By Register Staff

NEW HAVEN — If it’s February, it must be Orchestra New England’s BaroqueFest — the event that presents the orchestra’s favorite music from the baroque era.

It all happens Saturday at 8 p.m. at United Church on the Green, corner of Elm and Temple streets.

James Sinclair will conduct the orchestra, which is joined by soloists Charles Bumcrot on trumpet and soprano Katherine Harris. Bumcrot has performed extensively with chamber ensembles and orchestras, and teaches at Kean University and Montclair State University, both in New Jersey.

Harris, whom The New York Times called “a promising new talent,” has sung in a variety of operatic and concert roles, including with DuoCantiga with guitarist Christopher Kenniff. She is a colleague of Bumcrot’s at Kean University.

Tickets are $20-$35, available at 800-595-4849 or www.orchestranewengland.org.

Old plus new equals ‘Flux’

CHESTER — There is an opening reception tonight from 6-9 for “Flux,” an exhibit at eo art lab (69 Main St.), which features new works by Massachusetts artist Michelle DeMarco.

DeMarco combines high tech and old in a method which interactive computer artist Roy Ascott dubbed “moistmedia.” She combines egg tempera on pigment-based ink digital prints — what she calls “the union of the dry silicon virtual medium with the wet biological medium of paint,” to produce images with the unusual effect of capturing “life and art in transition”— like a conversation between mediums which produces yet another medium.

The exhibit continues through Feb. 28, and may be viewed from noon to 6 p.m. Sundays, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesdays-Saturdays. For further info, call 860-526-4833.

Enescu tribute at Sprague Continued...

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to unveil discovered work

NEW HAVEN — Hearing a new work by a composer who’s alive is always an exciting prospect, but hearing a newly discovered work by a composer who is no longer with us is like finding a buried treasure.

The Yale School of Music will unveil such a work Saturday at 8 p.m. at its Faculty Artists Recital when Russian pianist and faculty member Ilya Poletaev headlines a tribute to Romanian composer George Enescu, which includes the new piece “Airs in Romanian Style,” for violin solo.

Guest violinist Jennifer Curtis will perform the piece, which is among the other Enescu works not often performed.

Joining Poletaev and Curtis are faculty colleague tenor James Taylor and Romanian cellist Mihai Marica for the concert at Sprague Hall (470 College St.).

The concert is free. Call 203-432-4158 or visit www.music.yale.edu, where it will also be streamed live.

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