October 2025

Friday, October 3, 8PM (USC, near downtown LA)

Thornton Baroque Sinfonia: Musical Revolutions in Italy, 1580-1680

Directed by Rotem Gilbert and Jason Yoshida

Featuring works by Marenzio, Merula, Monteverdi, Luigi Rossi, Fontana, and Vivaldi, performed with voices, baroque orchestra, viola da gamba consort, recorders, theorbo and guitars! 

Free

USC: Newman Recital Hall

more info: https://dornsife.usc.edu/emsi/seminar-series/music-series/

more info on USC campus access: rotemgilbert@gmail.com

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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5 4:00  (Corona del Mar)

Baroque Music Festival, Corona del Mar: A Taste of the Season! The Fall Preview.

 Join the Baroque Music Festival, CdM’s artistic director, violinist Elizabeth Blumenstock, for our annual elevated mixer, featuring her solo Bach and Guillemain pop-up violin recital, sneak-peeks at 2026 Festival programming, passed appetizers, fine wines, and convivial company! Community Room & Patios, Newport Beach Civic Center. Tickets & information: bmf-cdm.org 
 

SUNDAY, October 12th, 6:00PM (5:30 Doors & Bar Open) (Santa Monica)

L.A. Camerata presents "Madwomen, pt. 2: Remembrance & Revenge"

L.A. Camerata returns to City Garage Theatre with a program centered on two driving factors of madness: remembrance and revenge. This second iteration of “Madwomen” weaves together theatrical scenes and historically-informed music to reclaim women’s rage. In collaboration with the LA Female Playwrights Initiative & sponsored in part by The Colburn Foundation.

Featuring musical works by: Henri de Bailly, Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, Isabella Leonarda, Claudio Monteverdi, Henry Purcell, and Antonio Vivaldi. Theatrical works by: Louisa Hilla, Rachel Iba, William Shakespeare, Chandra Thomas, and Jennie Webb. Performances by: Michaela Slezak (actor), Inger Tudor (actor), Donnie Smith (actor), Ianthe Marini (actor & mezzo-soprano), Sarah Reynolds (mezzo-soprano), Amy Wang (baroque violin), Rachel Iba (baroque violin, actor, & author), Johannes Eberhart (baroque viola), Marylin Winkle (baroque cello & viola da gamba), and Sonia Lee (harpsichord).

Admission: By donation, pay-what-you-can. RSVP required by completing the following form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd6MYoFQEVjfV69ovBDKmtV3bIzX26gTEDcxmKWMt7u2IC-dQ/viewform

City Garage Theater, Bergamot Station Arts Center | 2525 Michigan Ave T1, Santa Monica, CA 90404. Free parking in a large lot. The lot can fill on busy nights, so allow time for parking. Guests are strongly encouraged to save our planet by taking the Metro to Bergamot Station!
 

Saturday, October 11, 2025 at 8 p.m. (Westchester)

Sunday, October 12, 2025 at  4 p.m. (Monrovia)

Jouyssance: Love and Marriage: Renaissance Style

Join us for a concert extolling the virtues, glories and agonies of love and marriage — both sacred and (very) secular.  Enjoy poignant madrigals, exquisite motets and saucy chansons by Francisco Guerrero, Claudio Monteverdi, Thomas Weelkes, Thomas Morley, Thomas Tallis, and Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck.  One of Salamone Rossi’s Songs of Solomon will be featured.

Concert Tickets are available in advance or at the door.

$25 General Admission, $20 Senior / SCEMS member , $10 Students with current ID

Saturday, October 11, 2025 at 8 p.m.

Holy Nativity Episcopal Church

6700 W 83rd Street, Westchester

Sunday, October 12, 2025 at  4 p.m.

St. Luke’s Episcopal Church

122 S. California Ave., Monrovia

more info :    https://www.jouyssance.org/current-season

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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 12 (Corona del Mar)
3:00 Baroque Music Festival, Corona del Mar: Coloring with Corelli!

The Festival's Education Director Dr. Lindsey Strand-Polyak brings story-telling, baroque trios, themed coloring to enhance focus and fun, and a baroque instrument petting zoo to Corona del Mar for young people 0-18 and their families. The launch event of the Burton Karson Music Education Program. 

FREE informal, sensory-friendly, family concert. 

Learn more and register at: https://BaroqueMusicFestEvents.short.gy/ColoringwithCorelli

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Saturday, October 18, 7:30 PM  (Long Beach) and

Sunday, October 19,7:30PM (mid-Wilshire LA)

Musica Angelica : Quattrocento "Four Centuries of Italian Music"

Be ready to go on a vibrant journey with early Baroque pearls by Francesca Caccini and Isabella Leonarda, tempestuous instrumental works of Antonio Vivaldi & Gioachino Rossini, and modern cinematic themes from Nino Rota. Associate Music Director, Gonzalo X. Ruiz, oboist & guitarist, Associate Music Director.

 Artists: Gonzalo X. Ruiz, oboe, guitar, Christopher Matthews, flute, Cynthia Roberts, concertmaster, violin, Amy Wang, 2nd principal violin, Courtney Kuroda, violin, Mishkar Fredell-Nuñéz, violin , Ashley Salinas, violin, Andrew Justice, principal, viola, Alexa Haynes-Pilon, principal cello, Denise Briese, principal violone, Elliot Figg, harpsichord

Program included works from Il Primo Libro delle Musiche by Francesca Caccini (1587-1641), Sonata Duodecima, Op. 16 by Isabella Leonarda (1620-1704), Oboe Concerto in G minor, and Flute Concerto in F major, “La tempesta di mare” by Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741), Sonatas by  Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868), and works by Nino Rota (1911-1979)

tickets; $40-$85, Tickets include a pre-or-post reception

Saturday, October 18, 7:30 PM at FCCLB,

First Congregational Church of Long Beach, 241 Cedar Avenue Long Beach, CA 90802

Sunday, October 19, 3:00 PM at FCCLA

First Congregational Church of Los Angeles, 540 South Commonwealth Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90020

more info:  www.musicaangelica.org

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SATURDAY OCTOBER 18, 2025 12:00 PM  (Long Beach)

Musica Angelica: COMMUNITY CONCERT PRESENTS ITALIAN BAROQUE

Featuring Gonzalo Ruiz, Cynthia Roberts, and Alexa Haynes-Pilon

FREE EVENT• ALL AGES Q&A AFTER THE PERFORMANCE

DANA NEIGHBORHOOD LIBRARY 3680 ATLANTIC AVE, LONG BEACH, CA 90807

more info: WWW.MUSICAANGELICA.ORG , BOX OFFICE: 562.276.0865

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2025, 2:00pm (YouTube Premier)

Byron Schenkman, Harpsichord. From the Court at Versailles to the Parisian Salons

Presented by Western Early Keyboard Association.

Byron Schenkman will perform an enchanting French music by Louis Couperin, Élisabeth Jacquet de le Guerre, Ennemond Gaultier, Nicolas Lebègue, Marie-Emmanuelle Bayon, Joseph Bologne, and Jacques Duphly.

more info: https://www.wekaweb.org/
YouTube Premiere - https://www.youtube.com/@westernearlykeyboardassoc/videos 

Online Video Premiere – WEKA YouTube Channel

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Friday, October 24th 2025  7:30 PM  (La Jolla, near San Diego)

Cappella Pratensis: Dufay's "Golden Mass"

Famous for performing directly from historical notation and around a single music stand—as was customary during the Renaissance—Cappella Pratensis, under the direction of Tim Braithwaite, returns with a program centered on Dufay’s Missa Aurea for the Annunciation. This exquisite mass will be performed alongside the plainchant propers for the feast of the Annunciation and Marian motets by Dufay’s younger contemporary, Antoine Busnoys. Also featured is a dramatic chanting of the Gospel account of the Annunciation, fully aligned with the theatrical tradition of the Golden Mass.

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

Tickets are $30-$60.  Additional information is available on the society’s website at https://www.sdems.org

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Saturday, October 25, 3:45pm-4:30pm (Point Loma, San Diego)

Moonlight and Mastery: A Recital of Variations

Angie Zhang, fortepiano, with introductory comments by Curtis Berak

Fortepianist Angie Zhang, a top prize-winner in the International Chopin Competition on Period Instruments in Warsaw, will perform the closing recital of the SoCal Early Keyboard Festival on an 1829 Broadwood piano, with introductory comments by Curtis Berak. This event is open to the general public and FREE admission. (To register or participate in the festival: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfKpF0EcXNsAfc17F0_553oWbays9iiC2KsajbLerSPXipHAg/viewform.)

PROGRAM

Moonlight and Mastery: A Recital of Variations

- Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827): Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 27, No. 2, "Moonlight," 1st movement

- Clara Schumann (1819–1896): Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann, Op. 20

- Ludwig van Beethoven: 32 Variations on an Original Theme in C minor, WoO 8

All Souls’ Episcopal Church, Gooden Hall 1475 Catalina Blvd, San Diego (Point Loma), CA 92107

https://www.facebook.com/events/1152687290105651/

https://www.facebook.com/2025.HKSNA.SoCal/

Inquiry: hksna.socal@gmail.com

 

Saturday, October 25, 9:00am-4:30pm (Point Loma, San Diego)
HKSNA SoCal Early Keyboard Festival: Experiencing Early Keyboards

A one-day festival of lectures, performances, and hands-on sessions bringing together performers, educators, students, and music lovers across SoCal in a collegial setting. Featured instruments are: Fritts & Richards pipe organ (3 manuals), Opus 5, inspired by Northern German organs of the 17th century; an 1829 Broadwood fortepiano; and French- and Neapolitan-style harpsichords. Participants will have the opportunity to try out the instruments. Presenters and speakers include: Ruben Valenzuela (All Souls' Episcopal Church/Bach Collegium San Diego; organ), Emma Whitten (Concordia University Irvine; organ), Margaret Irwin-Brandon (Desert Baroque/Arcadia Players; organ), Sonia Lee (California State University, San Bernardino; organ), Karen Follingstad (San Diego State University; fortepiano), Angie Zhang (New York City/Los Angeles; fortepiano), Takae Ohnishi (University of California San Diego; harpsichord), Ian Pritchard (Colburn School Conservatory of Music; harpsichord), Mian Tang (Claremont Graduate University; harpsichord), Curtis Berak (Los Angeles; early keyboards), and Paul Carmona (Cuyamaca College; Program Chair).
All Souls’ Episcopal Church | 1475 Catalina Blvd, San Diego (Point Loma), CA 92107
For schedule and complete information: https://www.facebook.com/2025.HKSNA.SoCal/
REGISTRATION (A complimentary sandwich lunch will be available.)
General: $25 | Students: FREE (with valid Student ID)
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfKpF0EcXNsAfc17F0_553oWbays9iiC2KsajbLerSPXipHAg/viewform

Inquiry: hksna.socal@gmail.com

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November 2025

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Sunday, November 16, 2PM (USC, near downtown LA)

USC Collegium Musicum :German and Dutch Lieder of the Renaissance

Directed by Adam Knight Gilbert

FREE

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

more info: https://dornsife.usc.edu/emsi/seminar-series/music-series/

more info on USC campus access: rotemgilbert@gmail.com

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Saturday, November 22, 2025 at 4:00 p.m. (mid-Wilshire disctrict)

Con Gioia Early Music Ensemble: The Feast of St. Cecelia

Directed by Preethi de Silva. Possibly the first performances in Los Angeles of J.S. Bach, Cantata for Soprano and strings, Alles mit Gott und nichts ohn'in, BWV 1127, and Mozart, Serenade for String Trio, K. 648.

Performers: Andrea Zomorodian, soprano, Michael Jones, tenor, John Buffett, baritone; Guest artists Marc Schachman, baroque oboe and Eva Lymenstull: baroque violoncello; with baroque violins, viola, violoncello, violone and harpsichord continuo.

General Admission: $40, Seniors, Members of SCEMS, EMA, AMS, and Friends of Con Gioia: $32

Students and Children: $15.

Tickets may be obtained online at suggested donation amounts via Eventbrite after October 1,

202. LIMITED TICKETS WILL BE ISSUED AT DOOR.

First Congregational Church of Los Angeles, 540 S. Commonwealth ave, Los Angeles 90020

more info: www.congioia.org

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Saturday, November 22, 2025 7:00 PM 8:00 PM (Tustin)

Vox Obscura : The Agony and the Ecstasy: Music of the Sistine Chapel

Vox Obscura invites you to an evening of Renaissance sacred music inspired by the traditions of the Sistine Chapel, one of Europe’s most revered places of worship. The program offers thoughtfully crafted performances of chant and polyphony, with works by composers such as Josquin, Palestrina, Lotti, and the hauntingly beautiful Miserere mei, Deus by Allegri. Sung primarily a cappella or with light string accompaniment, this concert explores the passion and drama of the great Renaissance musicians, inspired by the art and history of the Sistine Chapel.

'Vox Obscura' unites professional musicians in Southern California to perform cultivated concerts inspired by timeless sacred, folk, and art repertoire from a wide variety of early music traditions.  Our music programs are carefully curated to restore the original spirit and intent of the composer for a modern audience.

Purchase Tickets: $20 General Admission, $30 Premium (Open seating in the first four rows),

$12 Students & children

Red Hill Lutheran Church: 13200 Red Hill Ave, Tustin, CA 92780

Learn more at Voxobscura.org

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