EARLY MUSIC AMERICA YOUNG PERFORMERS FESTIVAL

June 6-8 (Wednesday-Friday)
Concerts at 11AM and 2:30PM each day
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, 2300 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA 94704
$10 suggested donation at the door

Because Early Music America recognizes that the future of early music rests in the hands of today’s young performers and the institutions that shape them, it presents the second Young Performers Festival at the Berkeley Festival. These are six one-hour daytime concerts by university and conservatory early music ensembles: Case Western Reserve University, University of North Texas, University of Southern California, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Stanford University, and University of California at Berkeley. The public is invited to attend for a suggested donation of $10 at the door. No tickets will be sold in advance. For more information, contact Early Music America: 888.722.5288; info@earlymusic.org; www.earlymusic.org

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

EARLY MUSIC AMERICA (EMA) YOUNG PERFORMERS FESTIVAL
San Francisco Conservatory of Music Baroque Ensemble, co-directed by Corey Jamason and Elisabeth Reed

From Renaissance to Baroque
One in a series of six one-hour daytime concerts by university and conservatory early music ensembles. The SF Conservatory program will include music for viols and voice by Byrd, Morley, Holborne, and Gibbons, as well as virtuoso chamber music by Castello, Marini and Vivaldi.
11 AM, ST. MARK’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH. Tickets available at the door for a donation (No advance sales.)
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EARLY MUSIC AMERICA (EMA) YOUNG PERFORMERS FESTIVAL
University of California at Berkeley Baroque Ensemble, coached by Davitt Moroney

An Exploration of Baroque Music Across Europe
One in a series of six one-hour daytime concerts by university and conservatory early music ensembles. The UC Berkeley program will include music for cello by Domenico Gabrielli, music for recorder by Georg Philipp Telemann and George Frideric Handel, soprano arias from 17th-century Italian and French operas and cantatas, and music for harpsichord by Girolamo Frescobaldi, Johann Jacob Froberger, and Louis Couperin.
2:30 PM, ST. MARK’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH. Tickets available at the door for a donation (No advance sales.)
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Thursday, June 7, 2012

EARLY MUSIC AMERICA (EMA) YOUNG PERFORMERS FESTIVAL
University of North Texas Collegium Singers, directed by Richard Sparks

Victoria Requiem
The UNT program will feature the Requiem Mass of Tomas Luis de Victoria, published in1605. In common with other settings of the time, Victoria did not confine his setting to the Mass alone, but also included items from the Office of the Dead and the Great Absolution. The four-part Taedet animam meamcomes from the Offices of Lauds and Matins. The setting of the Mass is scored for six-part choir.
11 AM, ST. MARK’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH. Tickets available at the door for a donation (No advance sales.)

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EARLY MUSIC AMERICA (EMA) YOUNG PERFORMERS FESTIVAL
Stanford University Baroque Ensemble, directed by Marie-Louise Catsalis

Alessandro Scarlatti and his circle: cantatas and serenatas
The Stanford program includes works newly edited by the students from primary sources (manuscripts in Munich, Montecassino, and Berkeley). Cantatas by Alessandro Scarlatti; Serenata by Severo de Luca; duet by Innocenzo Fede.
2:30 PM, ST. MARK’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH. Tickets available at the door for a donation (No advance sales.)

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Friday, June 8, 2012

EARLY MUSIC AMERICA (EMA) YOUNG PERFORMERS FESTIVAL
Case Western Reserve University Baroque Ensemble and Collegium Musicum, coached by Julie Andrijeski and Debra Nagy

Milk and Honey: Sumptuous Music of the Seventeenth Century
The Case Collegium and Baroque Ensemble present sensuous love songs, erotic sacred texts and twisted lullabies full of quixotic blends of sweetness, anxiety, optimism, and even violence—what could be more enticing? Both well-known and newly rediscovered works for instruments and voices from the seventeenth century by Tarquinio Merula, Heinrich Biber, Giovanni Sances, Claudio Monteverdi, and more.
11 AM, ST. MARK’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH. Tickets available at the door for a donation (No advance sales.)

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EARLY MUSIC AMERICA (EMA) YOUNG PERFORMERS FESTIVAL
University of Southern California Thornton Baroque Sinfonia, directed by Adam Gilbert

Ars longa, vita brevis or Only the Good Die Young: Music from the Thirty Years War
The USC program features works by composers affected by the disastrous circumstances surrounding the Thirty Years War. It includes compositions by Johannes Vierdanck, Giovanni Antonio Rigatti, and Dario Castello, whose lives were cut short by fever during the mid-seventeenth century. Performers include eight singers, continuo, three violins and winds. As interludes, instruments will perform improvisations on grounds in seventeenth-century style.
2:30 PM, ST. MARK’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH. Tickets available at the door for a donation (No advance sales.)

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_{THE 2012 BERKELEY FESTIVAL & EXHIBITION, PRESENTED BY
THE SAN FRANCISCO EARLY MUSIC SOCIETY, CAL PERFORMANCES, AND EARLY MUSIC AMERICA IN ASSOCIATION WITH, AMERICAN BACH SOLOISTS, AGAVE BAROQUE, CHANTICLEER, MUSICA PACIFICA, NEW ESTERHÁZY QUARTET,
PHILHARMONIA BAROQUE ORCHESTRA AND VOICES OF MUSIC}