The Ballard Green Entertainment group will be presenting The Early Music Ensemble Group with singers whose range of voices span from soprano, alto, tenor and bass on Friday, June 12, at 4:30 at 25 Gilbert Street.
The Early Music Ensemble Group will be accompanied by harpsichord, piano and flute performing music from Handel, Purcell, Monteverdi, Gesualdo, Schultz, and Bach as well as those of the French, Spanish and English Renaissance and Baroque periods.
The Ensemble will be singing a number of French and Spanish songs of the Baroque era. The Ensemble has been formed from within The Schubert Club of Fairfield.
Early Music Ensemble includes Katherine Humphrey, soprano; Robert Puleo, tenor and artistic director; Jacqueline Steiner, alto; Michael Hull, baritone; Deborah Kahan, harpsichord; Susan Leigh Babcock, alto and tenor; Sylvia Corrigan, soprano; and Julie Statius Muller, soprano.
Puleo began his career as a boy soprano at the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, and Spoleto Festival. He sang the role of Amahl with Menotti directing. A graduate of SUNY-Purchase, Puleo has also studied at the Britten-Pears Advanced School for Music and has performed with a number of small chamber and opera groups. He is the composer of the dramatic cantata Outcasts, and a musical for children based upon C.S. Lewis’ The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. He has completed an opera based upon the life of St. Francis of Assisi, which received its world premiere in October 2001 with Crystal Opera in Norwalk. In 2002, he composed Cry of the Children, based upon poetry written by students at the UN International School in NYC. He served as the artistic director of the chamber ensemble, Musica Plenti, for 24 years, and also as stage and musical director of Crystal Opera. He recently retired from teaching music for a number of years at P.S. 21 in the Bronx, N.Y.
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