Early Music Hawaii’s first concert of the 2015–2016 season, “Musica Poetica,” will feature both sacred and secular compositions.

Dana Marsh of Indiana University will be featured as guest director, 7:30 p.m. Sept. 19 at the Lutheran Church of Honolulu, 1730 Punahou St. The cost is $35 for preferred seating; $25, general seating; and $10, full-time students.

An associate professor and coordinator of Indiana University’s Historical Performance Institute, Marsh will direct guest artists from the university’s Jacobs School of Music on sackbut (a type of trombone from the Renaissance and Baroque eras) and cornetto (a wind instrument from Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque periods) in sacred and secular music by Schutz, Praetorius, Scheidt, Kittel, Scheidemann and others, a news release said. Marsh will also lead the Early Music Hawaii Choir and Orchestra.

Marsh received an undergraduate degree from the Eastman School of Music, with master’s and doctoral degrees in historical musicology from the University of Oxford. He has taught early-music history at Oxford and Cambridge universities and has published original research and review articles through the scholarly presses of both institutions.

A specialist in the training of young voices, Marsh has prepared ensembles for concert and recording engagements with the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Esa-Pekka Salonen and Antonio Pappano. He has recorded for Sony, Universal, Avie, Decca, Erato, Koch International Classics, Signum and Public Radio International.

For more information, call Ian Capps at 228-8848 or Katherine Crosier, 221-9608.