Wednesday, January 11
Mid-Peninsula Recorder Orchestra
Regular meeting, for players of recorder, early winds or early strings. Bring your instrument(s) and music stand.
7:30–9:30 PM
Trinity Church, Angus Hall
330 Ravenswood Ave. (at Laurel), Menlo Park
650-591-3648 or mpro-online.org
John Dornenburg, viola da gamba, and Yuko Tanaka, harpsichord
John Dornenburg and Yuko Tanaka perform Charles Dollé, Suite 3 in A Major; J.S. Bach, Sonata for Viola da gamba and Harpsichord in D Major, and two of the newly discovered Fantasias for solo viola da gamba by Georg Philipp Telemann.
7:30 PM
Memorial Church Chapel
450 Serra Mall, Stanford
Free
https://music.stanford.edu/events/upcoming-events
Friday, January 13
HIP Forum
“Telemann: Master of Style” Celeste Winant, mezzo-soprano; Rebecca Molinari, oboe & recorder; Erik Andersen, cello; Kristin Zoernig, bass; and Derek Tam, harpsichord, perform cantatas from Harmonischer Gottes-dienst as well as instrumental works for multiple instruments. Debut concert.
8 PM
St. Alban’s Episcopal Church
1501 Washington, Albany
Tickets online $30/general; $25 SFEMS/seniors; $10 students
For more information, contact [email protected] or 510-323-5910.
South Bay Recorder Society
Monthly meeting, guest conductor Greta Haug-Hryciw. New members and guests welcome.
7:30–10 PM
First Congregational Church of San Jose
1980 Hamilton Ave (at Leigh), San Jose
408-358-0878 or [email protected]
Saturday, January 14
HIP Forum
“Telemann: Master of Style” Celeste Winant, mezzo-soprano; Rebecca Molinari, oboe & recorder; Erik Andersen, cello; Kristin Zoernig, bass; and Derek Tam, harpsichord, perform cantatas from Harmonischer Gottes-dienst as well as instrumental works for multiple instruments. Debut concert.
8 PM
St. John’s Episcopal Church
40 Fifth Street, Petaluma
Tickets online $30/general; $25 SFEMS/seniors; $10 students
For more information, contact [email protected] or 510-323-5910.
Mid-Peninsula Recorder Orchestra
“International Potpourri: German madrigal, a Spanish salad & a Norwegian fjord.” Thomas Axworthy will direct a workshop featuring early 17th-century madrigals by Johann Steffens; La Bomba, an extensive musical potpourri, or “ensalada” (salad), by the Spanish Renaissance composer Mateo Flecha the elder, and selections by Edvard Grieg, including a canon, a setting for recorders of the song “Våren” (Spring) and movements from Peer Gynt. Thomas Axworthy has served as director of the Los Angeles Recorder Orchestra, the Southern California Early Music Consort, co-director for the Canto Antiguo Workshop in Early Music and Dance, and is co-founder of the early music ensemble Canto Antiguo. He has taught at Rio Hondo College and directed the Collegium for the Claremont Graduate School. He has appeared with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and can be heard on numerous soundtracks for major motion pictures and television programs. He has recorded for the Musical Heritage Society, Nonesuch, Dargason, Titanic and Word Records. The workshop is open to recorder players from the intermediate to advanced level. Please plan on bringing a music stand and a lunch. Snacks and beverages will be provided.
9:30 AM to 4:30 PM
Trinity Church
330 Ravenswood Ave., Menlo Park
Workshop fees: MPRO, SFEMS and ARS members, $50; non-members, $55. Advanced registration is encouraged as space is limited. For further information or to register for the workshop please visit the MPRO website or contact Leslie Pont at 650-941-3065. We will accept registrations at the door, however if you are planning to attend, please contact Leslie in advance so that we know how many photocopies of music will be needed.
Second Saturday Chamber Music Series
Julie Jeffrey and Peter Hallifax, viols; and Andy Canepa, organ, perform a concert of English baroque music for two viols and organ.
7:30 PM (No host drinks and hors d’ouevres in the social hall 6:30–7:30)
St. Mary Magdalen Church
2005 Berryman St., Berkeley
Advance tickets online $15 general/$5 students; at the door: $20/$10
Advance tickets sold until two hours before concert
Viola da Gamba Society/Pacifica Chapter
Monthly viol consort playing with guest coaches Peter Hallifax and Julie Jeffrey. Players of all levels welcome. Newcomers please phone ahead.
9 AM–3 PM
Hillside Church
1422 Navellier Street, El Cerrito
RSVP. Please email or phone ahead.
[email protected]
Sunday, January 15
Flauti Diversi
“Españoleta: Music from a Garden of Mediterranean Delights” Lively 14th-c. Italian medieval dances, Aragonese Renaissance ostinato bass improvisations, tantalizing Arabic tunes, and a complete Galician song cycle from a woman’s point of view by the 13th-c. composer Martim Codax. Performers are Karen Clark, contralto; Frances Feldon, recorders & medieval flute; Sarah Michael, qanun; Peter Maund, percussion; and Roy Whelden, gamba & vielle. A co-presentation of the San Francisco Early Music Society and the California Jazz Conservatory.
4:30 PM
California Jazz Conservatory
2087 Addison St., Berkeley
$20
Tickets online
HIP Forum
“Telemann: Master of Style” Celeste Winant, mezzo-soprano; Rebecca Molinari, oboe & recorder; Erik Andersen, cello; Kristin Zoernig, bass; and Derek Tam, harpsichord, perform cantatas from Harmonischer Gottes-dienst as well as instrumental works for multiple instruments. Debut concert.
7:30 PM
Swedenborgian Church of San Francisco
2107 Lyon St. (at Washington), San Francisco
Tickets online $30/general; $25 SFEMS/seniors; $10 students
For more information, contact [email protected] or 510-323-5910.
MusicSources
“Music of the Bach Family” MusicSources Artistic Director Gilbert Martinez, harpsichord and fortepiano, performs rarely heard music of Johann Sebastian, Wilhelm Friedemann, Carl Philipp Emanuel, and Johann Christian Bach. The program will showcase brilliant works that influenced generations of musicians, and feature spectacular instruments from the MusicSources Collection.
5 PM
St. Mary Magdalen Church
2005 Berryman St., Berkeley
$30 non members, $25 MusicSources members and seniors, $10 students 18 yrs. or younger
510-528-1685 or
[email protected]
www.musicsources.org
Noe Valley Chamber Music presents Musica Pacifica
“Dolci Di Napoli.” Musica Pacifica (Judith Linsenberg, recorder; Elizabeth Blumenstock and Katherine Kyme, violin; William Skeen, viola da gamba; and Charles Sherman, harpsichord; with special guest: Tekla Cunningham, viola) perform a program of unusual chamber concertos and sonatas from 18th-century Naples, including works of Alessandro and Domenico Scarlatti, Francesco Mancini, Nicola Fiorenza, Emanuele Barbella, Francesco Durante, and Giovanni Battista Pergolesi.
4 PM Please allow time to look for street parking. The concert lasts approximately 2 hours, including a short intermission with wine and cheese. Audience members have the chance to mingle with the performers immediately following the performance.
Noe Valley Ministry
1021 Sanchez St., San Francisco
Tickets: $30 at the door; $25 in advance; with a discount for students: $15 and seniors: $25; children 12 and under free. Childcare is available.
Tickets online; [email protected], 415-648-523, nvcm.org/season/
San Jose Chamber Music Society
Voices of Music, Hanneke van Proosdij & David Tayler, directors, perform French baroque and Scottish music for violin, recorders, viola da gamba, baroque triple harp, arch-lute, and harpsichord. (Carla Moore, baroque violin; Hanneke van Proosdij, recorders; Adaiha MacAdam-Somer, viola da gamba: Cheryl Ann Fulton, baroque triple harp; David Tayler, arch-lute; and Katherine Heater, French Double harpsichord) The charming French baroque music from the Court at Versailles are especially suited to the Trianon! Program includes works of Marin Marais (a Chaconne and the Sonnerie de Sainte-Genevieve du Mont de Paris); a Chaconne from 6th ‘Paris’ Quartet by Georg Philipp Telemann; and French baroque music by François Couperin, Jacques-Martin Hotteterre, and Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer; also traditional tunes from Scotland, including selections from Francesco Barsanti, A Collection of old Scots Tunes (1742).
7 PM 30-min. pre-concert talk by musicologist/cellist Roger Emanuels with VOM musicians at 6:15, and a 20-min. moderated post-concert Q&A with artists follows the performance, led by SJCMS Artistic Director Ted Lorraine
Trianon Theatre
72 N. Fifth Street, San Jose (downtown, between E. Santa Clara St. & St. John)
Free weekend parking in the City’s Fifth St. garage across the street from Trianon.
Tickets (reserved seating) General $49/$43/$37; Seniors $3 less; Students $15 (section C).
Tickets online or 408-286-5111 or at door from 6 PM on concert day.
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