Here we list upcoming concerts that include or are supported by our members or conductors. Please send listings to the webmaster. Include “OCRS” in the subject line.
We are fortunate that there are many great concerts in Southern California all year. We cannot list them all. Here is a list of local concert resources, including area chamber and early music venues, with links. Also check these excellent sources:
http://www.performingartslive.com
https://www.earlymusicla.org
Los Angeles Recorder Orchestra
LARO includes several members of OCRS and is directed by Ricardo Berón. LARO’s next concerts will be November 1, 2026 in Los Angeles and November 15 in Fullerton.
For more information, visit https://laromusic.org/
Performances including our conductors
Tesserae
Tesserae includes our conductor Alex Opsahl.
Ciaramella Early Music Ensemble
Ciaramella Early Music Ensemble ventures toward modern times with intoxicating dance melodies from musicians who lived from the 1500s into the Baroque era. Ground bass patterns underlie all of this music; sometimes one can hear it clearly and sometimes the ground bass line is veiled within the polyphony. Ciaramella performs on shawms, recorders, bagpipes, sackbuts, plucked-string instruments, and percussion, improvising florid polyphony in the manner of the Burgundian alta capella ensembles that piped across Renaissance Europe.
Members include our conductors Rotem Gilbert and Adam Gilbert. See https://www.ciaramella.band/
USC Thornton Baroque Sinfonia
The USC Thornton Baroque Sinfonia (formerly the USC Thornton Early Music Ensemble) is a period-instrument ensemble whose members are among the most gifted instrumentalists at the USC Thornton School. The Baroque Sinfonia is led by Adam Gilbert, the director of the Early Music program. Specializing in music from the seventeenth- through mid-eighteenth century, it has performed in the U.K.-L.A. Festival, the Los Angeles Bach Festival, the Long Beach Bach Festival, the J. Paul Getty Summer Music Festival, the Cal State Summer Arts Festival and concert series at UCLA, Occidental College, Chapman University, the Skirball Cultural Center and many others. As a winner in the Early Music America Collegium, the Baroque Sinfonia was be among six ensembles who performed at Early Music America’s Young Performers Festival in 2014. Its performances have been heard on NPR, and its members—past and present—populate some of the best professional ensembles on both coasts. Solo singers specializing in baroque styles and techniques also take part in the concerts. https://music.usc.edu/baroque-sinfonia/
La Mer Consort
Directed by Brenda Bittner.
To participate, see classes