CANTATA COLLECTION Dutch conductor and early-music specialist Ton Koopman has spent the last week working with 48 musicians, the winners of an international competition, on three of Bach’s great choral cantatas. Tonight’s performance of cantata nos. 6, 146, and 198 is the final event of the workshop. Tonight, 7:30 p.m., Carnegie Hall, Zankel Hall, 881 Seventh Ave. at 57th Street, 212-247-7800, $15.

FEMALE INFLUENCE Jazz at Lincoln Center presents the Women in Jazz festival. Featured performances include the Claudia Acuna Quartet (tomorrow and Wednesday) and the Helen Merrill Quartet (Tuesday, September 27). The series closes with the Karen Briggs Band and the Leanne Ledgerwood Trio (Sunday, October 2). Through Sunday, October 2, 7:30 p.m., Jazz at Lincoln Center, Time Warner Center, Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, Broadway at 60th Street, fifth floor, 212-258-9595, $30 general, $15 for Monday concerts.

ITALIAN AFTERNOON Violinist Nancy Wilson and harpsichordist Joyce Lindorff perform a lunchtime concert of music by Teodorico Pedrini, an 18th-century Italian composer who lived in China. The performance is part of the Midtown Concerts series. Wednesday, 1:15 p.m., Church of St. Francis of Assisi, 135 W. 31st St., between Sixth and Seventh avenues, 212-967-9157, free.

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