Cantata Profana is a fearless vocal and instrumental chamber ensemble with visionary programming, a flair for theater, and a gluttonous appetite for every century of music.
Gleb Kanasevich guest hosts this episode with Lee Dionne and Dan Schlosberg, our two pianists for our upcoming show Four Hands at Joe's Pub, NYC. Dan and Lee are in the studio with Gleb, performing and talking about Wagner overtures, Brahms waltzes, Kurtag arrangements of Bach, Nancarrow player-piano studies, and how to turn Wagner into a polka.
CP Artistic Director Jacob Ashworth and Associate Artistic Director Gleb Kanasevich have a super fun talk with the incredible Alice Teyssier, our featured soloist for Visions of Silence, January 18 and 19, 2019. Details and tix for the show: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/visions-of-silence-tickets-52992094782
Special guest Lucy Dhegrae and CP Artistic Director Jacob Ashworth talk about their lives and their upcoming show, Voi(Rex) at National Sawdust June 2/3, 2018. Tix at nationalsawdust.org/calendar/2018-06/ Recordings in this episode: Unsuk Chin - Akrostichon-Wortspiel - Jessica Petrus singing with Jacob conducting Machaut - Ce qui soustiens - Jessica Petrus and Daniel Moody Tiensuu - Plus II - Hannah Collins and Gleb Kanasevich Machaut - J'aim sans penser - full CP band
Special guest Lee Dionne joins CP Artistic Director Jacob Ashworth in the studio to discuss their upcoming show, STRAVINSKY SALON, March 23, 2018 at Baruch Performing Arts Center. Tickets at: http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/calendar/EventList.aspx?fromdate=2/27/2018&todate=8/25/2018&display=Month&type=public&eventidn=44225&view=EventDetails&information_id=506648&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1
Cantata Profana Artistic Director Jacob Ashworth sits down with choreographer and performer Emma Jaster to discuss their upcoming show at Dixon Place, Feb 25th and 26th As always, all musical selections are from live performances by Cantata Profana.
Cantata Profana Artistic Director Jacob Ashworth sits down with amazing vocalist John Taylor Ward to discuss their upcoming show at Joe's Pub, January 20, 2018 As always, all musical selections are from live performances by Cantata Profana. Tickets: https://joespub.publictheater.org/Tickets/Calendar/PlayDetailsCollection/Joes-Pub/2018/C/Cantata-Profana/
Our second episode of the Boom Boom Music Room! Cantata Profana Artistic Director Jacob Ashworth and special guest Alex Weiser (Kettle Corn New Music, YIVO Institute) sit down to listen to some classic CP recordings from previous shows, and to talk about the story and the inspiration behind our upcoming program, featuring Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde at the YIVO Institute in NYC, Nov 30th. Every recording you hear is live from previous Cantata Profana shows! TICKETS: www.Yivo.org/mahler Thanks to Jeff Rowell and Gleb Kanasevich for recording magic.
Our test podcast episode! In this first episode Jacob Ashworth and Gleb Kanasevich talk about music for clarinet and violin, and about their upcoming show, Two-Part Invention, March 30, 2017 at Joe's Pub in NY. (All the recording are by Gleb and Jacob, too!) TICKETS: http://joespub.publictheater.org/en/Tickets/Calendar/PlayDetailsCollection/Joes-Pub/2017/C/Cantata-Profana/?SiteTheme=JoesPub