2024-2025 Season
2 Main stage concerts,
4 ‘Fridays at Five’ programs
and a Gala event
Devotional cantatas from 17th-century Germany, J.S. Bach’s final musical testament on viols, a narrative folk/Baroque program of the Ballad of Barbara Allen, and more!
Main Stage Concerts
Sung devotion: Buxtehude’s ‘Membra Jesu nostri’ with Yale Choral Artists
Sunday, October 13, 2024 at 4 p.m.
Christ Church New Haven
84 Broadway
Elm City Consort joins with Yale Choral Artists in a monumental cycle of seven cantatas, each a meditation on the body of Jesus on the cross, by 17th-century organist and composer Dietrich Buxtehude.
A Thousand Regrets: Music of Josquin des Prez and his contemporaries
Elm City Consort and the Schola Antiqua choir of St. Thomas’s Episcopal Church explore musical depictions of separation in secular and sacred music by Josquin and his Franco-Flemish contemporaries.
Sunday, April 6, 2025 - Time TBA
St. Thomas’s Episcopal Church, New Haven
830 Whitney Ave.
Fridays at Five
All events begin at 5 p.m. Please check back closer to the performance date for venue information.
November 22, 2024
Dwight Chapel (Yale Old Campus)
67 High St., New Haven
Deux Violons: music for violin duo
Daniel Lee and Mandy Wolman, violinists. This program explores musical gems written and arranged for two violins, including those by the eighteenth-century virtuoso violinists Jean-Marie Leclair and Jean-Pierre Guignon, the dueling rivals in the king’s orchestra in Paris.
December 6, 2024
Bethesda Lutheran Church
450 Whitney Ave., New Haven
Bach’s Musical Library
Arnie Tanimoto, viola da gamba, and Parker Ramsay, harp and harpsichord, will explore the musical world of Bach’s youth, showcasing the wonderful variety of styles that influenced the composer in his formative years. The concert features works by Vivaldi and Telemann, alongside those of figures such as Marin Marais and Dietrich Buxtehude.
January 17, 2025
Venue TBA
Art of the Fugue
Viola da gambists Chelsea Bernstein, Cat Slowik, Kenneth Slowik, and Arnie Tanimoto. Johann Sebastian Bach’s final composition demonstrates his complete mastery of musical counterpoint in all its variety. Bach did not specify any particular instruments for these works, so many arrangements have been created and performed. Here, we will have excerpts from Bach’s work arranged for four-part viol consort by the performers.
May 30, 2025
Venue TBA
‘Canto de bella bocca’
Elm City Consort favorite, Elisa Sutherland, mezzo-soprano, along with her friends, Madeline Healey, soprano, and Adam Cocerham, theorbo, will perform Italian songs and duets from the 16th and 17th centuries, including works by Francesca Caccini, Barbara Strozzi, and Claudio Monteverdi. The opening lines of the title song, which Strozzi set to her father’s poetry, say it best: “ How sweet it is to hear verses of love, joyfully sung by a beautiful mouth.”
Gala Event
‘The Rose & The Briar’
with The Chivalrous Crickets
Sunday, March 23, 2025 at 4 p.m.
Unitarian Society of New Haven
700 Hartford Turnpike, Hamden
Join The Chivalrous Crickets as they trace the evolution of the ballad of Barbara Allen in narration and song, exploring the journey of Old World music through the Appalachians during the mass immigration of the Scots and Irish in the 18th and 19th centuries.