Upcoming events.
Barts Lunchtime Concert
Lunchtime concert in the recently and beautifully restored great hall of St. Bartholomew’s Hospital.
More information and tickets available here.
Beverley & East Riding Early Music Festival
Tickets available here.
Voices of San Lazzaro
Celebrating their union between Armenian and Italian traditions, Intesa explore the connections between sacred and secular love, both in their pain and redemption – highlighting the Armenian story of faith, and the women’s story of misunderstanding. These stories are told through pieces selected from both traditions, which are woven together in sets through music and narrative. Intesa’s practice of self-accompaniment is inspired by figures like Francesca Caccini, Barbara Strozzi, and the Concerto delle donne, as well as the Armenian ashugh traditions of storytelling through song with the accompaniment of the kamancha.
Swaledale Festival #1
Music that blurs the lines between folk, baroque and the contemporary, with this unique duo whose heritage spans Italy and Armenia.
Playing viols (the mellow ancestor of the cello) and entwined with singing, Intesa performs two intimate, time-travelling concerts: firstly in Askrigg’s iconic church in upper Wensleydale, and later in the enchanting hillside church at Downholme.
More info & tickets here.
Swaledale Festival #2
Music that blurs the lines between folk, baroque and the contemporary, with this unique duo whose heritage spans Italy and Armenia.
Playing viols (the mellow ancestor of the cello) and entwined with singing, Intesa performs two intimate, time-travelling concerts: firstly in Askrigg’s iconic church in upper Wensleydale, and later in the enchanting hillside church at Downholme.
More info & tickets here.
Intesa at St Martin in the Fields
Voices of San Lazzaro
Tickets available here.
Join us on a journey to the Venetian island of San Lazzaro. For the past 300 years, this tiny island has been home to an Armenian monastery and a vital centre of cultural preservation, exchange, and scholarship.Voices of San Lazzaro explores Venice as both a hub of musical composition and publishing in the 17th century, and as a historic bridge between East and West. The programme includes works by Giulio Caccini and his daughters Settimia and Francesca, alongside Monteverdi, Lassus, and Strozzi, interwoven with traditional Armenian melodies, ancient chants, and excerpts from the Armenian Divine Liturgy.
We’re deeply grateful to the City Music Foundation for supporting this concert.
Tunnell Trust Tour #5 - Cowal Music Club
Join us for our Scottish tour, generously supported by the Tunnell Trust.
Our programmes will include a wide range of music which we arrange ourselves, including 5th century Armenian chants, Italian opera arias, French baroque dances, Armenian folk music, and even some Radiohead and Charles Aznavour.
For more information and tickets, please visit the venue’s website here.
Tunnell Trust Tour #4 - The Georgian Concert Society
Join us for our Scottish tour, generously supported by the Tunnell Trust.
Our programmes will include a wide range of music which we arrange ourselves, including 5th century Armenian chants, Italian opera arias, French baroque dances, Armenian folk music, and even some Radiohead and Charles Aznavour.
For more information and tickets, please visit the venue’s website here.
Tunnell Trust Tour #3 - Melrose Music Society
Join us for our Scottish tour, generously supported by the Tunnell Trust.
Our programmes will include a wide range of music which we arrange ourselves, including 5th century Armenian chants, Italian opera arias, French baroque dances, Armenian folk music, and even some Radiohead and Charles Aznavour.
For more information and tickets, please visit the venue’s website here.
Tunnell Trust Tour #2 - Newtonmore Music Society
Join us for our Scottish tour, generously supported by the Tunnell Trust.
Our programmes will include a wide range of music which we arrange ourselves, including 5th century Armenian chants, Italian opera arias, French baroque dances, Armenian folk music, and even some Radiohead and Charles Aznavour.
For more information and tickets, please visit the venue’s website here.
Tunnell Trust Tour #1 - Kircaldy Music Society
Join us for our Scottish tour, generously supported by the Tunnell Trust.
Our programmes will include a wide range of music which we arrange ourselves, including 5th century Armenian chants, Italian opera arias, French baroque dances, Armenian folk music, and even some Radiohead and Charles Aznavour.
For more information and tickets, please visit the venue’s website here.
Resonanzen Festival “Salome’s Nightmare”
More info & tickets available here.
Intesa joins forces with Arsen Petrosyan and his quartet for a special concert exploring Salome’s myth. Featuring music by Alessandro Stradella, Claudio Monteverdi, Giacomo Carissimi, Simeon Yerevantsi, as well as Armenian sacred and folk music.
The Culture Trust Luton: Music In The Museum
More info & tickets available here.
Classical music performance taking place in the stunning Drawing Room, surrounded by the museum's unique art collection and with spectacular views overlooking Wardown Park.
Join us for a stunning performance with Intesa Duo - A Celebration of Christmas with Viols and Voice.
Intesa @ ECOS Festival in Sierra Espuña
Tickets & info: here
Voices of San Lazzaro
Nuestro programa presenta una unión entre las tradiciones armenia e italiana, explorando las conexiones entre el amor sagrado y el amor secular, tanto en su dolor como en su redención. Destacamos la historia armenia de la fe y la historia de las mujeres sobre los malentendidos. Estas historias se cuentan a través de piezas seleccionadas de ambas tradiciones, que se entrelazan en conjuntos a través de la música y la narrativa. Nuestra práctica de autoacompañamiento se inspira en figuras como Francesca Caccini, Barbara Strozzi y el concerto delle donne, así como en las tradiciones armenias ashugh de contar historias a través de canciones con el acompañamiento del kamancha.
Intesa at Llibreria Byron - Barcelona
Info & tickets here.
Join us at the beautiful Llibreria Byron in Barcelona for a programme which connects Italy, Armenia, baroque arias, ancient chants, and even Byron himself!
Donne in Love #2
Tickets & info: here.
Two performances of the same programme: 4.30pm & 7pm
The wonderfully-expressive viola da gamba duo, Intesa, return to 38 St Giles Chapel for a recital dedicated to the work of the great English poet, John Donne. The recital is designed like a baroque suite, with spoken and sung renderings of Donne’s greatest love poetry interspersed with viol music by his English and Italian contemporaries.
Donne in Love #1
Tickets & info: here.
Two performances of the same programme: 4.30pm & 7pm
The wonderfully-expressive viola da gamba duo, Intesa, return to 38 St Giles Chapel for a recital dedicated to the work of the great English poet, John Donne. The recital is designed like a baroque suite, with spoken and sung renderings of Donne’s greatest love poetry interspersed with viol music by his English and Italian contemporaries.
Intesa at St Clement Danes Curch
We’re delighted to be part of the St Clement Danes concert series, a free Sunday recitals featuring up and coming musicians.
Free attendance, donations encouraged.
More info & tickets available here.
La Donna e la Musica – Weibliche Klangwelten der Renaissance und des Barocks
This programme tells the story of Armenian and Italian cultural exchange in Venice. The Venetian island of San Lazzaro degli Armeni has been home to an Armenian monastery since 1717, where monks studied and transcribed ancient Armenian chant and folk music. We combine the sounds of San Lazzaro with those of Venice itself, with works by both Giulio and Francesca Caccini, Claudio Monteverdi, Luca Marenzio, and Barbara Strozzi, all published in Venice in the 16th and 17th Centuries. We also integrate folk music that was transcribed by Komitas Vartapet, an Armenian musicologist, composer, and priest who visited the monastery in 1907. The practice of self-accompaniment brings together early Italian and Armenian folk traditions, creating a programme that tells stories of both divine and romantic love, exploring love’s elements of suffering and redemption.
Tickets available here.
Two Moors Festival: Love Cannot Dissemble
Tickets available here.
PROGRAMME
Giulio Caccini Dalla porta d'oriente
Antoine Forqueray La LeClaire
Orlando di Lasso Susanne un jour
Francesca Caccini Io mi distruggo
Trad. Armenian Hov Arek
George Frideric Handel Piangerò la sorte mia (from Giulio Cesare)
Marin Marais Chaconne (Book V, No. 83)
Luca Marenzio In un boschetto
Barbara Strozzi Amor dormiglione
- Interval -
Trad. Armenian Keler Tsoler
Claudio Monteverdi Lamento della ninfa
Komitas Vardapet Soorp soorp
Francesca Caccini Maria, dolce Maria
Tarquinio Merula Folle è ben che si crede
Settimia Caccini Due luci ridenti
John Dowland Can She Excuse My Wrongs
Michael East Love Cannot Dissemble
Alfonso Ferrabosco II So, so, leave off
Marin Marais L'Arabesque
Trad. Armenian Shogher jan
The award-winning duo, Intesa, was formed at the Royal Academy of Music by Lucine Musaelian and Nathan Giorgetti, where they were Chamber Music Fellows in 2023-24. Nathan and Lucine, who is also an exceptional singer, have a shared passion for the sound of the viol (also referred to as the viola da gamba, or gamba) and its combination with the voice. The effect is stunning in its beauty and drama. They will perform a varied programme that includes traditional Armenian songs and music from the baroque period by Monteverdi, Strozzi and Handel, among others.
Two Moors Festival: Love & Lullabies for 0-5s and their grown-ups
Tickets available here.
PROGRAMME
François Couperin Le Dodo ou l'Amour au Berceau
Trad. Irish Da Mihi Manum
Trad. Welsh All Through the Night
John Dowland Time Stands Still
Komitas Vardapet Chinar Es
Lucine Musaelian Morning Light
Michael East Love Cannot Dissemble
Marin Marais Les Voix Humaines
Movses Khorenatsi Urakhatsir Srbuhi
Antoine Forqueray La du Vaucel
Enjoy a relaxed performance by the award-winning duo, Intesa, without the additional expense of a babysitter! Combining the stunning combination of viols, (a Renaissance string instrument), and voice, this relaxed, lullaby-themed morning concert from Lucine Musaelian and Nathan Giorgetti features traditional songs from Ireland and Wales, as well as a rich tapestry of works from the 16th-century and a contemporary piece by Lucine Musaelian.
Running time approximately 40 minutes.
Tea & coffee will be available.
Concert in Deruta
I joyful celebration in honour of Martin and Tessa Neild, who have kindly organised this concert and are celebrating their joint birthdays that weekend.
Vilalte Music Festival #3
Intesa joins forces with three other duos: Chantefable, Flutes & Frets, and Emanuele Addis & Rachel Allen, for a special collaborative concert.
Vilalte Music Festival #2
Intesa joins forces with three other duos: Chantefable, Flutes & Frets, and Emanuele Addis & Rachel Allen, for a special collaborative concert.
Vilalte Music Festival #1
Intesa joins forces with three other duos: Chantefable, Flutes & Frets, and Emanuele Addis & Rachel Allen, for a special collaborative concert.
Intesa at the Islington Festival
Join us for an special concert in Islington’s Little Angel Theatre. This late-night performance will feature themes of conflict, country, love, and youth.
For more information and to book tickets, click here.
Intesa at Stoke Newington Early Music Festival
Venice and the island of San Lazzaro degli Armeni provide the inspiration for Intesa Duo's programme: works by Monteverdi, Caccini, Strozzi and Morenzi, as well as Armenian composers Nerses Shnorhali and Grigor Narekatsi, exploring romantic and sacred love.
More information available here.
Intesa at DB Music
We’re delighted to return to DB music so soon after our first gig there for another evening of our favourite music, including Armenian chants and folk songs, Baroque pieces, modern covers and original compositions by Lucine.
We hope you can join us at this lovely and welcoming venue.
For tickets, please click/tap here.
Intesa at dB Music
This free concert is proudly presented by Local & Live in Hackney in collaboration with DB Music and with the generous support of Hackney Council.
Don’t miss this one-night-only performance in the heart of Hackney. Come early and let yourself be transported.
More information available here.
Intesa in Beaconsfield
Tickets available here.
The familiar and warm bass Early Music tones of two 7-string viols are but the starting point in this recital by award-winning Intesa Duo. Lucine Musaelian ~ bass viol & voice and Nathan Georgetti ~ bass viol, post-grads at the Royal Academy of Music, will entrance you with their musical evolution into Armenian folk, rock covers and self-penned songs. Within 2 years of setting up the duo they are in demand for performances round the UK, on the continent and the USA and are winning awards at music festivals.
Lullabies for Valentine’s Day
Promoted by the Stoke Newington Early Music Festival, we present a concert for little ones, their parents and carers.
This Early Music for Early Years concert is one of SNEMF’s series of performances for small children held during the SNEMF summer festival and at other times through the year.
More info and tickets available here.
Vienna Resonanzen Festival »Alte Meister«
Tintoretto und die Musik
This programme, performed in the Bassano Hall of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, will be centred around the legendary Venetian painter Jacopo Robusti, best known as Tintoretto.
Tickets available here.
Leeds Lunchtime Chamber Music
LEEDS LUNCHTIME CHAMBER MUSIC 24/25
Free admission, no booking required!
Programme to include:
Komitas Vardapet/Trad. Armenian Chinar es
Marin Marais Le Badinage
Monsieur De Sainte-Colombe Tombeau Les Regrets
Barbara Strozzi Che si può fare
John Dowland Sweet stay a while
Tobias Hume A Merry Conceit
George Frideric Handel Piangerò la sorte
Trad. Armenian Shoger Jan
Approximately 50 minutes without interval
Lucine Musaelian and Nathan Giorgetti formed Intesa at the Royal Academy of Music after discovering a shared passion for the viol, its combination with the voice and with new works, and the overlap between folk and baroque music. Their programmes centre around the art of self-accompaniment across genres ranging from Baroque to Pop.
Baroque Around the Books 4
We’re thrilled to team up with York Explore for a delightful series of informal music concerts!
Tickets are FREE, and everyone is welcome!
Come along and enjoy beautiful music in your local library.
More information available here.
Baroque Around the Books 3
We’re thrilled to team up with York Explore for a delightful series of informal music concerts!
Tickets are FREE, and everyone is welcome!
Come along and enjoy beautiful music in your local library.
More information available here.
Baroque Around the Books 2
We’re thrilled to team up with York Explore for a delightful series of informal music concerts!
Tickets are FREE, and everyone is welcome!
Come along and enjoy beautiful music in your local library.
More information available here.