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...

Tesserae returns to the Sierra Madre Playhouse to present an intimate afternoon of music from the late 16th-century Ferrarese court. Expanding on Ian Pritchard’s program Ferrara 1590 from last season, this program will feature music that was likely performed for the Duke’s musica secreta—e...

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!

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...