Jonathan Stuchbery

The festival’s final concert will take us to 16th-century Italy and features highly embellished quasi-improvised music. The art of playing diminutions, (called divisions in England, passaggio in Italy, double in France and glosas or diferencias in Spain) has been largely lost in modern times. It is thoroughly documented in written sources of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and early eighteenth centuries, and enjoyed a remarkable flowering in Venice from about 1580-1620. The concert will draw you into the intimate world of Italian Renaissance music. Musicians: Noémy Gagnon-Lafrenais, violin Josephine van Lier, viola da gamba Lucas Harris, theorbo Jonathan Stuchbery, theorbo Kerry Bursey, tenor, lute Christopher Bagan, historical keyboards