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PORTLAND, Ore. — July 29, 2026 — Cappella Romana, the internationally acclaimed vocal ensemble devoted to the sacred music of the Christian East and West, today announced a search for its next Music Director. The successful candidate will serve as the ensemble’s chief artistic visionary, principal conductor, and researcher, guiding performances of medieval Byzantine chant […]

This year’s program honors the vision and history of Folger Consort and Co-Artistic Directors Robert Eisenstein and Christopher Kendall Folger Consort, the award-winning early music ensemble-in-residence at the Folger Shakespeare Library, announced its 2026-27 concert series today. The season marks 50 years of Folger Consort under founding directors Robert Eisenstein and Christopher Kendall. “For more than half a century,

September 26, 3:30 pm – FREE Arts Speak Performance Lecture at the Performing Arts Center, Brewser, MA. Come to an extraordinary lute lecture-performance by Paul O’Dette, Professor of Lute and Director of Early Music at the Eastman School of Music and Artistic Co-Director of the Boston Early Music Festival. This afternoon will focus on the

August 14 at 7:30 PM, August 15 at 3:30 PM, at the Church of the Transfiguration, Orleans, MA.Experience this powerful and beautiful early Baroque work—revolutionary for its time, and very relevant today! Scored for seven solo singers, chorus, and period instruments including recorders, cornetti, theorbo, sackbuts, lute, chamber organ, and viola da gamba, it will