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Upcoming Concerts
Upcoming Concerts
Antiqua Nova
Antiqua Nova
Sunday May 10, 2026 at 3pm, presented by Main Line Early Music at the Main Line Unitarian Church, 816 South Valley Forge Road Devon, PA 19333
Joined by acclaimed soprano Clara Rottsolk, the Sylvan Consort performs a program pairing old and new music including a brand new work by Philadelphia composer Thomas Whitman. Also featured will be music by Brooke Green, Barbara Weiss, Cornelis Schuyt, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, and Thomas Lupo. We look forward to sharing our explorations of timeless emotions through viol consort music across the centuries.
Past Concerts
Past Concerts
Re/Create
Re/Create
Variant 6 and the Sylvan Consort of Viols perform RE/CREATE, a program for six voices and six viols. The highlight of this program is a world premiere by Philadelphia composer, Kile Smith highlighting the unique sound world created by the combination of voices and viols. Smith’s new work entitled “Endless Morn of Light” features poetry of John Milton that explores ideas of timeless divinity and the power of music to elevate the soul. Paired with this new work is Orlando di Lasso’s Prophetiae Sibyllarum, a stunning and unconventional work that the two ensembles will present in different combinations of voices and viols. Variant 6 vocalists are Jessica Beebe, soprano ; Rebecca Myers, soprano ; Elisa Sutherland, mezzo-soprano ; James Reese, tenor ; Harrison Hintzsche, baritone ; and Daniel Schwartz, bass. Viol players are Sarah Cunningham, Margaret Humphrey, Donna Fournier, Elena Kauffman, Gretchen Gettes, and Rebecca Humphrey.
Variant 6 and the Sylvan Consort of Viols perform RE/CREATE, a program for six voices and six viols. The highlight of this program is a world premiere by Philadelphia composer, Kile Smith highlighting the unique sound world created by the combination of voices and viols. Smith’s new work entitled “Endless Morn of Light” features poetry of John Milton that explores ideas of timeless divinity and the power of music to elevate the soul. Paired with this new work is Orlando di Lasso’s Prophetiae Sibyllarum, a stunning and unconventional work that the two ensembles will present in different combinations of voices and viols. Variant 6 vocalists are Jessica Beebe, soprano ; Rebecca Myers, soprano ; Elisa Sutherland, mezzo-soprano ; James Reese, tenor ; Harrison Hintzsche, baritone ; and Daniel Schwartz, bass. Viol players are Sarah Cunningham, Margaret Humphrey, Donna Fournier, Elena Kauffman, Gretchen Gettes, and Rebecca Humphrey.
Friday March 14, 2025 at 8 pm, presented by Bowerbird at the Fleisher Art Memorial
Saturday March 15, 2025 at 3pm , presented by Market Street Music at First & Central Presbyterian in Wilmington
Sunday March 16, 2025 at 2pm, presented by the Bala Cynwyd Library concert series at the Levering Mill Tribute House
Lawes and Order!
Lawes and Order!
Experimentation, new forms, pushing boundaries of instrumental virtuosity and vocal expression - these are the hallmarks of 17th century music throughout Europe. While we might consider English consort music to be the exception, with its orderly contrapuntal conversations and serene flow of ideas, in fact the old rules were constantly stretched and often broken. William Lawes, the admired and beloved composer who died early, losing his life to a stray bullet during the lawless period of the English Civil War, extended those rules to the furthest limits of both harmony and technique. The Sylvan Viols will play his challenging and sublime music in the context of others who experimented in their own unique ways.
Sunday January 26, 2025 at 3pm, presented by Main Line Early Music at Church of the Good Shepherd in Rosemont, PA, tickets
A Secret Fire
A Secret Fire
with Laura Heimes, soprano and Mark Rimple, lute
“By a secret fire I feel myself consumed... True, I could heal, if I ceased to love – but, I prefer the malady to the cure.”
When we find ourselves obsessed – by a person, a feeling, a melody, a creative idea – the obsession may seem to consume us while at the same time fueling us. The energy of fire stands for love, eros, the very root and source of life.
This French song from 1671, by Michel Lambert, takes us on a journey from England to France and back, spanning the 17th century, with viols, lute, and voice intertwining in dances, songs, and fantasias by Byrd, Dowland, Lawes, Le Jeune, Lambert, and Purcell.
April 7, 2024, 3pm, Church of the Good Shepherd, 1116 East Lancaster Avenue, Rosemont, PA 19010, goodshepherdrosemont.com/mainline-earlymusic
April 7, 2024, 3pm, Church of the Good Shepherd, 1116 East Lancaster Avenue, Rosemont, PA 19010, goodshepherdrosemont.com/mainline-earlymusic
What is Our Life? Music for Viols and Voice
What is Our Life? Music for Viols and Voice
The Sylvan Consort of Viols is joined by guests Laura Heimes, soprano and Matthew Glandorf, organ on a musical journey from birth to death with songs of infancy, youth and new love, disappointment and triumph, loss and grief, and healing in works by Byrd, Dowland, Gibbons, Jenkins, Lawes, Gesualdo, and Monteverdi.
February 19, 2023, 4pm, Church of the Good Shepherd, 1116 East Lancaster Avenue, Rosemont, PA 19010
Song of the Soul: Music for Voices and Viols
Song of the Soul: Music for Voices and Viols
The Sylvan Consort joins the Choir at Christ Church Christiana Hundred under the direction of Bruce Barber for a concert of English works for voices and viols.
March 20, 2022, 3:00pm , 505 Buck Road, Wilmington, Delaware 19807
Viola da Gamba Society of America Annual Conclave
Viola da Gamba Society of America Annual Conclave
Conclave faculty members Sarah Cunningham and Heather Miller Lardin invites the Sylvan Consort to join them for the conclave Faculty Spotlight video concert, July 2021 where they play "A Songe Called Trumpets" by Robert Parsons (ca. 1535-1572)
Bach@7 Narratives in Music Series: Heinrich Schütz Resurrection Historia
Bach@7 Narratives in Music Series: Heinrich Schütz Resurrection Historia
With Choral Arts Philadelphia, directed by Matthew Glandorf; performed by six voices, four bass viols, and organ. Also on the program, a beautiful pavan by Samuel Scheidt.
April 24, 2019, 7:00pm, Saint Clement's Church, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103
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