Anacortes Early Music presents The Byrd Ensemble
$30 (students age 18 & under free); cash or check at the door only
Robert White — Selected works
William Cornysh — Selected works
John Sheppard — Selected works
Thomas Tallis — Selected works
William Byrd — Selected works
The Byrd Ensemble is a Seattle-based professional ensemble directed by Markdavin Obenza. The ensemble has acclaimed performances and recordings of chamber vocal music from the golden age of Renaissance polyphony. Their Anacortes performance will explore music from Tudor England, featuring Latin motets by the finest composers of the era.
About Anacortes Early Music Concert Series
The Anacortes Early Music Concert Series has brought historically informed performances featuring world-renowned musicians and rising stars to Anacortes for over a decade. Historically informed performance (period performance) is an approach in Western music which adheres to the knowledge, as it is currently known, of the instruments and performance practice of the period in which the music was conceived. Access to examples of earlier musical instruments and historical treatises are the basis on which period performance is formed. Instruments corresponding to the period of the music being performed are used, as well as technique and aesthetics of the period. Anacortes Early Music is a project of the Anacortes Arts Foundation.
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