Josquin des Prez’s Missa “Pange lingua” and David Lang’s The Little Match Girl Passion were a part of the February “Cantatas and Chamber Music” series at Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill. The Review The Chestnut Hill Local mentions Ms. Montalbano briefly. Ghoulish story of homeless child at Presbyterian Church by Michael Caruso February 25, 2016: […]
This past weekend, Ms. Montalbano performed at the Eastern State Penitentiary with Piffaro, the Renaissance Band. The program consisted of mostly English ballads addressing themes of murder, thievery, unjust imprisonment, and penitence. The Philadelphia Inquirer lauded her vocal and dramatic flexibility: Renaissance Riot on Cellblock 9 by David Patrick Stearns, May 19, 2014: Gleefully perverse […]
Ms. Montalbano was praised in the press for her performance in Lyric Fest’s Bawdy Bard. Lyric Fest’s ‘Bawdy Bard’ – Tom Purdom for Broad Street Review, September 27, 2011 Mezzo Maren Montalbano added color and personal liveliness; bass Colin Dill contributed a pleasingly unforced masculinity; and tenor Steven Bradshaw spanned a broad range with a […]