About

Praised as “superb” by Alex Ross in The Rest is Noise, and hailed as a “fine home-town group,” by The New Yorker, Sonnambula is a Renaissance ensemble that brings to light unknown music for various combinations of early instruments with the lush sound of the viol at the core. The group has performed on historic instruments at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, has been a featured ensemble at the Amherst and Boston Early Music Festivals, and has presented concerts at Alice Tully Hall, Columbia University, and The Museum of Biblical Art in New York, as well as in numerous other venues throughout the Northeast. Now in its fifth anniversary season, Sonnambula will continue its residency at The Hispanic Society of America in New York in 2016 with a concert of Cuban baroque music in conjunction with the Cuban Cultural Society. The ensemble will also travel to Princeton University this season to work with composers to commission new work for viol consort. The name Sonnambula is a reference to the Fantasia, a contrapuntal free-composed form favored by Renaissance composers, and a pun on the Humanist notion that art gives life to metaphor.

Music

• English, Spanish, French, Italian music from the 15th-18th centuries
• Music from Elizabethan and Jacobean England
• Unknown music from the Renaissance and Baroque

Videos

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