New: Handel’s Messiah

2-CD live-in-concert recording

"A Messiah for the ages..." — Fanfare

Just in time for the holidays:

Tempesta di Mare & Choral Arts Philadelphia perform Handel's Messiah, with Ah Young Hong, soprano, Jennifer Lane, alto, Aaron Sheehan, tenor and William Sharp, bass, a two-disc set of our complete concert performance from March 2013 at Irvine Auditorium. A perfect gift.

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A Secret Flame

Songs for Versailles, with Aaron Sheehan

Tempesta di Mare welcomes back Aaron Sheehan, “the indispensible early music tenor” (American Record Guide), for art songs and chamber music from the time of Louis XIV, with music by Lully, Charpentier and Lambert, including scenes from Actéon and Le Mariage forcé.

Jan 25 — Arch Street Meeting House, Center City Philadelphia

Jan 26 — Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia

Tempesta Performs in DC with the Folger Consort

January 10 & 11, 2014. National Cathedral, Washington D.C.

Brave New World: A program exploring and celebrating the musical interpretations of Shakespeare’s The Tempest: Matthew Locke's 1674 incidental music for orchestra and voices, and the beguiling contemporary piece for soprano, baritone and early instruments by American composer James Primosch.

For information and tickets, click here to visit the Folger Shakespeare Library Consort page.

Music Workshop with Tempesta

Martin Luther King holiday weekend, January 17–20

Are you a singer or instrumentalist who’d love to learn and make music alongside Tempesta di Mare performers and other fabulous musicians? Then sign up for the 2014 Amherst Early Music Winter Weekend Workshop, January 17-20 (Martin Luther King Jr holiday weekend), held at Rutgers University, Camden. Registration and more information at the Amherst Early Music website.

• Project for voices and lutes: led by Julianne Baird (voices) and Richard Stone (lutes)
• Orchestra project: led by Gwyn Roberts (winds), Emlyn Ngai (upper strings), Lisa Terry (lower strings) and Adam Pearl (keyboards)
• Faculty concert: Jan 19, 8:00. Old Pine Street Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia
• Student concert Jan 20, 12:30

Special Project: Comédie et Tragédie

two seasons of concerts and recordings with a French accent