“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” Almost 60 years ago, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote these words from prison, exhorting our nation to overturn its legacy of systemic oppression and racial injustice...
Medieval/Renaissance Workshop Director Adam Knight Gilbert and Recorder Workshop Co-Director Rotem Gilbert perform with faculty member Jason Yoshida. As musical activities ground to a halt earlier this year throughout the country, the San Francisco...
June 1, 2020—Join us next Monday, June 8, for the start of our week-long Virtual Young Performers Festival and Emerging Artists Showcase, as SFEMS and Early Music America (EMA) broadcast made-to-order, pre-recorded concerts during the week the...
May 19, 2020—It is our pleasure to announce the launch of the Virtual Young Performers Festival and Emerging Artists Showcase. From June 8–14—during the week the Berkeley Festival & Exhibition (BFX) was to have taken place—SFEMS and Early Music...
To our dear Berkeley Festival community: As I look out my window and see nature coming into ecstatic bloom, it is almost impossible to reconcile such beauty with the unfolding worldwide crisis. It is harder still to believe the worst is yet to come...
Derek Tam has been appointed Executive Director of the San Francisco Early Music Society. He succeeds Harvey Malloy, who served from 2009 until his retirement last fall. His appointment to the top leadership position with SFEMS will be especially...
Berkeley, CA – May 8 2018 – After almost 30 years as Director of Berkeley Festival & Exhibition (BFX), Robert Cole has announced that he will step down from his position effective June 11, 2018, at the conclusion of the 2018 summer festival. Mr...
The San Francisco Early Music Society’s 38th annual concert season charts a journey through a thousand years of European music, from the haunting sounds of the ancient Mediterranean and Middle East, to the brilliance of Venice at the dawn of the...
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