The Silentwoods Collective, a classical music ensemble founded by Andrew Koutroubas of Antrim, will present “Musical Journeys” Saturday, May 31, at 7:30 p.m. at the Antrim Town Hall.

The concert, which is free and open to the public, includes works by Sancho, Strozzi, Vivaldi, Jacquet de la Guerre and Purcell.

Silentwoods’ performance at Antrim Town Hall is part of the Hillsborough Historical Society’s annual “History Alive” celebration, which also includes events and performances in the Hillsborough area on Saturday, May 30, and Sunday, June 1.

On Sunday June 1, Silentwoods Collective will perform the “Selfie Cantata” at the Village Art Cafe in Hillsborough at 12:30 p.m. The weekend of performances will wrap up with “From Heavenly Harmony,” which will include singers from Antrim, Hillsborough, Bennington, Deering, Hillsborough and Henniker, at 4 p.m. on June 1.

“The Deering concert will end with a singalong, and we really encourage everyone to participate; we hope it will be a hit,” Koutroubas said.

The concerts will be the first time the New York City-based Silentwoods Collective has performed in Koutroubas’ home region.

“Music helps small communities thrive and survive,” Koutroubas said. “Our goal is to bring high-quality cultural offerings to these rural places which may not have a lot of access to live music, especially classical music, and we are super excited to bring this music to people.”

The members of the Silentwoods Collective perform with antique and reproduction 18th-century instruments, including the theorbo, which is a member of the lute family, as well as violin, harpsichord, organ, flute, cello, and other instruments.

“Basically, we are all instrument geeks; that is our shtick,” Koutroubas said. “We all play 17th- and 18th-century music on these antique or replica instruments. We have two harpsichords. We have a small, portable wooden organ. We have flutes and a recorder. We have a theorbo, which is 7 feet tall; it’s the bass member of the lute family. Usually, no one has ever seen one before.”

Koutroubas, who performs nationally and internationally, plays a baroque cello which dates back to the 18th century. He says early music performance using original instruments is a “niche area” that has been growing steadily since the 1950s.

“We just love playing these really unusual instruments that a lot of people probably have not seen before, and performing the works from that era the way they would been performed at the time,” he said. “More and more people are playing these instruments now and using them the way they were used historically, going all the way back to the Enlightenment. ”

While the members of the collective share a passion for historic instruments, they all play and perform in multiple genres of music.

“We all met at Juilliard, but this is just one aspect of what we all do. I used to play guitar in a a metal band. Most people in the group play multiple instruments; a lot of people also sing, some do sound work as well. We’re all doing this in our free time, for the love of the music,” Koutroubas said.

Koutroubas, who founded the group with friends from the Juilliard School in 2021, grew up in Wilton and attended Pine Hill and Wilton-Lyndeborough Cooperative Middle High School. He now goes back and forth between Antrim, where his father lives, and New York City, where he teaches and performs. The Silentwoods Collective performs mainly in New York City and Boston.

Performers in Antrim will be soprano Elizaveta Kozlova, baritone Emery Kerekes, Kelsey Burnham on flute and recorder, Alyssa Campbell , Jimmy Drancsak and Ella Kodžas on violin, Koutroubas and Allen Maracle on cello, Danni Zannuttini-Frank on theorbo, Nicola Canzano on harpsichord, and Jonathan Luik on bass.

For information about the Silentwoods Collective, go to silentwoodscollective.com. For a complete schedule of Hillsborough History Alive, go to historyalivenh.org/hillsboroughcenter/schedule.