Barthold Kuijken, Artistic Director

Joseph Haydn became very famous from the mid-1760s onwards, but seems to have had less lasting effect on posterity as only his later symphonies are frequently played. In this program, the IBO rights this unfortunate wrong, letting the audience discover classical music that is all too seldom heard: two of Haydn’s lesser-known symphonies, as well as one of the best 18th century flute concertos, written by Carl Stamitz.

For tickets and more, visit the IBO website.

Free concert

This concert is directed by Sergey Tkachenko.

Join the Bloomington Bach Cantata Project for the fifth performance of their 14th season! Cantata 78–with its spectacular opening and beloved soprano-alto vocal duet—is one of the very favorites in the repertoire. Between performances, BBCP director Daniel R. Melamed will be joined by his longtime partner in crime & scholarship, Michael Marissen, for a lively dialogue exploring salvation, blood, and leprosy.

This is a virtual concert.

Guest director, curator, composer Shira Kammen joins TENET Vocal Artists to guide us in telling a collection of stories about iconic women through medieval music. Forces of Nature is a deep dive into the stories of historical figures in celebration of mythical goddesses. It re-examines female archetypes through the poetry of Christine de Pizan, the original Carmina Burana, and the voices of the ancient sibyls. TENET's program includes music by Binchois, Jacopo da Bologna, and Hildegard von Bingen, among others.

For more details, visit the TENET website.

Free Concert

Join Forgotten Clefs for a performance in downtown Bloomington! Bloomington’s favorite Renaissance wind band welcomes you to a musical feast, preceded by prayer and reflection from Corpus Domini and San Vito convents with music by nuns Leonora d’Este and Raffaela Aleotti. Shawm and sackbuts serve up the main course, celebrating 300 years of Estensi rule in the Duchy of Ferrara. We hope to see you there!

For more information, visit the Forgotten Clefs website.

Miyo Aoki & Erica Rubis, Instructors

Discover the lively instrumental music of the Renaissance in this one-day introductory workshop for kids, taught by Jacobs Academy teachers Erica Rubis and Miyo Aoki. Participants can choose to play recorder (both beginners and experienced recorder students welcome) or viola da gamba (some experience with string instruments required). Instruments will be provided, but kids who have recorders already are welcome to bring them.

Both recorder and viola da gamba are accessible and engaging for young students, whether as a secondary or primary instrument, and they lend themselves well to playing in a group. The whole group also gets to try out some Renaissance social dances, based on simple walking steps that participants can quickly master. No dance experience needed!

Co-presented by Jacobs Academy and Seattle Historical Arts for Kids, recipient of a 2023 Early Music America Engagement Award.

Learn more and register here!

This concert is directed by Kathryn Davidson.

Join the BBCP for the first program of 2024 in the 13th season of this beloved Bloomington baroque tradition. The third work written by the newly-arrived Cantor of the Thomasschule at St. Thomas's Church in Leipzig almost exactly 300 years ago this month, "Ein ungefärbt Gemüte" BWV 24, offers a thrillingly robust instrumentation of trumpet, oboes, and oboes d'amore, and instilled a hearty lesson on the Golden Rule to churchgoers. In between performances, hear BBCP Director Daniel R. Melamed discuss how this lesson was taught through the music and text of the work, and how those churchgoers understood it at the time.

For more information, visit the BBCP’s Facebook page.

Free Concert

In their highly anticipated second collaboration, Alchymy Viols and Incantare present a new program of music for the Christmas season. Music of Schein, Lambert de Sayve, a set from the New World, and more!

Learn more on the Incantare website.

Free Concert

Come sing along, or come and listen, with the Bloomington Chamber Singers and full orchestra at the annual Messiah Sing – the decades-long BCS sing-along tradition is back! In this free and fun afternoon concert, the choir will present Part I of the Messiah—well known as the Advent or Christmas portion—and will follow up next spring with Parts II and III. Bring your own score, though we will have some copies to borrow. This famous and joyful oratorio, composed by George Frideric Handel in 1741, has been a holiday favorite for nearly three centuries—isn’t it time you joined in?

Learn more on the BCS website.

Free Concert

Echoing Air is a chamber ensemble dedicated to exploring and presenting music of many European countries spanning from Medieval times to the present. Come enjoy the ensemble's singers & Baroque instruments for their annual holiday program, A Season of Festive Cheer!

Learn more on the Echoing Air website.

This concert is directed by Dana Marsh and Joanna Blendulf.

Free Concert

Bloomington Early Music, in association with musicians of the IU Historical Performance Institute presents HODIE! - Holiday Revelry in the Late Renaissance. Experience an ensemble of voices, viols, cornetto, sackbut, organ, and percussion playing music of Michael Praetorius and Heinrich Schütz.

For more information, visit the HPI Facebook Page.

This concert is directed by Caio Guimarães F. Lopes.

The Bloomington Bach Cantata Project is pleased to present its 2023-24 season, six concerts of cantatas by J. S. Bach presented in performances modeled on his own. All are on Sundays at 2.30PM at St. Thomas Lutheran Church in Bloomington, IN.

For more information, visit the BBCP Facebook page.

This concert is directed by Sarah Cranor.

The Bloomington Bach Cantata Project is pleased to present its 2023-24 season, six concerts of cantatas by J. S. Bach presented in performances modeled on his own. All are on Sundays at 2.30PM at St. Thomas Lutheran Church in Bloomington, IN.

For more information, visit the BBCP Facebook page.

Directed by Ingrid Matthews.

Join the Indiana University JSoM Historical Performance Institute’s Baroque Orchestra for their first performance of the school year, featuring the music of Christoph Graupner, Georg Philip Telemann, W.F. Bach, Johann Adolph Hasse, and C.P.E. Bach.

Directed by Joanna Blendulf.

Join the Indiana University Historical Performance Institute’s Concentus Ensemble for a second installment of “Byrdfest,” commemorating the 400th anniversary of English composer William Byrd’s death. The concert will feature voices, viols, sackbut, cornetto, and lute - performing fantasies, consort songs, anthems, and Latin motets including Ne irascaris and Miserere mei Deus.

This concert is directed by Shannon Beckemeyer and Blake Beckemeyer.

The Bloomington Bach Cantata Project is pleased to present its 2023-24 season, six concerts of cantatas by J. S. Bach presented in performances modeled on his own. All are on Sundays at 2.30PM at St. Thomas Lutheran Church in Bloomington, IN.

For more information, visit the BBCP Facebook page.

BLEMF 2023: Early Music Crossroads will map musical connections across Arabic regions, the Iberian Peninsula, and the Americas during the long early music period to demonstrate the deeply complex cultural relationships that emerged from centuries of invasions, colonialization, trade, and migration. The festival will represent not only a range of cultures, religions, and geographies, but also a balance of gender, race, and class from the medieval period through the early nineteenth century.

Specific concert & event details are forthcoming - watch this space!

BLEMF 2023: Early Music Crossroads will map musical connections across Arabic regions, the Iberian Peninsula, and the Americas during the long early music period to demonstrate the deeply complex cultural relationships that emerged from centuries of invasions, colonialization, trade, and migration. The festival will represent not only a range of cultures, religions, and geographies, but also a balance of gender, race, and class from the medieval period through the early nineteenth century.

Specific concert & event details are forthcoming - watch this space!

BLEMF 2023: Early Music Crossroads will map musical connections across Arabic regions, the Iberian Peninsula, and the Americas during the long early music period to demonstrate the deeply complex cultural relationships that emerged from centuries of invasions, colonialization, trade, and migration. The festival will represent not only a range of cultures, religions, and geographies, but also a balance of gender, race, and class from the medieval period through the early nineteenth century.

Specific concert & event details are forthcoming - watch this space!

BLEMF 2023: Early Music Crossroads will map musical connections across Arabic regions, the Iberian Peninsula, and the Americas during the long early music period to demonstrate the deeply complex cultural relationships that emerged from centuries of invasions, colonialization, trade, and migration. The festival will represent not only a range of cultures, religions, and geographies, but also a balance of gender, race, and class from the medieval period through the early nineteenth century.

Specific concert & event details are forthcoming - watch this space!

BLEMF 2023: Early Music Crossroads will map musical connections across Arabic regions, the Iberian Peninsula, and the Americas during the long early music period to demonstrate the deeply complex cultural relationships that emerged from centuries of invasions, colonialization, trade, and migration. The festival will represent not only a range of cultures, religions, and geographies, but also a balance of gender, race, and class from the medieval period through the early nineteenth century.

Specific concert & event details are forthcoming - watch this space!

BLEMF 2023: Early Music Crossroads will map musical connections across Arabic regions, the Iberian Peninsula, and the Americas during the long early music period to demonstrate the deeply complex cultural relationships that emerged from centuries of invasions, colonialization, trade, and migration. The festival will represent not only a range of cultures, religions, and geographies, but also a balance of gender, race, and class from the medieval period through the early nineteenth century.

Specific concert & event details are forthcoming - watch this space!

BLEMF 2023: Early Music Crossroads will map musical connections across Arabic regions, the Iberian Peninsula, and the Americas during the long early music period to demonstrate the deeply complex cultural relationships that emerged from centuries of invasions, colonialization, trade, and migration. The festival will represent not only a range of cultures, religions, and geographies, but also a balance of gender, race, and class from the medieval period through the early nineteenth century.

Specific concert & event details are forthcoming - watch this space!

BLEMF 2023: Early Music Crossroads will map musical connections across Arabic regions, the Iberian Peninsula, and the Americas during the long early music period to demonstrate the deeply complex cultural relationships that emerged from centuries of invasions, colonialization, trade, and migration. The festival will represent not only a range of cultures, religions, and geographies, but also a balance of gender, race, and class from the medieval period through the early nineteenth century.

Specific concert & event details are forthcoming - watch this space!

This concert is directed by Dana Marsh.

Join the Jacobs School of Music’s Baroque Orchestra with voices of Concentus for a program of music including J.S. Bach’s “Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir” BWV 130 and G. Ph. Telemann’s Die Donner-Ode TWV 6:3.

For more information, visit the JSoM events calendar.

This concert is directed by Nigel North.

Join the Jacobs School of Music’s Historical Performance Institute Concentus ensemble for “Now, oh Now”, a program of Ayres and Dances by John Dowland (1563-1626) with voices, lutes, and viols. The concert will include a duet for two to play on one lute, printed in 1597, and Lachrimae for 5 viols and lute (1604).

For more information, visit the JSoM events calendar.

This is a virtual event.

ALBA Consort: Venice - The Republic of Music!

The republic of Venice, (La Serenissima) was known as “The Republic of Music” and existed from 697–1797. Venetian culture was influenced by regions incorporated in the republic including North Africa, Cyprus, Greece and southern Europe. ALBA Consort serenades with vocal and instrumental music of La Serenissima, including Monteverdi, Caccini, Cypriot ballads and ancient Middle Eastern tunes still popular today.

For more information, visit the GEMS website.

This concert is directed by Joanna Blendulf.

The Bloomington Bach Cantata Project is pleased to present its 2022-23 season, six concerts of cantatas by J. S. Bach presented in performances modeled on his own. All are on Sundays at 2.30PM at St. Thomas Lutheran Church in Bloomington, IN.

For more information, visit the BBCP Facebook page.

This is a virtual event.

Eurasia Consort: Silk Road Journey to the East

Eurasia Consort presents music found on the Silk Road in East Asia. During the 6th century Buddhist music filled the region between India and China, while Japan became a cul-de-sac of music and instruments. The new ensembles include kugo, hokyo, sho and shakuhachi, instruments available in the Shosoin, Japan, the world's oldest museum.

For more information, visit the GEMS website.