Piffaro delights audiences with highly polished recreations of the rustic music of the peasantry and the elegant sounds of the official wind bands of the late Medieval and Renaissance periods. Its ever-expanding instrumentarium includes shawms, dulcians, sackbuts, recorders, krumhorns, bagpipes, lutes, guitars, and a variety of percussion — all careful reconstructions of instruments from the period.
Piffaro is a 501(c)3 so your gifts are tax-deductible
CONCERT VENUES
Piffaro’s music catalog is available for purchase!
OUR MUSIC
Featured CD
Back Before Bach
BACK BEFORE BACH is an exceptional compendium of sixteenth and early seventeenth century German and Franco-Flemish music. The group of composers featured can be seen as the precedent for the luminaries of the German baroque era, specifically Johann Sebastian Bach. Piffaro draws from a wide variety of genres while focusing on a geographically and temporally constrained group of composers, thus presenting the musical foundation from which Bach and his contemporaries emerged.
Education
Education is an essential part of Piffaro’s mission. Discover ways that you or your students can learn more about the instruments and music of the Renaissance.
GOOGLE ARTS & CULTURE
Piffaro the Renaissance Band’s October 2016 performance of The Musical World of Don Quixote is proudly featured on the Google Cultural Institute, allowing it live on through capturing video highlights, performance photos, excerpts of text from the novel, and program notes.