SFEMS Valentine’s Day Collegium
SFEMS presents a special collegium workshop for recorders, early brass & winds, strings, and singers with Linda Pearse. The workshop takes place Saturday, February 14, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (Registration opens at 8:30; be ready to play by 9:00) The venue is Eden United Church of Christ, 21455 Birch Street, in Hayward. Download an enrollment form or register online. All proceeds will benefit SFEMS’s summer workshops.
From about 1550 to 1700, Venice was regarded as one of the most important musical cities in Europe. Starting in 1527, music making in the city flourished for nearly two centuries. Ensembles grew in size, performances became more frequent, foreign students came to study with esteemed masters, and renowned composers took positions at the city’s musical centers. Music played a central role in Venetian society, celebrating the city’s greatest attributes: its economic prosperity, its cultural greatness, and its emphases on religious brotherhood and civic pride. We will be studying and playing double-, triple-, and quadruple-choir works by Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli, Adrian Willaert, as well as works by their German colleagues and disciples, including Hans Leo Hassler, Michael Praetorius, and others.
Conductor Linda Pearse is artistic director of the SFEMS Summer Baroque Workshop, which will be held this year at Dominican College, San Rafael, from June 21–27. She also teaches sackbut at Indiana University at Bloomington, brass instruments and pedagogy at Mount Allison University (Canada), and directs the early music ensemble ¡Sacabuche! More information about the Baroque Workshop can be found at sfems.org.
Bring your instruments, a music stand, and a bag lunch. Music is included in workshop fee; PDFs will be available online after January 15. Snacks and beverages will be provided for breaks. For more information, contact Katie Hagen at [email protected] or 510-842-5256. Come enjoy a fun-filled day playing and singing this beautiful repertoire.
Workshop Fees for SFEMS members are $45 before February 1 and $50 after February 1. For non-members the fee is $50 before February 1, $55 after February 1. Half-Day fees (please specify morning or afternoon when registering) are $30/35 before February 1; $35/40 after February 1. You can download and print your copy of the 2015 SFEMS Valentine’s Day Collegium Enrollment Form here. (A map to the church is on the back of this flyer.) Please make checks out to “SFEMS” and mail with this form to: SFEMS, P.O. Box 10151, Berkeley, CA 94709. Or you can register online by filling out this form. Enrollment is limited, so be sure to reserve your spot early!
