Women in medieval music: musicology and interpretation#
Date: 20th March 2024 19:00 - 21:00 CETVenue: Instituto Cervantes Bruselas, Avenue Louise 140, Brussels
Members of Academia Europaea are cordially invited to attend the last event in the "Mujeres en la Música
", a series organised by the Instituto Cervantes in Brussels. The title of the event is "Women in medieval music: musicology and interpretation.
A conversation between musicologist Maricarmen Gómez Muntané, member of the Academia Europaea Musicology and Art history section, performer Lobke Sprenkeling
and musicologist Ruth Prieto, curator of the series, on the role of women in musicology and the interpretation of works from the origins of music to the Middle Ages. After the talk, Lobke Sprenkeling will perform several musical pieces.
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About Maricarmen Gómez Muntané#
Spanish musicologist specialising in the European medieval and Hispanic Renaissance repertoire. She has held the chair of Early Music at the Autonomous University of Barcelona since 1998. She has been director of the International Musicological Society (1987-1997). Her most recent books include La música medieval en España and Las Ensaladas (Praga, 1581). A member of The Academy of Europe, she is the editor of the first two volumes of Historia de la Música en España e Hispanoamérica and, together with Eduardo Carrero, of a collection of interdisciplinary essays on La Sibila.
About Lobke Sprenkeling#
Professor of recorder at the Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid. She has performed with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid, Les Talens Lyriques, the Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, La Academia de los Nocturnos, etc. She has taught recorder in Holland, Estonia, Spain, the United States and Mexico. As a multidisciplinary artist, she has staged her own plays Incipit (2015, 2018) and Lost (2017) and has worked in Cirque du Soleil as a vocalist / flautist.
Ruth Prieto, curator of the series, is the director of the Radio Alma programme La Soireé Musicale, and of the contemporary music magazine El Compositor Habla.
About the Women in Music series#
For the third consecutive year, Women in Music aims to be a space for making visible the presence of women in the complex world of music and their contribution to it, linking the 2024 programme to areas such as creation, music management and the study of music, medieval in this case. The series is curated and moderated by the musicographer Ruth Prieto. Women in Music 2024 has featured the harpist Floraleda Sacchi, the singer and stage director Marina Bollaín, the musicologist Maricarmen Gómez Muntané and the flautist, choreographer and pedagogue Lobke Sprenkeling.
