A forest of notes, double harpsichord concertos, a celebration of groundbreaking female composers and musicians, and a grand finale of Viennese polychoral music…Tesserae Baroque is excited to welcome you to our 13th Season!
Tesserae Baroque
13th Season I 2024 - 2025
Tesserae Baroque is supported, in part, by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture.
Tesserae Baroque 13th Season I 2024-20245
La Selva Selvaggia – From Diminution to the Stylus Phantasticus
Sunday, November 24, 2024, 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
All Saints’ Episcopal Church, Beverly Hills
The new Italian styles of instrumental music that crossed the Alps in the early Baroque–deemed to be improvisatory, wild, bizarre–were identified as the ‘stylus phantasticus’ (the fantastic style) by German theorists. At the same time, these “new” styles were largely gro...
Musica Secreta
Saturday, December 7, 2024, 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Sierra Madre Playhouse
Tesserae returns to the Sierra Madre Playhouse to present an intimate evening of music from the late 16th-century Ferrarese court. Featuring sopranos Anna Schubert and Addy Sterrett, baritone John Buffett, and harpsichordist Ian Pritchard.
The Long Beach Camerata Singers: Handel’s Messiah
Thursday, December 19, 2024, 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Long Beach City College Auditorium
Tesserae Baroque joins Long Beach Camerata Singers in their 17th Annual performance of Handel's beloved masterpiece. This year, the performance will take place in the newly renoveated Long Beach City College Auditorium!
Buxtehude — The Italian Influence in Northern Germany
Friday, January 24, 2025, 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm
First Presbyterian Church, San Luis Obispo
Tesserae Baroque is delighted to return to Cal Poly San Luis Obispo as the resident ensemble of Bach Week! In the Festival Chamber program, Tesserae and festival bass John Buffett will explore works by Buxtehude and his contemporaries alongside selected early Italian works — which in turn had ...
Elisabeth and Mirabai
Saturday, February 8, 2025, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
St. James Episcopal Church, South Pasadena
Tesserae Baroque presents the West Coast premiere of a new cantata by Reena Esmail, featuring baroque violin (Vijay Gupta), baroque flute (Christopher Matthews), baroque cello (Eva Lymenstull), harpsichord (Ian Pritchard), tabla (Rohit Panchakshari) and Hindustani vocalist Saili Oak. Esmail’s ...
Double Trouble
Sunday, April 6, 2025, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Calvary Presbyterian Church, South Pasadena
The newly-appointed musical director of the Portland Baroque Orchestra, Julian Perkins, joins Tesserae’s own Ian Pritchard for a program of works for double harpsichord. Ian and Julian (and, for that matter, Tesserae’s Alexandra Opsahl) are old school buddies, having graduated from the Royal Aca...
Pathopaeia – Music of 17th Century Vienna
Sunday, May 18, 2025, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
All Saints’ Episcopal Church, Beverly Hills
Brass, strings, and singers come together for a program alternating large and intimate works by Giovanni Valentini, Antonio Bertali, Giovanni Felice Sances, and Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, the four composers who held the title of Kapellmeister in Vienna between 1626 and 1680, a time and place of i...
Barock & Roll with it!
We kept busy during the pandemic! Visit this page to see some of our virtual projects and collaborations.