Luther College Collegium Musicum to perform in concert April 6

Luther College Collegium Musicum will perform in concert Sunday, April 6, 7 p.m., in the Noble Recital Hall of the Jenson-Noble Music Hall on the campus of Luther College.

The concert is open to the public with no charge for admission.

The concert will feature music from the Renaissance period, performed in Renaissance costumes.  Composers include Weelkes, Tallis, Lassus and Isaac.

 Instrumentalists will perform dances from John Playford’s “English Dancing Master.” 

Collegium Musicum is a 12-voice ensemble that specializes in the music of the Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque periods. Its instrumentalists receive instruction and perform on early instruments such as viols, recorders, harpsichord and lute. 

Kathryn Reed-Maxfield, Luther instructor of music, conducts the ensemble, assisted by Luther faculty Peter Lingen, viols and lute, and Suzanne Ernst, recorders.

Reed-Maxfield teaches music history, harpsichord, class piano and ear training at Luther.  She has taught musicology and early keyboard instruments at Ann Arbor, Mich., music appreciation courses in London and Vienna, and a course on the music of J.S. Bach.

She maintains a studio of private piano students.  She has performed as a harpsichord soloist and continuo player throughout the Midwest and in New York’s Carnegie Hall.

Lingen performs guitar, lute and viola da gamba literature and has composed and arranged numerous works for guitar.

Ernst is a flute and recorder consort instructor.