March 2025

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March is Early Music Month

it is an incredibly busy month

for Early Music in Los Angeles area

with over 20 offerings!

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Thu  Mar 27, 2025 - 8:00PM (downtown LA)

Le Concert d’Astrée: The Triumph of Time and Disillusion

Presented by the LA Phil's  The Handel Project Festival and Colburn Celebrity Recital

Over the span of their illustrious 25-year career, Le Concert d’Astrée has become known as one of the foremost ensembles in the field of historically informed performance practice. Led by Baroque music champion Emmanuelle Haïm, the ensemble performs Handel’s first of many oratorios, the operatic Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno or “The Triumph of Time and Disillusion.”

Program: HANDEL: The Triumph of Time and Disillusion, HWV46a

Performers: Le Concert d’Astrée, Emmanuelle Haïm conductor, Elsa Benoit as Belleza, Julia Lezhneva as Piacere, Iestyn Davies as Disinganno, Petr Nekoranec as Tempo

tickets : $25-$131

Walt Disney Concert Hall 111 South Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90012

more info https://www.laphil.com/events/performances/3101/2025-03-27/le-concert-dastree-the-triumph-of-time-and-disillusion?utm_source=paid_Social&utm_medium=FB&utm_campaign=LeConcertTriumph&utm_content=KeyArt&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0BMABhZGlkAAAGEm5wk_wBHQhE8uISNJxXNz5pkhWrbZdNktc_JKHX-Jlmq6IvdWWDJNxLIZgnUYEGAg_aem_Mn8RA1yl2ib_R_eEDbmE4Q&dclid=CIalwr7VjYwDFQLMuAgdVM8mEQ

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Mar 28, 2025, 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM (Long Beach)

Kontrapunktus: IL NUOVO ORFEO: The Legacy of Arcangelo Corelli

Besides featuring one of Corelli's beloved pieces, our concert repertoire will include exquisite works from several composers who either studied under him or composed opuses in his honor. These composers include George Frideric Handel, Jean-Baptiste Barrière, Francesco Geminiani, and Jean-Marie Leclair. The concert will conclude with our remarkable soloist, Aubree Oliverson, performing a riveting, yet seldom played concerto by Antonio Vivaldi.

Tickets $20-$25

more info: https://www.kontrapunktusmusic.org/event-details/il-nuovo-orfeo-the-legacy-of-arcangelo-corelli

Grace First Presbyterian Church, 3955 N Studebaker Rd, Long Beach, CA 90808, USA

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Saturday, March 29, at 8:00 p.m. (Newport Beach)

Pacific Chorale’s chamber choir and Bach Collegium San Diego : Handel's Israel in Egypt

Encounter Handel’s riveting and powerful biblical oratorio, featuring Pacific Chorale’s chamber choir in a double chorus, along with Baroque orchestra Bach Collegium San Diego. Prepare for breathtaking double choruses, rich orchestral textures, and storytelling at its most dramatic. If you love Handel’s Messiah, don’t miss the extraordinary oratorio that paved its way. Witness the same thrilling choral virtuosity and dazzling Baroque splendor in this rarely performed masterpiece!

Tickets: $26-$79Promo Code: ANGELS, Discount: 20% off

Tickets and more information: https://cart.pacificchorale.org/handel2025?promo=angels

Our Lady Queen of Angels Catholic Church 2100 Mar Vista Drive, Newport Beach, CA 92660

more info: https://www.pacificchorale.org/events/exodus-handels-israel-in-egypt

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SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 2025 2:00pm PST (Youtube Premier) (live in Portland, OR)

Western Early Keyboard Association Presents: A Springtime Salon with Anastasia Chin, Fortepiano.

Top prize winner ex aequo of the Ninth Mae and Irving Jurow International Harpsichord Competition 2021, fortepianist and harpsichordist Anastasia Chin has been praised for her naturally sensitive, elegant and eloquent performances. Anastasia holds a Doctor of Music in Early Music (Keyboard) from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music,

Music by Mozart, Beethoven, Marianna Auenbrugger and Hélène de Montgeroult on a modern copy of a Viennese-style fortepiano 1790 . Info at https://www.wekaweb.org/anastasia-chin/
YouTube Premiere - https://www.youtube.com/@westernearlykeyboardassoc/videos

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Mar 29, 2025, 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM (Laguna Beach)

Kontrapunktus: IL NUOVO ORFEO: The Legacy of Arcangelo Corelli

Besides featuring one of Corelli's beloved pieces, our concert repertoire will include exquisite works from several composers who either studied under him or composed opuses in his honor. These composers include George Frideric Handel, Jean-Baptiste Barrière, Francesco Geminiani, and Jean-Marie Leclair. The concert will conclude with our remarkable soloist, Aubree Oliverson, performing a riveting, yet seldom played concerto by Antonio Vivaldi.

Tickets $20-$25

more info: https://www.kontrapunktusmusic.org/event-details/il-nuovo-orfeo-the-legacy-of-arcangelo-corelli

Laguna Presbyterian Church, 415 Forest Ave, Laguna Beach, CA 92651, USA

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Sunday, March 30 @ 4:00 PM (Venice - west Los Angeles)

Vox Obscura : Odysée: Choral Music Across the Renaissance

Presented by Masters in the Chapel @ First Lutheran Church in Venice CA

Vox Obscura is a professional early music consort that unites exceptional vocalists and instrumentalists to deliver refined performances of sacred, folk, and art music. Their Masters in the Chapel concert debut, Odyssée, showcases the diverse choral traditions of the European Renaissance, taking audiences on a musical journey from England to Eastern Europe - and everywhere in between. The program features works by Josquin, Tallis, Byrd, Fernandes, Guerrero, Gesualdo, Monteverdi, and more!

FREE, no tickets required.

First Lutheran Church 815 Venice Boulevard Los Angeles, CA, 90291 United States (map)

more info: Learn more at: www.flvenice.org/masters-in-the-chapel

Learn more about Vox Obscura at Voxobscura.org
 

Mar 30, 2025, 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM (Pasadena)

Kontrapunktus: IL NUOVO ORFEO: The Legacy of Arcangelo Corelli

Besides featuring one of Corelli's beloved pieces, our concert repertoire will include exquisite works from several composers who either studied under him or composed opuses in his honor. These composers include George Frideric Handel, Jean-Baptiste Barrière, Francesco Geminiani, and Jean-Marie Leclair. The concert will conclude with our remarkable soloist, Aubree Oliverson, performing a riveting, yet seldom played concerto by Antonio Vivaldi.

Tickets $20-$25

more info: https://www.kontrapunktusmusic.org/event-details/il-nuovo-orfeo-the-legacy-of-arcangelo-corelli

St. Andrew's Catholic Church, 311 N Raymond Ave, Pasadena, CA 91103, USA

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April 2025

 

April 4 8:00 pm (Pacific Palisades or Santa Monica)

Stile Antico – “The Golden Renaissance”

Stile Antico presents a musical journey through sixteenth-century Britain, France, Spain, and Italy with music by Tallis, Gibbons, Victoria, Byrd, Josquin, Taverner and Allegri.

The twelve-member, London-based Stile Antico has thrilled audiences on four continents with their “fresh, vibrant and moving performances” of Renaissance masterworks. 

Casual pre-concert conversation, “Liner notes,” begins at 7:10 pm and is free to all ticket holders.

Presented by St. Matthew’s Music Guild's Choral Arts Initiative concert

Tickets: $45.00.  As we expect the concert to sell out, priority seating will be offered to Music Guild subscribers. Reserved seating for subscribers will be held until 7:45pm.

Late-comers will be seated at the discretion of the ushers between compositions.

Venue: Our hope is that we will be able to present Stile Antico at our regular performance home – St. Matthew’s Church in Pacific Palisades. If conditions do not permit us to use St. Matthew’s, the concert will take place at St. Augustine’s Church, 1227 Fourth Street, Santa Monica. Please check back for more information.

Read our COVID policy.

more info:

https://www.musicguildonline.org/event/stile-antico/

stileantico.co.uk

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Friday, April 4, 2025 1:00 PM (USC campus, near downtown LA)

USC Musicology Forum Lecture

Alana Mailes (USC Presidential Fellow): “English Madrigals on the Jesuit Stage: Musical Theatre of Martyrdom at the Venerable English College, Rome."

Herklotz Seminar Room, University of Southern California Doheny Memorial Library

3550 Trousdale Prkwy, Los Angeles, CA 90089

Important Note about Visiting Campus:

For campus access guests who are not current USC Students, Faculty, or Staff should email Rotem Gilbert <rotemgil@usc.edu> in order to be pre-registered for the event. Please include your name and the names of those in your party coming to the lecture in the email.

Pre-registered visitors will receive an email with a link to a QR code. Visitors must present the QR code and a valid photo ID at any of the open UPC or USC Village entry gates to enter campus.

For more information, contact Adam Knight Gilbert at akgilber@usc.edu or  (213) 821-6052

 

Saturday, April 5, 2024 4:00 p.m. (Sierra Madre)

Con Gioia Early Music Ensemble : A Feast of Baroque Vocal & Instrumental Music

Bach’s Cello Suite in C Major, aria for baritone (BWV 8) and Wedding Cantata (BWV 209) & Handel’s cantata “Che vai persando,” Oboe Sonata in C minor & Water Music: Suite G, featuring

Andrea Zomorodian, soprano; John Buffett, baritone; Stephen Schultz, baroque flute; William Skeen, baroque violoncello;  and Lot Demeyer, baroque oboe; with

Kati Kyme & Alfred Cramer, baroque violins; Ellie Nishi, baroque viola; Denise Briesé, violone;Jason Yoshida, theorbo; Patrick Rogers, harpsichord, and Preethi de Silva, director

Tickets may be obtained online at suggested donation amounts via Eventbrite at:  See Con Gioia’s webpage:www.congioia.org

General admission: $40; Seniors, members of SCEMS, EMA, AMS, and Friends of Con Gioia: $32; Students and children: $15.

LIMITED TICKETS WILL BE ISSUED AT DOOR.

Sierra Madre Playhouse 87 W. Sierra Madre Blvd. Sierra Madre, CA 91024

For updates and further information visit www.congioia.org Co-sponsored by the Colburn Foundation

 

Sunday, April 6, 2025  3 PM (Westwood - UCLA)

Afro-American Chamber Music Society Orchestra (AACMSO) : Fifth Annual Chevalier Festival Concert

            Le Chevalier de St. Georges (1745-99) Virtuoso violinist, Conductor, Royal GuardMusketeers), Colonel of the Legion Nationale des Americains et du Midi Le Chevalier de St. Georges was born on a Guadelupe plantation as the son of a Senegalese slave mother, Nanon & father, Guillaume Pierre de St Georges, a slave master and French Governor. St. Georges entered into the royal French society at 13 becoming an iconic French classical musician. He attended the Royal Academy of Music in Paris, studying with director and violinist, Jean Marie LeClair. He assumed prestigious titles as the Concertmaster (1769-1781) under Gossec and later Conductor of the Concert des Amateurs Orchestras (1775-1780), Paris Opera Director (1775), Duke of Orleans’ Theater Director (1785), and Conductor of the Concert de la Loge Olympique Orchestra (1778-85). The Sinfonias, Concertos, Symphonie Concertantes and Harpischord works represent the music from the Royal Court of Queen Marie Antoinette and King Louis XVI of France. Stylized in the French Classical tradition, the works embody Le Chevalier de St. Georges’ elegance, grace and grandeur. As an iconic musician and prolific composer, St Georges is historically the first composer of African descent to publish classical music in Europe including over 200 works including songs, sinfonias symphonies concertantes, operas, violin Concertos, harpsichord sonatas, and string quartets. Additionally, he was the first composer to publish string quartets in France, invented of the symphonie concertante in collaboration with Gossec, (an updating of the concerto grosso), and other stylistic innovations.

            Program includes Op. 10,  a unique work revealing the religiosity of Chevalier de Saint Georges ne Joseph Boulogne!, including L’Amant Anonyme, Symphony Concertante. Opus 10 No. 2, Violin Concerto, Opus 7 No.2, Violin Concerto No.9, Rosalind Darbeau,

            The Afro-American Chamber Music Society Orchestra (AACMSO) Founded in 1988 by Professor Janise White, is dedicated to the preservation & performance of music by Black symphonists.

            Performers include Maestro Vince Womack, Conductor, Janise White, Founder & Musical Director, and Harpsichordist, and professional musicians  and soloists from LA Opera, LA Phil, LA Master Chorale.

EVENTBRITE TICKET LINK: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-chevalier-festival-tickets-1207685833839?aff=erelexpmlt

Parking Available in UCLA Lot 2: pay by space/license plate #

UCLA Schoenberg Hall, 445 Charles E Young Dr. E, Los Angeles, CA 90095

 

SUNDAY, APRIL 6  2:00PM  (Thousand Oaks)

Conejo Valley Choral Society Chamber Singers Concert.

The performance includes works by Tomás Luis de Victoria, William Byrd, Hienrich Schütz, John Bennet, Lucy Walker, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gerald Finzi, and Morten Lauridsen.

Tickets: $15 Adults, $10 Students. Order tickets online at ConejoValleyChoralSociety.com/season

Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, 1 W Avenida De Los Arboles, Thousand Oaks, CA. 

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Wed April 16 7:00 pm (Costa Mesa)

Jordi Savall with Hesperion XXI - Music of Fire & Love

Program:

Grounds & Improvisations

Antonio de Cabezón Pavana con su glosa

Anonymous (England) Greensleeves to a Ground (Romanesca) 1650

Juan Garcia de Zépedes (México 1619-) The Guaracha Improvisations

Captain Hume's Muusicall Humours & Battles London 1605 A Souldiers March - Harke, harke - Good againe, A Souldiers Resolution

Catalan Laments Anonyyme/Jordi Savall. La Canço del Lladre - El Testament d'Amelia

The Hispanic traditions (Zaragoza 1674) Gaspar Sanz Jácaras & Canarios

Cantos & Bayles, codex truillo de Lima (Perú) Lima 1780 Lanchas para Baylar, Tonada de el Chimo, Cachua

Serranita (Improvisations)

Tears of a Viol

Mr. de Sainte-Colombe, le pére Les pleurs from Tombeau les Régrets

The Spanish Folias, Antoni Martini Coll Diferencias sobre les Folias (Flores de Musica, 1709)

The Saldivar Codex (Mexico 1720) Santiago de Murcia (1673-1739) Fandango

Lancashire Pipes (The Mancester Gamba Book) A Pointe or Preludium - The Lancashire Pipes, The Pigges of Rumsey, Kat of Bardie, A Toy

Glosados and Improvisations: Francisco Correa de Arauxo Glosas sobre "Todo el mundo en general",

Antonio Valente/Jarocho (Mexico), Anonyme

Canarios (Improvisations) Gallarda napolitan (Naples 1576) Jarabe loco (Improvisations)

Tickets: $77 to $134

Samueli Theater , Segerstrom Center for the Arts 600 Town Center Drive Costa Mesa CA 92626

more info: https://www.scfta.org/events/2025/jordi-savall-with-hesperion-xxi-music-of-fire-love

 

Saturday, April 5th 2025 7:30 PM (San Diego)

Stile Antico :Prince of Music - Palestrina in the Eternal City

The San Diego Early Music Society is thrilled to welcome back Stile Antico for the performance of their program Palestrina in the Eternal City. The wonderful twelve-piece vocal ensemble will celebrate both its 20th season and Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina’s 500th birthday. The program explores the music Palestrina would have sung at the Sistine Chapel, the changes in his style demanded by the Counter-Reformation, his tragic personal life, and his influence on his successors. The repertoire is sumptuous, including several of Palestrina’s most beloved and timeless motets, gems by other leading composers active in Rome.

Tickets are $30-$60.  

St. James by-the-Sea Episcopal Church 743 Prospect Street, La Jolla, CA 92037

more info: info https://www.sdems.org

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Saturday, April 26, 2PM, 2:00PM (San Gabriel)

USC Collegium Musicum

Directed by Adam Knight Gilbert and Jason Yoshida

Villançicos and Tonos humanos from Iberia and Latin America

Spanish Songs of the Siglo de Oro and Beyond

Mission San Gabriel Arcángel

427 South Junipero Serra Drive, Dr. San Gabriel, CA, 91776

 

Sunday, April 27, 2025  5 pm (Redondo Beach)

Peninsula Symphony : Mozart, Salieri, and Hummel

David Cubek directs the. Marissa Benedict solos.

Free Concert.

Preconcert lecture for Members at 4:15 pm.

more info: For more concert and membership information, call the Peninsula Symphony Assoc at 310-544-0320, visit www.pensym.org or email music.pensym@verizon

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