Sequentia

Ensemble for Medieval Music. Benjamin Bagby, Director

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34th Season
 
 

Concert Schedule

Next Concert

28 October 2011
City The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA – Early Music In Columbus, Greek Orthodox Cathedral
Program Chant Wars

Forthcoming Concerts

13, 14 and 15 January 2012
City Musée National du Moyen Âge / Cluny – Paris, France
Program Frankish Phantoms (French premiere)
25 and 26 February 2012
City Houston TX / USA: Da Camera of Houston
Program Fragments for the End of Time
03 March 2012
City Boston (Wellesley) MA / USA: Houghton Chapel, Wellesley College
Program Fragments for the End of Time
06 March 2012
City New York City, NY / USA – Morgan Library
Program Fragments for the End of Time

Recent Concerts

04 September 2011
City Wratislava Cantans Festival, Poland
Program Voices from the Island Sanctuary
11 September 2011
City Trigonale Festival, Austria
Program Fragments for the End of Time
29 September 2011
City Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, CA / USA  
Program Benjamin Bagby’s ‘Beowulf’
04 October 2011
City Wake Forest, NC / USA: Wake Forest University Secrest Concert Series, Brendle Recital Hall, 7:30
Program Benjamin Bagby’s ‘Beowulf’
02 September 2011
City Wratislava Cantans Festival, Poland
Program Benjamin Bagby’s ‘Beowulf’
23 August 2011
City Radovljica Early Music Festival (Slovenia)
Program The Rheingold Curse
31 July 2011
City Vancouver Early Music Festival, Canada
Program Frankish Phantoms
23 July 2011
City Le Thoronet Festival, France
Program Voices from the Island Sanctuary
07 July 2011
City Romanischer Sommer Köln, Germany
Program Karl der Große: Kaiser und Heiliger
(Charlemagne: Emperor and Saint (8-12th centuries)
26 June 2011
City Alden-Biesen, Belgium
Program Frankish Phantoms (premiere)
04 June 2011
City Stockholm Early Music Festival, Sweden; The German Church, Old Town
Program The Rheingold Curse
19 April 2011
City La Cuenca, Spain
Program Fragments for the End of Time
27 January 2011
City Ann Arbor, MI – St. Francis of Assisi Church, University Musical Soceity
Program Voices from the Island Sanctuary
25 January 2011
City Cleveland, OH – Harkness Chapel, Case Western Reserve University
Program Voices from the Island Sanctuary
22 January 2011
City New York, NY – Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Miller Theater, Columbia University
Program Voices from the Island Sanctuary
21 January 2011
City Kansas City, MO – Kansas City Friends of Chamber Music, Grace and Holy Trinity Church
Program Voices from the Island Sanctuary
20 November 2010
City British Library, London
Program Benjamin Bagby’s ‘Beowulf’
05 November 2010
City Swarthmore, PA – Swarthmore College
Program Benjamin Bagby’s ‘Beowulf’
26, 27, 29, 30 October 2010
City Berkeley, CA – Cal Performances
Program Benjamin Bagby’s ‘Beowulf’
22 October 2010
City California, PA – California University of Pennsylvannia
Program Benjamin Bagby’s ‘Beowulf’
12 October 2010
City Copenhagen Renaissance Music Festival 2010, Teatermuseet i Hofteatret
Program The Rheingold Curse / Rhinguldets Forbandelse
24 September 2010
City Cité de la Musique, Paris
Program The Rheingold Curse
21 July 2010
City Lenox, MA – Tanglewood Music Festival, Ozawa Hall
Program Benjamin Bagby’s ‘Beowulf’
16 July 2010
City Madison, WI – Madison Early Music Festival, Mills Concert Hall, University of Wisconsin
Program Benjamin Bagby’s ‘Beowulf’
19 June 2010
Place Montalbâne Festival, Germany
Program Fragments for the End of Time
13 April 2010
City Konzerthaus Berlin
Program The Rheingold Curse
02 February 2010
City New York City, NY (Boston Early Music Festival / Morgan Library Series)
Program The Rheingold Curse
30 January 2010
City Boston, MA (Boston Early Music Festival)
Program The Rheingold Curse
28 January 2010
City Washington, DC (Library of Congress)
Program The Rheingold Curse
26 January 2010
City Vancouver, BC (Early Music Vancouver)
Program The Grail, the Knight and the Poet
23 January 2010
City Seattle, WA (Early Music Guild)
Program The Rheingold Curse
22 January 2010
City Vancouver, BC (Early Music Vancouver)
Program The Rheingold Curse
16 January 2010
City Jackson, MS (Mississippi Academy of Ancient Music)
Program Fragments for the End of Time
15 January 2010
City Lubbock, TX (Texas Tech University)
Program Fragments for the End of Time
10 January 2010
City Tucson, AZ (Arizona Early Music)
Program Fragments for the End of Time

News

Between Music and Story-telling

In the context of a performance by Sequentia of The Rheingold Curse at the Radovljica Early Music Festival (Slovenia) in August, 2011, Benjamin Bagby spoke with Katarina Šter. Read the English original version of the interview here

 

Bagby and Rodenkirchen on WDR3

In June, 2011, Benjamin Bagby and Norbert Rodenkirchen were interviewed by journalist Anna Austrup for a Sequentia 'Portrait' broadcast in the West German Radio's prestigious 3rd program, in conjunction with a live broadcast concert in Cologne's 'Romanesque Summer' concerts series.
Listen to the recorded interview (in German)

 

2011 Thornton Scholarship

Laura Osterlund is the recipient of the 2011 Barbara Thornton Memorial Scholarship.
Read more

 

Benjamin Bagby on WQXR

On January 23, 2011, Bagby joined host David Garland at New York's classical music station, WQXR, to share his insights on the challenges and pleasures of bringing medieval music to life, and to present recordings by Sequentia.
Listen to the recorded interview

 

Beowulf on DVD

Benjamin Bagby’s legendary performance of the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf (part I) recorded live in Helsingborg, Sweden.
Visit the Beowulf website