VdGS/GNY

01/08/2026

"See Those Sweet Eyes" ~ Join A Golden Wire on Friday, January 16 @ 7pm for Elizabethan music and verse for the season
https://mailchi.mp/gemsny/golden-wire26

09/18/2025

Please mark your calendars for our Fall Play-in!
Sunday, October 19th

09/17/2025

Our new album, Division: The Virtuoso Consort is out now! featuring Jenkins' virtuoso fantasy suites performed with Silas Wollston, this is one disc that's not to be missed. It's truly fantastical and wonderful music. You can buy and stream it now!

Signum Records

09/16/2025

Upcoming Fall Playin information - Sunday, October 19th, 2025

05/24/2025

Join A Golden Wire on Sunday, June 1 @ 4pm for music for three viols by English Catholic Recusants
https://mailchi.mp/gemsny/golden-wire25

03/20/2025

Bring it on!

The president, who recently took over Washington’s major performing arts center, reportedly said that he had not been encouraged to develop his musical talents.

01/24/2025

Many viols involved in today’s concert , celebrating the music of Orlando Gibbons. Come and hear us today

11/11/2024

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1EjvnwG23m/
New York Classical Review of "Secret Byrd."
"Abendmusik performed before and after the main body of the program. Many crowded up close to experience their music making and inspect their period string instruments, but the better vantage point was to distance oneself. The aura cast by their playing was mysterious and magical, as indeed was the entire experience of 'Secret Byrd'."

The program titled “Secret Byrd,” performed by The Gesualdo Six with Abendmusik Saturday at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine was an extremely moving experience on many levels. These ranged from the spiritual to the aesthetic, but historical context also played a vital role as well. Th...

10/30/2024

First meeting of Vassar Viols!

We have a robust group, and yes the baroque flute player is also playing viol. These students are very lucky to have access to the collection of early instruments donated by the Waverly Consort as well as viols on loan from the Viola da Gamba Society of Greater New York and me, and two viols from a collection tracing the history of string instruments that live in the Treasure Room of Skinner Hall. I'm really looking forward to working with these enthusiastic musicians!