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This December, Piffaro, The Renaissance Band joins forces with New York City’s “splendid” (New York Times) Tenet Vocal Artists for a German Christmas program called Ein Kind Geborn. Combining the evocative sounds of sackbuts, shawms, dulcians, and other period instruments with Tenet’s radiant voices in a program of music by Michael Praetorius and his contemporaries, […]

Come join us in 2026 for the second edition of the Dutch International Traverso Competition. The live final rounds of this international student traverso competition will take place during the International Adams Flute Festival in Limburg in April. The competition is entirely aimed at students and offers many a valuable stepping stone to a professional

Escape to the stage with Ann Ford (1737-1824)! When British socialite Ann Ford’s father demanded that she marry a man 30-years her senior (who had attempted to pay for her hand in marriage), she was desperate to find a way out. With money she borrowed from her well-to-do friends, Ann rented out some of London’s most

ARCADIA PLAYERS     Andrus Madsen, Artistic Director Contact: Jon Solins (jon_solins@comcast.net) Arcadia Players presents “Lusitano and His Circle”  Sacred vocal music of a re-discovered 16th-century master Saturday, November 15th, 2pm in the Music Room, Wistariahurst Museum, Holyoke             Pre-concert talk by Artistic Director Andrus Madsen at 1pm Vicente Lusitano, a 16th-century