The Brattleboro Music Center is launching a new initiative, Tessitura, a chamber choir which explores music of the Baroque and Modern eras. Directed by Mark Nelson, Tessitura offers a debut performance Sunday, March 23, at 7 p.m. at the BMC.

Tessitura’s inaugural concert will feature works by three gifted composers representative of three successive generations of German musical artistry: Heinrich Schütz, Dietrich Buxtehude, and Johann Sebastian Bach.

Works will include four motets from Schütz’s Cantiones Sacrae, opus 4 and his Aus der Tiefe, from Psalmen Davids, opus 2; Buxtehude’s Der Herr ist mit mir; and Bach’s “Aus der Tiefen rufe ich, Herr, zu dir, BWV 131” from his Cantata.

Tickets are $20 for advance general admission, $25 at the door and are available on the Brattleboro Music Center website – bmcvt.org – by calling 802-257-4523 or emailing info@bmcvt.org.