The Arcadia Players will present three concerts of Baroque music this month, each one led by a finalist in its search for a new artistic director. The programs will be streamed on YouTube and include works by Corelli, Vivaldi, Handel, Telemann and more.

 The schedule includes:

Saturday, Oct. 2, at 7 p.m., “The Harmony of Nations” with Jude Ziliak as leader. Ziliak’s program features music that showcases the divergence of French and Italian styles of the Baroque, culminating in their reunion in the “mixed style” of Telemann. Ziliak is the first violinist of Sonnambula. A graduate of the Historical Performance program at The Juilliard School, he founded and directs the Baroque Orchestra at Special Music School, New York’s K-12 public school for musically gifted children.

Saturday, Oct. 9, at 7 p.m., “Crossing Borders” with Daniel Lee as leader. Lee, a violinist, will lead a  musical journey around 17th- and 18th-century Europe through works that integrate different regional styles of the Baroque. He is founding director of the early music ensemble the Sebastians and a freelancing period violinist and conductor in North America and Europe. Lee is a member of the early music faculty at the Yale School of Music, and along with holding music degrees from Juilliard, Yale and the University of Connecticut, he holds an MDiv. from Yale Divinity School.

Saturday, Oct. 16, at 7 p.m., “The Migration of Italian Music,” with Andrew Arceci as leader. Arceci’s program explores the spread of Italian styles across Europe and beyond, to as far away as China. Arceci performs on viol, violone and bass throughout North America, Europe and Asia. He holds degrees from the Peabody Conservatory, The Juilliard School and the University of Oxford. Formerly director of Wellesley College’s Collegium Musicum and a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University, he currently directs the Winchendon Music Festival in Winchendon.

During the pandemic, while in-person concerts were suspended, Arcadia Players’  Search Committee has been evaluating applicants to succeed former Artistic Director Ian Watson. The organization invited each of the finalists to organize a program, and brought together a group of musicians to bring it to life.

These three streamed concerts, recorded over the summer, are the culmination of the search process and will help Arcadia Players decide who will lead the organization in the future.

Tickets for the finalist concerts are available at arcadiaplayers.org.