EVENT LISTINGS
2026-2027 SEASON TICKETS AVAILABLE
Concerts will be at 7:30pm on Friday evenings and 3pm on Saturday afternoons
Venue: First Presbyterian Church in Austin, Texas [New venue!]
See La Follia performing at the venue: click here
See map: click here
To purchase a Season Subscription, click here
To purchase tickets for individual concerts, click here
Concert Listing
August 28-29, 2026
Music of John Dowland
Kayleen Sanchez, soprano, and Arash Noori, lute, perform music of the master English songwriter. Kayleen performs using Original Pronunciation, so you will hear not only the music, but the text, as Dowland’s listeners heard.
November 6-7 , 2026
Exotic Instruments of the Baroque
This is perhaps your only chance to hear the hurdy-gurdy and musette, as well as rarely heard cornetto, chalumeau, and mandolin. Despite what you may think, these instruments were hugely popular in the day. Find out why!
January 8-9 , 2027
Herd of Harpsichords, with Anton Nel and Keith Womer
Tour de France
The ever amazing Anton Nel and director Keith Womer perform French masterworks for one and two harpsichords by Couperin, Rameau, Balabstre, Clerambault and others!
February 12-13, 2027
Baroque England: Music powered by Immigrants
England was a home to an astonishing number of immigrant composers whose music brought glory to the Crown. Music by Matteis, Geminiani, Buononcini, Porpora, J.C. Bach, and - greatest of all - George Frideric Handel.
March 21, 2027
La Follia celebrates J.S. Bach’s 342nd birthday
One performance only!
La Follia performs chamber music in homage to the incomparable master, including selections from The Musical Offering and The Art of Fugue, as well as the famous Organ Toccata and Fugue in D minor.
April 2-3, 2027
Hidden Gems of the Early Classical Era, with Anton Nel
Anton Nel performs on fortepiano with La Follia in works by Schroeter, Hummel, Hook, and J.C. Bach. As always with “Hidden Gems”, prepare to be delighted!
More info:
1. A subscription entitles you to entry to every concert in the La Follia season. It does not include entry for any of your additional guests.
2. If you cannot attend a particular concert, you can transfer your subscription to a friend. They just mention your name at the ticket desk.
3. Regardless of the concert date you purchase, you can use your ticket for EITHER performance
4. All purchasers will receive a video link to the performance roughly two weeks after the live performance, for personal use for 30 days. So, you can attend in person, enjoy the recorded performance, or both.
Our concerts feature the finest in Baroque and early Classical music, performed on period instruments with consummate professionalism and inspiration, at an affordable price.
From the Archives
From La Follia’s February 28, 2025 performance of Dietrich Buxtehude’s Membra Jesu nostri: a performance of the third cantata: Ad manus (To the hands).
From La Follia’s “Mentors of Mozart” concert January 31, 2025. Anton Nel on fortepiano is joined by Stephen Redfield on violin and Eric Taeyang Mun in this spirited performance of Haydn’s trio 27 in C major.
An excerpt from our October 2024 “Cast Your Vote!” concert where we anticipated the November US election by “voting” on various Baroque performance issues. This issue was “Do you prefer high and slow arias or fast and furious ones?”
Fortunately Ms. Gitanjali Mathur, assisted by cellist Sydney ZumMallen, with Stephen Redfield on violin, Marcus McGuff on traverso and Keith Womer on harpsichord, can ably demonstrate the options. Enjoy!
PS Apologies to Mr. Trump and Ms. Harris for the wardrobe choices! (Also Ms. ZumMallen is wearing an Ivanka Trump brand blouse, and Mr. McGuff is sporting his Donald Trump brand shirt.)
Such fun!
Gitanjali Mathur and Steven Brennfleck bring down the house in a rousing performance of “Happy We” from Handel’s Acis and Galatea.
Anton Nel and director Keith Womer perform Bach's Concerto in C major for two harpsichords as part of the annual "Herd of Harpsichords concert.
A Concert of French Baroque Chamber Music
In this March, 2020 concert (the first of the “COVID” era), La Follia performed French Baroque chamber music by Couperin, Rameau, Jacquet de la Guerre, Campra, Clerambault, Charpentier, Robert de Visée, and Boësset.
Performers are Jenifer Thyssen, soprano, Stephen Redfield, violin, Marcus McGuff, flute, Eric Taeyang Mun, viola da gamba, Arash Noori, theorbo, and Keith Womer, harpsichord.
Shot in multi-camera HD with CD quality sound.
Grab some wine and cheese, and enjoy the intimate chamber music of French Baroque masters.
At Home with the Herd of Harpsichords
Keith Womer, director of La Follia Austin Baroque, recorded a 30 minute video piece for KMFA Classical 89.5’s FaceBook Live series “Sound Ideas”, a youth outreach project. In it, he explores three of the harpsichords used in La Follia’s popular “Herd of Harpsichords” concerts, currently corralled at his home in Round Rock, Texas.
Learn what makes a harpsichord different than a piano, what makes Italian, French, and Franco-Flemish harpsichords different from one another, and what gives all harpsichords their special, magical sound.