The Musical World of Heinrich Schütz

An Academy celebrating the music of Heinrich Schütz is in the planning stages.

Bruce Dickey - cornetto
Suzie LeBlanc - voice (to be confirmed)
Catherine Motuz - trombone
Veronika Skuplik - violin
Hank Knox - keyboard

Syntagma Musicum:
The Musical World of Michael Praetorius

An Academy focussed on the music and writings of Michael Praetorius

With Bruce Dickey, Charles Daniels, Catherine Motuz, and Catalina Vicens.

On the Breath of Angels

Hana Blažíková joins Bruce and the Breathtaking Collective for a North American tour:

• March 3: Vancouver

• March 5: Columbus, OH

• March 8: Montreal

• March 10: New York City

• March 12: Dumbarton Oaks (Washington, DC)

• March 13: Dumbarton Oaks (Washington, DC)

Darkness into Light:
Music from Times of Pestilence 1575 - 2022

Music Connected with the Venetian Plague of 1575 and the Construction of the Chiesa del Redentore as a penitential gesture.

Includes a newly commissioned work by Robert Kyr creating a link between Venice’s Plague and the Coronavirus Pandemic 2020-2022

Final Concert Antwerp, AMUZ, November 18

Guided by Voices: Course on Virtuoso Italian Music of the Seicento
Bruce Dickey, cornetto
Catherine Motuz, trombone
Robert Mealey, violin
Elinor Frey, bowed bass instruments
Hank Knox, keyboards

A Conference at Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland) on Music in the World of Johannes Kepler with various perfomances and talks.

Bruce joins ensemble L’Arpeggiata directed by Christina Pluhar in a tour of Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo with Rolando Villazón in the title role.

Oct. 23 - 27 London (TBC)

Oct. 28 - 30   Graz, Musikverein für Steiermark

Oct. 31 - Nov. 1 Vienna, Konzerthaus

Nov. 3-4   Paris, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées (TBC)

Hana and Bruce take the Breathtaking Collective on tour in Europe

October 15 - Santiago de Compostela
Hana Blažíková, soprano
Bruce Dickey, cornetto
Mieneke van der Velden, viola da gamba
Jakob Lindberg
Kris Verlelst, harpsichord

October 19 - Timisoara, Romania
Hana Blažíková, soprano
Bruce Dickey, cornetto
Veronika Skuplik and Catherine Aglibut, violin
Mieneke van der Velden, viola da gamba
Jakob Lindberg
Kris Verlelst, harpsichord

Global Breath Festival, created by trumpeter Marco Blaauw

Sept. 26 - Breathtaking
Hana Blažíková, soprano
Bruce Dickey, cornetto
Rainer Zipperling, viola da gamba
Kris Verlelst, harpsichord

Sept. 27/28 - Workshops dealing with vocality on modern trumpet and a lecture on the history and culture of the cornetto

The Musical World of Michael Praetorius
Bruce Dickey, cornetto
Charles Daniels, voice
Catherine Motuz, historical trombone
Catalina Vicens, keyboards

Christmas in the Venice of Giovanni Gabrieli

Bruce will lead and play in a program of polychoral Christmas music for Early Music Vancouver

Concerts in Portland, Seattle, Vancouver, Victoria

Bruce and Elinor Frey will be among those featured in two concerts with Ensemble Camerata Nova, John Wiens, director.

Intermedio
Italian Courtly Entertainments in the 16th Century

November 20 - 30

Suzie LeBlanc – voice
Marie-Natalie Lacoursière – dance and gesture
Bruce Dickey – cornetto
Catherine Motuz – Renaissance trombone
Catalina Vicens – organ and harpishord

This course will be limited to 15 students. It is open to singers, and players of all 16th century instruments.