2024 / 2025 Season
Hello, friends of Vesuvius Ensemble!
We’re excited to announce our 2024/25 concert series:
Otterville, with Andrew Downing & friends
October 11, 2024
8:00pm, Heliconian Hall
Vesuvius is delighted to collaborate with the recently-formed ensemble known as Otterville, a brainchild of the brilliant contrabassist and arranger Andrew Downing. Described as “a foray into the complex simplicity of his ancestral Tobacco Belt lineage,” this project features music by such disparate artists as Kurt Weill, Billy Strayhorn, Eric Satie, and Bill Frisell, and on this occasion will mix with Vesuvius’s take on the great Italian film composer Nino Rota.
Tickets available here – https://bemusednetwork.com/events/detail/1026
From Chapel to Manger, with the Toronto Chamber Choir
December 8, 2024
7:00pm, Heliconian Hall
Vesuvius invites you into the warmth of our beloved annual Christmas concert. This time around, music from popular folk tradition will mix with sublime polyphony sung by members of the Toronto Chamber Choir, conducted by lutenist Lucas Harris.
Tickets available here – https://bemusednetwork.com/events/detail/1027
Viaggio a Napoli: Il ballo del ritorno, with Geneviève Gilardeau & friends
February 28, 2025
7:00pm, Heliconian Hall
Vesuvius is thrilled to feature the brilliant Tafelmusik violinist Geneviève Gilardeau together with an ensemble of her favourite collaborators. Her unique program Il ballo del ritorno will explore the theme of returns: how coming back to a beloved work of art, a cherished place, a loved one, or even a simple return to a catchy refrain or jazzy bass line can stir our whole being, like a wake-up call from the past. Works by Valente, Falconieri, Uccellini and Matteis mixed with traditional Neapolitan songs.
Tickets available here – https://bemusednetwork.com/events/detail/1028
Le Tarantelle: Spiders’ night!
May 16, 2025
8:00pm, Heliconian Hall
Our modern world is full of evils just as toxic as a spider’s bite. The rustic tarantella, born as an antidote to illness in rural Italy where there was no access to better medical care, might still today be the best treatment to purify your body and lift your spirits. But to access the tarantella’s healing power, we’ll need to find the music that pleases the “spider” whose “bite” caused your ailment. Join us to sample an array of tarantellas which may be virtuosic, melancholic, vulgar, comic, or frenetic. Somewhere in the mix will be the one that heals you!
Tickets available here – https://bemusednetwork.com/events/detail/1029
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