Kids will get a close-up exposure to the ancient instruments of Gut, Wind, and Wire, including the lute, wooden flutes, cittern, viola da gamba, and bagpipes. Stories of the Renaissance told in folk ballads and sung by the extraordinary Molly Netter and dancing to tunes of The English Dancing Master by John Playford taught by choreographer and dance historian Lisa Green-Cudek will be included.

Mark Cudek, bass viol, cittern, percussion
Ronn McFarlane, lute
Mindy Rosenfeld, flutes and fifes
Molly Netter, soprano
Lisa Green-Cudek, dancer

“Dowland’s Goodnight”

Guest artist with Gut, Wind, and Wire:

With six-time GRAMMY nominee, Canadian-American soprano Molly Netter,  with her “Clear, beautiful tone and vivacious personality-” –NY Times

Marking the 400th anniversary of John Dowland’s death, this program explores the rich musical world of one of the Renaissance’s most expressive composers and its greatest lutenist. The program features lute songs and solos as well as consort music by Dowland and music by his contemporaries and includes Scottish folk airs first notated during the reign of James I (= James VI of Scotland), Dowland’s employer at the end of his career.

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Guest with Alychymy Viols for a new program, Songbook from Across the Sea: The Sounds of French Louisiana, at the Bloomington Early Music' Festival’s 2026 season. Cantatas by Clerambault, Campra, Couperin, Lully, Desmarets, and de Bousset.

Indiana’s own Alchymy Viols offers music from the Ursuline Manuscript, a spiritual songbook gifted from France in 1736 to a convent in New Orleans in the heart of French Louisiana—territory that would later join the United States. Sung in devotion by the Ursuline sisters, its music is by the most reputed French composers of the era—Lully, Campra, Lambert, Marchand, Clérembault—adapted with religious lyrics. In transcriptions by Alchymy artistic director Phil Spray, this concert is a stunning showcase of feminine expression and colonial life in the Louisiana territory. 

Soprano I soloist with The San Antonio Philharmonic for Bach’s Mass in B Minor

Jeffrey Kahane, conductor

Soprano I soloist with The San Antonio Philharmonic for Bach’s Mass in B Minor

Jeffrey Kahane, conductor

Presented by Voices of Music in Berkeley, CA

Medieval, renaissance, baroque music and the world premiere of a new work. Secret gardens, horti conclusi, often enclosed and carefully designed, were built for relaxation and escape from urban life and reflected a rich tapestry of horticultural practices and cultural influences through the ages. Molly Netter, soprano.

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Presented by Voices of Music in Berkeley, CA

Medieval, renaissance, baroque music and the world premiere of a new work. Secret gardens, horti conclusi, often enclosed and carefully designed, were built for relaxation and escape from urban life and reflected a rich tapestry of horticultural practices and cultural influences through the ages. Molly Netter, soprano.

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Presented by Voices of Music in Berkeley, CA

Medieval, renaissance, baroque music and the world premiere of a new work. Secret gardens, horti conclusi, often enclosed and carefully designed, were built for relaxation and escape from urban life and reflected a rich tapestry of horticultural practices and cultural influences through the ages. Molly Netter, soprano.

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James O’Donnell, director

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Molly joins Lorelei Ensemble, in collaboration with Cantus for a special SATB presentation of their program Land that I Love at Yale University.

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Molly joins Lorelei Ensemble for a performance of Morton Feldman’s Rothko Chapel at Yale with Cantus, along with the US premiere of Katherine Balch’s songs and interludes, and Julius Eastman’s rarely heard Colors.

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James O’Donnell, director

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Molly Netter sings David Lang’s Oscar-nominated ‘simple song #3’ with pianist Vicky Chow at the Bang on a Can Gala, alongside performances by Leila Josefowicz, Maya Beiser, David Cossin, and others, honoring Deborah Borda and Cory Toevs.

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Molly joins Parthenia Viol Consort for their New Year’s program in NYC featuring carols, motets, dances and fantasias from Elizabethan England by Byrd, Holborne, Ravenscroft and Morley.

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Handel’s Messiah with Baroque Instruments; with Audivi

Handel’s Messiah with Baroque Instruments; with Audivi

Soloists:

Molly Netter, soprano

Clara Osowski, mezzo-soprano

Gene Stenger, tenor

Paul Max Tipton, bass-baritone

Join The Bach Society of Saint Louis for the powerful opening of their 85th season with Mozart’s reverent Requiem. More than two centuries later, Mozart’s final masterpiece continues to move listeners with its emotional depth and enduring beauty. Led by Music Director and Conductor A. Dennis Sparger, The Bach Society Chorus and Orchestra present a profound reflection on loss, grief and the search for peace.

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CAST

Tamino: Derek Chester

Pamina: Molly Netter

Queen of the Night: Julie Bosworth

Papageno: Paul Max Tipton

Sarastro: Peter Walker

First Lady: Adrienne Lotto

Second Lady: Sheila Dietrich

Third Lady: Sara Couden

Monostatos: Gene Stenger

Papagena: Molly Quinn

Boy 1: Elijah McCormack

Boy 2: Cody Bowers

Boy 3: Clifton Massey

Carsten Schmidt, conductor

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Soprano soloist for Pierre Boulez’s Improvisation sur Mallarmé No. 1, for voice, percussion, and harp.

On the Staunton Music Festival’s program, Esprit de France

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Zachary Wadsworth’s 20-minute work, Walzer einer neuen Liebe, for vocal quartet and piano four hands.

Molly Netter, soprano

Angela Smucker, mezzo-soprano

Gene Stenger, tenor

Paul Max Tipton, bass-baritone

Lori Piitz and Zachary Wadsworth, piano

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Featured artist with Midsummer’s Music in Door County, WI:

A sumptuous feast of Baroque music presented by stellar musicians! Soprano Molly Netter brings her gorgeous voice and blazing virtuosity to this program with both dramatic and comic elements. David Perry, violin; Heather Zinninger, flute; and Mark Schuldiner, harpsichord, also lead our strings in some of Bach’s most extraordinary instrumental works.

Orchestral Suite in B Minor, BWV 1067 – Johann Sebastian Bach
Flute, Strings, and Harpsichord

Schlumert ein from Ich habe genug, Cantata, BWV 82a – Johann Sebastian Bach
Soprano, Strings, and Harpsichord

Un pensiero nemico di pace from Il trionfo del Tempo e della Verità – Georg Friedrich Händel
Soprano, Strings, and Harpsichord

Ei! Wei schmeckt der Kaffee süße from Cantata, BWV 211 (Coffee Cantata) – Johann Sebastian Bach
Soprano, Flute, Strings, and Harpsichord

Heute noch from Cantata, BWV 211 (Coffee Cantata) – Johann Sebastian Bach
Soprano, Strings, and Harpsichord

Da tempeste il legno infranto from Guilio Cesare, HWV 17 – Georg Friedrich Händel
Soprano, Strings, and Harpsichord

Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D Major, BWV 1050 – Johann Sebastian Bach
Flute, Violin, Harpsichord, and Strings

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Two cantatas for soprano and oboe with Priscilla Herreid at Oberlin’s BPI faculty concert: Handel’s “Mi palpita il cor” and Joseph Bodin de Boismortier's cantata "Diane et Actéon.”

On the second week of BPI: Dido’s Lament (Pucell) with the faculty orchestra and Kenneth Slowik, conductor

Mountains to moors duo, Mark Shuldiner (piano) and Molly Netter (soprano), perform a house concert recital in Winnetka, IL, featuring Schumann, Schubert, and Bach, among others

Soprano soloist for Bach’s B Minor Mass

The Oratorio Society of Virginia; Michael Slon, conductor

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