In Dulci Jubilo Women’s Gregorian Schola
In Dulci Jubilo Women’s Gregorian Schola is proud of over ten-year experience in pursuing semiological studies aiming at rhythmic interpretation of Gregorian chant, Ambrosian chant and other ancient monodies - cultural and spiritual heritage. Since the foundation time, maestro Alberto Turco has been its artistic manager. The Schola has performed numerous concerts in the most important Italian cities, and participated in festivals and contests on the territory of Italy (Aquileia, Asolo, CastelfrancoV.to, Cesena, Cremona, Crotone, Loreto, Messina, Milan, Novara, Pavia, Perugina, Piacenza, Ravena, Rome, Treviso, Venice, Vercelli, Verona) and all over Europe (Biasca, Budapest, Hildesheim, Vac, Watou), where it enjoyed positive reviews from the critics for its sophisticated rendition of chants and interpretational order. The choirists come from different regions of Italy. The Schola has recorded for Naxos and Libreria Editrice Vaticana, and one of its records, Salve Festa Dies, was chosen as a pert of the Classica Millennium collection, released by Fabbri Editore.
Choirists: Laura Besutti (Padva), Cristina Cabria (Verona), Paola Cardace (Imola), Antonella Fanale (Palermo), Piera Garbellotto (Treviso), Maria Claudia Gelmini (Verona), Emanuela Guizzon (Treviso), Andreika Srdoc (Verona), Elisabetta Vanni (Verona), Patrizia Zanni (Treviso), Carla Zignoli (Verona).
Leitizia Butterin (Verona)
She studied the piano, harpsichord, prepoliphony in two conservatories: S. Cecilia (Rome), B. Marcello (Venice), and the Papal Institute of Sacral Music (Rome). She performs as a soloist and as a member of vocal and instrumental chamber groups.
Alberto Turco
A real authority in the field of Gregorian chant. Since 1965, he has been a conductor of the Cathedral Choir in Verona and the director of the diocese Institute of Sacral Music. He used to teach at the Diocese Seminar in Verona and to be a Gregorian chant professor at the Papal Institutes of Sacral Music in Milan and Rome. Currently, he is running classes in liturgical musicology in the Theological Study Centre in San Zeno in Verona, and courses in Gregorian chant in Italy and abroad (Greece, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Spain). He is also the founder and professor of summer Gregorian chant courses in Fara Sabina (Rieti) and S. Martino della Scale (Montreal). For forty years, he has been periodically living at the abbey in Solesmes, researching ancient monodonic liturgical repertoires. Moreover, he delivers speeches at the conventions of the International Association of Gregorian Chant Studies, and is the artistic manager and the conductor of two male groups: "Nova Schola Gregoriana" in Verona and "Gregoriani Urbis Cantores" in Rome, and one female group "In Dulci Jubilo" in Verona, with whom he has completed numerous tours, giving concerts in Europe, Asia and America. For a few years he has been occupied with the promotion of "easy" Gregorian chant, at its "popular" level, running two groups animating liturgical music during capital celebrations in Rome and Verona. He has released a series of Gregorian paleography Codices Gregoriani, as well as liturgical renditions of Ambrosian chant, out of which the following ones have been published recently: Antiphonale Missarum Simplex (2001) and a new edition Psallite Domino in Gregorian chant, with easy liturgical melodies, in Latin. The editorial activity of Alberto Turco amazes everyone: it encircles a vast spectrum of analysis and rhythmic interpretation of Gregorian chant. His last two works undoubtedly constitute a great cultural value: the recording of complete Kyriale Romanum and a "private" release of Liber Gradualis, "iuxta ordinem Cantus Missa”, together with the reinterpretation of magis critica melodies and the recording of all pieces attached.

















