Heartland Baroque

Bound by a passion for playing instrumental music of the 17th and 18th-Centuries, Heartland Baroque is an ensemble made up of respected early music specialists from all over the United States. Its members Martie Perry and David Wilson, baroque violins, Keith Collins, dulcian, Barbara Krumdieck, baroque cello, and Billy Simms, theorbo, hail from North Carolina, Indiana, California, and Maryland, and often perform together in other well-known historically-informed period instrument ensembles around the country.  Heartland Baroque dives into the Baroque musical world with vigor, showing off the immediacy and technical brilliance, the vivacity and profundity, the lilt, complexity, and spontaneity of its composers with creative and highly imaginative programming. Heartland performed one of the featured concerts in the 2018 North Carolina HIP Music Festival and was awarded a residency at the esteemed Avaloch Farm Music Institute. Heartland Baroque has also performed concert tours in North Carolina, recently being featured on the Mallarme Chamber Music Series. The group has presented fringe concerts at the Boston and Berkeley Early Music Festivals as well for the Early Music Festival for Grace. The group’s debut CD, “The Benevolent Monarch,” was released in June of 2022. Please consider supporting Heartland's mission to bring innovative baroque programming at the highest standard of artistic excellence to its audiences!