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ARTEK

ARTEK

ARTEK, an early music ensemble of voices, strings, winds, percussion, and continuo, features many of today’s leading interpreters of innovative yet historically informed performances of 17th-century music. Our concerts are groundbreaking musical events, well-researched, performed with the very latest historical performance scholarship, and feature Artek's own internationally renowned artists and special guests. “Deeply considered, beautifully sung...consistently polished, fin

Dryden Ensemble

Dryden Ensemble

The Dryden Ensemble is a professional chamber music group, specializing in 17th and 18th - century music on period instruments. The core ensemble includes oboe, strings, and harpsichord/organ. The ensemble presents a series of concerts in Princeton, New Jersey, and Doylestown, Pennsylvania. Specific interests include Bach, Handel, Purcell, the French Baroque, and 17th-century repertoire. The Dryden Ensemble, a New Jersey Not-for-Profit organization, was founded in 1994. Conta

Early Music Princeton

Early Music Princeton

Early Music Princeton is a performance ensemble sponsored by the Department of Music. Members of the ensemble include faculty, staff, and students from different departments on campus who form chamber ensembles and the Princeton Viol Consort. We welcome instrumentalists and singers with an interest in performing and studying music from the Medieval to early Classical periods. Jane Hines and Isaac Harrison Louth, directors. Contact us at earlymusicprinceton AT gmail.com or vis

Generations Baroque Ensemble

The Gloria Consort

The Gloria Consort

The Gloria Consort was formed in 1994 to explore the solo and small chamber ensemble music literature of the European late Renaissance and Baroque eras. Orum Stringer studied Baroque recorder technique with Prof. M. S. Rubin in New York. After coming to Philadelphia in 1973, he extended his studies to include music of Medieval and Renaissance Europe. He mastered the Renaissance cornetto and kortholt and sang with the Bryn Mawr-Haverford Renaissance Choir under the direction

Le Triomphe de l'amour

Le Triomphe de l'amour

Le Triomphe de l'amour is a chamber music ensemble performing Baroque music on original instruments. Founded in 1991, the ensemble is noted for imaginative programming of familiar and seldom-heard works of the 17th and 18th centuries. Based in Princeton, New Jersey, Triomphe de l'amour presents an annual series of concerts performed in intimate surroundings by members of the ensemble, with local and international guest artists. Frequently working from original sources, the en

Les Agréments de musique

Les Agréments de musique

LES AGRÉMENTS DE MUSIQUE was founded by Minju Lee and John Burkhalter to survey the grandeur and intimacy of the musical riches associated with the courts of Louis XIII, his son and heir Louis XIV and, in turn, his great-grandson Louis XV. The ensemble specializes exclusively in the field of French Baroque music and performs repertory on period-instrument-copies of recorders and harpsichord at the Paris-Versailles pitch of a'=392. MINJU LEE earned her bachelor's degree in Mu

Musica Dolce

Musica Dolce

Musica Dolce is an outreach performing ensemble of the Highland Park Recorder Society. Like their sixteenth-and seventeenth-century counterparts, the members of Musica Dolce meet to share artistic discoveries and ideas as reflected in music. Combining solo strings and winds with a harpsichord continuo, the musicians explore the vast repertory of concerti, suites, sonatas, fantasias, dances and sinfonias created by composers at the courts and in the cities of France, Italy, En

Radiance Chamber Ensemble

Radiance Chamber Ensemble

The Radiance Chamber Ensemble was formed by a group of musicians from diverse backgrounds who have joined together to perform music primarily of the Baroque era. The group was founded in 2011 by violinists Michael Schneider and Lea Karpman, cellist Oliver Shapiro, violist Peggy Reynolds and pianist/harpsichordist Joan Baldwin. Their performances have included a broad range of programs at venues throughout central and northern New Jersey, including public libraries, music club

Zorzal

Zorzal

Zorzal (Spanish for wood thrush) is a vocal and instrumental ensemble dedicated to the performance of Spanish, Sephardic, and Latin American music from the 12th century to the present. We focus on works that reflect how musical elements from Spain are influenced by and influence other musical cultures, including those from African, Native American, Sephardic, Arabic and other European sources. We ourselves are a crossroads, bringing together a variety of musical backgrounds,