Music with Grace Concert Series
We host a musical program in our beautiful Sanctuary as part of the Music with Grace Concert Series.
December 2025
'Comfort and Joy' with Boulder Renaissance Consort
December 7th at 4 pm
Music with Grace presents the Boulder Renaissance Consort in Comfort and Joy, a concert of (mostly) early Christmas music, on Sunday, December 7, 2025, 4 p.m., at Grace Lutheran Church, 1001 13 th Street, Boulder.
Included in the concert are Medieval and Renaissance carols, three settings of the text “Diffusa est gratia” (“Grace is poured out”), Holborne dances, and songs for winter.
Members of the Consort are John Bullock, Shirley Carnahan, Melody English, Josh McGirk, and Anne Fjestad Peterson. Joining us is guest artist Reagan Hinze.
Admission is $20, students and seniors $15. Live streaming is available for $15.
For more information, call 303-442-4144, 303-521-6875, or go to our website: boulderrenaissanceconsort.org.
May 2025
'Joyful Springtime' with Boulder Renaissance Consort
May 25th at 4 pm
The Boulder Renaissance Consort, again appearing under the auspices of Music with Grace, will perform Joyful Springtime, a concert of early music to celebrate the season.
Included on the program are a set of songs from the original medieval Carmina Burana, tenor songs by Paul Hofhaimer, Hassler’s Cantate Domino, and springtime madrigals.
Grace member Anne Peterson and lead alto Melody English are members of the Consort.
Admission is $20, students and seniors $15. Streaming is available for $15.
March 2025
Plucking the Heartstrings
March 16th at 4 pm
Walton Lott and Jerimiah Otto, harpsichords, present Johann Sebastian Bach's thrilling concerto for two harpsichords BWV 1061 and other solo and duo works from antiquity.
February 2025
18th Century France & Germany
February 16th at 4 pm
Carol Codrescu, baroque flute and Jerimiah Otto, harpsichord present Music of 18th Century France and Germany. Music by Michel de La Barre, Jacques-Martin Hotteterre, Jean-Marie Leclair, Johann Sebastian Bach, and Anna Bon.
Although neighbors geographically, France and Germany during the 1700s had very different musical tastes. Join us in exploring the elegant melodies of de la Barre, Hotteterre and Leclair, the introspective counterpoint of Bach and the joyful, florid writing of Bon.
January 2025
Be Merry, Be Merry!
January 19th at 4 pm
The Boulder Renaissance Consort presented their (only slightly delayed due to illness) holiday concert "Be Merry, Be Merry!" a concert of (mostly) early Christmas music.
Included in the program were medieval carols, several settings of the Christmas hymn A solis ortus cardine, Tomas Luis Victoria’s motet O magnum mysterium, and a fantasia by William Byrd.
November 2024
Passion in Miniature
November 10th at 4 pm
This thoughtful program places a concert on the day of Martin Luther’s birth into a genre he would have been intimately familiar with - a passionate church service. In order to steep the liturgical purposes of the text in drama, the orchestration of “Passion In Miniature” moves from the archaic organ to harpsichord and finally to modern piano. The grand piano is the first sound heard, though not in a familiar setting. Claude Debussy first awakens our senses with a striking musical imitation of ancient incense. What follows is an emotional collage of music and text: prayer, prelude, opening hymn, offertory, confession, closing hymn, benediction.
October 2024
Chamber Music for Strings
October 13th @ 4 pm
Compositions by Haydn, Brahms, and other will echo through Grace’s beautifully intimate and resonate Sanctuary.
September 2024
Modest Doubt
September 8th @ 3 pm
A new chamber musical written by Jerimiah Otto, “Modest doubt,” is directed by Tami Losasso. The score features tenor Jeff Parker as William Shakespeare and Jerimiah Otto as harpsichordist Thomas Morley.
June 2024
Théâtre-Français
June 30th @ 1 pm
A reinauguration of the "Music with Grace Concert Series" kicks off with pianist/harpsichordist Jerimiah Otto and tenor Michael Hoffman, joined by modern/baroque flutist Courtney Badura and violinist Nadya Hill for an afternoon of music influenced by and composed for the French Theater tradition.
Listeners can expect to hear the opera music of Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, the music of Duke Ellington and Franz Liszt, and the stunning poetry of Charles Baudelaire, sung by Michael Hoffman and set to music by Claude Debussy in Harmonies of the Night, Meditation, and The Death of Lovers.
Jerimiah will guide concert-goers through the program, which is 60 minutes with one intermission.