Join us to meet Prof. Anthony R. DelDonna, author of Instrumental Music in Late Eighteenth-Century Naples: Politics, Patronage, and Artistic Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2021), in conversation with Prof. Guido Olivieri (University of Texas at Austin) as they discuss the monograph and ongoing research into the instrumental music traditions of Naples.
In his book, Prof. DelDonna, who is also the Music Program Director at Georgetown University, investigates the wide-ranging role of instrumental genres within late 18th-century Neapolitan culture and introduces readers to this rarely explored sector of local artistic life.
The presentation will be followed by a concert of associated repertoire, performed by the critically acclaimed early music ensemble Modern Musick. The program will include works by Cimarosa, Alborea, Guglielmi, and Mascitti.
WHEN: November 11, 2021 at 7PM
WHERE: Georgetown University – 1501 Tondorf Road, Washington, DC 20007
(Located inside The Edward B. Bunn, S.J. Intercultural Center (ICC) Auditorium, on Georgetown University’s main campus)
This event is organized in collaboration with
the Italian Research Institute (Georgetown College) and
the Georgetown University Department of Performing Arts
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MUSIC PROGRAM
Instrumental Music of Early Modern Naples
Risa Browder (baroque violin); John Moran (viola da gamba and baroque cello);
Dongsok Shin (harpsichord)
Francesco Alborea (1691-1739), Sonata for Cello & Basso continuo in D major
Domenico Cimarosa (1748-1801), Sonata in C major “per il fortepiano,” ms. 147
Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi (1728-1804). Sonata in F major for keyboard & violin, op. 2, no. 4
Michele Mascitti (1664-1761), Sonata for Violin, Cello & Basso continuo in g minor, op. 6, no. 15
GUIDO OLIVIERI
Guido Olivieri is Professor of Musicology at the University of Texas at Austin, where he teaches history of music and directs the UT Early Music Ensemble “Austinato.” Before joining the faculty at the Butler School of Music, Olivieri has been a Research Fellow at the University of Liverpool (UK) and at The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University, and a Mellon Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan.
His articles in scholarly journals and collective volumes have focused on the developments of string sonata in the 18th century, investigating aspects of performance practice, musical patronage, and reconstructing the cultural relationships between Naples and other European capitals. His groundbreaking research – conducted mainly on unknown archival sources and overlooked repertory – has significantly contributed to the revival of interest on Neapolitan instrumental music and musicians.
He has co-edited a volume on A. Corelli’s music and contributed entries to The New Grove Dictionary of Music, the MGG, and the Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani. Olivieri has presented at meetings of the AMS, the IMS, and the Italian Musicological Society, and has given lectures at academic institutions in the US and Europe. In Spring 2018 he was the Robert M. Trotter Visiting Distinguished Professor at the University of Oregon. He is currently president of the Society for Eighteenth-Century Music.
Olivieri has always championed the importance of making available musicological research to the general public. He has realized editions of the repertory he rediscovered and worked with international artists and ensembles specialized in early music. He has contributed to more than 10 CD projects and published the critical edition of a newly discovered manuscript sonatas by A. Corelli (Le sonate da camera di Assisi) and of two unknown cello sonatas by G. Bononcini ( available here ). His current projects include the critical edition of Cimarosa’s masterwork Il matrimonio segreto (Bärenreiter).
ANTHONY R. DELDONNA
Anthony R. DelDonna, Ph.D. is Professor of Musicology and Director of the Music Program at Georgetown University. He is a specialist in eighteenth-century topics, in particular Neapolitan music, musicians and culture. Prof. DelDonna’s research has focused primarily on opera, archival studies, performance practice and ballet and been published in the peer-reviewed journals Early Music, Eighteenth-Century Music, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Recercare, Studi musicali and Civiltà musicale and in various scholarly collections on eighteenth century music.
He is the co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Opera (with Pierpaolo Polzonetti; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), editor for Genre in Eighteenth-Century Music (Ann Arbor: Steglein Press, 2008) and co-editor (with Anna Celenza) of Music as Cultural Mission: Explorations of Jesuit Practices in Italy and North America (St. Joseph University Press) and a collection of Clarinet and Piano transcriptions by Ferdinando Sebastiani (with Prof. Antonio Caroccia for Castejon Music Editions).
RISA BROWDER
Risa Browder has performed with the Folger Consort, Washington Bach Consort, Smithsonian Chamber Players, REBEL, English Concert, London Baroque, Consort of Musicke, London Classical Players, Academy of Ancient Music, Hanover Band, Florilegium, Musiciens du Louvre, and Purcell Quartet. Her recording credits include Chandos, Hyperion, Dorian, Virgin Classics, Erato, Deutsche Grammophon, EMI. She is the concertmaster of Modern Musick. Ms. Browder earned a MusB at Oberlin Conservatory, studied at the Royal College of Music in London, and pursued post-graduate study at the Schola Cantorum in Basel, Switzerland.
JOHN MORAN
John Moran, a native of the Washington, D.C. area, appears regularly as soloist and chamber musician on baroque and classical cello and viola da gamba on both sides of the Atlantic. He received his professional training at the Oberlin Conservatory and the Schola Cantorum (Basel, Switzerland).
After a decade in Europe where he appeared regularly with groups such as The Consort of Musicke, English Baroque Soloists, Les Musiciens du Louvre, and Ex Cathedra, he returned to America where he has played with Folger Consort, Opera Lafayette, the Smithsonian Chamber Players, the New York Collegium, and the Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, among others. He is principal cellist of the Washington Bach Consort for whom he also co-directs their Wunderkind Projekt, an outreach program that introduces public school students to Bach cantatas. He is artistic director of the period instrument group Modern Musick, in residence at Georgetown University. He teaches baroque cello and gamba at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore where he co-directs the Baltimore Baroque Band, the school’s baroque orchestra, with violinist Risa Browder. Recording credits include Dorian Recordings, Bridge Records, Virgin Classics, Deutsche Grammophon, ERATO, ATMA Classique, Hänssler Classic, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, and Musica Oscura.
Also a musicologist, Dr. Moran is a contributor to Grove Music Online and reviews books on musical topics for various journals. He is writing a historical monograph on the cello for Yale University Press. He is currently vice president of the Viola da Gamba Society of America and president of the Kindler Cello Society of Washington. Other interests include bicycling, linguistics and architecture. He and his wife, Risa Browder, have two sons who pursue musical and artistic interests.
DONGSOK SHIN
Dongsok Shin has been a member of REBEL since 1997. He was born in Boston and played the modern piano from the age of four. Since the early 1980’s, he has specialized exclusively on harpsichord, organ, and fortepiano.
Much in demand as a soloist and continuo player, Mr. Shin has appeared with the American Classical Orchestra, ARTEK, Concert Royal, Early Music New York, Carmel Bach Festival, Mark Morris Dance Group, the New York Philharmonic, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. He has toured throughout North America, Europe, and Mexico, has been heard on numerous radio broadcasts nationally and internationally, and has recorded for ATMA Classique, Bridge Records, Dorian/Sono Luminus, Hänssler Classic, Helicon, Lyrichord, and Newport Classic. He was a founding member of the Mannes Camerata, receiving international critical acclaim as music director for their productions of early baroque operas, and he was a member, as well as a guest director of NYS Baroque in Ithaca, NY.
In his spare time, he tunes and maintains harpsichords in the New York area (he is the harpsichord technician for the Metropolitan Opera and tuner of the antique keyboards at the Metropolitan Museum), and he is well known as a recording engineer, producer and editor of numerous early music recordings. He is married to early keyboard player and director of ARTEK, Gwendolyn Toth, and they are the proud parents of three children and one new cat.