Recorder Fireworks
Experience the long evolution of the recorder, one of the most ancient instruments in history, in this concert featuring music spanning 2nd century Greece to Baroque highlights by Fontana, Vivaldi, Dieupart, and Bach, and finishing with Israeli and Jewish songs.
Doret Florentin, recorder
Tulio Rondón, violoncello
Tami Morse, harpsichord
Thursday, September 15, 2022
7:30 p.m.
Mount Olive Lutheran Church, Rochester, MN
Friday, September 16, 2022
12 noon
The Baroque Room, St. Paul, MN
Bach and Couperin
Two of the Baroque’s most influential musicians, J.S. Bach and François Couperin, never met in person, although they knew of each other. This concert brings together some of the most beautiful chamber works by these two giants.
Miriam Scholz-Carlson, violin
Julie Elhard, viola da gamba
Paul Boehnke, harpsichord
Thursday, October 27, 2022
7:30 p.m.
Mount Olive Lutheran Church, Rochester, MN
Friday, October 28, 2022
12 noon
The Baroque Room, St. Paul, MN
Would-be Italians?
Enjoy the fantastical and virtuosic world of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Italian music for recorder and basso continuo, featuring our own Cléa Galhano, Tulio Rondón, and special guest harpsichord virtuosa, Elisabeth Wright.
Cléa Galhano, recorder
Tulio Rondón, violoncello
Elisabeth Wright, harpsichord
Thursday, November 3, 2022
7:30 p.m.
Mt. Olive Lutheran Church, Rochester, MN
Friday, November 4, 2022
12 noon
The Baroque Room, St. Paul, MN
A Baroque Christmas
Join Flying Forms in an intimate concert of chamber music including Christmas- themed works by Delalande, traditional carols, and the monumental Trio Sonata from J. S. Bach’s Musical Offering.
Marc Levine, violin
Tulio Rondón, violoncello
Tami Morse, harpsichord
with Immanuel Davis, traverso
Thursday, December 1, 2022
7:30 p.m.
Mount Olive Lutheran Church, Rochester, MN
Friday, December 2, 2022
12 noon
The Baroque Room, St. Paul, MN
Basses, Bach, and Bassoon!
Ground Bass welcomes Joseph Jones in music from Bach’s
cantatas with bassoon obligato, a Buxtehude basses-only extravaganza, and Couperin’s La Forqueray for solo harpsichord.
Julie Elhard, viola da gamba
Eva Lymenstull, viola da gamba and violoncello
Tulio Rondón, piccolo cello and violoncello
Sara Thompson, bass
Jacques Ogg, harpsichord
Joseph Jones, bassoon
Thursday, January 19, 2023 – CANCELED due to inclement weather
7:30 p.m.
Mount Olive Lutheran Church, Rochester , MN
Friday, January 20, 2023
12 noon
The Baroque Room, St. Paul, MN
Far from the Triumphing Court
Seventeenth-century England was a hotbed of religious and political upheaval. It also saw the emergence of “broken consorts”—collections of dissimilar instruments playing together in chamber settings. Hear how composers such as John Dowland, William Lawes, and Thomas Morley managed to survive and create music of unearthly beauty (even for these motley ensembles) when they found themselves at odds with the church and crown.
Curtis Foster, recorders
Miriam Scholz-Carlson, violin
Julie Elhard, viola da gamba
Phillip Rukavina, lute
Thursday, February 16, 2023
7:30 p.m.
Mount Olive Lutheran Church, Rochester, MN
Friday, February 17, 2023
12 noon
The Baroque Room, St. Paul, MN
Saturday, February 18, 2023
3:00 p.m.
Agate Encores Concert Series
Moose Lake Community School
4812 Co Rd 10, Moose Lake, MN 55767
Harmony of the Spheres
As we begin to pine for the end of winter, join longtime Lyra violinist Ginna Watson and a few of her colleagues in a celebration of Spring. This program features the otherworldly sounds of medieval strings and voice in joyous tunes in praise of nature’s rebirth.
Ginna Watson, medieval harp, psaltery, vielle, and rebec
Elizabeth Windnagel, soprano
Julie Elhard, vielle
Patrick Marschke, percussion
Thursday, March 2, 2023
7:30 p.m.
Mount Olive Lutheran Church, Rochester, MN
Friday, March 3, 2023
12 noon
The Baroque Room, St. Paul, MN
Sunday, March 5, 2023
1:30 p.m.
1:30 p.m.
Franciscan Sisters of Little Falls Convent
116 8th Ave SE. Little Falls, MN. 56345
Ramm and Friends
None other than W. A. Mozart himself, inspired by his oboe muse Friedrich Ramm, wrote unforgettable tunes and virtuoso passagework for oboe and strings. Experience the delights of this nearly-forgotten chamber music formation as our season ends with works by Krommer, Masek, and Mozart.
Curtis Foster, oboe
Theresa Elliott, violin
Yvonne Smith, viola
Charles Asch, violoncello
Thursday, April 27, 2023
7:30 p.m.
Mount Olive Lutheran Church Rochester, MN
Friday, April 28, 2023
12 noon
The Baroque Room, St. Paul, MN