Seicento Baroque Ensemble presents “Renaissance Women,” featuring choral and chamber music on period-instrument consorts by ten women composers of the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Despite extraordinary odds, these women were prolific composers of music that has survived, despite the rare performances of it in the hundreds of years following their deaths. The earliest of these composers, Maddalena Casulana, was acutely aware of her pioneer status as a woman composer in an antagonistic setting. She wrote that she wanted “to show the world, as much as I can in this profession of music, the vain error of men that they alone possess the gifts of intellect and artistry, and that such gifts are never given to women.” On April 25, 26, and 27, Seicento Baroque Ensemble will show the world the creative brilliance of these early music pioneers with performances in Golden, Westminster, and Boulder.