🔆 The summer programs page lists 9 programs (last change 3/31/25).

November 17, 2024 (Sunday)

3:00 PM. Ensemble Altera [RI]: Feminine Voices. Benjamin Britten: Ceremony of Carols (Li Shan Tan, harp); music by Hildegard von Bingen, Imogen Holst, Germaine Tailleferre, Cecilia McDowall, Joanna Marsh, Barbara Strozzi, and Elizabeth Poston, as well as a new commission by Kerensa Briggs. For more information, call 401-575-8504 or email ensemblealtera@gmail.com. Blessed Sacrament Church, 239 Regent Avenue, Providence RI 02908 (View flier) ⓘ 🔗

November 16, 2024 (Saturday)

7:00 PM. Ensemble Altera [MA]: Feminine Voices. Benjamin Britten: Ceremony of Carols (Li Shan Tan, harp); music by Hildegard von Bingen, Imogen Holst, Germaine Tailleferre, Cecilia McDowall, Joanna Marsh, Barbara Strozzi, and Elizabeth Poston, as well as a new commission by Kerensa Briggs. For more information, call 401-575-8504 or email ensemblealtera@gmail.com. St. Paul's Parish, 29 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge MA 02138 (View flier) ⓘ 🔗

September 15, 2024 (Sunday)

7:00 PM. Ensemble Altera [RI]: A New Song: Psalms for the Soul. A concert exploring the psalm texts set in many musical styles and periods, including Gregorio Allegri's Miserere, selections by Bruckner, Parry, MacMillan, and Rutter, world premieres by Michael Garrepy, and 4th annual Composition Competition winner Ian Gabriel Corpuz's setting of Psalm 117, "Laudate Dominum". For more information, call 401-575-8504 or email ensemblealtera@gmail.com. Grace Episcopal Church, 300 Westminster Street, Providence RI 02903 (View flier) ⓘ 🔗

September 14, 2024 (Saturday)

7:00 PM. Ensemble Altera [MA]: A New Song: Psalms for the Soul. A concert exploring the psalm texts set in many musical styles and periods, including Gregorio Allegri's Miserere, selections by Bruckner, Parry, MacMillan, and Rutter, world premieres by Michael Garrepy, and 4th annual Composition Competition winner Ian Gabriel Corpuz's setting of Psalm 117, "Laudate Dominum". For more information, call 401-575-8504 or email ensemblealtera@gmail.com. St. Paul's Church, 29 Mt Auburn Street, Cambridge MA 02138 (View flier) ⓘ 🔗

September 13, 2024 (Friday)

7:00 PM. Ensemble Altera [CT]: A New Song: Psalms for the Soul. A concert exploring the psalm texts set in many musical styles and periods, including Gregorio Allegri's Miserere, selections by Bruckner, Parry, MacMillan, and Rutter, world premieres by Michael Garrepy, and 4th annual Composition Competition winner Ian Gabriel Corpuz's setting of Psalm 117, "Laudate Dominum". For more information, call 401-575-8504 or email ensemblealtera@gmail.com. First Congregational Church, 2 Ferry Road, Old Lyme CT 06371 (View flier) ⓘ 🔗

December 10, 2023 (Sunday)

2:30 PM. Ensemble Altera [RI]: A Christmas Present. Music written in the new millennium, mixing enchanting modern classics with sumptuous arrangements of timeless favorites. For more information, call 401-575-8504 or email ensemblealtera@gmail.com. St. Martin's Episcopal Church, 50 Orchard Avenue, Providence RI 02906 ⓘ 🔗

December 9, 2023 (Saturday)

7:00 PM. Ensemble Altera [MA]: A Christmas Present. Music written in the new millennium, mixing enchanting modern classics with sumptuous arrangements of timeless favorites. For more information, call 401-575-8504 or email ensemblealtera@gmail.com. Church of the Advent, 30 Brimmer Street, Boston MA 02108 ⓘ 🔗

August 21, 2022 (Sunday)

3:00 PM. Ensemble Altera [RI]: The Lamb's Journey. A choral depiction of the Christ narrative featuring music from the Renaissance through today that follows four distinct and fascinating chapters: Invocation, Passion, Resurrection, and Adoration. With timeless favorites by Gibbons, Lotti, Scheidt, Howells, Barber, and Bruckner, and the very best of the 20th and 21st centuries by Poulenc, Messiaen, Leighton, Lukaszewski, and Esenvalds, including three world-premiere performances of works written for Altera. For more information, call 401-575-8504 or email ensemblealtera@gmail.com. Blessed Sacrament Church, 239 Regent St., Providence RI 02908 ⓘ 🔗

August 20, 2022 (Saturday)

8:00 PM. Ensemble Altera [MA]: The Lamb's Journey. A choral depiction of the Christ narrative featuring music from the Renaissance through today that follows four distinct and fascinating chapters: Invocation, Passion, Resurrection, and Adoration. With timeless favorites by Gibbons, Lotti, Scheidt, Howells, Barber, and Bruckner, and the very best of the 20th and 21st centuries by Poulenc, Messiaen, Leighton, Lukaszewski, and Esenvalds, including three world-premiere performances of works written for Altera. For more information, call 401-575-8504 or email ensemblealtera@gmail.com. St. Paul's Church, 29 Mt Auburn Street, Cambridge MA 02138 ⓘ 🔗

July 21, 2021 (Wednesday)

8:00 PM. Ensemble Altera [online]: Jewels of the English Renaissance. Six vocalists perform one-to-a-part works by Byrd, Tallis, Taverner, and others ranging from the intricacies of the Eton Choirbook to the elegant simplicity of the early Reformation. The program includes a mixture of forms such as the pitch spiral of a double perfect canon and cantus firmus settings as well as simpler homophonic language. Textual themes vary from Advent to Nativity, Lent to Easter, and liturgical contexts range from a mass setting to a penitential psalm to a Vespers responsory. Filmed at the Aldrich Mansion in Warwick, RI. Free, but donations are encouraged. For more information, call 401-575-8504 or email ensemblealtera@gmail.com. Online ⓘ 🔗

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