Genevieve McGahey was featured in EMAg in September 2023 with her article, “Art of the Day Job.” Join McGahey and Emerging Professional Leadership Council member and host Wei En Chan on Sunday, April 28 at 7pm ET/4pm PT for a fun discussion around this very real and crucial part of being an artist in 2024! […]
A group of friends who happen to be among Chicago’s — and the nation’s — finest period-instrument musicians will play works by Baroque composers connected by mutual admiration and friendship: J. S. Bach, Antonio Vivaldi, Georg Philipp Telemann, Johann Georg Pisendel, and George Frideric Handel. The concert features soprano Hannah De Priest, Baroque violinist Shelby […]
Come hear rarely heard gems from Spanish speaking composers. Preserved mostly in a music collection in Guatemala, these pieces are rarely heard in the states and are lively works not to be missed! Music to include: Jose de Nebra: Aliena fervorosa Jose de Oreja y Aparicio: Ah del gozo Jose de Nebra: Llegad, llegad, creyentes […]
Apr. 27, 2024 at 7:30 PM | Philadelphia Episcopal Cathedral Apr. 28, 2024 at 4:00 PM | Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill Emlyn Ngai plays Bach's joyous violin concerto, BWV 1042, Gwyn Roberts performs virtuosic recorder suites by Telemann and Handel, and all players get a turn in Spring by Guido. Program Bach: Violin Concerto, BWV […]
Baroque Practice, beginning September 5th, will be held on Tuesdays from 1-2 Eastern Standard Time. This free class online is designed for the general public. The class will be hosted by Catherine Turocy with additional guest teachers from the NYBDC and colleagues. Most classes will be a movement class but some sessions may be guided […]
The Cramer Quartet Rush Hour Music in J. Pierpont Morgan’s Library Celebrated artists perform chamber music from Baroque to contemporary in the intimate and sumptuous surroundings of J. Pierpont Morgan’s Library. All concerts last approximately one hour. With period instruments and an invigorating historically informed approach, the Cramer Quartet brings uncommon warmth, transparency, and texture […]
Revel in the splendor of J.S. Bach’s complete Brandenburg Concertos, the best of the Baroque. From the clarion call of the trumpet in No. 2 to the tour de force harpsichord solo in No. 5, there’s always something new to discover in this much-loved collection. H+H’s endlessly dynamic concertmaster Aisslinn Nosky joins principal keyboard Ian […]
Starting in April, Seattle Recorder Society will sponsor a four-session beginning recorder program for 9-13 year-olds, called the Junior Recorder Ensemble of Puget Sound (JREPS). The group will be taught by SRS past president Nancy Gorbman, who led a similar group last summer on Vancouver Island. Music ranges from Medieval to Renaissance, folk tunes and […]
“String Music from the French Court” Happy Hour Concerts welcomes Un tas de cordes to our series for a first-time concert. The Baroque string trio performs a program of chamber music from the courts of Louis XIV and Louis XV. The evening will feature sonatas by Jean-Féry Rebel and Georg Muffat as well as a […]
Marcia Hadjimarkos, an Oregon native now in France, will will share a wide range of English keyboard music at the clavichord, from a 1630 virginal book to the 20th century, including a sonata by Joseph Haydn. YouTube Video Premiere May 4, 2024
Música Antigua de Albuquerque will present "Music of the Seasons," a concert of music from the Middle Ages and Renaissance about the four seasons of the year. Sorry, no Vivaldi, but there are lots of other tunes to choose from. Songs about spring were by far the most popular in olden times, with its association […]
Lift Every Voice A Celebration of Black Voices in Art Song Join radiant soprano Michele Kennedy and pianist Henry Lebedinsky for an uplifting, powerful, and inspiring program of Spirituals, art songs, and solo piano works by Black composers Florence Price, Margaret Bonds, Harry T. Burleigh, and Moses Hogan, along with insights and stories that vividly […]
Doron Schleifer voice Ivo Haun de Oliveira voice Corina Marti recorders & clavicembalum Michał Gondko plectrum lute Vojtěch Jakl fiddle Following its legacy of giving New York premieres to the world’s elite ensembles, MB1800 presents La Morra from Basel, Switzerland to close our 49th season. Under the joint artistic leadership of Corina Marti and Michał […]
The Bach Week Festival will conclude its 50th anniversary and farewell season with J. S. Bach’s Mass in B Minor, BWV 232, hailed as a cathedral of sound, a myriad of musical miracles, and a crowning achievement of Western music. The work is a treasury of many of Bach’s greatest musical ideas. Soloists are Josefien […]
Música Antigua de Albuquerque will present "Music of the Seasons," a concert of music from the Middle Ages and Renaissance about the four seasons of the year. Sorry, no Vivaldi, but there are lots of other tunes to choose from. Songs about spring were by far the most popular in olden times, with its association […]
Early Music America invites precollege early-music teachers to join us for a series of exploratory conversations. Precollege early-music education is a key element in EMA's strategic plan. To help us focus on this vital topic, we want to hear from you about resources, curriculum, and advocacy teachers need. Join us for one or both of the upcoming Zoom conversations. Register […]
Baroque Practice, beginning September 5th, will be held on Tuesdays from 1-2 Eastern Standard Time. This free class online is designed for the general public. The class will be hosted by Catherine Turocy with additional guest teachers from the NYBDC and colleagues. Most classes will be a movement class but some sessions may be guided […]
Known for his “mesmerizing” (Ludwig van Toronto) performances, Kristian Bezuidenhout returns as harpsichordist and guest director for a program curated especially for Tafelmusik. Transformations draws on music that has morphed from one form to another by way of transcriptions, reworkings, and arrangements. Posthumous orchestral arrangements of several of Rameau’s pieces for solo harpsichord are an homage […]
La Donna Musicale explores the distinctive contributions of Parisian women composers to the French Baroque and Rococo secular genres of airs sérieux: serious songs with subjects such as love, politics, and pastoral scenes, and airs à boire: drinking songs to make merry with libations such as wine. These song forms celebrate passionate longing and self-indulgent inebriation. Our featured composer […]
J.S. Bach owed part of his creative inspiration to the 17th-century’s Stylus phantasticus, a method that sought freedom of form and expression, especially in instrumental works. This program explores several composers who embraced this approach. With a flourishing send-off in the finale of our 25th anniversary year, birds of a feather include Rosenmüller, Reincken, Westhoff, […]
Golden Age Spain and Portugal resounded with music of the ministriles - the Renaissance wind players who held prominent roles in the cultural fabric of these countries. Piffaro pays homage to our Spanish and Portuguese forebears in a program that explores some of the vast repertoire from this time - or some of what still […]
Join the master teachers of Camerata Transcontinental (Letitia Berlin, recorder; Frances Blaker, recorder; Lawrence Lipnik, recorder and viola da gamba; Amy Domingues, viola da gamba; and Ronn McFarlane, lute) to explore the travels and interactions of 16th century English and European composers and the sumptuous, pathbreaking repertoire they created. Open to intermediate, upper intermediate and […]
J.S. Bach owed part of his creative inspiration to the 17th-century’s Stylus phantasticus, a method that sought freedom of form and expression, especially in instrumental works. This program explores several composers who embraced this approach. With a flourishing send-off in the finale of our 25th anniversary year, birds of a feather include Rosenmüller, Reincken, Westhoff, […]
Pre-Concert Lecture 6:30 pm Jacobus Clemens non Papa - Missa Caro mea Motets by Crecquillon, Manchicourt, Gombert and more Charles V, colonial despot, ruthless emperor, or enlightened ruler? Charles was probably all of these things. The glories of his Imperial Chapel remain undisputed, and its reputation as one of the grandest in history endures. Charles’ […]
Golden Age Spain and Portugal resounded with music of the ministriles - the Renaissance wind players who held prominent roles in the cultural fabric of these countries. Piffaro pays homage to our Spanish and Portuguese forebears in a program that explores some of the vast repertoire from this time - or some of what still […]
Western composers were on the move in the 16th century, crisscrossing Europe to study with celebrated mentors and accompany royal retinues. The virtuosi of Camerata Transcontinental (Letitia Berlin, recorder, Frances Blaker, recorder, Lawrence Lipnik, recorder & viola da gamba; Amy Domingues, viola da gamba; Jessica Powell Eig, viola da gamba, Ronn McFarlane, lute) gather from […]
Golden Age Spain and Portugal resounded with music of the ministriles - the Renaissance wind players who held prominent roles in the cultural fabric of these countries. Piffaro pays homage to our Spanish and Portuguese forebears in a program that explores some of the vast repertoire from this time - or some of what still […]
Western composers were on the move in the 16th century, crisscrossing Europe to study with celebrated mentors and accompany royal retinues. The virtuosi of Camerata Transcontinental (Letitia Berlin, recorder, Frances Blaker, recorder, Lawrence Lipnik, recorder & viola da gamba; Amy Domingues, viola da gamba; Jessica Powell Eig, viola da gamba, Ronn McFarlane, lute) gather from […]
J.S. Bach owed part of his creative inspiration to the 17th-century’s Stylus phantasticus, a method that sought freedom of form and expression, especially in instrumental works. This program explores several composers who embraced this approach. With a flourishing send-off in the finale of our 25th anniversary year, birds of a feather include Rosenmüller, Reincken, Westhoff, […]
Baroque Practice, beginning September 5th, will be held on Tuesdays from 1-2 Eastern Standard Time. This free class online is designed for the general public. The class will be hosted by Catherine Turocy with additional guest teachers from the NYBDC and colleagues. Most classes will be a movement class but some sessions may be guided […]
Our ensemble led by Cynthia Miller Freivogel reprises a beloved masterwork: J.S. Bach's Goldberg Variations. This exquisite theme with 30 kaleidoscopic variations has captured listeners' imaginations for generations. BCOC violist and arranger Alexander Vittal has created a superb interpretation for strings that highlights the extraordinary talents of our ensemble and its individual players. May 17-18 […]
Wit's Folly shares through music the stories of those who fled from violence and social upheaval during the French and Haitian Revolutions. Featuring works by André Grétry, Ignace Pleyel, Michel Yost (known in his own time simply as Michel), and others, this program takes its inspiration directly from historic concerts performed by French émigrés, such as a 1793 benefit for […]
Wit's Folly shares through music the stories of those who fled from violence and social upheaval during the French and Haitian Revolutions. Featuring works by André Grétry, Ignace Pleyel, Michel Yost (known in his own time simply as Michel), and others, this program takes its inspiration directly from historic concerts performed by French émigrés, such […]
The 18th century witnessed a synergy between courtly French music and emotionally charged Italian music. This program showcases impassioned works by Antonio Vivaldi, François Couperin, Jean-Philippe Rameau, George Frideric Handel, and Antonio Caldara.
There is something about Claudio Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 that simply takes your breath away—and nearly everyone who has had the good fortune to hear it in live performance, remembers where that was and when it happened. The Vespers is at once audacious and gentle, and it even seems to invent its own delightful form […]
This is a house concert in a private home in Baltimore, MD, for reservations & info please email [email protected] For info on Ronn McFarlane https://ronnmcfarlane.com/
In celebration of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church’s 100th anniversary, we herald Spring with a brand new program. Seven Times Salt will perform 16th- and 17th-c. music from across Europe including works by Lassus, Encina, Manerio, Campion, Senfl and many more. Songs of true love and heartache, rough winds and sweet birdsong, small rain and small […]
NOTE: This concert was originally scheduled for April 14, 2024. It has been moved to May 19, 2024, at 6:00 pm. Celebrate the arrival of warmer weather and longer days with 7HB as we offer our third of four Four Seasons with Seven Hills installments, featuring Spring from Antonio Vivaldi’s Four Seasons - one of […]
Baroque Practice, beginning September 5th, will be held on Tuesdays from 1-2 Eastern Standard Time. This free class online is designed for the general public. The class will be hosted by Catherine Turocy with additional guest teachers from the NYBDC and colleagues. Most classes will be a movement class but some sessions may be guided […]
Seven Times Salt heralds Spring with a brand new program. We will perform 16th- and 17th-c. music from across Europe including works by Lassus, Encina, Manerio, Campion, Senfl and many more. Songs of true love and heartache, rough winds and sweet birdsong, small rain and small beer mark this joyous celebration of life and renewal. […]
May 24 at 7:30pm, The Baltimore Consort will perform The Food of Love: Songs, Dances, and Fancies for Shakespeare May 25, beginning at 7:30pm the Festival will feature several different ensembles and musicians, with The Baltimore Consort performing a program of early Scottish music https://baltimoreconsort.com/
May 24 at 7:30pm, The Baltimore Consort will perform The Food of Love: Songs, Dances, and Fancies for Shakespeare May 25, beginning at 7:30pm the Festival will feature several different ensembles and musicians, with The Baltimore Consort performing a program of early Scottish music https://baltimoreconsort.com/
The 2024 Festival weaves together the golden threads of Beverley's remarkable history alongside a host of concerts and workshops presented within some of the UK's most beautiful ecclesiastical buildings. Opening the Festival we welcome the acclaimed young instrumental group from Spain - El Gran Teatro del Mundo - with guests over the weekend including the […]
Many fans and specialists of early music will know David Lasocki’s name through the countless publications he has done in connection with historical woodwinds, whether books, articles, or music editions. Fewer people may know that he has also written a series of five books about a modern jazz group from New Orleans called Astral Project […]
Julie Jaffee Nagel, Ph.D. is a psychologist, psychoanalyst, and musician, who brings her unique combination of experience and education in music and mental health to a nuanced understanding of performance anxiety as well as diverse other psychological problems. A graduate of The Juilliard School, the University of Michigan, and The Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute, she has […]
Baroque Practice, beginning September 5th, will be held on Tuesdays from 1-2 Eastern Standard Time. This free class online is designed for the general public. The class will be hosted by Catherine Turocy with additional guest teachers from the NYBDC and colleagues. Most classes will be a movement class but some sessions may be guided […]
Pierre Hantaï, cited by Gramophone as being ‘…one of the very finest harpsichordists of our day’, performs a gorgeous program of music by great Baroque composers – Louis Couperin, François Couperin, G.F. Handel, J.S. Bach, and William Byrd. Pierre Hantaï is renowned for his thoughtful interpretations and remarkable virtuosity. This is a rare opportunity to […]
Join us for a sumptuous musical journey to the Middle Ages with voices and historical instruments. Allison Monroe, co-founder of Trobár and Director of the Five College Early Music Program, joins Early Music Michigan for an evening of music from the Llibre Vermell de Montserrat, the Codex Las Huelgas, and the Cantigas de Santa Maria. […]
Completing TENET’s traversal of J.S. Bach’s major vocal works. TENET concludes our decade-long exploration of J. S. Bach’s oratorios performed unconducted and chamber-style in a jubilant performance of the Mass in B Minor. Led from the keyboard by frequent TENET collaborator Jeffrey Grossman, TENET is proud to feature a cast made up of a majority […]
Pierre Hantaï is lauded for having an “… intuitive understanding of all those subtle ingredients that make music so compelling and utterly irresistible… No detail is lost.” (BBC Music Magazine). Capriccio is thrilled to present this exceptional artist in concert. Join us and hear this brilliant artist perform some of his favorite Bach works in […]
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