The award-winning ensemble, featuring six of Britain’s finest consort singers, presents “Queen of Hearts,” a program of motets and chansons from the courts of Anne of Brittany, Margaret of Austria, Anne Boleyn and Mary Tudor spiced with short works from the present day. Gramophone Magazine described a recent performance as “Ingeniously programmed and impeccably delivered, with that undefinable excitement that comes from a group of musicians working absolutely as one.” “Queen of Hearts” is a musical Who’s Who of great European queens as portrayed in music of the sixteenth and twenty-first centuries.

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The Gesualdo Six presents “Queen of Hearts”

St. Matthew's Music Guild

England’s finest Renaissance composer was a covert Catholic facing brutal prosecution in the English Reformation. Nonetheless, he persisted, composing clandestine services for worshippers who risked everything for their faith. Hear Byrd’s divine Mass for Five Voices as he intended: sung one-on-a-part in strictest secrecy.

Secret Byrd

Scottish Rite Temple

The Gesualdo Six collaborate with Fretwork in an immersive performance by candlelight, created and directed by Bill Barclay and produced by Concert Theatre Works. Secret Byrd was co-commissioned by Washington National Cathedral and The Church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields.

The Gesualdo Six

8 - 9 May, 2026

Secret Byrd

Feb 6, 2026

The Gesualdo Six presents “Queen of Hearts”

14 - 15 Nov, 2023

Secret Byrd

The Gesualdo Six