Celestial Encounters
Sun, Feb 22
|Mt. Angel Abbey & Eugene, OR
Trace a musical journey across continents—from European convents and courts to Jesuit missions in China. Arwen Myers solos on this program of Barbara Strozzi, Isabella Leonarda, and Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre alongside Jesuit missionary-composers Teodorico Pedrini and Joseph-Marie Amiot.
Time & Location
Feb 22, 2026, 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM
Mt. Angel Abbey & Eugene, OR
About the Event
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Celestial Encounters explores Baroque music as a global practice, tracing the circulation of sacred and instrumental works across European convents, courts, and Jesuit missions to Qing-dynasty China.
Featured artists: Arwen Myers, soprano • Andrew Wong, violin • Joyce Cheng, harpsichord
Works by Barbara Strozzi, Isabella Leonarda, Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, and Corelli alongside music by Jesuit missionary-composers Teodorico Pedrini and Joseph-Marie Amiot. Performed on period instruments, the concert reveals how sound, belief, and knowledge traveled across borders in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.