Sunday Sept 22 
3:30 pm 
St. Martins Church Providence Baroque Orchestra Museum Concert’s pride and joy is our own resident orchestra, under the leadership of violinist Daniel S. Lee. This Season Opener features an expanded ensemble of strings, oboes and horns performing 
Haydn’s dramatic Symphony 34 in d minor. Graupner a contemporary of Bach, and his instrumental music is just now being re-discovered – we perform his celebratory Suite in Gmajor. Fortepianist Michael Bahmann will be featured in Mozart’s youthful own arrangement of his Concerto in A major K 414 for strings and fortepiano. Daniel Lee: “ravishing vehemence” and “soulful performance,” 
– The New York Times Sunday Oct 20 
3:30 pm 
First Unitarian Church Rumbarroco – Fandango This program features Latin-American dances and song-dances, including folias, jácaras, and fandangos, from the Renaissance to the present. The music spans from the early Spanish Cancioneros (songbooks) in old Iberia to contemporary folk and popular music from Venezuela and Mexico. Included are dances such as joropo from Venezuela and Colombia and fandanguito from Mexico. Performers will switch from the European viola da gamba and Renaissance guitar to the Venezuelan cuatro and bandola, in order to illustrate the similar yet distinctively different sonorities, and the rhythmic and harmonic connections between the two continents. Music by Anonymous, Encina, Ortiz, Murcia, Machado, and others. “Gutiérrez and her ensemble of virtuosos breathe essential life into compositions...spiritually satisfying and downright fun.” – The Boston Musical Intelligencer Sunday Nov 3 
3:30 pm First Unitarian Church The Gesualdo Six – English Motets We are thrilled to present the Providence premier of The Gesualdo Six, the award-winning British vocal ensemble of the UK’s finest consort singers, directed by Owain Park. Praised for their imaginative programming and impeccable blend, the ensemble formed in 2014 for a performance of Gesualdo’s Tenebrae Responsories in Cambridge and has gone on to perform at numerous major festivals across the UK, Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand. They will present a program of English Renaissance masters from two-hundred years, encompassing florid medieval-sounding pieces by Pygott and Cornysh, intricately woven polyphonic works by Tallis and Byrd, and the beautiful simplicity of Mundy and Tomkins. “Ingeniously programmed and impeccably delivered, with that undefinable excitement that comes from a group of musicians working absolutely as one.” — Gramophone Sunday Dec 15 
3:30 pm St. Martins Church Schola Cantorum – A French Christmas The acclaimed Renaissance vocal ensemble Schola Cantorum of Boston. directed by Frederick Jodry, is joined by two treble viols and theorbo in presenting music of Marc Antoine Charpentier, the premier French 17th C composer of sacred music. The delightful Cantata “In Nativitatem Domini” (1675) and his Litanies to the Virgin Mary are the centerpiece of the program, and a cappella Christmas motets by Josquin and Mouton help narrate the Christmas Story. “the overall sonority 
– an incomparably beguiling and ethereal one, brought off expertly”
— Richard Buell, the Boston Globe “There can never be enough singing on this level.” — Josiah Fisk, the Boston Herald Sunday March 9 
3:30 pm St. Martins Church Sylvia Berry – 
A Tribute to Mary Sadovnikoff Sylvia Berry is one of America’s premier early keyboard artists, performing widely on fortepiano and harpsichord. She will pay tribute to one of Museum Concert’s Founders, the performer and piano-builder Mary Sadovnikoff, who passed away in Dec of 2023. An exhibition of programs, reviews and photos of Mary will be on display. Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata takes on its original colors on the Viennese fortepiano, and music of Mozart, Haydn and Marianne Martines will be featured. "Her splendid playing took her up and down the keyboard in lightning-fast scales 
and passagework, and her thrilling full-voiced chords allowed the fortepiano to assert 
itself as a real solo instrument." — Daniel Hathaway, ClevelandClassical.com Sunday April 13 
3:30 pm First Unitarian Church Newton Baroque – Breathtaking Biber Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber was one of the most brilliant violinists of the second half of the 17th Century. Newton Baroque will present four Partitas from his Harmonia artificioso ariosa, 1696. This collection is by far his most demanding for more than one violin. These works press the violin to its limits, in music that is both astonishing and expressive. This program will feature two of the brightest Baroque violin stars in New England, Susanna Ogata, and Christina Day Martinson, joined by Cullen O'Neil playing cello and Andrus Madsen on the harpsichord. Ogata – “totally convincing, spontaneous and free-flowing playing” 
— The Berkshire Review Martinson – “ Her playing [featured] a fearless technique and, best of all, a delightful sense of spontaneity and imagination.” 
— The Boston Globe