Concert by
Candlelight
October 2, 2026 at 7 p.m.
sponsored by Helmut and Banashree Seifert
It’s timeless because music from centuries past still has the power to feel new. Our 21st season opening concert celebrates that enduring magic with early music, folk traditions, and original contemporary works. Playing an unusual array of instruments including cittern, viola da gamba, lute, flutes, bagpipes, and more, Gut, Wind, and Wire will introduce audiences to the beauty and variety of early music. Drawing on more than 40 years of collaboration, this trio of remarkable musicians will fill our historic chapel with the vivid colors, spirited energy, and timeless appeal of music that has delighted listeners through centuries.
Details
Location: St. Louis Chapel (12500 Clarksville Pike, Clarksville, MD 21029)
Admission: $25 in advance, $30 at the door.
Meet The Artists
Gut, Wind, and Wire (a trio formed by longtime Baltimore Consort members, Mark Cudek, Ronn McFarlane, and Mindy Rosenfeld) is named for the natural elements that bring our instruments to life: gut strings, wire strings, and wind (breath). Since its beginning, Gut, Wind & Wire has explored a wide variety of music from the 16th and 17th centuries, music from folk traditions and even original music. Through maple, boxwood, spruce, rosewood, blackwood, tulipwood, strings of sheep gut and metal (on cittern, viola da gamba, riq, lute, flutes, fifes, and bagpipes), our sound springs forth through touch and breath. Mark, Mindy, and Ronn have been making music together for over four decades!
Mindy Rosenfeld
Ronn McFarlane
Mark Cudek
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Mindy Rosenfeld (flutes, fifes, bagpipes) plays historic and modern flutes, recorders, whistles, crumhorns, bagpipe and early harp. Mindy is a member of San Francisco's Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, and a guest artist with American Bach Soloists, Apollo's Fire, Carmel Bach Festival, Catacoustic Consort, Musica Angelica, Opera Lafayette, Oregon Bach Festival, Portland Baroque Orchestra, San Diego Bach Collegium, among others. She has an undergraduate degree from the Peabody Conservatory and a graduate degree from the San Francisco Conservatory. Mindy is a founding member of the Baltimore Consort and divides her time between performing, teaching, and a crazy amount of driving to and from Mendocino, her coastal Northern California home.
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Ronn McFarlane (lute) has released over forty CDs on Dorian and Sono Luminus, including lute solo collections, lute songs, lute duets, music for flute & lute, viola da gamba & lute, the complete lute music of Vivaldi, and Baltimore Consort albums. In the tradition of the lutenist/composers of past centuries, Ronn has composed new music for the lute. These original compositions are the focus of his solo CD, Indigo Road, which received a Grammy Award Nomination. Other CD releases, One Morning and Barley Moon, feature "Ayreheart," an ensemble brought together to perform Ronn's original music. Ronn's most recent solo album, The Celtic Lute, features his arrangements of traditional Scottish and Irish music from the 17th and 18th centuries.
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Mark Cudek (bass viol, cittern, percussion) is the former Chair of the Historical Performance Department at the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University, Artistic Director of the Indianapolis Early Music Festival, and a founding member of the Baltimore Consort. In recognition of his work as Founder/Director of the Peabody Renaissance Ensemble and also the High School Early Music Program at the Interlochen Arts Camp, Mark received from Early Music America the 2001 Thomas Binkley Award and the 2005 Award for Outstanding Contribution to Early Music Education. He has toured and recorded with Apollo’s Fire and Hesperus, and regularly performs with the Folger Consort. In his youth, Mark worked as a café guitarist in the Virgin Islands. He is the 2014 recipient of the Johns Hopkins University Alumni Association’s Global Achievement Award and in 2018 was promoted to full Professor. Mark retired from Peabody I 2024.