The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage
Piffaro, the Renaissance Band
2008 Premiere Recording Grantee
$25,000
Piffaro, the Renaissance Band, was awarded $25,000 to produce a recording for MMC featuring a Vespers program by Kile Smith. Guest artists: The Crossing (chamber choir), conducted by Donald Nally.
Piffaro, the Renaissance Band, brings to its audiences historically informed performances of music from the late Medieval, Renaissance, and early Baroque periods, in the manner of the civic, court, and chapel wind bands that existed between 1450 and 1650. The ensemble has toured extensively throughout the US and Europe. Piffaro has had successive recording contracts with Newport Classic, Deutsche Grammophon’s Archiv Produktion, Wyndham Hill, and Passacaille, and Dorian Recordings. http://www.piffaro.com/
Kile Smith, no photo credit