SFEMS will hold its annual members’ meeting on Sunday, September 13, from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. online on Zoom. All SFEMS members are cordially invited to attend. The annual meeting is an opportunity for us to celebrate and reflect on the past season...
SFEMS will hold its next board meeting online on Monday, August 17. The meeting starts at 7:30 p.m. We welcome current members’ attendance at board meetings. Anyone interested in coming to the open portion of this meeting should contact President...
Bill in his element, sitting in front of the cafe. We mourn the death of Bill McClung, a founder and general partner of University Press Books (UPB) and The Musical Offering Cafe. Bill’s passing comes shortly after the closure of UPB’s...
Voices of Music will offer a FREE webinar, July 23 at 11AM PT to performing artists and performing arts organizations in the Bay Area. This webinar will introduce how to make video and how to go online with broadcast quality at a low or reasonable...
View survey results here. In late April, SFEMS sent out a survey to our community to solicit input about what events and services we may continue to offer as your portal to early music in the Bay Area and beyond. We received over 320 thoughtful...
Join us online at 5PM PT on Sunday, June 28 for a FREE concert featuring performances from our Baroque, Medieval/Renaissance, and Recorder Workshop faculty members. Admission is free, but donations are welcome to support SFEMS and our...
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” Almost 60 years ago, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote these words from prison, exhorting our nation to overturn its legacy of systemic oppression and racial injustice...
Medieval/Renaissance Workshop Director Adam Knight Gilbert and Recorder Workshop Co-Director Rotem Gilbert perform with faculty member Jason Yoshida. As musical activities ground to a halt earlier this year throughout the country, the San Francisco...
June 1, 2020—Join us next Monday, June 8, for the start of our week-long Virtual Young Performers Festival and Emerging Artists Showcase, as SFEMS and Early Music America (EMA) broadcast made-to-order, pre-recorded concerts during the week the...
May 19, 2020—It is our pleasure to announce the launch of the Virtual Young Performers Festival and Emerging Artists Showcase. From June 8–14—during the week the Berkeley Festival & Exhibition (BFX) was to have taken place—SFEMS and Early Music...