, and more in this special Arcadia themed program.
End of the season celebration
The other night the SIRENS celebrated with a dinner in the west village. This year has been a whirlwind - everything from collaborative efforts with the fabulous Company XIV and Morningside Opera, to a tour in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico! We can't wait to pick it back up again in the fall - stay tuned! Lots of fantastic things are on the books. xthe Sirens
CONCERT ANNOUNCEMENT!
“…a fantastic, sexy, visually opulent night at the theater…” –NyTheatre.com
COMPANY XIV
Presents
JUDGE ME PARIS.
-A Baroque- Burlesque Opera-
in association with Morningside Opera and SIREN Baroque
MAY 17,18,19, 20 24, 25, 26, 27 8PM – 303 Bond St. Theatre
Directed and Choreographed by Austin McCormick
“…his inventive works are a brainy, high-entertainment mix of music hall, cabaret, theater and dance.” -NY TIMES
Excerpts from The Judgment of Paris-
Composed by John Eccles and John Weldon.
Libretto by William Congreve.
Don’t miss this Baroque Burlesque Opera fusing live music, projection, theatre, and dance to titillate and entertain. Watch as Pallas, Juno, and Venus vie for the title of fairest…. Who will win the Golden Prize?
Starring
Brett Umlauf (Pallas) Amber Youell (Juno) Brittany Palmer (Venus) Jeff Takacs (Zeus) Sean Gannon (Paris) Laura Careless, Cailan Orn, Ashley Handel, Katrina Cunningham, and Marisol Cabrera.
Set – Zane Pihlstrom
Costume – Olivera Gajic
Lighting- Gina Scherr
Projection- Corey Tatarczuk
$40
Company XIV.com
Brown Paper Tickets.com
“…a heady blend of baroque elegance and contemporary snap…Mr. McCormick and his crew show great humor and a pronounced appreciation for body heat. The combination is deliriously rewarding.” NY TIMES
CONCERT ANNOUNCEMENT!
Friday April 27, 2012
8:00PM
SIREN Baroque Presents
Special Guest: Katie Rietman, Baroque Cello
Works to be performed:
Antonio Vivaldi Double Cello Concerto, for 2 cellos, strings & continuo in G minor, RV 531 with Katie Rietman and Anneke Schaul-Yoder, Cellos
Luigi Rodolfo Boccherini Quintet in C Major, Op. 28 #4.
Domenico Scarlatti Tirsi Caro Duetto
Charles Avison/D. Scarlatti: Concerto Grosso No. 5 in D minor
Tenth Church of Christ, Scientist
171 Macdougal Street (off 8th between 5th & 6th)
New York, NY 10011
trains: A, B,C D,E,F,M @ west 4th or 1 train at Christopher Street
SIREN Baroque to perform at Renaissance Revolution at PS 321!
on Thursday, March 29 throughout the school day, PS 321 will be filled with the sounds of Early Music from the Renaissance period as instrumentalists of all sorts descend on the school for a Renaissance Revolution! In October, a similar infiltration took over the school as nearly 20 cellists performed the music of Bach in every classroom. See SymphonyNOW’s video report from PS 321’s Bach Invasion: www.youtube.com/watch?v=prk_9lOFF80 Media coverage is welcome with advance notice. Please contact Christina Jensen atchristina@christinajensenpr.com or 646.536.7864 to make arrangements.
We're Headed to Mexico!! We are thrilled to be headed to Festival Musica Barroca de San Miguel de Allende on March 22, 2012!
Ticket and Festival information is here: Festival de Musica Barroca 
SIGN UP TODAY! Pennsylvania Musicians!
SIREN to teach at "Elizabeth at the Court of The Sun King" workshop
March 8-11, 2012
Penn State School of Music Facilities, University Park, PA
http://www.scmusicacademy.org/
http://sunkingbaroqueworkshop.com/
Violin, viola, cello and piano students (ages 8-18) are invited to a weekend of hands-on learning about baroque music and dance. Workshop director Emily Hale and colleagues from New York City-based ensemble SIREN Baroque will introduce students to period instruments, coach student chamber ensembles of all levels*, and present a Saturday evening public concert. Auditors are welcome to register and observe sessions as we explore the culturally rich time of Louis XIV through the eyes of one of his favorite musicians, child wonder Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre. Get your time travel passport in order for interactive learning about life and music at the court of the Sun King!
*Beginners must demonstrate facility with basic music-reading and technical competence in order to participate.
We're Headed to Mexico!! We are thrilled to be headed to Festival Musica Barroca de San Miguel de Allende on March 22, 2012!
Ticket and Festival information is here: Festival de Musica Barroca
SIREN to teach at "Elizabeth at the Court of The Sun King" workshop
March 8-11, 2012
Penn State School of Music Facilities, University Park, PA
http://www.scmusicacademy.org/
http://sunkingbaroqueworkshop.com/
Violin, viola, cello and piano students (ages 8-18) are invited to a weekend of hands-on learning about baroque music and dance. Workshop director Emily Hale and colleagues from New York City-based ensemble SIREN Baroque will introduce students to period instruments, coach student chamber ensembles of all levels*, and present a Saturday evening public concert. Auditors are welcome to register and observe sessions as we explore the culturally rich time of Louis XIV through the eyes of one of his favorite musicians, child wonder Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre. Get your time travel passport in order for interactive learning about life and music at the court of the Sun King!
*Beginners must demonstrate facility with basic music-reading and technical competence in order to participate.
November 3 & 4 Concert update!
Works by:
Gabrieli, Lotti, Strozzi, Monteverdi, Bassano and more! No advanced sales tickets - Suggested donation $15 at the door (no one turned away!)
New York Times Review of The Judgment of Paris
SIREN got a nice mention in this review of Morningside Opera's performance of Judgment of Paris!
SIREN joins Morningside Opera in The Judgment of Paris
8/30/11 - We are so excited to join Morningside Opera in their steamy, re-vamped version of Judgment of Paris. A Time Out New York's Critic Pick. Whips and Feathers will fly!
SIREN Singer, Brett Umlauf get's interviewed
Check out our SIREN, Brett Umlauf's interview with Karen Tortora-Lee, thanks for the shout out Brett!
March 22, 2011 - Our debut at Caffe Vivaldi!
This is where it all started - check out some photos on our facebook page, from our "Women Superstars of the Baroque Era" concert.
