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June 22, 2025 – June 29, 2025 @ All Day – Experience a memorable musical journey to La Serenissima—the Baroque Venice of Antonio Vivaldi. Director-violinist Elizabeth Blumenstock, international soloists, and the Festival Orchestra and Chorus, bring you vibrant interpretations of The Four Seasons in its 300th anniversary year of publication, Vivaldi’s choral delight Gloria, and more. The June 2025 Festival—La Serenissima: Vivaldi for All Seasons—will be dedicated to the […]

June 22, 2025 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm – A rare opportunity to experience Elizabeth Blumenstock’s interpretation of the seminal concerto set—still radical and inspiring today three centuries since its premiere—performed on her 1660 Guarneri violin, on generous loan to her by the Philharmonia Baroque Period Instrument Trust. Plus, Vivaldi’s only Lute Concerto, with GRAMMY®-award-winning soloist Stephen Stubbs, and lively orchestral pieces featuring the Festival Orchestra […]

June 23, 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 9:15 pm – Delight and reflect in the uplifting sounds of the Baroque soprano voice, newly-restored St. Michael pipe organ and soaring trumpet lines, in the intimate acoustics of St. Michael and All Angels Church—the Festival’s “small church” home since the very beginning of the annual series in 1981. John Thiessen (trumpet) and St. Michael’s music director and […]

June 25, 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 9:15 pm – Join Elizabeth Blumenstock and colleagues for a grand evening of chamber music for winds in the atmospheric setting of Sherman Gardens, featuring chamber concertos, trios, quintets and quartets by Boismortier, Loiellet, Telemann and Vivaldi. While the Venetian “Red Priest” is mainly known for his immediately recognizable string writing, his numerous chamber concertos for various combinations […]