Pedro Memelsdorff Seminars and Other Events

Discover the dates and venues of recent and upcoming seminars, conferences, talks ‒ and concerts other than Mala Punica's ‒ by Pedro Memelsdorff

Seminar

2-6

November 2026

Venice, Italy

Fondazione Giorgio Cini
L’aura di Willaert. Petrarchan Madrigals in Musica nova, 1559
with Lisandro Abadie, Katelijne Schiltz, and Corrado Bologna

Seminar

16-20

March 2026

Venice, Italy

Fondazione Giorgio Cini
Trionfi. Music, poetry and longevity in Guillaume de Machaut and Francesco Petrarca
with Marc Mauillon, and Pedro Memelsdorff

Seminar

22-26

September 2025

Venice, Italy

Fondazione Giorgio Cini
Le Concert des Amateurs. Joseph Bologne Chevalier de St. George
with Théotime Langlois de Swarte, and Pedro Memelsdorff

Seminar

23-27

June 2025

Venice, Italy

Fondazione Giorgio Cini
Venetiae, mundi splendor. Johannes Ciconia in Rome and Veneto, 1390-1412
with Pedro Memelsdorff, A. Zayaruznaya, and Francesco Zimei

Concert

4

June 2025

Basle, Switzerland

Freunde Alter Musik Basel, Saison 2024-25, Peterskirche
Kourou. Musik, Traum und Wirklichkeit. Französisch-Guyana, 1763–1765
Arlequin Philosophe, soprano Kathrin Hottiger, solo violin Théotime Langlois de Swarte, dir. Pedro Memelsdorff

Interview

12

April 2025

Paris, France

France Musique, Radio France
L'Échappée belle avec Pedro Memelsdorff.
by Jean-Yves Larrouturou

Seminar

25-29

November 2024

Venice, Italy

Fondazione Giorgio Cini
Sanctus Petrus et Sancta Maria Magdalena. Johann Adolf Hasse at the Ospitale degli Incurabili (1758)
with Vivica Genaux, and Raffaele Mellace

Competition

18-20

October 2024

Rovereto, Italy

Premio Bonporti 2024
Jury president

Concert

7

September 2024

Wrocław, Poland

Festival Wratislavia Cantans, Church of St Stanislaus, St Dorothy and St Venceslaus
Kourou. Music of broken dreams of a migration to French Guiana, 1763–1765
Arlequin Philosophe, soprano Kathrin Hottiger, solo violin Théotime Langlois de Swarte, dir. Pedro Memelsdorff

Concert

6

September 2024

Środa Śląska, Poland

Festival Wratislavia Cantans, Church of the Elevation of the Holy Cross
Kourou. Music of broken dreams of a migration to French Guiana, 1763–1765
Arlequin Philosophe, soprano Kathrin Hottiger, solo violin Théotime Langlois de Swarte, dir. Pedro Memelsdorff

Concert

1

September 2024

Utrecht, The Netherlands

Utrecht EMF, TivoliVredenburg (Grote Zaal)
Kourou. Music in the wreck of a migration dream. French Guiana, 1763-1765
Arlequin Philosophe, soprano Kathrin Hottiger, solo violin Théotime Langlois de Swarte, dir. Pedro Memelsdorff

Seminar

17-21

June 2024

Venice, Italy

Fondazione Giorgio Cini
The Leuven Chansonnier. Franco-Flemish songs, ca. 1470-75
with Anna Danilevskaia, Ryan O’Sullivan, and Adam Gilbert

Concert

9

May 2024

Florence, Italy

Villa I Tatti
Kourou. Music in the wreck of a migration dream. French Guiana, 1763-1765
Arlequin Philosophe, soprano Kathrin Hottiger, solo violin Théotime Langlois de Swarte, dir. Pedro Memelsdorff

Seminar

15-19

April 2024

Geneva, Switzerland

Haute École de Musique de Genève
Johannes Ciconia. Motets cérémoniaux

Seminar

9-13

October 2023

Venice, Italy

Fondazione Giorgio Cini
Pulcinella musico e filosofo. Neapolitan arias and cantatas of the 18th century
with Pino De Vittorio, Dinko Fabris, and Corrado Bologna

Seminar

20-23

June 2023

Venice, Italy

Fondazione Giorgio Cini
Franz Schubert as an admirer of Beethoven
with Amandine Beyer, and Andreas Staier

Masterclasses and Competition

19-22

December 2022

Tel Aviv, Israel

Tel Aviv Recorder Festival, Israel Conservatory of Music
Lectures, recorder masterclasses, jury member and president

Seminar

18-20

November 2022

Salzburg, Austria

Mozarteum University
Conference on the Codex Faenza 117 and recorder masterclasses

Seminar

2-6

November 2022

Venice, Italy

Fondazione Giorgio Cini
Viola bastarda and the Art of Italian-Style Diminution (1580-1630)
with Paolo Pandolfo, Pierre Bohr, Seth Coluzzi, Joëlle Morton, and Martina Papiro

Competition

25-30

October 2022

Rovereto, Italy

Premio Bonporti 2022
Jury president

Concert

19

October 2022

New Orleans, LA, USA

Cathedral-Basilica of St. Louis, King of France
Concert Spirituel: Saint-Domingue and New Orleans
The Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, guest conductor Pedro Memelsdorff. Video here

Concert

19

June 2022

Potsdam, Germany

Palace Sanssouci, Plant Hall Orangery
Caribbean Concert spirituel
Arlequin Philosophe, solo violin Théotime Langlois de Swarte, dir. Pedro Memelsdorff

Concert

12

June 2022

Washington, DC, USA

Terrace Theater, The J.F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Concert Spirituel aux Caraïbes
Opera Lafayette, guest conductor Pedro Memelsdorff

Concert

9

June 2022

New York City, USA

New York Music Festival, Teatro del Barrio
Concert Spirituel aux Caraïbes
Opera Lafayette, guest conductor Pedro Memelsdorff

final concert

22

May 2022

Barcelona, Spain

Escuela Superior de Música de Cataluña
Kourou. Domestic concert during a tropical epidemic. French Guiana, 1763-1765

Conference

5-7

May 2022

Tours, France

CESR, University of Tours
Music and Society in the French Caribbean, 1750-1810

Seminar

25-29

October 2021

Venice, Italy

Fondazione Giorgio Cini
Death in Venice. Johann Adolf Hasse's last Venetian works
with Vivica Genaux, and Raffaele Mellace

Concert

7

September 2021

Wrocław, Poland

Wratislavia Cantans Festival, National Forum of Music, Main Hall
Caribbean Concert Spirituel
Arlequin Philosophe, dir. Pedro Memelsdorff

Concert

6

September 2021

Bolesławiec, Poland

Wratislavia Cantans Festival, Minor Basilica of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary and St Nicholas
Caribbean Concert Spirituel
Arlequin Philosophe, dir. Pedro Memelsdorff

Seminar

31-04

May-June 2021

Venice, Italy

Fondazione Giorgio Cini
Ivan Khandoshkin. Music in Baroque St Petersburg, 1730-1780
with Andrey Reshetin

(cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic)

Seminar

19-23

October 2020

Venice, Italy

Fondazione Giorgio Cini
Cantar Distanti. Ignazio Donati's theatricalization of early Baroque acoustics
with Marco Mencoboni

Conference

4-5

March 2020

Venice, Italy

Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani / Fondazione Giorgio Cini
International Conference Barbara Strozzi (cancelled)

Concert

1

March 2020

Cambridge MA, USA

Memorial Church, Harvard Yard
Messe en cantiques / during Sunday Service

Concert

27

February 2020

Cambridge MA, USA

Memorial Church, Harvard Yard
Messe en cantiques / Open rehearsal with Q&A

Seminar

1-5

February 2020

Venice, Italy

Fondazione Giorgio Cini
Antonio Caldara in Venice and Vignanello. Trio-sonatas and chamber music
with Amandine Beyer, and Livio Marcaletti

Seminar

12-13

sett

November 2019

Würzburg, Germany

Julius-Maximilians-Universität
‘Faut-il perdre sa liberté?’ Music in the French-Atlantic colonies, 1760–1790

Seminar

8-12

October 2019

Venice, Italy

Fondazione Giorgio Cini
Westron Wynde. Taverner, Tye, and Sheppard: Masses, Motets, Psalms, and Antiphons in Mid-16th-Century England
with Peter Phillips, and Magnus Williamson

Concert

19

September 2019

Florence, Italy

Villa I Tatti
Dolce amaro: Renaissance lute music in Italy and England

Concert

12

June 2019

Florence, Italy

Villa I Tatti
Festa Napoletana: maschere, follie e travestimenti nel teatro comico napoletano

Concert

19

May 2019

Barcelona, Spain

Escuela Superior de Música de Cataluña
Concert spirituel aux Caraïbes — Música religiosa en el Caribe francés, 1760-1790

Seminar

18-23

February 2019

Venice, Italy

Fondazione Giorgio Cini
Opera and Slavery in the French Caribbean, 1760-90
with Vivica Genaux, Pedro Memelsdorff, and Lisandro Abadie

Seminar

26-30

November 2018

Venice, Italy

Fondazione Giorgio Cini
Caribbean Concerts Spirituels
with Sophie Daneman, Pedro Memelsdorff, and Bernard Camier

Concert

17

October 2018

Florence, Italy

Villa I Tatti
Enemies of State: Music at the Courts of Francis I and Charles V

Concert

30

May 2018

Florence, Italy

Villa I Tatti
Vicino un chiaro e cristallino fonte — madrigali e canzonette di Claudio Monteverdi e Giaches De Wert 1580 - 1640

Concert

20

May 2018

Barcelona, Spain

Escuela Superior de Música de Cataluña
Flautas mágicas — Escenas de sueño y transformación en la ópera francesa 1760-1790

Symposium

30-31

March 2018

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

University of Pittsburgh
Race and Empire in Global Music History, 1500 - 1800

Study Day

9

March 2018

Barcelona, Spain

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
En temps del gòtic

Seminar

19-23

February 2018

Venice, Italy

Fondazione Giorgio Cini
Jan Dismas Zelenka — Messe e sonate, 1720-30
with Vaclav Luks, and Alfredo Bernardini

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