The 2016–2017 collaboration between SFEMS and the California Jazz Conservatory resumes on Sunday, January 15, with the return of Flauti Diversi, who will perform an unusual program entitled “Españoleta.” The concert features early music from the...
Joining Archetti Baroque Strings for their SFEMS performances the weekend of December 9–11 are two distinguished soloists, soprano Clara Rottsalk and baroque trumpeter Kathryn Adduci. Ms. Rottsalk already is familiar to Bay Area audiences and...
Burghers & Friars to Mix It Up at SFEMS Season Opener The growth of the San Francisco Early Music Society has been both an expression of and a contributor to America’s growing interest in early music. For the past four decades SFEMS has...
The 2015–2016 collaboration between SFEMS and the California Jazz Conservatory concludes this Sunday, April 17, with a performance by the Laudami Ensemble (Laura Rubinstein-Salzedo, violin; Adaiha MacAdam-Somer, cello; Ben Kazez, baritone; Michael...
The 2015–2016 collaboration between SFEMS and the California Jazz Conservatory continues this Sunday, March 20, with the Euphora Project (Amy Michele White, voice; Dominic Schaner, lute/guitar/vihuela) return with a reprise of their program...
by Sallynee Amawat (Infusion Baroque) When we reflect on composers of the distant past, our first thought is usually of their music: the glorious strains of a Bach suite, the virtuosity of a Leclair sonata, or the brilliance of Telemann’s concertos...
Infusion Baroque Digs the Dirt Admit it. Everybody loves a good scandal, and one of celebrity’s perks is having your life held up not just for scrutiny, but often for gossip, ridicule, and the schadenfreude of lesser mortals. But why settle for the...
A unique and infectious musical style developed in colonial Latin America, blending Spanish polyphony and popular music with the colonies’ distinctive, African and Native American rhythms and languages. New musical forms also developed in this...
The new year’s Sunday Afternoon concert series at the California Jazz Conservatory continues on February 14 with a musical valentine from Flauti Diversi. Flauti Diversi has been presenting early/contemporary chamber music programs for over twenty...
Whatever storms El Niño may bring this January, the month is guaranteed to end with with a musical blast as the second half of SFEMS’ regular concert series opens with Quicksilver, led by violinists Robert Mealy and Julie Andrijeski...