San Francisco Renaissance Voices has appointed Don Scott Carpenter to the position of Music Director and Liesl McPherrin to the position of Assistant Music Director/General Manager. A frequent guest conductor with SFRV, Don Scott Carpenter became...
Tish Berlin will be offering new classes in November and December. The classes take place on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, from November 12 through December 17, at Tish’s home in Albany. The first class, “Sightreading Smorgasbord,” is for intermediate...
Sacred song from the selva SFEMS’ Sunday afternoon series at the California Jazz Conservatory opens on October 20, with a new ensemble “Beneath a Tree” performing some rarely heard music from the Jesuit missions of eastern Bolivia. One of the...
Music of life & love, food & drink, nature & spirituality, adventure & humor The SFEMS concert series resumes the weekend before Thanksgiving with a cornucopia of music from medieval Spain. The concert will be a joint performance by...
New Board Elected, Robert Cole Honored The San Francisco Early Music Society held its annual membership meeting at Berkeley’s Musical Offering café and record store on Sunday evening, September 15. After some pleasant socializing, lubricated with...
Tish Berlin will be offering two classes in September and October. The classes take place on Tuesdays, from September 24 through October 22, at Tish’s home in Albany. The first class, “Church and Chamber: French Psalm Settings and...
Auditions in February 2020 — Concerts in March 2020 All instruments, ensembles, vocalists and choirs are invited! The Junior Bach Festival hopes all will be well represented during our 67th year in 2020. Festival auditions will take place in...
Costanoan Trio Recreates the Intimate Soundworld of Four Classical Greats The SFEMS 2019–2020 concert season begins in less than a month. We start early this year in terms of calendar but late in terms of repertory—or to give it Biblical...
The Renaissance Singers’ Retreat will convene on October 5–6, 2019. This is our 33rd year! All good sight singers are welcome. Our conductor, Professor William P. Mahrt of Stanford, has announced that we will be singing the works of Jacob Handl...
This Fall, after a hiatus of a dozen years, City College of San Francisco will once again be offering a course in Medieval and Renaissance Music. This course is the initial component of a chronological sequence titled History of Music in Western...