Press Releases

Afterlife Aspirations Pit Old Against New for HIP Houston Ensemble Houston, TX, October 12, 2021 — Ars Lyrica Houston, the Grammy-nominated early music ensemble, mounts the first of two staged operas this season on a program entitled Eternity and the Underworld. Historically Informed Performance (HIP) is the hallmark of Ars Lyrica performances, which will be featured in Johann

The Third Thursdays with Eastman’s Italian Baroque Organ at the Memorial Art Gallery concert series returns this November with a performance by Kola Owolabi, Professor of Organ at the University of Notre Dame. His program features works by Georg Muffat, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Francisco Correa de Arauxo, and Franz Xaver Murschhauser. In a unique collaboration between

Reformation Reboot highlights the 500th anniversary of the Diet of Worms with a new program of music from the sixteenth century. During the Diet of Worms, Martin Luther affirmed his revolutionary ideas including community involvement in religious services, direct worship, and use of the vernacular language (German rather than Latin). This was the beginning of

Ars Lyrica Houston, the Grammy-nominated early music ensemble, celebrates 300 years of the Well-Tempered Clavier by Johann Sebastian Bach with a series of intimate performances at Rienzi, the MFAH house museum for European decorative arts. Artistic Director and international prize-winning harpsichordist Matthew Dirst offers eight pairs of preludes and fugues on each of two concerts. The