Mozart Exsultate Jubilate
Robin Wiper, soprano
October 2, 2021
College Church, Wheaton
Video of soprano Robin Wiper singing Mozart’s Exsultate Jubilate, performed by Camerata Chicago conducted by Drostan Hall.
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98.7 WFMT Broadcast: Academy featured on Introductions show
The WFMT radio show Introductions is to feature the Academy Orchestra. The show will be broadcast on Saturday, March 27 at 11 am by Robbie Ellis, Presenter and Producer. The show will air our recent recordings of Mozart’s Symphony No 15 and Shostakovich and an interview with Academy member Patience Smith.
The Senior and Junior Academy orchestras were professionally recorded on December 18 as part of the Camerata Chicago Academy classroom learning program. This performance was recorded without an audience in place of an end of semester concert.
Amelia Piscitelli featured in the WCAS Young Artists Showcase series
AMELIA PISCITELLI
Concertmaster, Academy Orchestra
YOUNG ARTISTS SHOWCASE CONCERT
Wheaton College Artists Series
Free Virtual Event, Wheaton
Our Academy Concertmaster Amelia Piscitelli will perform for the Wheaton College Artist Series at 7:30 pm on October 24, 2020. This concert premieres a new series called the Young Artist Showcase. The concert will be live-streamed from new Armerding Concert Hall in the Armerding Center for Music and the Arts. For more information call WCAS on 630-752-5099. The concert is free and you can register here.
You can also download a podcast from 98.7WFMT of Amelia’s recent Introductions radio show here.
98.7WFMT Podcast of Introductions Show with Amelia Piscitelli
The podcast of the 98.7WFMT Introductions radio show with Amelia Piscitelli, Concertmaster of the Academy Orchestra, is now available. The show was broadcast on Saturday July 18 and profiled Introductions alum Amelia Piscitelli, currently between her freshman and sophomore years at college. Robbie Ellis presenter and producer looked back at her Introductions recital as a 15-year-old in 2016, as well as her work as concertmaster and soloist with two orchestras under the Camerata Chicago banner.
Amelia Piscitelli graduated as Salutatorian from Hammond Baptist High School in Schererville, Indiana in 2019. She is currently enrolled as a Music Performance major at Hyles-Anderson College, a Bible college in Crown Point, Indiana. Amelia has studied violin with Stephanie Allen and Debbie Edwards, and currently studied with Drostan Hall. She joined the Camerata Chicago Academy in 2015 and has been Concertmaster of the Academy Orchestra since 2017. She appeared live on WFMT’s Introductions in 2016. She has appeared as a soloist with Camerata Chicago on multiple occasions, including performing Vivaldi’s complete Four Seasons and recording them for DMD Records. She has also been Concertmaster of the Camerata Chicago Academy Orchestra since 2017.
Amelia, Camerata Chicago, and the Joffrey Ballet are set to collaborate on another performance of the Four Seasons, with world-premier choreography, as part of the Wheaton College Artist Series in January 2021.
PODCAST Playlist
Melodie, from Orphée et Euridice, by Christoph Willibald Gluck
Amelia Piscitelli, violin
Cindy Trowbridge, piano
First broadcast December 3, 2016
Symphony No. 15 in G, K. 124, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
I. Allegro
Camerata Chicago Academy Orchestra
Drostan Hall, conductor
Performed December 7, 2019
Violin Sonata No. 4 in D, HWV 371, by George Frideric Handel
I. Affetuoso
II. Allegro
Amelia Piscitelli, violin
Cindy Trowbridge, piano
First broadcast December 3, 2016
“Autumn” from The Four Seasons, by Antonio Vivaldi
Amelia Piscitelli, violin
Steve Robinson, narrator
Camerata Chicago
Drostan Hall, conductor
Released on DMD Classics DMD-03152019
Ten years since Sir Charles Mackerras died
Sir Charles Mackerras, for many years International Advisor to Camerata Chicago, died ten years ago today, July 14.
Music Director Drostan Hall said: “We remember him fondly! He was a giant of the musical world and we are very grateful that he chose to become our International Advisor. It was a huge pleasure to work with him. He generously gave me several of his batons which I treasure! We miss him greatly.”
MackerrasLegacy.com has published some previously unreleased interviews Sir Charles gave. The site includes his nephew, Drostan Hall, conducting Camerata Chicago in a performance of Beethoven Symphony No. 5 which Jon Tolansky compares directly with Sir Charles’s own recording with the Liverpool Philharmonic. It was concluded that the Mackerras spirit lives on in Drostan’s work as conductor. (From “Charles Mackerras Master Conductor” produced by Jon Tolanski for 98.7 WFMT.)
98.7WFMT Broadcast: Introductions Amelia Piscitelli
This Saturday, 98.7WFMT Introductions radio show profiles Introductions alum Amelia Piscitelli, currently between her freshman and sophomore years at college. We look back at her Introductions recital as a 15-year-old in 2016, as well as her working as concertmaster and soloist with two orchestras under the Camerata Chicago banner.
Amelia Piscitelli graduated as Salutatorian from Hammond Baptist High School in Schererville, Indiana in 2019. She is currently enrolled as a Music Performance major at Hyles-Anderson College, a Bible college in Crown Point, Indiana. Amelia has studied violin with Stephanie Allen and Debbie Edwards, and currently studied with Drostan Hall. She joined the Camerata Chicago Academy in 2015 and has been Concertmaster of the Academy Orchestra since 2017. She appeared live on WFMT’s Introductions in 2016. She has appeared as a soloist with Camerata Chicago on multiple occasions, including performing Vivaldi’s complete Four Seasons and recording them for DMD Records. She has also been Concertmaster of the Camerata Chicago Academy Orchestra since 2017.
Amelia, Camerata Chicago, and the Joffrey Ballet are set to collaborate on another performance of the Four Seasons, with world-premier choreography, as part of the Wheaton College Artist Series in January 2021.
Playlist
Melodie, from Orphée et Euridice, by Christoph Willibald Gluck
Amelia Piscitelli, violin
Cindy Trowbridge, piano
First broadcast December 3, 2016
Symphony No. 15 in G, K. 124, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
I. Allegro
Camerata Chicago Academy Orchestra
Drostan Hall, conductor
Performed December 7, 2019
Violin Sonata No. 4 in D, HWV 371, by George Frideric Handel
I. Affetuoso
II. Allegro
Amelia Piscitelli, violin
Cindy Trowbridge, piano
First broadcast December 3, 2016
“Autumn” from The Four Seasons, by Antonio Vivaldi
Amelia Piscitelli, violin
Steve Robinson, narrator
Camerata Chicago
Drostan Hall, conductor
Released on DMD Classics DMD-03152019
Messiah Articles
Two articles recently published for your reading pleasure:
Wheaton Stage to Welcome Camerata Chicago Chamber Orchestra in Messiah
by Renee Tomell, Kane County Chronicle
The article presents an interview with Music Director Drostan Hall and discusses various aspects of the upcoming performances.
Handel’s Messiah: the Consequences of an Idea
by Bartholomew Hall, contributing to the Clapham School blog (Wheaton):
https://www.claphamschool.org/our-community/blog/handels-messiah-the-consequences-of-an-idea
The Joyce Saxon Music Director Chair
In recognition of Joyce’s extraordinary commitment
and love of Camerata Chicago and with gratitude for the
first legacy gift bequeathed to Camerata Chicago, we henceforth
dedicate the Music Director Chair to
JOYCE SAXON
Joyce Saxon and Drostan Hall
The dedication took place at the Saxon Series: Complete Bach Brandenburg Concerti performance in Chicago on September 20, 2019. Joyce’s generous legacy gift provides for an annual concert series – The Saxon Series.
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