Category: Blog

Posted: September 13, 2023

Huge hair, caked-on makeup, and snatched waists: we associate all these styles with dragqueens, and also with the over-the-top world of baroque opera. Like much...

Posted: July 5, 2023

Welcome to the 2023 -2024 Season Welcome to Pacific MusicWorks 2023-2024 Season. We have an adventurous season in store for you! I hope you will...

Posted: April 1, 2023

At the turn of the 17th century, change was in the air. Although the musical establishment felt that the rules of music had been perfected...

Posted: February 20, 2023

First a confession: we collectively wanted to create a concert centered on the magnificent twin creations of William Lawes – his harp consorts and his...

Posted: February 3, 2023

Thoughts on our 2nd Founders’ Series concert Last year Pacific MusicWorks launched a new initiative called the Founders’ Series to honor theoutstanding supporters who helped...

Posted: January 17, 2023

Pacific MusicWorks is delighted to welcome Julia Benzinger as our new Managing Director! To help you get to know her better, we’re asking a few questions...

Posted: December 21, 2022

The shortest day of the year invites us to quietly reflect and hope. In this spirit, we have asked our Artistic Directors to share a...

Posted: December 2, 2022

When Pacific MusicWorks’ artistic team decided to build a season around our upcoming April production of Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, we found ourselves drawn to the idea...

Posted: May 10, 2022

After twenty years of performing the riches of 17th-century music for two and three sopranos with my ensemble Tragicomedia in Europe, I found that this music...

Posted: April 16, 2021

My goal for this program was to traverse the earliest sonatas of the great Italian violinist/composers – Farina, Uccellini, Fontana – and then to reach...

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