Welcome to Musica Angelica
32nd Season
Now in its 32nd season, Musica Angelica is firmly established as Southern California’s preeminent historical performance ensemble, being described as “Southern California’s most important early music ensemble” by the LA Times.
Led by Music Director and world-renowned organist, Martin Haselböck, the ensemble has toured internationally to widespread acclaim. Please click here to learn more about the history of Musica Angelica and click here to learn more about our artists.
UPCOMING CONCERTS
Free Community Concert - October 19 @ 12 PM
Dana Neighborhood Library
3680 Atlantic Ave
Long Beach, CA 90807
They also enjoy eating sandwiches, talking about food, wine, and the old days, and complaining about their ailments and the state of the music industry.
Stephen Hammer leads an eclectic musical life playing oboes and recorders of all periods. He was principal oboist of the Boston Handel and Haydn Society for thirty years, performed, toured, and recorded extensively with the Bach Ensemble, Concert Royal, and the Academy of Ancient Music, and served as principal recorder for the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. His more than 200 solo, chamber, and orchestral recordings appear on the Decca l’Oiseau-lyre, EMI, Sony, Pro Arte, Dorian, Smithsonian, and other labels; he also serves as artistic director for the Blue Hill Bach festival in Maine, and collaborates with instrument-maker Joel Robinson in building replicas of historical oboes and shawms. In 2016 he relocated from the New York area to the sunny San Fernando Valley, where he lives with his wife Ruth and Jack the wonder dog.
A native of Long Beach, Michael O’Donovan grew up a few blocks from the Dana Neighborhood Library, took up the bassoon in high school, and attended Stanford University with a major in philosophy. After playing in various orchestras -- the New York City Ballet Orchestra, the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional in Mexico City and the San Francisco Symphony -- he returned to SoCal and worked in the studios of Los Angeles, playing on nearly a thousand motion picture scores between 1978 and 2014. Since retiring, he has devoted his efforts to playing Irish music on the Uilleann pipes, and, with Los Jubilados, to playing Renaissance music on a variety of wind instruments.
A graduate of the California Institute for the Arts, Kenneth Munday served as principal bassoon of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra for forty-five years, touring as soloist and member of the Orchestra to South America, throughout the United States and, to great acclaim, to Italy, Germany, Austria, France and Spain. He has played on modern and historical bassoons with Marlboro Music, the Oregon Bach Festival, Portland Baroque Orchestra, Santa Fe Pro Musica, and the Baroque Music Festival Corona del Mar. He played for the soundtracks of many hundreds of films, and his audio recordings include Richard Strauss’s Duet Concertino with David Shifrin for Nonesuch Records and Luciano Berio’s 19-minute Sequenza XII for Naxos. He has also performed Michael Daugherty’s Dead Elvis for solo bassoon in full Elvis costume.
Musica Angelica would like to thank the Port of Long Beach for sponsoring our Community Concert Series and the Long Beach Public Library for their collabortion and support.
Season Concerts
April 14, 2025
2024/2025 Long Beach Season Subscription
First Congregational Church of Long Beach
241 Cedar Ave Long Beach, CA 90802
$50,000 Matching Challenge Grant
Musica Angelica has been issued a $50,000 Matching Challenge Grant from the Colburn Foundation. They have generously offered this matching challenge grant to stimulate individual, corporate and foundation giving. We will be conducting the Matching Campaign throughout our 24/25 year.
The funds will be used to support our orchestra, production costs, administration and education and outreach programming and will help establish a stronger foundation of support to build upon to help ensure the future of historic informed period instrument performance. To learn more about our community programming please visit our education and outreach page.
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2023/2024 Year in Review
Sponsors
On behalf of all of us at Musica Angelica, we would like to thank the Colburn Foundation, the Long Beach Arts Council, the Port of Long Beach, the Long Beach Community Foundation, the RuMBa Foundation, the Austrian Consulate General, Norman's Nursery, the Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center, International City Bank, the Bess J. Hodges Foundation and the Evalyn M. Bauer Foundation for their support.
