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Saturday, March 9th @ 8PM
Sunday, March 10th @ 2PM
Church of St. Francis Xavier
46 W 16th St, NYC
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In advance of our winter 2024 concerts, Artistic Director Mark Shapiro and composer Calliope Tsoupaki discuss her piece "Memento Nostri". Cantori's performance -- the U.S. Premiere -- will feature the recorder quartet Farallon, as well as viol de gamba quartet Parthenia.
Calliope Tsoupaki is a Greek-Dutch composer living in Amsterdam. Her compositions combine East and West into a contemplative and spiritual whole. Her works contain elements that refer to her Greek roots and her love of early as well as contemporary music. The result is a completely personal style and timelessness music. Her objective is expressing the essence as simply and clearly as possible.
So far her oeuvre consists of more than 100 works for various instrumentations, from solo to orchestral works, dance, theatre, opera and multimedia projects. Her music is praised for its melodic character, warm sound and emotional quality. The New York Times once described her work as “dizzyingly beautiful” and the Dutch magazine TM called her “Monteverdi of the 20th century”, and her “St. Luke Passion” had a startling succes during the Holland festival 2008.
From November 2018 to November 2021 she was Composer Laureate of the Netherlands. In the three years that Calliope Tsoupaki was Composer Laureate, she directly converted many social issues into music. She contributed to many concerts and festivals: for concert introductions, and to collaborate with venues, ensembles, orchestras and festivals.
In July 2021 she was awarded the prestigious Matthijs Vermeulen Composition Price, for her composition Thin Air, a composition for variable instruments and instrumentation as an expression of solidarity and compassion in the troubled times of the pandemic. Thin Air is performed more than 50 times in various festivals and by musicians from all over the world.
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This interview is the latest edition of our salon series Cantori/QUASI. Conceived during the pandemic, Cantori/QUASI brings the best of music and scholarship directly to your home. Each season, Artistic Director Mark Shapiro curates listening sessions with distinguished guests on themes of choral music past & present.
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This program is supported, in part, by the National Endowment for the Arts.
This program is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the NY State Legislature.
This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
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