Program

- Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725)

The Felicja Blumental International Music Festival Sinfonia: Andante - Andante - 4' - Emanuele d'Astorga (1680-1757)

Cantata “Non e sol la lontananza” (soprano, recorder, b.c.) - 3'

Aria: Non e sol la lontananza The Embassy of and the Portuguese Lectureship - Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) (Tel Aviv University) cordially invite you to a Sonata a tre "La Follia" RV63 (recorder, violin, b.c.) - 5'

Adagio - Andante - Allegro - Vivace - Larghetto - Allegro - Adagio - Allegro Workshop on Portuguese - Francisco António d'Almeida (ca.1702?-1755?)

with Cantata "A quel leggiadro volto" (soprano, 2 violins, b.c.) - 8'

Recitativo: A quel leggiadro volto & : Lascia per un Fernando Miguel Jalôto and momento

the Ludovice Ensemble - Francesco Mancini (1672-1737) (participating at the Felicja Blumental International Music Festival) Concerto di Flauto 'n.6' in d (recorder, 2 violins, b.c.) - 5'

On Sunday, 10th April Amoroso - Allegro 11:00 – 12:30 At the Felicja Blumental Music Center - Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757) 26 Bialik Street, Tel Aviv Cantata "Piangete, occhi dolente" (soprano, 2 violins, b.c.) - 5' Aria: Sono amante Free admission Ludovice Ensemble Ensemble recorded live for the Portuguese Broadcast Company RDP/Antena 2, the German Deutschlandfunk, and the French Television Eduarda Melo: Soprano Channel MEZZO. Ludovice Ensemble's first CD came out in 2012 with an Doret Florentin: Recorder(s) exquisite selection of French Baroque Cantatas recorded for the French- Belgium company Ramée/Outhere, and received a warm welcome from the Fernando Miguel Jalôto: and Direction general public and the specialized press, being nominated for the ICMA (International Classical Music Awards) in 2013. In 2015 the group has been Lilia Slavny, Reyes Gallardo: Violins directed by Paul van Nevel in a joint-project with Huelgas Ensemble and in 2016 will work under the direction of the famous Italian violinist Enrico Diana Vinagre: Onofri, among many other projects. More at: www.ludoviceensemble.com Josep Maria Martí: Guitar

Eduarda Melo

Ludovice Ensemble is a Portuguese Early Music group, based in . Recently awarded second prize in the International Singing Competition of Fernando Miguel Jalôto and Joana Amorim created the ensemble in 2004 Toulouse, Eduarda Melo has been developing her career mainly between and it has since become a leading group in the Portuguese Early Music France and Portugal. After graduating from ’s Superior School of scene, being known for the high quality of its performances, the coherence Music and Performing Arts (ESMAE) and a remarkable period at the of its artistic projects, and the novelty of its programs and proposals, which Studio of Casa da Música, Eduarda launches herself on an international combine creativity, a passionate approach to the repertoire, and career that begins with her joining the prestigious cast CNIPAL in Marseille. historically informed interpretations. A very special attention is given to In opera she was Corinna (Il Viaggio a Reims) Teatro Nacional de São unknown repertoire, and the regular modern premières of hidden Carlos, Lisbon; Rosina (Il Barbiere di Seviglia) Opéra de Lille; Elvira Portuguese, French, Italian and German treasures are part of the (L’Italiana in Algeri) Opéra de Marseille; Norina (Don Pascuale) Teatro ensemble's strategy. Nacional de São Carlos; Musetta (La Bohème) Saint-Céré Festival; Despina The group gathers some of the best Portuguese performers - all specialized (Cosi Fan Tutte) Teatro Nacional de São Carlos; Erste Dame (Die in historical performance practice - in collaboration with foreign artists of Zauberflöte) and Stéphano (Romeo et Juliette) Opéra de Marseille; exceptional quality, not just musicians, but also actors, dancers and mimes. Frasquita (Carmen) Opéra de Lille and Thêatre de Caen; Valencienne (La In Portugal Ludovice Ensemble has performed at several important venues Veuve Joyeuse) Folies d’O Festival, Montpellier; Ruth (Paint Me/Luís (like Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, CCB and Casa da Música) and it's a Tinoco) Culturgest; Spinalba (La Spinalba/F. A. de Almeida) and Ascanio (Lo regular guest in about 20 international music festivals in Continental Frate Nnamorato/Pergolesi) Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB); Zemina (Die Portugal and Madeira Island. It also often performs abroad in (Early Feen/Wagner) Thêatre du Châtelet, Paris; Vespina (L’Infedeltà Music Festivals of Vitoria, El Escorial, Daroca, Peñíscola, Jaca and Lugo), Delusa/Haydn) Opéra de Monte Carlo; Maria Luisa (La Belle de Belgium (AMUZ in Antwerp), Holland (Oude Muziek Festival in Utrecht), Cadix/Francis Lopez) Saint-Céré Festival and Elle (La voix Humaine) Casa da France (La Chaise-Dieu, Vivarais-Lignon and Festes Baroques Festivals) and Música, Porto. Czech Republic (Summer Festivities of Early Music in ). Ludovice In contemporary music she has privileged Portuguese composers and has Symphony Orchestra in Lisbon, under the direction of Paul McCreesh. He participated in several performances with roles such as Vera, in A Little was the regular of the baroque orchestra Divino Sospiro for Madness in the Spring, by António Pinho Vargas; Pastora and Rapaz de seven years under the direction of Enrico Onofri, frequently performing as Bronze in the A Montanha and Rapaz de Bronze, by Nuno Côrte- soloist at important venues in Portugal, France, Spain, Bulgaria, and Real, and, more recently, in the performance Livro de Florbela (Nuno Japan. He collaborates with such prestigious groups as La Galanía, Capilla Côrte-Real) with Ensemble d’Arcos. In concert, the interpretations of Flamenca, Oltremontano, La Colombina, and Ensemble Bonne Corde. He Mozart’s Requiem, Stabat Mater (Poulenc), Ein Deutche’s Requiem has recorded for the labels Ramée/Outhere, Glossa Music, Anima e Corpo, (Brahms), La Giuditta (Almeida) Pulcinella (Stravinsky) and O King (Berio) Dynamic and Naxos. Miguel created his own early music group, the stand out. She has worked with conductors such as Marc Minkowski, Ludovice Ensemble, devoted to the performance of instrumental and vocal Antonello Allemandi, Martin André, Jean-Claude Casadesus, Cesário Costa, chamber music of the 17th and 18th centuries, with particular emphasis on Manuel Ivo Cruz, Laurence Cummings, Jean-Sébastien Béreau, Stefan Portuguese, French and Italian repertoires. The Ludovice Ensemble is Ausbury, Franck Ollu, Jérémie Rhorer and Michael Zilm. She regularly prominent on the Portuguese early music scene and often performs collaborates with Early Music groups like the Ludovice Ensemble and abroad at important venues. Divino Sospiro. Recent commitments include a participation in the performance “Mozart Concert ”, by the choreographer Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker with the Portuguese National Ballet Company and Rosina (Il Barbiere di Seviglia) in the theatres of Caen, Reims, Limoges and Dijon. More at: www.eduardamelo.com

Fernando Miguel Jalôto studied harpsichord at the Early Music and Historical Performance Practice Department of the Royal Conservatory, The Hague () where he completed his bachelor and master's degrees with Jacques Ogg. He attended master classes with , Olivier Baumont, Laurence Cummings, Ketil Haugsand and Ilton Wjuniski, and also studied the clavichord and baroque organ. He has a master's degree in Music at Aveiro University and is currently studying for a PhD in Historical Musicology with a grant from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology at the New University of Lisbon. He has been a member of the Académie Baroque Européenne de Ambronay and the Belgian Academy MUSICA.

Miguel is principal continuo player with the Orquestra Barroca Casa da Música (Porto) under the direction of Laurence Cummings, and principal guest harpsichord, and organ player with the Gulbenkian