Consort Mirabile
About Us
Consort Mirabile is a vocal and instrumental ensemble specialized in Renaissance and early Baroque music. The players use a wide range of recorders in order to create a varied palette of timbres, which blends beautifully with the voice of the singer.
As graduates of many reputable conservatoires around the world, the members are all experienced solo and ensemble performers with a special focus on historical performance practices.
Consort Mirabile has had the opportunity to perform Fringe concerts at renowned early music festivals such as Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht, MA Festival Brugge and the Reincken Festival in Deventer. The summer of 2016 saw them not only performing as one of the promising ensembles at the International Young Artist's Presentation, IYAP, in Antwerpen but also taking part in the International Music Festival of Piantón, Spain, as one of the Artists in Residence.
With an ensemble consisting of multi-talented musicians their performances include not just playing and singing but they also include historical texts, poems and theatrical elements. Each concert of Consort Mirabile has a story to tell.
Scroll down to read our individual CV's.
Alice Boccafogli
Alice fell in love with the recorder when she was 8 years old.
After graduating summa cum laude at the Conservatorio “G. B. Martini” in Bologna (Italy), she went on to study in The Netherlands with Daniël Brüggen, where she obtained a Bachelor in Early Music and a Master in Music Pedagogy at the Koninklijk Conservatorium in The Hague.
Alice dedicates herself to singing as well, and she is currently studying baroque repertoire with Sonia Tedla Chebreab.
In 2015 Alice was founding member of Consort Mirabile.
In 2020 she joined recorder consort Breeze, specialized in theatrical renaissance repertoire.
Alice also joins forces with violinist Cecilia Baesso and continuo player Santo Militello in the interpretation of Italian Seicento repertoire for voice and instruments alike, and she regularly collaborates as singer with ensemble Super Librum (JanKees Braaksma).
She has released three CDs to date (Tactus).
Soledad Brondino
Soledad Brondino studied Master of Music specialization Historical Bassoons (Dulcian, Baroque and Classical) at Conservatorium van Amsterdam in the class of Benny Aghassi. During her studies she got lessons of modern Bassoon with Ronald Karten (pricipal bassoonist of the Koninklijk Concertgebouworkest). Previously she studied Recorder at Koninklijk Conservatorium Den Haag with Sébastien Marq and Daniël Brüggen. In Argentina she obtained the Licenciatura at Instituto Nacional del Arte.
Her master thesis is about the Repertoire for Bajon in Cuzco (Peru) in the 17th century. Since September 2019 she is attending the Master universitaire Recherche et Pratique
Orchestrale (Université de Poitiers, Abbaye aux Dames Saintes).
She has attended masterclasses with Josep Borràs, Lorenzo Alpert, Eyal Streett, Robert Percival, Gonzalo Ruiz, Pedro Memelsdorff, Rodrigo Calveyra, Joan Izquierdo, Reine- Marie Verhagen, Karel van Steenhoven, Ricardo Kanji, Julien Martin, Cesar Villavicencio, among others.
Soledad lives in Amsterdam, where she works as a freelancer musician and as bassoon teacher in Het Leerorkest.
Soledad has participated in projects conducted by Alfredo Bernardini, Johannes Leertouwer, Julien Chauvin, Teunis van der Zwart, Shunske Sato, Peter van Heyghen, Josep Domenech, Jos van Veldhoven, Andreas Kuppers, Sébastien Marq, Paul Dombrecht, Kristian Bezuidenhout, Gabriel Garrido, Menno van Delft, Daniël Brüggen, Kenneth Montgomery, Evgenii Sviridov, Raphaël Pichon among others.
Isabella Mercuri
Isabella Mercuri began her recorder studies at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (CH) in the class of Kees Boeke and completed her Master's degree in Early Music at the Koninklijk
Conservatorium in Den Haag (NL) in the class of Daniel Brüggen. At the same time she followed baroque oboe lessons with Frank de Bruine. She is currently studying baroque oboe and classical oboe with Paolo Grazzi at the Conservatorio E. F. Dall'Abaco in Verona (IT).
Isabella Mercuri regularly performs as recorder player and baroque oboist with various chamber music ensembles and orchestras. She participated in the Schütz-Zyklus (2017-2022) under the direction of Ludwig Wicki in Lucerne, plays regularly as a guest with the 21st Century Orchestra at the KKL and was able to perform in other renowned concert halls such as Concertgebouw Brugge, Tivoli Vredenburg Utrecht and Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe.
In 2022 she played the first oboe in the first performance on period instruments of the St. Matthew Passion (J.S. Bach) in Serbia under the direction of Predrag Gosta. For this project Isabella Mercuri was supported by the Istituto Italiano di Cultura Belgrado.
In 2020 she obtained a Master's degree in music pedagogy at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste in the class of Andreas Böhlen and teaches children, teenagers and adults in indivdually as well as in various ensembles in Swiss music schools.
Thibault Viviani
Thibault Viviani studied recorder in Villeurbanne (FR), The Hague (NL) and Zurich. At the same time he studied transverse flute in Zurich and Trossingen (DE).
He performs regularly with various orchestras and ensembles, such as the Orchestra La Scintilla an der Oper Zürich, the Berner Consort, the Ensemble Desmarest (Paris) and the Royal Improviser Orchestra (Amsterdam).
As a member of the PRIME recorder ensemble under the direction of Antonio Politano, he participated in the creation of numerous compositions for recorders and live electronics and recorded a CD for the label O-live Music/ETK.
In the field of music theatre he is active in the Compagnie des Zeph' where he is involved in the creation and performance of the children's play Pipo. He is also active in the music theatre projects of the Tiefenrausch cycle in Zurich, whose performances combine medieval art, literature and music.
Thibault Viviani can be heard on the CD Das Lautenbuch der von Erlach with the Ensemble Accords Nouveaux under the direction of Andreas Schlegel. Further, he plays regularly in Germany with the Bach.Lab Ensemble, a group that brings together musicians from the fields of jazz and early music.
Marta Redaelli
Parallel to her masters in Psychology (Università di Trento) and in Human Resource (Tilburg University, NL), she graduated in Baroque and Renaissance Singing at Conservatorio Bonporti (Trento, Italy) under the guidance of Lia Serafini. She later furthered her musical studies with Ulrike Sonntag, Thomas Seyboldt, Sonia Tedla Chebreab, Roberto Balconi, Rinaldo Alessandrini, Alessandro Quarta, Sara Mingardo and Monica Bacelli.
She has worked with numerous conductors and ensembles, such as Giulio Prandi, Fabio Bonizzoni, Alfredo Bernardini, Markus Poschner, Lorenzo Ghielmi, Vittorio Ghielmi, Roberto Zarpellon, Marian Polin, Giuseppe Maletto, Maxim Emelyanychev. She has performed as soloist in some of the most prestigious halls and festivals in Europe, such as Het Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), Oude Muziek (Utrecht), Festival d’Ambronay, Festival de la Chaise Dieu, Internationale Händel-Festspiele Göttingen, Kartause Mauerbach (Wien), Teatro Filarmonico di Verona, Pavia Barocca, Teatro Comunale di Ferrara, Scuola Grande di San Rocco (Venice), Festival Pergolesi-Spontini (Jesi), Teatro Olimpico (Vicenza), Trento MusicAntica, Brixner Initiative Musik und Kirche, Settimane Musicali Meranesi, Monteverdi Festival (Cremona), Wratislavia Cantans (Breslavia), De Bijloke (Gand).
After receiving her bachelor degree from Birmingham Conservatoire in the United Kingdom, Swedish soprano Andrea Tjäder chose to continue her studies at the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague in the Netherlands. Here she specialised in historically informed performance practises under the tutelage of Rita Dams, Jill Feldman, Michael Chance and Peter Kooij. She also participated in projects led by some of the worlds leading experts on early music, including Patrick Ayrton, Kate Clark and Daniel Brüggen.
Operatic roles include “Poppea” in Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea, the title role of Handel’s Semele, “Zweite Dame” and “Zweiter Knabe” in Die Zauberflöte by Mozart and the role of “Anybody’s” in Bernstein’s musical West Side Story. In 2010 she also participated in the world premiere performance of the opera "Scoring a Century" by the British composer David Blake. Since May 2014 Andrea has been a cast member of BarokOpera Amsterdam and participated in productions both in the Netherlands and France.
Andrea has also paricipated in master classes with Dame Emma Kirkby, Johannette Zomer, Margreet Honig and Swedish Baroque soprano Susanne Rydén.