Luisa Trisi founded Big Picture Communications in 1999 to provide clients with a wide range of strategic communications services. Recent clients include Artscape, ATMA Classique, Tafelmusik and the Toronto Consort.

1. What are we interrupting (i.e. what music-related activity are we taking you away from to write this)?

I’m listening to a preview recording of Handel’s opera Orlando, which will be released on the ATMA Classique label this fall. It features a dream cast, including Karina Gauvin, Allyson McHardy and Nathan Berg, with the Pacific Baroque Orchestra directed by Alexander Weimann.

2. What, if anything, are you most looking forward to as an audience member (not work-related) between now and September 7?

A live performance of “Dowland in Dublin,” the gorgeous and utterly addictive program by tenor Michael Slattery and La Nef (also available as an ATMA recording). I haven’t yet decided whether we’re going to make the trek to Domaine Forget in Quebec on July 4, or see them at Ottawa Chamberfest on July 28.

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3. How about work-related events/activities?

I’m really looking forward to L’Allegro Movement Project, a free event on June 19 at Daniels Spectrum. It’s an amazing collaboration between Dancing With Parkinson’s, school children from the Regent Park and Cabbagetown communities, the Mark Morris Dance Group, and the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and Chamber Choir performing music by Handel – all under the Luminato Festival umbrella. I’m also thrilled to return to work with the team at Artscape on their newest project, Artscape Youngplace near Queen and Shaw, set to open in November.

http://www.torontoartscape.org/artscape-youngplace

 4. What are you already preparing for musically beyond the summer? And (how) do your summer plans tie in with these longer term plans? 

A lot of planning around Tafelmusik’s inaugural concerts in their newly-revitalized home at Trinity-St. Paul’s, which happen October 3 to 6 – looking forward to the revamped acoustics there.

I’m also reaching out to contacts in the Jewish and Italian communities to help spread the word about performances of “La Istoria de Purim” by an Italian group called Ensemble Lucidarium. They’ve performed at the Ashkenaz Festival and will be returning on November 22 and 23 on the Toronto Consort’s series. Lucidarium’s program is devoted to Renaissance songs and poetry of the Italian Jews, and includes pieces sung in Italian, Yiddish and Hebrew.