Milwaukee Early Music

We continue our Milwaukee Early Music series, in which local professional musicians perform Thursday evening concerts at Milwaukee-area venues. The series features pay-what-you-wish admission at the door, with a suggested donation of $20.

Thursday, September 25, 7:00pm, United Methodist Church of Whitefish Bay (819 E. Silver Spring Dr.) - Trio Baroque.  Christine Hauptly Annin (violin), Kangwon Lee Kim (violin), Charlie Rasmussen (gamba), and Fumi Nishikiori-Nakayama (harpsichord) perform a program exploring trio sonatas, duos, and chamber music composed during the late Baroque era. Included are beautiful 17th-century German trios by Buxtehude, and an anonymous chaconne from the Partirbuch Ludwig. Also featured are sonatas for two violins by Jean-Marie Leclair, along with the D Major sonata for viola da gamba and harpsichord by J.S. Bach. 

Thursday, February 26, 7:00pm, United Methodist Church of Whitefish Bay (819 E. Silver Spring Dr.) - The New Milwaukee Consort.  Join the New Milwaukee Consort as they trace some of the most popular music and musicians of the late 1400s and early 1500s through the chapels, courts, and homes of France, Italy, Germany and Spain. Featuring songs of longing, regret, and faith drawn from handcrafted and lavishly illustrated manuscripts as well as some of the earliest printed collections of music.