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Concert No.1

Bach and the French Overture

Patrick Ayrton – conductor/solo harpsichord

Daniela Skorka – soprano

Bach - Orchestral Suite No.1

Rameau - Arias for soprano and orchestras from “Platée”, “Dardenus”, “Castor Pollux”

Sunday 25.10.2020 at 20:00, International YMCA, Jerusalem

Concert No.2

250^th Anniversary of Beethoven’s Birth

David Shemer – conductor

Michael Tsalka – fortepiano

Einat Aronstein – soprano

The premiere of Beethoven’s Concerto No.0, performed on fortepiano, alongside a Mozart Concert Aria and Haydn songs. A Classical program performed on period instruments

Tuesday 8.12.2020 at 20:00, International YMCA, Jerusalem

Concert No.3

De Profundis –

J.S.Bach - Music of Mourning

Andrew Parrott – conductor

Tom Ben Ishai- Soprano;

Maya Amir-Alto

Tenor-TBA

Guy Plec-Bariton

J.S.Bach - Cantatas for 4 soloists composed on the death of Prince Leopold

Wednesday 6.1.2021 at 20:00, International YMCA, Jerusalem

Concert No.4

The Music of the War

(17^th-Century Germany)

Andres Mustonen – conductor

Hortus Musicus

Music of Heinrich Schütz and his contemporaries composed during the 30 Years War – vocal-, instrumental- and choral works.

Sunday 14.2,2021 at 20:00, International YMCA, Jerusalem

Concert No.5

La Calisto

David Shemer – conductor

The Jerusalem Baroque Orchestra and singers of the Meitar Opera Studio (Israeli Opera)

Shirit Lee Weiss – stage director

The Israeli premiere of Francesco Cavalli’s spectacular opera “La Calisto”, fully staged. It tells the story (based on the myth of Calisto from Ovid's “Metamorphoses”) of Jupiter who, in order to win Calisto’s love, disguises himself as the goddess Diana, while his wife Juno tries to separate the two by turning Calisto into a bear. Intertwined in the plot is the love story of Diana and the shepherd Endymion.

Monday 3.5.2021 at 20:00, International YMCA, Jerusalem

Concert No.6

Te Deum

David Shemer, Matthias Maute – conductors

Ensemble Caprice (Montreal)

A unique concert in which players of the Jerusalem Baroque Orchestra will collaborate with the renowned Canadian Ensemble Caprice, about which the New York Times critic wrote: “This is the ensemble that invites listeners to rehear the world”.  The two ensembles will join to perform Charpentier’s “Te Deum” alongside works of Rameau and Telemann. The collaboration will continue when the same program will be performed again at the Montreal Baroque Festival.

Monday 14.6.2021 at 20:00, Jerusalem International YMCA