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SoHIP announces 2026 Concert Series (40th season)

March 27, 2026Somerville, MA – The Society for Historically Informed Performance (SoHIP) presents eight weeks of live performances and video premieres beginning June 2. Now in its 40th year, SoHIP continues to promote public appreciation and understanding of historically informed performance of early music in New England.  Concerts are at 7:30pm, June 2 to July […]

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“Girls on Fire!” – Antonio Vivaldi, l’estro armonico, Op.3 – Part I

Sunday, March 29th, 2026 at Vassar College, Skinner Hall-Martell Recital Hall. Abendmusik presents Vivaldi’s first collection of printed concerti for 1, 2, & 4 violins, Opus 3, l’estro armónico. Published in Amsterdam in 1711, these concerti are believed to have been performed by the all-female orchestra comprised of students at the Ospedale della Pietà in Venice. In honor

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Classical Guitarist Brendan Evans Releases debut album “Tiento”

Classical guitarist Brendan Evans has released Tiento (Green Flash Music, January 30, 2026), a solo recording that brings Renaissance lute repertory into dialogue with twentieth-century expression. The album includes works by Francesco Canova da Milano, whose 16th-century Italian lute music represents a pinnacle of early plucked-string polyphony. Performing this repertory on the modern classical guitar,

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Twisted Pearl hosts Competition for Historically Informed Composers

Twisted Pearl is proud to introduce a new opportunity to musicians of any background by hosting its first annual online international competition for historically informed composition (ICHIC), which is connected to our finale concert, Terminus Montréal (23 and 24 October, 2026). For this competition, singular in the world, the most outstanding instrumental piece will be

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