Event

Unheard Voices

For seventeen years, Dolce Canto has explored almost 350 choral works from the Renaissance period to the present, bringing musical imagination and inspiration to our audiences. After leading an engineering student choir to win several awards in the 14th China International Chorus Festival and the 7th Bali International Choir Festival in July 2018, Yong Mao has taken over as the artistic director for this season, gathering together an assembly of dedicated musicians with a unique program uncovering unheard choral music.

If music history is considered as a subjective composer competition, only the luckiest winners music is recognized and performed. Perhaps, the vision of the past is better revealed by focusing on the remembered and the forgotten, the heard and the unheard. It is all about the human spirit.

Dolce Canto will offer audiences the chance to discover unheard voices from forgotten figures of the seventeenth century, including a complete Mass Ordinary by an Italian nun composer Chiara Margarita Cozzolani and two motets by Bach Family geniuses. Dolce Canto will also perform environmental choral music from the United States, Australia, and China, as well as other contemporary works from the United Kingdom, Canada, Estonia, Lithuania, and Germany.