Tuesday, March 24 First Church Performance Series “Resonance.” Some of America’s finest early music specialists—bassoonist Kate Van Orden, harpsichordist Davitt Moroney, and cellists Elisabeth Reed and Tanya Tomkins—join forces in a live...
Wednesday, April 1 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 Music Room number 060, J.L. Stanford Middle School 480 E. Meadow, Palo...
Tuesday, April 7 Sacramento Recorder Society Regular meeting for recorder players, with guest conductor Frances Feldon. Newcomers welcome. Bring recorders, stand, and other early instruments. Music provided. Refreshments. 6:45–9:30 PM Friends...
Wednesday, April 15 Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Nicholas McGegan, Conductor Gioachino Rossini La cambiale di matrimonio (The Marriage Contract). Rossini’s first great opera (1810) is a comic masterpiece. Set in London, the opera tells the story...
Wednesday, April 22 The Albany Consort “Making it up” Marion Rubinstein recorder; Jonathan Salzedo, harpsichord; Rita Lilly, soprano; Laura Rubinstein-Salzedo, violin; Caitlin Cribs, violin and viola; and Amy Brodo, cello & viola da gamba...
Monday, May 4 American Bach Soloists, Jeffrey Thomas, Conductor “Bach, Vivaldi, & Leo” This program of vocal and instrumental works includes countertenor Ian Howell performing J.S. Bach s solo cantata Gott soll allein mein Herze haben (“God...
Monday, April 27 San Francisco Conservatory of Music SFCM Conservatory Baroque Ensemble, Corey Jamason and Elisabeth Reed, directors, performs a concert of 17th- and 18th-century chamber music for strings, winds and continuo. 2 PM San Francisco...
Friday, May 15 Sonoma Bach “The Italian Madrigal: Petrarca, Tasso, Guarini” Sonoma Bach’s chamber choir, Circa 1600, directed by Robert Worth, performs dazzling madrigals with music by Luca Marenzio, Claudio Monteverdi, Giaches de Wert, Filippe de...
Tuesday, June 9 Noontime Concerts Farley Pearce, viola da gamba, and Yuko Tanaka, harpsichord, perform Johann Jakob Froberger, Suite in D for harpsichord; Louis de’Caix d’Hervelois, Suite in A for viol and continuo; and Marin Marais...
Tuesday, June 16 Noontime Concerts Liaison (Susie Fong, harpsichord; Hallie Pridham, viola de gamba; and Danielle Reutter-Harrah, mezzo soprano) perform Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, Sonata for Viola da Gamba and Harpsichord, and Motets a voix seule...