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Join us as we launch another exciting season of early music concerts and workshops! Season tickets for our three Sunday afternoon concert are now available. Read on to see why you won’t want to miss any.

We open the season on October 12 with a concert of lute duets by two of the most renowned lutenists in the country: Paul O’Dette and Ronn McFarlane.  A grant from the Lute Society of America is supporting our work to bring these virtuosi to you. Single tickets for this event and the accompanying workshop will open in a few days.

On January 11, 2026, we bring Baroque Dance back to our series with a program of brilliant dancing by Caroline Copeland and the exciting recorder playing of Anne Timberlake with the CEM Dance Band.

We close the season on May 10, 2026 with a performance by  the exciting Montreal-based recorder quartet: Sophie Larivière, Caroline Tremblay, Marie-Laurence Premeau, and Vincent Lauzer.

Single tickets and workshop registration for the Baroque Dance and Flȗte Alors! events will be available six to eight weeks before their performance.

We most frequently present music from the Renaissance and Baroque eras. We apply the generic label “early music” to this repertoire.  But that label is, at best, only a shorthand to distinguish music composed or performed in those times from music of the more recent Classical, Romantic and contemporary music eras.  So, it is a label of exclusion rather than a description of the music included.  And how could it be otherwise?  For, the label encompasses music from the 12th through 18th centuries and includes musical styles and performance practices that range from those of the Baroque masters such as J.S. Bach (1685-1750), G.P. Telemann (1681-1767) and G.F. Handel (1685-1759), to the Renaissance geniuses of polyphony such as Josquin des Prez (1450/55-1521), Guillaume Dufay (1397?-1474), William Byrd (1539-1623) and Tomas Luis Victoria (1548-1611) and even to the exciting mediaeval music of Guillaume de Machaut (1300-1377), Adam de la Halle (1237?-1268) and their anonymous contemporaries.