ENSEMBLE MARE NOSTRUM
a roman ensemble directed by Andrea De Carlo, is one of the most original and surprising baroque ensembles, already a reference to the Roman Baroque
music and especially the works of the great composer Alessandro Stradella.
Founded in 2005, the Ensemble Mare Nostrum begins as a "Consort of Viols". But the ensemble opens immediately to a wider repertoire, to explore the
relationship between language, affetti and nature of sounds. The personal research of Andrea De Carlo in this field opens new prospects in technique and aesthetic of 17th c. vocal music.
Music for "Consort of Viols" but also the interpretation of works for organ and harpsichord - a common practice in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries - has led the Ensemble Mare Nostrum to different projects: an original orchestration of ORGELBUCHLEIN by J. S. Bach for MA Recordings (USA) receives the unanimous applause of the international critic, and the Diapason "Decouverte" in the French magazine DIAPASON (May 2011). A CD dedicated to French polyphony LE CONCERT DES VIOLES for the label RICERCAR (OUTHERE) is awarded with 5 Diapason (January 2010), and “Coup de coeur” 2010 by the Charles Cros Academy in Paris.
In 2012 is released for the label ALPHA (OUTHERE) the Cd "NUEVA ESPAA", a journey between the Spanish and Mexican music from the Renaissance to modern times.
In 2012 EMN begins to dedicate to roman music with the Cd "IL CONCERTO DELLE VIOLE BARBERINI" together with the Ensemble Vox Luminis for the label RICERCAR (OUTHERE), followed by a CD of roman unknown cantatas by Marco Marazzoli for the label ARCANA (OUTHERE) "OCCHI BELLI, OCCHI NERI."
The 2013 saw the birth of The STRADELLA PROJECT, a CDs collection for the label ARCANA (OUTHERE) dedicated to the works of this great composer, recorded in the International Festival Alessandro Stradella Nepi (Italy), his native town.
The first releases, world premiere recording, is the Serenade of Alessandro Stradella "LA FORZA DELLE STELLE" (5 Diapason), followed in 2014 by the world premiere recording of the oratorio S. GIOVANNI CRISOSTOMO (5 Diapason). The 3rd volume of the project, the world premiere recording oratorio S. EDITTA, VERGINE E MONACA, REGINA D'INGHILITERRA will be released in spring 2016. For 2017 is planned the recording of the oratorio S. PELAGIA, and in 2017 the last opera by Stradella, LA DORICLEA.
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More details in www.ensemblemarenostrum.com
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NORA TABBUSH soprano
began her vocal studies at the Conservatorio Nacional Superior de Música in Buenos Aires, where she was born. Several years later she graduated from the Centre de Musique Ancienne of the Conservatoire de musique in Geneva. She pursued her studies further in both opera and chamber music with Marta Blanco, Doris Andrews and Anatoli Goussev, and in baroque music with Mark Tucker and Roberta Invernizzi.
In 2011 she won the First Prize in Vocal Music from il Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia in Rome.
Her career has been developed above all in Switzerland, France, Belgium, and Italy, where she currently lives.
In Opera and Oratorio her repertoire includes the roles of Dido and Belinda in Dido and Aeneas,The Fairy Queen and Dioclesian by Purcell, Cherubino in Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, Livietta in Livietta and Tracollo by Pergolesi, the title role in Charpentier’s Medee, Iole in Hercules by Handel, Filia in Carissimi’s Jephthe, Pergolesi Stabat Mater, Vivaldi Gloria, Bach Magnificat, as well as several programmes with Cantatas BWV133, 198, 209, 211, 248, 249, by the same composer, various Monteverdi madrigals, Italian cantatas, operas and oratorios from 17th and 18th centuries, Spanish and Latin-American baroque music, as well as Lieder of Mozart, Haydn, and Schumann, among others.
In 2000 she was chosen for l’Académie Baroque d’Ambronay to perform Monteverdi Vespers,under the direction of Gabriel Garrido, touring in France and Switzerland. She has been invited to perform as a soloist for various ensembles: Ensemble Elyma (Switzerland), Opéra Obliqua (Switzerland), Geneva Opera Studio(Switzerland), Cappella Ducale Venetia (Italy), CIMA di Roma (Italy), Ensemble Mare Nostrum (Italy).
She also sang in the chorus of l'Opéra de Lausanne and with the Schweizer Kammerchor of the Zurich Tonhalle.
She has notably performed as a soloist in the Festivals of Saint-Michel en Thiérache, Sablé, Beaune, Périgueux, Ambronay (France) ; Utrecht, Amsterdam, Zwolle (Holland), Saint Germain, St. Ursanne (Swizerland) Sajazarra (Spain), Festival de Música Sacra de Quito (Ecuador), Festival Cervantino (Mexico), Festival Alessandro Stradella, Asolo Festival, Festival Les 5 Perles in Rome, Sant'Antonio dei Portoghesi in Rome (Italy), Izmir (Turkey), Lancut (Poland) ; at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, the Grand Théâtre in Geneva, l'Arsenal in Metz, the Teatro de Vigo and the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome, among others.