Featured Artist:        Chatham Baroque

Chatham Baroque, western Pennsylvania's only professional baroque ensemble playing on period instruments, excites audiences with dazzling technique and artful interpretation. In recent years the trio has taken its performances and educational programs to Montreal, Mexico City, the British Virgin Islands, California, Texas, Ohio, Maryland, Tennessee, Florida, North Carolina, Alabama and Washington, DC.

Chatham Baroque's performances at the 2005 Piccolo Spoleto Festival were so popular that the ensemble was immediately invited to return in 2006, where it once again received great praise. Chatham Baroque was acclaimed for its artful presentation of Spanish music with guest musicians and baroque dancers at the 2006 Madison Early Music Festival. Three repeat performances of this dazzling program Danzas y Bailes will be presented in 2007 in Chicago as part of the Newberry Library concert series. Chatham Baroque's live performances have been recorded and broadcast on NPR's Performance Today, generating calls and e-mails from as close to Pittsburgh as Virginia and as far away as Montana and Denmark.