To mark the close of this fiery year, here are 30 seconds from Händel’s cantata Tra le fiamme (Through the Flames), performed by the brilliant ensemble of my beloved Alma Mater, the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. 👏
🔥Tzu-Chi Kuo, Laura Hanetseder - recorders
🔥Maya Webne-Behrman, Zora Janská - Violins
🔥Priscila Gabrielle Rodrígues Silva Santos - Viola
🔥Kryštof Cejp - Baroque cello
🔥Bianca Cucini - Viola da gamba
🔥Christian Velasco Vázquez - Theorbo
🔥Mélanie Flores Rodríguez - Harpsichord
🎥 Sergio Flores Rodríguez
#handel #basel #baroque #baroquemusic #soprano
My talented colleague @jonaswolfmusic surprised me very much by sending his arrangement on a Lithuanian folk song that I recently shared. Thank you, Jonas! That’s a sonority angle that I didn’t expect 🖤
#lithuania #folkmusic
Dear friends, I’d like to share with you the biggest project of my life so far: concluding my second Master’s degree by staging one of the earliest operatic works — “Rappresentatione di Anima, et di Corpo” (About Soul and Body) by Emilio de’ Cavalieri (Rome, 1600).
I’m surprised by how this project has brought together pretty much everything I’ve learned throughout my life — from musical and organizational knowledge to all that staging can require: dramaturgy, scenography, costumes, directing, acting and singing — and by how fulfilled and truly happy doing all of this makes me feel! 😌
But the most joyful part of all of this is doing it alongside such a kind and resourceful artistic and coaching team, to whom I’m endlessly grateful: 🙏
SUPERVISORS:
Deda Cristina Colonna, Lisandro Abadie, Marianna Meyer, Denim Szram, Johannes Keller, Martina Papiro and every teacher in my artistic path.
ARTISTIC TEAM:
Rodrigo Melendez-Aquino – Assisting director
Indrė Kučinskaitė & Gabriel Smallwood – Ensemble direction
Léon Roch – Choir assistance
CAST:
ANIMA, ANIMA BEATA - Emilė Ribokaitė – soprano (Lithuania)
CORPO - Jorge Escutia – baritone (Mexico)
ANGELO CUSTODE – Kaho Inoue – soprano (Japan)
TEMPO, IL CONSIGLIO, IL MONDO - Arthur Baldensperger – baritone (France)
VITA MONDANA, ANIMA DANNATA, PIACERE – Miriam Trias – soprano (Spain)
INTELLETTO, PIACERE - Léon Roch – tenor (France)
CORO – Tutti
INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE:
Ūla Kinder – Violin (Lithuania)
Indrė Kučinskaitė – cornetto, recorders (Lithuania)
Teresa Ortner – Dulzian, cornetto, recorders (Germany)
BJ Hernandez / Martí Badia Gragés – Trombone (USA / Spain)
Bianca Cucini – Viola da gamba (Italy)
Barbora Hulcová – theorbo (Czech republic)
Gabriel Smallwood – harpsichord (USA)
♥️
See you in our shows:
🇨🇭June 28th 20:00 Gare du Nord, Basel
🇦🇹 July 5th 20:00 Trigonale Festival, Stiftskirche St. Georgen/Längsee, Austria
🇱🇹 September 12th-13th @sumsko.dvaro.festivalis Lithuania
And now, let’s go back to work haha
🎶June 4 - 6 Zürich, Basel, Bern🎵
Musik, Städte, Kulturen: Zürich, Basel und Bern im frühen 16. Jahrhundert
An evening of early 16th century Swiss music with Ensemble Pampinea, presented on rarely witness instruments such as the Clavicytherium and Viola d’arco.
June 4, 2026 Zürich
19:30 Predigerkirche Zürich
17:00 Pre-concert talk,
MWS Institute UZH [Florhofgasse 11]
June 5, 2026 Basel
19:30 Kirche St. Marien
June 6, 2026 Bern
19:30 Nydeggkirche
Music from Paul Hofhaimer, Pierre Moulu, Hans Buchner, Heinrich Isaac, Hans Kotter, Johannes Wannenmacher, Cosmas Adler, Claude de Sermisy and Ludwig Senfl
🎭 Kviečiame į tarptautinio BIP projekto baigiamąjį renginį-miuziklą „Mažoji siaubų krautuvėlė / Little Shop of Horrors“, kuri vyks gegužės 3 d. 17.00 val. Šumsko dvare (M. Šumskio g. 6, Šumskas, Vilniaus r.).
Miuziklas yra intensyviosios Erasmus+ Blended Intensive Programme (BIP) kūrybinės laboratorijos „The Manor Musical LAB“ rezultatas ir suburia studentus bei dėstytojus iš šešių šalių: Lietuvos, Latvijos, Nyderlandų, Ispanijos, Bulgarijos ir Šveicarijos.
✨ Kelis mėnesius dalyvių bendrai kurta kūrybinė koncepcija per finalinę projekto savaitę įgyvendins tarpdisciplininį sceninį pasirodymą, jungiantį muziką, teatrą ir kolektyvinę kūrybą.
🎶 Premjera vyks ypatingoje erdvėje – Šumsko dvaro ovaliojoje salėje.
🎬 Režisierė – Emilė Ribokaitė, Šveicarijos Bazelio muzikos akademijos / Basel Music Academy / MuST (Switzerland) magistrantė.
Projekto vadovė – Inesa Kurklietytė, Vilniaus kolegijos Menų ir dizaino fakulteto Kultūrinės veiklos vadybos studijų programos docentė.
💃 Choreografė - Olga Spridzāne (Latvija) @olga_spridzane
🎶 Ansamblio vadovas - Miroslav Turiyski (Bulgarija) @miroslavturiyski
Projektą organizuoja Vilniaus kolegijos Menų ir dizaino fakultetas @viko_mdf
Partneriai: Fontys University of Applied Sciences (Nyderlandai) @fontys.muziekenmusicaltheater , University School of Arts ERAM – University of Girona (Ispanija) @eueram , Latvian Academy of Culture (Latvija) @kulturaskoledza@kulturasakademija , Academy of Music, Dance and Fine Arts „Prof. Asen Diamandiev“ (Bulgarija) @artacademyplovdiv .
🔗 Registracijos nuoroda:
/Registracija-miuziklas
Registracija vyks iki gegužės 1 d.
Fernando, but in the style of a 16th century madrigal 🤩
Feat. @emile.ribo - amazing to have you on the channel twice already! 😄
👉 Full length video on YouTube, link in profile / stories
#arrangement #acapella #renaissance
Last Thursday was a special night. We got to spend it in a vacant bank building with my colleagues performing under a topic “Between two deaths”.
1) Firstly this topic brought a Lithuanian funeral game “Žalio vario” to my mind, and luckily 30+ people were brave enough to sing it in Lithuanian by heart. So precious. 🤍
2) As it happened to be the night before John Dowland’s funeral day exactly 400 years ago, we performed his “Flow my tears” in a tight bank vault, surrounded by empty safes, together with my Schola friends @hanna.horobets and @clemens_max
3) Then we explored the different faces and grimaces of grief in dark corners of the bank’s basement, performing Monteverdi’s SESTINA in a loop, together with @_sunitei_@xeni_lem@flurin_herzig and @clemens_max , guided by a rising star director @rodrigomelendezaquino
Thank you @raphael_sbrzesny and @hsmbasel_music_and_scene for this truly special opportunity.
Photos by @dirkletsch and @rodrigomelendezaquino
We will start 2026 with a concert tour! In the ❄️☃️winter wonderland of Alberta, Canada.
Jan 10 Calgary @emvyyc
Jan 11 Lacombe @burman.music
Jan 12 Calgary
Jan 13 Canmore @artsplacecanmore
A great start to another year! #MerryChristmas and #HappyNewYear
Emilė Ribokaitė @emile.ribo is an early music singer & stage creator from Lithuania. LMTA & Schola Cantorum Basiliensis alumna, currently finishing the MuST MA in Basel. Her final project focuses on staging Cavalieri’s Rappresentatione di Anima et di Corpo (1600), combining historically informed music performance, baroque gesture & contemporary theatre elements, while exploring secular reinterpretations of its religious context. @hsmbasel_music_and_scene #sound #dance #performance #music #improvisation #research #theater #movement #scholacantorumbasiliensis
Excited times upcoming! Catch us in Alberta📣😃
With our enigmatic and roller coaster programme: Fortuna, will you spare us?
The question is, will the weather in Alberta spare us? We will find out.🙈🥶
#earlymusic #medievalmusic #ensembleontour
Photo credit to Modestas Endriuška