St Pete Baroque Presents:
~Mia Mangano Returns~

~Experience baroque superstar Mia Mangano’s exquisite musicianship. From soaring highs on the treble viol to lyrical soulfulness on the bass viol to the profound depth of her bass violone (predecessor to string bass). She is truly a rare multi-instrumentalist and she is all ours for one concert only! February 28th, 2pm. Cathedral Church of St Peter. Free admission, $25 suggested donation. Come support local musicians, queer musicians, women musicians, and immigrant musicians!

(Click each picture to hear a sound sample from Mia of each of these exquisite instruments!)

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Treble VIol

Bass Viol

Violone

~Program~

~Pièces de Clavecin en Concert, Cinquiéme Concert Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)

I. La Forqueray
II. La Cupis
III. La Marais

~Sinfonia per Violone E Continuo (arr. Mangano) Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-1736)

~Toccata per Organo Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643)

~ Quantrième Suite du Premier Livre de Pièces de Viole avec la Basse-Continue Louis de Caix d'Hervelois(1677-1759)

I. Prelude

II. La Diligence

III. Allemande

IV. Plainte

~Trio Sonata Op. 16, Sonata Quinta Isabella Leonarda (1620-1704)

Meet our Performers for:
~Mia Mangano Returns!

Mía studied at the Higher Institute of Arts of Cuba where she majored in cello performance with a specialty in Baroque cello and viola da gamba, which she began at a very early age. Her teachers include Vladimir Drovach and Arelis Saldivar. In Cuba, she worked as a teacher at various schools including the Vocational School of Arts and the National School of Music as well as a full-time cellist in the renowned orchestras, Villa Clara Symphony Orchestra, Solistas de la Habana, The National Ballet and Opera Orchestra, and the Cuban National Symphony Orchestra. In Mexico, she was a teacher for the symphonic project, Esperanza Azteca, and head of the contrabass cello department at the Trinitatte Philharmonie Academy of Music. She also performed as a viola-da-gamba soloist with the ancient music group, Los Tiempos Pasados. In 2016 she moved to Georgia where she has been part of groups such as the Gwinnett Symphony, the Michael O'Neal Singers, and Georgia Philharmonic. She is a member of the American Viola da Gamba Society and is very active in the field of historical interpretation.

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ABOUT ST PETE BAROQUE

We are dedicated to giving new life to old masterpieces, giving a voice to newly discovered works, and bringing audiences the eccentric and improvisatory nature of baroque music.

The Baroque Period lasted the longest in western musical culture and spanned roughly 150 years from ~1600-1750. Yet we hear so little of it's music in concert halls today. Most of this music was for small ensembles with unique instruments before the standardization of the orchestra that we know today. This was a flourishing point in history when cultures and ideas began to collide rapidly. The violin family had only just been invented while many instruments of the old world (harpsichord, lute, viola da gamba, viola d'amore, and baroque winds) were still widely used. You can expect to see bizarre and rare instruments in our performances. We perform on period instruments and seek to capture music in the present as it was many years

WELCOME TO ST PETE BAROQUE!

Tampa Bay's Baroque Music Ensemble.

"[Of St Pete Baroque's debut performance] The requisite Italian Baroque characteristics were there: sunniness, serenity, and effusion in turn. Gallo’s work demands close interaction and response between players, and the ensemble – Yuan Yuan Wang, violin; Scott Kluksdahl, cello; and Urbanowicz, not on standard viola, but on the more richly voiced viola d’amore – offered a seamless performance."

Betsy Schwarm
Music Historian - Author - Arts Critic

St Pete Baroque Presents: ~Mia Mangano Returns~