“A Baroque Christmas
Join us for a festive Baroque Christmas concert featuring works by Baroque masters Johann Sebastian Bach, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, and Georg Friedrich Händel. I Cantori is excited to bring their jubilant and rousing works to life this holiday season. Our program highlights include J.S. Bach’s Magnificat and Christmas Cantata Gloria in excelsis Deo, along with Charpentier’s exuberant Messe de Minuit pour Noël.
The dance-like rhythms and festive melodies of Charpentier’s mass will have you swaying in your seats, while Händel’s Utrecht Te Deum matches the celebratory tone with its exuberant and uplifting expressiveness. ICDC is proud to perform alongside the featured soloists from our Vocal Arts Academy accompanied by our outstanding I Cantori orchestra.”

-I Cantori

“A Baroque Christmas
Join us for a festive Baroque Christmas concert featuring works by Baroque masters Johann Sebastian Bach, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, and Georg Friedrich Händel. I Cantori is excited to bring their jubilant and rousing works to life this holiday season. Our program highlights include J.S. Bach’s Magnificat and Christmas Cantata Gloria in excelsis Deo, along with Charpentier’s exuberant Messe de Minuit pour Noël.
The dance-like rhythms and festive melodies of Charpentier’s mass will have you swaying in your seats, while Händel’s Utrecht Te Deum matches the celebratory tone with its exuberant and uplifting expressiveness. ICDC is proud to perform alongside the featured soloists from our Vocal Arts Academy accompanied by our outstanding I Cantori orchestra.”

-I Cantori

For this much-anticipated event, the renowned ensemble Nash Baroque, with soprano Bethany Hill, bring to life tales of love, despair and triumph from 18th century France, with flute, violin, viola da gamba, theorbo and harpsichord, in a program entitled "Les Amours des Dieux."

The cantatas of Michel Pignolet de Montéclair and Louis Nicolas Clérambault unfold as miniature dramas featuring mythological Greek gods and humans with all their passions, weaknesses and heartbreak. “Every myth is a drama in human form”, as Gaston Bachelard put it, and these intimate vocal works, together with richly evocative instrumental dance suites of Couperin, Phillidor and LeClair explore timeless themes of love, loss and metamorphosis that echo through the ages.

Baroque & Unknown

5 nights of Strozzi, Caccini, and female composers.

Barbara Strozzi built a community around her music through artist salons and community mentorship. I look forward to this being a fun, playful, space for us to make music in an intimate space. This will be a crowd of friends, family, and neighbors of all musical tastes and perspectives. 

Harmony Unveiled: A Journey though the Secret Music of the Renaissance

Soloists: Mary Jo Malabuyo, Brie Martin, Leandra Ramm

Ramm Dance Company:

Courtney Ramm, Choreographer, Léna Alvino, Maddie Sager, Noelle Tham

Areté Singers with

Jamie Mulfinger Recorder, Matthew Xie Lute/Baroque Guitar, Michael Lanham Harpsichord

Harmony Unveiled: A Journey though the Secret Music of the Renaissance

Soloists: Mary Jo Malabuyo, Brie Martin, Leandra Ramm

Ramm Dance Company:

Courtney Ramm, Choreographer, Léna Alvino, Maddie Sager, Noelle Tham

Areté Singers with

Jamie Mulfinger Recorder, Matthew Xie Lute/Baroque Guitar, Michael Lanham Harpsichord

Please join me for a lunch of high German baroque lute duets with lutenists Matthew Xie and Jon Mendle featuring the music Glemius, Telemann, Werner.

Location: TBA

June 16th 2024 12 pm

Pay what you can: $20 suggested donation

LA Camerata presents Tunes for Celtic Harp, Fiddle, Lute, and Viol
Music for Maclean-Clephane, Wemyss, Pickering, & other women from England, Ireland, and Scotland

Join Nash Baroque and soprano,Victoria Fraser for an intimate program of chanson by Sermisy, Sandrin and Arcadeldt; poignant Air de Cours of Boesset, Lambert and Monteclair ; and passionate Canzonettas of Francesca Caccini. Woven through these songs of Love and Desire will be instrumental music 16th-18th c. of Ortiz, Marini, ……..M. de St. Column, Pierre Gaultier de Marseille, and Hotteterre.
Vicki Melin, renaissance and baroque traverso; Amy Brodo, viol and viola da gamba; Matthew Xie: early guitar, lute and theorbo.

Come experience the transcendent beauty of J.S. Bach's early Cantatas and Buxtehude's Missa Brevis with the Central Coast Chamber Choir.
We invite you to join us as we immerse ourselves in the early works of J.S.Bach and Dieterich Buxtehude featuring Bach's: Actus Tragicus, BWV 106, Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich, BWV 150, and Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden, BWV 230 and Dieterich Buxtehude's Missa Brevis.
The Central Coast Chamber Choir is comprised of professional and semi-professional vocalists under the musical guidance of Director Daniel Henriks.


A dynamic group of less than 20 local singers, mostly local to Monterey County, we aim to feature excellent and rare chamber works in partnership with professional musicians across the Central Coast from San Francisco to Five Cities, laying the foundation for a more vibrant choral community across central California.


This season we'll be accompanied by a baroque orchestra featuring period historical instruments. Join us in creating the magic of Bach in live performance.

The Central Coast Chamber Choir will share the transcendent beauty of J.S.
Bach's early Cantatas and Buxtehude's Missa Brevis with audiences on the Monterey Peninsula
this April. “These rarely performed works deal with very essential questions about our human
existence,” Daniel Henriks explains. “These pieces are very blunt about the fact that our lives
will end some day and that there is suffering and pain in the world. But they also show the
value of life and why we should make the most out of every moment. There is comfort in music,
faith and community.” Daniel continues, “It is fascinating that people during Bach’s time,
several hundred years ago, were seeking answers to the same questions as we do today. Bach
so masterfully understands the human psychology and offers a way to make peace with the
open questions of life.”
These concerts will feature: Actus Tragicus, BWV 106, Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich, BWV
150, and Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden, BWV 230 and Dietrich Buxtehude's Missa Brevis,
BuxWV 114.

Experience the sublime beauty of Charpentier and Couperin's Leçons de Ténèbres in an evening of introspection and musicality. Delve into the haunting depths of Lenten spirituality with poignant Lamentations and emotive Tenebrae motets, guided by the masterful compositions of these Baroque luminaries.

Queer Arts Featured” Historical Peace”
Drag Opera depicting the Israeli and Palestine Conflict