Scaramuccia (music ensemble)

Scaramuccia is an early music ensemble founded in February 2013 on the initiative of Spanish violinist and musicologist Javier Lupiáñez.

Scaramuccia started in the Fringe of the Festival in Utrecht 2013 and in the Fringe in the Festival of Bruges 2013. Since then, the ensemble has developed an intense concert schedule in the Netherlands, Belgium, and the UK. Among other performances, Scaramuccia has played in the Maldon Festival of Arts in Maldon, UK (2014 and 2015), the Museum Vleeshuis in Antwerp, BE (2014), the Kasteelconcerten, NL (2015), Festival Echi Lontani, IT (2016) Internationaal Kamermuziek Festival Utrecht, NL (2016), and has also recorded for the Dutch radio station, Concertzender.

Scaramuccia has performed the world premières of two new Vivaldi pieces (The trio sonata RV 820^[1] and the Sonata RV 205/2,^[2] both works discovered by the leader of the ensemble, Javier Lupiáñez,^[3] in a live concert in the radio program De Musyck Kamer, broadcast on the Dutch radio station Concertzender in 2014.^[4]

Scaramuccia was voted as the best ensemble by the audience and won the Audience Award in the Göttinger Reihe Historischer Musik 2015/2016 competition in the Göttingen International Handel Festival.^[5]