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The winners of EMA’s Baroque Performance Competition are off to a fast start and ﬁve concerts into its existence, the ensemble Pallade Musica won the Grand Prize at Early Music America’s ﬁrst Baroque Performance Competition. The competition, described as “a marathon contest,” was held in New York last October and featured six ﬁnalists selected from a pool of 35 applicants. The name Pallade Musica is an Italian take on “Athena’s Music,” and the Italian idiom has brought the group good fortune so far. After playing together for several months, Pallade Musica members ofﬁcially launched their group and their own concert series in August 2012 at the Chapelle NotreDame-de-Bon-Secours in Montreal. To inaugurate their concert series, Pallade crafted a program of 17th-century Italian music, “Terreno e Vago,” the same one they performed for the EMA competition. “Terreno represents the earth, that which is profane, secular, regular, and deﬁned,” read the program notes. “The contrasting vago is music of reﬂection: it is irregular, spiritual, sacred, elusive, and vague.” You could read this description as a manifesto of what the group aspires to evoke in much of their music. Baroque ﬂutist Sandra Miller, who teaches in Juilliard’s Historical Performance Program in New York, was a member of the EMA competition jury. She said the program was “beautifully conceived, both By Adeline Sire L PHOTO: ELIZABETH DELAGE ESS THAN A YEAR The members of Pallade Musica. From left, standing, Tanya LaPerrière, Mylène Bélanger, and Elinor Frey, and sitting, Esteban La Rotta. Pallade Musica: A Swift Rise, All’Italiana Early Music America Summer 2013 43

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Early Music America Summer 2013

Editor's Note
Reader Forum
Sound Bytes
Profile: Christopher Jackson
Musings: When the Music Becomes Ours
Recording Reviews
Early Music, 21st-Century Style
The Indigenous Musicians of Cuzco
Bird Quills, the Art of Touch, and Other Pleasures
Pallade Musica: A Swift Rise, All'Italiana
Book Reviews
Ad Index
In Conclusion: Finding "Local Content" in the Music of New Spain

Early Music America Summer 2013