Archetti & Nagy, Bach & Handel Open SFEMS Season SFEMS begins our 40th-anniversary season the weekend of October 23–25 with a celebration of joyous, powerful, serene, and ebullient music—Bach and Handel concerti performed by Archetti Baroque...
California Bach Society to Perform Zelenka’s Missa Votiva Artistic Director Paul Flight and 30-voice California Bach Society present Missa Votiva by Czech composer Jan Dismas Zelenka, with a baroque orchestra and vocal soloists Rita Lilly and...
Sonoma Bach is a nonprofit arts organization based in Sonoma County. Founded in 1991 at Sonoma State University, the organization became a separate nonprofit entity in 2008. Sonoma Bach sponsors several musical ensembles, presents a year-round...
The collaboration between SFEMS and the California Jazz Conservatory resumes on Sunday, October 11, with the return of Musica Pacifica (Judith Linsenberg, recorder; Elizabeth Blumentstock, violin; Josh Lee, viola da gamba; John Lenti, theorbo; and...
SFEMS Administrator Katie Hagen, who has served the Society with distinction for the past two years, will step down at the end of October. Katie has done exemplary work on an enormous range of tasks, everything from helping coordinate the 2014...
The California Bach Society announces our 45th-anniversary season, full of varied and glorious works you won’t want to miss! We open our season on October 16–18 with “A Bohemian Masterpiece,” featuring Missa Votiva (1739) by Czech composer Jan...
We were saddened to learn about the death, on August 21, of Tom Smithberger. Tom was a familiar face at SFEMS concerts, as he was at many early music events in the Bay Area. An affable and thoughtful man, he enjoyed talking with the performers and...
Marin Baroque, an emerging professional chamber choir and period instrument orchestra led by Music Director Daniel Canosa, is pleased to announce its 2015–16 season. Our fall concert, November 21, will include both choral and instrumental works of...
by Warren Stewart On the weekend of September 25–27, Magnificat will perform a program of music by Claudio Monteverdi and contemporaries. Grammy Award-winning tenor Aaron Sheehan returns to interpret the Testo role in Il Combattimento di Tancredi e...
John Prescott, Ph.D., will present another in his early music lecture series in September-an entirely new course focusing on the development of keyboard music from its beginnings in late Renaissance Italy, England, and Spain, through the baroque, to...