Welcome to our 2025-2026 Season!
Love and Marriage: Renaissance Style
Join us for a concert extolling the virtues, glories and agonies of love and marriage — both sacred and (very) secular. Enjoy poignant madrigals, exquisite motets and saucy chansons by Francisco Guerrero, Claudio Monteverdi, Thomas Weelkes, Thomas Morley, Thomas Tallis, and Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck. One of Salamone Rossi’s Songs of Solomon will be featured.
Saturday, October 11, 2025 at 8 p.m.
Holy Nativity Episcopal Church
6700 W 83rd Street, Westchester
Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 4 p.m.
St. Luke’s Episcopal Church
122 S. California Ave., Monrovia
Concert Tickets are available in advance or at the door.
$25 General Admission
$20 Senior / SCEMS member
$10 Students with current ID
Joyeux Noel!
A concert of “Ancient” French carols and motets by a host of beloved composers. The concerts will be followed by our traditional reception closing out the holiday season.
Saturday, January 10, 2026 at 7:30 p.m.
Holy Nativity Episcopal Church
6700 W. 83rd Street, Westchester
Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 4 p.m.
St. Luke’s Episcopal Church
122 S. California Ave., Monrovia
Concert tickets are available in advance or at the door.
$25 General Admission
$20 Senior / SCEMS member
$10 Students with current ID
Spirit Child: The Return
This repeat performance interweaves an adaptation of a Mexican pastorela with music of the Mexican Renaissance and Baroque in a heartwarming story chronicling the shepherds’ journey to the newborn Christ Child, ultimately celebrating the triumph of good over evil. With special guest narrator and famed LA Times columnist Gustavo Arellano!
Sunday March 29, 2026 at 7 pm
Drinkward Recital Hall
Harvey Mudd College, 320 E. Foothill Blvd, Claremont, CA 91711
This is a free event (no tickets or reservations are required).
The hall has a capacity of 99; doors open at 6:30 pm.
MadriGALS
The program will feature works by women composers of the Middle Ages, Renaissance and early Baroque. Jouyssance will be joined by LA Camerata, and will feature “debut” performances of music not heard since the 16th and 17th centuries!
Saturday, June 13, 2026 at 8 p.m.
Holy Church of the Nativity
6700 W 83rd Street, Westchester
Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 4 p.m.
St. Luke’s Episcopal Church
122 S. California Ave., Monrovia
Concert tickets are available in advance or at the door.
$25 General Admission
$20 Senior / SCEMS member
$10 Students with current ID