by Lee McRae Singers can again look forward to a stimulating weekend of sight singing and lectures (as well as enjoying our infectious mix of good company and good food!) at the Fall 2015 Singers’ Retreat, to be held September 26–27 at the Braun...
Read the press release for the SFEMS 2015–16 concert series here!
Dear Music Teacher, Welcome to the beginning of the Junior Bach Festival’s 2015–2016 season! We thank you if you have prepared students to audition for the Junior Bach Festival in the past, and we hope you will encourage your advanced students, up...
If you telephone the SFEMS office number during regular business hours these days, more than likely you will be greeted by a new voice at the other end—Nicola Gruen, who has taken over answering our phone, selling tickets, and a great deal more...
Dorothy Manly, SFEMS’ Operations Manager and the Society’s main liaison with both our membership and the general public, has retired after almost two decades service to the Bay Area early music community. One of SFEMS’ most beloved...
Artistic Director Paul Flight leads the 25-voice California Bach Society in Italian works spanning 500 years: Domenico Scarlatti’s newly discovered Messa Breve “La Stella,” Verdi’s Ave Maria, Messa di Requiem by Ildebrando Pizzetti and Mario...
A festival of music in memory of Grace Ann Krumdieck, June 1–5, 2015 Barbara Blaker Krumdieck is a baroque cellist from Berkeley, the youngest daughter of a large, musically talented family who have been involved with SFEMS since its early days. Her...
San Francisco, March 28, 2015: In their now firmly established “Haydn and His Students” tradition, the New Esterházy Quartet present the alpha and omega of Haydn string quartets, opening with his “Op. 1 No. 0” and ending with Beethoven’s Op. 131...
This year’s monthly concert series co-sponsored by SFEMS and the California Jazz Conservatory concludes the afternoon of Sunday, May 10, with a performance by the viol duo Halifax & Jeffrey. Their program will showcase some of the ways in which...
On Saturday, May 30, the Mid-Peninsula Recorder Orchestra will present a concert at Trinity Presbyterian Church, 1106 Alameda de las Pulgas in San Carlos at 2:00 p.m. The program will feature an antiphonal canzona by Giovanni Gabrieli, settings of...