- All concert are on period instruments: experience early music at its best.
- Performers are specialist in early music performance drawn from the metropolitan area as well as nationally.
- Soloists are among today's most recognized national and international early-music performers.
- Techniques and style are painstakingly researched and help inform interpretations that are bold and fresh.
- Each historically-informed performance is programmed on a theme chosen to inform the listener about the genres, sociology, and performance practices of the eighteenth century.
- Concerts are interspersed with musical and historical discussions aimed to help further audience appreciation and understanding of the music.
"As is usual with this group, the program was chosen with refined taste and exemplary style and technique. It was also musicological as well as musical"
Research
- Sinfonia also conducts research into music and performance techniques of the eighteenth-century.
- Sinfonia continues to present significant modern premieres including:
- - The modern premiere of Marie Emannuel Bayon-Louis' comic opera Fleur d'Epine (Spring 2000)
- - The regional premiere and one of the first performances in North America of Handel's Gloria (rediscovered in 2002)
- - The first complete performance in North America of Johann Sebastian Bach's Alles mit Gott und nichts mit ohn' ihn, BWV 1127* (rediscovered June 2005) in concert before the 2005 National Meeting of the American Musicological Society (AMS)
- - The modern premiere of Franz Biber's Stabat Mater* (Spring 2007)*recorded by Sinfonia on Dorian Records
- Educational listening lectures to local community, school, and senior citizen groups provided at no charge to participants (see the Education and Outreach section of this web site)
- Open Dress Rehearsals for area Young Musicians
- Free Ticket Program for Youth under 14 year of age
- Touring and Residency programs outside of the Washington, DC area
