Booking and details
Get TicketsDates Wed, May 5, 2027 at 6pm ET
Venue Virtual - On Zoom
Tickets $10; free for Folger Members and Subscribers
Duration 60 minutes
Folger Consort Artistic Director Robert Eisenstein leads a lively virtual seminar that offers a sneak peek at the music performed in the Folger Consort’s upcoming concert Folger Consort’s Golden Jubilee.
About the concert
To close this special anniversary season, Folger Consort returns to the music of its very first season, much of which has canonical status in the early music world. Featuring music from the Consort’s original ensemble of instrumental quartet and voice, this concert will journey from 13th-century Spain and Portugal through 14th-century Italy and 15th-century Paris and Vienna, and concludes with the music of Elizabethan and Jacobean England, the era of Shakespeare.
Join us in celebrating Folger Consort and its founders and co-Artistic Directors Robert Eisenstein and Christopher Kendall for this 50th anniversary fête!
Who’s Who
Robert Eisenstein
Robert Eisenstein, Artistic Director (bass viol)
Robert Eisenstein has led over 200 productions and performances with Folger Consort over the past 40 years, including Measure + Dido at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and Napa Valley Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice at Strathmore, The Fairy Queen, and Hildegard Von Bingen’s Ordo Virtutum at the Washington National Cathedral. Recently retired as the Director of the Five College Early Music Program; Music Director for the Five College Opera Project production of Francesca Caccini’s La Liberazione di Ruggiero; Mount Holyoke College faculty emeritus, where he taught music history and performed on the viola de gamba, violin, and medieval fiddle. He is an active participant in Five College Medieval Studies. Recipient of Early Music America’s Thomas Binkley Award for outstanding achievement in performance and scholarship by the director of a college early music ensemble.
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