historical performance ensemble

The Texas Tech Historical Performance Ensemble (founded by director Angela Mariani in 2001 as the Texas Tech Collegium Musicum/Early Music Ensemble), offers students the hands-on experience of working with historical period instruments and investigating the technical practices, performance and transmission processes, improvisatory elements, notations, texts, and contexts of pre- and early-modern music. In doing so, it not only breathes life into the vibrant yet previously-unfamiliar music that students encounter in their music history classes, but also provides them with a model for the integration of scholarship and performance. (The larger group also incorporates small ensemble groupings such as the Medieval Band, Recorder Consort, and Ventus "Loud Band.")

We perform in both traditional concert settings and in modern analogues of the music's original performance environments, from churches to coffeehouses.