Con Gioia, based in Claremont, presents some of the best performers of early music in the United States and Europe. Following its debut in 1982, the ensemble continues to provide Southern California audiences with outstanding early music performances on period instruments.

Upcoming Concerts

CURRENT CONCERTS for our upcoming concert in fall 2021

Inspired by Goethe

This concert may be rescheduled in Spring 2022.
CON GIOIA’S CONCERT and ALL PUBLIC EVENTS at SCRIPPS COLLEGE CANCELLED
DUE TO THE SPREAD OF CORONA VIRUS COVID-19

Sunday, April 5, 2020 at 3:00 pm​

Balch Auditorium
Scripps College
10th and Columbia
Claremont, CA 91711

Exhilarating Baroque Cantatas, Arias, and Sonatas

Music of Bach, Handel, and Telemann

Sunday, November 10, 2019 at 4:00 p.m.

Boston Court Performing Arts Center
70 North Mentor Avenue
Pasadena, CA 91106

​Fortepiano recital

C.P.E. Bach and Mozart Redux

Sunday, March 24, 2019 at 4:00 p.m.
​
St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
958 Lincoln Boulevard
Santa Monica, CA 90403

Inspired by Goethe

Lieder based on texts by the great German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, and statesman

​Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832)

Music for voices and fortepiano by Goethe’s close friends and contemporaries

Saturday, November 3, 2018 at 7:00 pm​

Neighborhood Unitarian Universalist Church
301 North Orange Grove
Pasadena, CA 91103​

FRANÇOIS COUPERIN 350

Music of François Couperin le grand (1668–1733) and His Musical Dynasty

A Commemoration of the 350th Anniversary of Couperin’s Birth
Presented at the Boston Court Performing Arts Center

Saturday, March 17, 2018 at 7:00 pm​

Boston Court Performing Arts Center
70 North Mentor Avenue
Pasadena, CA 91106

The Harmonious World of Georg Philipp Telemann
​(1681-1767)

In Commemoration of the 250th Anniversary of His Death

Sunday, October 22, 2017 at 5:00 pm

​Neighborhood Unitarian Universalist Church
301 North Orange Grove
Pasadena, CA 91003

Please refer also to Con Gioia’s concert announcement (in English) on the official German webpage, “Telemann 2017 highlights.”
 
http://www.telemann2017.eu/en/events/event/the-harmonious-world-of-telemann-2168-2169.html
http://www.telemann2017.eu/de/veranstaltungen/hoehepunkte.htm

Baroque Virtuosi at the Dresden Court

Eighteenth-century Vocal and Instrumental Music
​for Augustus the Strong and Augustus III

Saturday, March 25, 2017 at 4:00pm

Neighborhood Unitarian Universalist Church
301 North Orange Grove
Pasadena, CA 91003

A Classical Viennese Soirée

Sunday, October 23, 2016 at 4:00 p.m.
St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
958 Lincoln Boulevard
Santa Monica, CA 90403

This concert will be repeated on November 6, 2016 at 7:00 p.m. at
Drinkward Recital Hall, Shanahan Center (301 Platt Road)
Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711. Admission is free.

Love Is In The Ayres

Our spring concert at the Church of the Angels, “LOVE IS IN THE AYRES,” will feature two singers, a lutenist, and a fortepianist. 

Sunday, April 10, 2016 at 4 p.m.
Church of the Angels
1100 Avenue 64
Pasadena, CA 91105

Music For Two Harpsichords

Sunday, November 8th 2015
Church of the Angels
1100 Avenue 64
Pasadena, CA 91105

Commemoration of the 300th Birthday of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)

CONCERT FOUR - SWAN SONG AND REMINISCENCES
Saturday, April 4, 2015 at 4:00 p.m.
Neighborhood Church
301 North Orange Grove
Pasadena, CA 91103