Bruce makes a “passeggiata” at the Museo Colombano, Tagliavini Collection, speaking of the cornetto and then plays a concert with:
Suzie LeBlanc - soprano
Maximillien Brisson - trombone
Catalina Vicens - organ
Bruce joins the Hathor consort and Dorothee Mields in Gdansk
for their program of music from the Thirty Years’ War:
Bruce revives this program with Hana Blažíková combining it with music from their second CD “On the Breath of Angels”
Iffeldorf, Bavaria
An Anonymous Mass for the Patron Saint of Bohemia:
And other recent discoveries from 18th century Brno
Vancouver Early Music
A performance of this program with Il Gardellino at the MAfestival in Bruges has been cancelled and the attached recording of the program for Passacaille Records has been indefinitely postponed. Fingers crossed for a rapid rescheduling!
The Musical World of Heinrich Schütz
An Academy celebrating the music of Heinrich Schütz is in the planning stages.
Bruce Dickey - cornetto
Suzie LeBlanc - voice (to be confirmed)
Catherine Motuz - trombone
Veronika Skuplik - violin
Hank Knox - keyboard
This program presents canzonas, motets, canzona-motets and madrigas from Milan at the time of the Spanish Viceroys
A co-production of the Breathtaking Collective and the Cappella Mariana of Prague: 5 singers (including Hana Blažíková and Barbora Kabatkovà), cornetto, violin, 2 trombones, 2 viols, theorbo and organ.
A recording for Passacaille Records is planned along with at least one concert in Belgium. Details to come…
Bruce rejoins Jordi Savall, the Capella Reial de Catalunya and Hespèrion XXI for
Al-Andalus & the Ancient Hesperia
At the Abu Dhabi Festival
Stefano Landi Il Sant’Alessio and
Malvezzi/Marenzio Intermedien für La Pellegrina
with Solisten and Musicians of Ensemble La Dolcezza, Concerto Palatino
and the Monteverdi-Chor Hamburg
Directed by Antonius Adamske
Sunday, November 11, 11am - Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg
An Academy focussed on the music and writings of Michael Praetorius
With Bruce Dickey, Charles Daniels, Catherine Motuz, and Catalina Vicens.
Hana Blažíková joins Bruce and the Breathtaking Collective for a North American tour:
March 3: Vancouver
March 5: Columbus, OH
March 8: Montreal
March 10: New York City
March 12: Dumbarton Oaks (Washington, DC)
March 13: Dumbarton Oaks (Washington, DC)
Music Connected with the Venetian Plague of 1575 and the Construction of the Chiesa del Redentore as a penitential gesture.
Includes a newly commissioned work by Robert Kyr creating a link between Venice’s Plague and the Coronavirus Pandemic 2020-2022
Final Concert Antwerp, AMUZ, November 18
Hana Blažíková joins Bruce and the Breathtaking Collective
At the Festival Lípa Musica in the town of Česká Lípa.
Bruce joins the Hathor consort and Dorothee Mields for their program of music from the Thirty Years’ War:
Saintes
Guided by Voices: Course on Virtuoso Italian Music of the Seicento
Bruce Dickey, cornetto
Catherine Motuz, trombone
Robert Mealey, violin
Elinor Frey, bowed bass instruments
Hank Knox, keyboards
Performance of Contemporary works for cornetto with Hana Blažíková, soprano, Bruce Dickey, cornetto , Veronika Skuplik, violin, Mieneke van der Velden, viola da gamba, and Kris Verhelst, keyboard.
Concert at 18.00, St. Agnes Convent, Prague
Bruce joins the Washington Bach Consort for a concert of polychoral music:
Saint Sophia Orthodox Cathedral
Washington DC
Music of Schütz, Praetorius, and Monteverdi
A Conference at Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland) on Music in the World of Johannes Kepler with various perfomances and talks.
Bruce joins ensemble L’Arpeggiata directed by Christina Pluhar in a tour of Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo with Rolando Villazón in the title role.
Oct. 23 - 27 London (TBC)
Oct. 28 - 30 Graz, Musikverein für Steiermark
Oct. 31 - Nov. 1 Vienna, Konzerthaus
Nov. 3-4 Paris, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées (TBC)
Hana and Bruce take the Breathtaking Collective on tour in Europe
October 15 - Santiago de Compostela
Hana Blažíková, soprano
Bruce Dickey, cornetto
Mieneke van der Velden, viola da gamba
Jakob Lindberg
Kris Verlelst, harpsichord
October 19 - Timisoara, Romania
Hana Blažíková, soprano
Bruce Dickey, cornetto
Veronika Skuplik and Catherine Aglibut, violin
Mieneke van der Velden, viola da gamba
Jakob Lindberg
Kris Verlelst, harpsichord
Global Breath Festival, created by trumpeter Marco Blaauw
Sept. 26 - Breathtaking
Hana Blažíková, soprano
Bruce Dickey, cornetto
Rainer Zipperling, viola da gamba
Kris Verlelst, harpsichord
Sept. 27/28 - Workshops dealing with vocality on modern trumpet and a lecture on the history and culture of the cornetto
A Mass for the Canonization of Johann Nepomuk (1729) and other Festive Music for the Church of St. Jacob in Brno
A concert for the series Abendmusiken in der Predigerkirche
The Musical World of Michael Praetorius
Bruce Dickey, cornetto
Charles Daniels, voice
Catherine Motuz, historical trombone
Catalina Vicens, keyboards
An Online Class for Amherst Early Music
Speech without Words: The imitation of the human voice on instruments
Appropriate for all melody instruments. Pitch 440.
Online class together with Linda Pearse for the San Francisco Early Music Society.
O Crux splendidior: A Venetian Motet from a Time of Plague
Time listed is European Central Time
Schweinfurt, Theater der Stadt Schweinfurt, 19.30
Cantus Cölln and Concerto Palatino, Konrad Junghänel, dir.
Ramskapelle, near Gent.
This is the first concert of our new program On the Breath of Angels, with Hana Blažíková and the Breathtaking Collective.
Christmas in the Venice of Giovanni Gabrieli
Bruce will lead and play in a program of polychoral Christmas music for Early Music Vancouver
Concerts in Portland, Seattle, Vancouver, Victoria
Bruce and Elinor Frey will be among those featured in two concerts with Ensemble Camerata Nova, John Wiens, director.
Concert at the Chapelle historique du Bon Pasteur, Montreal
Intermedio
Italian Courtly Entertainments in the 16th Century
November 20 - 30
Suzie LeBlanc – voice
Marie-Natalie Lacoursière – dance and gesture
Bruce Dickey – cornetto
Catherine Motuz – Renaissance trombone
Catalina Vicens – organ and harpishord
This course will be limited to 15 students. It is open to singers, and players of all 16th century instruments.
Music and the Cosmology of Johannes Kepler
CD recording at AMUZ, Anterwerp
November 15 - Concert, AMUZ
November 17 - Concert Innsbruck (TBC)
Res plena Dei (A Thing Full of God)
Convent Music for a Few Voices and Instruments
Bruce joins Kris Verhelst for a recital “La Bella Minuta”
The Mystery of Carlo G
Ornamented Monodic Songs, Duets and Trios for Voices and Instruments.
In this Academy we will examine the recently discovered “Carlo G” manuscript, as a point of departure in seeking to understand the style of highly embellished music for one or several voices in the last decades of the 16th century and the beginning of the 17th.
Suzie LeBlanc - voice
Bruce Dickey - cornetto
Catalina Vicens - keyboards and basso continuo
Hana and Bruce join the Australian ensemble Van Dieman’s Band. Here is the itinerary:
Wednesday 13th March, 7pm - Melbourne (VictoriaCollege Chapel)
Sunday 17th March, 3pm - Canberra (Wesley Music Centre)
Monday 18th March, 7pm - Sydney (St James King Street)
Tuesday 19th March, 7pm - Brisbane (St Andrews Uniting Church)
Friday 22nd March, 6pm - Hobart (St David’s Cathedral)
Saturday 23rd March, 2pm - Triabunna (Spring Bay Mill)
Sunday 24th March, 2.30pm - Adelaide (UKARIA, Mt Barker Summit)
