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What is The Vivaldi Project?

The Vivaldi Project is a premier period instrument ensemble dedicated to presenting 17th- and 18th-century string repertoire. The name, The Vivaldi Project, refers not only to the group's core repertoire—the extraordinary works of the virtuoso violinist and composer, Antonio Vivaldi—but also the project of probing into the roots of Vivaldi's distinctive musical style, as well as his role as the most influential Italian composer of his generation. Vivaldi's innovative contributions to string writing, the concerto genre, and programmatic orchestral music places him as a pivotal figure between earlier “baroque” composers and later “classical” composers. The Vivaldi Project explores this link through performing the works of composers (those well-known and beloved as well as those rarely heard) from the likes of Stradella, Torelli, and Corelli, to J.S. Bach and his sons, and ultimately to Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven.
HISTORY
The Vivaldi Project was founded by Elizabeth Field in 2006 and launched on March 28 of that year with a performance by Field of Vivaldi's Four Seasons at the Post Hall on the George Washington University Campus. This performance was repeated on November 28, 2006 at the Epiphany Church in Washington DC. The Vivaldi Project than began its residency at George Washington University, in January of 2007. Annual performances on the GW campus followed both at Post Hall and Hand Chapel. Beginning on April 27, 2007 The Vivaldi project has performed annually at The Pilgrim Lutheran Church in Bethesda, MD with the same program repeated at The Basilica in Baltimore MD where Tim Smith of the Baltimore Sun praised the group for its “buoyant spirit, expressive warmth and technical fluency of the playing.” On October 11, 2009, the group performed for the first time at The National Presbyterian Church in Washington DC. The group has continued to perform at the Epiphany Church and in June of 2009 performed at the Boston Early Music Festival.