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Home a stunning mix of music and history Houston Chronicle sensitiveexcellent impressive. Early Music America sophisticated musical prowess an exuberanteven playfulapproach to performance San Diego Story Timeless Stories Transcendent Music Ars Lyrica Houston specializes in music from the Baroque era the golden age of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries as performed on period instruments with careful attention to historical style and context. Founded in Houston in 1998 by harpsichordist and conductor Matthew Dirst this Grammynominated ensemble provides audiences with worldclass performances of a wide range of dramatic sacred and chamber works. Embracing a historically informed perspective Ars Lyrica Houston seeks to harness the continued vitality and expressive power of classical music to engage educate and entertain diverse audiences in Houston and around the world.