Travel back in time with the Nocturnalia ensemble. The Violin, Cello and Harpsichord trio will perform early music from the 1600’s in the unique candlelit setting of The Lost Village of Dode.
Nocturnalia Ensemble is composed of three young performers (Mojca Jerman on the violin, Pablo Tejedor-Gutiérrez on the cello/gamba and Alex Mastichiadis on historical keyboards) who look to offer fresh and innovative concerts to its audiences, capable of awakening in the listeners the different emotions and feelings that 17th and 18th-century composers tried to express in their music.
Nocturnalia believes that Early Music is tremendously contemporary, given the degree of freedom that offers to performers, and the unparalleled creativity that improvisation and ornamentation create. Our unique personal and musical connection reflects our European origins, embracing concepts from our respective languages that define us: Šarovít (colorful and picturesque), Duende (the creative struggle to create deep art forms), and Μεράκι (to do something with soul).
As an ensemble, Nocturnalia was born while playing night sessions of music by Mozart and Schmelzer in the Romanesque Abbey of Ambronay during the summer of 2021, while its members met in the context of the EEEmerging+ European Academy. However, Nocturnalia first concert took place some time later, in January 2023 in Athens at the Music Hub Conservatory. After this first public performance, other invitations followed to perform the programme Wit and Mirth, on English 17th-century folk and elite music, at the Utrecht Oude Muziek festival (Theaterhuis de Berenkuil) and the Contratemps Festival (Sant Cugat, near Barcelona).
🌙 Forthcoming Performance
09 Nov 2025, 19:30 – 21:30
The Lost Village of Dode
Great Buckland, Gravesend, DA13 0XF, UK
Tickets available to purchase via https://www.whitehorseconcerts.co.uk/events/wit-mirth-nocturnalia-violin-cello-harpsichord
Join us in the timeless embrace of Dode’s ancient flint walls for an evening of candlelit beauty, as the Nocturnalia Ensemble rekindles the music of centuries gone by with colour, soul and spirit.
