Schedule
2024–2025 Performances and Lectures
“O Quam Dulce: The Music of Isabella Leonarda and Maria Perucona”
Baltimore Chamber Music Society presents Musica Spira
Friday, September 13, 2024
7:30 p.m.
Church of the Redeemer
5603 N. Charles St., Baltimore
Tickets
J.S. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion
Washington Bach Consort
Saturday, September 21, 2024
St. Mark’s Capitol Hill
Sunday, September 22, 2024
St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, Washington, D.C.
Tickets
“Concerti for Two Harpsichords”
The Wheatland Concert Series at Shiloh Manor
Saturday, September 28, 2024
6:00 p.m.
Purcellville, VA
Tickets
Mozart’s Requiem
Washington National Cathedral Chorus and Orchestra
Sunday, September 29, 2024
4:00 p.m.
Washington National Cathedral, Washington, D.C.
Tickets
“Reconstructing Elizabeth Turner’s Mid-Eighteenth-Century Musical Network”
Meeting of the Capital Chapter of the American Musicological Society
Saturday, October 19, 2024
9:30 a.m.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
“Pedagogical Strategies in Elizabeth Turner’s 1756 Six Lessons for the Harpsichord”
Early Music America Summit
Sunday, October 20, 2024
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
Organ Recital and Noontime Cantata Concert Series
Washington Bach Consort
Bruhns, Praeludium in G
Pachelbel, Was Gott tut das ist wohlgetan
Bach, Ich habe genug, BWV 82
November 4–5, 2024
12:10 p.m.
St. Mark’s Capitol Hill
Church of the Epiphany, Washington, D.C.
Free Admission
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“Reconstructing Elizabeth Turner’s Mid-Eighteenth-Century Musical Network”
Annual meeting of the American Musicological Society
Sunday, November 17, 2024
Chicago, IL
“Forth From Her Pen”
DACOR Bacon House presents Musica Spira
Saturday, November 24, 2o24
3:00 p.m.
DACOR Bacon House, Washington, D.C.
Charpentier’s Mass for Christmas Eve
Folger Consort
December 6–15, 2024
Folger Shakespeare Library and Theater, Washington, D.C.
Tickets
Handel’s Messiah
Virginia Symphony Orchestra
December 19–21, 2024
Tickets
Previous Performances and Lectures
“Jasmine Barnes and J.S. Bach”
Third Practice with Handel Choir of Baltimore
May 11, 2024
Second Presbyterian Church
Baltimore, MD
J.S. Bach’s Ihr werdet weinen und heulen, BWV 103
Washington Bach Consort
May 6–7, 2024
St. Mark’s Capitol Hill
Church of the Epiphany
Washington, D.C.
“Queen of Heaven”
Musica Spira in Residence at St. David’s Church
May 3, 2024
Baltimore, MD
“Jasmine Barnes and J.S. Bach”
Third Practice
April 14, 2024
Westmoreland Congregational UCC
Bethesda, MD
“Forth From Her Pen”
Lecture at the Women Composers Festival
April 13, 2024
Mansion at Strathmore
Bethesda, MD
“Forth From Her Pen”
Musica Spira performs at the Women Composers Festival
April 13, 2024
Mansion at Strathmore
Bethesda, MD
Educational Outreach Concerts
Bach Choir of Bethlehem
April 3–4, 2024
“Women of the Baroque”
Washington Bach Consort
March 22–23, 2024
Washington, D.C. and Alexandria, VA
J.S. Bach Sehet, wir gehn hinauf gen Jerusalem, BWV 159
Washington Bach Consort
March 4–5, 2024
St. Mark’s Capitol Hill
Church of the Epiphany
Washington, D.C.
Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater
March 2–3, 2024
St. Mary Mother of God Parish
Washington, D.C.
Superbach and Sons
Pro Musica Rara
February 25, 2024
3:30 p.m.
Grace United Methodist Church
Baltimore, MD
“The Plague of Love”
DC Singers Collective
February 7, 2024
12:00 p.m.
St. John’s Lafeyette Square
Washington, D.C.
Solo Recital: Elizabeth Turner’s Harpsichord Lessons
Epiphany Tuesday Concert Series
February 6, 2024
12:10 p.m.
Church of the Epiphany
Washington, D.C.
“Resplendent Baroque”
Washington Bach Consort and Dumbarton Concerts
February 3, 2024
7:30 p.m.
Dumbarton United Methodist Church
Washington, D.C.
“Forth From Her Pen”
Lecture for Boulanger Initiative
January 23, 2024
6–7 pm on Zoom
A Baroque Christmas Story
Folger Consort
December 15–22, 2023
St. Mark’s Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C.
Handel’s Messiah
Handel Choir of Baltimore
December 9, 2023
Preconcert lecture: 6:30 p.m.
Concert: 7:30 p.m.
Grace United Methodist Church, Baltimore
December 10, 2023
Preconcert lecture: 2:00 p.m.
Concert: 3:00 p.m.
Christ Lutheran Church, Baltimore
Weihnachts-Historie, SWV 435, Heinrich Schütz
Washington Bach Consort
December 4 and 5, 2023
12:10 p.m.
St. Mark’s Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C.
Church of the Epiphany, Washington, D.C.
Educational Outreach Concerts
Bach Choir of Bethlehem
November 14 and 15, 2023
Reframing the Theory Curriculum
Panel discussion with Sarah Louden and Paula Maust
Hosted by Auralia/Musition
Society for Music Theory Conference
November 10, 2023
4–5:30 p.m.
Denver, Colorado
Du aber Daniel, gehe hin, TVWV 4:17, Georg Philipp Telemann
Washington Bach Consort
November 6 and 7, 2023
12:10 p.m.
St. Mark’s Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C.
Church of the Epiphany, Washington, D.C.
Baroque Splendor from Mexico City
Washington Bach Consort and Cathedral Choral Society
October 22, 2023
4:00 p.m.
Washington National Cathedral, Washington, D.C.
Forth From Her Pen
Musica Spira plays on the In the Stacks series
October 11, 2023
6:30 p.m.
George Peabody Library, Baltimore
Pedagogical Strategies in Elizabeth Turner’s Six Harpsichord Lessons
Lecture-recital for the Society for Eighteenth Century Music
October 6, 2023
University of North Texas, Denton
Her Perspective: Women Telling Women’s Stories
Musica Spira as Ensemble-in-Residence at St. David’s
September 29, 2023
7:30 p.m.
St. David’s Episcopal Church, Baltimore
Free admission
Bach + Handel with UMD Baroque
September 18, 2023
5:15 p.m.
Free admission
UMD Chapel, College Park
Season Preview Concert
Washington Bach Consort
September 13, 2023
6:30 p.m.
10th&G, Washington, D.C.
An Extraordinary Innovation
Indianapolis Early Music presents Musica Spira
June 25, 2023
Indianapolis, IN
Forth From Her Pen
Folger Consort presents Musica Spira
May 20, 2023
2 p.m.
Lutheran Church of the Reformation
Washington, D.C.
Folger Consort with Kaleidoscope Vocal Ensemble
May 5–7, 2023
St. Mark’s on Capitol Hill
Washington, D.C.
Tickets
Teaching the Theory of Sweet Sounds
Lecture for Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic
March 25, 2023
Peabody Institute
Baltimore, MD
Messiah, G.F. Handel
Washington Bach Consort
March 19, 2023–4 p.m.
Strathmore Hall
Washington, D.C.
Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen, BWV 12
Bradley Hills Presbyterian Church
March 12, 2023
Elizabeth Turner’s Harpsichord Lessons
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
February 26, 2023– 3 p.m.
Bach Flute Marathon
Peabody Institute
February 20, 2023
Baltimore, MD
Elizabeth Turner’s Harpsichord Lessons
Epiphany Concert Series
February 7, 2023
Washington, D.C.
Your Place in the Family of Things
Third Practice
February 4, 2023
Mt. St. Mary’s University
Emmitsburg, MD
Dixit Dominus, G.F. Handel
Epiphany Choir Christmas Concert
December 13, 2022
Washington, D.C.
Christmas Oratorio, J.S. Bach
Washington Bach Consort
December 10, 2022
Strathmore Hall
Washington, D.C.
Christum wir sollen loben schon, BWV 121
Washington Bach Consort
December 5–6, 2022
Teaching the Theory of Sweet Sounds
Lecture for American Musicological Society
November 12, 2022
New Orleans, LA
Ein feste Burg, BWV 80
Washington Bach Consort
October 31–November 1, 2022
Orpheus Britannicus
Washington Bach Consort
October 30, 2022
National Presbyterian Church
Washington, D.C.
Women of the Book: Exhibit Opening Recital
Musica Spira
October 2, 2022
George Peabody Library
Baltimore, MD
An Extraordinary Innovation: Virtuosic Women in the Italian Courts
Musica Spira
Bloomington Early Music Festival
May 25, 2022– 8 p.m.
St. Matthew Passion, Bach
Washington Bach Consort
May 21-22, 2022
An Extraordinary Innovation: Virtuosic Women in the Italian Courts
Musica Spira
Saturday, May 7, 2022 at 7:30 p.m.
St. Paul’s Church
Pitt St. Alexandria, VA
“The ‘Ugly’ Virtuosas: Behind the Screens of the Venetian Ospedali”
Tempesta Talks
April 24, 2022 — 5:00 p.m.
Membra Jesu Nostri, Buxtehude
Bradley Hills Presbyterian Church
April 15, 2022 — 7:30 p.m.
Recital with Isaiah Chapman, Baroque Viola
April 11, 2022 — 5p.m.
Peabody Institute, Cohen-Davison Theater
Recital with Sarah Shodja, Recorder
April 9, 2022–6:30 p.m.
Peabody Institute, Griswold Hall
Erfreut euch, ihr Herzen, BWV 66
Washington Bach Consort
April 4-5, 2022
Recital with Mira Huang, Soprano
April 3, 2022 — 4:30 p.m.
Peabody Institute, Goodwin Hall
Conceptio Gloriosae: Baroque Music in Latin America
Washington Bach Consort
April 1-2, 2022
New Wine in Old Bottles
Cleveland Composers Guild and Burning River Baroque
March 25, 2022 — 7:30 p.m.
Baldwin Wallace University, Berea, OH
Music for the Soul: Polychoral splendors of Venice & Northern Europe
Washington Bach Consort
March 20, 2022 — 4 p.m.
St. Sophia’s Cathedral, Washington, D.C.
Baroque Opera Scenes Project
Peabody Opera Studio and Historical Performance
**Conductor** of scenes by Francesca Caccini, Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, and Henry Purcell
March 6, 2022– 3 p.m.
Peabody Institute, Friedberg Hall
Widerstehe doch der Sünde, BWV 54
Washington Bach Consort
February 28 and March 1, 2022
Recital with Steph Zimmerman, baroque violin
February 27, 2022– 4:30 p.m.
Peabody Institute, Griswold Hall
Bach Flute Marathon
Peabody Historical Performance and Flute Departments
February 20, 2022
Emmanuel Episcopal Church
February 21, 2022
Peabody Institute, Griswold Hall
Prelude to Spring
Recital with Gina Eichman and Grace Srinivasan
February 13, 2022–7 p.m.
Historic Hebron House
Ellicott City, MD
“Cycles of Creation and Annihilation”
Burning River baroque and Bluestreak Ensemble
December 15, 2021
Cleveland Institute of Music
Handel’s Messiah
Johnstown Symphony Orchestra
December 11, 2021
Salonnière Extraordinaire: Music from Marie-Francoise Certain’s Parisian Salon
Musica Spira
November 19, 2021
Grace & St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Baltimore
Bach, Mass in A, BWV 234
Washington Bach Consort
November 7, 2021
Washington, D.C.
Bach, Ich habe meine Zuversicht, BWV 188
Washington Bach Consort
November 1-2, 2021
Washington, D.C.
“Expanding the Western Classical Music Canon”
Texas Tech University Music Theory Colloquium
October 8, 2021 –1 p.m. EDT
“An Extraordinary Innovation: Virtuosic Women in the Italian Courts”
Musica Spira
Tuesdays at Six Series
September 21, 2021
6 p.m. EDT
Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Baltimore
“Expanding the Western Classical Music Canon”
IU Historical Performance Institute Colloquium
September 15, 2021 — 11:30 a.m. EDT
“Expanding the Western Classical Music Canon”
Early Music America
August 19, 2021
Recording
“Elements Worth Fighting For”
Burning River Baroque
June 26, 2021
Youngstown, OH
“Expanding the Music Theory Canon”
Panel Discussion for Voce Velata
June 17, 2021
“Forth from Her Pen: Part 2”
UMBC Collegium Musicum
May 26, 2021
Baltimore, MD
“Scarcely One Without Defect: Imagined Beauty in the Venetian Ospedali Grandi”
UMBC Medieval and Early Modern Studies
May 5, 2021
Baltimore, MD
“Notorious Prostituted Strumpets on the Restoration Stage”
Society for Seventeenth-Century Music
April 16, 2021
“Expanding the Music Theory Canon”
Howard University Inclusion Imperative Humanities Symposium
March 26, 2021
“Expanding the Western Classical Music Canon: Correcting the Historical
Narrative to Forge a Path Toward Inclusivity”
Johns Hopkins University Counterpoint Series
March 21, 2021
“Expanding the Western Classical Music Canon: Correcting the Historical
Narrative to Forge a Path Toward Inclusivity”
Duke University Graduate Symposium
March 19, 2021
“The Italian ‘pigs’ and elephants’ in Handel’s English Operas
American Handel Society
March 14, 2021
“No Rest So Sure”
Third Practice
March 5, 2021
J.S. Bach, Jesu Meine Freude
Bradley Hills Presbyterian Church
February 28, 2021
Washington, D.C.
“Scarcely One Without Defect: Imagined Beauty in the Venetian Ospedali Grandi”
Indiana University Historical Performance Institute
January 31, 2021
Handel, Messiah
Handel Choir of Baltimore
December 12, 2020
Baltimore, MD
“The Elbe-A German Christmas”
The Folger Consort
December 2020
Washington, D.C.
“Hidden Figures: Women Composers of the Baroque Period”
Pioneer Valley Symphony Lecture Series
November 22, 2020
“Forth From Her Pen Part 1”
UMBC Collegium Musicum
November 13, 2020
Baltimore, MD
“Notorious Prostituted Strumpets on the English Restoration Stage”
October 10, 2020
Capital Chapter Meeting of the American Musicological Society
“A Mad, Burning Desire”
Burning River Baroque on Midtown Concert Series
October 8, 2020
New York, NY
“Arias for the Autumnal Equinox”
Élan Ensemble
September 25, 2020
Annapolis, MD
“The Ugly Virtuosa”
Musica Spira
July 2020
Tuesday Concert Series at Epiphany
Washington, D.C.
*Cancelled due to COVID-19
Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610
Hexacollective
May 2020
Ware, VA
*Cancelled due to COVID-19
“The Ugly Virtuosa”
Musica Spira
May 2020
St. Luke’s Evensong Series
Lebanon, PA
*Cancelled due to COVID-19
Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons
Chamber Encounters
May 2020
Baltimore, MD
*Cancelled due to COVID-19
Biber’s Rosary Sonatas
UMBC Collegium Musicum
April 2020
UMBC Professional Recital Series
Baltimore, MD
*Cancelled due to COVID-19
“The Ugly Virtuosa”
Musica Spira
April 2020
In the Stacks Series
Baltimore, MD
*Postponed due to COVID-19
“Witches: Revered and Reviled”
Burning River Baroque
March 2020
Youngstown and Cleveland, OH
*Postponed due to COVID-19
Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610
Baltimore Choral Arts
February 2020
Baltimore, MD
“Clothed in Sun”
Third Practice
February 2020
Baltimore and Emmitsburg, MD
“The Ugly Virtuosa”
Musica Spira
February 2020
St. Anne’s Concert Series
Annapolis, MD
Bach Flute Marathon with the Students of Marina Piccinini
February 2020
Baltimore, MD
Recital with Kyle Leigh, soprano
January 2020
Baltimore, MD
Handel’s Messiah
Bradley Hills Choir
December 2019
Bethesda, MD
Gloria!
The Folger Consort
December 2019
Washington, D.C.
Recital with Steph Zimmerman, baroque violin
December 2019
Baltimore, MD
Recital with Chelsea Bernstein, viola da gamba
December 2019
College Park, MD
Handel’s Messiah
December 2019
Alexandria, VA
Recital with Noelle McMurtry, soprano
December 2019
Baltimore, MD
“The Ugly Virtuosa”
Musica Spira
UMBC Professional Concert Series
November 2019
Baltimore, MD
“Louis XIV Conquers the World”
Levine Music Faculty
Levine Presents Series and Tuesdays at Epiphany Series
November 2019
Washington, D.C.
“Turning the Madwoman Upside Down”
Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society
November 2019
Boston, MA
Bach’s Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott, BWV 80
October 2019
Lewinsville, VA
“A Mad, Burning Desire”
Burning River Baroque
October 2019
Youngstown and Cleveland, OH
Pittsburgh, PA
Recital with Aisslinn Nosky and UMBC Collegium Musicum
UMBC Professional Concert Series
October 2019
Baltimore, MD
“Turning the Madwoman Upside Down”
Peabody Institute Musicology Colloquium
October 2019
Baltimore, MD
“A Mad, Burning Desire”
Burning River Baroque
Barefoot Concert Seires
September 2019
San Francisco, Berkeley, Palo Alto, CA
“A Mad, Burning Desire”
Burning River Baroque
August 2019
Cleveland, OH
“The Women Who Took the Stage”
Musica Spira
SoHIP Concert Series
July 2019
Boston, Andover, Lincoln, MA
Oberlin Baroque Performance Institute
Staff accompanist and continuo coach
June 2019
Oberlin, OH
“Parisian Pearls”
Music at St. Bartholomew’s
June 2019
Baltimore, MD
“More Alike Than Unalike”
Interrupted Silence
June 2019
Schnecksville, PA
“Villa Visconti Borromeo Litta”
Hesperus and the Italian Cultural Institute
May 2019
Washington, D.C.
“The Women Who Took the Stage”
Musica Spira
May 2019
Washington, D.C.
“The Women Who Went Mad on Stage”
DMA Lecture Recital
April 2019
Baltimore, MD
Recital with Tara Kitchelt, soprano
April 2019
Baltimore, MD
Recital with Steph Zimmerman, baroque violin
April 2019
Baltimore, MD
Recital with William Marshall, baritone
April 2019
Baltimore, MD
Recital with Namgon Lee, baroque viola
April 2019
Baltimore, MD
Recital with Steph Zimmerman, baroque violin
April 2019
Baltimore, MD
“The Other Side of the Story”
Burning River Baroque
March 2019
Cleveland, Youngstown, and Fairlawn, OH
Recital with Katelyn Aungst, soprano
March 2019
Baltimore, MD
“The Goddess Venus”
Eya Ensemble
March 2019
Washington, D.C.
Recital with Jamie Gallupe, baroque cello
March 2019
Baltimore, MD
“Clothed in Sun”
Third Practice
February 2019
Washington, D.C.
UMBC Brass Faculty Recital
February 2019
Washington, D.C.
Bach Flute Marathon with the studio of Marina Piccinini
February 2019
Baltimore, MD
Recital with Christian Pacquette, flute
February 2019
Baltimore, MD
Recital with Jamie Gallupe, baroque cello
January 2019
Towson, MD
Handel’s Messiah
Handel Choir of Baltimore
December 2018
Baltimore and Catonsville, MD
“Revelry, Sorrow, and Desire: Baroque Opera Scenes. from Italy, France, and England”
UMBC Collegium Musicum and Opera Workshop
Conductor and artistic director
December 2018
Baltimore, MD
Handel’s Messiah
Modern Musick
December 2018
Baltimore, MD
Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas and The Fairy Queen
Peabody Early Music Department
Assistant Music Director
November 2018
Baltimore, MD
Recital with Jesus Apodaca, double bass
November 2018
Baltimore, MD
Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 5
Peabody Early Music
November 2018
Baltimore, MD
“The Women Who Took the Stage”
Musica Spira
October 2018
Washington, D.C.
“Destructive Desires”
Burning River Baroque
October 2018
Cleveland, OH
DMA Harpsichord Concerto Recital
October 2018
Baltimore, MD
Songs of Wars I Have Seen
Tempesta di Mare and Members of the Philadelphia Orchestra
September 2018
Philadelphia, PA
“Destructive Desires”
Burning River Baroque
August 2018
Cleveland and Yellow Springs, OH
American Bach Soloists Academy
August 2018
San Francisco, CA
“The Women Who Took the Stage”
Musica Spira
July 2018
ARTSCAPE Baltimore, MD
Amherst Early Music Festival
Baroque opera assistant music director
July 2018
New London, CT
Berkeley Early Music Festival Fringe “At a Crossroad”
Burning River Baroque
June 2018
Berkeley, CA
Bloomington Early Music Festival Young Performers’ Showcase
B’More Bach Ensemble
May 2018
Bloomington, IN
DMA Solo Harpsichord Recital
May 2018
Baltimore, MD
Haydn Lord Nelson Mass
UMBC Camerata
April 2018
Baltimore, MD
Recital with J.T. Mitchell, traverso
April 2018
Baltimore, MD
Concerts with Baltimore Baroque Band
April 2018
Baltimore, MD and Washington, D.C.
Recital with Noelle McMurtry, soprano
April 2018
Baltimore, MD
Recital with Sarah Lynn, traverso
April 2018
Baltimore, MD
Suppressed Voices: Music of the Banished
Burning River Baroque
March 2018
Cleveland, OH
Baltimore Bach Marathon
March 2018
Baltimore, MD
Recital with Namgon Lee, baroque viola
February 2018
Baltimore, MD
Concert with Baltimore Baroque Band
February 2018
Baltimore, MD
Recital with Laura Snyderman, soprano
January 2018
Baltimore, MD
Masterclass at the Flint Collection
January 2018
Wilmington, DE
Handel’s Messiah
Virginia Symphony Orchestra
December 2017
Norfolk, VA
Bach’s Christmas Oratorio
Washington Bach Consort
December 2017
Washington, D.C.
Cantata Concert with the Washington Bach Consort
December 2017
Washington, D.C.
Bach Flute Marathon
December 2017
Baltimore, MD