Our season opens with the first of two concerts celebrating the works of the visionary Italian Baroque violinist and composer Arcangelo Corelli. Corelli’s Opus 5 sonatas were published in Rome on January 1, 1700, and came to profoundly influence violin playing and compositional styles in the 18th century and beyond. The brilliant Baroque violinist Amelia Sie will be joined by cellist Anna Steinhoff and harpsichordist Jason J. Moy in six of the twelve sonatas that make up this innovative and charming collection. 

Free admission; no tickets are required, but donations will be gratefully accepted at the door.

Program

Arcangelo Corelli (1653–1713)
Violin Sonata Nr. 3 in C Major
Violin Sonata Nr. 4 in F Major
Violin Sonata Nr. 7 in D minor
Violin Sonata Nr. 2 in B-flat Major
Violin Sonata Nr. 11 in E Major
Violin Sonata Nr. 9 in A Major

Amelia Sie, violin
Anna Steinhoff, cello
Jason J. Moy, harpsichord

Acclaimed harpsichordist and Assistant Professor of Historical Keyboards and Musicology at the University of Oregon, Dr. Joyce Wei-Jo Chen will perform solo harpsichord works by Èlisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre, Elisabetta de Gambarini, Elizabeth Turner, and Marianna Martines. 

Free admission; no tickets are required, but donations will be gratefully accepted at the door.

Program TBD 

Joyce Wei-Jo Chen, harpsichord

We celebrate J.S. Bach’s birthday month—and Early Music America’s Early Music Month—with another iteration of our beloved annual coffeehouse concerts. This year’s program includes two Paris Quartets by Bach’s dear friend and illustrious colleague Georg Philipp Telemann. Scored for flute, violin, cello, and continuo, these quartets were likely performed at Bach’s own coffeehouse series at Café Zimmermann in Leipzig and may have inspired the French composer Louis-Gabriel Guillemain’s own set of Opus 12 Flute Quartets. Flutist Taya König-Tarasevich and harpsichordist Jason J. Moy round out the program with Bach’s B Minor Flute Sonata, BWV 1030. 

Free admission; no tickets are required, but donations will be gratefully accepted at the door.

Program 

Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767)
Paris Quartet No. 3 in A Major (Sonata Prima) TWV 43:A1  

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Sonata in B minor for Flute and Harpsichord, BWV 1030

Louis-Gabriel Guillemain (1705–1770)
Sonate en quatuor in D minor, Op. 12 No. 3                                                    

Georg Philipp Telemann
Paris Quartet No. 12 in E minor, TWV 43:e4 

Taya König-Tarasevich, flute
Emily Nebel, violin
Ana Kim, cello
Cora Swenson Lee, cello
Jason J. Moy, harpsichord

Join us at All Saints’ Episcopal Church, one of Chicago’s oldest and most architecturally splendid churches, for this free chamber music concert featuring soprano Hannah De Priest and friends. We’re giving our “Music Among Friends” theme a little spin with this program subtitled “Friends and Enemies” and featuring works by some of the most colorful and scandalous characters from the Baroque period, including Jean-Marie Leclair, Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi, and Alessandro Stradella. We are grateful to Ars Musica Chicago supporters and longtime All Saints’ parishioners Margaret and Bob McCamant for generously underwriting this performance. 

Free admission; no tickets are required.
Please note the special location of this concert.

Program TBD

Hannah De Priest, soprano
Emily Nebel, violin
Amelia Sie, violin
Ana Kim, cello
Jason J. Moy, harpsichord

Our 2026–2027 season closes as it began—with the celebrated Opus 5 sonatas of Arcangelo Corelli. Baroque violinist Amelia Sie and harpsichordist Jason J. Moy will be joined by cellist Ana Kim and lutenist Brandon Acker for the conclusion of their year-long exploration of Corelli’s complete sonatas for solo violin. These remaining six sonatas include the famous “Folia” variations that close this monumental set of influential and visionary works with a flurry of blistering virtuosity.

Free admission; no tickets are required, but donations will be gratefully accepted at the door.

Program

Arcangelo Corelli (1653–1713)
Violin Sonata Nr. 1 in D Major
Violin Sonata Nr. 8 in E minor
Violin Sonata Nr. 6 in A Major
Violin Sonata Nr. 5 in G minor
Violin Sonata Nr. 10 in F Major
Violin Sonata Nr. 12 in D minor, “Folia”

Amelia Sie, violin
Ana Kim, cello
Brandon Acker, theorbo, archlute, and guitar
Jason J. Moy, harpsichord