Madrigal Ensemble to Host Concert Featuring Significant 17th-Century Composers

The Rutgers University–Camden Madrigal Ensemble will present a free concert featuring the works of Claudio Monteverdi and other significant 17th-century composers, under the direction of world-renowned soprano Julianne Baird, a distinguished professor of music at Rutgers–Camden.

The concert, which is free and open to the general public, will be held at 12:15 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 18, in the Mallery Room on the Rutgers–Camden campus.

The madrigals will be joined by a small orchestra specializing in the 17th-century, Italian Baroque period, replete with harpist Christa Patton and baroque violinists Rebecca Harris and Mandy Wolman. The violinists will perform a Venetian version of “Pachelbel’s Canon,” and soprano Meg Folkemer and Elise Bjordammen will perform a set of vocal ciacconas.  The group will also present four of Monteverdi’s “Scherzi Musicali.”

The Mallery Room is located in the Fine Arts Complex on Third Street, between Cooper Street and the Benjamin Franklin Bridge, on the Rutgers–Camden campus.

For directions to Rutgers–Camden, visit camden.rutgers.edu/resources/getting-to-campus.

For more information, visit finearts.camden.rutgers.edu or contact Jake Hufner in the Department of Fine Arts at 856-225-6176 or jhufner@camden.rutgers.edu.

Tom McLaughlin
Rutgers University–Camden
Editorial/Media Specialist
(856) 225-6545
thomas.mclaughlin@camden.rutgers.edu