We are devastated by the tragic death of George Floyd in police custody.

Our hearts are heavy and our souls are in pain for all the lives lost to racist violence in our own country and beyond.

We remain dedicated, as ever, to diversity and inclusion in our own series.

Every so often, we are sadly reminded that racism and intolerance tragically persist in our own field, and we ache with the knowledge of talent silenced through history by the poison of discrimination.

We will continue, as we always have, to reject any musician who embraces discrimination on social media or elsewhere, and refuse to collaborate with any organizations that embrace and promote such individuals.

We will continue to push the boundaries of conventional programming in order to confront entrenched notions of early music as an exclusively white European discipline, continuing to ask, as we always have, “Why is early music so white?”

Once live performance begins again, we will continue to expand our programmatic offerings into underserved neighborhoods whose populations are shut out from most performance venues because of systemic economic hardship.

While we are a small organization whose mission concerns music and not politics, we will continue to examine and address the political ramifications inherent in various programming choices.

Continuing to view history through the prism of music, we will, to the best of our ability, continue to address historic inequalities in our field, and in our world.

Black Lives Matter.

 
         
 
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