Monday, October 13, 2025, at 7:00 pm
Gibbons 400 / Scarlatti 300 Celebration
Parthenia Viol Consort: Chamber music of Orlando Gibbons 
Saint Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church
264 West 87th Street, Manhattan
NYC
Admission free

 Thursday, October 16, 2025, 1:15 pm
Hesperus: Très Riches Heures: A Rich Year of Medieval Improvisation
St. Malachy’s Church
The Actors’ Chapel
239 W. 49 St.
NYC

Friday, October 17, 2025, 7:00 pm
ARTEK: A Lady at the Virginals
Saint Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church2
64 West 87th Street
NYC
Gwendolyn Toth plays music by Orlando Gibbons, William Byrd, John Bull, Peter Phillips, and Heinrich Scheidemann, performed on a colorful array of early keyboard instruments: virginal, muselar, regal, and harpsichord.

Sunday, October 19, 2925, 7:00 pm
Nautilus Viols: Venice ca. 1500. The Beginning of Printed Polyphonic Music
Advent Lutheran Church
2504 Broadway
NYC
Music from Ottaviano Petrucci's Harmonice Musices Odhecaton Canti A (1501), Canti B (1502), and Canti C (1503). The first printed polyphonic music with movable type in Venice, was Europe's "internet moment" more than 500 years ago. Among the composers represented in these three anthologies are no less than Josquin, Isaac, Agricola and Obrecht. This program will be performed on renaissance viols and recorders, with guest musician David Hatcher. 
Admission - $15 at the door

Thursday, October 23, 2025, 1:15 pm
Midnight Viols: England's Glory
St. Malachy’s Church
The Actors’ Chapel
239 W. 49 St.
NYC
Caroline Nicolas ~ treble viol, Charlie Reed & Lisa Terry ~ tenor viols, Patricia Neely & Sarah Stone ~ bass viols
Gene Murrow ~ concertina & recorders ,Ruth Cunningham ~ voice, flute & recorders. English Country Dances from John Playford’s The Dancing Master, along with music by William Byrd, John Dowland, Orlando Gibbons, Anthony Holborne, Peter Philips, and William Brade. The Elizabethan and Jacobean eras in England, during the reigns of Queen Elizabeth I and James I in the late 16th and well into the 17th centuries, were a true golden age for English arts, including social dance and music. This program provides a taste of the richness and extraordinary quality of the instrumental music, “consort songs” (music for singer and chamber ensemble), and “country dances” of that unique time.
Admission free.

Thursday, October 30, 2025, 1:15 pm
Filament: Bach Revisited
St. Malachy’s Church
The Actors’ Chapel
239 W. 49 St, NYC
Evan Few ~ violin, Elena Kauffman ~ viola da gamba, John Walthausen ~ harpsichord. In Bach Revisted Filament brings a spirit of adventure to works from Bach’s organ repertoire, re-arranging them for the unusual team of violin, treble viola da gamba, and harpsichord. Each of these trio sonatas, originally written to help Bach’s son Wilhelm Friedmann perfect his technique, sparkles with brilliant dialogue.
Admission free.

Sunday, November 3, 2025, 5:00 pm
Sonnambula: A Black Masque
Stephen A. Schwartzman Auditorium
The Frick Collection
1 East 70th Street, NYC
Featuring Davóne Tines, bass-baritone. Sonnambula opens its 2025–26 Frick residency with a performance inspired by Ben Jonson's Masque of Blackness (1605), an allegorical court entertainment commissioned by Queen Anne of Denmark and originally staged at the Jacobean court. Featuring music by Alfonso Ferrabosco II (only one song by whom survives), the masque depicts African nymphs journeying to England to seek racial purification, reflecting early modern racial anxieties and imperial fantasies. Music by Ferrabosco, Dowland, Byrd; and griot texts from the 13th–18th centuries.

Saturday, November 15, 2025, 7:00 PM
ARTEK: The Silver Swan
Saint Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church
264 West 87th Street, NY
The Silver Swan ~ Farewell All Joys. In honor of the 400th anniversary of Gibbons’ death, ARTEK performs music from The First Sett of Madrigals and Mottets of 5 parts apt for Viols and Voyces (1612).

Thursday, November 20, 2025, 1:15 pm
As the Crow Flies: Pombalino
St. Malachy’s Church
The Actors’ Chapel
239 W. 49 St., NYC

Sunday, November 23, 2025, 4pm
Parthenia: When I had a voice
New works for voice and viols by Phil Kline, Richard Einhorn, Frances Blaker, Will Ayton and David Fetherolf
Parthenia Viols with Elizaveta Kozlova, soprano
Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center
280 Broadway Building, 2nd floor (near City Hall), NYC
This performance will be followed by a reception.
Viol players of all levels are invited to bring an instrument and music stand and join in a consort reading session during the reception, music provided. Composers are also welcome – bring your new works for viols and a group will read through your sketches.