2025 ViRtual Series
Concert videos premiere Fridays (with one exception) at 7:30pm on our YouTube channel.
Free to watch, with donations heartily encouraged.
*Saturday, July 5 AMPERSAND
equal the stars in number: on the cusp of the 16th century
The Chigi Codex and the Eton Choirbook, both compiled in the waning years of the 15th century, display astonishing creativity, with many texts mixing imagery from ancient mythology with exhortations to Mary. Ampersand highlights these stellar Flemish and English masterpieces. Learn More
Ampersand
Madeline Apple Healey, soprano & co-director
Timothy Parsons, countertenor & co-director
Hannah Baslee, contralto
Jacob Perry, tenor
Andrew Padgett, bass-baritone
Friday, July 11
Seven Times Salt
From Plimoth to Yorktown
250 years after the “shot heard round the world," STS traces a musical lineage from the Plimoth settlers to their descendants in the Revolution through homespun shape note hymns, 18th-c. dances, rants against tyranny and taxation, wartime laments, and odes to liberty and freedom. Learn More
Seven Times Salt
Julia Soojin Cavallaro, mezzo-soprano
Karen Burciaga, violin, guitar, alto
Daniel Meyers,
recorders, flute, percussion, baritone
Josh Schreiber, viol, cello, bass
Matthew Wright, lute, cittern, tenor
Photo by Dave Jamrog
July 18 Long & Away
Songs of Time: Music for the Muses
Viol consort Long & Away travels with the Muses from the 1400s to the present day, sharing music by Dufay and Binchois, 16th and 17th-c. consorts of Gibbons, Jenkins, and Purcell, dance tunes from 18th-c. Scotland, choral writing of 20th-c. France, and ending with modern works by living composers. Learn More
Long & Away
Karen Burciaga, treble & tenor viol, vielle
Anne Legêne, treble & tenor viol
James Perretta, bass viol, vielle
July 25
Silentwoods Collective
Sicilian Fables & Legends of the South
Dive into the passionate music of Southern Italy, where rituals such as the tarantella can be traced back to the cults of antiquity. This voyage of discovery illuminates seldom performed works for voice, strings, and continuo by Scarlatti, Coya, Caresana, Giulio de Ruvo, Provenzale, and others.
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Silentwoods Collective
Carley DeFranco, soprano
Danilo Bonina & Nelli Herskovitz-Jabotinsky, violins
Andrew Koutroubas, cello
John McKean, harpsichord
Luce Burrell, theorbo
August 1 Musica Maestrale
Airs de Cour: Court Songs of 17th-century France
Musica Maestrale highlights the charming courtly songs of 17th-c. France. Dating from the reigns of Louis XIII and XIV, these tender, intimate pieces were primarily meant for private consumption by the nobility. They express sentiments of loss, longing, and heartbreak—still highly relatable subjects today. Learn More
Musica Maestrale
Barbara Allen Hill, soprano
Dan Meyers, recorders, Renaissance flute
Hideki Yamaya, Renaissance lute, theorbo
August 8 Meravelha
Golden Rule: Songs of Corruption and Justice
The quest for political power has changed little over the centuries. Meravelha explores Medieval music of nationalism, corruption, greed, propaganda, and justice, illustrated through songs of the troubadours, selections from the Roman de Fauvel, the Trinity Carol Roll, Carmina Burana, and more.
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Meravelha
Teri Kowiak, artistic director, voice
Joy Grimes, bowed strings
Barbara Allen Hill, voice, percussion
Jaya Lakshminarayanan, voice, harp
Dan Meyers, voice, winds, percussion
Eric Miller, voice
Catherine Stein, voice, winds
Tax Payment to a Lord, Master of the Unicorn Hunt, ca. 1490
August 15
Ad Libitum Ensemble
La mAgnifique: Music at Versailles
Enter the refined realm of court music at the Palace of Versailles, where France’s 18th- c. rulers promoted highly sophisticated chamber music. Ad Libitum Ensemble breathes new life into petite masterpieces by Couperin, Hotteterre, Marais, Clerambault, Rameau, and Dieupart.
Ad Libitum Ensemble
Na'ama Lion & Jesse Lepkoff, flutes
Carol Lewis, viola da gamba
Marina Minkin, harpsichord
August 22
The Aulos and the Kithara
Reimaginings
Musicians have long engaged with familiar music by reimagining it: ornamenting, genre-bending, reharmonizing, or re-orchestrating. This unique trio of recorder, viol, and harp guitar performs music by Sermisy, Ortiz, Bach, and multiple O’Briens that is sure to delight the ears and spark the imagination.
The Aulos and the Kithara
Emily O'Brien, recorders
Michael O'Brien, guitar, harp guitar
Nathan Varga, double bass, viola da gamba
These programs are supported in part by grants from the Lincoln and Andover Cultural Councils, local agencies which are supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.