Musicking Conference hosts two in-person concerts

In its sixth year, the 2022 Musicking Conference will present some in-person events along with virtual events that will allow international artists to participate. 

Two live concerts will take place at Central Lutheran Church. The University of Oregon Oratorio Ensemble will perform Giovanni Paolo Colonna’s La Profezia d’Eliseo (1686) on Friday, April 22 at 7:30 p.m. The final concert titled “Sacred Music in Baroque Naples” with guest artist Kraig Scott, organ, will be performed on Sunday, April 24 at 4 p.m. Other events include panels, a live organ masterclass, a keynote address “Instrumental Music in Eighteenth-Century Naples: Repertory, Culture, and Institutions” given by Guido Olivieri, and Intermezzo Lecture-Concerts each day but the final. Schedule.

This year three guest artists are featured at the conference. Luisa Nardini is a musicologist at the Butler School of Music at The University of Texas, Austin. Her research focuses on extended repertories of sacred music cultivated in southern Italy during the Middle Ages that reveal the cultural influences of Romans, Franks, Normans, Byzantines, Jews, and Muslims, who were active in the region at different times and with various political roles. She will give a talk “Re-texting the Liturgy in Southern Italy: Prosulas for the Proper of the Mass” on Wednesday, April 20.

Guido Olivieri is a musicologist at The University of Texas, Austin, where he also directs the Early Music Ensemble Austinato. He has co-edited with UO’s Marc Vanscheeuwijck the volume Arcomelo 2013. Studi in occasione del terzo centenario della nascita di Arcangelo Corelli (2015). His groundbreaking research has promoted the revival of interest on Neapolitan instrumental music.

Kraig Scott directs the choirs and teaches organ and harpsichord at Walla Walla University. He has made recital appearances throughout North America, Europe, Korea, and China. Under his leadership I Cantori, the select choir of Walla Walla University, has performed throughout North America. Scott has led festival choirs throughout the Pacific Northwest and directed the 400-voice choir of the SDA International Choral Congress in Bucha, Ukraine.

The Musicking Conference is cosponsored by the OHC’s Endowment for Public Outreach in the Arts, Sciences, and Humanities. All events are free and open to the public. Musicking events will be broadcast to their YouTube channel. To participate in panels and presentations via Zoom, registration is required. Space is limited.