JORDI SAVALL, REBEC, BOWED LYRE AND REBAB
A Dialogue of Souls: Istanbul

A peerless musician and conductor as well as an impeccable scholar, Jordi Savall is a “performer of genius,” says The New Yorker. He returns with a fascinating musical journey in time and space, devised on a dialogue of Arabo-Andalusian, Jewish, and Christian music from medieval Spain and around the Mediterranean. This program features Sefardic, Armenian, and Turkish music showcased in Moldavian prince Dimitrie Cantemir’s The Book of Science and Music, published in 1710 after he spent many years in Istanbul.

Jordi Savall with Dimitri Psonis, santur & moorish guitar; David Mayoral, percussion
3 PM, FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, $60

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Today (June10th) on the Fringe

LA FOOLIA!
LA FOOLIA Saves Classical Music: The KFUL Telethon
Join us on Sunday for “The Morning-After Show” to help forestall the complete annihilation of Classical Music. In 3D!!
LA FOOLIA: Anneliese Lottelenya, director
Susan Rode Morris, plastic tubes; Shira Kammen, ukelele; David Morris, nose flute; Katherine Westine & Phebe Craig, dueling melody bells, usw.
11:00AM
Berkeley Piano Club (BPC): 2724 Haste Street.
Tickets: Donation at the door: $15 general, $12 SFEMS members, seniors, & students
Information: kawestine@gmail.com or call 510.601.9631

Junior Recorder Society & Barbary Coast Recorder Orchestra
Recorder Concert
Bring your friends and family! The Junior Recorder Society and Barbary Coast Recorder Orchestra present a free concert on all sizes of recorders. The JRS, now in its 15th year, is directed by Louise Carslake and Hanneke van Proosdij. Children age 7 – 14 will play a variety of recorder ensemble music. Led by a different conductor for each selection, the newly formed 25-member BCRO (founded by Frances Feldon and Greta Haug-Hryciw) will perform music by Handel, Senfl, Serus (14th c.) and the U.S. debut of Glen Shannon\’s Dortmund unterwegs. Conductors: Frances Feldon, Greta Haug-Hryciw, Glen Shannon and Hanneke van Proosdij. JRS and BCRO are educational outreach programs of Voices of Music.
12:30PM-2PM
David Brower Center
Hazel Wolf Gallery: 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley
FREE admission
Information: http://www.voicesofmusic.org/jrs.html, http://www.voicesofmusic.org/BCRO.html, cembalo@sbcglobal.net or call 415-260-4687

When the thoughts of the young turn to love, it scarcely matters whether the setting is ancient Jerusalem, Renaissance Europe or modern-day California – the sighs and sobs of desire sound much the same everywhere.

So the music presented during Thursday night’s sumptuously beautiful concert by the vocal ensemble Blue Heron, an assemblage of love songs from 16th century Spain, had a familiar emotional ring to it.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/06/08/DDMB1OV3QB.DTL#ixzz1xJzgmujn

VOICES OF MUSIC, Hanneke van Proosdij and David Tayler, directors
Roman Holiday

Voices of Music presents a dazzling program of Baroque concertos and Handel’s Roman masterpiece, the Gloria. Each concerto highlights a different combination of instruments and players in a variety of affects, colors and virtuoso playing.

VOICES OF MUSIC:
Laura Heimes, soprano; Carla Moore, Maxine Nemerovski, Sara Usher, baroque violins; David Daniel Bowes, Maria Caswell, Katherine Kyme, baroque violin & viola; Elisabeth Reed, William Skeen & Tanya Tomkins, baroque cellos; Farley Pearce, violone; Hanneke van Proosdij, harpsichord, recorder; Katherine Heater, organ and David Tayler, archlute.
5 PM, FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, $36/28/23
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JORDI SAVALL, REBEC, BOWED LYRE AND REBAB
A Dialogue of Souls: Orient-Occident

A peerless musician and conductor as well as an impeccable scholar, Jordi Savall is a “performer of genius,” says The New Yorker. He returns with a fascinating musical journey in time and space, devised on a dialogue of Arabo-Andalusian, Jewish, and Christian music from medieval Spain and around the Mediterranean. This program features music from ancient Spain and the Ottoman Empire, medieval Italy, Persian Afghanistan, and more.

Jordi Savall with Dimitri Psonis, santur & moorish guitar; David Mayoral, percussion
8 PM, FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, $60

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Today (June 9th) on the Fringe

Bradamante
Breakfast with Bradamante
Bradamante, meaning “wild lover” in Italian, is the dazzling new duo collaboration between cellists Shirley Hunt and Elinor Frey. Bradamante, legendary female knight of the great epic poem Orlando Furioso, is the ancestor of the powerful and music-loving d’Este family, Italy’s first great patrons of the cello in the 17th century. With Bradamante as their inspiration, Shirley and Elinor celebrate the brave and passionate spirit of the first famous composer-cellists.
BRADAMANTE BIOS: Shirley Hunt, baroque cello: Elinor Frey, baroque cello
10:30AM
Trinity Chapel (TRIN): 2320 Dana (at Durant)
Tickets: $15 general, $10 seniors/students/SFEMS
Information: www.bradamante.com; info@bradamante.com or call 847-951-7601
There will be FREE coffee and breakfast treats provided at our concert!

Lars Johannesson & Friends
A Baroque Flute Treasury
Accomplished Swedish flutist Lars Johannesson presents a recital of favorite late baroque works for flute, cello and harpsichord. This program includes the exuberant C Major sonata by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, his father Johann Sebastian’s elegant sonata in E Major, and other selections from the baroque flute treasury. Well familiar to Bay Area early music audiences, Lars studied baroque flute with Stephen Schultz and Wilbert Hazelzet, and is heard frequently with groups such as Philharmonia Baroque, California Bach Society orchestra, SF Bach Choir orchestra and Santa Cruz Baroque Festival.
ENSEMBLE: Lars Johannesson, baroque flute; Amy Brodo, baroque cello; Jonathan Rhodes-Lee, harpsichord
1:00PM
Trinity Chapel (TRIN): 2320 Dana (at Durant)
Tickets: $15 general; $10 SFEMS members/seniors/students
Information: www.larsjohannesson.com/music, lars@gruk.net or call 831-706-8408

Alice’s Renaissance String Band
“The Indian Queen” by Henry Purcell (David Morris, musical director) fully staged with baroque orchestra, singers and dancers.
See the Indian Queen herself, live onstage!!One performance only!
Performance time approx one hour so you can easily get to your next event. Don’t miss this spectacular highlight of the Fringe Festival!
2:00PM
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church/Parish Hall (STMP)
Tickets: Suggested donation $15
For information call 510-207-8294

San Francisco Renaissance Voices
Concert from the Court of Kangxi
This exciting concert features Charles D’Ambleville’s (c1599-1637) Mass of the Beijing Jesuits performed alternatim with traditional Chinese music/instruments including dizi, erhu, ruan and yangqing and a special surprise to start the concert! This concert celebrates the legendary court of the Chinese Emperor Kangxi, China’s longest ruling royal whose reign brought about long-term stability and relative wealth after years of war and chaos and an unprecedented collaboration and interest in the West.
SAN FRANCISCO RENAISSANCE VOICES BIOS: Todd Jolly, Music Director with our Dance Early & Ancient troupe (LeAnna Sharp, director) and guest artists:  Adam Cockerham, theorbo; Esther Lam, harpsichord
Singers: (S)-Diana Pray, Alice N. Ko, Rita Lilly, Jessica Wan (A)-Katherine McKee, Emily Ryan, Maura Sipila, Colby Smith (T)-Seth Arnopole, Will Betts, Chris Evans, Reuben Zellman (B)-J.Jeff Badger, Raymond Martinez, Jefferson Packer, Jeff Phillips
2:00PM
1:30PM pre-concert lecture by the Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History.
St. John’s Presbyterian Church (SJP): 2727 College Avenue, Berkeley
Tickets: $35/General, $30/Student/Senior
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Information: http://www.SFRV.org, SFRVoices@yahoo.com or call 415.664.2543 x3

Eugene Petrushansky, solo harpsichord
South by Northwest: Bach’s Continental Influences
Though J.S. Bach likely never travelled outside Eastern Germany, his œuvre incorporated two Continental elements: the Italian virtuoso style (“South”) and the French clavecinistic school (“Northwest”). The amalgamation of these elements into the musical heritage of the great Germanic lineage of Sweelinck defined the genius widely considered to be the culmination of the Baroque paradigm. Eugene Petrushansky performs Bach’s toccatas and suites in a compendium of diverse styles, on two harpsichords (double-manual after 1738 Vater and single-manual after early 17th-century Italian examples).
2:45PM
St. Joseph of Arimathea Chapel (STJ): 2543 Durant Street
Tickets: $10 per person (suggested donation)
Information: http://espbaroque.wordpress.com/ or epetrus14@gmail.com

Howard Kadis, Renaissance Lute
The Golden Age of the English Lute
Lutenist Howard Kadis presents a concert of English lute solos from the age of Queen Elizabeth I and King James I, showcasing the extraordinary artistry of the era’s great lutenist-composers. The program features works by John Johnson, Gregorio Howet, Alfonso Ferrabosco, Hans Leo Hassler, Robert Dowland and John Dowland.
HOWARD KADIS BIO >>>
3:00PM
Trinity Chapel (TRIN): 2320 Dana (at Durant)
TicketPrices: $15 General, $10 SFEMS/EMA/Seniors/Students
Information: hekadis@gmail.com or call 510.524.2803

Vince B Ho
Early Renaissance Keyboard Music of the Paul Hofhaimer School
Medieval and Renaissance Early Keyboard Music Specialist Vince B Ho will perform keyboard music of Paul Hofhaimer (1459-1537), along with works by his colleagues and students; using various renaissance keyboard instruments including a Clavichord, a quint virginal, and even a Regal. The show will inlude the extremely rare and seldom known Salve Regina by Hofhaimer from the Trient Tablature.  Members of the audience are welcome to help pump the bellows of the Regal!
4:00PM
St. Joseph of Arimathea Chapel (STJ), 2543 Durant Street near Bowditch
Tickets: $10
Information: http://www.vincebho.net, vince@earlykeyboard.net or 575.650.8223

The historic origins of ballet are well-documented in textbooks, museums, literary and performance journals and on film and television.  But we hardly ever get a chance to see a live performance of early choreography – there’s just not enough current companies who seek to interpret and re-stage court dances of the 1600 and 1700s.  This made last night’s production of “300 Years On: A Dance Collection from the Reign of Louis XIV” such a rare delight.  Here was Baroque music (performed by Musica Pacifica) combined with a number of that same period’s set dances (passepied, sarabande, gigue, rigaudon, etc.).  For a couple of hours, the audience was transported back in time and journeyed to a place of opulence, sophistication and placed movement.

Throughout the evening, Musica Pacifica switched back and forth between solo pieces and dance accompaniment, each work demonstrating their unique Baroque sound.
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APPRECIATING GUSTAV LEONHARDT (1928-2012)
The Western Early Keyboard Association (WEKA) and MusicSources in collaboration with the Berkeley Festival and The San Francisco Early Music Society present a special tribute to one of Early Music’s greatest pioneers. This event will be hosted by Lisa Goode Crawford and will feature prominent American disciples of Gustav Leonhardt in solo harpsichord performances and a special performance of the Trio Sonata from the Musical Offering.
Reception to follow.
ARTISTS BIOS: Linda Burman-Hall, Lisa Goode Crawford, Jillon Stoppels Dupree, Elaine Funaro, JungHae Kim, Tamara Loring, Lenora McCroskey, Charlotte Mattax Moersch, Elaine Thornburgh, Webb Wiggins, Elisabeth Wright, harpsichord; with Stephen Schultz, flute; Anthony Martin, violin; Joshua Lee, viola da gamba
2:00PM, VENETIAN BALLROOM, BERKELEY CITY CLUB
$15-$25
510-528-1685, www.musicsources.org or www.wekaweb.org for advance ticket sales
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THE NEW ESTERHÁZY QUARTET
Haydn in America—The Moravian Heritage

The Moravian Brotherhood, persecuted descendants of 15th-century Czech religious dissidents, brought a rich musical culture to pre-Revolutionary America. The Moravian Music Foundation archive in Bethlehem and Winston-Salem catalogue thousands of musical works, for use in religious services and also for playing at home and in the Collegia Musica that were part of the settlements’ social life into the 19th century. Some of this music was composed by Moravian musicians themselves and some collected or copied from European sources. This program highlights Haydn Quartets performed from copies of handwritten parts or early editions brought by Moravian musicians to America in the 18th century. A talk and an exhibition on the history and influence of the Moravian communities in America accompany the concert.

THE NEW ESTERHÁZY QUARTET:
Kati Kyme & Lisa Weiss, violins; Anthony Martin, viola; William Skeen, cello
5 PM, ST. MARK’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH, $28
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AMERICAN BACH SOLOISTS, Jeffrey Thomas, music director
A Tribute to Laurette Goldberg

An evening of works featuring J.S. Bach’s Trauerode: Laβ, Fürstin, laβ noch einen Strahl; a musical ode written at the request of the Leipzig University and dedicated to Christiane Eberhardine, Electress of Saxony and a personal friend of Bach himself. The concert also includes Bach’s most engaging double-chorus motets, Singet dem Herrn and Fürchte dich nicht; large-scale motets of this type were regularly composed to honor and memorialize the lives of significant and important individuals.
8 PM, FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, $50/35/20
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Today (June 8th) on EMA Young Performers Festiva

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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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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Today (June 8th) on the Fringe

The Albany Consort
Exploring a Famous 18th Century Bass Pattern
It was set by more than 150 composers including Beethoven and Paganini and composers today still find it fascinating. The earliest reference to the Folia we know is in a 1577 treatise and older versions date back even further. Our program features Geminiani’s technicolor orchestration of Corelli’s La Folia. We also include Folias from The Division Violin and The Division Flute, the Folia from Bach’s Peasant Cantata, Folias by Vivaldi and a harpsichord Folia by d’Anglebert.
THE ALBANY CONSORT: Jonathan Salzedo, Marion Rubinstein, directors
Laura Rubinstein-Salzedo, Natalie Carducci, Tyler Lewis, Ondine Young violins; Clio Tilton, Vijay Chalasani violas; Laura Gaynon cello; Millie Martin double bass
11:00AM
University Lutheran Chapel (ULC)
2425 College (at Haste)
Tickets: $10-$25
Information: www.albanyconsort.com, consort@albanyconsort.comor call 408.480.0182

Elizabeth CD Brown, baroque guitar
The World of the Baroque Guitar
From the Mediterranean to the British Isles and Africa, the music of the baroque guitar reflects the amazing bounty of cultural interchange across, and beyond, Europe in the 17th and 18th Centuries.  Acclaimed Seattle-based baroque guitarist Elizabeth CD Brown will provide this musical tour, featuring works by Sanz, Corbetta, Purcell, Jacquet de la Guerre and de Murcia, and from Playford’s Dancing Master.
12:00PM (noon)
St. Joseph of Arimathea Chapel (STJ)
2543 Durant Street near Bowditch
Tickets: $10 General, $8 Students, Seniors, SFEMS, EMA
Information: http://www.elizabethcdbrown.com/home.html, elizabeth.brown@comcast.net or call 206-595-7193

Flauti Diversi
Boismortier! The Complete Opus 37 Trio Sonatas
Flauti Diversi presents a program of the complete trio sonatas from Joseph Bodin de Boismortier’s Opus 37 (1732), a Parisian collection of charming works displaying Boismortier’s unique style of composition, which was an amalgam combining French elegance with fiery Italian figuration in the Allegros and Vivaces and aria-like melodies in the Largos and Adagios. He was very specific in his orchestration featuring flute, viol and chamber organ together. Contemporary controversy pitted French against Italian for supremacy of musical style; the melding of the two styles in his work illustrates his musical world view.
FLAUTI DIVERSI BIOS: Frances Feldon, traverso; David Morris, viola da gamba; Katherine Heater, chamber organ
12:00PM (noon)
Trinity Chapel (TRIN): 2320 Dana (at Durant)
Tickets: $15 general; $10 SFEMS/ARS/EMA/seniors/students
Information: franfel@aol.com or call 510.527.9029
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Hallifax & Jeffrey with Lynn Tetenbaum
“The Lawes Lyra Trios and other pieces for Lyra Viols”
The cornerstones of the concert are the lovely lyra viol trios of William Lawes.  We will also play a fantasia for 3 lyra viols and duos and solos by Alfonso Ferrabosco II.
This rarely heard repertoire, for 2 and 3 equal viols in unusual tunings was written by and for the highly regarded viol players of the Jacobean and Caroline courts.   William Lawes’ remarkable pieces are the high point of what survives of the repertoire, most of which was lost during the Commonwealth.
HALLIFAX & JEFFREY BIOS: Peter Hallifax, Julie Jeffrey, and Lynn Tetenbaum, viols
12:00PM (noon)
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church/Parish Hall (STM)
Tickets: Door: $15 General, $13 SFEMS/Seniors/Students (online $3 discount)
Online (note the discount!!!): www.BrownPaperTickets.com/event/231146
Information: www.Barefootchamberconcerts.com, info@barefootchamberconcerts.com or call 510.220.1195

Driftwood Consort
Bach’s Voices
Driftwood Consort presents its inaugural Berkeley concert! “Bach’s Voices” with Sheila Willey (soprano) features works by Johann Sebastian Bach for small ensemble. Our program highlights arias from Bach’s passions and oratorio written for Easter, interspersed with instrumentals, and finishing off with a visit to Zimmermann’s coffee house.
DRIFTWOOD CONSORT BIOS: Lars Johannesson & Alissa Roedig, directors
Sheila Willey, soprano soloist, with viola da gambist Amy Brodo, Lars Johannesson and Alissa Roedig on baroque flutes, and harpsichordist Jonathan Rhodes Lee.
3:00PM
Trinity Chapel (TRIN): 2320 Dana (at Durant)
Tickets: $15 general, $5 youth.
Information: http://www.driftwoodconsort.org/index.html

Kathleen Kraft & Friends
Elegant French Dance: Suite, Partita, Sonata
Well-known Baroque flutist, Kathleen Kraft, will explore the variety of 18th century French dance music: Boismortier: Suite in e minor; J.S. Bach: Partita in a minor (BWV 1013); J.M. LeClair: Sonata II in G Major, Second Livres de Sonates.  She will be joined by harpsichordist Phebe Craig and cellist Barbara Blaker Krumdieck.
ENSEMBLE BIOS: Kathleen Kraft, traverso; Phebe Craig, harpsichord; Barbara Blaker Krumdieck, cello
3PM
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church—Parish Hall (STMP): 2300 Bancroft Way.
Tickets: $15 general, $10 SFEMS members, students, seniors and disabled
Information: kkraft@sonic.net or call 707.799.2018.

L’amour regne!
Please join these Boston-based friends for an afternoon of 18th-century French airs, cantatas, and solos for both harpsichord and viol. The program will feature works by French baroque masters Bernier, Clerambault, Rameau, and others, in which love triumphs over all!
ENSEMBLE MEMBERS BIOS: Claire Raphaelson, soprano; Julia Cavallaro, mezzo-soprano; Rebekah Ahrendt, viola da gamba; Matthew Hall, harpsichord
3:00PM
St. Clementís Episcopal Church (STC): 2837 Claremont Blvd
Tickets: $15 general, $10 SFEMS members, students, seniors
Information: claire.raphaelson@gmail.com

Owen Daly, harpsichord
Solo Harpsichord Works by Forqueray and Duphly
Harpsichord maker Owen Daly performs solo harpsichord music: the first suite of harpsichord pieces by Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Forqueray (le Fils), consisting of transcriptions he published in 1747 of viola da gamba pieces by his father Antoine Forqueray (le Père). This is followed by Jacques Duphly’s suite in A from the first book of his Pieces de Clavecin, published in 1744.
The instrument, after the c. 1749 Jean-Claude Goujon, is Daly’s only 18th-century French double, made in 1984. It has recently enjoyed a complete interior redecoration by San Francisco artist Adrian Card, new jacks, real quill, and the first “iron” harpsichord wire in our time based upon analyses of surviving historical samples.
3:30PM
St. Joseph of Arimathea Chapel (STJ): 2543 Durant Street near Bowditch
Tickets: $15, $10 Seniors
Information: owen@dalyharpsichords.com

AGAVE BAROQUE
The Otherworldly Fiddler: the sacred and the profane meet at Heinrich Biber’s musical table

Perhaps the greatest violin virtuoso of the 17th century, Bohemian fiddler Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber crafted his compositions in a style that might be described as a dinner party of disparate sound worlds. His scrumptious Mensa Sonora, seu Musica instrumentalis, is “civilized” Biber, for mealtime and after dinner entertainment. His virtuosic Harmonia artificioso-ariosa employs a rustic folk-fiddle style and demands alternate tunings and techniques. Agave Baroque performs selections from these fascinating collections, as well as works that fearlessly explore the nexus of sacred and profane: Biber’s 1682 masterpiece Fidicinium sacro-profanum, and Johann Heinrich Schmelzer’s stunning Sacro-profanus concentus musicus.

AGAVE BAROQUE:
Aaron Westman, violin and viola; Shirley Hunt, viola da gamba, violoncello; Kevin Cooper, Baroque guitar; JungHae Kim, harpsichord, organ; David Wilson, violin; Josh Lee, viola da gamba, violone; Daniel Zuluaga, theorbo
5:00 PM ST. MARK’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH, $28
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BLUE HERON, Scott Metcalfe, director
Song of Songs/Songs of Love

The poem known as the “Song of Songs” was written down in the 3rd century BCE and was admitted to the canon of Hebrew Scripture long after the Torah and the Prophets, probably towards the end of the first century CE. The poem is plainly about earthly love, but its sensuous language and imagery have been traditionally interpreted by Jewish and Christian religious exegetes as allegory. This program sets the sensuous verses of “Song of Songs” (translated from the original Hebrew into Latin by St Jerome) beside love songs in Spanish, inviting the listener to consider the many meanings and varieties of love and the complex relationship of the divine and the human, now and in the past. Music from 16th-century Spain by Francisco Guerrero, Tomás Luis de Victoria, Sebastián de Vivanco, Juan Vásquez, Nicolas Gombert, and others.

BLUE HERON:
Cameron Beauchamp, Pamela Dellal, Paul Guttry, Owen McIntosh, Jason McStoots, Martin Near, Aaron Sheehan, Mark Sprinkle, Sumner Thompson, Daniela Tosic, Shari Wilson, Zachary Wilder, voices; Marilyn Boenau, bajón
8 PM, FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, $45/35/25
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Today (June 7th) on 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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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.)

Today (June 7th) on the Fringe

Farallon Recorder Quartet with soprano Jennifer Paulino and lutenist John Lenti
Amaryllis: Songs and Consorts from the Courts of Renaissance Europe
At the heart of the program will be English Renaissance music drawn from their recent CD From Albion’s Shores, which includes music by the great 16th century lutenist John Dowland and his famous contemporary William Byrd. Spanish music by Diego Ortiz and Antonio Cabezon, German music by Ludwig Senfl and Heinrich Finck, French chansons by Josquin des Prez, and Italian songs by Bartolomeo Tromboncino and Jacob Obrecht complete this whirlwind musical tour.
FARALLON RECORDER QUARTET BIOS:
Annette Bauer, Letitia Berlin, Frances Blaker, Louise Carslake, recorders with Jennifer Paulino, soprano and John Lenti, lute
11:00AM
Trinity Chapel (TRIN): 2320 Dana (at Durant)
Tickets: $15
Infromation: www.farallonrecorderquartet.com; tishberlin@sbcglobal.net, or call 510-559-4670

The Barefoot All-Stars
“Cries and In Nomines”: Elizabethan Festive Music
“The Cries of London” by Gibbons and “The Country Cries” by Deering are the famous (and hilarious) pieces that anchor this program.   Gibbons’ piece rings with the sounds of street food sellers and merchants (“ripe damsons ripe/ hot puddings, hot / have ye any work for a cooper?” etc), while the Deering piece, largely in dialect, reflects a more rural discourse (“Her’ll fling her pisspot on her head, for her play’d all night at whipperginnie”).
The Gibbons “Cries” is also an “In Nomine”, based on the plainsong that inspired dozens of instrumental pieces.  The program will also include the original Taverner mass movement, an In Nomine by Tye based on street cries, another (instrumental) In Nomine by Gibbons and a contemporary ballad about a scheming cookmaid, several tailors and a sausage.
THE BAREFOOT ALLSTARS: The Spirit of Gambo, director
Allison Zelles Lloyd, voice; Tonia D’Amelio, voice; Shira Kammen, voice and viol; David Morris, voice and viol; Fred Goff, voice; Peter Hallifax, viol; Julie Jeffrey, viol; and Lynn Tetenbaum, viol
12:00PM (noon)
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church/Parish Hall (STM)
Tickets: Gate: $15 General, $13 SFEMS, Seniors, Students.
Online (note the discount!!!): $12 and $10 (www.BrownPaperTickets.com/event/231148)
Information: www.Barefootchamberconcerts.com, info@barefootchamberconcerts.com or call 510.220.1195

Gryphons Wild
Women in Song: Adoration, Anguish and Animosity
Eight centuries of glorious vocal music written by and about women and their relationships: Hildegard von Bingen’s devotion to God, a Trouvère song in which a wife longs for the return of her Crusader husband, a Cantiga de Santa Maria sung in adoration of the most famous woman in music history, an Elizabethan complaint about unfaithful men, a duet from Handel’s Julius Caesar in which a mother and son share their anguish over the murder of husband and father, a Sephardic song in which a woman plots revenge against her evil mother-in law, plus vocal music by Machaut and Monteverdi presenting the male point of view (emphasizing the fickleness and hard-heartedness of women, of course!).
GRYPHONS WILD BIOS: Sally Terris, Artistic Director; Ellen St. Thomas, Managing Director
Sally Terris, mezzo-soprano, recorder, harp; Ellen St. Thomas, soprano, percussion; Greta Haug-Hryciw, percussion, storyteller, recorder, soprano; Anita Baldwin, guitar, accordion, mezzo-soprano; Carrie Campbell, mezzo-soprano, harpsichord.
12:00PM (noon)
Berkeley Piano Club (BPC): 2724 Haste Street
Tickets: $15 General, $10 Seniors/Students/SFEMS/ARS
Information: www.gryphonswild.com, gryphonswild@gmail.com or call 408.773.0946

Passamezzo Moderno
Instrumentalischer Sachen: 17th Century German Chamber Music
In the early 17th century, Italian musicians spread the new Baroque style of music throughout Europe, and musicians from all over Europe came to Italy to study with Italian masters. By the mid-17th century, German-speaking lands were saturated with Italian music and Italian musicians. German and Austrian composers absorbed the new style and adapted it to their own culture well.  Works by Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, Johann Rosenmüller , Matthias Weckmann, and others.
PASSAMEZZO MODERNO BIOS: Jonathan Davis, harpsichord; David Granger, dulcian; Edwin Huizinga, violin; Adriane Post, violin
1:00PM
Loper Chapel (LOP) at First Congregational Church
Tickets: Suggested donation: $10
Information: www.passamezzomoderno.com, info@passamezzomoderno.com or call 510.260.6475
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Ensemble Montichiari
Music of J. S. Bach for violin, viola da gamba, and harpsichord
Our program features gorgeous chamber music by J.S. Bach:  Sonata in G minor for viola da gamba and harpsichord, BWV 1029: Fantasia and Fugue in A minor, BWV 904: Sonata in C minor for violin and harpsichord, BWV 1017:Trio sonata in G major for violin, viola da gamba, and continuo, after BWV 1027.
ENSEMBLE MONTICHIARI BIOS: David Wilson, violin; Farley Pearce, viola da gamba; Yuko Tanaka, harpsichord
1:00PM
Trinity Chapel (TRIN): 2320 Dana (at Durant)
Tickets: $15 general admission, $10 SFEMS/EMA
Information: dkwilson415@sbcglobal.net or call 510.326.4916

Well-Tuned Words
The Dowland-Campion Connection
In its West Coast debut, the duo Well-Tuned Words presents songs by three of the finest lute-song composers in the age of Shakespeare: John Dowland, his friend Thomas Campion, and John Danyel.
WELL-TUNED WORDS BIOS: Amanda Sidebottom, soprano; Erik Ryding, lute
2:00PM
St. Joseph of Arimathea Chapel (STJ)
Tickets: $15 general admission; $10 SFEMS and EMA members, students, seniors
Information: www.welltunedwords.com: info@welltunedwords.com or call 347-232-9164
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Bertamo Trio
An Uncommon Portion: Music from 18th Century Germany and 21st Century America
Trios and Solos from the 18th to the 21st Centuries: Music of Telemann, Fischer, Maute and Blaker.  Solos and trios from Telemann\’s Essercizi musici,  and works commissioned by new composers for the recorder including Matthias Maute and Frances Blaker.
BERTAMO TRIO BIOS: Letitia Berlin, recorder; David Morris, viola da gamba; Yuko Tanaka, harpsichord
3:30PM
Trinity Chapel (TRIN): 2320 Dana (at Durant)
Tickets: $15.00
Information: tishberlin@sbcglobal.net or call 510.559.4670

Elaine Thornburgh, solo harpsichord
Musical French Muses
Stanford University harpsichordist Elaine Thornburgh offers an enchanting program of French keyboard music anchored by the eight préludes of François Couperin’s “L’Art de Toucher le Clavecin”. The préludes, a veritable textural dictionary of French style and gesture, introduce us to the music of Louis and François Couperin, Rameau, Duphly and Forqueray performed on a John Phillips two-manual harpsichord.  Such pieces as Couperin’s “Les Silvains” (people of the woods), Duphly’s La Pothoüin, and Forqueray’s La Régente provide graceful continuity to the program.
3:30PM
Loper Chapel at First Congregational Church (LOP): Dana at Durant
Tickets: $15 general, $10 SFEMS, EMA and WEKA members, students/seniors
Information: ilanabardavid@gmail.com or call 415.387.6890

Rebecca Pechefsky, harpsichord
Rediscovered Masterpieces
Harpsichordist Rebecca Pechefsky will present a recital of French and German music, including Francois Couperin’s rarely played 12th Ordre and the rediscovered E-Flat Partita by Bach’s star pupil, Johann Ludwig Krebs.
The harpsichord used for this recital is by Owen Daly after Jean-Claude Goujon, c. 1749, currently in the PARIS Musée de la Musique. The instrument is restrung in the new historical phosphoric iron wire by Stephen Birkett and equipped with new jacks and quilled in wild Canada goose with interior decoration by Adrian Card of San Francisco.
3:30PM
St. Joseph of Arimathea Chapel (STJ), 2543 Durant Street near Bowditch
Tickets $15 general admission; $10 SFEMS and EMA members, students, seniors
Information: www.rebeccapechefsky.com; rpechefsky@gmail.com or call 646-263-9122

Natur Early Music Ensemble
J’aimerai!: a voyage through heavenly, courtly, and earthly loves
Natur Early Music Ensemble presents “J’aimerai!: a voyage through heavenly, courtly, and earthly loves.” Inspired by the polytextual motets of the Montepellier Codex, this 50-minute program will lead the audience through the three levels of love, using sacred music by French Baroque composers Lully and Couperin, courtly madrigals by Italian Renaissance composers Luzzaschi and Festa, and earthly duets and bawdy catches by English Renaissance composers Purcell, Morley and Eccles.
NATUR EARLY MUSIC ENSEMBLE: Bianca Hall & Tara Bailey, directors
Tara Bailey (soprano, recorder), Claire Fedoruk (soprano, viola da gamba), Bianca Hall (soprano, recorder, harpsichord), Stacey Helley (mezzo-soprano, French specialist), Stephan Haas (harpsichord, organ, recorder, gemshorn)
4:00PM
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church—Parish Hall (STPM)
Tickets: General $10; Students/Seniors $7
Information: http://naturearlymusic.instantencore.com or naturearlymusic@gmail.com

CHANTICLEER LOUIS A. BOTTO (LAB) CHOIR, Ben Johns, director
Music of New Spain:
Exploring California’s Missions and Mexico’s Cathedrals

The rich musical legacy of colonial Mexico and Alta California is preserved in the libraries of our cathedrals and missions. Their archives are troves of great and sometimes unique music from the 16th through the early 19th centuries, from refined Spanish polyphony to rollicking villancicos, with many excellent works written here in the New World. Enjoy a small sample from this musical cornucopia.

CHANTICLEER LAB 6:
Gordon Allen, Lila Atchison, Patrick Atchison, Avi Ballo, Kilian Benson, Elias Berezin (violin), Shannon Brumley, Nicole Chin, Claire Coleman, Toran Davenport (tambourine), Ana Dimapilis, Lily Friedman (violin), Erin Hajre-Chapman, Felix Herbst (violin), Lauren Jacobs (clarinet), Johann Joson, Sarah Ma, Katie Pass, Peter John Reinman, Christian Ricco, Steven Salka, Danielle Schickele, Camille Sherman (flute), Levi Soler, Juliana Woolums
5 PM, ST. MARK’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH, $15
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MUSICA PACIFICA
300 Years On:
A Dance Collection from the Reign of Louis XIV

Instrumentalists of Musica Pacifica and dancers led by Baroque dance specialist Linda Tomko join forces to bring to the stage choreographies and their music from the 1712/13 Nouveau Recüeil de Dance de Bal et celle de Ballet. This dazzling collection is remarkable for the sheer number of dances it makes available and the range of music it offers, performed in musical theatre works, such as Campra’s Les Fêtes Vénitiennes, Marais’ Sémélée, and Destouches’ Issé, and at court during the final decades of Louis XIV’s reign. Celebrating the 300th anniversary of the Nouveau Recüeil, the program showcases instrumental music of other contemporary French Baroque composers and one of Telemann’s delightful “Paris” Quartets.

MUSICA PACIFICA:
Judith Linsenberg, recorder; Elizabeth Blumenstock, violin; Debra Nagy, oboe; Josh Lee, viola da gamba; Charles Sherman, harpsichord; John Loose, percussion; Linda Tomko, Ken Pierce, Olsi Gjeci, Jennifer Thorp, dance
8 PM, FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, $45/35/25
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Today (June 6th) on 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.)

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.)

Today (June 6th) on the Fringe

The Albany Consort
Christa Pfeiffer and Friends – Cantatas, Concertso and Sonatas of the High Baroque
Music by Monteclair (Cantata Ariane e Bachus), Bach (Sonata in A for violin and harpsichord), Alessandro Scarlatti (Recorder Concerto), Purcell (Songs) and Buxtehude (Trio Sonata).
THE ALBANY CONSORT: Jonathan Salzedo, Marion Rubinstein, directors
Christa Pfeiffer, soprano; Jonathan Salzedo, harpsichord; Marion Rubinstein, recorder/organ; David Wilson and Laura Rubinstein-Salzedo, violins; Ondina Young, viola; Amy Brodo, cello
11:00AM
University Lutheran Chapel (ULC)
2425 College (at Haste)
Tickets: $10-$25
Information: www.albanyconsort.com, consort@albanyconsort.com or call 408.480.0182

Sitka Trio & Friends
Music in a Circle~ imitative music and repeating bass lines
The Sitka Trio will be joined by cellist Barbara Blaker Krumdieck and lute and guitar player William Simms. This larger Sitka ensemble makes it their mission to explore music from many centuries, from both the traditional (folk) and clas- sical repertories. Medieval works stand side by side with Baroque compositions; Renaissance composers next to new voices from the 20th and 21st centuries, including original works by Blaker and Kammen.
THE SITKA TRIO: Shira Kammen, Viele, violin, viola; Letitia Berlin, recorders, doucaine; Frances Blaker, recorders and Friends: Barbara Blaker Krumdieck, cello; Billy Simms, theorbo and guitar
12:00PM (noon)
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church—Parish Hall (STMP): 2300 Bancroft Way
Tickets: $15 general. $10 students & SFEMS
Information: cellobabs@gmail.com or call 704 560-0101

Vinaccesi Ensemble
Il disinganno degli amanti: music of the northern Italian Baroque
Northern Italy was a hotbed of musical endeavors in the 17th and 18th centuries, and the Vinaccesi Ensemble mines that fertile field for continuo arias, duets, and trios by Monteverdi, Strozzi, Cavalli, and–of course–the quirky and creative Benedetto Vinaccesi.
The Vinaccesi Ensemble was formed in 2008 by Bruce Wetmore, Kindra Scharich, and Nanette McGuinness and first performed as part of the 2008 Berkeley Early Music Fringe Fest. The Ensemble recorded Vinaccesi\’s extant solo cantatas in 2011, with the generous support of the San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music\’s Musical Grant Program.  View Sample Programs >>>
VINACCESI ENSEMBLE BIOS: Nanette McGuinness, soprano; Kindra Scharich, mezzo-soprano; Jonathan Smucker, tenor; Kirk Eichelberger, bass; Sarge Gerbode, archlute; Farley Pearce, Baroque cello; Yuko Tanaka, harpsichord
12:30PM
Trinity Chapel (TRIN): 2320 Dana (at Durant)
Tickets: $15 general/ $10 SFEMS members, seniors, students, disabled, no one turned away for lack of funds
Information: www.vinaccesi.com, www.TrinityChamberConcerts.com or call 510-549-3864

Janine Johnson, harpsichord
“Goldberg Variations” by J. S. Bach
Harpsichordist Janine Johnson will present a joyous and moving rendition of Bach’s Aria with 30 Variations (Goldberg Variations) on a replica of the 1722 J.H. Gräbner harpsichord by John Phillips. Sure to be a Festival highlight!
2:30PM
Trinity Chapel (TRIN): 2320 Dana (at Durant)
Tickets: $15 general, $10 SFEMS members, students, seniors and disabled.
Information: TrinityChamberConcerts.com or call 510.549.3864
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Elinor Frey, Solo Baroque Cello
The Voice of the Violoncello – Music of the First Great Composer-Cellists of Italy
Montreal-based cellist Elinor Frey developed the program “The Voice of the Violoncello” while doing a Fulbright Fellowship in Italy. Loving the Bach suites, she wanted to know if there was other solo music before and around Bach’s time, but from where the first musicians called cellists composed, in Italy! It turns out that between the 1670s to 1750s cellists Gabrielli, Vitali, Dall’Abaco, Supriani, and others, wrote great solo music. Elinor’s program encompasses an exceptional collection of music that is charming, sumptuous, and captivating.
3:30PM
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church—Parish Hall (STMP): 2300 Bancroft Way
Tickets: $15 suggested donation (no one will be turned away because of cost)
Information: www.elinorfrey.com, elinor@elinorfrey.com or call 206.790.8233

Coro Ciconia
The Transit of Venus
Coro Ciconia continues exploring the transition in music from medieval to Renaissance, examining the literal crossover of English technique and sound to the continent accompanying England’s conquest of France at Agincourt in 1415.  European musicians called this sound the “contenance l’Angloise;” it transformed western music.  Featuring “Missa Alma Redemptoris Mater,” by Leonel Power (ca. 1375-1445), chosen purely for
beauty and musical richness, we’ll sing other charming pieces by Power, his colleague John Dunstable (ca. 1380-1453), their contemporary Johannes Ciconia (ca. 1373-1412), and gems by Philippe de Vitry, Guillaume de Machaut and Johannes Ockeghem in a fine medieval chamber, the Member’s Lounge of Julia Morgan’s Berkeley City Club.
CORO CICONIA: Peter Fisher, director
Annie Hallett, Sara Knuth, Cheryl Koehler, Nancy Lambert, Lee McRae, Ralph Prince, Scott Robinson, Richard Walker.
4:00PM
Berkeley City Club (BCC): 2315 Durant Avenue
Tickets: $15 general, $12 students and seniors
Information: pcfisher@berkeley.edu or call 510.843.0450
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Note: This small room may sell out: please contact us to reserve without paying.

Les Violettes
J. S. Bach:  Sonatas for Viola da Gamba and Harpsichord
The three sonatas for viola da gamba and obligato harpsichord  (BWV 1027-1029) are some of Bach’s most remarkable and gorgeous chamber works.  Prepare yourself for a journey through a wealth of emotions, textures, styles and contrapuntal invention to delight your mind, body and soul in ways both sublime and fantastic.
LES VIOLETTES BIOS: Colin Shipman, Viola da Gamba; Violet Grgich, Harpsichord
4:00PM
St. Joseph of Arimathea Chapel (STJ): 2543 Durant Street near Bowditch
Tickets: $15 General / $10 Seniors, Students, SFEMS, EMA
Information: lesviolettesnapa@gmail.com or call 707.224.2222

In the days before technology allowed us to outsource all our entertainment to professionals, music was something people made for themselves in their own homes – which, in turn, meant a thriving economic market for music suitable for amateurs.

Full moon presides over exsanguinous tales.

Last night, local early music ensemble Cançonièr performed in what was their last appearance until next year.  In the somewhat noisy parish hall of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church this four member ensemble played a slightly condensed version of a program they have been touring for the last year or so.  It was a program called ‘Black Dragon’ with music from the first half of the 15th century, the time of the reign of Count Vlad Dracula, the historical antecedent of the vampire character.

Cançonièr is a four member ensemble co-directed by Tim Rayborn and Annette Bauer.  The other two regulars are Shira Kammen and Phoebe Jevtovic.  All are amazing instrumentalists and scholars in their own right and all play in other ensembles and groupings.  READ MORE >>

Historical Treats at Berkeley Festival

It is a sign of the times that Philharmonia Baroque began this year’s Berkeley Festival (which runs June 3–10) with a concert of music by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and other post-Baroque composers. This year’s Festival programming shows that interest in historical performance practice extends to music before and after medieval/Renaissance/Baroque, and beyond the confines of Europe.

The opening concert, Sunday at the First Congregational Church of Berkeley, was a recital by soprano Dominique Labelle, accompanied by Nicholas McGegan on fortepiano, Elizabeth Blumenstock on violin, and Phoebe Carrai on cello, all playing about a fourth of a step between Baroque and modern pitch.
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