Celebrating the many amazing women composers of the baroque era - voices that created a whole range of brilliant music, often against all odds. Elizabeth Jacquet de la Guerre. Hildegard von Bingen. Maddalena Lombardini Sirmen. Isabella Leonarda. Anna Bon. Leonora Duarte. Clara Faisst. Maria Margherita Grimani. And... Anonymous. 

The Harvard University Choir, the Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra, and the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum perform a concert in celebration of the three hundredth anniversary of the 1724 Chorale-Cantata Cycle that Johann Sebastian Bach penned as part of his duties as Leipzig’s Thomaskantor.

An all-Bach celebration!

Concerto for Two Harpsichords in C Minor, BWV 1060

featuring Christopher Hodges and John Rogers

Concerto for Two Violins in D Minor, BWV 1043

featuring Sarah Darling, Jordan Hadrill, Krishna Rajagopal, and Krystal Sun

Cantata “Ich Habe Genug”, BWV 82

featuring Henrique Neves and Gaia Saetermoe-Howard

Purcell: Hail, Bright Cecilia

Handel: Coronation Anthems

Works by Telemann, Biber, Schein, and Rameau, drawn from collections of courtly "table music" written for feasts real or imagined.

Schein: Suite II from “Banchetto Musicale”

Biber: Pars III from “Mensa Sonora”

Telemann: Concertos from “Tafelmusik”

• for oboe (Gaia Saetermoe-Howard)

• for three violins (Sarah Darling, Clara Ross, Morgan Heissenbuettel)

• for flute and recorder (Thomas Conrad and Jung Hyun Yoo)

Rameau: Chaconne from “Dardenus”

Handel: Acis and Galatea

With the Ferris Choral Fellows, Ed Jones, dir.

Handel’s Acis and Galatea

With the Ferris Choral Fellows, Ed Jones, dir.

Steffani: Stabat Mater

With the Harvard University Choir, dir. Ed Jones

Telemann: “Hamburger Ebb und Flut”

Vivaldi: Summer and Winter from “The Four Seasons”

Geminiani: The Enchanted Forest

Handel: Water Music

Featuring music of Handel, Telemann, Janitsch, and Bach.

Free admission

Himmelskönig, sei willkommen, BWV 182

Trauerode, BWV 198

With the Harvard University Choir, dir. Ed Jones

Concert is free and open to the public.

"Liebster Gott, wenn werd ich sterben” BWV 8

“Jesu der du meine Seele” BWV 78

Noted Bach scholar and Adams University Professor Emeritus Christoph Wolff will lead the Harvard University Choir, the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, and the Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra in a masterclass performance featuring two beloved cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach. Admission is free and all are welcome.

All attendees must be masked.
All attendees will be asked to present either their Harvard ID at the door
- or to show proof of vaccination
- or to show a proof of negative COVID-19 test (taken within 72 hours)

A selection of works celebrating Handel's time in Italy! We’re thrilled to return to the Memorial Church Sanctuary with this joyful program on the other side of the pandemic year.

Featuring Benjamin P. Wenzelberg and Phoebe Carrai

Handel: Overture to “Rodrigo”

Porpora: Selected arias

Porpora: Cello concerto

Dall' Abaco: Concerto Grosso in D Major

Handel: Selected arias

Free and open to the public.
All attendees must be masked.
All attendees will be asked to present either their Harvard ID at the door
- or to show proof of vaccination
- or to show a proof of negative COVID-19 test (taken within 72 hours)

Our annual chamber music concert is - you guessed it - online!

Featuring works by Rolla, Zelenka, Finger, Vivaldi, Handel, Barbella, Barriere, Telemann, and Boccherini.

YouTube link: https://youtu.be/V-BEeiD-vtU

Bach’s Magnificat

JS Bach’s masterpiece closes out the year with the voices of the University Choir and a full orchestra in an online collaboration.

YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQqmtUgttm8

Experience Handel’s Messiah – the timeless story of finding ultimate joy and hope – with the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum and Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra in a historic all-virtual performance on January 30th at 8pm EST. Our socially conscious performance, informed by a panel discussion with Messiah experts, will also feature filmography, photography, and artwork from Harvard affiliates; solos from Collegium members; and a special appearance from our alumni. As we come together from different corners of the world to unite in love of music, this piece keeps us looking forward to our day of reconnecting amidst our isolation.

YouTube link: https://youtu.be/jnkDXoYU_nU

Christoph Wolff Distinguished Visiting Scholar Pedro Memelsdorff directs the University Choir and members of the Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra in Messe en cantiques. A reconstruction of a mass as it would have been sung by enslaved Africans in colonial Guiana. 

Open rehearsal Thursday, Feb. 27 at 5:00pm, Memorial Church

Both events are free and open to all.

Our annual chamber music concert features works of JS and CPE Bach, Zelenka, Marais, Leonarda, Biber, and Mozart.

Visiting Director Murray Forbes Somerville leads members of the Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra and the Choral Fellows in a performance of Purcell’s “O Sing Unto The Lord” during the Memorial Church Sunday Service

Joseph Haydn: Overture to L’infidelta delusa

W. A Mozart: Vespers

C.P.E. Bach: Magnificat

In collaboration with the Harvard University Choir

Edward Jones, conductor

Handel's great oratorio, featuring the Harvard University Choir, and directed by Edward Jones. 

Free and open to the public.

Featuring Gene Stenger (Judas Maccabaeus) and soloists from the Harvard University Choir.
Introductory remarks by Rabbi Jonah Steinberg.

A selection of new compositions for baroque orchestra, paired with classic works that inform their style and structure. 

Overture in D Minor - Philipp Heinrich Erlebach 

Mutability - Benjamin Perry Wenzelberg (world premiere) 

Passacaille d’Armide - Jean-Baptiste Lully

La Follia - Francesco Geminiani 

Outside Voices - Carson Cooman (world premiere) 

Concerto in G Minor - Johann Christian Bach (arr. Martin Bernstein - world premiere) 

Overture and Aria from the Goldberg Variations - Johann Sebastian Bach

Claudio Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610. 

Featuring the Harvard University Choir, conducted by Ed Jones. 

Our annual celebration of chamber music, featuring works by Lully and Rameau for the full orchestra as well as a variety of pieces for smaller ensembles.