Pergolesi's Stabat Mater with Jessica Lang Dance.

Photography © Kirk Richard Smith 2018

Choreographed by Jessica Lang and performed at the DeBartolo Performing Arts center in South Bend, Indiana. The beautiful piece presents Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater through contemporary dance. The two singers are incorporated into the movement. They are characters who participate in the story both directly and indirectly. Learn more here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXXP-xuKz6A 

Songs of Innocence and of Experience

Graduate recital from the University of Notre Dame. An evening of sights and sounds from medieval to modern times exploring themes of childhood, imagination, and fairytales. Music by Jean Sibelius, Franz Schubert, Gabriel Faurè, Alexander Zemlinsky, Peter Paul and Mary, Victoria Fraser, and Enya.

Buxtehude's Membra Jesu Nostri

Projections by Camilla Tassi

This concert was a visual journey through Buxtehude's masterpiece. Projections of the original manuscript, time lapse videos of light cascading through cathedral windows, and relevant art accompanied a historically informed performance. The visual media helps create a meditative atmosphere, contextualizing the music in both sacred and secular contexts.  

Music in the Potawatomi Conservatory of Plants

This concert sought to re-contextualize classical music into an unexpected place. The greenhouse provided a three-dimensional stage where the musicians performed music, both sacred and secular, from varied time periods and geographic locations. Lute songs by Henry Purcell were performed alongside gregorian chant, baroque opera arias, Irish traditional song, pop music, and medieval folk music. Children from the community recited poems from Shakespeare to John Muir. This benefit concert raised money for the St. Peter Claver Catholic Worker House in South Bend, Indiana.