Violinist Victoria Martino and pianist James Lent will celebrate the 300th anniversary of Arcangelo Corelli’s death with a spectacular concert, featuring sonatas by the great Italian Baroque composer and violinist, performed on original 18th century instruments.
Arcangelo Corelli was the most popular instrumental composer of his time, and his music was performed and honored throughout Europe. He exerted an inestimable influence, not only on his contemporaries, but also on succeeding generations. Divided between the sacred and secular forms, his violin compositions served as the forerunners of the modern sonata, and were exemplary for Vivaldi, Bach, and Handel.
Victoria Martino – a graduate of Harvard University and the University of California in art history, literature and music – and her longtime musical partner James Lent have become internationally known for their monographic anniversary performances of the complete works for violin by many composers including Bach, Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, and Brahms, just to name a few.
Victoria Martino has also presented a number of interdisciplinary programs in conjunction with exhibitions at many international institutions such as the Guggenheim Museums of New York, Bilbao, and Berlin, the National Art Gallery of Victoria (Australia), the National Art Gallery of Ontario (Canada), Museum of Western Art in Tokyo, the Albertina in Vienna, the J. Paul Getty Museum and MOCA Los Angeles.
She has curated numerous international exhibitions, and has published over sixty catalogues and articles on artists and composers, including Wassily Kandinsky, Jackson Pollock, Mimmo Paladino, and Zoran Music, among many others. An art, music, dance and theater critic, she has been a regular contributor to THE Magazine and various journals in Europe. has taught music, art history, and innovative humanities courses at universities in Australia and the United States. Since 2004, she has presented a series of lectures and concerts on the relationship between music and art throughout history at the Athenaeum Music and Art Library in La Jolla, California.
The special concert will be held at Athenaeum Music & Arts Library in La Jolla on Sunday, November 24, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets may be purchased by calling (858) 454-5872 or visiting www.ljathenaeum.org/
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