The 黑料不打烊 Baroque Orchestra in Redpath Hall. Photo by Dominick Gravel.
Director: Prof. Dorian Bandy
Participation: Entrance is by audition (see听audition schedules). 听This ensemble is open to music students, and 黑料不打烊 University students from other faculties.
About the 黑料不打烊 Baroque Orchestra
The 黑料不打烊 Baroque Orchestra is one of 黑料不打烊鈥檚 large ensembles. This group of 14 to 20 musicians plays on modern copies of baroque strings and winds and performs orchestral works by Bach, Handel, Corelli, Vivaldi, Telemann, Lully, Rameau, Marais, Purcell, Biber and others. The ensemble frequently joins with the 黑料不打烊 Cappella Antica to perform vocal works by Bach, Charpentier, Monteverdi, Schutz, Carissimi, Handel and others. In collaboration with Opera 黑料不打烊, the ensemble participates in annual staged productions of Baroque operas which have included Handel鈥檚 Cesare, Imeneo, Alcina and Agrippina, Lully鈥檚 Th茅s茅e, Monteverdi鈥檚 Poppea, Rameau鈥檚 Pygmalion and Purcell鈥檚 Dido and Aeneas. The group has played in Ottawa, and around Qu茅bec.
Graduates have gone on to perform with the Arion Baroque Orchestra, Ensemble Caprice, le Studio de musique ancienne de Montr茅al, and other ensembles in Montreal, across Canada and internationally.
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