Antonia Bertali: Ciacona in C
Baroque band ACRONYM — an "outstanding young early-music string ensemble" (The New Yorker)—is dedicated to giving modern premieres of the wild instrumental music of the seventeenth century. Playing with “...consummate style, grace, and unity of spirit” (The New York Times), the group formed in 2012 and has released ten critically acclaimed albums. Recent projects include the first modern performances and recordings of works by Biber, Rosenmüller, and Capricornus, among others. The band’s most recent album, Cantica Obsoleta, features the modern premiere recordings of nearly-lost works from Sweden’s Düben Collection. The Boston Globe raves, “this musical time-capsule offers enough resplendence to transport anyone.”
Giovanni Valentini: Sonata a 5
In 2025-26, ACRONYM returns to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, opening the Fall season with all six Brandenburg Concertos. For Boston Early Music Festival’s 36th season, ACRONYM will perform nearly all of the extant works by the Drese family of musicians, including Adam Drese's funeral motet, Wie selig sind die Toten. This is the first known piece in music history to require slide trumpets, and ACRONYM's performance will be the modern premiere.
Recent engagements includes repeat performances at the Boston Early Music Festival, Naumburg Orchestral Concerts series in Central Park, and Music Before 1800 in New York, as well as a Baltimore debut with Shriver Hall Concert Series and appearances with Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht (Netherlands), Oberlin’s Artist Recital Series, Hamilton College Performing Arts Series (Clinton, NY), Lincoln Friends of Chamber Music (NE), Arizona Early Music, Indianapolis Early Music Festival, Renaissance & Baroque (Pittsburgh), Chamber Music Wilmington (NC), Electric Earth Concerts (Peterborough, NH), and Five Boroughs Music Festival in New York City. ACRONYM has held academic residencies at Youngstown State University and Vassar College, and the group’s musicians can be heard in Tafelmusik, Les Arts Florissants, Apollo’s Fire, Handel + Haydn Society and the English Concert. ACRONYM collaborates frequently with internationally acclaimed artists, including baritone Jesse Blumberg and countertenor Reginald Mobley.
UPDATED JULY 2025. PLEASE DESTROY ALL PREVIOUS VERSIONS.