MUSICA VITALE Information

Musica Vitale is a professional ensemble presenting a cappella chamber works of Western European and Slavic origin from the last 300 years. The ensembles mission is to revive and rediscover neglected repertoire of the Classical, Romantic and post-Romantic eras, maintaining the highest artistic standards, preserving the heritage of vocal chamber music, and bringing enrichment to the community through public performances. Vitale--or vital, of life--translates into the choices of the ensembles repertoire, emphasizing the works of Romantic and Contemporary periods of Music History, emotionally open and charged with expression. An ensemble of some of San Diego's finest singers offers an audible feast of choral colors and timbres, equally successful in singing with delicacy and finesse as in Robert Schumanns Romanzen und Balladen, and with the richness and warmth of Sergey Rachmaninovs Vespers. Musica Vitale has been bringing music to life since 2005, when a group of professional singers from the San Diego Opera Chorus and Sacred Heart Church came together to perform a benefit concert for the victims of Hurricane Katrina. At this concert, the group revealed its unique potential and Musica Vitale was born. During these years of exceptional music making, the group became one of the premier ensembles in the county and won the hearts of a larger San Diego following. Can you recall your first exposure to classical music? When did you catch the bug? Did your parents take you to a live performance? Was it through the radio? Did you stumble across a gorgeous piece on a record, cassette or CD that caught your attention and held it? Did grownup musicians visit your school? In addition to our ongoing efforts to delight and inspire the general public, Musica Vitale is dedicated to paying forward what we learned from our own teachers, educating the rising generation through live performances. Each Spring we visit the Coronado middle schools to give not just mini concerts, but lessons on music history, the science of music, ...