New membership rates in effect January 1 Effective January 1, SFEMS is raising its membership rates for household, youth, and senior members, though not for individuals. The new rates are $65 for household memberships (up from $55), $45 for...
SFEMS will hold its next board meeting on Monday, January 27, at Musical Offering Café, 2430 Bancroft Way, in Berkeley. The meeting starts at 7:30 p.m. We welcome members’ attendance at board meetings. Anyone interested in coming to the open...
Communications Manager of the San Francisco Early Music Society About the San Francisco Early Music Society Since 1975, the San Francisco Early Music Society (SFEMS) has served the Bay Area’s early music community, promoting historically-informed...
Seven Tunes for Seven Tears — Plumbing the Depths of Dowland The SFEMS concert series resumes the weekend of January 10–12 with an appearance by Canada’s premier viol consort, Les Voix Humaines (Mélisande Corriveau, Margaret Little, Felix Deak...
Tish Berlin continues to offer new classes for recorder players as well as other early instrumentalists and singers. She will be offering three new classes in January and February. The classes take place on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, from January 8...
On Saturday, February 1, 2020 the Mid-Peninsula Recorder Orchestra will present a workshop directed by Judith Linsenberg entitled, “Kindred Spirits/Comparing the music of interesting pairs of composers from the Renaissance to the present...
It is always a treat when our concert series presents the splendor of a full baroque chamber orchestra, and our December presentation—a one-time-only event on Friday evening, December 13—will be something special, featuring one of the first and most...
On Saturday, December 7, the Mid-Peninsula Recorder Orchestra will present a concert at Grace Lutheran Church, 3149 Waverley Street in Palo Alto, starting at 2:00 p.m. The program will feature selections from Henry Purcell’s incidental music to A...
On Sunday, November 17, the Third Sundays at St. Alban’s series presents the early music ensemble Flauti Diversi, who will take the audience on a musical tour of the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages in a program entitled “Music in the Garden of...
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...