Piffaro, The Renaissance Band

Piffaro’s next concert performances – February 11 in Tucson, March 15-17 in Philadelphia and Wilmington, and streaming online March 29 to April 11 – will transport audiences to the court of Charles VIII of France (“the Affable”) and into the pages of the “Gutenberg Bible of music,” the Harmonice Musices Odhecaton. GRAMMY Award-winning tenor James […]

Piffaro, the Renaissance Band will welcome soprano Clara Rottsolk for its annual concert series of holiday music from the Renaissance period. This year’s program features music from Southern Germany, a wellspring of Christmas traditions and carols that are still beloved today. Concerts take place December 8 and 9 in Philadelphia and December 10 at historic

Piffaro’s 39th subscription season, the second under the artistic leadership of Priscilla Herreid, opens with a program provocatively titled The Year the Music Died. That year was 1623, when composers William Byrd, Thomas Weelkes, and Philip Rosseter all passed away within months of each other, and with them the era of Elizabethan music. Of her

“Stunning in its breadth and beauty,” (Broad Street Review) Piffaro’s season finale is drawn from the rich sacred and secular repertoire found in manuscripts of 16th and 17th-century Peru, Chile, and Bolivia. Piffaro’s wind band is augmented with plucked strings, percussion, and five stellar vocalists. Special guest, Argentinian tenor and lutenist Jonatan Alvarado, sings “with