Schedule for Ensemble Madrigal 2022

Artistic Director: Lidiya Davidova

The Ensemble Madrigal is an early music group formed originally in 1965 by Russian composer and harpsichordist Andre Volkonsky to perform Russian sacred music of the Middle Ages, Renaissance, and Baroque eras. Its members then, as now, were featured soloists of the Moscow State Philharmonic Society. In the intervening years, the 12-member group has expanded its repertoire to include a broad range of sacred and secular vocal and instrumental works of the 16th -18th centuries from across Europe. As the name suggests, the ensemble - since 1993 under the direction of Professor Lidiya Davidova - specializes in madrigals and other secular genres of Renaissance and Baroque. To date, the group has recorded several CDs and has given some 4000 performances in Russia, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Hungary, Poland, and elsewhere.