The widespread artistic depictions of the Virgin Mary as the queen of virgins surrounded by four companions demonstrates the great honor paid to these five women during the Middle Ages. This concert commemorates the thorny lives of these martyrs, whose veneration is preserved in numerous medieval musical manuscripts. 

Based in Prague, the Tiburtina Ensemble specializes in the interpretation of Gregorian chant and medieval polyphony. The ensemble ranks among the best in Europe in the field of early music performance thanks to its unmistakable timbre and impassioned expression.

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Tiburtina

St. Joseph Cathedral

Ruckus is joined by Emi Ferguson, flute, and Rachel Ellen Wong, violin.

While George Frideric Handel and Ignatius Sancho never met each other, they inhabited the same world, and shared one thing for certain: the transcendent joy that comes from a life of music and dance with good company.  And if there is one thing that encapsulates the joy of togetherness in 18th-century England it was the English Country Dance. Sweating, laughing, spinning, holding hands…. Propelled onwards by the unrelenting groove of the music.

Ruckus

Capital University

Join The Early Interval for an intimate and heartfelt musical gathering that celebrates the Twelve Days of Christmas in the British Isles. The concert features centuries-old Irish carols from County Wexford, plus beloved English and Scottish songs, Celtic folk tunes, and instrumental dances. A joyful band of voices, violin, viol, recorder, harp, lute, guitar, and percussion brings to life this seasonal blend of serene and spirited repertoire.

The Early Interval

First Congregational Church of Columbus

Acclaimed and passionate interpreters of early music, Thomas Dunford and Nicolas Altstaedt present a special musical journey that blends the delicate voice of the lute with the warm tones of the cello, creating an intimate and exhilarating musical conversation.

Focused mainly on the 17th and 18th centuries, with two of J.S. Bach’s cello suites (one in an original transcription for lute) and inventive French Baroque works by Marais and de Visée, the concert also bridges past and present through Romantic composer Henri Duparc and the reflective, modern soundscapes of Arvo Pärt.

Dunford & Altstaedt

Trinity Episcopal Church

Niklas van Lipzig & David Martin take their podcast to the big stage. Painful truths, dark humor and a generous helping of heart: the podcast “dudes.” goes on a major live tour through eleven cities in Germany and Austria in 2027.

dudes. Live Tour 27

Stadthalle Köln

Live podcast by Hanno Klänhardt (Mantar) and Simon Hawemann (ex-War From A Harlots Mouth/Nightmarer) about everyday life as a professional heavy metal musician. The event has been canceled.

GEAR OF THE DARK

Zeche Carl

Live podcast show: the hosts Laura and Sarah present unsolved and little-known true crime and paranormal cases from their podcast 'Eyes in the Dark'.

EYES IN THE DARK - LIVE 2026

Staged reading. Ordering packages is an everyday affair, but then Bo, the ServicesBot, speaks up and has a very particular opinion of its own…

An Incredible Story in October

Theater der Gezeiten

Take a musical journey and imagine yourself in 1795 Vienna, eager to experience the first published works, hot off the press, by the city’s sensational young pianist-composer. 

Beethoven advertised his first published work—3 trios for piano, violin and cello—in May of 1795. For the price of one ducat, subscribers would receive their scores directly from the publisher two months before the music became available to the general public, at a higher price.

Beethoven Fortepiano Trios

Three concerts featuring nature-inspired music by American composers.

Music In Nature Summer Concert Series

Grange Insurance Audubon Center

In the time of Mozart, a Harmonie was a group of wind players, typically an octet, employed by aristocratic patrons to provide outdoor entertainment and serve as the wind section of the court orchestra. Much loved by the public, Harmoniemusik for these ensembles included original compositions and arrangements of popular opera arias.

Les Délices

First Community Church South

Join us for an evening with Les Délices’ artistic director Debra Nagy and acclaimed harpsichordist Mark Edwards for a program that explores the fascinating connections between the musical poetry of François Couperin and the profound expression of J.S. Bach

The Oboe-Harpsichord Duo of Les Délices: A Special Dinner Event

Mozart's Cafe

Join Urban Strings Columbus for an afternoon of soulful music as we raise funds for our Annual Tour.

Spring Showcase

Ohio State University

Music in Vienna actually had its first great flourishing long before Mozart and Haydn.  The Holy Roman Emperors of the seventeenth century were great music lovers and connoisseurs, who brought together virtuosos from Italy and native-born composers at their splendid court in Vienna.  Our program brings to life the extravagant and sumptuous sonatas of these little-known masters

Quicksilver

Mees Auditorium, Capital University

Join The Early Interval for a joyous travelogue of carols, noels, dances, and instrumental music spanning five centuries, including seasonal favorites from the British Isles, France, Germany, Spain and the Americas. Celebrate the culmination of the holidays with beloved and festive Yuletide music for voices and an array of early string, wind, and percussion instruments. Now in its fourth decade, this cherished Columbus tradition continues with an intercontinental musical journey.

Hildegard von Bingen The name evokes many images: the medieval Benedictine abbess and mystic from the Rhineland, in modern times elevated by the Vatican to the status of saint and doctor ecclesiae; the renowned healer and natural scientist; the keen observer of human nature; the passionate and celebrated witness to the power of divinity as manifested in countless visions of extraordinary vividness; the modern new-age and feminist icon who inspired countless books, performances, and even a recent German film; a woman of noble birth and immense courage, who was not intimidated by the male hierarchy of the 12th century church, who fought for the rights of her convent, and corresponded freely, giving advice to prelates, kings, queens and emperors. But happily for us, this unique medieval woman is also known as a brilliant Latin poet and musician, the creator of over 75 virtuosic spiritual songs of astonishing originality and beauty as well as the earliest surviving music drama written by a known composer

Sequentia

Enjoy a unique musical experience signature to Festival Mozaic right in the heart of downtown Santa Barbara!  Scott Yoo, Music Director of Festival Mozaic and Host of Now Hear This on PBS, presents a free chamber music event featuring Brahms' Piano Quartet in C minor.  You will be treated to a "Notable Encounter," Scott's hybrid lecture/performance format that takes the audience behind the music.  You will learn about the history of the piece, hear some stories about Brahms and what was happening in his life at the time, and gain some insight into the musical elements featured in the piece.  After this 15-20 minute presentation, Scott and the group will perform the entire piece.

Scott Yoo in Santa Barbara

Although he is best known for his endlessly imaginative instrumental music, Vivaldi also produced a significant body of alluring vocal works, ranging from operas to small-scale religious pieces. This program illustrates his prowess in several musical genres, both secular and sacred, that came to maturity in the Baroque era: opera, concerto, trio sonata, oratorio, and cantata. One of the most prolific and influential composers of his era, Vivaldi is a staple of modern concert programs. But the extraordinary popular appeal of his music is a fairly recent phenomenon. As early as 1720, Marcello pilloried Vivaldi’s operas in his satire Il teatro alla moda (The Fashionable Theater), and by the late 1700s most of his music had been consigned to obscurity. Not until the 1920s and ’30s, with the rediscovery of many of his manuscript scores, did interest in Vivaldi begin to pick up again. The introduction of long-playing recordings after World War II gave a further fillip to the “Vivaldi craze,” a development that one musicologist called “as momentous for lovers of Baroque music as that of the Dead Sea Scrolls for students of religion.”

Jupiter Ensemble

In the 16th and 17th centuries the vast majority of images of cornetto players were depictions of angel musicians, often in the company of angelic voices, viols, violins, trombones, organs and harps. Taking this image as a point of departure, the concert is pairing of the voice and the cornetto, exploring the wonderful way the voice and cornetto can play off of each other in diverse repertoires from the 17th century to the present day.  Included are works by Sigismondo D’India, Giacomo Carissimi, Alessandro Scarlatti and Giovanni Bononcini.  Featured will also be two newly commissioned works which will be bridged to the earlier works through Erik Satie’s Les Anges. This is a compelling program not to be missed!

Chamber music events in Columbus, OH

Tiburtina

Early Music in Columbus

Ruckus

Early Music in Columbus

The Early Interval

Early Music in Columbus

Dunford & Altstaedt

Early Music in Columbus

dudes. Live Tour 27

Dudes

GEAR OF THE DARK

Zeche Carl

EYES IN THE DARK - LIVE 2...

Eyes in the Dark Live

An Incredible Story in Oc...

Theater der Gezeiten

Beethoven Fortepiano Trio...

Early Music in Columbus

Music In Nature Summer Co...

Worthington Chamber Orchestra

Les Délices

Early Music in Columbus

The Oboe-Harpsichord Duo ...

Early Music in Columbus

Spring Showcase

Urban Strings Columbus

Quicksilver

Early Music in Columbus

The Early Interval

Early Music in Columbus

Sequentia

Early Music in Columbus

Scott Yoo in Santa Barbar...

Festival Mozaic

Jupiter Ensemble

Early Music in Columbus

Bruce Dickey and Hana Bla...

Early Music in Columbus