This program presents canzonas, motets, canzona-motets and madrigas from Milan at the time of the Spanish Viceroys

A co-production of the Breathtaking Collective and the Cappella Mariana of Prague: 5 singers, cornetto, violin, 2 trombones, 2 viols, theorbo and organ.

August 16, 2025

Two concert in Bremen for the opening of Musikfest Bremen in the Unser Lieben Frauen Kirche at 7pm and 8.30pm.

Bruce joins Annalisa Pappano and Cappella Artemisia for a concert of convent music in Kiefersfelden.

Bruce curates a program on a forgotten cornettist/composer for the Abendmusiken series in the Basler Predigerkirche.

The Breathtaking Collective return to perform On the Breath of Angels for the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg.

A performance of this program with Il Gardellino at the MAfestival in Bruges has been cancelled and the attached recording of the program for Passacaille Records has been indefinitely postponed. Fingers crossed for a rapid rescheduling!

An Anonymous Mass for the Patron Saint of Bohemia:
And other recent discoveries from 18th century Brno

Vancouver Early Music

Bruce revives this program with Hana Blažíková combining it with music from their second CD “On the Breath of Angels”

Iffeldorf, Bavaria

Bruce joins the Hathor consort and Dorothee Mields in Gdansk
for their program of music from the Thirty Years’ War:

Bruce makes a “passeggiata” at the Museo Colombano, Tagliavini Collection, speaking of the cornetto and then plays a concert with:

Suzie LeBlanc - soprano
Maximillien Brisson - trombone
Catalina Vicens - organ

Bruce rejoins Jordi Savall, the Capella Reial de Catalunya and Hespèrion XXI for
Al-Andalus & the Ancient Hesperia

At the Abu Dhabi Festival

Stefano Landi Il Sant’Alessio and
Malvezzi/Marenzio Intermedien für La Pellegrina

with Solisten and Musicians of Ensemble La Dolcezza, Concerto Palatino
and the Monteverdi-Chor Hamburg
Directed by Antonius Adamske

Sunday, November 11, 11am - Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg

Hana Blažíková joins Bruce and the Breathtaking Collective

At the Festival Lípa Musica in the town of Česká Lípa.

Bruce joins the Hathor consort and Dorothee Mields for their program of music from the Thirty Years’ War:

Heinrich Albert’s Pumpkin Hut

Saintes

Breathtaking

Vocal and Instrumental Dialogues in Old and New Music

Performance of Contemporary works for cornetto with Hana Blažíková, soprano, Bruce Dickey, cornetto , Veronika Skuplik, violin, Mieneke van der Velden, viola da gamba, and Kris Verhelst, keyboard.

Concert at 18.00, St. Agnes Convent, Prague

Bruce joins the Washington Bach Consort for a concert of polychoral music:

Music for the Soul

Polychoral splendors of Venice & Northern Europe

Saint Sophia Orthodox Cathedral
Washington DC

Music of Schütz, Praetorius, and Monteverdi

A Mass for the Canonization of Johann Nepomuk (1729) and other Festive Music for the Church of St. Jacob in Brno

A concert for the series Abendmusiken in der Predigerkirche

An Online Class for Amherst Early Music

Speech without Words: The imitation of the human voice on instruments
Appropriate for all melody instruments. Pitch 440.

Online class together with Linda Pearse for the San Francisco Early Music Society.

O Crux splendidior: A Venetian Motet from a Time of Plague

Time listed is European Central Time

Schweinfurt, Theater der Stadt Schweinfurt, 19.30

Cantus Cölln and Concerto Palatino, Konrad Junghänel, dir.

Ramskapelle, near Gent.

This is the first concert of our new program On the Breath of Angels, with Hana Blažíková and the Breathtaking Collective.