Embarking upon its eleventh concert season, the Austin Baroque Orchestra and Chorus is a period-instrument orchestra and choir based dually in Austin and San Antonio, TX, USA. With a varied instrumentarium that allows the ensemble to perform music from the 15th through early 19th centuries, ABO performs a wide variety of instrumental and vocal music by well-known and not-so-well-known composers. One pillar of ABO's mission is the championing of music from Viceregal (colonial) Latin America; this specialization has led to the performance of a great many pieces that have not been performed in modern times, as well as numerous appearances at major academic conferences related to music or to Latin American studies, including the annual meeting of the American Musicological Society in 2018, and the Lozano Long Conference on Latin American Studies at the University of Texas in Austin, also in 2018. Equally at home with European repertoire, ABO has also performed large-scale works by Handel (including the Texas premiere of the 1732 version of the oratorio "Esther"), JS Bach (St. John Passion), and Mozart (the first known period-instrument performance of the "Coronation" Mass in Texas), as well as a wide variety of known and unknown works from before approximately 1820.
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Austin Baroque Orchestra & Chorus performs classical, Renaissance, and Baroque music using period instruments, specializing in early European and Viceregal Latin American repertoire. Follow Austin Baroque Orchestra & Chorus on Mood.
Austin Baroque Orchestra & Chorus is based dually in Austin and San Antonio, Texas.
Austin Baroque Orchestra & Chorus utilizes a varied instrumentarium of historical period instruments appropriate for performing music from the 15th through early 19th centuries.
