Musical paeans rarely damn with faint praise. And on September 30, Coro Ciconia, directed by Asher Davison, will open the 2018–19 SFEMS-CJC series with a praiseworthy program of works by Machaut, Ciconia, and others. Performers in this a cappella...
Now in its 32nd year, the Renaissance Singers’ Retreat will hold its fall session the weekend of September 15–16, 2018. And they are moving their venue to the East Bay. The fall Retreat will be held at the Albany Senior Center, 846 Masonic Avenue...
The Mid-Peninsula Recorder Orchestra will hold its first meeting of the 2018–19 season at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, September 12, in Angus Hall at Trinity Church, 330 Ravenswood Avenue in Menlo Park. All those who play recorder, early winds or early...
SFEMS Affiliate Tactus (tactus-sf.org), a 12–16 voice Renaissance chamber chorus in San Francisco, is seeking a Music Director to lead the chorus at weekly rehearsals and three performance weekends per year. This is a part-time, year-round...
Call for proposals: 2018–19 Series SFEMS is accepting concert proposals for the California Jazz Conservatory/SFEMS Early Music Sundays 2018–19 series. Participation in this series is open to SFEMS Affiliates and members of SFEMS. All performances in...
The new year’s Sunday Afternoon concert series at the California Jazz Conservatory concludes on April 15 with a special program celebrating the 16th Amendment to the US Constitution. Les Violettes (Corey Carleton, soprano; David Wilson, violin;...
The new year’s Sunday Afternoon concert series at the California Jazz Conservatory continues on March 25 with a program of medieval Spanish and Arabic music from Flauti Diversi. Musical Director Frances Feldon and the group have presented a variety...
The madrigal was to Monteverdi what the symphony was to Haydn and the string quartet was to Beethoven: a form of endless inventiveness and a crucible of experimentation. Inexorably bound to the vital tradition of Petrarchan lyric poetry, the...
The San Francisco chapter of the ARS (SFRS) announces its 14th annual workshop day for recorders of all sizes, “Bohemian Rhapsody—Music of Germany and Eastern Europe.” The workshop, directed by Louise Carslake and Hanneke van Proosdij, will take...
This season, the New Esterházy Quartet (Lisa Weiss and Kati Kyme, violin; Anthony Martin, viola; and William Skeen, cello) have been treating Bay Area audiences to delightful snapshots of string quartet performance history. So far, the programs they...