Musica Angelica (http://www.musicaangelica.org/) comes to downtown Long Beach with a new 3-concert series - November 7, January 9, and February 20! Subscribers to all three performances save 15% off the normal ticket prices! This series will offer audiences an incredibly rare opportunity to hear Baroque chamber music at its finest, in the intimate surroundings and brilliant acoustics of the Long Beach Center Theater (http://www.longbeachcc.com/static/index.cfm?contentID=1207).
Led by Music D...
Musica Angelica (http://www.musicaangelica.org/) comes to downtown Long Beach with a new 3-concert series - November 7, January 9, and February 20! Subscribers to all three performances save 15% off the normal ticket prices! This series will offer audiences an incredibly rare opportunity to hear Baroque chamber music at its finest, in the intimate surroundings and brilliant acoustics of the Long Beach Center Theater (http://www.longbeachcc.com/static/index.cfm?contentID=1207).
Led by Music Director Martin Haselböck, a leading authority in 17th and 18th Century orchestra and opera performance, as well as the award-winning court organist for Vienna, with soloists including violinist Cynthia Roberts, instructor at the Juilliard School, oboist Gonzalo X. Ruiz, renowned soloist and expert in historical reed techniques, and Ilia Korol, trained at the Moscow Conservatory – this ensemble will conjure up one word – “Encore!”
Tickets are now on sale for:
Thursday, November 7th – 7:30PM • Bach, Telemann, and Vivaldi
(http://www.musicaangelica.org/concerts/2013-2014-season/bach-telemann-boccherini-vivaldi)
Thursday, January 9th – 7:30PM • Rome vs. Venice – Baroque concertos
(http://www.musicaangelica.org/concerts/2013-2014-season/rome-vs-venice)
Thursday, February 20th – 7:30PM • Handel’s opera “Acis and Galatea”
(http://www.musicaangelica.org/concerts/2013-2014-season/acis-galatea)
About MUSICA ANGELICA
MUSICA ANGELICA is an internationally renowned Baroque orchestra based in Santa Monica, California and led by music director Martin Haselböck, award-winning organist, conductor, and composer. Musica Angelica is dedicated to the historically informed performance of Baroque and early Classical music on period instruments. Its programs include a mixture of known masterworks by composers such as Bach, Handel and Vivaldi, along with rarely heard ‘musical gems’ by the Baroque era’s vast collection of composers.
Since its inception in 1992, Musica Angelica has produced an annual subscription season of orchestral and chamber concerts in venues throughout greater Los Angeles. In addition, the orchestra performs and collaborates with esteemed institutions both here and abroad, including the Long Beach Opera, Los Angeles Master Chorale, Pacific Chorale, Los Angeles Opera, Orchëster Wiener Akademie, Tölzer Boys Choir, the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Norton Simon Museum. Musica Angelica also creates memorable programs with world-acclaimed artists such as Marion Verbruggen, Suzie LeBlanc, Vittorio Ghielmi, Rachel Podger, Elizabeth Wallfisch, Rinaldo Alessandrini, Giovanni Antonini and Harry Bicket.
Musica Angelica’s first international tour, distinguished by sold-out performances and wide critical acclaim, took place in March 2007 in a joint venture with Haselböck’s Orchester Wiener Akademie. The ensemble presented 13 performances of Bach’s St. Matthew Passion in the U.S., Mexico and Europe. In September and October 2010, the orchestra completed a successful four-country tour of South America as well, with performances taking place in top concert halls throughout the continent, including two sold out performances in the Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires. In May 2011 the orchestra made its Vienna debut with a sold-out performance of Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos. The orchestra returned to South America in 2011 and 2012.
A visionary Music Director, Martin Haselböck often brings a new twist to performances by combining traditional Baroque music with avant-garde multimedia. One of his creations, “The Infernal Comedy,” staring John Malkovich, was premiered by Musica Angelica in Santa Monica and has enjoyed over 100 repeat performances throughout America and Europe. In fall of 2011, Musica Angelica toured the Americas with The Infernal Comedy, performing 16 concerts in ten cities to sold-out audiences totaling over 23,000.
In 2007, Musica Angelica raised its profile with a contract for four recordings on the Germany-based New Classical Adventure (NCA) label. The first, released in 2007, is Handel’s “Acis and Galatea,” the second, released in 2008, includes the concertos of Telemann featuring the principal players of the orchestra as soloists, the third in the series is comprised of Bach cantatas, released in 2009, and the fourth CD in 2010 features principal oboist Gonzalo Ruiz in works for oboe, organ and soprano by Telemann and Hertel.