NEC’s Baroque Orchestra is part of the The Pratt Performance and Residency Series for Early Music, established by Harold I. and Frances G. Pratt at NEC in 2019, which seeks to invite and engage the NEC community with performers and scholars in the Historically Informed Performance field. Masterclasses, symposia, and performances by nationally- and internationally- recognized scholars and performers are funded through this endowment. In addition, the Performance and Residency Series aims to provide NEC students with the opportunity to study early music and historically-informed performance with experts in the field, as well as to expand the historical instrument collection at NEC.
Led by guest artist Susanna Ogata, the Baroque Orchestra performs Canzone quinta a quattro by Frescobaldi, Lully’s Suite from “Le bourgeois gentilhomme”, the Sinfonia in D Minor from Santa Beatrice d’Este, Biber’s Battaglia à 10, and Muffat’s Passacaglia from Sonata No. 5 in G Major, “Armonico Tributo.”