Saturday, February 16, 2013, 8:00 – 10:00pm
Great Hall: enter on Eighth Avenue. $15-$40.
NOTE: Advance tickets for The King’s Singers’ performance have sold out. A very limited number of obstructed-view seats may be released at the box office the evening of the show, beginning at 6:30 p.m.
With a discography of more than 150 recordings, Grammy-winning The King’s Singers makes its long-awaited International Series debut with a program of madrigals and other vocal works from Italy, England, and France.
Friday, December 14, 2012, 8:00 – 10:00pm
Great Hall; enter on Eighth Avenue. $15-$40.
The Consort offers old carols and dance tunes from the British Isles, Germany, France, Spain, and the New World, in an annual and ever-changing seasonal celebration.
“Few early music players have more fun making music than the Baltimore six…”
-The New Yorker
Saturday, November 10, 2012, 8:00 – 10:00pm
Great Hall; enter on Eighth Avenue. $15-$40.
The premier Spanish ensemble, directed by its founder Jordi Savall, returns to the International Series to present music for five violas da gamba, lute, and percussion. One of the most multifariously gifted musicians of his generation, Jordi Savall’s career as a concert performer, teacher, researcher and creator of new projects, both musical and cultural, makes him one of the principal architects of the current revaluation of historical music.
Saturday, April 20, 2013, 8:00 – 10:00pm
Great Hall; enter on Eighth Avenue. $15-$40.
Soprano Ellen Hargis, one of America’s premier early-music singers, returns to Seattle for an evening of great scenes from Italian Baroque operas, including three versions of the Orpheus myth as set by Monteverdi, Rossi, and Sartorio.
Saturday, March 23, 2013, 8:00 – 10:00pm
Great Hall; enter on Eighth Avenue. $15-$40.
Fortepianist Byron Schenkman, violinist Ingrid Matthews, and cellist Nathan Whittaker present the debut performance of a stunning, newly restored 1799 English fortepiano by Joseph Kirckman, graciously loaned to Early Music Guild for this performance by its owner John Gordon Hill.
Saturday, December 29, 2012, 8:00 – 10:00pm
Great Hall; enter on Eighth Avenue. $15-$40.
For this year’s holiday concert, trumpet virtuosa Kris Kwapis joins Seattle Baroque in a joyful and festive program of music for trumpet, strings, and harpsichord, including trumpet sonatas by Corelli and Handel, selections from Seattle Baroque’s new Vivaldi CD, and music that will be featured in an upcoming tour to Canada and New York. Evening begins with a lecture at 7 pm.
Saturday, February 2, 2013, 8:00 – 10:00pm
Great Hall; enter on Eighth Avenue. $15-$40.
Bach’s cantatas comprise some of the greatest music ever written, yet many of them are rarely performed. Seattle Baroque and a stellar lineup of vocal soloists present three complete masterworks.
Saturday, October 6, 2012, 8:00 – 10:00pm
Great Hall; enter on 8th Avenue. $15-$40.
Seattle Baroque kicks off its season with Bach violin concertos accompanied by full orchestra and featuring SBO co-founder Ingrid Matthews. Also on the program: orchestral suites and fantasias by Henry Purcell, the great 17th-century English master of wonderful song tunes, rich counterpoint, and exuberant dances.
Early Music Guild: Benjamin Bagby’s Beowulf
Saturday, April 6, 2013, 8:00 – 10:00pm
Great Hall; enter on Eighth Avenue. $15-$40.
While Beowulf has come down to us as literature, as a written poem, the epic’s pre-literate audience would have known it through the performance of a scop, a bardic storyteller, as Bagby presents himself in this remarkable interpretation.
“Mr. Bagby comes as close to holding hundreds of people in a spell as ever a man has… That is much too rare an experience in theater.”
-The New York Times