Lyracle’s mission is to engage with history through music and to illuminate our shared humanity.
We use musical performance as a vehicle to tell the stories of people throughout history who partook in music for voice and viol. Founded in 2018, Lyracle launched its self-produced concert series in Greater Boston in the 2022-2023 season.
Lyracle’s narrative, non-composer-centric approach to concert programming has earned it recognition as an emerging ensemble in the field. In the 23-24 season, in addition to producing two new concert programs in Greater Boston, Lyracle performs/presents on the Howard M. Brown Early International Early Music Series at the University of Chicago, at the Early Music America Summit, and at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Lyracle enjoys introducing young people to the viol and to historically informed performance and has additionally presented for and worked with students at Brandeis University and University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. Lyracle also enjoys collaborating with other organizations with shared interests and missions. Favorite collaborations include a performance-presentation on at-home music-making in 17th century Massachusetts with historian Barbara Lambert at the Colonial Society of Massachusetts.
Lyracle has given presentations at the 2021 Indiana University Historical Performance Conference and at the 2021 Low Strings in the Americas Symposium. Lyracle was a 2020 Early Music America Emerging Artist and a 2018 Pegasus Rising Young Ensemble. Additional presenters include the Viola da Gamba Society of America, GEMS Midtown Concerts, Early Music Missouri and the Society for Historically Informed Performance.
Lyracle is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit and has received grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the Iguana Music Fund.
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