June 2025

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Saturday, June 21, 8 p.m. (Westchester) (repeats June 22)

Jouyssance Early Music Ensemble: Vieni a unirti alla festa!

Embark on a musical tour of Italy as Jouyssance celebrates Palestrina's 500th birthday with a performance of Missa Assumpta est Maria, as well as works by fellow Romans Stefano Landi and Costanzo Festa.   The program will also stop in Venice,  where Jouyssance will reprise its recent Carnegie Hall performance of the Magnificat à 6 from his 1610 Vespers.

$25 General Admission, $20 Seniors and SCEMS members, $10 Students with ID

Free Admission for ACDA members and their students

Holy Nativity Episcopal Church 6700 W. 83rd Street, Westchester

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

 

Sunday, June 22, 4 p.m. )Monrovia) (repeats June 21)

Jouyssance Early Music Ensemble: Vieni a unirti alla festa!

Embark on a musical tour of Italy as Jouyssance celebrates Palestrina's 500th birthday with a performance of Missa Assumpta est Maria, as well as works by fellow Romans Stefano Landi and Costanzo Festa.   The program will also stop in Venice,  where Jouyssance will reprise its recent Carnegie Hall performance of the Magnificat à 6 from his 1610 Vespers.

$25 General Admission, $20 Seniors and SCEMS members, $10 Students with ID

St. Luke's Episcopal Church 122 California Avenue, Monrovia

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

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SUNDAY, JUNE 22  4:00  (Newport Beach)

Baroque Music Festival, Corona del Mar 2025:  La Serenissima - Vivaldi for All Seasons: The Four Seasons by Vivaldi

The The 45th Festival, La Serenissima opens with a rare opportunity to experience Elizabeth Blumenstock’s interpretation of the seminal The Four Seasons by Vivaldi 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 led by Blumenstock..

St. Mark Presbyterian Church, 2200 San Joaquin Hills Rd, Newport Beach, CA 92660.

Tickets: $10-$325. For tickets and information visit: https://bmf-cdm.org/2025-programs/

 

MONDAY, JUNE 23 7:30 (Corona del Mar)

Baroque Music Festival, Corona del Mar 2025: Joys Celestial. 

John Thiessen (trumpet) and St. Michael’s music director and international rising star Lukas Hasler (organ), with a guest appearance by Jennifer Ellis Kampani (soprano), in favorites by Bach, Handel, Scarlatti, Torelli and Vivaldi. 

St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church, 3233 Pacific View Drive, Corona del Mar, CA 92625.

Tickets: $10-$325. For tickets and information visit: https://bmf-cdm.org/2025-programs/

 

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25 7:30  (Corona del Mar)

Baroque Music Festival, Corona del Mar 2025: A 'Windy' Night in the Gardens. 

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 of woodwinds, strings, and continuo equally evoke the many moods of Venice (“La Serenissima”) and reveal the virtuosity of the players he was writing for.

Sherman Library & Gardens, 2645 East Coast Highway, Corona del Mar, CA 92625.

Tickets: $10-$325. For tickets and information visit: https://bmf-cdm.org/2025-programs/

 

FRIDAY, JUNE 27 7:30 (Corona del Mar)

Baroque Music Festival, Corona del Mar 2025: Classical Quartets & the Cellist's Voice. 

Presenting masterful string quartets by Boccherini, Haydn and Mozart in their socio-historical context, this program is focused around the musically enthusiastic and “cellistically” accomplished Friedrich Wilhelm II, King of Prussia, who was the nephew and successor of King Friedrich the Great. Baroque-Classical composer Luigi Boccherini was additionally a cellist; Haydn’s “The Bird” starts with a lovely cello tune; and Mozart’s  last three string quartets, which include K.575 in D Major, were dedicated to Friedrich. Join us for Quartet Night at the Gardens.

Sherman Library & Gardens, 2645 East Coast Highway, Corona del Mar, CA 92625.

Tickets: $10-$325. For tickets and information visit: https://bmf-cdm.org/2025-programs/

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SATURDAY, June 28th, 8:00PM (7:00PM Drinks by Donation, 7:30PM Doors Open) (Santa Monica) - SOLD OUT, RSVP is now standby/waitlist (RSVP - see below)

L.A. Camerata: "Madwomen" a performance

For centuries, artists have used women’s anger as a trope. From ancient theatre to opera, men have written madwomen scenes that equate anger, sadness, and bewilderment with hysteria or insanity. This performance will reclaim that madness! “Madwomen” will include theatrical scenes and live, historically-informed music on period instruments.
Featuring works by: Sophocles, Euripides, Shakespeare, Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, Francesca Caccini, Claudio Monteverdi, Marin Marais, Antonio Vivaldi, and more!
Performances by: Jennifer Bush (actor), Corryn Cummins (actor), Ariel Pisturino (soprano), Sarah Reynolds (mezzo-soprano), Amy Wang & Rachel Iba (baroque violins), Johannes Eberhart (baroque viola), Marylin Winkle (baroque cello & viola da gamba), Sonia Lee (harpsichord)
7:00PM Drinks by donation
7:30PM Doors Open

8:00PM Performance
Admission: by donation, pay-what-you-can.
Location: City Garage Theater, Bergamot Station Arts Center | 2525 Michigan Ave T1, Santa Monica, CA 90404. 

Free parking in large lot. Lot can fill on busy nights, so allow time for parking. Guests strongly encouraged to save our planet by taking the Metro to Bergamot Station!

RSVP: https://docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLSeeOYWNNOhke5.../viewform

 

SUNDAY, JUNE 29 4:00 (Newport Beach)

Baroque Music Festival, Corona del Mar 2025: Vivaldi's Gloria. 

International early-music (and contemporary-music) superstars Estelí Gomez (soprano) and Cecilia Duarte (mezzo-soprano) join the Festival Chorus and Orchestra led by Blumenstock for tales and retellings of adoration and anguish in the Venetian Republic. The 45th Festival, La Serenissima: Vivaldi for All Seasons, closes with a rousing program of music of “the sacred and profane.” Two of Vivaldi’s provocative secular cantatas contrast with sacred choral works by Vivaldi—his celebrated Gloria—and the “Red Priest’s” Venetian contemporary Antonio Lotti (1667-1740) whose mesmerizing Crucifixus for eight unaccompanied solo voices is not to be missed. Plus, instrumental works by Vivaldi and Locatelli. 

St. Mark Presbyterian Church, 2200 San Joaquin Hills Rd, Newport Beach, CA 92660. Tickets: $10-$325. For tickets and information visit: https://bmf-cdm.org/2025-programs/

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July 2025

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July 16 6:00pm & 9:00pm (near USC and downtown LA)

Tesserae Baroque and The Gesualdo Six: Secret Byrd - an immersive staged mass

Tesserae Baroque hosts the Los Angeles performance on its 30-city international tour . England’s finest composer William Byrd was a covert Catholic facing brutal prosecution. Hear his Mass for 5 Voices as he intended: sung for worship in strictest secrecy. The Gesualdo Six collaborate with creator Bill Barclay in an immersive vigil by candlelight, communing with some of the most ravishing music ever written. Celebrating the 400 year legacy of William Byrd, creator and Director Bill Barclay states:

“For Byrd’s anniversary I wanted to highlight a part of his personality that is little understood: his courageous activism.

Part art installation, part concert, and part immersive theatre, Secret Byrd will tour Byrd’s essential story, to highlight religious persecution still afflicting the world today, and perhaps most importantly – to encourage us all to let people believe what they wish.

I fervently believe that once we stop trying to convince people they’re wrong, we can move to the next stage of our evolution – working together to protect a world where we each get to choose our fate.”

Concert-theatre at its most intimate

Singers are staged to manage the house, light the candles, and gather to worship. They sing the Ordinary movements of the mass that Byrd set, while the strings play the Proper movements (the sections that change in the liturgy week to week). At one moment a rude interruption crashes into the serenity of the evening, and a sacrifice must be made.

Bread is broken by the audience where communion occurs in the mass. What was a solemn reenactment turns to a celebration of life and the searing power of music.

A gallery of the history of Catholic recusancy and religious persecution still occurring today is included for audiences to learn about Byrd’s incredible faith and advocacy.

“Secret Byrd mixes music, history, and drama, and what emerges is an experience that is neither concert nor theatre, but something out of life itself. Already atmospheric and resonant, the space became a time machine.”

"Musically it’s glorious…chillingly authentic…ominous, buoyant and uplifting"

"Secret Byrd is deeply moving – a spiritual experience sensitively translated for a secular age"

tickets $70 (standing) - $85 (full immersive)

St John’s Episcopal Cathedral,  514 W Adams Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90007

more info and video teaser: https://concerttheatreworks.com/portfolio/secret-byrd/

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