Seicento marks the  400th anniversary of the death of English composer William Byrd, a musician of the Shakespearean age best known for his development of the English madrigal, and virginal and organ music that elevated the English keyboard style. While many choirs are performing Byrd’s spectacular masses for four and five voices this season, Seicento will perform his lesser known works, including sacred verse anthems and secular consort songs— music for violas da gamba and voice. These beautiful, rarely heard pieces tell of courtly love, moral temptations, and lament of misspent youth. Seicento is joined by five of the area’s finest gamba players:  Adaiha MacAdam-Somer, Zoe Weiss, Sarah Graf, Sarah Biber, and Karl Reque