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Weronika Paine is a harpsichordist and organist living in Basel.
A graduate of the renowned Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, Weronika performs solo repertoire and chamber music.
Together with ensemble Régence sonore, Weronika is a double prizewinner at the göttingen händel competition 2024.
Weronika Paine is an award-winning harpsichordist and organist, with a passion for historical dance and cantus firmus technique. Weronika was trained at the renowned Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, studying harpsichord performance under Andrea Marcon and organ performance with Wolfgang Zerer.
She is an active soloist and chamber musician, striving to share the experience of beauty with her audiences. Weronika enjoys contextualizing her performances through lectures, self-authored program notes and cross-disciplinary artistic collaborations, and has a diverse international performance history.
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On Friday, ensemble Vox Præterita performs in the Ducal Castle in Birzai, Lithuania.
Our next program explores the secular music traditions during the period of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, an influential musical figure whose mastery of polyphony set the standards of the time, became a model for many Italian composers working in noble courts. Composers such as Luca Marenzio, Tarquinio Merula, and Adam Jarzębski reflect the cultural exchange between Italian and Polish-Lithuanian musical traditions, blending intricate polyphony with instrumental virtuosity of this unique repertoire.
"Voices of Time, Sounds of Courts Sublime" brings together the diverse aspects of the secular music of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, infused with Renaissance ideals and Baroque innovations. The madrigal, one of the most significant genres of Renaissance secular music, forms the foundation of our program, though the vocal lines are performed instrumentally by two cornettos, a Baroque trombone, and a harpsichord/organ, in keeping with Renaissance and early Baroque performance practices.
“Voices of Time, Sounds of Courts Sublime"
Friday, 4.04.2025
Biržai, Lithuania
The newest youtube release is a live recording of two movements from F. Couperin’s Huitiéme Concert dans le goût Théatral, performed by members of ensembles Régence sonore and Concentio: Bar Zimmermann, Krystyna Wiśniewska, and Weronika Paine.
Lully’s gavotte from the La reine danse project has reached over 17000 views on YouTube! Have you seen it yet?
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