Antonia Bertali: Ciacona in C
Baroque band ACRONYM — with its “unadulterated joy and funk” and “spirit of spontaneous adventure” (Boston Musical Intelligencer) — is dedicated to giving modern premieres of the wild instrumental music of the seventeenth century. Playing with “...consummate style, grace, and unity of spirit” (The New York Times), the group formed in 2012 and has released ten critically acclaimed albums. Recent projects include the first modern performances and recordings of works by Biber, Rosenmüller, and Capricornus, among others. The band’s most recent album, Cantica Obsoleta, features the modern premiere recordings of nearly-lost works from Sweden’s Düben Collection. The Boston Globe raves, “this musical time-capsule offers enough resplendence to transport anyone.”
Giovanni Valentini: Sonata a 5
In 2026-27, ACRONYM returns to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, with a richly-imagined program centered on Esther, drawing together rarely heard vocal and instrumental works by Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, and Giacomo Carissimi. The ensemble also joins forces with Grammy Award-winning Chanticleer to present modern-day premieres of vocal and instrumental works by Giovanni Valentini, including six Litaniae Lauretanae, a collection of motets, and some of Valentini’s most daring instrumental sonatas — nearly all of it unheard since the seventeenth century. In late 2026, ACRONYM will release a new album comprised of first recordings of much of the extant music of the Thuringian Kapellmeister Adam Drese and Johann Samuel Drese, who were significant influences on a young Johann Sebastian Bach. In Spring 2027, ACRONYM makes its debut at Early Music in Columbus, Caramoor (NY), and Tage Alter Musik Regensburg (Germany).
Recent engagements includes repeat performances at the Boston Early Music Festival, Naumburg Orchestral Concerts series in Central Park, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and Music Before 1800 in New York, as well as appearances with Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht (Netherlands), Oberlin’s Artist Recital Series, Hamilton College Performing Arts Series (Clinton, NY), Arizona Early Music, and Shriver Hall Concert Series. ACRONYM has held academic residencies at Youngstown State University and Vassar College, and the group’s musicians can be heard in Tafelmusik, Les Arts Florissants, Apollo’s Fire, Handel + Haydn Society and the English Concert. ACRONYM collaborates frequently with internationally acclaimed artists, including baritone Jesse Blumberg and countertenor Reginald Mobley.
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