Description:

Founded in 1980, Piffaro specializes in polished recreations of music of the peasantry and court from the late middle ages and the Renaissance. The Philadelphia-based ensemble performs throughout the Americas and Europe, and its members appear as performers and instructors at major early music festivals. In 2011 Piffaro received the Laurette Goldberg Lifetime Achievement Award in Early Music Outreach. Piffaro will present an educational and entertaining program featuring its many early wind and plucked string instruments, playing a variety of 16th century repertoire from England, Italy, and Spain. Ensemble members will demonstrate the instruments and talk about their origins, their roles in the music of the period, and their descendants played by today’s musical ensembles.

Presented in collaboration with the Evelyn Dunbar Early Music Festival.