Grace Notes
Volume 7 | December 2025
Looking ahead
Masterwork Concert
Chamber Series
Education/Events
Musician, Impresario, and Priest: Antonio Vivaldi
Pre-Concert Virtual Presentation
Featuring Filippo Ciabatti and Susanna Ogata, in partnership with Vermont Italian Cultural Association
Saturday, January 10 @ 10am
Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons
Upper Valley Baroque presents an all-Vivaldi program, featuring his famous The Four Seasons, along with gorgeous works for soprano and strings featuring the “exemplary, impassioned” singer Nola Richardson.
Friday, January 23 @ 6pm at Grace Congregational Church – Rutland, VT
Saturday, January 24 @ 3pm at Chandler Center for the Arts – Randolph, VT
Sunday, January 25 @ 3pm at Lebanon Opera House – Lebanon, NH
Bach’s Easter Oratorio + Bach’s Magnificat
Two of Bach’s most powerful works usher us into the season of renewal and hope. This sonic journey through rich orchestral timbres, contemplative arias, and intense polyphony leads to celebratory strains of joy.
Friday, March 13 @ 6pm at Grace Congregational Church – Rutland, VT
Saturday, March 14 @ 3pm at Chandler Center for the Arts – Randolph, VT
Sunday, March 15 @ 3pm at Lebanon Opera House – Lebanon, NH
Chamber Concert: Italian Madrigals
Filippo Ciabatti curates and directs this program of intricate and intimate vocal works from his native Italy. Prepare to be moved by the deepest possible marriage of text and music by master madrigalists, including Claudio Monteverdi and Luca Marenzio.
Friday, April 24 @ 7pm at St. Thomas Episcopal Church – Hanover, NH
Saturday, April 25 @ 2pm at North Chapel – Woodstock, VT
Table of Contents
INTERVIEW
Filippo Ciabatti on Vivaldi
MUSICIAN PROFILE
Susanna Ogata, violin
MUSICAL TERM
Program Music
INSTRUMENT
Theorbo
PRE-CONCERT VIRTUAL PRESENTATION
Musician, Impresario, and Priest: Antonio Vivaldi
BUILDING COLLABORATION:
UVB Musicians Offstage
LOOKING BACK
Handel’s Messiah and
“Unknown Measures”
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