REBEL Ensemble with Baroque dancers “Caractères de La Danse”

As part of the Musica Antiqua Nova Series, the internationally-acclaimed chamber ensemble, REBEL will offer a program of dance-inspired baroque chamber music by Rebel, Lully, Handel, Vivaldi, Corelli, Leclair & Fux with Thomas Baird & Paige Whitley-Bauguess, baroque dancers. The program will be performed on period instruments at the historic and acoustically-excellent Bedford Presbyterian Church in Bedford, NY. The instrumentalists in this program will be Jörg-Michael Schwarz & Karen Marie Marmer, violins; John Moran, cello and Dongsok Shin, harpsichord.

A fully-catered reception follows the concert where the audience can meet the artists.

Reservations are strongly recommended.
Reserved seating by advance payment only.
General Admission at the door.

Tickets are available by reservation. Reserved seating by advance purchase only or for general admission at the door.

REBEL (pronounced “Re-BEL” and named after French baroque composer Jean-Féry Rebel), a chamber music ensemble specializing in 17th- & 18th-century music performing on period instruments, is arguably the most aired American baroque ensemble on radio today. REBEL was National Public Radio’s ensemble-in-residence in 1999 and has appeared live on NPR’s Performance Today and MPR’s St. Paul Sunday. They have been hailed by The New York Times as “Sophisticated and Beguiling” and praised by the Los Angeles Times for their “astonishingly vital music-making”. The ensemble records for Deutsche Harmonia Mundi , Dorian, ATMA,Naxos and Bridge Records and tours internationally.