Musica Gloria
Musica Gloria is a young, vibrant instrumental and vocal ensemble led by Beniamino Paganini and Nele Vertommen. The ensemble aims to bring early music to listeners in a compelling, lively, colourful and historically informed way on (copies of) historical instruments. Musica Gloria’s repertoire ranges from early to late Baroque and from the most famous to the least known works. Bringing captivating, balanced and well-crafted programmes is a must for the ensemble. Depending on the programme and project, Musica Gloria consists of two to forty and beyond, young, enthusiastic musicians. The ensemble consciously chooses an approach based on respect and responsibility for the music, the musicians, all others involved, and the environment.
Musica Gloria attracts an enthusiastic audience and plays some thirty concerts a year, including regularly in front of full houses at national and international venues and festivals such as AMUZ (Belgium), Bachfest Leipzig (Germany), BOZAR (Belgium), 30CC (Belgium), Concertgebouw in Bruges (Belgium), De Bijloke (Belgium), Festival de Froville (France), Flagey (Belgium), Internationale Telemann-Gesellschaft (Germany), Itinéraire Baroque (France), Klara (Belgium), Kölner Philharmonie (Germany), Les Festivals de Wallonie (Belgium), Lunalia (Belgium), the MA Festival Brugge (Belgium), Mubafa (Belgium), Musica Antica (Netherlands), St. Wenceslas Music Festival (Czech Republic), Tage Alter Musik Regensburg (Germany), Trigonale (Austria) and Festival Musicale Viaggio in Italia. In 2024, Musica Gloria performed the opening concerts of the festivals Lunalia and Les Nuits de Septembre.
In the last years, in addition to performing these concerts, the ensemble has released many video recordings on YouTube and six CDs: “Georg Österreich’s Resurrected Treasures” (2025), “Corelli & Handel: Encounters in Rome” (2023), “The Bachs & the Flute” (2022), “Fasch’s Oboe” (2022) and two CDs with a selection of YouTube video recordings (2021 & 2023). These recordings have been listened to worldwide and received positively by numerous listeners, radio stations, TV stations and reviewers (including 5 Diapasons, 10/10 in Luister and Le Disque classique du jour on Radio France).
