2013 Summer Early Music Workshops

Jan Steen, The Family Concert, 1666, © The Art Institute of Chicago

Medieval & Renaissance Workshop, June 23-29, 2013 "Stories and Legends" Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA Director: Tom Zajac Info: Tom Zajac 617-823-9024; medrenworkshop@sfems.org Classical Workshop, June 23-29, 2013     "Viennese Masters and Their Contemporaries" St. Albert's Priory, Oakland, CA Directors: Kati Kyme and William Skeen Info: 510-334-3882, classicalworkshop@sfems.org Baroque Music Workshop, June 30-July 6, 2013 "Music from the Habsburg Court" Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA Director: Linda Pearse Info: Linda Pearse 506-364-2585; baroqueworkshop@sfems.org Recorder Workshops, July 14-20 and July 21-27, 2013 Week 1 - "The Art of Love and War" Week 2 - "A Celebration of Women in Music" St. Albert's Priory, Oakland, CA Directors: Rotem Gilbert and Hanneke van Proosdij Info: Rotem Gilbert 626-441-0635; recorderworkshop@sfems.org

Music Discovery Workshop for Young People,
June 23-28, 2013

"Alcina and Ruggiero: Sorceress and Knight"

School of the Madeleine, Berkeley, CA
Director: Tish Berlin
Info: Letitia Berlin 510-882-1169; discoveryworkshop@sfems.org

Prescott Lectures for adults,
June 24-28, 2013, 9:30am-noon

"Vivaldi and the Venetians: Baroque Music in the Serene Republic"

School of the Madeleine, Berkeley, CA
Info and Registration: Suzanne Siebert 510-843-2425; suzannesiebert@gmail.com.

A Unique Experience . . .

For over thirty years SFEMS has offered one of the most comprehensive summer early music programs in the United States, led by a faculty of international artists in residence. Instrumental and vocal master classes, lectures, coached ensembles, and recitals provide an opportunity for musicians and dancers at a variety of levels to improve their ensemble skills, performance techniques, and teaching abilities.

Full days of classes, coaching, and rehearsals are followed by optional evening events, including faculty concerts and lecture-demonstrations, plus more light-hearted activities, from sherry hour to Renaissance dancing to spoofs of early music.

You can download the 2013 Workshop Brochure (pdf) and the 2013 Workshop Enrollment Form (pdf) if you are so inclined, but all that information and more is present in these pages.

SFEMS provides wonderful facilities for its workshops. Sonoma State University, an hour north of San Francisco, once again will host the Medieval & Renaissance and Baroque workshops. The campus, surrounded by hills and vineyards, offers several performance halls, a small theater, large classrooms, a dance room (with dance floor), and two large spaces for the large ensemble rehearsals, as well as brand-new, single-room dorms. Nearby are wineries and historic towns in the Napa and Sonoma valleys, Pt. Reyes National Seashore, Bodega Bay, and the Russian River.

The Classical and Recorder Workshops will return to St. Albert's Priory, a peaceful ivy-covered brick oasis one block from an upscale boutique-and-restaurant district in Oakland, California. All the single dorm rooms overlook a serene courtyard garden. The beautiful chapel that will house performances and orchestra rehearsals has wonderful acoustics. St. Albert's is two blocks from the Rockridge BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) station, putting the entire San Francisco Bay Area and its many attractions within reach by public transit.

For young people between the ages of seven and fifteen, SFEMS offers its nineteenth annual Music Discovery Workshop, located this year at the School of the Madeleine, a private elementary school located in a quiet residential neighborhood in north Berkeley. The school has large classrooms, an inviting, well secured playground, and ideal performance space.

Once again, John Prescott will be giving his popular series of Prescott Lectures for adults while the Music Discovery Workshop is in session. All interested adults are welcome.

Last updated 04/23/13.