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 UPCOMING APPEARANCES:
Saturday, May 16th, 2009 at 7:00pm
Admission (tickets at the door): Join us as we travel through time and trace an ever-evolving musical style during the 118-year reign of England's Tudor monarchs. All the Tudors were trained in music from childhood and were accomplished lutenists, singers, and even composers. Using the framework of the Tudor dynasty - 1485 through 1603 - we present a broad range of musical styles reflecting the varied musical influences left by this musically gifted clan, all of whom employed legions of important musicians, French, Flemish, Spanish and Italian. Our samplings from the bounteous Tudor musical legacy begin with mesmerizing rondeaux from the time of Henry VII, romp through the familiar lusty fare of Henry VIII's tempestuous court, sample serene sacred music to please the devout "Bloody Mary", and indulge in the lush and familiar songs from Elizabeth's Golden Age.
RECENT PERFORMANCES:
Sunday, March 22, 2009 at 4:00pm Join us as we travel through time and trace an ever-evolving musical style during the 118-year reign of England's Tudor monarchs. All the Tudors were trained in music from childhood and were accomplished lutenists, singers, and even composers. Using the framework of the Tudor dynasty - 1485 through 1603 - we present a broad range of musical styles reflecting the varied musical influences left by this musically gifted clan, all of whom employed legions of important musicians, French, Flemish, Spanish and Italian. Our samplings from the bounteous Tudor musical legacy begin with mesmerizing rondeaux from the time of Henry VII, romp through the familiar lusty fare of Henry VIII's tempestuous court, sample serene sacred music to please the devout "Bloody Mary", and indulge in the lush and familiar songs from Elizabeth's Golden Age.
DUO SERAPHIM: Lute songs and solos for Advent and Christmastide
 "...The Mignarda Duo, Ron Andrico and Donna Stewart, filled the room with lute music reminiscent of drops of water in a pristine Japanese pool and vocals as fine as the ringing of bells over distant snow..." -- from a review of this concert
published in the Ithaca Journal, December 24, 2008
benefit concert: Thursday, December 18th at 7:00 pm St. Thomas' Episcopal Church 2720 Slaterville Road in Slaterville Springs, New York directions & a map to the church from Ithaca Commons Admission: free-will donation to the Caroline Food Pantry
A special program celebrating the release of our Christmas CD, Duo Seraphim. Featuring our own arrangements for lute and voice of many familiar and traditional English, Irish, French, and German carols, juxtaposed with a few favorite Latin motets, Scots tunes, and one Italian lauda set to a very special poem by Petrarch, the program spans the seasons from Advent to Epiphany. St. Thomas' is an exceptionally nice space for this intimate music, and we invite you to join us for a peaceful and reflective antidote to the holiday madness.
7:30 pm The Shrine Church of St. Stanislaus 3649 East 65th Street in Cleveland, Ohio Freewill offering The Feast of St. Lucy occurs on December 13th, at the intersection of several diverse mid-winter traditions having to do with darkness and light. Mignarda and friends will perform sacred chant and polyphony proper to St. Lucy's Day, followed by a concert of music by John Dowland, aptly dedicated to 16th century patroness of musicians and poets, Lucy, Countess of Bedford. The candlelit splendor of the Shrine Church of St. Stanislaus will make a fitting and dramatic backdrop for this haunting break from the hectic holiday season. Mark your calendars now for this very special event.
DUO SERAPHIM: Lute songs and solos for Advent and Christmastide
"...As a jaded and sated holiday listener, I am drawn to anything lacking in kitsch, and there is nothing I've heard this season further from the manufactured art of American Christmas than Duo Seraphim. Surely, this is listening to holiday music without listening to 'holiday music'." -- Richard Banks, for christmascdreviews.com
A very special program celebrating the release of our Christmas CD, Duo Seraphim. Featuring our own arrangements for lute and voice of many familiar and traditional English, Irish, French, and German carols, juxtaposed with a few favorite Latin motets, Scots tunes, and one Italian lauda set to a very special poem by Petrarch, the program spans the seasons from Advent to Epiphany. We invite you to join us in the lovely acoustic of Pebble Hill Church for a peaceful and reflective antidote to the holiday madness.
AU PRES DE VOUS: 16th century French chansons for voices & lute
with special guests sopranos Jaime Gould Kibelsbeck & Rebecca Rinsema tenors Adam Perl & Jonathan Vance and bass Geoffrey Royall  Saturday, September 13th at 7:30 pm Pebble Hill Presbyterian Church 5299 Jamesville Road in Dewitt, New York
Sunday, September 14th at 7:30 pm
Admission: $12 general, $10 seniors & students, kids under 12 free
Mignarda Lutesong Duo returns to Syracuse and Ithaca to present a concert program of 16th century French chansons, entitled 'Au pres de vous'. The concert will include chansons in settings from one to five voices, solos with lute accompaniment, and a sprinkling of rarely-heard lute solos. For this performance, the duo is joined by an ensemble of five Ithaca-area singers, who will add texture and variety to this unusual program. The program traces the development of the 16th century Parisian chanson from Claudin Sermisy to Orlando Lassus, with the music of Philip van Wilder as the centerpiece. Philip van Wilder, who was master of music to England's Henry VIII, was a prominent musician and composer of chansons and sacred music. His instrument was the lute, but van Wilder's fame rests with his corpus of chansons, published on the continent and found in several English manuscript sources. Ranging from the sensitive and nuanced interweaving of five parts, to the rustic dance-like voix de ville (precursor to vaudeville), the program will feature several chansons that have not been performed for nearly 500 years.
Mignarda Duo will be featured in performance at the annual conference of the Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies at Binghamton University. This year's topic is ?VENUS AND THE VENEREAL: Interpretations and Representations from Late Antiquity through the Eighteenth Century?. More information on the conference may be found at:
Two area performances:
Saturday, March 29th at 7:00 pm
Sunday, March 30th at 4:00 pm
A special concert of Italian and English songs and lute music from 1560-1620. Join us for an Italian-flavored musical banquet, spiced with ingredients that influenced the music of Elizabethan lute virtuoso John Dowland. The program will also feature the original lute solos that were later transcribed by Ottorino Respighi in his popular "Ancient Airs & Dances".
A very special concert celebrating the release of our new Christmas CD, Duo Seraphim. Please join us in one of our favorite spaces for a peaceful afternoon prolonging the joys of the season once the stresses and obligations are safely over. The music on our new CD stretches from the seasons of Advent to Epiphany, as will this program. Join us! Thanks once again to Lyceum School Headmaster Mark Langley, and to the entire extended Langley and Lyceum families for their hospitality.
4:00 pm First Unitarian Society corner of Aurora & Buffalo in Ithaca, New York
Admission: $12, students & seniors $8 The Mignarda Duo is delighted to welcome special guests soprano Jaime Kibelsbeck, tenor Adam Perl, and bass Geoffrey Royall for an afternoon which will begin with a taste of Dowland's legendary melancholy, in a program of rarely-heard part songs - including the first published song cycle in the English language. The duo will then "purge melancholy" with a selection from our popular program of Scots and English ballads and folk tunes. Join us!
FREE: all are welcome
Thanks yet again to Lyceum School Headmaster Mark Langley, and to the entire extended Langley and Lyceum families for their wonderful hospitality and generosity in hosting these concerts.
The Stone Mill Bakery 10751 Falls Road in Lutherville, Maryland Freewill offering Internationally acclaimed lute virtuoso and Baltimore native Ronn McFarlane presents an entertaining and thought-provoking blend of old and new lute songs and solos. Joined by the Mignarda duo, McFarlane will perform his own compositions for voice and lute, together with music of the 16th and 17th centuries. Blending ancient and modern styles, he creates new music that is tonal and rhythmic in structure and played with consummate skill. Reviewers have described Ronn McFarlane as "probably the finest living exponent of his instrument" (The Times Colonist, Victoria, B.C.), and his playing as possessing "...a timeless charm and pith that are captured with effortless grace..." (TIME Magazine).
The Smart Monkey Organic Cafe 335 Elmira Road in Ithaca, New York Admission: $15 general, $10 seniors & students, kids under 12 free The first concert of the series will highlight the duo's collaboration with special guest artist and lute virtuoso, Ronn McFarlane, of the Baltimore Consort. Join us for a summer evening of Elizabethan songs, 16th century lute solos and duets, traditional ballads and folk music from the British Isles, and vibrant and touching new music for lute and voice composed by Ronn McFarlane. NOTE: Concerts in the Sunday Evening series are presented after the cafe's regular hours so that we may enjoy the unique acoustics of the space without distraction. A special selection of the Smart Monkey's famous coffees, teas, and delectables will be offered for sale at intermission. 
MI FA MORIRE: English and Italian Renaissance lutesongs
Morrison Center Recital Hall at Boise State University 1910 University Drive in Boise, Idaho Tickets: $10 general, $5 students A special concert of Italian and English music from 1560-1620. Join us for a program that includes dazzling music by little-known composer, Hippolito Tromboncino as well as an Italian-flavored musical banquet by Elizabethan lute virtuoso John Dowland. Also featured will be lute solos that were later transcribed by Ottorino Respighi in his popular "Ancient Airs & Dances".
This performance is sponsored by Joe and Jan Baldassarre & the Boise Early Music Society, with the co-operation of the Boise State University Music Department and the Boise State University Guitar Society.
 AU PRES DE VOUS: Petrarch's 'Canzoniere' and 16th century French lyric verse
McKenzie Theatre at Eastern Oregon University One University Boulevard in La Grande, Oregon Tickets: $5 all seats This program of song settings of 16th century French lyric verse will highlight the poetry of Ronsard and Marot, and will trace the influence of Petrarch's Canzoniere in the courts and intellectual circles of 16th century France. Mignarda duo is pleased to be appearing in La Grande as part of the International Language and Cultural Festival.
This performance is sponsored by the Eastern Oregon University Language Department and the Community School of the Arts.
The School House Retreat and Cultural Center 8448 Wagner Creek Road in Talent, Oregon Tickets: $20 general, $15 seniors, $5 students, kids under 12 free
Monday, April 23rd, 2007 at 8:00pm Tickets: $20 general, $15 seniors and OSF employees, $5 students, kids under 12 free A very special concert of music from the duo's latest CD, My Lord of Oxenford's Maske, featuring music and poetry centered around Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, and his circle. We're thrilled to be joined for this concert by internationally acclaimed lute virtuoso, Ronn McFarlane.
This concert celebrates the release of Mignarda's new CD,
7:30 pm The Shrine Church of St. Stanislaus 3649 East 65th Street in Cleveland, Ohio The Mignarda Duo is delighted to return once again to the Shrine Church of St. Stanislaus to present a concert of music by Elizabethan composer and lute virtuoso, John Dowland (Orpheus Anglicus), and his successor to the title, Henry Purcell (Orpheus Britannicus). Dowland, well-known as a master of melancholy music, also composed several brilliant love songs, some of which will be performed in our special concert program in honor of Valentine's Day. The program will also feature a personal selection of later 17th-century songs by Henry Purcell.
Join us in Trumansburg for a program including some of our favorite music: ballads known to have caused grown men to cry and quirky Scots tunes demonstrated to have caused persons with two left feet to actually tap them in time to the music!
LECTURE/RECITAL: Nicholas Lanier and Constantin Huygens
John Carroll University 20700 North Park Blvd in University Heights, Ohio
8:00 pm St. Luke Lutheran Church 109 Oak Avenue in the Collegetown neighborhood of Ithaca, New York A special mini-concert featuring music from a new program in celebration of the 500th anniversary of the first published book of lute music. (Preceded at 7:00pm by a short vesper service featuring a performance of Bach's Cantata 150 by the St. Luke choir & chamber orchestra. Join us for the entire evening, or come at 8pm for the lutesong duo only.)
THE KING'S MUSIC/DIVINE AMARILLIS
7:00 pm The Lyceum School 2062 Murray Hill Road in Cleveland, Ohio's Little Italy $12 admission; discount for students & Lyceum families The first half of the program, called 'The King's Music,' will feature music centered around the court of Henry VIII, whose appetite for music matched that of his more famous tastes. The second half of the program will feature the sumptuous music from 17th century France heard on their new CD Divine Amarillis, which has been selected by Cleveland classical radio station WCLV as a Choice CD for the month of July 2006. The Mignarda Duo are delighted to be returning to the Lyceum, an independent Catholic school providing a Classical education focused on forming the intellect, the imagination, and the emotions of students so that they are able to respond to and delight in the beautiful.
RONDEAU: A FRESH LOOK AT MUSIC OF THE 15th CENTURY suggested donation $12 The Mignarda Duo return to St. Stanislaus to present the enchanting results of their immersion into the earliest examples of lute songs from 15th century France by composers Ockeghem, Busnois, Ghizeghem and Morton. Also featured will be Italian lute solos from the earliest surviving lute manuscripts and published sources, and the dynamic frottole of Tromboncino and Cara.
3:00 pm at the Danby Town Hall 3649 Route 96B in Danby, New York, just south of Ithaca Free Ron Andrico and Donna Stewart are delighted to be appearing in their new home town. They'll present a program of their favorite music from England, Scotland, France and Italy from the period 1500-1620.
This concert also celebrates the release of our new CD, Divine Amarillis: Airs de Court 1570-1620. The concert series is sponsored by the Danby Community Council, and is made possible in part with public funds from the community Arts Partnership of Tompkins County/NYS Council on the Arts Decentralization program.
8:00 pm The Shrine Church of St. Stanislaus 3649 East 65th Street in Cleveland, Ohio's Slavic Village Join the full ensemble as we return to one of our favorite Cleveland venues to present a new program we're calling Mi fa morire, (or, 'Fun with the Hexachord'). We'll feature English & Italian music for lute and voices by Elizabethan lute virtuoso and composer, John Dowland and his Italian contemporaries Luca Marenzio, Angelo Notari, and Claudio Monteverdi.
7:00 pm First Unitarian Society Corner of Aurora & Buffalo in Ithaca, New York Admission: $12 The Mignarda Duo will perform their popular program "Goe Nightly Cares", featuring the music and poetry of John Dowland, Thomas Campion, John Danyel, and Nicholas Lanier, as well as French dance tunes and courtly airs from circa 1620.
Mignarda Duo will appear in a master class with lutenist Hopkinson Smith at the Longy School of Music's Pickman Hall in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Longy School of Music and the Cambridge Society for Early Music join forces to present a dynamic master class with one of the world's great lutenists. This event is open to the public and will feature Longy students and guest participants. Admission: $10 general; Longy students admitted free with Longy ID. For tickets or more information, contact the Longy School of Music at (617) 876-0956 ext. 500, or the Cambridge Society for Early Music at (617)-489-2062.
Mignarda Duo will be special guest artists at the Jefferson Classical Guitar Society's second annual benefit concert. Proceeds will support the 2005-2006 JCGS Concert Series, which will feature three world class concert guitarists in concerts and master classes. General admission tickets are $15, and can be purchased in advance at "CD Or Not CD", 343 East Main St., in Ashland or at Central Art Supply, 101 N. Central Ave, in Medford. Tickets will also be available at the door. For more information, call 552-9515 or visit the Jefferson Classical Guitar Society.
Mignarda Duo will be featured in performance and in a lecture-recital at the Ashland Authorship Conference. Co-sponsored by The Shakespeare Oxford Society and the Shakespeare Fellowship, the conference will take place at the historic Ashland Springs Hotel in Ashland, Oregon, home of the world-renowned Oregon Shakespeare Festival. More information on the conference may be found at
7:30 pm Grace Lutheran Church 1120 Walker Street in Port Townsend, Washington Suggested donation: $12 The Mignarda Duo will perform their popular program "Goe Nightly Cares", featuring the music and poetry of John Dowland, Thomas Campion, John Danyel, and Nicholas Lanier, as well as French dance tunes and courtly airs from circa 1620.
8:00 pm Rogue Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship 87 Fourth Street in Ashland, Oregon
Tickets: $12, $8 Students In our Ashland debut, the Mignarda Duo will present a program featuring the multi-layered Jacobean era music and poetry of John Dowland, Thomas Campion, John Danyel, and Nicholas Lanier, as well as lighter fare in the form of French dances and courtly airs from circa 1620.
Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens 714 North Portage Path in Akron, Ohio
Tickets: $22, $18 Stan Hywet Members Join us in the opulence of the Music Room at Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens for a sumptuous and entertaining pastiche of mid-sixteenth century Italian vocal music by Verdelot, Festa, de Rore, Palestrina, Tromboncino, and Marenzio. The program will also feature solo songs from the Bottegari lute manuscript and lute solos that were later arranged by Ottorino Respighi in his popular Ancient Airs & Dances suites.
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PSALMS & MEASURED VERSE: MUSIC OF SIXTEENTH CENTURY FRANCE (Mignarda Duo)
The Lyceum School Corner of Murray Hill and Paul, one block south of Mayfield Road in Cleveland's Little Italy
Tickets: $12 to benefit the Lyceum available at the door The Mignarda Duo, in collaboration with The Lyceum School, presents a special program of music from 16th-century France, featuring psalm and song settings of the poetry of Marot and Ronsard.
The Shrine Church of St. Stanislaus 3649 East 65th Street in Cleveland's Slavic Village The Mignarda Duo returns to St. Stanislaus to perform 16th-century music from the courts of the Valois kings. Featured composers include Sermisy, Clemens, LeRoy and Morlaye.
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ITALIA MIA (full ensemble) (program as described above)
A series of three 35-minute sets of solo lute song, featuring Mignarda Duo: mezzo soprano Donna Stewart and lutenist Ron Andrico. These very informal concerts of 16th century Italian songs and dance tunes will be offered three times during the Feast of the Assumption, but the two Saturday sets are completely different programs, so come more than once if you like. A freewill offering will be taken to benefit the school.
Dowland's finest masterpieces of melancholy from 'A Pilgrim's Solace', his last book of songs. Most of the songs were published for solo voice with lute accompaniment, but many can be performed with four or more voices, a seldom-heard option which was offered during this program.
Featuring 16th century music of Polish composer Jakob Reys, with courtly French airs from the same period by Jean Baptiste Besard, Antoine Boesset, Pierre Guedron, and others. 
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