Early Music Missouri brings its 2023 – 2024 season to a close with three of Johann Sebastian Bach’s best-known secular pieces: the virtuosic Brandenburg Concerti 4 and 5 and the charming Coffee Cantata, a comic musical story of an overbearing father and his over-caffeinated daughter. EMMo regulars Arianna Aerie (soprano), Jeffrey Ballard (tenor) and Kevin […]

Rachel Barton Pine (violin) & Jory Vinikour (harpsichord), two superstars of the early music world, bring their collective talents to bear on some of Bach's greatest instrumental works. Enjoy sonic treats such as the Sonata in B Major for violin and harpsichord and the French Overture in B Minor—with the skill and panache that only […]

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 […]

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 […]

SONGS TO THE LUTE & VIOL Courtly Ayres, Songs from Shakespeare, Historic Ballads, plus Instrumental Fancies and Dances Ronn McFarlane, lute Danielle Svonavec, soprano Mary Anne Ballard, viola da gamba Music from the world of Queen Elizabeth I and William Shakespeare, including popular continental favorites—French courtly airs and Italian dances, as well as traditional Appalachian […]

La Donna Musicale and Rumbarroco continue a musical exploration that extends from the Iberian Renaissance to Indigenous and African-influenced folk traditions in contemporary South America.   This program includes some of the earliest songs referring to Morenas—dark-skinned women who represented the female ideal of beauty outside the court in early modern Spain. These are songs […]

Tonos del Sur, directed by Sarah Cranor, is excited to present secular and sacred music from across Latin America, in Spanish, Chiquitano, and Quechua, in a project culminating with modern premieres of villancicos from the Catedral Metropolitana archive in Santiago, Chile, in partnership with scholar Paul Feller.  Tonos will present this concert at the Latin […]

RIVAA Gallery Chamber Music   Feasts for the eye and ear: A new concert series featuring period performance of 18th and 19th century chamber music   RIVAA Gallery presents a new chamber music series in the vibrant  setting of Roosevelt Island’s community art gallery. This musical series will be the only one of its kind […]

Saturday, April 13, 2024, 3:00 PM First Church in Cambridge, Congregational (11 Garden Street, Cambridge) Tickets $10-$87 https://www.blueheron.org/concerts/season25/world-of-ock/ https://www.blueheron.org/concerts/season25/okeghem-weekend/ Blue Heron is at present very likely the only ensemble in the world to have sung every piece written by Johannes Okeghem. Building on this unique expertise, the ensemble presents a selection of the master’s very […]

What: Free Mini-festival When: Saturday, April 13, 2024, 3:00-8:00 p.m. Where: Settlement Music School, Mary Louise Curtis Branch, 416 Queen St., Philadelphia, PA Registration & Info: 215-235-8469 or piffaro.org/recorder-fest Piffaro’s free-to-all Recorder Fest! is returning after a pandemic hiatus. A love letter to the recorder, the mini-festival welcomes musicians of every ability and stage of life, from elementary […]

Continuing the tradition of the troubadours, the trouvères of Northern France wrote some of the most captivating vocal music of the 13th century. Their songs of public and private adoration wove together allusions both sacred and secular—creating mystical and spicy meditations on love and longing, punctuated by repeating refrains that recur across songs and texts. […]

La Donna Musicale and Rumbarroco continue a musical exploration that extends from the Iberian Renaissance to Indigenous and African-influenced folk traditions in contemporary South America.   This program includes some of the earliest songs referring to Morenas—dark-skinned women who represented the female ideal of beauty outside the court in early modern Spain. These are songs […]

Tonos del Sur, directed by Sarah Cranor, is excited to present secular and sacred music from across Latin America, in Spanish, Chiquitano, and Quechua, in a project culminating with modern premieres of villancicos from the Catedral Metropolitana archive in Santiago, Chile, in partnership with scholar Paul Feller.  Tonos will present this concert at the Latin […]

SONGS TO THE LUTE & VIOL Courtly Ayres, Songs from Shakespeare, Historic Ballads, plus Instrumental Fancies and Dances Ronn McFarlane, lute Danielle Svonavec, soprano Mary Anne Ballard, viola da gamba Music from the world of Queen Elizabeth I and William Shakespeare, including popular continental favorites—French courtly airs and Italian dances, as well as traditional Appalachian […]

‘‘Weapons of war and their use are something I am unable to engage with. I busy my time with notes, strings, and sounds. I work in the cause of harmony, mixing the sounds of France, Germany and Italy and attempting thus to prevent wars and to serve the cause of peace among nations and their striving for […]