On Saturday, 4th March, Emma will sing as the alto soloist in Mozart’s arrangement of Handel’s Messiah, with conductor Dirkjan Horringa and La Pellegrina choir and orchestra. Mozart arranged Handel’s Messiah in 1789. It was intended for use in private concerts hosted by Baron van Swieten in Vienna. As well as promoting contemporary composers such as Mozart, Hadyn, and Beethoven, Baron van Swieten also (and unusually) arranged concerts of music by deceased composers such as J.S. Bach and Handel.

Mozart arranged Handel’s Messiah for a private concert hosted by van Swieten on 6^th March, 1789, almost thirty years after Handel’s death. Mozart himself conducted. For more information about Mozart’s arrangement of the Messiah, click here.

The concert will take place at 20:15 in the Rehobothkerk, Briljantlaan 6, Utrecht. Tickets (€18/€15) are available at the door, and may be reserved in advance with a reduced fee (€15/€12) here.

On Sunday, 19^th February the Leidse Cantorij, under conductor Hans Brons, will give the first performance of Emma’s new motet, Jesu Mihi Omnia, during Evensong in the Dorpskerk in Leiderdorp, the Netherlands. The motet is also programmed for Evensong in Utrecht Cathedral on 2nd March at 19:00, and in the Hooglandse Kerk in Leiden.

The text for the motet is from the gravestone of the (allegorical) fifteenth-century esotericist, Christian Rosenkreutz.