Petrarch, the most influential poet of the Italian Renaissance, wrote of timeless themes in his Triumphs: Love, Death, Fame, Eternity. For this, our biggest program of the season, Piffaro joins forces with TENET Vocal Artists and groundbreaking visual designer Camilla Tassi in a musical, artistic, and literary exploration of human experience.

“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. Its musicians perform on shawms, dulcians, sackbuts, recorders, krumhorns, bagpipes, lutes, guitars, harps, and a variety of percussion — all careful reconstructions of instruments from the period.