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Duo Maresienne

Named for the great French composer and gambist Marin Marais, Duo Maresienne explores the musical spirit of Renaissance and Baroque Europe. Carol Lewis and Olav Chris Henriksen treat audiences to music composed for a variety of instruments including lute, theorbo, orpharion, viola da gamba, citterns and early guitars.

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35th Anniversary Season!

Early Music Afternoons at the Somerville Museum

Sundays, 3pm

October 19, 2025
Celebrating Bach

Ensemble Chaconne (Peter H. Bloom, baroque flute; Carol Lewis, viola da gamba; Olav Chris Henriksen, baroque lute) perform works by Johann Sebastian Bach, including flute sonatas, a prelude and fugue for lute, and a cello suite transcription for viol.

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November 16, 2025
Gallant Lutes: Duos from the German Baroque

A seldom-heard treat: lutenists Timothy Burris and Olav Chris Henriksen perform a fantasie, a suite, a concerto, a sonata and a “symphony” by Handel, Baron, Gleim, Lauffensteiner, and Falckenhagen.

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January 25, 2026
La Folia: Renaissance and Baroque Masterpieces
from Spain

Carrie Cheron, mezzo-soprano, joins Très Maresienne (Lisa Brooke, baroque violin; Carol Lewis, viola da gamba; Olav Chris Henriksen, vihuela & baroque guitar) in pasacalles, recercadas, romances and tonos humanos by Ortiz, Cabezón, Milan, Sanz, Durón and Hidalgo

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March 22, 2026
Hunts, Bagpipes & Scots Tunes: Music of the Scottish Renaissance & Baroque

Duo Maresienne (Carol Lewis, viola da gamba; Olav Chris Henriksen, lute & English guitar) play works by Black, Lauthian, Beck, Bremner & Geminiani, including ports, lilts, battles and jigs from Caledonia, and “Pibrock, a Highland Battel” by Oswald.

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May 17, 2026
The King of Denmark’s Health: Renaissance Music from Denmark-Norway

El Dorado Ensemble (Carol Lewis, Karen Burciaga, Mai-Lan Broekman, James Peretta and Alice Mroszczyk, viols; Olav Chris Henriksen, lute and orpharion) perform a Mother’s Day concert of music from the court of Christian IV, with works by Dowland, Borchgrevinck, Brade, Schop, Ørn, and Thomas Simpson.

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