EVENT LISTINGS
2025-2026 SEASON ANNOUNCED
Subscriptions available at “early bird” prices!
Purchase a Subscription for La Follia's entire 2025-2026 season
at "Early Bird" discount rates through June 30
Concerts will be at 7:30pm on Friday evenings and 3pm on Saturday afternoons
Our venue will be Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Austin, Texas (except for the October concert which is TBD)
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Concert Listing
September 5-6
Georg Philipp Telemann: The Greatest German Baroque Composer [Fight me!]
That was the consensus of his contemporaries, both musicians and common folk. We’ll prove their point by performing his sonatas, concertos, and suites, all bursting with imagination and exuberance. If you still prefer “the other guy” after this, well bless your heart.
October 3-4 (this concert will be performed at another TBD location in Austin)
Music for a Consort of Viols
We present the lusciousness and intricacy of music for a five viol consort. It’s like a string quintet, but better! Music from England, France, and Italy. The ultimate chill out music.
November 7-8
Anton Nel and Keith Womer wrangle the Herd of Harpsichords
Five harpsichords. Two performers. Who wins? You do! Anton and Keith perform music written for harpsichords of all types. Hear and see these beautiful instruments and learn what makes them different, as well as what makes the harpsichord sound so intoxicating. Yes, there will be a petting zoo at intermission and afterwards.
January 9-10
Hidden Gems
An annual “fan-favorite” concert. This time we will focus on music from the wild and crazy days of the early Baroque, featuring exotic instruments like cornetto and dulcian. Music by Castello, Erlebach, Weckmann, and others. If you don’t know them, well, that’s the point. As always, you can count on the music being fresh, exciting, and sublime.
April 24-25
Haydn! Beethoven! Scotland! - with Anton Nel
What do Haydn, Beethoven and Carl Maria von Weber have in common? First, they wrote great chamber music, and second, they wrote superb settings of Scottish songs. Get a taste of both as Anton Nel performs on fortepiano with La Follia and guest vocalists. What a pleasing, satisfying way to end a concert season.
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 performance4. 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.