RomEnsemble

The group, directed and founded in 2017 by Annalisa Pellegrini, is a choral ensemble of a maximum of 16 elements. Composed of singers trained at the Civica Scuola delle Arti in Rome, the group has performed in important Italian locations including the Auditorium Conciliazione in Rome, the Aula Magna of the Sapienza University, the Basilica of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli in Campidoglio, the church of Santa Maria dei Miracoli in Piazza del Popolo in Rome, the Auditorium of the Goethe Institut in Rome, the  Church of Santa Trinita in Florence. The RomEnsemble boasts a rare repertoire focused on Ancient Music and Sacred Music. The group is often a guest of the Federico Cesi – Musica Urbis Festival and the Choir Winter Fest and protagonist of first performances or modern re-editions: in 2011 the Choir closed the celebrations of the Menotti Year at the Teatro Caio Melisso in Spoleto (PG) with the staging of Chip and His Dog by Giancarlo Menotti, an opera for soloists, a choir of two voices and piano for the International Pianistic Festival of Spoleto and in 2013, as part of the event “Les Jour de France à Rome” it performed the first performance of the opera Italique by Francois Laurent for reciting voice, soloists, a choir of two voices, a plucked ensemble and percussion. The group boasts collaborations with singers of the Cappella Musicale Pontificia Sistina with whom it has made videos and recordings of polyphonic repertoire including the world premiere of unpublished manuscripts from the library collection of the Cappella Giulia in Rome, composed by Giovanni Battista Costanzi and Antonio Boroni in the 18th century. In May 2019, the Coro RomEnsemble and the Youth Choir of the Civica Scuola delle Arti took part in the LIFE project which saw them as protagonists of the Concerto There Was a Child at the Berlin Philharmonic together with the Berliner Philarmoniker conducted by Maestro Simon Halsey. The group also collaborates with the French Orchestra Via Luce for which it has performed the concerts Mozartiade and Verba Mea (From Gregorian to 18th-century Rome: the great Italian Sacred Music) in Paris and Prague for the Italian Cultural Institute. For the contemporary repertoire, the group has collaborated with international artists such as the electronic music singer Dillon, performing at the Parco della Musica in Rome. In 2022, in collaboration with AMAT LAB in Florence, they performed the operetta Paris, a nous deux! by Jean Francaix for soloists, choir and 4 saxes. The group is dedicatee of the song And the stars look different, today by Pasquale Citera for voice, choir, saxophone quartet and live electronics. Always directed by M° Annalisa Pellegrini, the RomEnsemble boasts an important repertoire of 18th-century Italian music by authors such as Vivaldi, Carissimi, Pergolesi and works on unpublished repertoire by composers such as Suor Isabella Leonarda, performing in the last year with said repertoire at the Auditorium of the Bank of Italy in Rome, in Spello as part of the Federico Cesi Festival, in Cortona for the 2024 edition of the Choralia.0 Festival and has participated in the Leonardo Leo Baroque Festival in Puglia, performing a concert dedicated to music composed in Italian female convents in the 18th century. Furthermore, in collaboration with the Russian instrumental ensemble Cappella Barocca “Golden Age”, RomEnsemble performed in Saint Petersburg (Russia), with the Concerto Masterpieces of the Italian Baroque at Jaani Kirik and with the Concerto The Magic of the Italian Baroque at the prestigious Maltese Chapel of the Vorontsov Palace.