Beyond Baroque: A season of festivals!

Beyond Baroque Variation IV

Our Final Festival brings the 2024–25 Beyond Baroque Festival season to a close with concerts and celebrations that will take you on a cultural journey from China, Persia, Palestine, and Italy. Featuring the return of the Twelfth Night Ensemble, Lute Legends, and a Nowruz Celebration with the Siriya Ensemble in collaboration with Seattle-Isfahan Sister City Advocacy (SISCA).

Festival Lineup

March 22, 2025

New Baroque Orchestra and Lindsey Strand-Polyak

2:00 PM

Don’t just attend concerts at the EMS Festival this weekend— come musick with us! Join Lindsey Strand-Polyak and the New Baroque Orchestra as we have a play-in! This event is open to all instrumentalists playing at A-415′: violin family, gambas, recorders, flutes, oboes, bassoons, frame drums, trumpets, harp, guitars, harpsichord, and beyond. If you can read the music, you can play the parts! A link to parts to practice in advance will be sent with Play-in registration in October. Refreshments will be served as we make new friends and keep on musicking. 

Trinity Episcopal Parish - 609 8th Ave Seattle, WA 98104

Lute Legends

Borderlands: Music on the Edge

7:30 PM

Featuring Ronnie Malley, Lucas Harris, and Wen Zhao, the Lute Legends Collective is a performing association of musicians who represent ancient plucked-string traditions. It’s certainly possible that some combinations of their instruments would have sounded together centuries ago, such as a pipa player jamming together with an oud player somewhere along the old Silk Road. However, the collective’s aim is less to recreate history and more to delight in creating a new arena where these old instruments can make music together.

Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya Hall - 200 University St, Seattle, WA 98101

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Date: March 12 - 23, 2025