Collegium Musicum to perform in concert April 15

Luther College Collegium Musicum will perform in concert Wednesday, April 15, 7 p.m., in the Noble Recital Hall.

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

The concert will include instrumental Renaissance and Baroque works for recorders, viols, Baroque violin, harpsichord and lute. The concert will also include vocal works by John Bennet and Thomas Morley.

The concert will feature “Spem in Alium” by Thomas Tallis, a famous Renaissance composition for eight choirs of five voices, performed in the round. A number of students, including members of the student ensembles, “AwCappella” and “8va,” and Luther faculty members Gregory Peterson, Jonathan Struve, Brooke Joyce, Ed Andereck, Steve Smith, Linda Martin, Amy Engelsdorfer, Tana Field and Karen Kanakis will join Collegium to perform this piece.

Directed by Kathryn Reed-Maxfield, Luther instructor in music, the Collegium Musicum is an Early Music ensemble specializing in music of the Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque periods. The ensemble is audition-based. Members play modern instruments and learn early instruments such as the viol, recorder, harpsichord and lute.

Reed-Maxfield holds the bachelor of music degree from Lawrence University and the master of music degree from the University of Michigan.

In addition to directing the Collegium Musicum, Reed-Maxfield teaches harpsichord, class piano and ear training at Luther.

She has performed as a harpsichord soloist and continuo player throughout the Midwest and in New York’s Carnegie Hall.