Berkeley Festival and Exposition (BFX Ten)
June 6 - June 13, 2010
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Agave Baroque Ensemble
Aaron Westman, baroque violin ~ Shirley Hunt, viola da gamba ~
JungHae Kim, harpsichord ~ Kevin Cooper, baroque guitar ~
with Daniel Zuluaga, theorbo
Cold Genius: instrumental and dramatic music of
Henry Purcell, William Lawes, Matthew Locke, and Nicola Matteis
June 13, 1:30 pm
Music Sources
Tickets: $15 general/$10 students, seniors, and sfems members
Commissioned by The Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles and
premiered in January in the Museum's Tula Tea Room, Agave Baroque's
Cold Genius centers around the intensely engaging music of
Henry Purcell. Parts I and II are all-Purcell, and feature fantasia,
sonata, song, and drama. Part III features two enchanting and rarely
performed Harp Consorts by William Lawes, a ravishing suite by
Matthew Locke, and two rustic and virtuosic arias by Nicola Matteis.
This is your chance to hear Cold Genius just before Agave Baroque
goes to the studio to record it, as well as to collaborate on an
art-film with MJT, to be released alongside the album.
Program notes
Contact 707.490-2601 or
info@agavebaroque.org
Website: www.agavebaroque.org
The Albany Consort
Jonathan Salzedo, director
Christa Pfeiffer, soprano; Marion Rubinstein, recorder; Greer Ellison, Baroque flute;
Laura Rubinstein-Salzedo, Aaron Westman, Tyler Lewis, violins; Amy Brodo, Shirley Hunt, cello;
Roy Whelden, violone; Jonathan Salzedo, harpsichord
High Baroque Rarely Heard Virtuoso Works
June 8, 11 am
University Lutheran Chapel
Tickets: $20 general/ $15 seniors, students, SFEMS, EMA and ARS members
Bach - Triple Concerto for flute, violin and harpsichord;
Telemann - Concerto for three violins;
Vivaldi - Concerto for two cellos;
Handel - Cantata for soprano and recorder
More Rarely Heard Virtuoso Orchestral Works
June 13, 2 pm
University Lutheran Chapel
Tickets: $20 general/ $15 seniors, students, SFEMS, EMA and ARS members
Bach- Suite in A minor for soprano recorder and strings
Bach- Cantata 82a
Handel- Cantata for soprano and recorder
Quantz- Trio for recorder. flute and continuo
Contact 408 773-0375
or marion@albanyconsort.com
Website: www.albanyconsort.com
Alta Sonora, Les Violes Douces & Friends
Alta Sonora: John Harris, sackbut; Peggy Murray, alto & bass dulcian;
Mary Ellen Reed, alto dulcian; with special guest Joyce Johnson-Hamilton, cornetto
Les Violes Douces: Glenna Houle, treble viol; Margaret Cohen, tenor viol;
Mary Elliott, bass viol
Singers: Alice Benedict and Christina Schiffner, sopranos;
Jim Denton & Devin Caughey, tenors; John Conry, bass
with Gilbert Martinez, guest conductor
Victoria Vespers
June 12,
12 noon - 1 pm
Trinity Chapel
Tickets: $15 general; $10 SFEMS/students/seniors
Twenty five years before Monteverdi wrote his Vespers, the great Spanish composer
Tomás Luis Victoria published double and triple choir Vespers psalms in high
Renaissance polyphonic style. Most large Spanish cathedrals employed wind bands to
perform regularly in their services, so in that tradition, we will use cornetto,
sackbut and dulcians along with singers and viols to present a selection of
these glorious polychoral works and other Vespers pieces.
Contact 510-233-0868 or
peggy-murray@sbcglobal.net
American Recorder Society
Recorder Relay
June 11, 9-11 am
Loper Chapel
Tickets: Free
A Series of vignette recitals showing the recorder in its many guises and
raising awareness of the recorder as a serious instrument. Showcases
professional players and emerging professional players from U.S. and Canada.
Applications being accepted until May 15, 2010.
Info: Letitia Berlin, 510/559-4670
or ARS, 800/491-9588, ars.recorder@americanrecorder.org
Website: www.americanrecorder.org
* ARTEK
Gwendolyn Toth, director
Laura Heimes, soprano; Barbara Hollinshead, mezzo-soprano;
Drew Minter, countertenor; Philip Anderson, tenor;
Michael Brown, tenor; Peter Becker, bass-baritone;
Gwendolyn Toth, harpsichord; Daniel Swenberg, theorbo;
Charles Weaver, lute & guitar; Grant Herreid, lute;
Christa Patton, harp; Motomi Igarashi, violone & lirone
Monteverdi's Madrigals, Book 5
Saturday, June 12, 2010. 8:00 pm
First Congregational Church
Tickets: $38 premier section/$32 all other seats
These madrigals, published in 1605, marked a defining moment
in music history between the polyphony and counterpoint of the
Renaissance and the new, "modern" practices of the Baroque
incorporating basso continuo and new fashions in
dissonance—what Monteverdi called the
"Seconda prattica or the perfection of modern music."
ARTEK performs the five-part and six-part madrigals in
Book 5, together with texts dramatically illustrating
the tremendous controversy caused by the publication of
these madrigals.
Website: www.artekearlymusic.org
* AVE, Artists Vocal Ensemble
Jonathan Dimmock, director
Tenebrae Responsoria by Carlo Gesualdo
Thursday, June 10, 2010. 5:00 pm
St. Mark's Episcopal Church,
Tickets: $35 general admission
AVE probes the heart and mind in a performance of the awe-inspiring and terrifying
Tenebrae Responsoria by Carlo Gesualdo, one of the most controversial
composers in Italian history. Jonathan Dimmock leads AVE in a program of 27
works that bring to life the Tenebrae Responsories for Maundy Thursday,
Good Friday, and Holy Saturday in a searing, dramatic concert. Gesualdo's
distinct, tortured musical style was not replicated by any composer until Schoenberg!
Website: www.ave-music.org
Barefoot Chamber Concerts presents:
Barefoot Chamber Concerts, your local fun-oriented chamber music series, presents an
all-day Marais-a-thon featuring (at last count, and many more to be added):
Rebekah Ahrendt, Marie Dalby, Peter Hallifax, Shirley Hunt, Julie Jeffrey, David Morris,
Farley Pearce, Elisabeth Reed, Colin Shipman, Bill Skeen, Yuko Tanaka, Lynn Tetenbaum,
Margriet Tindemans . . . . .
The Marais-a-thon: fabulous local and visiting soloists play
Marais all day or until the cake runs out
June 9, 11 am - 7 pm
St. Mark's Episcopal Church, in the Parish Hall
Tickets: $15 all day in/out pass
Music by Marais, mostly (but not only) for viol and continuo, by local and
visiting stars. This all-day concert is a fun- and fund- raiser for the
Viola da Gamba Society of America's Grants-in-Aid program. Over a dozen local
and visiting players will play non-stop Marais.
There will be refreshments, T-shirts, and a prize for the performance that most
invokes the spirit of Gerard Depardieu. A full list of the performers and the
full program will be posted on the Barefoot Chamber Concerts website.
Contact
Peter Hallifax, 510 220 1195 or
info@barefootchamberconcerts.com
Website: www.barefootchamberconcerts.com
Baroque Etcetera
Jennifer Torresen, soprano;
Kathryn Miller, mezzo-soprano;
Richard Stumpf, bass & founder;
Paula White & Jennie Mollica, violins;
Kathy Cochran, bassoon;
Julie Morrisett, viola da gamba;
Howard Kadis, archlute;
Dawn Kooyumjian, organ
Master & Student: Heinrich Schütz & Christopher Bernhard
June 6, 3 pm
St. Joseph of Arimathea
Tickets: $10 - no one turned away due to lack of funds
This concert presents sacred vocal music of Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672) and
Christoph Bernhard (1628-1692). Schütz was known as a composer and teacher,
was the most esteemed German composer in the 17th century and gained
international stature. Bernhard was both composer and theorist, and
succeeded Schütz as Kappellmeister in Dresden, in 1674. Both Schütz and
Bernhard studied in Italy, so you will hear the influences of Giovanni
Gabrieli and Claudio Monteverdi from Schütz's Venice sojourns, and Giacomo
Carissimi from Bernhard's trips to Rome. Schütz held Bernhard in such high
esteem he commissioned him to write music for his own funeral.
Contact 510-540-8222 or
baroquetc@yahoo.com
Program notes on website: www.baroquetc.org
Bay Area Baroque Orchestra (BABO)
Frances Blaker, director
The orchestra has 25 members, both amateur and professional musicians.
Director Frances Blaker is a well known Bay Area performer and teacher.
Orchestral Music of Corelli, Vivaldi, Telemann and Lully
June 9, 3 pm
Trinity Chapel
Tickets: $15 general, $10 students and seniors
The Bay Area Baroque Orchestra (BABO) is the only non-professional performing
early music orchestra in California. The players come from a variety of musical
backgrounds, some experiencing early music for the first time. The orchestra
plays mostly on early instruments at low pitch (415). BABO is unique in
that it has recorders included in its wind section, and viols in the viola
and bass sections. The orchestra presented a concert in April of this year
which was very enthusiastically received. BABO's audiences have raved
about the quality, elegance and professionalism of its performances. The
orchestra is an affiliate of the San Francisco Early Music Society.
Contact 510 559-4670 or francesblaker@sbcglobal.net
Letitia Berlin, Yuko Tanaka, David Morris
Letitia Berlin, recorder, with Yuko Tanaka, harpsichord and David Morris, viola da gamba
June 8, 4:00 pm
Trinity Chapel
Tickets: $15/10
Solo and trio sonatas of the Baroque
Contact tishberlin@sbcglobal.net
or 510-559-4670.
Elizabeth Blumenstock & Janine Johnson
J.S. Bach Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord
June 11, 12-1:15pm
Trinity Chapel
Tickets: $15 general $10 SFEMS, EMA, seniors, students, disabled
A performance of works of J.S. Bach by two of the Bay Area's best local talents
is sure to be a Festival highlight. Bach's Sonatas for violin and obbligato
harpsichord are unsurpassed in the chamber music repertoire in their depth,
complexity, and pure delight. The program will also include solo transcriptions
of Bach, one by Ms. Blumenstock herself. This is also an opportunity
to hear two remarkable instruments: an Andrea Guarneri violin from 1660, Cremona,
and a replica of a 1722 Gräbner harpsichord by John Phillips, Berkeley, 2010.
Contact (510) 549-3864
or TrinityChamberConcerts.com
Briarbird
Kaneez Munjee & Mara McMillan, sopranos;
Lynn Robbie, harpsichord;
Jamie Wai Man Jim, viola da gamba
Four French Seasons: soprano duets by Charpentier;
gamba and harpsichord sonatas by Corrette
June 8, 8 pm
Trinity Chapel
Tickets: $15 general; $10 SFEMS, senior, student, disabled
Marc-Antoine Charpentier wrote close to fifty pieces for two sopranos, of which
relatively few are well known. His Quatuor annis tempestates (The Four Seasons),
are joyous settings of texts from the Song of Songs, and, musically, show off the
influence of his time spent in Rome. Briarbird intersperses these duets with
excerpts from Michel Corrette's Les délices de la solitude (The Delights of Solitude),
written for any two bass instruments, and here played by viola da gamba and harpsichord. Please join us
for an evening of rare French Baroque treasures!
Contact info@briarbird.org
Website: www.briarbird.org
Cançonièr
Annette Bauer and Tim Rayborn, Directors
Annette Bauer: recorders
Tim Rayborn: percussion, psaltery
with:
Kit Higginson: recorders, psaltery
Peter Maund: percussion
Double Trouble: A Medieval Recorder and Percussion Extravaganza
June 8, 7:30 - 8:30 pm
Music Sources (not accessible)
Tickets: $15, $12 for students, seniors, SFEMS and Music Sources members
Cançonièr musicians Annette Bauer and Tim Rayborn join forces
with percussionist extraordinaire Peter Maund and recorder wizard
Kit Higginson for a program of sizzling medieval music!
Two recorder players, two percussionists, endless possibilities...
Please join us on our musical journeys to 13th and 14th century Italy, France, and Spain.
Contact (510) 486-2803 or
info@canconier.com
Website: www.canconier.com
Chapel College Ensemble of Men and Boys
Choral Evensong: Byrd, Great Service; Mendelssohn, Hear my prayer
June 6, 4 pm
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 114 Montecito Ave., Oakland
Tickets: FREE
Service of Evensong at St. Paul's Episcopal presented by Chapel
College Men and Boys Ensemble (a program of the Pacific Collegium)
featuring the Magnificat and Nunc dimittis from William Byrd's
Great Service, and Mendelssohn's cantata Hear my prayer
("O for the wings of a dove"). Approximately 45 minutes in length.
Contact 510-834-4314 or
info@pacificcollegium.org
Website: stpaulsoakland.org/evensong
Chatham Baroque with guest violinist Dana Maiben
Fresh Ayre
June 9, 5 pm
Loper Chapel
Tickets: 15/10
Chatham Baroque, with Andrew Fouts, violin, Patricia Halverson,
viola da gamba, and Scott Pauley, thoerbo and baroque guitar,
joined by the incomparable Dana Maiben for a program of
Sonatas and Ayres from the British Isles by Henry Purcell,
Nicola Matties, George Frideric Handel and Christopher Simpson.
Contact 412 687 1788 or
director@chathambaroque.org
Website:
www.chathambaroque.org
Coro Ciconia
Peter Fisher, director
Alice Benedict, Sarah Knuth, Cheryl Koehler, sopranos;
Grayson Braxton, Nancy Lambert, Lee McRae, altos;
Peter Fisher, Richard Walker, tenors;
Stephen Pitcher, Ralph Prince, Scott Robinson, basses;
Peter Fisher, tenor recorder; Ralph Prince, vielle
Westron Wind: John Taverner's Western Wind Mass
with songs of Guillaume Dufay
June 9, 5:30-6:30 pm
Berkeley City Club
Tickets: $12/8
The Western Wind Mass of John Taverner (fl. 1490-1545), built
on a melody of the early English poem, "Westron wind, when
wilt thou blow," has been called one of the ten best compositions
in western music (by David Tayler). Its clarity and simplicity
make it immediately accessible to an audience, and the skill and
variety of compositional techniques satisfy the most sophisticated
listener. Six of Guillaume Dufay's finest secular songs, and
one gem by Johannes Ciconia complete our program. Coro Ciconia,
a chamber chorus with instruments specializing in music of the
14th & 15th centuries (don't miss our Trecento concert on Friday),
has performed 10 previous Berkeley Festival programs since 1996.
Contact (510) 843-0450 or
pcfisher@berkeley.edu
Ensemble Aliento
Nina Bailey, Mary Elliot, Tom Hill, Moira Little, Alan Paul, Glen Shannon
Baroque Music for Wind Instruments
June 7, 8 pm
Trinity Chapel
Tickets: 15/10
Sonatas, trios, and quartets by the likes of Telemann, Fasch, and
Schickhardt for recorder, oboe, traverso, bassoon, viola da gamba,
and harpsichord. Works both well-known and obscure.
Contact 415.752.7290 or
apaul@ccsf.edu
Ensemble Vermillian
Frances Blaker (Recorders), David Wilson (Baroque Violin),
Barbara Blaker Krumdieck (Baroque Cello), Henry Lebedinsky (Harpsichord)
Music of the 17th Century: Corelli, Buxtehude, Couperin
June 9, 12-1 pm
Trinity Chapel
Tickets: $15 general/$10 student, senior, SFEMS/EMA/ARS
Chamber works of the late 17th century by Corelli, Blow, Hacquart, Couperin
and Buxtehude. We explore full flowering of the rich and varied repertoire
from the Baroque era for chamber ensemble. Ensemble Vermillian brings
forth texture and tone, light and shadow, storm and calm through its
unique mix of musical personalities.
Contact (510) 559-4670 or
francesblaker@sbcglobal.net
Euphora Consort
Amy White & Dominic Schaner, directors
Shirley Hunt, viola da gamba; Andrew Levy, recorder; Dominic Schaner,
lute; Amy White, soprano (Glosa)
Peter Maund, percussion; Dominic Schaner, vihuela; Amy White, soprano (Ávila)
Glosa: Virtuosic Embellishment & Florid Ornamentation of the Late Renaissance
June 10, 2 pm
Loper Chapel
Tickets: $15 general / $10 students & seniors
Glosa explores the art of the virtuoso during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Using the many treatises on ornamentation and division published during this time, and the numerous examples of florid embellishment found in manuscript sources, Glosa uncovers the secret art and presents the unrestrained music of the true Renaissance virtuoso, in endlessly florid versions of the most popular music of the time.
Ávila: Musicians & Mystics of Sixteenth Century Spain
June 13, 7 pm
Trinity Chapel
Tickets: $15 general / $10 students & seniors
Ávila explores the lives, music, and poetry of the great sixteenth century
Spanish musicians and mystics. Using the vihuela books of the mid-sixteenth century
as its musical source, and Saint Teresa of Ávila & Saint John of the Cross as
its mystical inspiration, Ávila presents the music of Spain's Golden Age.
Springing forth from the confluence of these two great Catholic mystics, Ávila
features sacred and secular music from both printed and manuscript sources,
bilingual meditations from the mystical writings of Teresa of Ávila & John of
the Cross, and newly composed works setting their poetry, and inspired by their
mystical visions.
Contact 760.638.0925 or
dominic.schaner@gmail.com
Fair Iris and Her Swains
Jennifer Paulino, soprano;
Robert Stafford, bass-baritone;
David Morris, viola da gamba;
Jonathan Rhodes Lee, harpsichord
The Dialogue of Love: Cantatas
and Duets of Purcell, Rameau, Clerambault and J.S. Bach
June 10, 2-3 pm
St. Joseph of Arimathea
Tickets: $10
The Dialogue of Love: Cantatas and Duets of Purcell, Rameau, Clerambault
and J.S. Bach
"Fair Iris and her swain
Were in a shady bower,
Where Thyrsis long in vain
Had sought the happy hour"
Join us in recreating the baroque dialogue of Love, from the playful and
earthy late 17th century London of Purcell, through the wit and charm of
early 18th century Paris, to the severe yet erotic Lutheran imagery of
J. S. Bach's Weimar cantatas.
Contact 415-308-3244 or robstaf@gmail.com
La Foolia!
Susan Rode Morris, Shira Kammen, Katherine Westine,
Phebe Craig, and David Morris .... with their doppelgaengers and hangers-on.
La Foolia!: The Grand Tour
June 13, 11 am
Berkeley Piano Club
Tickets: $15 general/$12 SFEMS members,
seniors, students donation
Foolia's five talented Von Trump sisters (Susan Rode Morris,
Shira Kammen, Katherine Westine and Phebe Craig and
special guest raconteuse David Morris) take to the road, wreaking havoc upon the capitals of Europe and
revealing shocking musical adventures along the way. In 3-D.
Contact 510 601-9631 or
info@katastrophemusic.com
Galax Quartet
Roy Wheldon,
David Wilson,
David Morris,
Kati Kyme
Bach's Art of Fugue
June 6, 6 pm
Trinity Chapel
Tickets: $25 general admission, $10 for SFEMS members,
students and seniors
The "Art of the Fugue," one of Bach's last and possibly
greatest works as orchestrated by Roy Wheldon for violin,
viola, gamba and cello.
Harmonia Felice
Elizabeth Blumenstock, violin; Katherine Kyme, violin;
Amy Brodo, cello, viola da gamba;
William Skeen, cello, viola da gamba;
Katherine Heater, harpsichord, organ;
Lucian Miranda, soprano;
Andrea Fullington, soprano;
Harmonia Felice: Music of Jacquet de la Guerre, Couperin,
Marais for 2 violins, 2 gambas, 2 cellos, 2 sopranos, continuo
June 10, 12noon
Trinity Chapel
Tickets: $15, 10 (SFEMS students seniors)
Sublime, spiritual, sensual music of France in the eighteenth century
for various combinations of two violins, two gambas or two cellos,
and two sopranos. HIghly acclaimed in her own time, Elisabeth-Claude
Jacquet de la Guerre was a child prodigy honored by Louis XIV who published
several volumes of harpsichord music, as well as chamber music, sacred
cantatas based on the Old Testament and an opera. You will also hear
works by the cello virtuoso Jean Baptiste Barriere, music for violin by
Marin Marais and not often performed works by Francois Couperin.
Contact 510-697-3657 or
info@TrinityChamberConcerts.com
or abrodo@netwiz.net
Vince Ho (harpsichord and organ) with Guest Eugene
Petrushansky (harpsichord duet)
Vince Ho (harpsichord, organ),
Eugene Petrushansky (guest harpsichordist)
"Keyboard music heard through Monteverdi's
personal experiences" Organ and Harpsichord Music in Cremona,
Milan, Mantua, Prague, Belgium, Vienna, Venice, and Bologna during
Monetverdi's Stays.
June 11, 2 pm
St. Joseph at Arimathea
Tickets: Suggested Donation $10. Proceeds will go to the organ
restoration fund of Oakland St. James Episcopal Church, for her
historical 1888 George Andrews organ.
The concert will feature keyboard music following Monteverdi's career.
Starting from Monteverdi's birthplace and early education in Cremona;
his first job application at Milan; his first permanent post in Mantua;
his trip accompanying his master's military campaign in Bohemia,
Hungary, and Austria; accompanying a pleasure trip by his master in
Spanish Netherlands (Belgium); his career in Venice; and finally his
short trips during this period to Bologna and Parma.
The concert will end with duets by Bologna composer Aurelio Bonelli,
featuring guest harpsichordist Eugene Petrushansky.
Website: www.earlykeyboard.net
Janine Johnson, harpsichord
Harpsichord music of Bach, Handel, Buxtehude and Pachelbel
June 9, 3:40 - 4:40 pm
St. Joseph of Arimathea
Tickets: $15(general) and $10 (seniors, disabled, EMA, and
SFEMS members
A solo harpsichord recital of German masterworks played on a
new "Mietke" instrument by Owen Daly, Oregon. Included in the
program will be free and contrapuntal works by Bach, Handel,
Buxtehude and Pachelbel, as well as Bach's French Suite #V,
and Handel's Suite #V from the "Eight Great" Suites of 1720.
Sure to be a delight in this intimate and live setting.
Junior Recorder Society East Bay
Annette Bauer, Louise Carslake & Hanneke van Proosdij, directors
Annika Braucher, Amanda Butler, Jorjie Kirirvangchai, Connor McHugh,
Brigitte Petersen,
Lena Reed-Petracek, Alec Thilmony, Alfred Yoon & Andrew Zhao.
Junior Recorder Society performs at the Berkeley Early Music Festival
June 13, 2 pm
St. Joseph of Arimathea
Tickets: FREE
The Junior Recorder Society East Bay Chapter is happy to invite you to
their concert at the Berkeley Early Music Festival.
Music by Handel, Bach, Purcell, Arbeau, Juan del Encina and more!
ADMISSION IS FREE.
Please bring your friends
Contact 510-530-3202 or jdlac@got.net
Website: www.voicesofmusic.org/jrs.html
Howard Kadis
A Panoply of the Lute, From Attaignant to Zamboni
June 12, 3 pm
Trinity Chapel
Tickets: General Admission $15, Seniors, Students, SFEMS Members, $12
Howard Kadis performs a concert of 16th and 17th century works for solo
lute and archlute, including works by Pierre Attaingnant, Simone Molinaro,
Peter Phillips, Gregorio Huwett, John Dowland, Alessandro Piccinini, and
Giovanni Zamboni.
Henry Lebedinsky, clavichord
The Birth of Russian Keyboard Music
June 10, 3 pm
Trinity Chapel
Tickets: $15 general $10 SFEMS members/seniors/students/disabled
Clavichordist Henry Lebedinsky performs music from the court and salons
of 18th century St. Petersburg, including music by Bortniansky,
Khandoshkin, Kozlovsky, Oginsky, and Palschau. Experience the battle
between East and West as Russian composers began to blend Italian,
German and native Russian melodies and harmonies to create a new
music - one that would soon give rise to the great Russian Romantics.
Contact 704-654-6997 or
hlebedinsky@gostalbans.org
Franklin Lei, Baroque Lute
Baroque Lute Recital: J.S. Bach, Partita in d, BWV 1004;
S.L. Weiss, Suonata in c (Dresden Ms)
June 7, 5:30 pm
Trinity Chapel
Tickets: $15 general; $10 SFEMS members,
seniors, students and disabled
Franklin Lei's program comprises two large-scale lute suites.
The Weiss is an infrequently heard major opus, called a
"Suonata Grande" by the Leipzig publishing house Breitkopf.
The Bach violin Partita, although not a lute arrangement from
the composer, is in d-minor, to which the Baroque lute is
open-tuned.
Franklin studied Renaissance and Baroque lutes with
Michael Schäffer, Eugen Dombois, Hopkinson Smith, and
Christopher Wilson. He has performed at the main events of
Tage Alter Musik Regensburg 1989, the 2000 Melbourne Autumn
Music Festival, and the 1990 & 1998 Berkeley Festivals.
Contact (510) 549-3864 Trinity Chamber Concerts or
info@TrinityChamberConcerts.com
Website: www.franklinlei.x10.mx/
The Lost Mode, with Derek Wright
Annette Bauer - medieval recorders, sarode
Shira Kammen - vielle, violin, harp
Peter Maund - percussion
Derek Wright - oud
The Lost Mode - Medieval and Other Modal Music - CD Release Concert
June 11, 10 pm
Trinity Chapel
Tickets: $15/10
Medieval music meets living modal music traditions
An eclectic set of music from the Middle Ages, as well as
melodies from Breton, Basque, Sephardic, North African, and
Armenian modal traditions. Spiced with soulful improvisations.
The Lost Mode CD will be released at this concert!
Contact 510-847-7023 or
thelostmode@gmail.com
Vibeka Lyman, harpsichord
A Trip to France: L'Art de Toucher by Francois Couperin
June 13, 7-8 pm
St. Alban's Episcopal Church
Tickets: 15.00-10.00 students and seniors
Vibeka has just returned from a year long trip to France.
She studied harpsichord there with her teacher, Olivier Baumont,
and enjoyed many wonderful, cultural experiences both in
Normandie and Paris. This concert wishes to take the listener
on a musical journey through expression into the beautiful
culture of France. From learning from Mr. Baumont she has
felt a renewed knowledge of French music which she wishes to
share in the gorgeous work, L'Art de Toucher by Francois Couperin.
Come and enjoy a full concert of peace and tranquility followed
by a Chinese banquet and reception!
* Magnificat
Warren Stewart, director
Catherine Webster and Jennifer Ellis Kampani, soprano;
Meg Bragle and Jennifer Lane, alto; David Tayler, theorbo and
Hanneke van Proosdij, organ
Motets by Chiara Margarita Cozzolani.
Friday, June 11, 8:00 p.m.
First Congregational Church
Tickets: $38 premier section/$32 all other seats
A concert of motets by Chiara Margarita Cozzolani marks the
release of Magnificat's recordings of her complete works.
Recognized during her lifetime as one of the finest composers
in Italy, Cozzolani spent her adult life within the four
walls of the musically famous convent of Santa Radegonda
in Milan. Contemporary accounts describe the huge crowds
that filled the exterior church of the convent to hear the
angelic voices of nuns singing Cozzolani's passionate and
ecstatic music.
Website: www.magnificatbaroque.com
Mostly Motets
Steve Moore, Director
Tom Ayres, Lucy Collier, Don Coulter, Dean Fukawa, Kealie Goodwin,
Karla Herndon, Tom Logan, Bill Pierson, Sharon Reinbott,
Fred Sandsmark, Larry Schmehl, Susan St. Martin, Cindie Steinmetz,
Evangeline Wolfe
Renaissance and Medieval Sacred Music Concert
June 12, 3:30 pm
St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Berkeley.
Tickets: $16 general/$12 purchased on or before 6/8/10 (see web site)
A concert of unaccompanied, sacred works. Will include both familiar and less often
performed pieces from the Renaissance and Middle Ages like:
Byrd: Emendemus In Melius
Josquin Desprez: Ave Maria...Virgo Serena
Josquin Desprez: Inviolata, Integra et Casta
Chant/Dufay: Ave Maris Stella
Chant/Durufle: Ubi Caritas
Hildegard von Bingen: O Virtus Sapientiae
Palestrina: Sicut Cervus
Tallis: O Nata Lux
Victoria: Ave Maria for Double Choir
Some of the above will also be in a chant-polyphony learn-and-sing
workshop on June 13th with Susan Hellauer and Marsha Genensky of Anonymous 4.
Tickets at:
www.brownpapertickets.com/producer/8143
Contact (800) 838-3006 or (707) 575-7400 or
Event100@MostlyMotets.com
Website: www.mostlymotets.com
Mostly Motets,
Susan Hellauer & Marsha Genensky – Chant camp and sing-along
Susan Hellauer, Marsha Genensky & Steve Moore, Directors
Tom Ayres, Lucy Collier, Don Coulter, Dean Fukawa, Kealie Goodwin, Karla Herndon,
Tom Logan, Bill Pierson, Sharon Reinbott, Fred Sandsmark, Larry Schmehl,
Susan St. Martin, Cindie Steinmetz, Evangeline Wolfe
Chant in Renaissance Polyphony: Chant Camp with Members from
Anonymous 4 & Mostly Motets Sing-Along
June 13, 10 am at Chavez Center Choral Rehearsal Hall, University of California, Berkeley.
June 13, 1 pm at Trinity Chapel.
TicketPrices = 25/20* a.m., 30/25* p.m., or 45/35* both sessions (*on/before 6/8/10)
Explore relationships between Renaissance polyphony and the chant upon
which it was based. Hear and learn chant, sing it, hear and learn related
polyphony, sing it, then cycle through several pieces in that fashion.
Susan and Marsha will lead and demonstrate the chant. Mostly Motets will
demonstrate the polyphony then sing it with the audience.
The polyphony will come from composers like: Josquin Desprez, Dufay, Durufle,
Palestrina, Tallis, and Victoria.
Attend the morning session, the afternoon session, or both, since they will
be different. Sheet music provided. Experienced and inexperienced singers
welcome.
Tickets at:
www.brownpapertickets.com/producer/8143
Contact (800) 838-3006 or (707) 575-7400 or
Event101@MostlyMotets.com
Website: www.mostlymotets.com
* Music's Re-creation
Carla Moore, violin; John Dornenburg,
Viola da Gamba; Lorna Peters, Harpsichord
Early English Baroque Masters
Saturday, June 12, 5:00pm
First Congregational Church
Tickets: $25
The music of William Lawes, John Jenkins, William Young, and Matthew Locke
occupies a special place between the Golden Age of the English Renaissance
fantasia and the new Baroque genres of the suite and sonata. Swift Italianate
virtuosity is set to the particularly poignant English harmonic language,
resulting in music that is both emotionally charged and unlike any other style.
CLASSIC NET writes that Music's Re-creation's performance of Jenkins and
Locke is "varied, subtle, gentle, and exciting music for strings and
keyboard by practitioners who play with great insight and sensitivity."
Website: www.sfems.org/musicsre-creation
Musica Pacifica
Judith Linsenberg, recorder; Elizabeth Blumenstock and Robert Mealy, violins;
David Morris cello/viola da gamba; Charles Sherman, harpsichord;
Peter Maund, percussion
Dancing in the Isles
June 12, 3:00 pm
Berkeley City Club
Tickets: $20/15
"DANCING IN THE ISLES" - Rousing Baroque Folk and Dance Music from Scotland,
Ireland, and England - a celebration of our upcoming CD!
The program includes Musica Pacifica’s original arrangements of traditional
Irish and Scottish folk tunes, English country dance tunes, a Purcell theater
suite, Jacobean masque music, a sonata "a la Scozzese" by Veracini, and
Purcell’s famous "Three Parts upon a Ground."
Contact 510 444-4113 or judy@musicapacifica.org.
Website: www.musicapacifica.org
The New Esterházy Quartet
Kati Kyme and Lisa Weiss, violins, Anthony Martin, viola, and William Skeen, cello
Haydn's Jukebox
June 9, 8 pm
Trinity Chapel
Tickets: $25.00 general, $15.00 SFEMS members, students and seniors
Enjoy the rare opportunity of choosing your own program! We will perform a
concert comprised entirely of our audience's choosing, any movement
from among the 280 in Haydn's 68 quartets. We have played all of them for the
first time in America on period instruments–come hear your favorites again!
Contact 415-520-0611 or
info@trinitychamberconcerts.com
Website: www.newesterhazy.org
Rebecca Pechefsky, Harpsichordist
Krebs's French Overture & Rameau's Suite in E Minor
June 9, 2 pm
St. Joseph of Arimathea
Tickets: $15/10 EMA members
New York-based harpsichordist Rebecca Pechefsky will present a recital pairing
Johann Ludwig Krebs's Overture in the French Manner with Rameau's Suite in E Minor
from 1724.
Krebs was Bach's star pupil, but his Overture also has possible echoes from Rameau's
Pièces de Clavecin en Concert.
Contact 646-263-9122 or rpechefsky@gmail.com
Website: www.rebeccapechefsky.com
Eugene Petrushansky
Solo Harpsichord Music
June 11, 3:30 - 4:30 pm
St. Joseph of Arimathea
Tickets:
Music of Froberger, Bach and Domenico Scarlatti played on a newly finished double-manual
instrument after 1738 Christian Vater.
John Prescott
Lecture. Claudio Monteverdi: a Composer in Transition
June 7, 10 am
Loper Chapel
Tickets: $10.00 regular, $5:00 for students and seniors
The center piece of this year's festival is Monteverdi's great Vespers of
1610. Before attending all the wonderful workshops and performances
related to this work, come spend an hour learning about the life,
works and historical place of this fascinating composer. Monteverdi's
long life spanned the transition from the Renaissance to the Baroque.
This lecture will explore the many genres in which Monteverdi excelled
and trace his changing and maturing musical style. Come with open ears
and an open mind.
Website: www.jprescottmusic.com
Tim Rayborn
Tim Rayborn: Sung and spoken voice, Anglo-Saxon and Germanic lyres, Pictish harp,
Baltic gusli, Celtic Bardic Branch, drum
Word Hoard: Early Medieval Epics in Story and Song
June 8, 9:30 - 11 pm
Music Sources
Tickets: $15; $10 students, seniors, Music Sources, and SFEMS members
Tim Rayborn will be delving back 1,000 years and more into the Dark Ages,
to reconstruct the Northern European epic poetry and music of the time.
Tim will discuss this process in a talk before the concert, and then
perform a series of pieces by candlelight. He will present selections
from early medieval Welsh, Bavarian, Anglo-Saxon, and Icelandic poetry,
as well as traditional instrumental music from Finland and the Faroe Islands.
This concert presents a rare opportunity to experience music and story
telling from a vanished age, a world of heroes, magic, gods, dragons,
great deeds, and myth.
Contact (510) 486-2803 or
tim@timrayborn.com
Website: www.timrayborn.com
* ¡Sacabuche! with Paul Elliott & Nigel North
San Marco and the Venetian double-choir.
Thursday, June 10, 8:00pm
First Congregational Church
Tickets: $38 premier section/$32 all other seats
In a feast for the ears, heart and soul that befits the
opulent style of Saint Mark's Cathedral in the
seventeenth-century, this concert features the stunningly
beautiful double-choir writing of the composers associated
with St. Mark's Cathedral in Venice-Orlando di Lasso,
Andrea Gabrieli, Giovanni Gabrieli, Claudio Monteverdi,
Heinrich Schütz, Hans Leo Hassler, and Alessandro Grandi.
Large-scale vocal works employing sackbuts, cornettos, violins and
dulcian are contrasted with elegant solo motets, virtuosic
instrumental solos and finely crafted small-scale concerted
writing.
Website: sacabuche.org
San Francisco Renaissance Voices
Todd Jolly, Music Director;
Katherine McKee, Assistant Music Director
Sopranos - Katie Bank, Rita Lilly, Lisa May, Diana Pray
Altos/Countertenors - David Alban, Paula Chacon, Katherine McKee, Jane Reider
Tenors - Jesse Buddington, Nicholas Kotar, Emil Martinsek, Samuel Palmer
Basses/Baritones - J. Jeff Badger, Jeff Fields, Raymond Martinez, Bill Treddway
The Armed Man — Josquin des Prez (c1450-1521)
June 9, 8:00 pm
St. John's Presbyterian Church, 2727 College Ave, Berkeley.
Tickets: $20 general; $15 student/senior
The Renaissance drinking song L'homme Armé (The Armed Man) has served
as the basis for more masses than any other tune in history. San Francisco
Renaissance Voices (Todd Jolly, Music Director with Katherine McKee,
Assistant Music Director) presents this concert featuring both of
Josquin's versions: his Missa L'homme armé sexti toni and his most
famous version, Missa L'homme armé super voces musicales, a technical
tour-de-force, containing numerous mensuration canons and contrapuntal
display in which the L'homme armé tune is repeated for each movement
on a consecutive step of the scale.
Program notes
Contact 415.664.2543 x3 or sfrvoices@yahoo.com
Website: www.SFRV.org
Three Trapped Tigers Recorder Ensemble: Barnett, Bickley and Linsenberg
David Barnett and Tom Bickley with special guest Tiger, Judy Linsenberg
"My notes ascend into the air" pre-modern music for post-modern ears and vice versa
June 06, 2:00-3:00 pm
Trinity Chapel
Tickets: $15 general, $10 SFEMS members/seniors/students/disabled
Duos and trios by Jim Wilson, John Baldwine, Tom Bickley, Pauline Oliveros,
Francesco Landini and more.
Three Trapped Tigers is an ensemble of recorder players whose core members are
David Barnett and Tom Bickley. Their first performance was on 21 June 2003 as
part of the Garden of Memory Summer Solstice Concert at the Chapel of the Chimes
in Oakland, CA. Their concerts reflect their varied musical interests.
They strive to present the kind of concerts that they would like to go to
and hope you enjoy it too!
Contact (707) 827-3724 or damabarn@aol.com
Margriet Tindemans
Internationally famous performer and gamba teacher, Margriet Tindemans, will be
conducting a masterclass for students and auditors as part of The Berkeley Festival XX.
Margriet Tindemans Master Class
June 12, 1:30 - 5:30pm
Music Sources
Tickets: FREE event
Margriet Tindemans has been called a rare combination of charismatic performing
and inspiring teaching, a scholar with profound knowledge of music,
poetry and art of the Middle Ages, "a national treasure."
A student of Wieland Kuijken in Brussels, she was awarded the
"Prix d'Excellence" with honor. She excels as a player of early stringed
instruments, from the medieval fiddle and rebec to baroque viola and voila da gamba.
She was a founding member of the German ensemble Sequentia, and the
Huelgas Ensemble of Belgum, and currently performs and records with
Medieval Strings, Seattle Baroque Orchesta, and Pacific Operaworks.
She will be teaching at the San Francisco Early Music Society Medieval
& Renaissance Summer Workshop, June 27-July 3rd.
Contact 510 848 5591 or lmcr@aol.com
Website: www.Pacificaviols.org
USC Thornton Baroque Sinfonia and Collegium Musicum
Winners of the Early Music America 2009-2010 Collegium Musicum Grant
Adam Knight Gilbert, director
Tara Bailey, Bianca Hall, Karina Kallas, Joel Nesvadba, Debra Penberthy,
William Rowley, voice;
Joo Young Lee, Naomi Florin, Mishkar Nuñez, violin;
Renata Van der Vyver, Sophia Acheson, viol and viola d'amore;
Jason Yoshida, theorbo; Eva Beneke, guitar;
Aki Nishiguchi, shawm; Stephan Haas, recorder;
Arthur Omura, organ and harpsichord
Music on the Cusp: Airs and Grounds from the
Late Renaissance and Early Baroque
June 7, 8 pm
St. Mark's Episcopal Church
Tickets: FREE ADMISSION
A program of music for voices and instruments by Giovanni Antonio Rigatti,
Claudio Monteverdi, Frecsobaldi, Peter Philips, John Bull, and featuring
Heinrich Ignaz Biber's Partita VII for two violas d'amore and continuo
Contact (626) 408-2184 or
adam.gilbert@usc.edu
Website: www.usc.edu/schools/music/programs/early/index.html
Vajra Voices
Karen Clark, Director
Ruth Baillie, Lindsey McLennan, Joyce Todd McBride, Celeste Winant
with Tim Rayborn, harp and hurdy gurdy
A Medieval Vespers: Contemplative Music of
Hildegard von Bingen and the School of St. Martial
June 7, 7:30 pm
St. Joseph of Arimathea
Tickets: Suggested Donation: $10 - $20
Vajra Voices sings the monophonic chant of Hildegard von Bingen
and polyphonic settings from the Saint Martial manuscripts in a
contemplative candlelit service.
Contact 510-812-4518 or vajravoices@karenrclark.com
Website: www.karenrclark.com
* The Marion Verbruggen Trio
Marion Verbruggen, recorder; Margriet Tindemans, viola da gamba;
Jillon Stoppels Dupree, harpsichord
The Virtuoso Recorder
Friday, June 11, 2010. 5:00 pm
First Congregational Church
Tickets: $38 premier section/$32 all other seats
Three of the brightest stars in the early music firmament align in this dazzling
concert of masterpieces from the Baroque. Travel with the Marion Verbruggen Trio
as they tour from Germany to France. The German style is heard in sonatas and
trio sonatas by its most famous composers Telemann, Handel and J.S.Bach.
France is represented by the seventeenth-century viola da gamba virtuoso
Marin Marais in his homage to his teacher, the 'Tombeau de Mr. de Ste. Colombe'
and in the famous Folies d'Espagne (French in spite of its title and here
performed on recorder). Bridging the gap is Bach's French Suite for harpsichord solo.
Marion Verbruggen
MASTERCLASS
June 12, 10:10am - 1:00pm
Loper Chapel
Tickets: $10 for Auditors
Four performers or groups will perform for Marion Verbruggen.
Slots available for soloists and ensembles.
Information: Letitia Berlin, 510/559-4670
or ARS, 800/491-9588,
ars.recorder@americanrecorder.org
Vinaccesi Ensemble
Amy Brodo, Baroque cello/ gamba;
Jonathan Davis, harpsichord;
Sarge Gerbode, archlute;
Nanette McGuinness, soprano;
Jonathan Smucker, tenor
Involto il tristo core: Venetian Arias, Cantatas, and Duets
June 7, 1 pm
Trinity Chapel
Tickets: $15 general, $10 sfems, students, seniors & disabled. Nobody turned away for lack of funds
The Vinaccesi Ensemble was founded in 2008 to perform the wonderful but virtually
unknown cantatas of Benedetto Vinaccesi. This concert features Baroque secular
music from Venice: arias, duets, instrumental solos, and cantatas by Monteverdi,
Cavalli, Strozzi, d'India, Steffani, Dario Castello--and, of course, Benedetto Vinaccesi.
Program notes
Contact 510-549-3864 or
info@TrinityChamberConcerts.com
or see www.trinitychamberconcerts.com/2009-2010.html#d10fringe.
Sarah Viola, Jonathan Davis, Anthony Martin, Andrew Fouts, William Skeen
Anthony Martin and Sarah Viola, directors
Sarah Viola, Soprano;
Jonathan Davis, Harpsichord;
Anthony Martin and Andrew Fouts, Violins;
William Skeen, Gamba
Sweeter than Roses
June 10, 3:30 pm
Alphonse Berber Gallery, 2546 Bancroft Way, Berkeley
Tickets: 15 general admission, 12 for SFEMS members, 8 for Students
Soprano Sarah Viola, joined by harpsichordist Jonathan Davis,
violinists Anthony Martin and Andrew Fouts, and gambist William
Skeen present an hour of love songs, sacred hymns, sonatas, and
preludes by "the Glory of the Temple, and the Stage" Henry Purcell.
Contact 510-387-7792 or info@jdmginc.com
Les Violettes
Corey Carlton, voice; David Wilson, violin;
Colin Shipman, viola da gamba; Violet Grgich, harpsichord
Demons, Surgeons, & Bells Bells Bells...
June 6, 4 pm
Loper Chapel
Tickets: $15; $10 students, SFEMS members, EMA members
Mythical, Morbid, & Macabre music of the (mostly)
French Baroque. The program includes "Le Tableau de
l'Operation de la Taille" and "Sonnerie de Ste. Genevieve
du Mont de Paris" by Marin Marais, and the cantata "Médée" by
Louis-Nicolas Clérambault.
Contact 510 326-4916 or
dkwilson415@sbcglobal.net
Voices of Music
Directed by David Tayler and Hanneke van Proosdij
Carla Moore, baroque violin;
William Skeen, baroque cello;
David Tayler, archlute;
Hanneke van Proosdij, harpsichord.
Voices of Music performs both renaissance and baroque music, drawing upon
the many and varied sources for historical performance practice.
Performances are one on a part, with an emphasis on combining both
instrumental and vocal styles of interpretation and ornamentation.
Our ensemble is the first Early Music Ensemble in America to broadcast
highlights from our performances in High Definition Video. In addition
to the concert series in the San Francisco Bay Area, Voices of Music
sponsors the Young Artist Recitals, which are specifically designed
to work with the next generation of singers and musicians.
Voices of Music is a Non-Profit with a wide range of educational and
performance outreach programs.
Bach Violin Sonates
Friday June 11, 2 pm
Loper Chapel @ First Congregational Church
Tickets: $20 general/$15 SFEMS/ARS/EMA members, students & seniors
Bach's finest chamber music? A bold claim, indeed, but one made by Bach's son.
Reminiscing about Bach's Six Sonatas for Obbligato Harpsichord and Solo Violin
(Sei Sounate a Cembalo certato e Violino Solo), Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach wrote:
"The six harpsichord trios are among my dear father's best works. Even after more
than fifty years, they still sound excellent, and are delightful."
Our program will feature both the Sonatas with Continuo as well as the "Harpsichord
Trios."
You can see a video preview of this concert in High Definition:
http://tinyurl.com/VOM-BWV1021
Program notes
Contact Hanneke van Proosdij, 415.260.4687,
cembalo@sbcglobal.net
Website: www.voicesofmusic.org
Voices of Music presents David Tayler
In a Garden so Green: Lute music of England and Scotland
June 12, 1 pm
Loper Chapel
Tickets: $20 general/ $15 seniors, students, SFEMS, EMA and ARS members
For their 400th anniversary, lutenist David Tayler performs a selection of solo
lute music based on popular songs from 1610.
David Tayler received his Ph.D. in musicology from the University of California
at Berkeley. Co-founder of Voices of Music, he is a member of Philharmonia Baroque
Orchestra and has appeared with Tafelmusik, the San Francisco Opera & Symphony,
and has recorded extensively for BIS, harmonia mundi USA, Pandore Recordings,
Koch, Sony, Reference, Arabesque, BMG & RCA. As a specialist in the art song of
the early seventeenth century he has performed in lute song recitals throughout
Europe and the United States.
Contact 415-260-4687 or
cembalo@sbcglobal.net
Website: www.voicesofmusic.org
WAVE (Women's Antique Vocal Ensemble)
Cindy Beitmen, director
Members: Bekah Barnett, Celia, Tanya Drlik, Marcia Hofer, Dorothy Manly, Nancy Marsh,
Barbara Miller, Susan Overhauser, Susan Russell, Meryl Sacks, Sara Stutz,
Alisa Gould Sugden, Alison Thomas, Charlene Woodcock
Garden of Musicians of Ferrara (Giardino de musici ferraresi)
June 8, 8-10 p.m.
St. Mark's Episcopal Church
Tickets: $15 general; $10 seniors/students
The concert will focus on the last great flowering of music from the House of
Este, circa 1559-1597, in Ferrara, Italy, and will include music by Luzzasco
Luzzaschi, Gesualdo da Venosa, Giaches de Wert, Luca Marenzio, Lodovico Agostini,
Claudio Monteverdi, Alessandro Piccinini, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Alessandro Striggio,
Raphaella Aleotti, and Francesca Caccini, all of whom were either directly
involved in the music at the court of Este or influenced by the musical
innovations that were inspired by Duke Alfonso II. Guest artists include
Joyce Johnson-Hamilton, cornetto; Howard Kadis, lute and archlute;
William Skeen, viola da gamba; and the Renaissance wind band Alta Sonora.
Contact 510-233-1479 or
wavewomen@netzero.net
Program notes on website: www.wavewomen.org
Wildcat Viols
Barefoot Chamber Concerts presents Wildcat Viols (Joanna Blendulf, Julie Jeffrey,
Elisabeth Reed, viols) with guest violist Annalisa Pappano.
Purcell: Fantazias for 3 and 4 Viols
June 10, 12 noon
St. Mark's Episcopal, Parish Hall
Tickets: $15, $13 Seniors/students/SFEMS, all tickets cheaper online (see website)
The 3- and 4- part Fantasies for viols of Henry Purcell.
In the late 17th century, when the nearly 200 year long tradition of writing
contrapuntal fantasies for a consort of viols was all but extinct, the usually
forward looking Henry Purcell composed what was to become the magnificent swan song
of the genre. This extraordinary collection combines the chromatic passion of the
modern, dramatic style, and Purcell's idiomatic angular (but elegant) melodies with
the compositional techniques that date back to Taverner.
Contact
Peter Hallifax, 510 220 1195 or
info@barefootchamberconcerts.com
Website: www.barefootchamberconcerts.com
Wild Rose: folk and baroque
Shira Kammen, Frances Blaker, Letitia Berlin, Joey O'Donnell,
Barbara Blaker Krumdieck and Henry Lebedinsky
Shira Kammen & Friends: music spanning 15th-21st
century on folk & baroque instruments
June 11, 3 pm
Trinity Chapel
Tickets: $15 general, $10 sfems, students, seniors & disabled.
Nobody turned away for lack of funds
Wild Rose: folk & baroque performs a mixed program of music spanning
the 15th - 21st centuries on folk and baroque instruments.
Contact 510 559-4670 or francesblaker@sbcglobal.net
David Wilson, Steve Escher, and Jonathan Dimmock
David Wilson - violin; Steve Escher - cornetto; Jonathan Dimmock - harpsichord and organ
Stile Fantastico: Italian virtuosic writing for violin & cornetto
June 11, 2-3 pm
St Mark's Episcopal Church
Tickets: $15 / $10 SFEMS
David Wilson, Steve Escher, and Jonathan Dimmock join their artistry to explore the
dynamic and surprising literature from the Italian baroque. Known as a period in
history when the violinists and the cornettists sparred for the spotlight, this concert
will demonstrate how beautifully these two instruments work together! Solo works for
keyboard, violin, and cornetto will also be included.
Contact JEDimmock@comcast.net
Zweikampf
Faythe Vollrath & Stephen Gamboa, harpsichords
Double the Harpsichord, Double the Fun!
June 8, 2:30 pm
St. Joseph of Arimathea
Tickets: Suggested Donation $10/5
The harpsichord duo Zweikampf presents an eclectic program of virtuosic works for two
harpsichords. With repertoire ranging from the 16th to the 20th centuries, this concert
offers something for everyone. Don't miss this chance to hear rarely performed works for
two harpsichords by William Albright, Johann Mattheson, and Gaspard Le Roux.
Contact zweikampf@gmail.com
* All Main Stage Groups, plus Archetti
Magnificat, ARTEK, Marion Verbruggen Trio, AVE, ¡Sacabuche!,
Music's Re-creation and Archetti, with soloists Marion Verbruggen,
Laura Heimes, Jennifer Ellis Kampani, Barbara Hollinshead, Meg Bragle,
Christopher LeCluyse, and Peter Becker.
FESTIVAL FINALE CELEBRATION:
Vespers in Venice from Monteverdi to Vivaldi
Sunday, June 13, 2010. 4:00 pm
First Congregational Church
Tickets: $38 premier section/$32 all other seats
The famous Vespers of 1610 helped Monteverdi to secure the position of
maestro di cappella at San Marco in Venice and the music he composed there
inspired a century of glorious Vespers music in the Most Serene Republic.
This final concert will explore the extraordinary repertoire of Venetian
vespers music featuring psalms and motets by Monteverdi, Rovetta and Cavalli
and instrumental music by Castello and Legrenzi, as well as Vivaldi's e minor
concerto for four violins and his brilliant setting of the Magnificat.
The Festival Finale Celebration concert will showcase each of the ensembles
participating in the festival and include soloists Marion Verbruggen,
Laura Heimes, Jennifer Ellis Kampani, Barbara Hollinshead, Meg Bragle,
Christopher LeCluyse, and Peter Becker.
* indicates Main Stage events
Event Locations
All are in Berkeley unless otherwise noted.
| ALL |
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All Souls Episcopal Church and Parish Hall, 2220 Cedar Street (at Spruce). 510.848.1755 |
| BCC |
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Berkeley City Club: 2315 Durant Avenue. 510.848.7800 |
| BPC |
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Berkeley Piano Club: 2724 Haste Street. 510.845.8488 |
| FCC |
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First Congregational Church: 2345 Channing Way (at Dana). 510.848.3696 |
| HH |
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Hertz Hall: University of California campus. 510.642.4864 |
| IH |
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International House: 2299 Piedmont (at Bancroft). 510.642.9490 |
| LOP |
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Loper Chapel at First Congregational Church: Dana at Durant. 510.848.3696 |
| MS |
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MusicSources: 1000 The Alameda (at Marin). 510.528.1685 |
| STA |
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St. Alban's Episcopal Church: 1501 Washington Avenue, Albany. 510.525.1716 |
| STJ |
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St. Joseph of Arimathea Chapel: 2543 Durant Street near Bowditch. 510.841.3083 |
| STM |
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St. Mark's Episcopal Church and Parish Hall: 2300 Bancroft Way. 510.848.5107 |
| TRIN |
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Trinity Chapel: 2320 Dana (at Durant). 510.549.3864 |
| ULC |
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University Lutheran Chapel: 2425 College (at Haste). 510.843.6230 |
| WHEE |
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Wheeler Auditorium: University of California campus. 510.642.5550 |
| ZP |
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Zellerbach Playhouse: University of California campus. 510.642.5550 |
The Berkeley Festival & Exhibition is presented by San Francisco Early Music Society
in association with Early Music America, Cal Performances,
Magnificat, Ave, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, and the
American Recorder Society.
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