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About Bitterroot Baroque

Bitterroot Baroque was founded in 2014 to help foster cultural enrichment through activities involving historically informed early music in Ravalli County and the State of Montana. The non-profit organization presents exciting concerts in and around the Bitterroot and Missoula, given by dedicated and innovative professional musicians and ensembles from across the country, representing the best in period instrument performance. Visiting ensembles have included Diderot String Quartet, Dark Horse Consort, Les Délices, Musica Pacifica, sound|counterpoint, Fire and Grace, and Agave Baroque with Reginald Mobley.

While in Montana, these musicians give workshops, teach master classes and private lessons, coach ensembles, and present interactive programs to school-age students at Hamilton, Corvallis, and Missoula public schools as well as to the community in unusual places like Rocky Mountain Labs and Sapphire Lutheran Homes. Bitterroot Baroque also helps create performance opportunities for community members through the Bitterroot Baroque Orchestra and facilitates early music collaborations throughout the state of Montana, including through the use of their instrument collection of harpsichords, chamber organ, string instruments and bows, and their newly purchased theorbo.

Our Mission

 

  • To foster cultural enrichment of Ravalli County and the State of Montana through activities involving historically informed early music played mostly on period instruments.

  • To present exciting concerts by dedicated and innovative professional musicians and ensembles representing the best in period instrument performance.

  • To have visiting musicians give workshops, teach master classes, private lessons and coach ensembles.

  • To present interactive programs to school-age students to generate enthusiasm for playing early music.

  • To create performance opportunities for community members.

  • To facilitate early music collaborations throughout the state of Montana.

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