Where We’re From | Manchester Camerata Orchestra

Where We’re From: a live concert with Manchester Camerata Orchestra

Sun 11 May 2025, 3pm,

Join us for a new pair of concerts celebrating Manchester Camerata’s roots, heritage, history, and what it means to be a modern-day 21st-century Orchestra.

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

“In chapter one 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.”

Invisible College

Where We’re From will explore ideas around the orchestra’s 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 Manchester Camerata players right in the Great Nave of their home at Gorton Monastery.

Where We Are will be a concert featuring music that represents who the Camerata are today, ranging from Mozart to some of the contemporary composers they have worked with or played with over the last 10 years.

With thanks to Dr David Shreeve for his strategic philanthropic support.

Programme

Matteis arr. Parkin Diverse bizzarrie sopra la Vecchia Sarabanda o pur Ciaccona
Barbara Strozzi Arr. Parkin Che dolce udire: (madrigal)
Corelli arr. Geminiani La Follia
Barbara Strozzi Arr. Parkin lagrime Mio (song)
Tartini Devil’s Trill sonata
Barbara Strozzi Arr. Parkin Chi di noi Vaglia piu: (madrigal)
Hannah Kendall And At Pains To Temper The Light
Barbara Strozzi Arr. Parkin Che si puo fare (song)
Matteis arr. Parkin Prelude in G major

Performed by

Daniel Pioro Violin
Manchester Camerata

Where we’re from| Booking info

Tickets £3 Gorton Residents, £5 Students £10 Under 30s – up to £27.50

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Directions to the Monastery here.