by Patricia Jennerjohn Artistic Director Paul Flight and the 30-voice California Bach Society present “A Charpentier Showcase” on April 21–23 in San Francisco, Palo Alto, and Berkeley. We perform splendid choral works by Baroque composer Marc...
The SFEMS 2016–17 concert season concludes the weekend of April 7–9 with a big, beautiful, baroque bouquet of music for large viol consort and continuo. This is a rarely performed corner of the gamba literature, and if you are a fan of these...
The SFEMS Medieval Renaissance Summer Workshop presents its 2017 Collegium on the quincentenary of one of more significant years in western cultural history. This special collegium, which supports the Summer Workshop, and in particular its...
The 2016–2017 collaboration between SFEMS and the California Jazz Conservatory continues on Sunday, April 9, with Musica Pacifica (Judith Linsenberg, recorder; Elizabeth Blumenstock, violin; Farley Pearce, viola da gamba; Katherine Heater...
George Houle was born in Pasadena, California and spent his early life there. From the age of 13 he studied oboe with the principal oboist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Henri de Busscher. He first came to Stanford in 1949, when he was...
Magical Radical Madrigals SFEMS’ second concert of 2017, coming up the weekend of February 17–19, celebrates the return of ARTEK, another great New York-based ensemble, and one we also have had the pleasure of seeing and hearing at the Berkeley...
by Yuko Tanaka As you know, for many years SFEMS has offered a wide range of early music workshops during the summer appealing to both pre-professional musicians and adult amateurs. But do you know that SFEMS also offers a premier summer workshop...
Concerted Vocal Works from Italy & Germany at the Baroque Collegium Musicum The SFEMS Summer Baroque Worshop holds its winter collegium musicum next month, on Saturday, Feburary 25, at the Eden United Church of Christ, 21455 Birch Street in...
Concerted Vocal Works from Italy & Germany at the Baroque Collegium Musicum The SFEMS Summer Baroque Worshop holds its winter collegium musicum next month, on Saturday, Feburary 25, at the Eden United Church of Christ, 21455 Birch Street in...
Music for Queens & Kings The San Francisco chapter of the ARS (SFRS) announces its (lucky) thirteenth annual workshop day for recorders of all sizes, “Game of Thrones—Music for Queens & Kings. The workshop, directed by Louise Carslake and...