Performance History
2004
Office of the Dead Concert – Tomàs Luis de Victoria/Requiem

2005 Season
The Polyphony Project – The Spanish & Portugese School
March – Tenebrae:  Tomàs Luis de Victoria/Tenebrae Responsories (San Francisco)
August – Feast for the Assumption of the Virgin:  Francisco Guerrero/Missa sancta et immaculata (San Francisco)
Second Annual Office of the Dead Concert with guest artist Florante Aguilar, classical guitar – Cristobal de Morales & Frei Manuel Cardoso/Requiem (San Francisco)

2006 Season
The Polyphony Project – The Burgundian & Early Franco-Flemish School

February – Candlemas with guest artist Luba Kravchenko, organ:  Heinrich Issac/Missa Virgo prudentissima (San Francisco)
July – The Feast of St. Jacobus with guest artists Scott Shubeck, lute, Nicholas Rastegar & Jeff Hansen, bassoons:  Guillaume Dufay/Missa L’homme armé & Clement Janequin/La Guerre (San Francisco & Alameda, CA)
Third Annual Office of the Dead Concert – Johannes Ockeghem & Pierre de la Rue/Requiem (San Francisco & Tiburon, CA)

2007 Season
The Polyphony Project – The English School
Special performance:  February – Music for Lunar New Year with guest artists The San Francisco Joyful Chinese Instrumental Ensemble, Nicholas Rastegar, oboe, Grace Renaud, organ & Jonathan Jiang & Gary Tang, lion dancers:  Charles d’Ambleville/Messe des Jesuites a Pekin (San Francisco & Berkeley, CA)
May – Trinity with guest artist Sarah Jane Matthews, organ:  Thomas Tallis & Orlando Gibbons/The Short Service & Robert Parsons/The First Excellent Service (San Francisco & Palo Alto, CA)
July – The Regina Monologues with guest artists Dianne Nicolini of KDFC fm radio, spoken word & Scott Shubeck, lute:  Music for lute, readings from Shakespeare & Elizabethan folksongs & madrigals (San Francisco & Alameda, CA)
September & October – Opera Early & Ancient with guest artists Susan Gundunas, soprano as She & Corey Head, tenor as He with period chamber orchestra:  William Boyce/Solomon (two San Francisco, CA performances)
Fourth Annual Office of the Dead Concert with guest artists Harp Trio Trillium – Thomas Morley/Funeral Service, Thomas Weelkes/
Sixth Evening Service, William Boyce/Burial Service in E minor, Henry Purcell/Funeral Music for Queen Mary (San Francisco & Palo Alto, CA)

2008 Season
The Polyphony Project – The Late Franco-Flemish School
February – The Feast for St. Valentine with guest artists Gabrielle Montarjemi, actress & Sean Smith, lute:  Orlando di Lasso(?)/Johannes Eccard(?)/Missa super Mon couer se recommande with secular love motets by Passereau, Josquin, Boesset, Goudimel, Crequillon & others (two San Francisco performances & Ross, CA)
March – Song of Peace Project – choirs around the world sang Dona nobis pacem in a call for peace; we participated with several Dona nobis pacem by various Renaissance composers (San Francisco, CA).
April – Music of the Labyrinth with guest artists Alta Sonora Renaissance Wind Band & Dancerie Terpsichore Dance Troupe:  Josquin de Prez(?)/Noel Bauldweyn(?)/Missa da pacem,
Jean Mouton/Missa Alleluia (San Francisco & Berkeley, CA)
July & August – Opera Early & Ancient with guest artists bansuri master Deepak Ram, Celtic harper Diana Rowan, actor Tim Mooney & choreographer Purnima Jha:  Hildegard von Bingen/Ordo Virtutum (San Francisco, Palo Alto & Berkeley, CA)
Fifth Annual Office of the Dead Concert with guest artist Dominic Schaner, lute & mandora – Antoine Brumel/Requiem (San Francisco & Palo Alto, CA)

2009 Season
The Polyphony Project – The Italian School
February – Opera Early & Ancient with guest artists bansuri master Deepak Ram, Celtic harper Diana Rowan, actor Tim Mooney & choreographer Purnima Jha:  Hildegard von Bingen/Ordo Virtutum (San Francisco, Davis & Berkeley, CA)
March & April – The All Allegri Concert:  Gregorio Allegri/Missa che fa oggi il mio sole, Lamentations of Jeremiah, Miserere (San Francisco, Palo Alto & Berkeley, CA)
June – The Darkness & The Dawn with guest artists Steven Lehning, violone & Jonathan Rhodes Lee, harpsichord:  Giovanni Matteo Asola/Requiem & Sister Chiara Margarita Cozzolani/Motets (San Francisco, Palo Alto & Berkeley, CA)
August – The Bawdy & The Chaste with guest artists Brocelïande & Rick Homan, actor:  Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina/Missa sicut lilium inter spinas & Adriano Banchieri/Festino nella sera del giovedì grasso, opus 18 (San Francisco & Alameda, CA)

2009-10 Season
Music in Time of War
Sixth Annual Office of the Dead Concert with guest artist baritone Jesse Blumberg and period chamber orchestra – Jean Gilles/Messe des morts (San Francisco & Palo Alto, CA)
March – Songs of War & Peace with guest artists Celtic harper Diana Rowan & Tom Chandler, oud: 
Tomàs Luis de Victoria/Missa pro Victoria, Guillaume Dufay/Lamentio Sanctae Matris Ecclesiae Constantinopolitanae, Jacob Gallus/Les Heroes, Guillaume Costeley/La Prise de Calais, Clement Janequin/La guerre de Renty, Palestrina/Super flumina Babylonis, with other music from the Renaissance and early Baroque, troubador songs from the Crusades and music of the Ottoman Empire including Turkish vocal music (San Francisco, Palo Alto & Alameda, CA)
May & June – The Armed Man:  Josquin des Prez/Missa L’homme armé sexti toni and Missa L'homme armé super voces musicales, (San Francisco, Palo Alto & Berkeley Festival & Exhibition of Early Music, CA)
July & August – The Armed Woman: with guest artists Daria D'Andrea & Maxine Nemerovski, violins, Shirley Edith Hunt, viola da gamba & Susan Harvey, harpsichord.  The music of over a dozen early women composers:  Isabella Leonarda/Magnificat, Opus 19 #10 and other music by
Hildegard von Bingen, Maria Xaveria Peruchona, Chiara Margarita Cozzolani, Maddelena Casulana, Ann Boelyn, Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, Isabella Romola d'Medici, Barbara Strozzi and others (San Francisco, Palo Alto & Alameda, CA)

2010-11 Season
The Music of Peace, Joy and Love
The Music of Peace-Pax Aeternum - Seventh Annual Office of the Dead Concert
featured the Requiem and In Paradisum of Juan de Esquivel Barahona (c1563-c1613) and other hauntingly beautiful music of sadness and sorrow from the Spanish and Portuguese Renaissance including works by Duarte Lobo (c1555-1617), Pedro de Escobar (c1465-1535) and Diego Ortiz (c1510-1570) among others.
Special Concert:  January - The Boar's Head Festival: 
We ended the holiday season with a celebration of Twelfth Night - The Boar's Head - with the music of Medieval through contemporary England.  After each concert our audiences enjoyed a feast featuring wassail, king's cake and roast pork and vegetable pies.
March - The Music of Joy:  We joined with Early Music America, the national service organization for Early Music in North America, to celebrate their 25 years of service to the Early Music Community!  This concert featured Tomas Luis de Victoria's (c1548-1611) joyful Missa Gaudeamus and other songs of joy from the Renaissance and Baroque including Orlando Gibbon's (1583-1625) Hosanna to the Son of David, Adriano Banchieri (1568-1634) and Josquin de Prez's (c1450-1521) Jubilate Deo, William Byrd's (c1540-1623) Mass for the Ascension and Purcell's (1659-1695) exuberant coronation anthem for James II, I Was Glad.
Special Concert:  April - A Benefit for Japan: 
We joined together with some of our favorite
collaborators to present this benefit concert for the relief efforts to Japan including Broceliande Celtic Ensemble, Phantom of the Opera's soprano Susan Gundunas, and Celtic harper Diana Rowan.
August - The Music of Love:  Our Opera Early & Ancient mini-series returned featuring Cupid & Death by Matthew Locke (c1621-1677) and Christopher Gibbons (1615-1676) and we were joined by period chamber orchestra.  This rarely performed work received its first formal premiere on March 26, 1653 as an entertainment for the Portuguese ambassador to Great Britain.