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Letters to a Young Poet – NYC

Diderot Quartet December 15, 2024
The US Premiere of our new work arrives on the doorstep of the 150th anniversaries for both Ravel and Rilke.
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What Music Is – Colorado

The San Juan Symphony February 22, 2025
The world premiere of Bill Barclay's new work features animator Shawn Feeney and conductor Thomas Heuser.
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What Music Is – New Mexico

The San Juan Symphony February 23, 2025
The world premiere of Bill Barclay's new work features animator Shawn Feeney and conductor Thomas Heuser.
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Markus Passion – Pittsburgh

The Sebastians & Chatham Baroque April 11, 2025
Bach's lost Markus Passion in a world premiere staging, featuring Joseph Marcell.
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Markus Passion – NYC

The Sebastians & Chatham Baroque April 13, 2025
Bach's Markus Passion comes to Music Before 1800, featuring Joseph Marcell.
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Peer Gynt – St Louis

St Louis Symphony Orchestra May 3, 2025
Our largest and most irreverent production continues its hell-raising tour conducted by Stéphane Denève.
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Apollo Resurrected – West Wicklow

West Wicklow Festival May 10, 2025
The United Strings of Europe, with members of Gandini Juggling, recreate Stravinsky’s ballet, Apollon Musagete.
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Bach’s Art of Fugue – Cambridge

Academy of Ancient Music May 14, 2025
The world premier of Barclay's new work is led by Laurence Cummings of AAM.
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Bach’s Art of Fugue – London

Academy of Ancient Music May 15, 2025
Our touring production of Bach's final work comes to Milton Court in London.
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Apollo Resurrected – Chiltern Arts Festival

Chiltern Arts Festival May 20, 2025
The United Strings of Europe, with members of Gandini Juggling, recreate Stravinsky’s ballet, Apollon Musagete.
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Past Performances

Secret Byrd – St John the Divine

The Gesualdo 6 and Abendmusik November 9
This 400th anniversary celebration of William Byrd’s Mass for 5 Voices is theatrically staged in an immersive performance.
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Secret Byrd – Revels

The Gesualdo Six & Abendmusik October 31-November 2
The immersive vigil by candlelight celebrating Byrd400 tours to the Cathedral Church of St Paul's for the much-awaited Boston debut of The Gesualdo Six.
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Secret Byrd – Canterbury Cathedral

The Gesualdo 6 and Fretwork October 24
William Byrd’s Mass for 5 Voices is theatrically staged in an immersive performance for The Canterbury Festival.
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Secret Byrd – Temple Newsam, Leeds

The Gesualdo 6 and Fretwork October 22
Our historic tour visits Lutyens Crypt for two special immersive performances underground.
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Secret Byrd – Liverpool

The Gesualdo 6 and Fretwork October 21
Our historic tour visits Lutyens Crypt for two special immersive performances underground.
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Secret Byrd – Christ Church, Oxford

The Gesualdo 6 and Fretwork September 5
William Byrd’s Mass for 5 Voices is theatrically staged in an immersive performance for The Canterbury Festival.
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Secret Byrd – Guildford, Holy Trinity Church

The Gesualdo 6 and Abendmusik July 12
Our historic tour careens into Guildford for two special immersive performances at the grand Holy Trinity Church
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Secret Byrd – Salisbury Medieval Hall

The Gesualdo 6 and Fretwork July 11
This immersive celebration of the courage of William Byrd continues in the atmospheric 13th century medieval hall in Salisbury
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Peer Gynt – Boston Revival

Boston Symphony Orchestra March 7-9, 2024
Returning to Symphony Hall in 2024 is this BSO commission which has become CTW's flagship production.
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The Chevalier NYC Premiere

Harlem Chamber Players January 21
Bill Barclay's hit international tour comes to NYC for the first time at the sumptuous United Palace of Cultural Arts, co-presented by Music Before 1800.
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Secret Byrd – Cambridge

The Gesualdo 6 and Fretwork December 4
This 400th anniversary celebration of William Byrd’s Mass for 5 Voices is theatrically staged in an immersive performance at St John's College Chapel.
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Secret Byrd – National Centre for Early Music

The Gesualdo Six & Fretwork December 2
Secret Byrd headlines one of the UK's flagship early music festivals in York.
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Secret Byrd – Santa Fe

The Gesualdo Six & Abendmusik November 14 & 15
Our hit tour continues at Performance Santa Fe with The Gesualdo Six and Abendmusik.
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Secret Byrd – Brighton Early Music Festival

The Gesualdo 6 and Fretwork October 13
This 400th anniversary celebration of William Byrd’s Mass for 5 Voices is theatrically staged in an immersive performance at St Bartholomew's in Brighton
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Secret Byrd – St Martin-in-the-Fields Revival

The Gesualdo 6 and Fretwork September 8
This 400th anniversary celebration of William Byrd’s Mass for 5 Voices is theatrically staged in an immersive performance.
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Secret Byrd – Bristol, UK

The Gesualdo Six & Fretwork September 7
Our hit tour continues within Bristol's historic 15th century space, The Mount Without.
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The Chevalier full-length, Powerhouse Theatre

Harlem Chamber Players July 22
Bill Barclay's full-length play The Chevalier is presented for the first time in a staged reading with The Harlem Chamber Players.
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Secret Byrd – Oxford Festival of the Arts

The Gesualdo 6 and Fretwork June 29
This 400th anniversary celebration of William Byrd continues in the 12th century Abingdon Abbey buildings in Oxford for two performances and a 730 conversation about Byrd's music.
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Bill Barclay talks at Snape Maltings

Aldeburgh Festival June 24
Before the world premiere of his concert-theatre work Letters to a Young Poet, listen to director Bill Barclay talk about the piece.
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Letters to a Young Poet – Aldeburgh Festival

The Brodsky Quartet June 24
The world premier of Barclay's new work arrives in one of music's greatest festivals in the 50th anniversary of the Brodsky Quartet
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Secret Byrd – Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn

Cathedra & Abendmusik June 9-11
Byrd400 comes to NYC in the Catabombs of Brooklyn's Greenwood Cemetery, produced by Death of Classical.
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Secret Byrd – New Hampshire

Cathedra May 11
The clandestine candlelit hit performance celebrates Byrd400 at St Paul's School, NH.
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Secret Byrd – Virginia

Cathedra April 19
The immersive vigil by candlelight celebrating Byrd400 tours to Bridgewater College, Virginia for a special performance at the Carter Center for Music and Worship.
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The Chevalier – St Martin in-the-Fields

London Philharmonic Orchestra March 21
In London's West End with violinist Braimah Kanneh-Mason and Olivier Award-winning Chukwudi Iwuji, both playing Joseph Bologne.
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The Chevalier – UK Premier

London Philharmonic Orchestra March 19
The Chevalier arrives at Snape Maltings, Suffolk, the first of two performances with the LPO featuring violinist Braimah Kanneh-Mason.
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Secret Byrd – Washington, D.C.

Cathedra March 5
An immersive vigil by candlelight within the atmospheric crypt at the Washington National Cathedral in the heart of D.C.
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Secret Byrd – St Martin-in-the-Fields

The Gesualdo 6 and Fretwork January 27 & 28
This 400th anniversary celebration of William Byrd’s Mass for 5 Voices is theatrically staged in an immersive performance.
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Peer Gynt – Cincinnati

Pekka Kuusisto & Camilla Tilling Jan 13 & 14
Louis Langree leads the Cincinnati Symphony, joined by rock-star soloist Kuusisto and our original Solveig from the BSO premiere
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Apollo Resurrected – Leeds

United Strings of Europe November 3
Stravinsky’s ballet with jugglers from Gandini Juggling performing a new libretto written and directed by Bill Barclay.
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Apollo Resurrected, UK

King's Place, London October 27
The United Strings of Europe, with members of Gandini Juggling, recreate Stravinsky’s ballet, Apollon Musagete.
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The Chevalier in NY

Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra October 19
JoAnn Falletta reunites with Concert Theatre Works after conducting Anthony & Cleopatra in 2019.
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The Chevalier in NC

Winston-Salem Symphony October 2
Thomas Heuser conducts the return of The Chevalier to the Winston-Salem Symphony after their lockdown film.
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The Chevalier – Caramoor

The Harlem Chamber Players July 2022
The Chevalier performs just outside of New York City in the sumptuous Venetian Theatre at the Caramoor Festival.
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The Chevalier – Chautauqua

Rossen Milanov, conductor July 2022
The Chevalier continues its tour in the expansive amphitheatre of the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra, featuring violinist Brendon Elliott.
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The Chevalier – Cleveland

Vinay Parameswaran, conductor May 2022
The Chevalier debuts in a new student version followed by its full-length version for all audiences with The Cleveland Orchestra.
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Peer Gynt – Milwaukee

Ken-David Masur, conductor March 2022
Peer Gynt inaugurates the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra's new Bradley Symphony Center, featuring soprano Georgia Jarman.
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The Chevalier – Chicago

Dame Jane Glover, conductor February 2022
Tour with Music of the Baroque in three different neighborhoods: the Kehrein Center for the Arts, North Shore Center, and Chicaco Symphony Hall.
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1791: Mozart’s Last Year – Washington, D.C.

Gianandrea Noseda, conductor December 2021
The National Symphony Orchestra celebrates Mozart's masterpieces written in the year of his death at age 35, with narration from his own letters.
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Peer Gynt – Cincinnati

Camilla Tilling October 2020
CANCELED DUE TO COVID-19. This production also features actors, and the May Festival Chorus with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.
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Wilton’s Music Hall – London

City of London Sinfonia May 2020
CANCELED DUE TO COVID-19. The music of Vivaldi and Mozart in an exhilarating and intimate atmosphere similar to their day.
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Historic Royal Palaces

Royal Society for the Protection of Birds

Vivaldi’s Four Seasons – A Reimagining, Shakespeare’s Globe

Peer Gynt – Boston Symphony Orchestra

Shakespeare at the Bowl with the LA Philharmonic

Antony & Cleopatra – BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican

Mendelssohn’s Midsummer Night’s Dream – Tanglewood remount

L’Histoire du Soldat – City of London Sinfonia