2026 VIRTUAL Series
Videos premiere on Fridays at 7:30pm on our YouTube channel and remain available.
Free to watch; donations encouraged!
Photography: Janet Conrad, John McKean, Liuqi Ba
Nova Vetera
Nate Kim, violin
Thomas Conrad, traverso, viol
Luping Robyn Xu, harpsichord
June 19 Nova Vetera
On the Move: italian Style beyond borders
Pietro Locatelli and Johann Rosenmüller both played crucial roles in disseminating Italian Baroque style—one through deliberate career moves, the other due to scandalous exile. In their SoHIP debut, Nova Vetera explores the musical fame and (mis)fortune of these two musical migrants whose influence reached far beyond borders.
June 26 Pandora Consort
The Fire Within Her:
An American Folktale About Women’s Liberation
This powerful folk opera weaves together centuries of voices, from Anne Hutchinson’s defiance in Puritan Boston to Susan B. Anthony’s fight for suffrage to Betty Friedan’s challenge to the “feminine mystique.” Their stories unfold through shape-note songs, Shaker hymns, protest anthems, and folk music. Learn More
Pandora Consort
Kendra Comstock, soprano, director
Angie Tyler, soprano, harmonium
Gina Marie Falk, soprano
Laura Thomas, soprano, banjo, guitar
Riley Mullany, fiddle, mandolin, banjo, guitar
Photography: McKenna Poe
Photography: Maura McConnell, Michael Stewart, Barbara Allen Hill
Aberdeen Bestiary, 12th c.
July 3 HESPERUS
The Wild Kingdom: A Book of Beasts
HESPERUS returns to the SoHIP series in an irreverent exploration of the animal kingdom. A quartet of multi-instrumentalists performs music by Machaut, Vaillant, Isaac, Arbeau, Ciconia, and Morley along with spirited narration based on Medieval and Renaissance bestiaries (illuminated books of beasts). Mythical beings and real creatures spring to life in this tale meant for anyone who’s ever had a pet! Learn More
HESPERUS
Tina Chancey, viol, vielle, rebec, fiddle, dumbek
Dan Meyers, recorders, flute, sackbut, bagpipes, percussion
Brian Kay, Medieval and Renaissance lutes
Spiff Wiegand, narrator, percussion
July 10 Silentwoods Collective
Lessons for a King
During France's ancien régime, innovation flourished as artists found ways to covertly caution their monarchs. Hidden within the works of Baroque composers Rameau, Rebel, Barriere, and their compatriots across the Channel, we find warnings against hubris and greed as well as messages of hope that humanity will eventually triumph over cruelty. Learn More
Silentwoods Collective
Howell Petty, soprano
Danilo Bonina & Nelli Herskovitz-Jabotinsky, violins
Andrew Koutroubas, cello
John McKean, harpsichord
Luce Burrell, theorbo
Concerto Incognito
Dana Maiben, violin
Vivian Montgomery, harpsichord
July 17 Concerto Incognito
An Outburst of Improvisors:
The 17th-c. Invention of Modern Music
17th-century Italy was a hotbed of experimentation where musical improvisors broke old rules to create highly expressive new works. This intimate program for two features virtuosic pieces by Castello, Strozzi, Marini, Uccellini and their contemporaries, mash-ups on ground basses, instrumental song covers, and diminutions and improvisations by the performers.
July 24 Sempervirens
Fantasies and Fugues, Modes and Moods
Humans have long been dazzled, comforted, provoked, moved to dance, or otherwise deeply affected by music’s cathartic power. Sempervirens unites four virtuosic recorder players in a diverse program spanning the early Renaissance to the modern day, performing intensely moving music that links us with the many listeners of past centuries.
Sempervirens
Héloïse Degrugillier, Daniel Meyers, Emily O’Brien, Roy Sansom, recorders
Duo Tarasque
Luce Burrell, Medieval lute, vielle
Howell Petty, soprano, Gothic harp
July 31 Duo Tarasque
Esperance et Croyance:
Hope and Faith in MedIeval France
The ars subtilior songs of the late 14th c. are among the most complex and beautiful pieces to emerge from the Middle Ages. Duo Tarasque explores heartfelt French texts of esperance (hope) and croyance (faith) found in the famed Chantilly Codex that connect Medieval ideals and our own wish for better things to come.
August 7 The Berry Collective
May the Fours Be With You
To celebrate SoHIP’s 40th year, the Berry Collective presents a modern-day salon. Four musicians perform collegial quartets for fortepiano and strings from the final four decades of the 18th c. by Mozart, Schobert, Eichner, and Beethoven. Join us and delight in these intimate musical conversations! Learn More
Photography: Zamani Feelings, Lauren Desberg, Teddie Hwang
The Berry Collective
Keats Dieffenbach, violin
Emily Rideout, violin, viola
Rebecca Shaw, cello
Sylvia Berry, Viennese five-octave fortepiano
These programs are supported in part by grants from the Lincoln and Andover Cultural Councils, local agencies which are supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.