The Early Music America Summit is coming to Seattle, and SHAK has been selected to represent the future of historical performance! Join us for a remarkable double-bill performance featuring our students ages 8-18 from different SHAK programs, all in a varied and lively 75 minutes.

In the first half, SHAK's Early Music Youth Academy baroque orchestra presents elegant and expressive music of Arcangelo Corelli and Johann Bernhard Bach, plus George Frederick Handel's wistful aria "Where'er you walk." Teen musicians play baroque-bowed upper strings, viola da gamba, and harpsichord. In a special treat, Johann Heinrich Schmelzer’s “Fencing School” comes to life with our historical-fencing students in 18th century costume!

The second half of the program showcases medieval music and drama, starting with some of our favorite lesser-known gems from Finland’s Piae Cantiones song collection — a beautiful historical repertoire that was made specifically for young people. We finish with a SHAK dramatic original. Back by popular demand, The Partly-True Story of Roland the Farter imagines a hilariously harrowing dilemma for the fictional young heir of a real-life twelfth-century professional flatulist.

Presented by Early Music America, the concert is free of charge, general seating, and appropriate for all ages. University Presbyterian is ADA accessible and has a free parking lot on the other side of 47th Street.