He came to the guitar at nineteen, in a country he calls one of the worst in the world for music education. Guitarist Nicolò Spera on his teachers, the poet David Maria Turoldo, and Rivers — the work he commissioned about immigration and belonging. Many rivers, one sea.
One of the marvels of our Shared Visions projects is watching how a single image becomes a meeting place for memory, language, and music. In this fourth Chain of Inspiration, visual artist Gayle Gerson’s Bridge Impressions opens the path. Gerson’s artistic journey began later in life, after years devoted to family and education. Since turning…
One of the joys of Shared Visions: RubyFire is watching how a single image travels—changing shape, meaning, and emotional temperature as it moves from artist to poet to composer. In this third Chain of Inspiration, visual artist Jan R. Carson’s Alteration 3 becomes the starting point for a deeply reflective journey through language and sound….
This next Chain of Inspiration begins with visual artist Claire Ibarra and her photographic work Cloud Dance. Sky moving across water. Color shifting before you can name it. A moment that feels both still and alive at the same time. There’s something quietly spacious in this image. Sky and water seem to meet and trade…
Ars Nova Singers’ signature project, Shared Visions, returns this season with RubyFIRE, featuring four more stunning groups of artists who have come together in the creation of four new works for chorus. In this series, we’ll introduce you to each group and share a bit about how they’ve inspired each other in this creative process….
An interview with actor Tamara Meneghini, who portrays Queen Elizabeth I with Ars Nova Singers in VINTAGERuby – Elizabeth I: Words and Music. Actor and teaching artist Tamara Meneghini brings Queen Elizabeth I vividly to life in Elizabeth I: In Her Own Words, a solo theatrical work grounded in historical documentation and the scholarship of…
By Andrea Weidemann This article first appeared in 2024. Ars Nova Singers Communications Coordinator Andrea Weidemann originally prepared it to give further insight into this stunning work. We have shared a lot in the past about the musical centerpiece on our upcoming program, Spem in alium – not only because it is such a logistically…
A reflection on the year 2025, from Ars Nova Singers’ Artistic Director Tom Morgan Last February, I was conducting our wonderful singers in the phrase in the title above: a line of poetry by Wallace Stevens, set to music so eloquently by Dominick Argento. We performed Argento’s Peter Quince at the Clavier at two performances…
