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 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...
SFEMS joins the early music world in mourning the loss of one of its greatest contributors as well as our dear friend, Margriet Tindemans, who died in Seattle on December 31 of last year. A native of Holland and student of Wieland Kuijken, Margriet...