Early Music America has just announced the recipients of its annual awards for 2014. Winners of this year’s Thomas Binkley Award for outstanding achievements in scholarship and performance are Rotem and Adam Gilbert. The Gilberts have enriched the...
A Message from Tish Berlin We’re looking forward to another wonderful week at the Music Discovery Workshop (MDW) this June! We’ll be back at the School of the Madeleine in North Berkeley, with our gifted and wonderfully supportive faculty. Come...
Sounds and Symbols The Marriage of Image, Text, and Music Saturday May 17, 2014 9:30 to 4:00 PM ☼ St. Mary Magdalen Church 2005 Berryman Street, Berkeley Please join us in welcoming Adam Knight Gilbert, the new director of the SFEMS Medieval &...
For the final concert of their 2013–2014 season, the California Bach Society, under the direction of Paul Flight, presents “Haydn and Mozart Rediscovered,” featuring charming and moving choral works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and of both Johann...
The biennial Berkeley Festival and Exhibition—a week-long musical banquet sponsored by SFEMS and Early Music America—is less than two months away! This year’s Festival offers a very full eight days of concerts. Fourteen Main Stage events...
Just over the horizon is the Marin Headlands Workshop, running from Friday through Sunday, May 9–11. This much anticipated event, sponsored each year by the East Bay Chapter of the American Recorder Society (EBRS), offers intermediate to advanced...
Vintage vinyl collection of medieval and Renaissance music seeks a new home. The collection consists of around 80 LPs from the 1960s and 70s in very good to excellent condition. The recordings include a number of choral works (Gregorian chants...
Conducted by Dr. Mark Sumner and accompanied by William García Ganz, the University of California Alumni Chorus presents a concert of Music from the California Missions at San Francisco’s Mission Dolores Basilica on Sunday, April 6 at 4:00 p...
March 13, 2014 Bach to the Future By Mark MacNamara SF Classical Voice The Junior Bach Festival that everyone always remembers is when the lights went out a few years ago during a solo concert at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Kensington. It...
150 Years in France, Italy, and Holland Marin Baroque Chamber Choir and period instrument Orchestra, directed by Daniel Canosa, will present Jewish Music of the Baroque, featuring works by Abraham de Caceres, Cristiano Giuseppe Lidarti...