Rochester Early Music Festival Concerts
The Rochester Early Music Festival celebrates Rochester and Western New York's rich and varied culture of Early Music performance and scholarship.
St. Anne Church
1600 Mt. Hope Ave.
Rochester, NY
Friday, November 17, 7:30 PM
You can read more about the Gala Concert HERE. (Opens in a new tab)
Tickets: By Donation in advance (below) or at the door (cash, check, credit card and Venmo!)
General Admission - $20
Senior Admission - $15
Student Admission - $5
First Universalist Church of Rochester
150 South Clinton Ave. Rochester, NY
Thursday, November 9, 12:15 pm
Got just an hour while you grab lunch? This concert in downtown Rochester is for you. As a part of the Rochester Early Music Festival, today we welcome students of Eastman Trombone Professors Larry Zalkind and Mark Kellogg, presenting Early Brass: Eastman Sackbut Quartet. This group thoroughly enjoys exploring late Renaissance music for Sackbut: the Trombone’s ancestor. Featuring works by Daniel Speer (1636-1707) and Biagio Marini (1594-1663) among others.
This concert is free and open to the public. Feel free to bring your lunch, just open those pop cans and crinkly chip bags before the music starts!
Wilmot Recital Hall
Nazareth University
4245 East Ave, Rochester, NY
Friday, November 10, 7:30pm
This concert is free, open to the public, in person AND live-streamed.
Linehan Chapel
Nazareth University
4245 East Ave, Rochester, NY
Saturday, November 11, 7:30pm
Also known as “Lady Day,” the Feast of the Annunciation was so important to medieval England that it marked the beginning of the English new year until 1752. It truly is THE beginning of beginnings; it is the moment that the angel Gabriel announces to the Virgin Mary that she is to bear Jesus.
Music to celebrate this momentous occasion was sung all year round, but particularly on the Feast of the Annunciation on March 25th (9 months before Christmas, naturally), and during Advent as well. In addition to chant and motets that you would also hear on the rest of the European continent, in England you would also hear carols with the sweet, melodious sounds of fauxbourdon—a style of harmony that privileges 3rds and 6ths over other intervals and is the hallmark of the “Contenance angloise.”
This concert is free, open to the public, in person AND live-streamed.
Wilmot Recital Hall
Nazareth University
4245 East Ave, Rochester, NY
Sunday, November 12, 3 PM
This event is free, open to the public, in person AND live-streamed.
Fountain Court
Memorial Art Gallery
500 University Ave, Rochester
Thursday, November 16, 7 PM
For more information about this event please see the MAG listing below
https://mag.rochester.edu/events/third-thursday-italianate-trios/
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