From Hothby to Cowell On Saturday, May 31, the Mid-Peninsula Recorder Orchestra will present a concert at Trinity Presbyterian Church, 1106 Alameda de las Pulgas in San Carlos at 4:30 p.m. The program will feature a concerto by Telemann, a setting...
The New Esterházy Quartet aim to show that Vienna had an important and rich music culture well before the famous era of Mozart and Beethoven. This coming weekend the quartet (Lisa Weiss and Kati Kyme, violins; Anthony Martin, viola; and William...
SFEMS Baroque Workshop – 2014 Features Venetian Influences! The San Francisco Early Music Society’s Summer Baroque Workshop has been providing amateur and pre-professional musicians with expert guidance, motivation, skills, and the means to achieve...
Bezuidenhout’s Debuts Expound Mozart’s Piano, Bach’s Harpsichord “The finest living exponent of the fortepiano” —The Herald “Bezuidenhout is a prince of the fortepiano, making it sing in melodic phrases as no other practitioner of this...
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...