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Events for Ensemble Altera
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Auditions

Auditions are open for Convivium Musicum. See the auditions page for more information.

December 21, 2025 (Sunday)

iCal 3:30 PM. Ensemble Altera [RI]: Messiah. For more information, call 401-575-8504 or email ensemblealtera@gmail.com. Rosecliff Mansion, 548 Bellevue Ave, Newport RI 02840 (View flier) ⓘ 🔗

iCal 1:00 PM. Ensemble Altera [RI]: Messiah. For more information, call 401-575-8504 or email ensemblealtera@gmail.com. Rosecliff Mansion, 548 Bellevue Ave, Newport RI 02840 (View flier) ⓘ 🔗

December 20, 2025 (Saturday)

iCal 7:00 PM. Ensemble Altera [RI]: Messiah. For more information, call 401-575-8504 or email ensemblealtera@gmail.com. St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 55 Main Street, Wickford RI 02852 (View flier) ⓘ 🔗

December 19, 2025 (Friday)

iCal 7:00 PM. Ensemble Altera [RI]: Messiah. For more information, call 401-575-8504 or email ensemblealtera@gmail.com. St. Mary's Catholic Church, 330 Wood Street, Bristol RI 02809 (View flier) ⓘ 🔗

September 14, 2025 (Sunday)

iCal 3:00 PM. Ensemble Altera [RI]: The Four Elements. Music by John Taverner, Eric Whitacre, Kenneth Leighton, Morten Lauridsen, Ivo Antognini, Owain Park, John Rutter, Ēriks Ešenvalds, and Charles Villiers Stanford inspired by the primal forces that shape our world: Earth, Air, Fire, and Water. For more information, call 401-575-8504 or email ensemblealtera@gmail.com. George Kent Performance Hall, 119 High Street, Westerly RI 02891 (View flier) ⓘ 🔗

September 13, 2025 (Saturday)

iCal 7:00 PM. Ensemble Altera [CT]: The Four Elements. Music by John Taverner, Eric Whitacre, Kenneth Leighton, Morten Lauridsen, Ivo Antognini, Owain Park, John Rutter, Ēriks Ešenvalds, and Charles Villiers Stanford inspired by the primal forces that shape our world: Earth, Air, Fire, and Water. For more information, call 401-575-8504 or email ensemblealtera@gmail.com. First Congregational Church, 2 Ferry Road, Old Lyme CT 06371 (View flier) ⓘ 🔗

September 12, 2025 (Friday)

iCal 7:30 PM. Ensemble Altera [MA]: The Four Elements. Music by John Taverner, Eric Whitacre, Kenneth Leighton, Morten Lauridsen, Ivo Antognini, Owain Park, John Rutter, Ēriks Ešenvalds, and Charles Villiers Stanford inspired by the primal forces that shape our world: Earth, Air, Fire, and Water. For more information, call 401-575-8504 or email ensemblealtera@gmail.com. Church Of The Redeemer, 379 Hammond Street, Chestnut Hill MA 02467 (View flier) ⓘ 🔗

November 17, 2024 (Sunday)

iCal 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)

iCal 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)

iCal 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)

iCal 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)

iCal 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)

iCal 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)

iCal 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)

iCal 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)

iCal 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)

iCal 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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Archived Online Events

  • Arlington-Belmont Chorale / Arlington Philharmonic Orchestra [MA]: Holiday Concert. Margaret Bonds: The Ballad of the Brown King; George Frederick Handel: Concerto a Due Cori No. 2; Charles Ives: Three Places in New England. [12/5/2025] Arlington MA ⓘ
  • Brattleboro Women's Chorus [VT]: Circle Round, Our 30th Anniversary Fall Concerts. Joan Szymko: “Here”; “Nothing Short of Grace”; Jonathan Larson: “Seasons of Love” from Rent; Linda Hirschhorn: “Ilu Finu”; “Circle Chant”; Pete Sutherland (Anna Patton, arr.): “Out to Breakfast”; original works by Becky Graber and Anna Patton; other songs that explore the power of living in community. Cathy Martin, piano; Michelle Liechti, violin; Becky Graber and Anna Patton, directors. Tickets, in-person and live stream: $15-$30, sliding scale. Sunday’s show will be live streamed and recorded. [11/22/2025] Brattleboro VT ⓘ
  • Musica Sacra [MA]: The Requiem Masses of Gabriel Fauré and Eustache du Caurroy. You may know the sublimely beautiful Requiem by the 19th century composer Gabriel Fauré, but did you know that his predecessor by 300 years, Eustache de Caurroy, wrote a Requiem for the death of King Henry IV which was then used at the funerals of French kings for the next 200 years? [10/18/2025] Cambridge MA ⓘ Visit archive
  • The Tallis Scholars [MA]: Mother & Child: English music for the Virgin Mary. Music from the English repertoire about the Virgin Mary, including Thomas Tallis’s Missa Puer natus, Benjamin Britten’s A Hymn to the Virgin, and a newly commissioned piece by Matthew Martin. [12/5/2025] Cambridge MA ⓘ