Manchester Camerata

This event takes place at the Monastery, Gorton.

A concert celebrating Camerata’s roots, heritage, history, and what it means to be a modern-day 21st-century Orchestra.

Working with their Artistic Partner Daniel Pioro, here is what he has to say about the project:

“We explore the origins of our designation, Camerata. Named after the Florentine Camerata, we weave our way through this programme of old Italian music which has as its beating heart a work by Hannah Kendall. The music of Matteis, Tartini and Strozzi is seen through a 21st century perspective, via the imagination of Camerata’s members and composer Simon Parkin. So, who are we? We are musicians who champion necessary music,  disguised as entertainers and storytellers. We are community, both performers and audience, and this programme is a fantasy homage to where we came from.”

Where We’re From will explore ideas around our namesake, The Florentine Camerata – a society of musicians, intellectuals, artists, philosophers and scientists residing in Florence in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. The Camerata constituted not only a forum for theoretical discussions but also a workshop or ‘laboratory’ for the creation and performance of music, sometimes described as an ‘invisible college’. This concert will be brought to life by Camerata’s players right in the Great Nave of The Monastery, Gorton.