Consort Canzona to present Memorial Carson City concerts May 21-22
Consort Canzona, a select group of local instrumental musicians and singers, will be heard in two concerts commemorating the life of the group’s founder, Sharon Kientz, who died in 2015.
The concerts will be on Saturday, May 21, and Sunday, May 22, 7 p.m., at Shepherd of the Sierra Lutheran Church, 3680 Highway 395 South, Carson City, behind Best Buy. Admission is free.
Sharon Kientz was a local musician and early music expert. She founded Consort Canzona several years ago as an ensemble of recorders, cello continuo, and harpsichord. She invited singers to join the group in 2009. This expanded ensemble will perform the May concerts.
The cornerstone of the concerts is the Requiem Mass in F Minor by Bohemian composer Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber (1644-1704). Instrumental compositions by John Dowland, Michael Praetorius, Hans Leo Hassler, and others will begin and conclude the concert and alternate with sections of the Mass.
Composer Heinrich Biber, better known for his skill a violinist, wrote the Requiem around 1692. It is considered one of the most striking examples of the Requiem Mass of the 17th Century. Scored for instruments and a five-part chorus, it includes the standard sections of a Requiem Mass: Introitus, Kyrie eleison and Dies Irae, Offeratoriu, Sanctus, Benedictus, and Agnus Dei.
Consort Canzona affiliated with the Carson City Symphony Association in early 2014 and is directed by Gary Schwartz. It is supported in part by a grant from the Nevada Arts Council, a state agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency, and by Association memberships and donations. For more information about the concert call the Symphony at 775-883-4154 or see the website CCSymphony.com.
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