09/05/2026
Join Musica Spira for a concert featuring Chiara Cozzolani's exquisite Mass for Four Voices and other gems from the Italian Baroque convents on Friday, September 18 at 7:30 pm.
More than half of all Italian women spent their lives in convents in the seventeenth century. Cloistered from the world, these women were often free to pursue artistic and scholarly endeavors at extraordinarily high levels. At least thirteen nuns composed stunningly virtuosic music across the seventeenth century in Italy, and countless more musical women performed these masterpieces behind screens for adoring audiences.
The centerpiece of this concert is Chiara Margarita Cozzolani's Mass for Four Voices, a stunning work she wrote while living in a Benedictine convent in Milan. The program also features pieces by other seventeenth-century Italian nuns, showcasing the wide range of high-level music making that women achieved in the Baroque period.
Suggested donation $35/adults, $10/students. Donations can be made at the door or at https://www.musicaspira.com/
Admission is free for Saint Peter's parishioners.
