The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage
Piffaro, The Renaissance Band
A Royal Christening
2010 Grantee
$45,000
Piffaro, the Renaissance Band, was awarded $45,000 for a two-part program recreating a royal christening that occurred in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1616. Works by Leonhard Lechner, Ludwig Daser, Gregor Aichinger, Balduin Hoyoul, and Michael Praetorius will make up in the first half of the program, a christening mass. The secular half of the program will feature music by Cristofano Malvezzi, Emilio de’ Cavalieri, Giulio Caccini, Didier le Blanc, and Isaac Posch. Piffaro will collaborate with two early music ensembles: Parthenia, a consort of viols, and Blue Heron, a Renaissance chamber choir. Soprano Laura Heimes, and dancers from the New York Historical Dance Company, directed by Dorothy Olsson, will perform in the second half of the program. Piffaro, Parthenia, and New York Historical Dance Company will present educational programs at John Welsh School and Settlement Music School.
Photo: Piffaro by Andrew Pinkham