Early Music Seattle – Upcoming Concerts
Early Music Seattle: Stabat Mater
Friday, January 30, 2032 @ 7:00pm – 8:30pm (PST)
Online event
Enhanced archival video of SBO's February 2019 performance of G.B. Pergolesi's Stabat Mater, featuring a performance by dance company Whim W’Him.
Free (Free)
Early Music Seattle: In Concert – The Artistry of John Lenti
Saturday, February 14, 2032 @ 2:00pm – 3:30pm (PST)
Online event
World-renowned lutist John Lenti presents an evening of music on several lute family instruments, including works by John Dowland, Francesco da Milano, Giulio Caccini, & others.
Free (Free)
Accademia del Piacere Presents: Rediscovering Spain
Friday, February 27, 2032 @ 7:00pm – 8:30pm (PST)
Online event
European Renaissance polyphony combines with traditional Moorish music in this video program exploring the musical contributions of Spain in the 17th century. Featuring gambist Fahmi Alqhai & dancer Patricia Guerrero.
Free (Free)
Early Music Seattle: Opera – A Night in Hell – Ballo delle ingrate
Saturday, March 13, 2032 @ 7:00pm – 8:30pm (PST)
Online event
Claudio Monteverdi's twisted Baroque opera about "female ingrates" comes roaring back to life in a 1940s mob-controlled nightclub. Footage from EMS's 2011 production, filmed in Seattle’s historic Moore Theatre.
Free (Free)
Early Music Seattle: Mother & Son – Lamentation & Joy in Irish traditional Song & Poetry
Sunday, March 14, 2032 @ 2:00pm – 2:00pm (PDT)
Online event
Irish traditional & sacred song, Gregorian chant, and poetry performed by the internationally renowned mother & son duo, Mícheál Moley Ó’Súilleabháin & Rev. Nóirín Ní Riain, PhD.
Free (Free)
Sine Nomine: The Lonely City – Lamentations from Renaissance Spain
Sunday, March 14, 2032 @ 3:00pm – 4:00pm (PDT)
Online event
Concert broadcast featuring Sine Nomine: Renaissance Choir & participants in their "The Lonely City – Lamentations from Renaissance Spain" course.
Free (Donations accepted)
Creative Conversations: Theordore Deacon & Arne Zaslove
Thursday, April 15, 2032 @ 7:00pm – 8:30pm (PDT)
Online event
Conversation between the directors of EMS's upcoming production, L’Amfiparnaso. Includes stories, a look at masks used in the production, & musical examples. Q&A to follow.
Free (Free)
Madrigal Comedy: L’Amfiparnaso
Saturday, April 17, 2032 @ 7:00pm – 8:30pm (PDT)
Online event
Orazio Vecchi's 1597 musical romp combines ribald commedia dell’arte street theater with refined Italian madrigals.
Free (Free)
Early Music Seattle: Lamentum
Saturday, May 15, 2032 @ 7:00pm – 8:30pm (PDT)
Online event
Renaissance & Baroque works for voices & ensemble by composers intimately familiar with epidemics & calamities: Francisco Correa de Arauxo, Matthias Weckmann, Heinrich Schütz, Dietrich Buxtehude, & more.
Free (Free)
Sine Nomine: WHAT’S IN A NAME? Celebrating Josquin des Prez & the ‘Missa Sine Nomine’
Sunday, June 6, 2032 @ 3:00pm – 3:40pm (PDT)
Online event
Pre-recorded performance featuring Josquin des Prez's Missa Sine nomine ("Mass without a name"), with selected movements from other composers' "Missa Sine nomines".
Free (Donations accepted)
Chanticleer – She Said/He Said
Saturday, June 26, 2032 @ 7:00pm – 8:30pm (PDT)
Online event
Chanticleer explores the battle of the sexes through song. Works by Hildegard von Bingen, Claudio Monteverdi, Fanny Mendelssohn, Eric Whitacre, Joni Mitchell, & more.
Free (Free)
Rachel Barton Pine String Masterclass
Wednesday, July 14, 2032 @ 6:00pm – 8:00pm (PDT)
Renton High School, Renton, WA, United States
Masterclass with celebrated violinist Rachel Barton Pine.
Free (Free (RSVP required))
Deep Roots, New Branches – Journey of the Oud, Birth of the Lute
Wednesday, September 8, 2032 @ 7:00pm – 8:30pm (PDT)
Online event
Musiciologist/oudist Dr. Adem Merter Birson & EMS director/lutist Gus Denhard explore the development of the oud, its path to Europe via war & cultural exchange, & the subsequent emergence of the lute.
Free (Free)
Early Music Seattle: 'L'incoronazione di Poppea'
Saturday, October 16, 2032 @ 7:00pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
Online event
EMS presents this newly enhanced & supertitled video performance of their 2007 production at Seattle's Intiman Playhouse – never before released to the public.
Free (Free ($20 suggested donation))
Early Music Seattle: Cecilia
Saturday, November 20, 2032 @ 7:00pm – 8:30pm (PST)
Online event
Traditional dance music with a contemporary ear from Belgian trio Cecilia. (Jan Leeflang, bagpipes; Greet Wuyts, accordion; & Thomas Hoste, hurdy-gurdy)
Free (Free ($20 suggested donation))
Early Music Seattle: Infusion Baroque – Entr’acte
Saturday, December 18, 2032 @ 7:00pm – 7:45pm (PST)
Online event
Chamber quartet Infusion Baroque shares their achievements under the challenging circumstances of the pandemic in this 45-minute video.
Free (Free)
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