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VOCE CELESTE
16 August, 7 p.m. Kretinga Franciscan Church
Julie Roset, soprano (France) / sopranas (Prancūzija)
Davide Pozzi, organ (Italy) / vargonai (Italija)
For the ones who have already heard Julie Roset’s voice it will not be difficult to guess that it was the biggest inspiration for the title of this program. The purity of emission, the fine sense of intonation, and the perfect control of vibrato are the most distinguished features of her angelical voice.
The other connotation of this title comes from the fact that it’s inspired by sacred music; at the baroque period, composers used to accept different kinds of commissions, but writing music upon sacred texts remained one of the highest assignments a musician could have.
In order to show all qualities of Roset’s singing, she presents this program of sacred baroque music from France, Italy, Germany, Poland, and England in the seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries.
PROGRAM
Henry Purcell: Tis Nature’s Voice
Michel-Richard de Lalande: Troisième leçon du Mercredi Saint
Mikolaj Zielenski: Gustate et Videte
Claudio Monteverdi: O quam Pulchra
Andreas Hammerschmidt: Vulnerasti cor meum
Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers Préludedu 2e ton – fugue – fugue grave – plein jeu
François Couperin: Salve Regina
Henry Purcell: O! Fair Cedaria
Henry Purcell: Evening Hymn
JULIE ROSET
Soprano Julie Roset was the Grand Winner of the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition in 2022. Roset has appeared as Papagena/Die Zauberflöte at Opéra de Toulon, as Amour in Mondonville’s Titon & l’Aurore at l’Opéra Comique and as Amour/Les Indes Galantes at Opéra Royal de Versailles and the Beaune Festival. At the 2022 Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Julie Roset sang Valletto and Amore in L’incoronazione di Poppea under direction of Leonardo Garcia Alarcon
In concert, Julie Roset has appeared regularly with Cappella Mediterranea and Leonardo García Alarcón in Bach’s B-minor Mass, voce sola works by Monteverdi and Sacrati’s La Finta Pazza and during her residency at the Aix Academy, she performed a programme of Mozart & contemporaries with Ensemble Pygmalion under Raphaël Pichon. Last season, she debuted with Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France in Acis & Galatea.
Highlights of the 2022/23 season include her debut with Philharmonia Baroque as Handel’s Theodora (Richard Egarr) and her house debuts at Teatro Real as Euridice/La Musica in Sasha Waltz’s acclaimed production of L’Orfeo (García Alarcón), and at Opéra du Rhin as Amore in L’incoronazione di Poppea (Pichon).
DAVIDE POZZI
Davide Pozzi got the diploma of harpsichord, fortepiano and clavichord, organ and organ composition with full marks at the Conservatorio G. Verdi in Milan. He completed his studies in early music at the Civica Scuola di Musica di Milano and at the Schola Cantorum in Basel.
In his early career, Pozzi won the second prize at the international contest “Bonporti” in Rovereto, and the Bärenreiter prize at the “Telemann Wettbewerb” in Magdeburg. Chairman of both contests was Gustav Leonhardt.
Now, Pozzi is performing all over Europe, Mexico, Israel, USA and Japan, at the highest levels concerts, such as: Salle Pleyel e Cité de la Musique Paris, Berlin and Vienna’s Konzerthaus , Amsterdam’s Concertgebow, Teatro alla Scala Milano, Teatro Regio Parma, Teatro Real of Madrid etc.
He is collaborating with several groups, such as Il Giardino Armonico, I Barocchisti, Il Pomodoro, La Venexiana and others.
Pozzi recorded more than 45 CDs and many broadcasts for various radio and television broadcasting stations all over the world.
He is conductor of the Mailänder Kantorei, vocal and instrumental ensemble of the main Protestant Christian Church in Milan. Pozzi teaches harpsichord and early keyboards at Conservatorio in Bari.
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