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Houston, TX,  AUGUST, 2021 — Ars Lyrica Houston, the Grammy-nominated early music ensemble, opens its Turning Points season with Bach, Handel, and Hercules. Featuring contrasting interpretations of the Herculean myth by both Bach and Handel, the concert marks the homecoming for the ensemble to the Hobby Center on Friday, September 24, 2021 at 7:30 p.m. Headlining the program is a pantheon […]

This year, EMV’s Festive Cantatas features some of the most popular Christmas music of Germany in the 18th century by Johann Kuhanu and J.S. Bach.  For this performance of Cantatas IV & V from the Christmas Oratorio, five Canadian soloists join the musicians of the Pacific Baroque Orchestra, under the direction of Alexander Weimann.

Constantinople is partnering with the seminal Corsican polyphonic singing group A Filetta to create a sonic tableau where light & shadow meet, through songs from the Corsican musical tradition. Polyphony by the vocalists of A Filetta, as well as songs & music orchestrated by Kiya Tabassian, will come together in a moving concert.

EMV welcomes Andreas Staier, one of the world’s most prominent fortepianists and harpsichordists, to inaugurate the newest member of our instrument collection: a fortepiano modelled on an 1819 instrument by Conrad Graf (1782-1851), built by the world-famous Paul McNulty. 

The Griots have transmitted their music & knowledge from generation to generation through a sophisticated oral tradition. This concert explores the epics of the Mandinka Kingdom with the griot master of the kora, Ablaye Cissoko. Montreal’s Ensemble Constantinople will support Cissoko in creating a sound that blends West Africa & Persia.