Monday, June 1
Early Music for Grace Festival
“Diversimodè Accordata: scordatura music of Heinrich Biber” Pluribus Fidibus (Carla Moore and David Wilson, violins; John Dornenburg, viola da gamba; and Yuko Tanaka, harpsichord) perform the Suite III in A major from Harmonia Artificiosa; Rosary Sonata II, “The Visitation;” Rosary Sonata XIV, “The Assumption of Mary;” Suite I from Harmonia Artificiosa; Toccata for viola da gamba; and Suite V from Harmonia Artificiosa.
12–1 PM
St. Alban’s Episcopal Church
1501 Washington, Albany
$15 general admission, $10 EMA/SFEMS/St. Alban’s parishioners
Tickets on line or at the door. Information: [email protected]
Early Music for Grace Festival
Farallon Recorder Trio (Letitia Berlin, Frances Blaker, and Louise Carslake, recorders) will perform trios from the medieval era to modern day, including works by Bach, Hindemith, Ruffo, the ever-popular Anonymous, Gibbons and our own Frances Blaker.
3–4 PM
St. Alban’s Episcopal Church
1501 Washington, Albany
Tickets $15 general admission, $10 EMA/SFEMS/St. Alban’s parishioners
Tickets on line or at the door. Information: [email protected]
Early Music for Grace Festival
Calextone (Allison Zelles Lloyd, voice and harp; Shira Kammen, vielle, harp and voice; Frances Blaker, recorders and hackebrett; Letitia Berlin, recorders, douçaine and voice) performs music of 14th and 15th century France, including works by Machaut, Busnois, and Dufay.
7:30 PM
St. Alban’s Episcopal Church
1501 Washington, Albany
Tickets $15 general admission, $10 EMA/SFEMS/St. Alban’s parishioners
Tickets on line or at the door. Information: [email protected]
Stanford Baroque Soloists, Anthony Martin, director
“Corelli’s Follies and Followers” Members of the ensemble perform concerti by Arcangelo Corelli, Giuseppe Valentini, Pietro Castrucci, and Francesco Geminiani.
7:30 PM
Memorial Church
450 Serra Mall, Stanford University
Free admission
Tuesday, June 2
Early Music for Grace Festival
“Music of C.P.E. Bach” Bach Se Piace (Anthony Martin and Joseph Edelberg, violins; Stacey Pelinka, flute; John Dornenburg, viola da gamba; and Katherine Heater, harpsichord) perform the Trio for flute, violin, and continuo; Sonata for gamba and continuo; Frei Fantasia for harpsichord and violin; and Trio for 2 violins and continuo, “Sanguinius & Melancholius.”
Noon
St. Alban’s Episcopal Church
1501 Washington, Albany
Tickets $15 general admission, $10 EMA/SFEMS/St. Alban’s parishioners
Tickets on line or at the door. Information: [email protected]
Early Music for Grace Festival
Hallifax & Jeffrey. Peter Hallifax and Julie Jeffrey perform works for two violas da gamba. Program TBA
3–4 PM
St. Alban’s Episcopal Church
1501 Washington, Albany
Tickets $15 general admission, $10 EMA/SFEMS/St. Alban’s parishioners
Tickets on line or at the door. Information: [email protected]
Early Music for Grace Festival
“Telemann for Grace” Berkeley Baroque Strings, Kati Kyme, Director, perform selections from Georg Philipp Telemann’s concerti and character pieces, including the Ouverture Burlesque, the Ouverture Don Quixotte, Concerto for 4 violins transcribed by William Skeen for violas, violas da gamba and celli; and the Ouverture a 7 in D Major, William Skeen, gamba soloist.
7:30 PM
Trinity Chapel
2320 Dana St. (between Bancroft and Durant), Berkeley
Tickets $15 general admission, $10 EMA/SFEMS/St. Alban’s parishioners
Tickets on line or at the door. Information: [email protected]
Wednesday, June 3
Early Music for Grace Festival
Ensemble Vermillian (Frances Blaker, recorders; Barbara Blaker Krumdieck, cello), with guest artists Martie Perry, violin; Joey O’Donnell, viola; and Keith Collins, bassoon, performs a program of 17th- and 18th-century music, including works Bach, Bertali, Vivaldi, and others.
12–1 PM
St. Alban’s Episcopal Church
1501 Washington, Albany
$15 general admission, $10 EMA/SFEMS/St. Alban’s parishioners
Tickets on line or at the door. Information: [email protected]
Early Music for Grace Festival
Yuko Tanaka will perform a solo harpsichord recital featuring the works of the two musical dynasties of the baroque era, Johann Sebastian Bach and François Couperin. Works include Bach’s Suite in E minor, aufs Lautenwerk, BWV 996, Sonata in D minor, BWV 964, and Couperin’s Quienzième ordre.
3–4 PM
St. Alban’s Episcopal Church
1501 Washington, Albany
Tickets $15 general admission, $10 EMA/SFEMS/St. Alban’s parishioners
Tickets on line or at the door. Information: [email protected]
Early Music for Grace Festival
“The Archangel’s Long Shadow” Mensa Sonora California (Anthony Martin and David Wilson, violins; John Dornenburg, viola da gamba; and Charles Sherman, harpsichord) perform Giovanni Battista Vitali: selections from Correnti, e Balletti da camera, Opus 1 (1666); Arcangelo Corelli: Trio Sonata Op. 1 No. 2 (1681); Georg Muffat: Sonata IV from Armonico Tributo (1682); and Passacaglia from Apparatus Musico-Organisticus (1690); Antonio Vivaldi: La Folia, RV 63 (1705); François Couperin, selection from L’Art de toucher le clavecin (1722); and Le Parnasse, ou L’apothéose de Corelli (1724).
7:30 PM
St. Alban’s Episcopal Church
1501 Washington, Albany
Tickets $15 general admission, $10 EMA/SFEMS/St. Alban’s parishioners
Tickets on line or at the door. Information: [email protected]
Thursday, June 4
Early Music for Grace Festival
Heartland Baroque (Martha Perry, violin and director; David Wilson, violin; Barbara Blaker Krumdieck, cello; and Keith Collins, dulcian) perform a program of 17th-century chamber music
12–1 PM
St. Alban’s Episcopal Church
1501 Washington, Albany
Tickets $15 general admission, $10 EMA/SFEMS/St. Alban’s parishioners
Tickets online or at the door. Information: [email protected]
Early Music for Grace Festival
“Tunefully Italian” Agave Baroque (Aaron Westman, violin and director; Kevin Cooper, guitar; and Henry Lebedinsky, harpsichord) perform a program of tuneful Italianate music for violin, guitar, and harpsichord, featuring something familiar, something not-so-familiar, and something that you’ll be glad to add to your list. This program features trios, sonatas, and solo works by the forever entertaining Antonio Vivaldi, Johann Georg Pisendel (one of the most important and influential violinists of his time), Giovanni Battista Granata (a fantastically virtuosic guitarist), Isabella Leonarda (the amazing composer-nun), and Nicola Porpora (Handel’s very successful rival, whose music we all should get to know).
3–4 PM
St. Alban’s Episcopal Church
1501 Washington, Albany
Tickets $15 general admission, $10 EMA/SFEMS/St. Alban’s parishioners
Tickets on line or at the door. Information: [email protected]
Early Music for Grace Festival
Bertamo Trio (Letitia Berlin, recorder; and Yuko Tanaka, harpsichord; with guest cellist Farley Pearce) performs sonatas and trio sonatas by Johann Sebastian Bach, Georg Philipp Telemann, and Dietrich Buxtehude.
7:30 PM
St. Alban’s Episcopal Church
1501 Washington, Albany
Tickets $15 general admission, $10 EMA/SFEMS/St. Alban’s parishioners
Tickets on line or at the door. Information: [email protected]
Friday, June 5
Early Music for Grace Festival
KWPC Baroque (Kathleen Kraft, flute; David Wilson, violin; Farley Pearce, cello; and Phebe Craig, harpsichord) perform Johann Sebastian Bach, Sonata III in d minor, BWV 527; and Sonata in G major, BWV 1027; François Couperin, “L’Espagnol” from Les Nations; Jean-Marie Leclair, Sonata II in E minor; and Georg Philipp Telemann, Premier Quatuor in D Major.
12–1 PM
St. Alban’s Episcopal Church
1501 Washington, Albany
Tickets $15 general admission, $10 EMA/SFEMS/St. Alban’s parishioners
Tickets on line or at the door. Information: [email protected]
Early Music for Grace Festival
“Bach, Balkan, and Blues” Join versatile instrumentalists Judith Linsenberg, recorders, and Katherine Heater, harpsichord, and their friends, special guest performers Frances Feldon, recorders, Susanna Porte, cello, and Peter Maund, percussion, on a trip through 18th-century North Germany, Eastern Europe, and 1930s Paris. Music by J.S. Bach, Django Reinhardt, Philip Braham and the fabulous Anonymous!
3–4 PM
St. Alban’s Episcopal Church
1501 Washington, Albany
Tickets $15 general admission, $10 EMA/SFEMS/St. Alban’s parishioners
Tickets on line or at the door. Information: [email protected]
Early Music for Grace Festival
“BABO Pro-Am” Frances Blaker conducts the members of Bay Area Baroque Orchestra, accomplished amateur players of baroque instruments, joined by professional baroque musicians from the Bay Area and beyond, to perform works by George Frideric Handel, Johann Sebastian Bach, Francesco Geminiani and Jean-Philippe Rameau.
7:30 PM
St. Alban’s Episcopal Church
1501 Washington, Albany
Tickets $15 general admission, $10 EMA/SFEMS/St. Alban’s parishioners
Tickets on line or at the door. Information: [email protected]
Hillside Club Concert Series presents New Esterházy Quartet with Christine Brandes
“Haydn Cantatas” “It’s time for some handbag-throwing!” says soprano Christine Brandes of the two Haydn cantatas about wronged women she performs with the New Esterházy Quartet. The spectacular pieces, “Arianna a Naxos” and “Scena di Berenice,” each feature a “rage aria” at the end. The period string quartet (Kati Kyme and Lisa Weiss, violin; Anthony Martin, viola; William Skeen, cello) also play two exceptional Haydn quartets: Op. 71, No. 2 and Op. 55, No. 2, “The Razor.”
8PM
Hillside Club
2286 Cedar Street (at Spruce), Berkeley
$20, tickets for this Friday concert sold only at the door
Saturday, June 6
Musical Waves
Jennifer Paulino, soprano, and Elaine Thornburgh, fortepiano, perform Franz Joseph Haydn’s English Love Songs, Andante and Variations in F Minor, and the cantata Arianna a Naxos
7:30 PM
510 48th Ave., San Francisco
Suggested donation: $20–$25
50% of donations will be given to a Nepal earthquake relief fund.
Reception for artists to follow performance.
415-387-6890
New Esterházy Quartet with Christine Brandes
“Haydn Cantatas” “It’s time for some handbag-throwing!” says soprano Christine Brandes of the two Haydn cantatas about wronged women she performs with the New Esterházy Quartet. The spectacular pieces, “Arianna a Naxos” and “Scena di Berenice,” each feature a “rage aria” at the end. The period string quartet (Kati Kyme and Lisa Weiss, violin; Anthony Martin, viola; William Skeen, cello) also play two exceptional Haydn quartets: Op. 71, No. 2 and Op. 55, No. 2, “The Razor.”
4 PM
St. Mark’s Lutheran Church
1111 O’Farrell Street (at Franklin), San Francisco
$25 (discounts for SFEMS members, seniors, and students)
415-520-0611 www.newesterhazy.org
San Francisco Renaissance Voices, Katherine McKee, Music Director
“Our Favorite Things—A Celebration of 10 Years of Renaissance Music Making,” an a cappella tour de force, with music from the heart of the Renaissance, including Adriano Banchieri’s Madrigale Bestiale, the In Paradisum of Juan Esquivel, Giovanni Pierluigi Palestrina’s Super flumina Babylonis, Clement Janequin’s raucous Le Guerre, Gregorio Allegri’s luminous Miserere, and other music by Byrd, Gesualdo, Hildegard, Josquin, Lassus, Monteverdi, Obrecht, Rossi, and more.
7:30 PM
Seventh Avenue Performances
1329 Seventh Avenue, San Francisco
$30 General, $25 Student/Senior, $15 Child under 12
Tickets online
www.SFRVoices.org
Sunday, June 7
Handel Opera Project & Berkeley Chamber Opera
La Clemenza di Tito by W.A. Mozart. The Handel Opera Project and Berkeley Chamber Opera present a co-production of Mozart’s final opera, La Clemenza di Tito (K. 621), an opera seria in two acts. With Michael Desnoyers as Tito, Eliza O’Malley as Vitellia, Elizabeth Baker as Sesto, Kathleen Moss as Annio, Shannon Latimer as Servilia, and Martin Bell as Publio. Pre-Concert lecture by Laurence Oppenheim
8 PM
2601 Durant (at Bowditch), Berkeley
General Admission $30, Students $10
Tickets can be purchased through our web site or by phone at 510-665-5988
Musical Waves
Jennifer Paulino, soprano, and Elaine Thornburgh, fortepiano, perform Franz Joseph Haydn’s English Love Songs, Andante and Variations in F Minor, and the cantata Arianna a Naxos
2 PM
510 48th Ave., San Francisco
Suggested donation: $20–$25
50% of donations will be given to a Nepal earthquake relief fund.
Reception for artists to follow performance.
415-387-6890
New Esterházy Quartet with Christine Brandes
“Haydn Cantatas” “It’s time for some handbag-throwing!” says soprano Christine Brandes of the two Haydn cantatas about wronged women she performs with the New Esterházy Quartet. The spectacular pieces, “Arianna a Naxos” and “Scena di Berenice,” each feature a “rage aria” at the end. The period string quartet (Kati Kyme and Lisa Weiss, violin; Anthony Martin, viola; William Skeen, cello) also play two exceptional Haydn quartets: Op. 71, No. 2 and Op. 55, No. 2, “The Razor.”
4 PM
All Saints’ Episcopal Church
555 Waverley Street (at Hamilton), Palo Alto
$25 (discounts for SFEMS members, seniors, and students)
415-520-0611 www.newesterhazy.org
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