We so hope you will join us for Tesserae's eighth annual fundraiser. For this year’s celebration, we would like to acknowledge a few “musical misfits”: pieces that we really, really want – or have wanted -- to perform, but which do not fit in with the rest of the season programming. Featuri...

Orpheus Chamber Singers is celebrating its 25th season, and Tesserae is thrilled to be a part of the opening concert! This exciting program features motets and villancicos from Bolivia, Peru, and Mexico from the 16th & 17th centuries . Original choreography for this concert will be created by th...

Tesserae presents a musical portrait of seventeenth-century London. With music from Matthew Locke's The Tempest, as well as suites, arias, and fantasias by Purcell, Blow, and Tomkins.

What is better than a Bach recital? Two Bach recitals! Tesserae is delighted to team up with acclaimed lutenist Thomas Dunford for an evening of Bach. Dunford – described by BBC Magazine as “the Eric Clapton of the lute,” will perform a solo recital at 5:00 PM, followed by refreshments at 6:00...

Tesserae is delighted to be guest artists at the 10th annual Bach Week at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. Bach Week is devoted to the performance and exploration of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach and his contemporaries. Events range from chamber music performed on period instruments to the collaborat...

The great nave of Washington National Cathedral is the perfect setting for the transcendent ars perfecta of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina and other composers of the late Italian Renaissance. The award-winning Folger Consort is joined by British vocal ensemble Stile Antico and the Tesserae brass ...

Tesserae presents a program of chamber music written by and for the famed virtuosos of the Dresden court, including music by Zelenka, Fasch, Heinichen, Goldberg, Pisendel, and Hasse. Sponsored by Mount Saint Mary's University.

This performance is canceled due to the pandemic. Tesserae performs large-scale music by Gabrieli and Monteverdi. Featuring singers, cornetti, sackbuts, and strings, Tesserae recreates the original surround sound experience with some of the most sumptuous and stunning repertoire of the late Renaissa...