John Griffiths, musicologist and specialist in Ancient Music, will develop a serie of free activities aimed at disseminating his knowledge about the historical instruments of pulsed strings. This activities are contextualized in the XV Festival of Ancient Music of the University of Santiago de Chile. The first actitivy is a vihuela concert on Tuesday, December 17 at 12:00 and two master classes on this same subject on the 18th and 19th december from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
On December 13, the Choir Victoria Cantus will perform a concert in Cáceres (Spain) at the Santiago Chuch at 19:00, focused on the music of Francisco Guerrero. This event, sponsored by the FundaciónTatiana Pérez Guzmán el Bueno, will offer a selection of Guerrero's spiritual villanesques, and it is a free ticket entrance.
The chamber choir of the University of Salamanca, conduced by Bernardo García-Bernalt offer us next Sunday, December 15, at 7:00 pm in the chapel of Archbishop Fonseca's College a concert focused on Sebastián de Vivanco's music. This concert is linked to the conmemorative activities for the 500th anniversary of the Fonseca's College. It is a tiket-free event and the coir will offer an overwiev of Vivanco's prodution, specialli foccused on the mass O quam suavis est:
The Cathedral of Barcelona celebrates this year the fifth centenary of the 19th chapter of the Order of the Golden Fleece, which took place during the reign of Carlos I. Among other actuations on November 29 at 8:00 p.m. it will took place a free concer twith pieces of Melchor de Robledo, Bartomeu Cáceres, Josquin Des Prez, Pierre de la Rue, Pedro de Escobar, Francisco de Peñalosa and Antonio de Cabezón. They will be interpreted by the ensamble "La Caravaggia", the "Francesc Valls" choi" and the organist Juan de la Rubia, all directed by Lluís Biosca.
On november 29, at 8 pm, the RTVE (Radio TeleVisión Española), conducted by Lorenzo Ramos, will carry out a new concert focused on Victoria's music. In this case it will took plane in the Cathedral of Santo Domingo de la Calzada (La Rioja) due to the celebrations of the jubilee.
The choir 'Coro de la Sociedad Musical de Sevilla', conduced by Pedro Teixeira, wil carry out two concerts in Seville, specifically in the parish of Saint Carlos Borromeo (November 30, 20:30) and Saint Albert ( December 1, 18:30). The concerts will offer music form some iberian compossers of the end of the XVIth century (Tomás Luis Victoria, Estêäo Lopes Morago y Duarte Lobo). 10 euros tickets could be bought in this link.
The Spanish choir Ars Poliphonica is carring out an international tour entitled "Ouróboros. La mvsica de los días" with a very ambitiuous program wich include music form the Renaissance to the XXI century. In their own words, they present a journey across the best vocal music of the last sixs centuries, and in this tour there is also the Victoria's motetete O vos omnes.
The XXIII sesion of the Ubeda&Baeza festival of Early Music will take place between October 23 and December 8 with a program focused on the Italian influence on Western early music. The festival will be organized in four different cicles. The first one, entitled global Global Italy will explore italian influencie both in religious and profane between the XIVth to the XVIIIth centuries.
