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Please note that www.earlymusicla.org focuses on the Southern California region and does not offer a comprehensive listing service for nationwide or international early music sites.

The focus of this page is Southern California with categories:

Performing Ensembles | Concert Producers | Organizations & Societies
University Affiliated Entities | Early Music Businesses | Classical Radio Stations

Scroll to the end of this page for a "short list" of general early music sites.

Performing Ensembles

The Chapel of Charlemagne

Dr. Robert M. Fowells directs this ensemble which specializes in the interpretation and performance of Gregorian chant.

Con Gioia Early Music Ensemble

Concordia Clarimontis

Founder-Director and harpsichordist Preethi de Silva plans an exhilirating season of baroque and classical music on historical instruments featuring the finest local and international artists.

The resident, faculty period-instrument ensemble, directed by harpsichordist Robert Zappulla, of Claremont Graduate University. Artists include Carol Lisek (voice), M. Anne Rardin (Baroque violin), Janet Beazley (Renaissance/Baroque flute and recorder), Raymond Burkhart (natural trumpet), Dirk Freymuth (lute, Baroque guitar, mandolino), and Shanon Zusman (viola da gamba, violone).

Harmonia Baroque Players

This ensemble presents medieval, renaissance, and baroque chamber music in the greater Los Angeles - Orange County area.

Jouyssance

A small West Los Angeles vocal ensemble dedicated to performing repertoire of the Medieval and Renaissance Periods.

Los Angeles Baroque Players

Features Frances von Seggern Bach, viola da gamba; Adriana Zoppo, baroque violin; Anthony Brazier, baroque flute; and Wm Neil Roberts, harpsichord.

Musica Angelica

Both orchestra and chamber ensemble are dedicated to historically informed performances of Renaissance and Baroque music.

Musica Humana

UCLA's early music collective of students and members of the UCLA community concerts explores the many sonic worlds of the Renaissance.

New World Baroque Orchestra

Performs historical music, song and dance of the colonial missions, presidios and outposts of Spanish-California and the frontier regions of New Spain.

Voxfire

The collaboration of three of the West Coast's most highly regarded interpreters of early and contemporary vocal music.

USC Thornton Early Music Ensemble

Under the direction of James Tyler, the student ensemble plays music spanning from the Renaissance to the High Baroque era using period instruments and performance styles.

Concert or Series Producers

San Diego Early Music Society

Offers early music concert series in the greater San Diego area.

Chamber Music in Historic Sites

The concert series sponsored by the Da Camera Society includes outstanding early music ensembles in fabulous historic venues.

UCLA Center for Performing Arts

UCLA's classical and chamber music concerts include world-class early music artists.

Southern California Early Music Businesses

Instrument Builders, Sales, Service, etc.

 

Harpsichord Center

Early keyboard instruments by Roberts & Brazier. Sales, service, rentals, classes, lessons, concerts, etc.

J.V. & P.R. Speak

Makers of Violin family instruments with focus on Baroque & Classical.

Music Publishers

 

PCH Publishing

Unique modern editions of select Baroque chamber works.

Organizations & Societies

National Listings

 

List of Early Music Societies

from Early Music FAQ

Early Music America


California Listings

 

Orange County Recorder Society

Southern California Area Lute Group

San Diego Early Music Society

San Diego Harpsichord Society

Southern California Recorder Society

Southern California Early Music Society

San Francisco Early Music Society

 

Southern California University Affiliated Entities

Claremont Graduate University: Historical Performance Practices program

Claremont Graduate University: Performance Practice Review

UCLA Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies

UCLA Center for 17th & 18th Century Studies

USC Thornton School: Early Music Degree Program

The William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

 

Southland Classical Radio Station Playlists & Programming

KUSC

Playlists are posted daily and then archived.

KXLU

Programming includes Early Music Classical Fiasco and Collegium Musicum.

"Short List" of General Early Music Websites

Arto Wikla's Music Page

Early Music Network

Brad Leissa's Home Page

Early Music FAQ

Classical Net Early Music Files & Links

Gerhard Gonter's Early Music List

   

Southern California Early Music Society
P.O. Box 544, Pacific Palisades, CA 90272-0544
310.358.5967 | www.earlymusicla.org