Join us this New Year’s Day for another enlightening Old Music for the New Year. This concert will offer a vibrant journey through seasonal sounds of the Spanish Baroque with its flourishing offshoots in the cathedrals and courts of the New World.
This program reveals the rhythmic vitality, poetic immediacy, and expressive color that defined Iberian and Latin American music from the late 17th to the early 18th centuries. Start your new year by discovering a world where dance, drama, and devotion coexist – music that is both deeply rooted in tradition as well as vibrantly alive:
A cantar un villancico - Roque Ceruti (c. 1683 – 1760)
Vaya pues rompiendo el aire - Sebastián Durón (1660 – 1716)
Ya que pastor clemente - José de Nebra (1702 – 1768)
Tarara qui yo soi Anton - Antonio de Salazar (1650 – 1715)
Obedeciendo a leyes de amor grato - José de Nebra
Pájaros que al ver el alba - José de Torres (1760 – 1738)
O quam gloriosum - Fransisco Valls (1671 – 1747)
Silencio, por si dormido - Esteban Salas y Castro (1725 – 1803)
Ai Horton – soprano
Isolde Welby – soprano
Olivia Duffin – soprano
Marc Destrubé – baroque violin
Kathryn Wiebe – baroque violin
Natalie Mackie – viola da gamba
Christina Hutten – organ
Douglas Hensley – theorbo, guitar
Old Music for the New Year 2026 is presented by Christ Church Cathedral and the Pacific Baroque Festival/Victoria Conservatory of Music
Presented in partnership with the Pacific Baroque Festival.
Admission by donation.