2024-2025 NYC Concert Season
Pay What You Will
With our “pay what you will” ticketing model, you can attend any concert at your price point! For this year, we suggest a ticket price of $25 or more per ticket. Know that your money is going directly to support great music! If you’re ready to invest in a deeper way, please consider underwriting this effort by purchasing a season subscription.
We’re excited to see you at one of our concerts this year!
An Elizabethan Christmas
Following a long-treasured tradition of music for Christmas, the viols of Parthenia present a sparkling array of songs, dances and carols from Elizabethan England. Along with music by Thomas Morley, Anthony Holborne, Thomas Ravenscroft, Dr. John Bull and Tobias Hume, this concert features a wide variety of music by the celebrated master composer of England’s Golden Age, William Byrd.
Guest artist: Elisa Sutherland, mezzo-soprano
Sunday, December 8th at 4pm
The Church of Saint Luke in the Fields
487 Hudson St, New York, NY 10014, United States
Concert length 1 hour 20 min followed by reception.
Continental Connections
The English viol consort music that we know and love so much was influenced by continental musical fashions. Throughout the 16th and early 17th century, court composers and musicians, traveling in the entourage of their respective courts, interacted with their foreign counterparts. Many English and European composers traveled to look for work abroad, often to escape religious persecution at home, and sometimes for espionage. In this concert we will explore how music of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries transcended borders, leaving lasting imprints in English and continental repertoires alike. The program will include Franco-Flemish influences at Henry VIII’s court; the careers of English Catholic recusants abroad; the publication of English music on the continent; and the integration of continental works into English manuscript collections.
Guest artist: Caroline Nicolas, treble viol
Sunday, January 26th at 4pm
Pre-concert lecture by musicologist Cat Slowik at 3pm
The lecture examines the vibrant cultural exchanges that shaped the English Renaissance, highlighting English assimilation of continental musical fashions and the journeys of English musicians who sought fame, fortune, and religious freedom at courts across Europe. Key topics include Franco-Flemish influences at Henry VIII’s court; the careers of English Catholic recusants abroad; the relationship between music and espionage; the publication (both authorized and pirated) of English music on the continent; and the integration of continental works into English manuscript collections. Discover how music of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries transcended borders, leaving lasting imprints on English and continental repertoires alike. (Location: Laughlin Hall at The Church of Saint Luke in the Fields)
The Church of Saint Luke in the Fields
487 Hudson St, New York, NY 10014, United States
This venue has an accessible entrance to the right hand side of the main entrance, through the garden.
$45 Premium section // Pay what you will general admission (suggested $25)
Les Amours de Mai
Our spring concert features French Renaissance songs and dances marked by grace, balance and a wonderful sense of lightness, especially the song settings of poetry of Pierre de Ronsard by such composers as Claude le Jeune, Guillaume Costeley, Claude Goudimel, Eustache du Caurroy and others.
Parthenia, performing on a consort of viols in the style of those used in the 16th century, is joined by soprano Sherezade Panthaki and Renaissance lutenist Christopher Morrongiello.
Sunday, April 27th at 4pm
The Church of Saint Luke in the Fields
487 Hudson St, New York, NY 10014, United States
This venue has an accessible entrance to the right hand side of the main entrance, through the garden.