Piffaro, The Renaissance Band

What: Free Community Event: Recorder Fest 2024! When: Saturday, April 13, 2024, 3:00-8:00 p.m. Where: Settlement Music School, Mary Louise Curtis Branch, 416 Queen St., Philadelphia, PA Registration & Info: 215-235-8469 or piffaro.org/recorder-fest Philadelphia – Piffaro’s free-to-all Recorder Fest is returning after a pandemic hiatus. The mini-festival is organized by Piffaro’s education committee: board president and Philadelphia Recorder Society […]

Spring Concert: The French (Italian) Connection Tucson, AZ: February 11 @ 3PM – St Philips in the Hills Episcopal Church Philadelphia: March 15 @ 7:30PM – Philadelphia Episcopal Cathedral Chestnut Hill, PA: March 16 @ 7:30PM – Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill Wilmington, DE: March 17 @ 3PM – Christ Church Christiana Hundred Streaming online:

Piffaro’s next concert performances – February 11 in Tucson, March 15-17 in Philadelphia and Wilmington, and streaming online March 29 to April 11 – will transport audiences to the court of Charles VIII of France (“the Affable”) and into the pages of the “Gutenberg Bible of music,” the Harmonice Musices Odhecaton. GRAMMY Award-winning tenor James

Piffaro, the Renaissance Band will welcome soprano Clara Rottsolk for its annual concert series of holiday music from the Renaissance period. This year’s program features music from Southern Germany, a wellspring of Christmas traditions and carols that are still beloved today. Concerts take place December 8 and 9 in Philadelphia and December 10 at historic

Piffaro’s 39th subscription season, the second under the artistic leadership of Priscilla Herreid, opens with a program provocatively titled The Year the Music Died. That year was 1623, when composers William Byrd, Thomas Weelkes, and Philip Rosseter all passed away within months of each other, and with them the era of Elizabethan music. Of her