Our upcoming February project, The Marchesa, is a collaboration with Philadelphia-based wind band Piffaro. Like the Newberry Consort, (founded 1986), Piffaro is one of the longest running, most successful early music ensembles in North America. What began in 1980 as a...
Who was Isabella d'Este? February 7-9, 2020, we bring music from the unique court of Isabella d’Este to Chicagoland stages. These concerts, a collaboration with acclaimed Renaissance wind band Piffaro [link to website] will prominently feature our own Ellen Hargis...
January 2, 2020—The Newberry Consort joins acclaimed Renaissance wind band Piffaro February 7, 8, and 9, 2020 for The Marchesa, a program of music from the court of Isabella d’Este, the powerful woman politician, philosopher, and patron of the arts who ruled the court...
