Monday, August 8 American Bach Soloists Academy-In-Action I. The Academy-In-Action concerts showcase the talents of ABS Academy participants—the next generation of early music virtuosi—in cantatas, arias, and chamber music by masters of the Baroque...
Friday, August 5 American Bach Soloists, Jeffrey Thomas, Conductor “Carmelite Vespers & Vivaldi’s Gloria” The 2016 American Bach Soloists Festival & Academy opens with Jeffrey Thomas conducting the period-instrument experts of ABS and...
Tuesday, July 26 SFEMS Recorder Workshop Recorder Workshop Faculty Concert, with Miyo Aoki, Mark Davenport, Rotem Gilbert, Matthias Maute, and Hanneke van Proosdij, recorders; and Derek Tam, keyboards. 7:30 PM St. Albert’s Priory Chapel 6172 Chabot...
Monday, July 18 Les Violettes Festival Napa Valley (formerly known as “Festival del Sole”) presents Les Violettes (Corey Carleton, soprano; David Wilson, violin, Colin Shipman, viola da gamba; and Violet Grgich, harpsichord) performing baroque...
Monday, July 11 SFEMS Classical Workshop Informal performances of works by both famous and lesser known composers from the Classical era. The public is encouraged to attend. Concerts take place in the beautiful and acoustically perfect Chapel at the...
Monday, July 4 SFEMS Medieval and Renaissance Workshop “Love, Lust, and Music in the Middle Ages and Renaissance” A lecture by Adam Gilbert about the different types of love—fine love, lust, longing, and desire—and their influence on love songs...
Wednesday, June 29 Early Music Open Mic Night Join us for Early Music Open Mic Night in the East Bay. This is your opportunity to perform early music in a friendly cabaret style setting. Instrumentalists, singers, soloists, groups, students...
Wednesday, June 22 SFEMS Baroque Workshop “Wars, Conquests, and Beheadings—Court Music in England, France, Germany and Italy” Workshop Faculty Concert featuring Rita Lilly (soprano), Drew Minter (countertenor), Bruce Dickey (cornetto)...
Wednesday, June 15 Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive Early Music Film Series presents Admeto. German filmmaker, producer, and author Doris Dörrie staged this vividly colored, highly stylized production of George Frideric Handel’s three-act...
Thursday, June 2 La Marina “Weirdly Wonderful Winds” Friends of the Berkeley Library in cooperation with SFEMS present La Marina (Carlo Benedetti, cornetto; John Harris and Brian Taylor, sackbuts; Robin Houston and Peggy Murray...