Texas Early Music Project

We can’t wait to see everyone at the Purcell show tomorrow night, 7:30pm! Redeemer Presbyterian! You can still purchase tickets at the link in our bio, or visit early-music.org ⏳🕯️

Musician Spotlight: Joel Nesvadba 🌹

This week, we talk to TEMP’s very own baritone, Joel Nesvadba! Joel first started singing with TEMP over 20 years ago ~

“I’m from Fort Worth, Texas. Then moved to Austin to go to UT, and in 2008 I moved to Los Angeles to study early music at USC. I moved back to Austin in 2021 to work for the Austin Symphony Orchestra, and I’m so happy to be back in Austin!”

Joel says that “special” is one of the first words he always uses to describe TEMP to other people, and that Danny fosters a great community of amazing and kind musicians. “Equally special is Danny’s concert programming,” he adds.

We asked him to tell us a little about his master’s thesis, too: “‘The Authenticity of Song: Rhetoric and Performance Practice in the Music of the Troubadours’ analyzes troubadour songs through the lens of the Five Canons of Rhetoric. I intended for it to function as a manual for how to perform troubadour songs and discuss issues of authenticity in modern performances of medieval music.”

https://www.early-music.org/blog/2026/3/23/and-the-award-for-best-title-goes-to

And the award for best title goes to... — Texas Early Music Project As we prepare for our upcoming Purcell concert in April, I get más y más excited! Our first “all-Purcell” concert was in 2001, when we produced a monumental semi-staged presentation of Purcell’s semi-opera, King Arthur! Wow, as we sing from time to time: ‘ those were the days ’ ! In 2016...

Announcing our next concerts! PURCELL. HENRY PURCELL: A LICENSE TO TRILL 🤠 Saturday, April 18th at 7:30pm & Sunday, April 19th at 3pm, Redeemer Presbyterian Church.

Henry Purcell is deservedly known as England’s greatest composer before Edward Elgar and Ralph Vaughan Williams—his music is used often in movie soundtracks and his operas are revived frequently on international stages. Texas Early Music Project is thrilled to end our 2025–2026 season with music from Purcell’s eclectic repertoire for the theater, the opera, the court, the sanctuary, and the pub. You’ll have to come join us at Redeemer Presbyterian Church to see if the ghost of Henry Purcell parachutes down into the church just like James Bond at the end of License to Kill 🍸

Link in our bio to purchase tickets, or visit early-music.org/20252026-season 🧡🤎