Violinist Risa Browder has an admitted obsession with the music of the early Baroque Era. “I have loved [early music] ever since I first came into contact with it, when I was a student at Oberlin,” she recalled. “There’s a sort of looking into the past, like a detective, and trying to find little clues as to what life was like; what music was like.”

Having performed with many of Europe’s greatest early music ensembles, including London Baroque and Academy of Ancient Music, Browder is well known to District concert-goers for her performances with Folger Consort. Saturday evening, she joins the Bach Sinfonia at the Montgomery College Cultural Arts Center to lead the ensemble in a conductorless program of selected works of the Italian Baroque period.