October 2010
Ensemble Chaconne
Music of Thomas Gainsborough's Circle
• October 13, 2010, 7:30 pm
University of Central Missouri, Hart Recital Hall
Warrensburg, MO 64093
Now in its 25th season, Ensemble Chaconne also honors EMA's 25th season with a celebration of the great English painter Thomas Gainsborough's passion for music, including selections by leading European composers who were his close friends and colleagues: J.C. Bach, Carl Friedrich Abel, Felice de Giardini, Rudolf Straube, and Johann Christian Fischer. Peter H. Bloom, baroque flute; Carol Lewis, viola da gamba; Olav Chris Henriksen, baroque lute and English guitar.
For more information: 660-543-4530; delamotte-amw@comcast.net; www.americasmusicworks.com/chaconne.html
December 2010
Community Advent Chorale and Chamber Orchestra
Handel's Messiah
• December 3, 2010, 7:30 pm
Orchard Park Presbyterian Church
4369 South Buffalo Street, Orchard Park, NY 14127
Gregory White, Music Director and Conductor with Soloists: Cristen Gregory, soprano; Faith Baer, mezzosoprano; Jeffrey Thompson, tenor; Derrick Smith, baritone. The Community Advent Chorale is a 100+ voice choir that has presented an annual performance of Handel's Messiah for 31 continuous years for the Western New York region.
For more information: 716-662-9348; greg@oppchurch.org
The Boston Camerata
The Sacred Bridge: Jews, Christians & Muslims in Medieval Europe
• December 5, 2010; 3 pm
Pickman Hall, Longy School of Music
1 Follen St. Cambridge, MA 02138
This program includes elements of Jewish liturgy, Gregorian chant, song and texts of Jewish minstrels, Sephardic folk song, medieval Spanish Cantigas, and Judaeo-Arabic music from the ancient Andalusian tradition. In this newly revised edition, Joel Cohen and Boston Camerata musicians are joined by members of the SHARQ Arabic Music ensemble.
For more information: 617-262-2092; manager@bostoncamerata.org; www.bostoncamerata.org
Asteria
For the Love of Jacqueline
• December 5, 2010, 4 pm
Brooklyn Public Library
Brooklyn, NY
Medieval love songs from the court of Charles the Bold.
For more information: hello@asteriamusica.com; http://asteriamusica.com
Presented by: Brooklyn Public Library's Dweck Center 'Classical Interludes' series
Union College Concert Series presents
The Boston Camerata
An American Christmas
• December 12, 2010, 3 pm
Union College
Schenectady, NY
For more information: philippinem@cs.com; http://www.union.edu/ConcertSeries/
The Goliards
The Sibyls
• December 19, 2010, 3 pm
St. Paul's Episcopal Church
34th St. and Abercorn, Savannah GA 31401
The Latin Sibyl (Judicii signum) and Marian hymns by Hildegard of Bingen. Ashley Adams, soprano, with small choir, organ, sinfonye, vielle, recorder and harp.
For more information: goliard@netscape.com
The Baltimore Consort
Wassail! Wassail!: Music for the Yuletide Season
• December 20, 2010, 7:30 pm
Wesley United Methodist Church
1540 Center St., Bethlehem, PA 18018
Lift your spirits high with a special toast to the holiday season. Enjoy the musical libations of Baltimore Consort as they fill our glasses to the brim with carols and dance tunes from France, the British Isles and Appalachia. Wassail all over the town!
For more information: 610-865-5715; www.wesleychurch.com
January 2011
ARTEK
Sing Along With Claudio
• January 1, 2011, 5 pm
Immanuel Lutheran Church
122 East 88th St., New York City
Gwendolyn Toth will lead ARTEK and other guest performers in a special audience-participation concert of Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610; audience members are invited to join the ensemble in singing the psalms and hymns (scores will be available to purchase, or bring your own).
For more information: 212-967-8157; ArtekGwenT@aol.com; www.artekearlymusic.org
Jouyssance Early Music Ensemble
• January 8, 2011, 8 pm
First Presbyterian Church of Santa Monica
1220 Second Street, Santa Monica, CA
Jouyssance Early Music Ensemble continues its tradition of Twelfth Night concerts with music of the British Isles featuring Robert Carver and Robert Johnson (Scotland), John Farmer (Ireland), Thomas Tompkins (Wales) and a host of English composers..
For more information: Nicole Baker, Director, 626-260-8249; neib12@sbcglobal.net; www.jouyssance.org
Pro Musica Rara
SuperBach Sunday: Northern Exposure with Aaron Sheehan, tenor
• January 9, 2011, 3:30 pm
Towson Center for the Arts
Towson, MD
Bach: Arias for tenor; Wassenaer: Concerto Armonici; CPE Bach: Cello Concerto in A Minor.
For more information: 410-728-2820; info@promusicarara.org; www.promusicarara.org
Gotham Early Music Scene
APAP Showcase 2011
• January 9, 2011, 7 pm
Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church Chapel
7 West 55th Street, New York, NY
GEMS’ fourth annual showcase of early music ensembles in conjunction with the national booking conference of the Association of Performing Arts Presenters.
For more information: info@gemsny.org; www.gemsny.org
Tafelmusik
Bach at the Coffee House
• January 13, 14, 15, 2011, 8 pm
• January 16, 2011, 3:30 pm
Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre
427 Bloor Street West, Toronto, ON
• January 18, 2011, 8 pm
George Weston Recital Hall
5040 Yonge Street, Toronto, ON
Savour music selected by J.S. Bach for his concert series at Zimmerman’s Coffee House in Leipzig.
For more information: www.tafelmusik.org
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra
David Daniels
• January 15, 2011, 8 pm
• January 16, 2011, 7:30 pm
First Congregational Church
2345 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA
• January 18, 2011, 8 pm
The Center for Performing Arts,
555 Middlefield Road, Atherton, CA
• January 21, 2011, 8 pm
Herbst Theatre
401 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, CA
Music Director Nicholas McGegan conducts Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra in a program that features countertenor David Daniels singing Vivaldi’s Stabat mater and opera arias by Handel.
For more information: 415-252-1288; info@philharmonia.org; philharmonia.org
Ensemble Origo
Ludovicus Decus
• January 26, 2011, 8 pm
Saint Paul's Chapel
Columbia University (at 116th St.), New York, NY
• January 27, 2011, 8 pm
Trinity College Chapel
Hartford, CT
Eric Rice, director. Office Chants and Polyphony for Saint Louis
For more information: 860-208-5305; eric.rice@uconn.edu; www.ensembleorigo.org
Columbia Baroque Soloists
Orpheus in London
• January 28, 2011, 7:30 pm
Shandon United Methodist Church
Columbia, SC
Reimage yourself in London for music by two pivotal composers of this cosmopolitan music scene, Henry Purcell and George Frideric Handel with additional works by John Blow and Giuseppe Sammartini.
For more information: 803-256-8383, x104; thein@shandon-umc.org; http://www.shandon-umc.org/artmus.html
El Dorado Ensemble
Semper Dowland, Semper Dolens
• January 29, 2011, 8 pm
Lindsay Chapel, First Church in Cambridge, Congregational
Cambridge, MA
• January 30, 2011, 3 pm
Somerville Museum
One Westwood Road, Somerville MA.
Consort songs, Lachrimae, lute solos and other works by Dowland. Michael Collver, countertenor; Carol Lewis, Janet Haas, Paul Johnson, Mai-Lan Broekman & Alice Mroszczyk, violas da gamba; Olav Chris Henriksen, lute & cittern.
For more information: catlines@aol.com
February 2011
Early Music Now presents
Plaine & Easie
• February 12, 2011, 5 pm
All Saints' Cathedral
818 E. Juneau Avenue, Milwaukee, WI
The most recent winner of the EMA Renaissance competition, Plaine & Easie, will be featured in several days of concerts and outreach activities, including a special dinner, exploring the theme of "Continental Connections."
For more information: 414-225-3113; info@earlymusicnow.org; earlymusicnow.org
Florida Pro Musica Chamber Ensemble
Sonatas & Cantatas
• February 13, 2011, 4 p.m
Sacred Heart Catholic Church
509 Florida Avenue N., Tampa, Florida
Judson Griffin (violin), Javier Caballero (cello), and Larry Kent (harpsichord) are joined by soprano Maggie Coleman in a special concert featuring Handel and Vivaldi. Reception to follow.
For more information: 813-494-4709; info@FloridaProMusica.com; www.FloridaProMusica.com
The Schubert Club Courtroom Concert Series presents
Ladyslipper
• February 17, 2011, 12 noon
Landmark Center #317
75 W 5th Street, Saint Paul, MN
The St. Paul based baroque ensemble Ladyslipper with harpsichordist Asako Hirabayashi, baroque violinist Margaret Humphrey, and soprano Sahar Hassan, perform a quirky blend of early music and jazz.
For more information: schubert.org/courtroomconcerts/
Early Music in Columbus presents
The Orlando Consort
Amore: Love and Marriage in the Italian Renaissance
• February 18, 2011, 8 pm
Mees Hall
Capital University, Columbus, OH
For more information: mkwolfe@insight.rr.com; www.capital.edu/earlymusic
Carolina Pro Musica
Music along the Mediterranean
• February 19, 2011, 8 pm
St. Martin's Episcopal Church
1510 E 7th St, Charlotte NC 28204
Works of Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, António Literes and José de Torres.
For more information: carolinapromusica@gmail.com; http://www.carolinapromusica.org/
Cappella Clausura
The Great Motets of Sulpitia Cesis
• February 26, 2011, 8 pm
Parish of the Messiah
1900 Commonwealth Avenue, Auburndale (Newton), MA 02466-2416
• February 27, 2011, 5 pm
The First Lutheran Church of Boston
299 Berkeley Street, Boston, MA 02116-200
With special guests Mack Ramsey and Tom Zajac on trombones, continuo band, and select members of the Concord Women's Chorus.
For more information: 917-412-6472; manager@clausura.org; http://clausura.org/
Catacoustic Consort
Eternal Light: Psalms by Robert Tailour
• February 26, 2011, 7:30 pm
St. Thomas Episcopal Church
100 Miami Avenue, Terrace Park, Ohio
This concert will present recently published music from Catacoustic Editions, music for viol consort, lute, and voice.
For more information: apappano@catacoustic.com; http://catacoustic.com/
Voices of Music
Handel in Rome
• February 26, 2011, 8 pm
St. Mark's Lutheran Church
1111 O'Farrell St., San Francisco, CA 94109
Music of Handel, Scarlatti and Corelli featuring Handel's Gloria with
soprano Laura Heimes; Carla Moore and Sara Usher, baroque violins; Elisabeth Reed, baroque cello; Farley Pearce, violone; Dominic Schaner and David Tayler, theorbo; Hanneke van Proosdij, harpsichord.
For more information: cembalo@sbcglobal.net; http://www.voicesofmusic.org/
BaroQue Across the River
The French Cantata: Love, Longing & Triumph!
• February 27, 2011, 3 pm
Sunny Hills Performing Arts Center
Sunny Hills High School, 1801 Warburton Way, Fullerton, CA 92833
Music by Morel, Rameau and de Montéclair.
For more information: kathymcdonald1@aol.com; www.baroqueacrosstheriver.com
Presented by: Fullerton Friends of Music
Chicago Early Music Consort
Per Amore: music of love from the Italian Seicento
• February 27, 2011, 4 pm
First United Church of Oak Park
848 Lake Street, Oak Park, IL 60301-1397
Experience the fiery passion of 17th-century love songs as only the Italians could write them – sizzle to the the music of Monteverdi, Grandi, Strozzi, Legrenzi and Scarlatti – now that’s amore!
For more information: gberkens@comcast.net; www.ChicagoEarlyMusicConsort.org
March 2011
San Diego Early Music Society presents
Paolo Pandolfo and Thomas Boysen
Viol-Lute Conversations: from Renaissance Improvisation to St. Colombe and Marais
• March 4, 2011, 8 pm
The Neurosciences Institute Auditorium
10640 John Jay Hopkins Dr., San Diego, CA 92121
Part of the San Diego Early Music Society's 2010/11 International Series.
For more information: 619-291-8246; sdems@sdems.org; www.sdems.org
Consortium Carissimi
Italian Virtuosi
• March 4, 2011, 7:30 pm
• March 6, 2011, 2 pm
Hennepin United Methodist Church
510 Groveland - Minneapolis, MN 55403
Instrumental works of 17th century Italian masters for 1 and 2 violins, theorbo, gamba, cello, harpsichord and organ.
For more information: 612-384-6187; consortiumcarissimi@gmail.com
Con Gioia Early Music Ensemble
The Food of Love
• March 6, 2011, 3 pm
1575 Shenandoah Road, San Marino, CA 91108
Michael Maniaci, sopranist; with Preethi de Silva, director; harpsichord; M. Anne Rardin baroque violin; Danielle Cummins, baroque violin; Denise Briesé viola da gamba and violone; Jason Yoshida, lute, theorbo. Works by Purcell, G. Caccini, J.S. Bach, Handel, B. Strozzi, and Porpora.
For more information: pdesilva@ScrippsCollege.edu; www.congioia.org
Music Before 1800 presents
Constantinople
Ay!! Amor…
• March 6, 2011, 4 pm
Corpus Christi Church
529 West 121st Street, New York, NY 10027
The Canadian ensemble Constantinople (Kiya Tabassian, director and setar; Françoise Atlan, voice; Pierre-Yves Martel, violas da gamba; Ziya Tabassian, percussion) are joined by singer Françoise Atlan, who specializes in Judeo-Spanish and Judeo-Arab music; the exotic program includes songs and dances from many different times and places—Persia, Armenia, Spain, and medieval France—as well as the performers' own compositions. This is Constantinople’s United States debut.
For more information: mb1800@aol.com; www.mb1800.org
Portland Baroque Orchestra
St. John Passion by J.S. Bach
• March 10, 2011, 7:30pm
Beall Concert Hall, University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon (presented by Oregon Bach Festival)
• March 11 & 12, 2011 7:30pm
First Baptist Church
Portland, Oregon
• March 13, 2011, 3 pm
Kaul Auditorium, Reed College
Portland Oregon
• March 20, 2011, 3 pm
Town Hall
Seattle, Washington (presented by the Early Music Guild of Seattle)
• March 21, 2011, 8 pm
Chan Centre, University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC (presented by Early Music Vancouver)
Directed by Monica Huggett, Portland Baroque Orchestra joins forces with Montreal’s Les Voix Baroques and Cappella Romana to re-examine the more intimate early scoring of Bach’s setting of the Passion according to St. John, featuring Charles Daniels as the Evangelist.
For more information: tom@pbo.org; pbo.org
The Early Interval
Spanish Splendor
• March 11, 2011, 8 pm
Mees Auditorium
Capital University, Columbus, OH
For more information: srcookjr@aol.com; www.capital.edu/earlymusic
Presented by: Early Music in Columbus
Piffaro
New Waves in Ferrara: Two Bands, Fresh Sounds
• March 11, 2011, 8 pm
Chestnut Hill
Philadelphia, PA
• March 12, 2011, 8 pm
Center City
Philadelphia, PA
• March 13, 2011. 4 pm
Wilmington DE
Piffaro and The King’s Noyse with soprano Ellen Hargis collaborate in a program of music from Ferrara, Italy, featuring the wonderfully chromatic madrigals, dances and fantasies of Cipriano de Rore, Carlo Gesualdo and the numerous others who helped usher in a new age in musical style at the end of the 16th century.
For more information: 215-235-8469; info@piffaro.com; piffaro.org
Folger Consort
Ecco la Primavera: 14th and 15th-century Music from Italy
• March 11, 2011, 8 pm
• March 12, 2011, 5 pm and 8 pm
• March 13, 2011, 2 pm
The Elizabethan Theatre at the Folger Shakespeare Library
Washington, DC
To welcome spring, Folger Consort, joined by vocal and instrumental trio, Trefoil, perform masterworks of 14th- and 15th-Century Italy, including the music of Landini, Hugo and Arnold Lantins, Ciconia, and Du Fay.
For more information: consort@folger.edu; www.folger.edu
Arcadia Players
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1, Symphony No. 7
• March 12, 2011, 7:30 pm
Sweeney Concert Hall, Sage Hall
Smith College, Northampton, MA
Ian Watson, conductor, Monica Jakuc Leverett, fortepiano. Our final concert of the season is the third in our survey of Beethoven symphonies and piano concertos presented on period instruments.
For more information: info@arcadiaplayers.org; www.arcadiaplayers.org
Cambridge Concentus
Biber’s Missa Christi resurgentis
• March 13, 2011, 3 pm
First Church in Cambridge
11 Garden St, Cambridge, MA
With Joshua Rifkin conducting, Cambridge Concentus will perform H.I.F. Biber’s monumental Missa Christi resurgentis.
For more information: 617-952-4050; cambridgeconcentus.org
Gabrieli West
Monteverdi and Friends
• March 13, 2011, 3 pm
Foothill Presbyterian Church
5301 McKee Rd., San Jose, CA 95127-2292
Gabrieli West - an ensemble featuring cornetto, sackbut, violin, recorder, cello and harpsichord in a program of early 17th century chamber music.
For more information: 408-258-8133; foothillpc@gmail.com; www.FoothillPC.org
REBEL
Earth’s Delight; Heaven’s Glory
• March 13, 2011, 4 pm
Bedford Presbyterian Church
Village Green (junction, Rt. 72 & Rt. 172), Bedford, NY
Vocal and instrumental works by Handel, Telemann, Buffardin, Rebel, and Purcell, with Ann Hoyt Wazelle, soprano; Matthias Maute, recorder and flute. In celebration of EMA’s 25th Anniversary and REBEL’s 20th!
For more information: 914-734-9537; rebel@rebelbaroque.com; www.rebelbaroque.com
Boston Early Music Festival presents
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
The Other Amazing Mr. Bach: Symphonies and Concerti of C.P.E. Bach
• March 15, 2011, 8 pm (pre-concert talk at 7pm)
Sanders Theatre at Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
Conducted by Sir Roger Norrington, with guest artists Steven Devine, harpsichord and Richard Lester, 'cello. Sir Roger Norrington returns to the Boston Early Music Festival to conduct the pioneering Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in their BEMF début in a program of symphonies and concerti of C.P.E. Bach.
For more information: 617-661-1812; bemf@bemf.org; bemf.org
The Governor’s Musick
A Candlelight Concert: "Handel, Bach and Who?"
• March 15, 22, 29 and April 5, 2011 7:30 and 9 pm
Ballroom of the Governor’s Palace
Colonial Williamsburg, VA
Enjoy music by composers, some whom are old favorites but also by others who, though active in 18th-century Europe and whose music was bought and sold in colonial America, are little known today. Come and be surprised by the quality and entertainment value much of this music contains.
For more information: 757-220-7944; jhanson@cwf.org; cwf.org
Presented by: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Baroque Band
Heavenly Angel
• March 17, 2011, 7:30 pm
Hyde Park Union Church
5600 S Woodlawn Ave., Hyde Park. IL
• March 18, 2011, 7:30 pm
Music Institute of Chicago, Evanston
1490 Chicago Ave., Evanston, IL
• March 20, 2011, 7:30 pm
Symphony Center, Grainger Ballroom
220 S Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL
With guests Lucy Crowe, soprano and Harry Bicket, guest director; Artistic Director Garry Clarke. The program will feature all-time favorite baroque opera arias, including Cleopatra's great lament, Se pietà (If you feel no pity), and the dazzling Da tempeste (Ravaged by storms), from Handel’s Giulio Cesare.
For more information: 312-235-2368; info@baroqueband.org; www.baroqueband.org
Agave Baroque
Cold Genius: the music of Henry Purcell & his contemporaries
• March 18, 2011, 6 pm
St. Mark's Episcopal Church - Parish Hall
2300 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA
Join Agave Baroque for their CD release concert featuring the music of Henry Purcell, William Lawes, Matthew Locke, and Nicola Matteis, in addition to clips from an art film produced by Agave Baroque and the Museum of Jurassic Technology.
For more information: http://www.barefootchamberconcerts.com/; shirleymirley@gmail.com; www.agavebaroque.org,
Presented by: Barefoot Chamber Concerts
San Francisco Renaissance Voices
The Music of Joy
• March 19, 20 & 27, 2011, 7:30 pm
Seventh Avenue Performances
1329 Seventh Avenue, San Francisco
Tomas Luis de Victoria's Missa Gaudeamus, William Byrd's Acendit Deum in Jubilatione, and Henry Purcell's exuberant coronation anthem for James II, "I Was Glad" with other joyous music from the Renaissance and Early Baroque.
For more information: sfrvoices@yahoo.com; www.SFRV.org
Blue Heron
Music of Tomás Luis de Victoria (d. 1611)
• March 19, 2011, 8 pm
First Church in Cambridge, Congregational
11 Garden St, Cambridge, MA
A program of music by Victoria and other Spanish composers to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the master’s death, featuring the six-voice Missa pro defunctis of 1605.
For more information: 617-960-7956; office@blueheronchoir.org; http://www.blueheronchoir.org/
Cantare e Sonare
• March 20, 2011 2 pm
Wittenberg University, Krieg Hall
Springfield, OH
Elliot Figg, harpsichord; Edward Phillips, baroque trumpet; Jessica McCormack, soprano.
For more information: 937-327-7355; jmccormack@wittenberg.edu
Mockingbird Early Music Ensemble
Celebration of Spring
• March 21, 2011, 7 pm
Paris-Yates Chapel on the campus of the University of Mississippi
Oxford, MS
This will be the 18th annual Celebration of Spring, which will feature early music and poems about spring, love, rebirth, and rejuvenation! Included in the program will be the world premiere of a work by Martha Bishop, written especially for the Mockingbird Early Music Ensemble. Admission is free.
For more information: 662-816-9959; susanmarchant@mockingbirdensemble.org; www.mockingbirdensemble.org
Early Music Vancouver presents
St. John Passion by J.S. Bach
• March 21, 2011, 8 pm
Chan Centre for the Performing Arts
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
Montreal-based Les Voix Baroques together with the Portland Baroque Orchestra directed by Monica Huggett.
For more information: 604-732-1602; staff@earlymusic.bc.ca; www.earlymusic.bc.ca
17th Century French Organ Music
• March 22, 2011, 8 pm
Main Auditorium
University of North Texas, Denton, TX
Performed on the Bedient IV/41 French Classical Organ
For more information: 734-276-8859; ychiang0301@gmail.com; http://music.unt.edu (under the events)
Seattle Early Dance
Handel and Baroque Dance
• March 24, 2011, 10 am
Trinity Episcopal Church
609 8th Ave, Seattle, WA 98104
Join Artistic Director Anna Mansbridge and Seattle Early Dance for an entertaining and informative lecture demonstration on the dances that would have been performed at court during Handel's lifetime.
For more information: 425-743-7481; info@seattleearlydance.org; www.americanhandelfestival.org
Presented by the American Handel Festival
NYS Baroque
Terpsicore, An all-Handel program
• March 25, 2011, 8 pm
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College of Music
Syracuse University, NY
• March 26, 2011, 8 pm
Barnes Hall, Cornell University,
Ithaca, NY
Handel’s opera-ballet Terpsicore, newly reconstructed by Julie Andrijeski, with a showcase of concerti grossi and virtuoso arias and duets from Handel operas.
Julie Andrijeski, dancer; Laura Heimes, soprano; José Lemos, alto;
Scott Metcalfe, leader.
For more information: 607-342-4163; info@nysema.com; www.nysema.com
Armonia Nova
Myths & Miracles: Magical Thinking and the Medieval Mind
• March 25, 2011, 8 pm
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church on Capitol Hill
118 3rd St. SE, Washington DC
Armonia Nova, a Washington D.C. based ensemble of period instruments and voices, performs the third program in its series on medieval women in music, with a concert exploring the medieval belief in the miraculous, both sacred and secular.
For more information: 434-286-9004; cwHarps@ix.netcom.com; www.armonianova.org
The San Francisco Early Music Society presents
Wieland Kuijken and Friends - L’art de la viole
• March 25, 2011, 8 pm
First Lutheran Church
600 Homer Street at Webster, Palo Alto, CA
• March 26, 7:30 pm
St. John's Presbyterian Church
2727 College at Garber, Berkeley, CA
• March 27, 2011, 4 pm
St. Mark's Lutheran Church
1111 O'Farrell Street, San Francisco, CA
Wieland Kuijken and Lynn Tetenbaum, viols; Katherine Heater, harpsichord. Wieland Kuijken’s performances are legendary, and he is widely regarded as one of the most influential pioneers in the modern revival of the viola da gamba and early cello. Music by Jenkins, Simpson, Locke, Marais, Forqueray, Schaffrath.
For more information: 213-810-7702; sfems@sfems.org; www.sfems.org
La Donna Musicale
• March 25, 2011 7 pm
place TBA
• March 26, 2011, 4 pm
The Benjamin Franklin Institute
41 Berkeley Street, Boston, MA
Renee Rapier, contralto; Randall Wong and Moises Castillo, sopranists; Pablo Bustos, tenor; Sarah Darling, Laura Gulley, violins; Jane Starkman, viola; Ruth McKay, harpsichord; Janet Haas, violone; Laury Gutiérrez, viola da gamba, director.
For more information: 617-461-6973; ladonna@ladm.org; www.ladm.org
Cal Performances presents
The Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips, director
The Victoria Project
• March 26, 2011, 8 pm
• March 27, 2011, 3 pm
Cal Performances at First Congregational Church
2345 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA
An exploration of the music of 16th-century Spanish composer Tomás Luis de Victoria, sometimes referred to as the Spanish Palestrina, featuring six of Victoria’s beautiful and brilliant works, plus compositions by his predecessors and contemporaries, in this two-concert celebration of the Spanish Renaissance.
For more information: 510-642-9988; http://www.calperformances.org/
Musica Pacifica with Ellen Hargis, soprano
Il Giardino d'amore
• March 26, 2011, 8 pm
Alix Goolden Hall
907 Pandora at Quadra, Victoria, BC Canada
Love requited, love unrequited, love proffered and love rejected are the subjects of the great Italian cantata literature. Recorder, violin, cello and harpsichord accompany the doyen of American sopranos. Handel, Alessandro Scarlatti, Steffani and Vivaldi are the featured composers.
For more information: www.earlymusicsocietyoftheislands.ca; info@earlymusicsocietyoftheislands.ca; http://www.musicapacifica.org/;
Presented by: Early Music Society of the Islands
Chatham Baroque
J.S. Bach St. John Passion
• March 26, 2011, 8 pm
Synod Hall, St. Paul Cathedral
Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 (corner of Fifth Avenue and Craig Street)
• March 27, 2011, 2:30 pm
Calvary Episcopal Church
315 Shady Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15206 (corner of Shady Avenue and Walnut Street)
For its 20th anniversary season's grande finale, Chatham Baroque will be joined by an all-star cast of vocalists and instrumentalists for the Pittsburgh premiere of the 1725 version of J. S. Bach's St. John Passion
For more information: tickets: 412-394-3353, info: 412-687-1788; director@chathambaroque.org; chathambaroque.org
Texas Early Music Project
From Notre Dame Cathedral to St. Mary Cathedral: Medieval Vespers for Mary
• March 26, 2011, 8 pm
St. Mary Cathedral
Austin, TX
Daniel Johnson, Artistic Director. From meditative chant to rousing polyphony, TEMP presents a concert from Paris's Notre Dame Cathedral c.1200, compiled and edited by Dr. Rebecca Baltzer and performed by an ensemble of TEMP's male soloists in the resplendent acoustic of St. Mary Cathedral in Austin.
For more information: 512-377-6961; wendy@early-music.org; www.early-music.org
Seattle Baroque Orchestra
Handel's Grand Concertos
• March 27, 2011, 3 pm
Town Hall
Seattle, WA
Instrumental works by Handel, including sonatas and concertos for oboes, violins, harpsichord, strings, and continuo. Part of the 2011 American Handel Festival in Seattle.
For more information: 206-325-7066; emg@earlymusicguild.org; www.earlymusicguild.org
New Orleans Musica da Camera
Geaux Saints!!! Music of New Orleans Medieval Saints
• March 27, 2011, 3 pm
Saint Joseph Abbey Church
Saint Benedict, LA
• April 3, 2011, 4 pm
Our Lady of Prompt Succor National Shrine
New Orleans, LA
• April 10, 2011, 3 pm
Holy Name of Mary Church
Algiers Point, LA.
Cries of "Geaux Saints!" (pronounced "Go") and "Bless You Boys" cheered on our Saintly Super Bowl winners, but New Orleans' popular Medieval saints Mary, Joseph, Jeanne d'arc, Expedite and more, are celebrated in our program with music, medieval and contemporary. All performances free and open.
For more information: 504-895-1972; mdc@nomdc.org; www.nomdc.org
Galileo's Daughters
William Byrd and Friends
• March 27, 2011, 3 pm
Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church
921 Madison Avenue, New York City
Joined by gambists Douglas Kelley, John Mark Rozendaal and Webster Williams, Galileo's Daughters will perform consort songs by William Byrd, Orlando Gibbons and their contemporaries.
For more information: daughters@buckyballmusic.com; http://galileosdaughters.com
Presented by: Music on Madison Concert Series
Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra
"New France" - Rameau, Blavet, and Leclair
• March 27, 2011, 4 pm
St. Paul's Episcopal Church
Indianapolis, IN
• March 28, 2011, 7:30 pm
University of Indianapolis, Christel DeHaan Performing Arts Center
Indianapolis, IN
• March 29, 2011, 7:30 pm
Unitarian Universalist Church
Bloomington, IN
Artistic Director Barthold Kuijken, from Belgium, leads a program devoted to the music of France.
For more information: 317-808-BACH (2224); martinlow@indybaroque.org; www.indybaroque.org
Presented by: The Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation Concert Series
Houston Early Music presents
Trio Sonnerie
The Harmony of Nations
• March 28, 2011, 7:30 pm
Palmer Memorial Episcopal Church
6221 Main Street, Houston, Texas 77030
UK-based trio (directed by Monica Huggett) of violin, viola da gamba and harpsichord performs a selection of favourite pieces from around Europe.
For more information: 713-432-1744; info@HoustonEarlyMusic.org; www.HoustonEarlyMusic.org
Wieland Kuijken, Eva Legêne, Jack Ashworth
• March 31 2011, 7.30 pm
Christ Church Cathedral
421 S. Second St., Louisville, KY 40202
Wieland Kuijken, viola da gamba, Eva Legêne, recorders, Jack Ashworth, harpsichord, performing music of Johann Sebastian Bach and others.
For more information: Robert Bozeman, Artistic Director, 502-387-1354.; jack.s.ashworth@gmail.com; www.christchurchlouky.org
Presented by: Cathedral Arts
April 2011
Cappella Romana
The Akáthistos Hymn
• April 2, 2011, 8 pm
St. Mary's Cathedral
Portland, OR
• April 3, 2011, 8 pm
St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church
Seattle, WA
Cappella Romana marks the beginning of its 20th-Anniversary year with Byzantium's greatest song of mystical praise: The 6th-century Akáthistos Hymn to the Virgin Mary set by Ivan Moody, who weaves late medieval Greek melodies with Russian choral textures.
For more information: mark@cappellaromana.org; http://www.cappellaromana.org
Mercury Baroque
A Night in Madrid
• April 2, 2011, 8 pm
Wortham Center, Cullen Theater
Houston, TX
An exciting, all-Boccherini performance, featuring his famed Fandango Quintet, Symphony ‘La Casa del Diavolo’ and more!
For more information: 713-533-0080; info@mercurybaroque.org; www.mercurybaroque.org
The Rose Ensemble
Voices of Ancient Mediterranean Christians, Jews & Muslims
• April 2, 2011, 8 pm
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Four centuries of vocal and instrumental music, including a diverse collection of Arab-Andalusian dances, Sephardic laments, Spanish villancicos, Hebrew chants, and Galician spiritual cantigas.
For more information: info@RoseEnsemble.org; www.RoseEnsemble.org
Presented by: Ann Arbor Academy of Early Music
Washington's Camerata
How Sweet the Sound
• April 3, 2011, 3 pm
St. Peter's Church
2961 King's Highway, Oak Grove, VA
Music for flute and voice. Admission: free and open to public, a freewill offering will be taken.
For more information: 804-493-8285; www.washingtonscamerata.com
Chiaroscura!
• April 7, 2011, 12:15 pm
Christ Church
4030 Manatee Avenue West, Bradenton, FL
Julane Rodgers plays the debut recital of an Italian harpsichord after Ridolfi (1682) by Robert Brooke.
For more information: julane.rodgers@comcast.net
Musicians of the Old Post Road
Philadelphia Story
• April 8, 2011, 8 pm
Christ Church, Cambridge, MA
• April 10, 4 pm
First Unitarian Church, Worcester, MA
A revelatory musical portrait of some of the United States' first composers who developed the sophisticated concert life of Federal Philadelphia, including J.C. Moeller, Raynor Taylor, Alexander, Reinagle, and others.
For more information: 781-466-6694; musicians@oldpostroad.org ; www.oldpostroad.org
Les Bostonades
Concerto Extravaganza
• April 9, 2011, 8 pm
Lindsey Chapel, Emmanuel Church
15 Newbury Street, Boston
J. S. Bach's harpsichord concerto and violin concerto; Telemann's viola concerto: C.P.E. Bach's cello concerto.
For more information: akikoenokisato@hotmail.com; www.bostonades.org
Gallery Concerts presents
Trio Paradies
• April 9, 2011, 8 pm
• April 10, 2011, 3 pm
Queen Anne Christian Church
1316 3rd Avenue West, Seattle, WA 98119
Gallery Concerts closes its 22nd season with the Trio Paradies (violinist Cecilia Archuleta, cellist Page Smith and pianist Tamara Friedman) performing the music of the Young Romantics—Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, and Schumann—using a magnificent 1820s Empire-style Viennese grand piano.
For more information: 206-726-6088; galleryconcerts.org
The Newberry Consort
The Howard Mayer Brown Memorial Concert
Musica Secreta: Passion and Virtuosity at Court
• April 8, 2011, 8 pm
Sanctuary, The Fourth Presbyterian Church of Chicago
Chicago, IL
• April 9, 2011, 8 pm
Assembly Hall, International House
Hyde Park, IL
• April 10, 2011, 3 pm
Lutkin Hall, Northwestern University
Evanston, IL
At the turn of the 17th century, the noble courts and elite salons of Ferrara, Florence, Rome, and Venice were hotbeds of musical patronage. We'll recreate the lavish ensembles employed at these Italian centers to perform the innovative music of Luzzaschi, Peri, Monteverdi, Wert, and da Gagliano. Ellen Hargis and Carrie Henneman Shaw, sopranos; Tracy Cowart, mezzo-soprano; Wilbur Pauley, bass; The Newberry Violin Band; Mark Shuldiner, harpsichord; The Venere Lute Quartet
For more information: info@newberryconsort.org; http://www.newberryconsort.org/currentseason/2010/
Renaissance & Baroque presents
April in Paris
• April 9, 2011, 8 pm
Synod Hall
125 North Craig St., Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Stephen Schultz, Chatham Baroque and Andrew Appel in a concert of French delights, including Georg Philipp Telemann’s acclaimed Paris Quartets.
For more information: 412-361-2048; director@rbsp.org; www.rbsp.org
Brandeis Early Music Ensemble
Milestones
• April 10, 2011, 12 noon
Slosberg Music Center, Brandeis University
Waltham, MA
• April 28, 2011, 7 pm
Berlin Chapel, Brandeis University
Waltham, MA
Sarah Mead, director. Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of Early Music America with music for birthdays, anniversaries, and other splendid occasions from the 16th and 17th centuries.
For more information: mead@brandeis.edu; www.brandeis.edu/departments/music/
Ensemble Très.
Festive Sounds
• April 10, 2011, 4:30 pm
Ascension Memorial Church
31 County Street, Ipswich, MA 01938
Deborah Rentz-Moore, mezzo soprano; Lisa Brooke, Baroque violin; Daniel Rowe, Baroque cello; Michael Beattie, harpsichord; with special guest Paul Perfetti, trumpet and cornetto. As part of our Residency at Ascension Memorial Church of Ipswich, Très. performs a Baroque cornucopia of repertoire, including 2 Cantatas from the Telemann Fortsetzung des Harmonischen Gottesdienstes - for Ascension Day and the Feast of Saint Michael, Canzonas by Rossi, and joyous music by Corelli and Purcell, befitting proud celebrations.
For more information: lisa_brooke@yahoo.com; www.ensembletres.com
Ladyslipper
• April 10, 2011, 4 pm
The House of Hope Presbyterian Church,
797 Summit Avenue, Saint Paul, MN
• May 15, 2011, 3 pm
The Baroque Room
275 E. Fourth Street #280, Saint Paul, MN
Jamming with Handel: an improvisational Baroque journey through the realm of Jazz.
For more information: hirabayashi.asako@gmail.com; www.asakohirabayashi.com
Central Piedmont Community College Early Music Consort
Early Music for Charlotte
• April 13, 2011, 12:30 pm
Tate Recital Hall
Overcash, Central Piedmont Community College, Charlotte, NC
Directed by Holly W. Maurer. The Consort specializes in playing rarely heard instruments such as shawms, dulcians, sackbuts, violas da gamba as well as harps and recorders in all sizes. Part of the CPCC Arts Week Sensoria
For more information: holly.maurer@cpcc.edu; arts.cpcc.edu
Choir of St. Luke in the Fields
CPE Bach - St. Matthew Passion (1769)
• April 14, 2011, 8 pm
Church of St. Luke in the Fields
487 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10014
First New York performance presented by the Choir of St. Luke in the Fields and period instrument orchestra under the direction of David Shuler. Lecture at 7 pm.
For more information: 212-414-9414; music@stlukeinthefields.org
Apollo's Fire
Bach, Telemann & the Bohemian Gypsies
• April 15 2011, 8 pm
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
2747 Fairmount Boulevard, Cleveland Heights OH 44106
German recorder virtuoso Matthias Maute boldy juxtaposes reconstructed gypsy pieces with the Bach & Telemann concertos he believes they influenced.
For more information: 1-800-314-2535; info@apollosfire.org; www.apollosfire.org
Helderberg Madrigal Singers and the Bleecker Consort
Shakespeare and Love
• April 15, 2011
First Unitarian Universalist Society of Albany
405 Washington Avenue, Albany, New York 12206
A unique concert of historically-informed early music around the time of William Shakespeare presented by a rare collaboration between the Helderberg Madrigal Singers and the Bleecker Consort, a blend of a cappella vocal music, combined vocal and early instrumental music, and early instrumental consort pieces.
For more information: agithler@aol.com; http://www.albanyuu.org/
Lyra Baroque Orchestra
Harpsichord Extravaganza: Music for 2, 3 and 4 Harpsichords
• April 15, 2011, 8 pm
Sundin Hall, Hamline University
St. Paul, MN
• April 16, 2011, 7:30 pm
Zumbro Lutheran Church
Rochester, MN
With guests Rosana Lanzelotte, Elisabeth Wright, Paul Boehnke, Tami Morse, Nanette Lunde, and Lyra's Artistic Director, Jacques Ogg
For more information: info@lyrabaroque.org; http://www.lyrabaroque.org/
Early Music Guild of Seattle
A Day on the Town, A Night in Hell
• April 15, 16, 2011, 7:30 pm
• April 17, 2 pm
Moore Theatre
Seattle, WA
EMG presents its staged dramatic production, "A Day on the Town, A Night in Hell", a mirthful mixing of Orazio Vecchi’s L’Amfiparnaso and Claudio Monteverdi’s Il ballo delle ingrate.
For more information: 206-325-7066; emg@earlymusicguild.org; www.earlymusicguild.org
Bach Collegium San Diego
J.S. Bach: St. John Passion BWV 245
• April 15, 2011, 7 pm
St James by-the-Sea Episcopal Church
La Jolla (San Diego), CA
• April 17, 2011, 7 pm
Point Loma Nazarene University
Point Loma (San Diego), CA
• April 18, 2011, 7pm
St Margaret's Episcopal Church
Palm Desert, CA
Ruben Valenzuela, Music Director. Soloists include: Aaron Sheehan, Evangelist; Jolle Greenleaf, soprano; Brian Asawa, countertenor; Pablo Corá, tenor.
For more information: 619-341-1726; info@bachcollegiumsd.org; www.bachcollegiumsd.org
Brooklyn Baroque
Venice Observed
• April 16, 2011, 4 pm
Morris-Jumel Mansion
65 Jumel Terrace, New York, NY 10032
Brooklyn Baroque (Andrew Bolotowsky, baroque flute; David Bakamjian, baroque cello; Rebecca Pechefsky, harpsichord) with guest Gregory Bynum, recorder, will present music by composers who lived and worked in Venice, featuring sonatas by Antonio Vivaldi, Antonio Lotti, Anna Bon, and Benedetto Marcello, and others.
For more information: brookbaroq@aol.com; www.brooklynbaroque.com
Part of the Music at Morris-Jumel Series www.morrisjumel.org/
Bourbon Baroque
Music for Holy Week
• April 16, 2011, 7:30 pm
• April 17, 2011, 5 pm
St. Joseph Catholic Church
1406 E. Washington St., Louisville, KY 40206
Bourbon Baroque expands to include a chamber choir and orchestra performing Handel's Dixit Dominus, Bach's Cantata 82 Ich Habe Genug with Kristen Liech mezzo-soprano, and Charpentier's Te Deum (H. 146) for a programme entitled Music for Holy Week.
For more information: 502-614-7178; austin@bourbonbaroque.com; www.bourbonbaroque.com
Four Nations Ensemble
Putting on the Ritz with Steve Ross and Ann Monoyios
• April 20 & 21, 2011, 7 pm
The Metropolitan Room
34 West 22nd Street between 5th and 6th Avenue, New York, NY
Cabaret genius Steve Ross and Baroque Diva Ann Monyios join Four Nations in a program of songs from John Dowland to Vernon Duke in New York's most popular Cabaret theater.
For more information: 212-928-5708; fournationsinc@aol.com; www.fournations.org
Julianne Baird with Pro Musica Rara
Music from a Young Republic
• April 29, 2011; 8 pm
Abigail Adams Smith Auditorium
421 East 61st Street, New York, NY 10065-8736
Salon/Sanctuary is proud to present “national artistic treasure” soprano Julianne Baird with Pro Musica Rara in a concert of music from the milieus of the founding fathers in the Abigail Adams Smith Auditorium of the Mt. Vernon Hotel Museum and Garden, built in 1799 and once home to the daughter of John Adams. Repertoire beloved of Jefferson and Franklin, America’s “Renaissance Men” and first Ambassadors to Paris, will include French songs and arias of Gluck, Grétry, “The Philadelphia Sonata” od Alexander Reinagle, “The Battle of Trenton” by James Hewitt, as well as the English drinking song which became our national anthem.
For more information: 212-866-0468; www.salonsanctuary.org
Handel and Haydn Society
Mozart’s Requiem
• April 29, 2011, 8 pm
• May 1, 2011 3 pm
Symphony Hall
Boston, MA
Theatrical. Mysterious. Legendary. Mozart’s final moments are reflected through this masterpiece of drama, intensity, and depth — a work that surrounds itself with mystery and was completed by Mozart’s colleague Süssmayr. Handel’s Dixit Dominus, with its baroque effervescence, could not be more different. Mezzo-soprano Phyllis Pancella, whose voice is described as “lustrous and expressive” by the Seattle Times, makes her Society debut. This unique musical pairing of Mozart and Handel touches all emotions, creating an unforgettable close to the season.
For more information: http://www.handelandhaydn.org/concerts/2010-2011/mozart-requiem
Anonymous 4
Secret Voices, The Sisters of Las Huelgas
• April 30, 2011, 8 pm
Town Hall
Seattle, WA
Medieval music from the convent of Las Huelgas in Northern Spain, with special guests Shira Kammen (vielle) and Peter Maund (percussion).
For more information: 206-325-7066; emg@earlymusicguild.org; www.earlymusicguild.org
Presented by the Early Music Guild of Seattle
May 2011
The Frick Collection presents
Les Délices
In the Apartments of Louis XIV
• May 1, 2011 5 pm
The Frick Collection
1 East 70 St. New York, N.Y.
Music by Lully, Philidor, Marais, D’Anglebert for violin, baroque oboe, viola da gamba, harpsichord. This is the New York debut of Les Délices.
For more information: bodig@frick.org; www.frick.org
American Bach Soloists
Bach Magnificat & Lotti Mass for Three Choirs
• May 6, 2011, 8 pm
St. Stephen’s Church
Belvedere, CA
• May 7, 2011, 8 pm
First Congregational Church
Berkeley, CA
• May 8, 2011, 7 pm
St. Mark’s Lutheran Church
San Francisco, CA
• May 9, 2011, 8 pm
Davis Community Church
Davis, CA
Join the American Bach Soloists for their season finale featuring the all-time favorite, Bach's Magnificat, and the West Coast premiere of Lotti's exquisite Mass for Three Choirs, "discovered" barely a decade ago.
For more information: 415-621-7900; mlafferty@americanbach.net; americanbach.org
The Toronto Consort
Songs of the Celestial Sirens
• May 6, 2011, 8 pm
• May 7, 2011, 8 pm
• May 8, 2011, 3:30 pm
Trinity-St. Paul's Centre
Montreal, ON
17th-century Italy witnessed one of the most extraordinary moments in the history of women’s music, with the incredible outpouring of repertoire written by and for women, especially found in the convents of northern Italy. At the Convent of Santa Radegonda in Milan, the compositions of one of the sisters, Chiara Margarita Cozzolani, performed by an ensemble of brilliant nuns, drew audiences in such numbers that on public feast days there was sometimes the fear that people might suffocate, so irresistible was the music of the “celestial sirens” as one commentator named them. We have assembled our own group of virtuoso female singers to recreate the thrill of this magnificent music.
For more information: torontoconsort.org
Parthenia
The Four Ages of Elizabeth
• May 6, 2011, 8 pm
Corpus Christi Church
529 West 121st Street, New York City
With Julianne Baird, soprano, and Cheryl Bensman-Rowe, soprano. A century of English music for voice and viols.
For more information: everyone@parthenia.org; www.parthenia.org
Sunset Concerts at Saint Luke's presents
Flanders Recorder Quartet
“Banchetto Musicale” (musical banquet)
• May 6, 2011, 8 pm
Saint Luke's Episcopal Church
20 University Avenue, Los Gatos, CA 95030
Louis-Antoine Dornel (1684-1765) - Sonate en Quatuor; Tarquinio Merula (1595-1665) - two canzons; Bach (1685-1750) - Concerto in a minor BWV 596; Ralph Vaughn Williams (1872-1958) - Suite for Pipes; Jan Van der Roost (b.1956) - three mvmts. from I Continenti (2002); Frans Geysen (b.1936) - On the bottle (2002); & the Flanders' arrangement of three pieces from circa 1400.
For more information: 408-354-4560 (voicemail); www.sunsetconcerts.org
Oriana Singers of Vermont
Bach, St. John Passion
• May 8, 2011, 4 pm
St.Paul's Cathedral
Burlington, VT
With period instruments, led by Scott Metcalfe; William Metcalfe, conductor.
For more information: 802-863-2296; william.metcalfe@uvm.edu
Spiritus Collective
Bach and his Predecessors
• May 14, 2011, 8 pm
Church of St. Mary the Virgin
145 W. 46 St, New York, NY
Miller Theatre features TENET and Spiritus Collective in a rousing program for voices, brass, and strings highlighting Bach's German forbearers and his masterpiece Jesu, meine Freude.
For more information: kriskwapis@gmail.com; www.spirituscollective.org
Handel Choir of Baltimore
In Memoriam Transcendent: Mozart Requiem KV626, Bach Cantata 106 Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit
• May 15, 2011, 4 pm
St. Ignatius Church
740 N. Calvert Street, Baltimore, MD 21202
Vocal soloists Emily Noël, Monica Reinagel, Aaron Sheehan and Jason Hardy join Handel Choir, the Handel Period Instrument Orchestra and Harmonious Blacksmith in presenting two iconic commemorative works, one from Bach's earliest creative period and the other from Mozart's last.
For more information: katherine@handelchoir.org; http://www.handelchoir.org/
Lauda Musicam of Atlanta
Jewish Influence in Early Music
• May 20, 2011, 7 pm
St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church
1790 Lavista Road, Atlanta, GA 30329
Lauda Musicam of Atlanta, conducted by Jody Miller, is a 40-member community-based renaissance ensemble of wind, string, keyboard, and percussion instruments and voice. Uncommon Practice, a vocal ensemble directed by Robert Bolyard, will assist.
For more information: 404-314-1891; lauda.musicam@gmail.com; www.fippleflute.com
Polyhymnia
Misterios Ibéricos: Music of Guerrero, Lobo, Morales, Victoria & Vivanco
• May 21, 2011, 8 pm, Pre-Concert Lecture 7 PM,
The Church of Saint Ignatius of Antioch
552 West End Avenue (Entrance on W. 87th Street), New York, NY 10024
• June 18, 12 noon
Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Lindsey, Chapel,
15 Newbury Street, Boston, MA 02116
Dark, mysterious and intensely spiritual, the sacred polyphonic compositions of the Iberian school of composers is truly the musical expression of 16th-century Spanish thought. Come with us and experience this magnificent repertoire, some familiar and some less so, but all set with the faithful passion of these exceptional composers.
For more information: 917-838-4636; info@polyhymnia-nyc.org; www.polyhymnia-nyc.org
Les Délices
Myths & Allegories
• May 14 & 15, 2011, 8 pm
Tregoning & Co. Gallery
1300 W 78th St., Cleveland, OH 44102
• May 23, 2011, 4 pm
Herr Chapel at Plymouth Church
2860 Coventry Rd, Shaker Heights, OH 44120
Weaving dramatic depictions of tales from Homer’s Odyssey together with instrumental chamber music inspired by Greek mythology, this program features soprano and Seattle-native Clara Rottsolk in cantatas by Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre and Thomas-Louis Bourgeois.
For more information: 216-534-9208 (info); 1-800-838-3006 (tickets); info@lesdelices.org; www.lesdelices.org
Pittsburgh Baroque Ensemble
J.S. Bach's Easter Oratorio (BWV 249) and works by Telemann
• May 22, 2011, 3 pm
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church
5801 Hampton Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15206
Pittsburgh Baroque Ensemble will be joined by guest instrumentalists, soloists, and choir to present Bach's Easter Oratorio (BWV 249) and works by Telemann; vocal soloists will be: soprano Sara Botkin, alto Raquel Winnica Young, tenor Guy Russo, and bass Robert Allen Kurth.
For more information: info@pittsburghbaroque.org; www.pittsburghbaroque.org; www.facebook.com/PittsburghBaroque
Hurly Burly, the Peterborough Medieval Ensemble
The Vigorous Impulse: Music of the 12th Century Renaissance
• May 29, 2011, 2:30 pm
The Guild Hall, St. John's Anglican Church
99 Brock Street, Peterborough, Ontario
A vocal and instrumental celebration of some of the great musical achievements of the 12th century, from Hildegard von Bingen to the trouveres.
For more information: cindymorgan@trentu.ca; www.celticharper.com/hurlyburly
June 2011
Good Pennyworths
Songs from Shakespeare: True Love Never Did Run Smooth
• June 3, 2011, 8 pm
Advent Lutheran Church
Broadway at 93rd Street, New York City, NY
A staged concert consisting of lute songs, ballads and catches sung or incorporated in Shakespeare’s plays, bound together into a new storyline using dialogue excerpted from a number of Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets. Erika Lloyd, soprano; Alane Marco, mezzo soprano, Christopher Preston Thompson, tenor; Garald Farnham, baritone and lutes.
For more information: info@goodpennyworths.com; www.goodpennyworths.com
Ars Lyrica Houston
Forbidden Pleasures
• June 10, 2011, 7:30 pm
Zilkha Hall
Hobby Center for the Performing Arts, Houston, TX
Ars Lyrica's 2010–11 season concludes with the flamboyant music of the castrati, including works by Alessandro Scarlatti written during the prohibition of opera in Rome. Making their Ars Lyrica debuts with this program are countertenors John Holiday and Ryland Angel.
For more information: 713-622-7443; kferguson@arslyricahouston.org; www.arslyricahouston.org
Aston Magna
England, Be Glad
• July 2, 2011, 6:00 pm
pre-concert talk at 5:00 pm
The Daniel Arts Center at Simon's Rock College
84 Alford Road, Great Barrington, MA 02130
Music from the cosmopolitan court of Henry VIII. Aaron Sheehan, tenor; Sarah Cunningham, Jane Hershey, Laura Jeppesen, Emily Walhout, violas da gamba.
For more information: 413-528-3595; 800-875-7156; astonmagna@optonline.net; www.astonmagna.org