Los Angeles

Jouyssance Early Music Ensemble’s Fall concert “Saints and Sinners” will present late Medieval and Renaissance music both sublime and satirical, ranging from transcendent motets for All Saints Day by Tomás Luis de Victoria and William Byrd , to raucous 15th century English drinking songs and chansons by Orlandus Lassus and Josquin des Prez.

Jouyssance Early Music Ensemble, conducted by Dr. Nicole Baker, will present MadriGALS, a concert of music by women from the 9th through late 17th centuries. The venerable ensemble, founded as the Neo-Renaissance Singers in 1962, will be joined by the viols of L.A. Camerata, Dr, Marylin Winkle, Artistic Director. Composers include Sor Juana Inéz de la Cruz […]

Jouyssance Early Music Ensemble, conducted by Dr. Nicole Baker, will present MadriGALS, a concert of music by women from the 9th through late 17th centuries. The venerable ensemble, founded as the Neo-Renaissance Singers in 1962, will be joined by the viols of L.A. Camerata, Dr, Marylin Winkle, Artistic Director. Composers include Sor Juana Inéz de […]

Close out the holiday season with a delightful concert of noëls, motets and carols — complete with a musette, a tambourin and a hurdy gurdy! Jouyssance tours through 600 years of French holiday music, from the haunting sounds of the St. Martial school to 16th century favorites. The concert will also include an appearance by the exquisite trio, […]

Jouyssance Early Music Ensemble will perform Renaissance music extolling the virtues, glories and agonies of love and marriage – from the sacred to very secular – in its upcoming Fall concerts on the Westside and in the San Gabriel Valley. The concerts will take place October 11, 2025, at 8 p.m. at Holy Nativity Episcopal […]

Jouyssance Early Music Ensemble celebrates Palestrina’s 500th birthday with some absolutely gorgeous music by the master himself, plus his Roman colleagues Stefano Landi and Costanzo Festa.   Jouyssance will also reprise its recent Carnegie Hall performance of Monteverdi’s Magnificat à 6 from his 1610 Vespers.