Led by Maestro Ernesto Estigarribia, the Sheboygan Symphony celebrates its 30th season with Handel’s Messiah. Kristin returns as the soprano soloist in this timeless masterpiece.

New Milwaukee Consort brings a selection of music by Amalia Catherina von Erbach to this esteemed Madison concert series. Kristin Knutson Berka, soprano, Charlie Rasmussen, viol, Tim Sterner Miller, lute.

Wednesday, November 20 at Noon. Free and open to the public.

Luther Memorial Church 1021 University Avenue, Madison WI.

New Milwaukee Consort returns the the Canterbury Concert Series in Dixon, Illinois. Sunday, November 3 at 5:00 PM.

Presenting “Draw neare to me and love me” The Sounds of Home in the 17th Century. This program explores the ways that music was part of home life in the 1600s, serving both as a pastime and as a way of measuring, marking, and celebrating the experience of time itself. You will hear music from published collections of songs for voice, lute, and continuo, along with music from handwritten manuscripts documenting the musical learning and collecting of amateur and professional singers and players. Featured pieces will include English lute music and songs compiled for or by musicians Jane Pickeringe and Elizabeth Davenant, and devotional songs composed by German noblewoman Amalia Catharina von Erbach.

Where: St. Luke’s Church, 221 W 3rd St, Dixon IL

Tickets available through https://canterburyconcertseries.org/

Colla Voce Concert Series presents Kristin Knutson Berka, soprano and Maggie Rebers, piano in Sun and Moon, Day and Night. Featuring music by Fauré, Santoliquido, and a sampling of jazz standards. This program explores the moods and memories evoked by the heavenly bodies and the cycles of nature.

Sunday, October 20th at 3:00 PM Grace Lutheran Church 1209 N. Broadway, Milwaukee.

Free and open to the public. Donations accepted.

Ms. Knutson Berka appears as Salome in Haymarket’s presentation of Maria Margherita Grimani’s 1715 Oratorio, La decollazione di San Giovanni Battista. At the feast of Herod, the beautiful princess Salome requests the head of John the Baptist as a punishment for insulting her mother Herodias. Haymarket’s virtuosic vocal and instrumental soloists bring Grimani’s feverish tale of bloodthirsty revenge to life in the work’s modern premiere. 

Gannon Concert Hall
Holtschneider Performance Center at DePaul University
2330 N. Halsted Ave., Chicago, IL 60614

More Information Available at: https://www.haymarketopera.org/grimani

BWV 227 “Jesu, meine Freude” with Just Bach Concert Series at Luther Memorial in Madison

Featuring singers Kristin Knutson, Sarah Brailey, Geoffrey Williams, Steven Wison, and Ryne Cherry

Luther Memorial, 1021 University Ave. Madison, WI 53715

BWV 227 “Jesu, meine Freude” with Just Bach Concert Series at the Nashotah House Seminary.

Featuring singers Kristin Knutson, Sarah Brailey, Geoffrey Williams, Steven Wison, and Ryne Cherry

Nashota House Seminary , 2777 Mission Rd., Nashotah, WI 53058

The New Milwaukee Consort travels to Dixon, IL as special guests of the Canterbury Concert Series. This short program will feature music from two manuscripts compiled near the shores of Lake Como in Northern Italy—one an early 17th-century collection of lute music and the other a late 17th-century collection of unique early cello works, including some beautiful arias with cello obbligato. Also on the program will be excursions to France and England with virtuosic viol works by Antoine Forqueray and Marin Marais, and an aria from Handel’s hit opera, Rinaldo.

Tickets available at the door

Sunday, February, 26, 2023, 5PM-6PM

St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 221 West 3rd Street, Dixon, IL

The Wisconsin Baroque Ensemble presents works by Giovanni Felice Sances, G.F. Handel, and Michel Pignolet de Montéclair, Georg Philipp Telemann, and Antonio Vivaldi at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Madison.

Sigrun Franzen - harpsichord
Eric Miller - viola da gamba
Kristin Knutson - soprano and Baroque guitar
Anton TenWolde - baroque cello
Max Yount - harpsichord

Tickets are available only at the door: $20, students $10

Thursday, January 12, 2023

• 7:00 PM 8:00 PM

Join us for Beer and Baroque, sponsored by Early Music Now, at Gathering Place Brewing Company (811 E. Vienna Ave., 53212) on Thursday, January 12th, at 7:00pm.

In this short program, we’ll play music from two manuscripts compiled near the shores of Lake Como in Northern Italy—one an early 17th-century collection of lute music and the other a late 17th-century collection of unique early cello works, including some beautiful arias with cello obbligato. We’ll also throw in some exciting and virtuosic French viol pieces and one of Handel’s greatest hits!

December 10, 2022  7:30 pm

Stefanie H. Weill Center for the Performing Arts, Sheboygan, Wisconsin

Maestro Estigarribia leads his first SSO Messiah, continuing the holiday tradition of Handel’s sacred masterpiece with the Symphony Chorus.

https://sheboygansymphony.org/

Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist

Wednesday, November 30, 12:15-12:45, free admission

The New Milwaukee Consort presents a 30-minute program of Italian Baroque gems. Join this adventurous trio as they explore the late 17th century “Como Manuscript” featuring works by Francesco Ballarotti, Paolo Magni, and Angelo Maria Fioré. Also presented will be seldom heard lute works and the Milwaukee premiere of an Italian cantata by 17th century nun, Isabella Leonarda.

Tim Rebers and Hazzan Jeremy Stein present an ensemble cast of Milwaukee’s top theatre artists in a celebration of the life and music of Stephen Sondheim. Featuring music from Into the Woods, Follies, Sweeney Todd, West Side Story, Marry Me A Little, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.

Congregation Beth Israel Ner Tamid, 6880 N. Green Bay Avenue, Milwaukee, WI

Streaming tickets also available.

https://www.cbintmilwaukee.org/events/annual-fundraiser-sondheim-revue/

Appearing as Drusilla and Fortuna in Haymarket’s Long-Awaited Production of a Monteverdi Masterpiece, L’Incoronazione di Poppea.

http://www.haymarketopera.org/poppea

Appearing as Drusilla and Fortuna in Haymarket’s Long-Awaited Production of a Monteverdi Masterpiece, L’Incoronazione di Poppea.

http://www.haymarketopera.org/poppea

Second Acts is a concert production of Milwaukee’s newest opera company, Brew City Opera. This concert performance will be on Friday, May 27th at 7:30 pm at the United Methodist Church of Whitefish Bay. Stage direction by Edson Melendez, musical direction by Tim Rebers.

For more information, please visit https://www.brewcityopera.com/

Appearing with Haymarket Opera Company as Daniele in the Chicago premiere of Alessandro Stradella’s oratorio La Susanna. This production marks Haymarket’s return to live music, and will be held in the Gannon Concert Hall at DePaul University’s Holtschneider Performance Center.

More information at http://www.haymarketopera.org/susanna

Join the Wisconsin Baroque Ensemble for an evening of Strozzi, Frescobaldi, Scarlatti, Marais, Gabrieli, and Geminiani. Saturday February 26 at 7:30 PM, St Andrew's Episcopal Church, Madison
Tickets at the door only: $20 ($10 students)

Sigrun Franzen - harpsichord
Kristin Knutson - soprano, baroque guitar
Charlie Rasmussen - baroque cello, viola da gamba
Anton TenWolde  - baroque cello

Warm your spirits with the New Milwaukee Consort in a program of fiery dances and passionate songs from the French and Italian Baroque, featuring soprano, lute, viola da gamba, Baroque cello, and Baroque guitar. This concert is a fundraising event for the music department of St. Matthias, 111 E. Main Street, Waukesha, WI. Tickets can be purchased at the door or online through https://stmatthiasepiscopalchurch.ticketleap.com/

Warm your spirits with the New Milwaukee Consort in a program of fiery dances and passionate songs from the French and Italian Baroque, featuring soprano, lute, viola da gamba, Baroque cello, and Baroque guitar. This concert is part of a free concert series through Grace Lutheran Church, 1209 N. Broadway, Milwaukee, WI. For more information, please visit https://www.gracedowntown.org/upcoming-events/first-fridays/

Songs for a Winter’s Night: Musical stargazing, holiday merriment, and lullabies from Early Modern Italy and England. Sunday, December 12 at 3:00 PM. Trinity Episcopal Church, 1717 Church Street, Wauwatosa, WI. Please note that masks are required, regardless of vaccination status, in accordance with the church’s policy.

Join Tim, Kristin, and Charlie at Black Husky Brewing for a brief pop up concert of rollicking Baroque tunes. This free event will be a celebration of Black Husky’s fine beer paired with music by Marin Marais, Tarquinio Merula, Joan Ambrosio Dalza, Antoine Forqueray, Claudio Monteverdi, G. F. Handel and more. 909 East Locust Street, Milwaukee, WI. 6:30 PM - 7:15 PM.

The Colla Voce Concert Series presents You’re Just in Love: Duets for Soprano and Tenor, featuring Kristin Knutson and Tim Rebers, in collaboration with pianist Maggie Rebers. This live streamed event tells the joys and foibles of love through lenses offered by Robert Schumann, Paolo Tosti, Irving Berlin, Richard Rodgers, Leonard Bernstein and Amy Beach. More information available through https://www.facebook.com/CollaVoceConcertSeries/

Join the New Milwaukee Consort as they present a vivifying, 30-minute, program of Baroque music in Milwaukee’s Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist. The trio will perform a mix of instrumental and vocal music featuring works by Barbara Strozzi, Jacquet de la Guerre, Joan Ambrosio Dalza, and Antoine Forqueray. This lunchtime concert will begin at 12:15 and end by 12:45. Though a free will offering is taken, there is no charge to attend the concert. St. John Cathedral 812 N. Jackson St. Milwaukee, WI 53202.