Onward to 2026–27, our exciting 23rd season! MBM will present three new programs. We’ll start on October 11 in the beloved setting of Holy Wisdom Monastery with an all-Bach concert featuring three Cantatas and a Violin Concerto. By popular demand, violinist Marc Destrubé will return for a third consecutive year to lead the band. For our 16th Annual Holiday Concert—on December 12th at First Congregational Church—we’ll revisit the astonishing and vast repertoire of the Latin American Baroque. Our first adventure into this enthralling soundscape in 2022 received an overwhelmingly positive response. The season will conclude on March 21 in the magnificent acoustics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Hamel Music Center with an all-Mozart program. Conductor Andrew Megill from Northwestern University will return (after recent MBM engagements Monteverdi’s Vespers in 2024 and Bach’s Mass in B minor in 2026) for Mozart Requiem. Also on the program are Mozart’s Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Soave sia il vento (from Così fan tutte), and Laudate Dominum. Trevor Stephenson will present lectures at 2:10 pm followed by the concerts at 3:00 pm. The recordings of the livestreams will be available at the same link for at least two weeks after the events.