We will conclude our season with the first San Diego appearance of the famed Basel-based La Cetra Baroque Orchestra, led by renowned conductor and harpsichordist Andrea Marcon. On the program are concertos for strings by Handel and Vivaldi, including Vivaldi’s famous concerto for four violins in B minor.

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La Cetra Baroque Orchestra

St. James by-the-Sea Episcopal Church

Another highly anticipated return is the phenomenal German vocal quintet amarcord. On April 14, the group will present a program of sacred music by Josquin des Prez, one of the greatest composers of the Renaissance.

Amarcord

The second San Diego debut of the season will be Ensemble La Morra, with a guest appearance by one of the great living lutenists, Nigel North. The ensemble will present a program of songs and instrumental music composed or circulating in Italy around the turn of fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, shining a light on the richly musical Italy of the time of Leonardo da Vinci.

La Morra

American soprano Amanda Forsythe and Italian ensemble Opera Prima, led by Cristiano Contadin, will explore the torments of passion in the music of Monteverdi, Rossi, Legrenzi, Cavalli, and others in an exciting San Diego debut.

Amanda Forsythe & Opera Prima

Takae Ohnishi is a Japanese harpsichordist who has performed extensively in the United States and Japan as a soloist, chamber musician and basso continuo player. She has appeared with numerous orchestras and at various venues in the United States and Japan. Ohnishi won her first major award at the International Early Music Harpsichord Competition in Japan, and her debut CD, A Harpsichord Recital, was chosen as an International Special Prized CD by Japanese music magazine Record Gei-jyu-tsu, in 2002. Ohnishi was also chosen to be a visiting artist from 2011 to 2012 at the American Academy in Rome.

Takae Ohnishi, Harpsichord

St Paul's Episcopal Cathedral

Hailed as a “Martha Argerich of the harpsichord” (ResMusica), Lillian regularly performs as a soloist in festivals across Europe and the United States and plays frequently in a duo with Jérôme Hantaï.

Lillian Gordis, Harpsichord

Tiburtina Ensemble specialize in plainchant and medieval polyphony, as well as contemporary music. For their San Diego debut, Tiburtina—whose members include San Diego favorite soprano Hana Blažíková—will devote an entire program to Hildegard of Bingen (c. 1098-1179)—the Benedictine abbess, preacher, philosopher, physician, composer, and mystic who arguably ranks as the first “Great Composer.”

Ensemble Tiburtina

St James by-the-Sea

Constantinople returns to San Diego with tenor Marco Beasley to explore the nexus between East and West, inspired by Leonardo da Vinci’s unrealized dream of building a massive bridge in Istanbul.

Constantinople with Marco Beasley

Concerto Köln is a long-time favorite of San Diego audiences. This season, they return with Trinidadian soprano Jeanine de Bique to present "Mirrors," a program of arias by Handel, Graun, Telemann, and others, examining how the same opera heroine might be differently conceived by major Baroque composers. The program is titled after their 2021 album that was enthusiastically received by critics and the public.

Jeanine de Bique & Concerto Köln

American ensemble Ruckus and award-winning flutist and composer Emi Ferguson will reprise works from their first album "Fly the Coop."

Ruckus & Emi Ferguson

After a two-year postponement, the Grammy-nominated American ensemble Ars Lyrica Houston will make its San Diego debut. Their program "Crossing Borders" explores the intermingling of 17th- and 18th-century colonial and indigenous musical cultures in the regions now known as Latin America.

Ars Lyrica Houston

Award-winning French keyboard virtuoso Benjamin Alard returns to San Diego for a set of two all-Bach performances: one on the harpsichord and the other on the organ. Alard is in the midst of recording the complete J. S. Bach keyboard works, projected to run to seventeen volumes.

Benjamin Alard, organ

St Brigid Parish

Award-winning French keyboard virtuoso Benjamin Alard returns to San Diego for a set of two all-Bach recitals: one on the harpsichord and the other on the organ. Alard is in the midst of recording the complete J. S. Bach keyboard works, projected to run to seventeen volumes.

Benjamin Alard, harpsichord

Samuel M. Ciccati Performing Arts Center

Making his San Diego debut, award-winning countertenor Philippe Jaroussky, together with Ensemble Artaserse, will perform arias and other works by Handel, Hasse, Ferrandini, Piccinni, and Vivaldi.

San Diego Early Music Society

Apr 27, 2024

La Cetra Baroque Orchestra

Apr 14, 2024

Amarcord

Mar 2, 2024

La Morra

Feb 6, 2024

Amanda Forsythe & Opera Prima

Jan 27, 2024

Takae Ohnishi, Harpsichord

San Diego Early Music Society

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