Choral Evensong
Sunday, October 13, 7:30 pm
St. Paul’s Memorial Church
1701 University Ave, Charlottesville
The evening prayer service is one of the most beautiful liturgies of the church. For this evensong service, Zephyrus sings the eight-part settings of the Magnificat and Nunc dimittis by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, responses by William Smith, and the motet, “Indicabo tibi,” by the little-known, late sixteenth-century German composer, Philippus Dulichius.
This church service is open and free to the public.
A Renaissance Christmas: Music by Palestrina, Lassus & Victoria
Sunday, December 8, 3:00 pm
St. John’s Episcopal Church
410 Harrison Street, Scottsville
Friday, December 13, 7:30 pm
St. Paul’s Memorial Church
1701 University Avenue, Charlottesville
Saturday, December 14, 4:00 pm
Trinity Episcopal Church
1118 Preston Avenue, Charlottesville
Zephyrus’s annual carol-free (almost!) Christmas concert, with sublime motets for Advent and Christmas by four of the most revered composers of the high Renaissance, Josquin des Prez, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Orlande de Lassus, and Tomás Luis de Victoria.
Our Lady of Sorrows: Music by Josquin, Isaac & Senfl
Friday, February 28, 7:30 pm
Cove Presbyterian Church
5531 Covesville Lane, Covesville
Saturday, March 1, 4:00 pm
St. Paul’s Memorial Church
1701 University Avenue, Charlottesville
Zephyrus presents “Our Lady of Sorrows,” a program focusing on one of the most popular chansons of the fifteenth century, Gilles Binchois’s Comme femme desconfortée. Setting a text in the voice of a woman whose lover has been taken by death, the chanson was repurposed in sacred polyphony in the Renaissance, transforming its original meaning to refer to Mary’s grief over the death of Jesus. A small vocal ensemble is joined by viola da gamba players Amy Domingues, Risa Crowder, and John Moran for music by Agricola, Josquin, Isaac, Senfl, and Ghiselin.
Faire Is the Heaven: Music by Harris, Gjeilo & Mundy
Saturday, May 3, 7:30 pm
St. Paul’s Memorial Church
1701 University Avenue, Charlottesville
In May Zephyrus presents a program entitled “Faire Is the Heaven,” exploring the music of the spheres from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first. The concert features heavenly music by a star-studded list of composers: William Mundy, William Byrd, William Harris, Johannes Brahms, Eric Whitacre and Ola Gjeilo.