Dec. 4, 7:30 PM – St. Vincent Ferrer, Manhattan

Dec. 5, 7:30 PM – Church of the Holy Trinity, Rittenhouse

Dec. 6, 7:30 PM – St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Chestnut Hill

Dec. 7, 3:00 PM – Westminster Presbyterian, Wilmington

Dec. 19 – Jan. 1 | Streaming online

A child is born! Step away from the bustle of the season and into the warm, joyful sounds of a German Renaissance Christmas. Piffaro is joined by Tenet Vocal Artists to present music by Praetorius and his contemporaries. We invite you to settle into the beauty of this music, and to be transported to another time.

Piffaro breathes life into the sounds of the past with its collection of carefully crafted period instruments: shawms, dulcians, sackbuts, recorders, krumhorns, bagpipes, lutes, guitars, and a variety of percussion.“Widely regarded as North America's masters of music for Renaissance wind band” (St Paul Pioneer Press), Piffaro delights audiences throughout the world with highly polished recreations of the rustic music of the peasantry and the elegant sounds of the official wind bands of the late Medieval and Renaissance periods.