Past Events

Kayleen Sanchez, soprano, and Arash Noori, lute, perform music of the master English songwriter. Kayleen performs using Original Pronunciation, so you will hear not only the music, but the text, as Dowland’s listeners heard.

Come with us as we travel to Scotland this April! What do Haydn and Beethoven have in common?

Well… Haydn and Beethoven were linked through a teacher-student relationship (1792-1794). Beethoven moved to Vienna in 1792 to study with Haydn who was then the most famous composer in Europe. Both wrote great chamber music, including many superb settings of Scottish songs.

Anton Nel performs on fortepiano with La Follia and guest vocalists. Please join us for a satisfying end to a lovely concert season!

Come with us as we travel to Scotland this April! What do Haydn and Beethoven have in common?

Well… Haydn and Beethoven were linked through a teacher-student relationship (1792-1794). Beethoven moved to Vienna in 1792 to study with Haydn who was then the most famous composer in Europe. Both wrote great chamber music, including many superb settings of Scottish songs.

Anton Nel performs on fortepiano with La Follia and guest vocalists. Please join us for a satisfying end to a lovely concert season!

The San Antonio Recorder Quartet will present a concert of music from the 16th-18th centuries performed on four different sets of historically-accurate recorders; two matched sets of Renaissance recorders, and two sets of Baroque instruments, The program will include music by Charpentier, Josquin Desprez, Bourgeois, Goudimel, Orlando di Lasso, Sweelinck, Hassler, Buxtehude, Telemann, Guami, and Castello.

An annual “fan-favorite” concert. This time La Follia will focus on music from the wild and crazy days of the early Baroque. Music by Castello, Schmeltzer, Weckmann, Uccelini and others. If you don’t know them, well, that’s the point. As always, you can count on the music being fresh, exciting, and sublime.

Performers are Stephen Redfield and Joseph Tan, violins; Curtis Foster, recorder; Eric Mun, gamba; Nathaniel Brickens, sackbut; Keith Collins, dulcian; and Keith Womer, organ.

Olmos Ensemble musicians Mark Teplitsky, Eric Gratz and Julian Schwarz are featured soloists in this exuberant program of Baroque concerti. Guest harpsichordist Ian Pritchard and strings provide accompaniment. Music of J.S. Bach, C.P.E. Bach and Vivaldi. Admission free with open seating.

An annual “fan-favorite” concert. This time La Follia will focus on music from the wild and crazy days of the early Baroque. Music by Castello, Schmeltzer, Weckmann, Uccelini and others. If you don’t know them, well, that’s the point. As always, you can count on the music being fresh, exciting, and sublime.

Performers are Stephen Redfield and Joseph Tan, violins; Curtis Foster, recorder; Eric Mun, gamba; Nathaniel Brickens, sackbut; Keith Collins, dulcian; and Keith Womer, organ.

Philharmonie Austin Chorus is comprised of many of the country’s finest singers and made their first appearance singing ‘A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols’ in December of 2024. In the 2025-2026 season, we are officially launching them as a new resident choral ensemble in Austin, singing in three concerts!

Under the direction of conductor Mark Dupere and guest conductor Allen Hightower, the group will explore a diverse range of repertoire from the Renaissance to the modern era. They will serve as the official chorus for all Philharmonie Austin choral-orchestral projects in the future, including their appearance with Philharmonie Austin in this season’s ‘Mass in B-Minor’ by Johann Sebastian Bach. In addition to this concert, they will sing ‘A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols’ in December and the ‘Hear My Prayer’ concert in March.

They will aim to produce performances that enliven the soul, as the musicians draw on a diverse wealth of knowledge from generations of performance practice research, bringing this into the live performance sphere. The priority of each Philharmonie Austin Chorus performance is generous and communicative music-making, bringing older and newer musical language to life for today’s audience.

Five harpsichords. Two performers. Who wins? You do!

Anton Nel and La Follia director Keith Womer perform music written for harpsichords of all types. Hear and see these beautiful instruments and learn what makes them different, as well as what makes the harpsichord sound so intoxicating. Yes, there will be a petting zoo at intermission and afterwards.

Music by Bach, Scarlatti, Handel, and Couperin, as well as modern works by Hirabayashi and McLean.

Five harpsichords. Two performers. Who wins? You do!

Anton Nel and La Follia director Keith Womer perform music written for harpsichords of all types. Hear and see these beautiful instruments and learn what makes them different, as well as what makes the harpsichord sound so intoxicating. Yes, there will be a petting zoo at intermission and afterwards.

Music by Bach, Scarlatti, Handel, and Couperin, as well as modern works by Hirabayashi and McLean.

Universally adored for its “pure and pristine sound” (San Francisco Chronicle), the legendary Vienna Boys Choir will sing a lively program celebrating the 200th birthday of one of Vienna’s most cherished native sons.

Johann Strauss Jr. was the grandfather of the Viennese waltz and polka styles that defined that city’s music for generations, and this choir has been singing choral renditions of his music since the 1920s! Come and hear classics like the Blue Danube waltz, Tales from the Vienna Woods, and a selection of rollicking polkas, all sung with spirit and finesse by these angelic young voices.

Johann Strauss II, Tausend und eine Nacht (Arabian nights), waltz, opus 346
Joseph Haydn, Insanae et vanae curae (Vain and useless worries), Hob. XXI:1, 13c
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Stabat mater
Fac ut ardeat cor meum (Ignite my heart with love)
Quando corpus morietur (When the body will die)
Anton Bruckner, Virga Jesse floruit (The rod of Jesse has flowered) WAB 52, arr. Jimmy Chiang
Johann Strauss II and Josef Strauss, Pizzicato Polka, arr. Alan Mossesset, Avi Esposito
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Vesperae solennes de confessore, KV 339
Laudate Dominum (Praise the Lord)
The Prayer, from the movie Quest for Camelot, David Foster, Carole Bayer Sager, Alberto Testa, Tony Renis
Ludwig Van Beethoven, Joyful, Joyful (Ode to Joy), from Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit, arr. Roger Emerson
Irving Berlin, There’s No Business Like Show Business, from Annie Get Your Gun
Jacques Offenbach, Barcarole – Belle nuit, o nuit d’amour (Beautiful night, night of love), from The Tales of Hoffmann
Johannes Brahms, Wiegenlied (Lullaby), opus 49/4
Jimmy Chiang, Erzherzog Johann Jodler (Archduke Johann’s yodel)
Zoltan Kodaly, Turot eszig a cigany (Chewing cheese curds)
Petar Liondev Kaval Sviri (A kaval flute plays, 1979), Bulgarisches Volkslied
Mykola Leontovich, Shchedryk (New Year’s Carol, 1916)
Johann Strauss II, Tritsch Tratsch (Chitchat), fast pola opus 214, arr. Gerald Wirth
Rolf Lovland, You Raise Me Up
Rollo Dilworth, Joshua, Traditional Spiritual
Johann Strauss II, An der shonen blauen Donau (Blue Danube Waltz), opus 314, arr. Gerald Wirth

The Gesualdo Six present a poignant, hopeful sequence of sacred music containing radiant choral writing from across the centuries. Highlights include Tallis’ polyphonic masterpiece, Absterge Domine, alongside the astonishing harmonies of Gesualdo in Plange quasi virgo. Both composers beautifully capture a sense of vulnerability in their works, asking for forgiveness and protection. From more recent times, there are the effortless poetic settings of Joanna Marsh and Richard Rodney Bennett, who call on us to enjoy all that life has to offer. Elsewhere, pieces by Tavener and Morales present a series of questions, seeking reassurance. If you like, this is an uplifting sequence for the souls of the departed, to be heard by those who remember them.

“With the voices soaring and interweaving high above us, it occurred to me that it was no wonder that in centuries past, congregations sitting in the first gothic cathedrals believed in angels.” – Artstalk Magazine