Calendar of Early Music

 Tuesday, March 13

Philharmonia Baroque repeats program of March 9.
Felix Mendelssohn, The Fair Melusine, Op. 32; Johannes Brahms, Serenade No. 2 in A, Op. 16; and Robert Schumann, Concerto for Violoncello, Op. 129, Steven Isserlis, soloist.
8PM
First United Methodist Church
625 Hamilton, Palo Alto.

Friday, March 16

California Bach Society, Amy Stuart Hunn, guest conductor.
“Draw on, Sweet Night: Madrigals across Europe.” Works by Willbye, Isaac, Hassler, Janequin, d’India, Monteverdi, and others. With Jonathan Salzedo, harpsichord.
8PM
St. Mark’s Lutheran Church
1111 O’Farrell St., San Francisco.
$30/$22/$18/$10
415-262-0272, www.calbach.org

Sonoma Bach
“Carnival Bolognese: A Musical Feast” Join Circa 1600 and Live Oak Baroque Orchestra, directed by Elizabeth Blumenstock, as we ‘break down the walls’ of the standard classical music concert! In the beautiful acoustics and flat-floor space of the Penngrove Clubhouse, we will create a lively, intimate experience in which audience members, provided with Italian refreshments and libations, will be mere feet from the performers as they recreate music which might have been heard at a house party in early 17th-century Bologna.
8PM
Penngrove Clubhouse
Oak St. and Woodward, Penngrove. 
www.sonomabach.org

Saturday, March 17

 California Bach Society repeats program of March 16.
“Draw on, Sweet Night: Madrigals across Europe.”
8PM
All Saints’ Episcopal Church
555 Waverley St., at Hamilton, Palo Alto.

Flauti Dolci & Amici I
A collection of recorder consorts and mixed ensembles from around the Bay Area including Camerata California, SDQ, Ensemble Sonoma, and the Peralta Consort.
3PM
Foothill Presbyterian Church
5301 McKee Road, San Jose.
Suggested donation $10
www.foothillpc.org

Live at Mission Blue
Masters of the Baroque. Jacques Ogg, harpsichord; Wilbert Hazelzet, baroque flute; and Jaap Ter Linden, cello/gamba, perform works of J.S. Bach.
8PM
Artist interview at 7:30 Mission Blue Center
475 Mission Blue Drive, Brisbane.
$20/$15
www.LiveAtMissionBlue.com

San Francisco Renaissance Voices
“An Introduction to Baroque Dance Rhythms,” Dancer, dance scholar and choreographer Philippa Waite leads a full-day workshop in some of the basic dance steps and arm motions in the main Baroque dance rhythms: bourée & menuet in the morning session; sarabande & gigue in the afternoon.
8:30AM (see website for detailed schedule)
Seventh Avenue Presbyterian Church
1329 Seventh Ave., San Francisco.
$100
www.SFRV.org

San Francisco Bach Choir, Corey Jamason, Artistic Director
J. S. Bach Magnificat & Vivaldi Gloria. Two glorious sunny and extroverted works: J. S. Bach’s Magnificat in D, BWV 243, and Vivaldi’s Gloria in D, RV 589. With Sara Duchovnay & Jennifer Paulino, soprano; Sara Couden, mezzo-soprano; Brian Thorsett, tenor; and the SFBC Baroque Orchestra.
8PM
Calvary Presbyterian Church
Fillmore & Jackson, San Francisco.
$28–$15 Advance
415-441-4942 or www.sfbach.org

 Sonoma Bach repeats program of March 16.
“Carnival Bolognese: A Musical Feast”
8PM
Penngrove Clubhouse
Oak St. and Woodward, Penngrove. 
www.sonomabach.org

Sunday, March 18

California Bach Society repeats program of March 16.
“Draw on, Sweet Night: Madrigals across Europe.”
4PM
Saint Mark’s Episcopal Church
2300 Bancroft Way at Ellsworth, Berkeley.

Creative Arts Series
“God of Many Names”, Ann Marie Rigler. Liberty, Missouri Organ
Resurrection Parrish
303 Stony Point Rd.
Santa Rosa, CA
$15
www.creativeartsseries.com; BethZucchino@aol.com; 707.824.5611

 Eugene Petrushansky, harpsichord
“A Lenten Harpsichord Recital” Eugene Petrushansky plays a program of 17th-century keyboard music, including works of Peter Philips, d’Anglebert, Poglietti, and Froberger, on a harpsichord modeled on Italian instruments circa 1600.
4PM
Church of the Advent of Christ the King
162 Hickory St, San Francisco.

Tickets by donation.
espbaroque.wordpress.com/

San Francisco Bach Choir repeats program of March 17.
4PM
Calvary Presbyterian Church
Fillmore & Jackson, San Francisco.
3PM Free, pre-concert lecture (Sunday performance only)

San Francisco Renaissance Voices, Todd Jolly, Director
“The Legend of Hercules:  Music from the Court of Ferrariae”, including works by Martini, Obrecht, Isaac and Josquin.
5PM
First Presbyterian Church
2001 Santa Clara Avenue, Alameda
$25/$20
www.SFRV.org or 415-664-2543×3

 Sonoma Bach repeats program of March 16.
“Carnival Bolognese: A Musical Feast”
4PM
Penngrove Clubhouse
Oak St. and Woodward, Penngrove.
www.sonomabach.org

Calendar of Early Music

Tuesday, March 6

Sacramento Recorder Society
Regular meeting for recorder players, with guest conductor Robert Dawson. Newcomers welcome. Bring recorders, stand, and other early instruments. Music provided. Refreshments.
6:45–9:15PM
Friends Meeting House
890 57th St., between H and J, Sacramento.
marschif@gmail.com

Friday, March 9

Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Nicholas MeGegan conductor
Felix Mendelssohn, The Fair Melusine, Op. 32; Johannes Brahms, Serenade No. 2 in A, Op. 16; and Robert Schumann, Concerto for Violoncello, Op. 129, Steven Isserlis, soloist.
8PM
Herbst Theatre
401 Van Ness & McAllister, San Francisco.
Pre-concert lecture 45 minutes before each performance.
$25–$85
415-392-4400 or www.cityboxoffice.com

South Bay Recorder Society
Monthly meeting, guest conductor Hanneke van Proosdij. New members and guests welcomed.
7:30–10PM
First Congregational Church of San Jose
1980 Hamilton Ave. (at Leigh), San Jose.
408-358-0878 or zilbrown@aol.com

Saturday, March 10

Cal Performances
Ton Koopman & the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir perform J.S. Bach’s Mass in B Minor
8PM
Zellerbach Hall
UC Berkeley Campus, Berkeley.
$30–$95 510-642-9988, www.calperformances.org

Philharmonia Baroque repeats program of March 9.
8PM
First Congregational Church
Dana & Durant, Berkeley.

MusicSources
“The Blood Countess.”
Cançonièr (Annette Bauer, recorders, percussion, bells & voice; Tim Rayborn, hand drums, lute, ‘ud, tambur, tabor, & voice; Shira Kammen, vielle, harp & voice; and Phoebe Jevtovic, voice) perform music from the time of Hungarian countess Elizabeth Bathory (1560–1614), including works from the Habsburg Court, songs of Sebestyan Tinodi, Balkan folk music, songs of the Roma, traditional Ottoman music, and music of the Bathory Court (including Vecchi and Gabrieli).
7:30PM
St. Luke’s Episcopal Church
20 University Ave, Los Gatos
$30/$25
510-528-1685 or info@musicsources.org, www.musicsources.org, www.canconier.com

San Francisco Conservatory of Music
Conservatory Baroque Ensemble performs G.F. Handel’s Agrippina (concert version).
7:30PM
San Francisco Conservatory of Music
50 Oak St., San Francisco
FREE (RESERVATIONS REQUIRED) 415-503-6275, www.sfcm.edu

Santa Cruz Baroque Festival
“Evolving Mandolins.” Mike Marshall and Caterina Lichetnberg, mandolins explore the evolution of the mandolin from its Italian baroque roots through its diverse expressions in the dance and popular music of many nations today. Also on the program are J.S. Bach’s complete Inventions, plus sonatas by Bach and LeClair.
7:30PM
UC Santa Cruz Recital Hall
UCSC Campus, Santa Cruz.
$23/$17/$6/$3 ($3 parking charge)
831-457-9693 or www.scbaroque.org

Viola da Gamba Society/Pacifica Chapter
Monthly consort playing with guest coach Roy Whelden. Players of all levels welcome.
9:15AM–4PM
Hillside Swedenborgian Church
1422 Navellier Street, El Cerrito.
Newcomers please phone ahead. 510-531-1471, mark_bach8@hotmail.com

Sunday, March 11

MusicSources repeats Cançonièr concert program of March 10
4PM
St. Alban’s Episcopal Church
1501 Washington Ave., Albany.
$30/$25
510-528-1685 or info@musicsources.org, www.musicsources.org, www.canconier.com

Philharmonia Baroque repeats program of March 9.
7:30PM
First Congregational Church
Dana & Durant, Berkeley.

San Francisco Conservatory of Music repeats performance of March 10.
2PM
San Francisco Conservatory of Music
50 Oak St., San Francisco
FREE (RESERVATIONS REQUIRED) 415-503-6275, www.sfcm.edu

Meet Archetti

Archetti was founded in 2009 by violinist Carla Moore and viola da gambist John Dornenburg to perform the rich chamber concerto repertory of the baroque era. The collective experience and artistry of Archetti’s members allow them to develop distinctive, dynamic and historically-informed interpretations without a conductor. The ensemble’s size is perfectly suited to the bountiful 8-part-book violin concerti of composers such as Vivaldi, Corelli, Handel and Torelli, yet it is also small enough for the intimacy of Bach’s harpsichord concerti.

Archetti (pronounced “ar-keht’-tee”) means “bows” in Italian and naturally alludes to the dominance of Italian string music in the baroque concerto repertory.

John Dornenburg, violone, is a Bay Area performer, recording artist, and educator. As viola da gamba soloist he has performed in Europe, Turkey, Australia, and New Zealand, and can be heard locally with Music’s Re-creation, Sex Chordæ Consort of Viols, and Magnificat. He has also performed occasionally with the San Francisco Symphony, American Bach Soloists, Philharmonia, the Carmel and Oregon Bach Festivals, and many other groups across the US. He has made over 30 compact discs of solo and chamber music. John holds music diplomas from The Royal Conservatory in The Hague and the Salzburg Mozarteum, where his teachers included Wieland Kuijken and Nikolaus Harnoncourt. He teaches the viola da gamba at Stanford University, and is Lecturer Emeritus in music history at CSU, Sacramento.

Cynthia Miller Freivogel, violin, received a BA in musicology at Yale University and an MM in violin performance at the San Francisco Conservatory. A member of Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Ms. Freivogel is also the concertmaster and leader of the Baroque Chamber Orchestra of Colorado, and the lead violinist in Brandywine Baroque in Delaware and the second violinist in the Novello Quartet. Ms. Freivogel spends summers playing violin in the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra in Boulder. She has also played with the Tanglewood Music Center Fellowship Orchestra, San Luis Obispo Mozart Festival, the State Orchestra of Sao Paulo, Brazil, Apollo’s Fire, Portland Baroque, American Russian Young Artist’s Orchestra and Amerus chamber players. Ms. Freivogel studied principally with Camilla Wicks and Marylou Speaker Churchill. She is a certified Suzuki teacher.

After being one of the leading baroque violinists of his generation, violinist Anthony Martin is savoring his retirement playing with the New Esterházy and the Novello Quartets as well as the cross-over group String Circle.  He still plays violin now and again with Philharmonia and with Orchestra of the 18th Century. When he appeared in their first concerts in 1981, both these groups were 3000 miles away from where Mr. Martin lived in Boston. He still teaches the occasional lesson in early violin at Stanford, where as an undergraduate in the 1960s he majored in draft evasion. His wife, Titia, is a Board Certified Music Therapist from the Netherlands. Their three children play horn, harp, and sax, instruments of which their parents have no knowledge or experience.

Carla Moore, described by Strad Magazine as possessing “unerring musicality,” moved to the San Francisco Bay Area from New York City in 1991 when she joined Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra. She now serves as one of Philharmonia’s concertmasters and soloists, as well as concertmaster and soloist for Portland Baroque Orchestra (Oregon). In 1989, Carla won First Prize in the 1989 Erwin Bodky Competition for Early Music. She has recorded extensively, including highly praised solo performances as well as chamber music. Carla teaches baroque violin and coaches the Baroque Ensemble at the University of California at Berkeley. She received her Master of Music Degree from Indiana University’s Early Music Institute where she was a student of Stanley Ritchie.

Davitt Moroney is a Professor of Music at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is also University Organist and Director of the University Baroque Ensemble. He has made over sixty commercial CDs, especially of music by Bach, Byrd, and various members of the Couperin family. His recordings have been awarded the French “Grand Prix du Disque” (1996), the German “Preis der Deutschen Schallplatenkritik” (2000), and three British “Gramophone Awards” (1986, 1991, 2000). In 1987 he was named Chevalier dans l’Ordre du mérite culturel by Prince Rainier of Monaco and, in 2000, Officier des arts et des lettres by the French government.

Until 1998 cellist, Tanya Tomkins, lived in Holland for 14 years, where she toured and recorded extensively as a chamber musician. She was the first cellist ever to win the international Bodky Competition for Early Music Soloists and has recently recorded all of the Bach Suites. Currently one of Philharmonia and Portland Baroque’s principal cellists, she has performed as soloist with both orchestras. On modern instruments she is a member of the Left Coast Ensemble and appears regularly in summer festivals including Music in the Vineyards Festival and the Moab Chamber Music Festival. She is a member of the Tomkins-Zivian Duo and the Benvenue Fortepiano Trio with violinist, Monica Huggett. Tanya teaches at the American Bach Soloists Summer Academy and San Jose State University.

David Wilson has performed extensively with period instrument ensembles in the United States and Europe. An avid chamber musician, he has played with Baroque Northwest and Magnificat, and he is a founding member of Florilegia, the Galax Quartet, Aurora Baroque, and other ensembles. He has taught baroque violin at Indiana University, where he earned the Doctor of Music degree in Early Music, and he holds degrees in violin from Bowling Green State University in Ohio and The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. He is the author of Georg Muffat on Performance Practice, published by Indiana University Press.

Violinist Jolianne von Einem received her musical training at UCLA and USC, where she studied modern violin with Alex Treger and Alice Schoenfeld.  Concurrently she studied baroque violin with Monica Huggett and began dedicating her career to historical performance practices.  She is a currently member of the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Magnificat, and Portland Baroque Orchestra, and has also been featured with the highly acclaimed west-coast groups such as the Allard String Quartet, Archetti Baroque Strings, American Bach Soloists, California Bach Society, Los Angeles Baroque Orchestra, Musica Angelica, and the Seattle Baroque Orchestra.  She has traveled to Europe to perform and record with the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Hausmusik, and Trio Sonnerie. Recordings include Mendelssohn’s Octet w/Hausmusic (EMI), Early Music of the Netherlands 1700-1800 w/ Trio Sonnerie (Emergo), and Eighteenth Century Music for Lute and Strings w/ Trio Galanterie (Audioquest). For fun she enjoys the family life, old movies, yoga, gardening in Humboldt County, and playing jazz/ bebop with partner Rob Diggins in Cuckoo’s Nest Gypsy Jazz Sextet.

Calendar of Early Music

Monday, February 27

American Bach Soloists repeats program of February 24.
J.S. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, with soloists Wesley Rogers, tenor (Evangelista); Joshua Copeland, baritone (Christus); sopranos Clara Rottsolk & Anne-Kathryn Olsen; countertenor Jay Carter; alto Danielle Reutter-Harrah; tenors Derek Chester & Aaron Sheehan; baritones Mischa Bouvier baritone & Robert Stafford, and the American Bach Choir & Pacific Boychoir.
7:30PM
Davis Community Church,
412 C St, Davis.
americanbach.tix.com/Event.asp?Event=374426

Thursday, March 1

Voices of Music
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Stabat Mater, plus sacred motets of Antonio Vivaldi and Alessandro Scarlatti. With Dominique Labelle, soprano and Meg Bragle, mezzo-soprano; Pearce, William Skeen, David Tayler and Hanneke van Proosdij.
8PM
All Saints’ Episcopal Church,
555 Waverly St., Palo Alto.
$30/$25
415-260-4687 www.voicesofmusic.org

Friday, March 2

 East Bay Chapter, ARS
Monthly playing session, Joyce Johnson-Hamilton guest conductor. New members and guests welcome.
7:30–10PM
Zion Lutheran Church
5201 Park Blvd., Oakland.
www.eastbayrecorders.org, 510-483-8675 or 415-472-6367

SFEMS presents Archetti in Palo Alto
“Masters of the Italian Concerto.”

Carla Moore, Cynthia Freivogel, David Wilson, Jolianne von Einem, violins; Anthony Martin, viola; Tanya Tomkins, violoncello; John Dornenburg, violone; and Davitt Moroney, harpsichord, perform the great concerti of Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, including Handel’s Concerto Grosso Op. 6 No. 11, the Bach’s harpsichord concerto BWV 1055, featuring Davitt Moroney soloist, concerti for violoncello and for four violins by Vivaldi, plus works of Locatelli and the little known but brilliant Dutch-English composer Pieter Hellendaal.
8PM
First Lutheran Church,
600 Homer at Webster, Palo Alto.
$35/$30/$28
510-528-1725 or www.sfems.org

Voices of Music repeats program of March 1.
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Stabat Mater, plus sacred motets of Antonio Vivaldi and Alessandro Scarlatti.
8PM
St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church
3 Bayview Avenue, Belvedere.

Saturday, March 3

SFEMS presents Archetti in Berkeley
“Masters of the Italian Concerto.”

Carla Moore, Cynthia Freivogel, David Wilson, Jolianne von Einem, violins; Anthony Martin, viola; Tanya Tomkins, violoncello; John Dornenburg, violone; and Davitt Moroney, harpsichord, perform the great concerti of Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, including Handel’s Concerto Grosso Op. 6 No. 11, the Bach’s harpsichord concerto BWV 1055, featuring Davitt Moroney soloist, concerti for violoncello and for four violins by Vivaldi, plus works of Locatelli and the little known but brilliant Dutch-English composer Pieter Hellendaal.
7:30PM
St. John’s Presbyterian Church
2727 College at Garber, Berkeley.

Voices of Music repeats program of March 1.
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Stabat Mater, plus sacred motets of Antonio Vivaldi and Alessandro Scarlatti.
8PM
St. Mark’s Lutheran Church
1111 O’Farrell Street, San Francisco.

Sunday, March 4

SFEMS presents Archetti in San Francisco
“Masters of the Italian Concerto.”

Carla Moore, Cynthia Freivogel, David Wilson, Jolianne von Einem, violins; Anthony Martin, viola; Tanya Tomkins, violoncello; John Dornenburg, violone; and Davitt Moroney, harpsichord, perform the great concerti of Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, including Handel’s Concerto Grosso Op. 6 No. 11, the Bach’s harpsichord concerto BWV 1055, featuring Davitt Moroney soloist, concerti for violoncello and for four violins by Vivaldi, plus works of Locatelli and the little known but brilliant Dutch-English composer Pieter Hellendaal
4PM
St. Mark’s Lutheran Church
1111 O’Farrell St., San Francisco.

SFEMS Medieval & Renaissance Collegium
Italian Vernacular Music from 1200 to 1700

Tom Zajac (Piffaro, director of early music ensembles at Wellesley College) returns to the Bay Area to direct this day-long historical perspective on the music of Italy. The MedRen Collegium is a wonderful place for early music enthusiasts to come together in a large mixed ensemble and experience this exciting repertoire. Singers, viols, recorders, flutes, lutes, harps, dulcians, sackbuts and all “soft” early instruments are all welcome.

All proceeds go toward the SFEMS Medieval & Renaissance Summer Workshop scholarship fund to help pay the tuition of participants who could not otherwise afford to attend.

• 12 noon-3pm and 4pm-7pm
• Hillside Swedenborgian Church
  1422 Navellier Street
  El Cerrito, CA 94530

$50 for the full day and $30 for a half day
Registration contact: Greta Haug-Hryciw
Other information: Tom Zajac, 617-323-0617, medrenworkshop@sfems.org
www.sfems.org

Voices of Music repeats program of March 1.
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Stabat Mater, plus sacred motets of Antonio Vivaldi and Alessandro Scarlatti.
7:30PM
St. Alban’s Episcopal Church
1501 Washington, Albany.

Tom Zajac, director of SFEMS Med/Ren Workshop

Tom Zajac, SFEMS Med/Ren Workshop director is a multi-instrumentalist praised for his versatility and stylish playing in music from the medieval and Renaissance periods. He is a member of the wind band Piffaro and appears frequently with the Folger Consort, the King’s Noyse, the Newberry Consort, Hesperus, and other leading US ensembles. He performed 14th-century music in the East Wing of the White House during the Clinton years and played serpent in a piece by PDQ Bach on an episode of A Prairie Home Companion, and the sound of his bagpipe awoke the astronauts every morning on a 2001 space shuttle mission (on a recording, of course). He performed on the sound track of several PBS documentaries for the Emmy award-winning producer and composer Brian Keane and has participated in over 40 recording projects, ranging from medieval dances to 20th-century chamber music.

Recent projects include a 13th-century music-theater piece, the Tournoi de Chauvency, with the French-American company Ensemble Aziman; performances as percussionist for recent Boston Early Music Festival opera productions; guest directing the Yale University Collegium Musicum in a program of 18th-century Peruvian music; and conducting a program of Polish Renaissance and early Baroque music for the Texas Early Music Project in Austin. Performances in 2010 included a state department sponsored tour with Piffaro of several missions in the Bolivian low country, and a concert in Istanbul, with the Boston-based Turkish music ensemble Dünya, celebrating the city’s status as the 2010 European cultural capital. Tom is director of early music ensembles at Wellesley College, directs the Medieval/Renaissance week of the San Francisco Early Music Society workshops in Sonoma, CA, and teaches at numerous workshops and festivals throughout the US.

Calendar of Early Music

Monday, February 20

Elaine Thornburgh and Elizabeth Blumenstock:
“Passion and Fire.”
Elaine Thornburgh, harpsichord, and Elizabeth Blumenstock, violin, perform baroque music by Schmelzer, Biber, Froberger, J.S. Bach, Telemann, Balbastre, and LeClair.
8PM
Memorial Church, Main Quad.
Stanford University, Palo Alto.
$10/$9/$5
music.stanford.edu/Events/calendar.html

Wednesday, February 22

Mid-Peninsula Recorder Orchestra
Regular meeting, for players of recorder, early winds or early strings. Bring your instrument(s) and music stand.
7:30–9:30PM
Music Room number 060
J.L. Stanford Middle School
480 E. Meadow, Palo Alto.
650-591-3648 or www.sfems.org/mpro

Thursday, February 23

Sonoma Bach: Historical Dance Classes continue. See February 9
Three beginning-level classes, the first of which will introduce an Italian Renaissance dance from Caroso’s 1581 Il ballarino. Other topics will include the minuet and a Playford dance. No need to be a dancer or musician. All are welcome, but space is limited and online registration is recommended.
6:30–8PM
Arlene Francis Center
99 W. 6th St., Santa Rosa.
$20
cheryl@sonomabach.org

Friday, February 24

American Bach Soloists, Jeffrey Thomas director.
J.S. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion
Soloists Wesley Rogers, tenor (Evangelista); Joshua Copeland, baritone (Christus); sopranos Clara Rottsolk & Anne-Kathryn Olsen; countertenor Jay Carter; alto Danielle Reutter-Harrah; tenors Derek Chester & Aaron Sheehan; baritones Mischa Bouvier baritone & Robert Stafford, and the American Bach Choir & Pacific Boychoir.
7:30PM
St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church
3 Bay View Ave., Belvedere.
$53–$18
415-621-7900; www.americanbach.org; info@americanbach.org, americanbach.tix.com/Event.asp?Event=365812

Saturday, February 25

American Bach Soloists repeats program of February 24.
J.S. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion
7:30PM
First Congregational Church
Dana & Durant, Berkeley.
$53–$18
415-621-7900; www.americanbach.org; info@americanbach.org, americanbach.tix.com/Event.asp?Event=365825

 San Francisco Chapter, ARS
“Tales of the City—London, Rome, Venice, Paris and beyond!”
A workshop for recorder players directed by Louise Carslake and Hanneke van Proosdij exploring the cities of Europe with music from the Middle Ages to today.
10:30AM–5PM
Christ Church Lutheran
1090 Quintara St. (at 20th Ave.)
San Francisco.
$45
gr8asf@yahoo.com

Singers’ Retreat
Weekend workshop for singers, studying and performing works of Renaissance polyphony. Dr. William Mahrt will direct singers in the Missa Aspice Domine by Cristóbal de Morales, plus related and contemporaneous works. Two day workshop includes mini-lectures, rehearsals, happy hour, snack bar, 3 catered meals, and Sunday afternoon performance.
9AM
Saturday through 5:30PM Sunday.
San Francisco Theological Seminary
San Anselmo
$115 (accommodations & dinner optional).
PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED. 510-848-5591, 510-778-3253, or Singers.Retreat@gmail.com

Sunday, February 26

American Bach Soloists repeats program of February 24.
J.S. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion
7PM
St. Mark’s Lutheran Church
1111 O’Farrell St., San Francisco.
415-621-7900; www.americanbach.org; info@americanbach.org, americanbach.tix.com/Event.asp?Event=365850

Singers’ Retreat
William Mahrt Director, performs Morales’ Missa Aspice Domine and other works.
4PM
San Francisco Theological Seminary
San Anselmo
Singers.Retreat@gmail.com

Eugene Petrushansky, harpsichord
“A Lenten Harpsichord Recital”
Eugene Petrushansky plays a program of 17th-century keyboard music, including works of Peter Philips, d’Anglebert, Poglietti, and Froberger, on a harpsichord modeled on Italian instruments circa 1600.
2PM
St. Ann Chapel
541 Melville Ave, Palo Alto, CA.
$8 Children and students free.
espbaroque.wordpress.com/

Calendar of Early Music

Wednesday, February 15

Mid-Peninsula Recorder Orchestra
Regular meeting, for players of recorder, early winds or early strings. Bring your instrument(s) and music stand.
7:30–9:30PM
Music Room number 060, J.L. Stanford Middle School
480 E. Meadow, Palo Alto.
650-591-3648 or www.sfems.org/mpro

San Francisco Chapter, ARS
Monthly playing session. New members and guests welcome.
7:30PM–9:30PM
Christ Church Lutheran,
1090 Quintara St. (at 20th Ave.), San Francisco.
Non-members $10 fee applied to membership. http://arssanfrancisco.org/

Thursday, February 16

Musica Pacifica
“Dancing in the Isles—the Sequel.”
Elizabeth Blumenstock, violin; Judith Linsenberg, recorder; Charles Sherman, harpsichord; and Shirley Hunt, gamba, perform a new program of baroque and traditional music from England, Scotland, and Ireland in Musica Pacifica’s own arrangements.
7:30PM
Ashkenaz,
1317 San Pablo Ave., Berkeley
www.ashkenaz.com

Sonoma Bach: Historical Dance Classes continue.
Three beginning-level classes, the first of which will introduce an Italian Renaissance dance from Caroso’s 1581 Il ballarino. Other topics will include the minuet and a Playford dance. No need to be a dancer or musician. All are welcome, but space is limited and online registration is recommended.
6:30–8PM
Arlene Francis Center
99 W. 6th St., Santa Rosa.
$20
cheryl@sonomabach.org

Friday, February 17

Barefoot Chamber Concerts
“Violino Solo Senza Basso”
Carla Moore performs first sonata for unaccompanied violin and several works from Weimar that influenced Bach, plus a piece that was inspired by Bach.
6PM
Parish Hall of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church
2300 Bancroft Way, Berkeley.
$15/$10
Program lasts approximately 75 minutes with no intermission. Light refreshments will be available.
brownpapertickets.com/event/196710 or www.BarefootChamberConcerts.com.

Magnificat, Warren Stewart, Director
“Madrigals of War & Love.”
Selections from Claudio Monteverdi’s 8th Book of Madrigals, including Hor che’l ciel e la terra, Lamento della Ninfa and Il Ballo delle Ingrate. Featuring Catherine Webster and Jennifer Ellis Kampani, soprano; Andrew Rader, countertenor; Paul Elliott and Daniel Hutchings, tenor; and Peter Becker, bass.
7:30PM (Preconcert lecture 45 minutes before performance)
St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church,
751 Waverley St., Palo Alto.
$35/$28/$12
http://magnificatbaroque.com/tickets/ 800-595-4849.

WAVE (Women’s Antique Vocal Ensemble), Cindy Beitmen, Director
“The Mission Project”
A concert of Latin American colonial music at the opening event for the California Mission Studies Association Annual Conference (CMSA), featuring works of Morales, Victoria, Guerrero, Palestrina, Durón, Lopes Capillas, Franco, Padilla, Zéspedes, Araujo, et al. Guest instrumentalists include Joyce Johnson-Hamilton, cornetto & trumpet; Shirley Hunt, viola da gamba; Howard Kadis, lute & archlute; Mary Prout, viola da gamba; Aaron Westman, violin, viola. The concert will be preceded by a short keynote address followed by a Miwok Indian blessing.
7PM
Mission San Rafael
1104 5th Avenue, San Rafael.
$20/$10
www.wavewomen.org, wavewomen@netzero.net, 510-233-1479

Saturday, February 18

Live at Mission Blue
“Music of 17th-c. Spain”
HungHae Kim, harpsichord, Kevin Cooper baroque guitar, and Kevin Reed percussion perform works of Gaspar Sanz, Francisco Guerau, Santiago de Murcia, Antonio Soler, and Domenico Scarlatti.
8PM Pre-concert talk at 7:30 Mission Blue Center
475 Mission Blue Drive, Brisbane.
$20/$15 www.LiveAtMissionBlue.com

Magnificat repeats program of February 17.
“Madrigals of War & Love.”
Selections from Claudio Monteverdi’s 8th Book of Madrigals, including Hor che’l ciel e la terra, Lamento della Ninfa and Il Ballo delle Ingrate.
7:30PM
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church
Ellsworth & Bancroft, Berkeley.
http://magnificatbaroque.com/tickets/

Musica Pacifica repeats program of February 16
“Dancing in the Isles—the Sequel.”
Elizabeth Blumenstock, violin; Judith Linsenberg, recorder; Charles Sherman, harpsichord; and Shirley Hunt, gamba.
8PM
First Lutheran Church
600 Homer Ave., Palo Alto.
$10–$20
brownpapertickets.com/event/217929

Sunday, February 19

Magnificat repeats program of February 17.
“Madrigals of War & Love.”
Selections from Claudio Monteverdi’s 8th Book of Madrigals, including Hor che’l ciel e la terra, Lamento della Ninfa and Il Ballo delle Ingrate.
4PM
St. Mark’s Lutheran Church
1111 O’Farrell St., San Francisco.

http://magnificatbaroque.com/tickets/

Musica Pacifica repeats program of February 16
“Dancing in the Isles—the Sequel.”
Elizabeth Blumenstock, violin; Judith Linsenberg, recorder; Charles Sherman, harpsichord; and Shirley Hunt, gamba.
4PM
Noe Valley Chamber Music
Most Holy Innocents Episcopal Church
455 Fair Oaks Street (between 25th and 26th Streets), San Francisco.
$20
www.nvcm.org/tickets/

MusicSources
Italian harpsichordist Francesco Corti performs works of J.S. Bach and his Germanic contemporaries.
5PM
St. Mary Magdalen Parish,
2005 Berryman St., Berkeley.
$30/$25
510-528-1685 or www.musicsources.org

Calendar of Early Music

Tuesday, February 7

Sacramento Recorder Society
Regular meeting for recorder players, with guest conductor Glen Shannon. Newcomers welcome. Bring recorders, stand, and other early instruments. Music provided. Refreshments.
6:45–9:15PM
Friends Meeting House
890 57th St., between H and J, Sacramento.
marschif@gmail.com

Thursday, February 9

Musical Waves
Baroque Violin Sonatas of Bach, Schmelzer, LeClair, and Biber.
Elizabeth Blumenstock, violin and Ilana Bar-David/Elaine Thornburgh, harpsichord
7:30PM
510 48th Avenue
Reception to follow
Send $20 to Ilana Bar-David, 510-48th Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94121 to reserve your seat. Seating is limited, parking ample. 415/387-6890

Sonoma Bach: Historical Dance Classes
Three beginning-level classes, the first of which will introduce an Italian Renaissance dance from Caroso’s 1581 Il ballarino. Other topics will include the minuet and a Playford dance. No need to be a dancer or musician. All are welcome, but space is limited and online registration is recommended.
6:30–8PM
Arlene Francis Center
99 W. 6th St., Santa Rosa.
$20
cheryl@sonomabach.org

Friday, February 10

SFEMS presents Harmonia Felice
Elizabeth Blumenstock and Katherine Kyme, violin; Amy Brodo and
William Skeen, violoncello & viola da gamba; Katherine Heater, harpsichord
“Le Virtuose Sublime: Music of the French Baroque.”
Sublime, spiritual, and sensual music for varied combinations of instruments, including gamba, cello, violin, and harpsichord as expressed in the works of Elizabeth Claude Jacquet de La Guerre, Marin Marais, Jean-Baptiste Barrière, and François Couperin.
8PM
First Lutheran Church
600 Homer at Webster, Palo Alto.
$35/$30/$28
510-528-1725 or www.sfems.org

South Bay Recorder Society
Monthly meeting, guest conductor Hanneke van Proosdij. New members and guests welcomed.
7:30–10PM
First Congregational Church of San Jose
1980 Hamilton Ave. (at Leigh), San Jose.
408-358-0878 or zilbrown@aol.com

 Saturday, February 11

American Bach Soloists, Jeffrey Thomas director.
Choral workshop on featured choruses from J.S. Bach’s St. John and St. Matthew Passions.
9:30AM–4PM
St. Mark’s Lutheran Church
1111 O’Farrell St., San Francisco.
Free and open to the public, but pre-registration required. americanbach.org/workshop/index.html

 SFEMS repeats Harmonia Felice program of February 10.
Elizabeth Blumenstock and Katherine Kyme, violin; Amy Brodo and
William Skeen, violoncello & viola da gamba; Katherine Heater, harpsichord
“Le Virtuose Sublime: Music of the French Baroque.”
Sublime, spiritual, and sensual music for varied combinations of instruments, including gamba, cello, violin, and harpsichord as expressed in the works of Elizabeth Claude Jacquet de La Guerre, Marin Marais, Jean-Baptiste Barrière, and François Couperin.
7:30PM
St. John’s Presbyterian Church
2727 College at Garber, Berkeley.
510-528-1725 or www.sfems.org

Santa Cruz Baroque Festival
“Exotic Baroque.”
The opening event of this year’s Festival features familiar baroque works interpreted on unexpected instruments. Shoko Ikage’s California Koto Ensemble plays Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons; William Winant’s Bach on Bars marimba ensemble and Mesut Özgen’s Santa Cruz Guitar Orchestra perform works of J.S. Bach.
7:30PM
UC Santa Cruz Recital Hall
UCSC Campus, Santa Cruz.
$23/$17/$6/$3 ($3 parking charge)
831-457-9693 or www.scbaroque.org

 Sonoma Bach
“Soulmization—Climbing the Stairway to Heaven.”
The Monteverdi Consort performs spiritual music in which the solfège syllables-ut-re-mi-fa-sol-la-play a structural and often symbolic role. Including the Missa La sol fa re mi (Josquin Desprez); an Ut re mi fa sol la compilation mass, with movements by Burton, Brumel, Morales, Palestrina, Roussel; and a pair of Josquin motets.
8PM
Holy Family Episcopal Church
1500 E Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park.
$10–18 877-914-BACH www.sonomabach.org

Sunday, February 12

SFEMS repeats Harmonia Felice program of February 10.
Elizabeth Blumenstock and Katherine Kyme, violin; Amy Brodo and
William Skeen, violoncello & viola da gamba; Katherine Heater, harpsichord
“Le Virtuose Sublime: Music of the French Baroque.” Sublime, spiritual, and sensual music for varied combinations of instruments, including gamba, cello, violin, and harpsichord as expressed in the works of Elizabeth Claude Jacquet de La Guerre, Marin Marais, Jean-Baptiste Barrière, and François Couperin.
4PM
St. Mark’s Lutheran Church
1111 O’Farrell St., San Francisco.
510-528-1725 or www.sfems.org

Sonoma Bach repeats Monteverdi Consort performance of February 11.
4PM
St. Andrew Presbyterian Church
16290 Arnold Drive, Sonoma.

Calendar of Early Music

Monday, January 30

San Francisco Conservatory of Music
Jeffrey Thomas leads a master class on G.F. Handel’s Agrippina.
7:30PM
San Francisco Conservatory of Music
50 Oak St., San Francisco
FREE (RESERVATIONS REQUIRED) 415-503-6275, www.sfcm.edu

Wednesday, February 1

Mid-Peninsula Recorder Orchestra
Regular meeting, for players of recorder, early winds or early strings. Bring your instrument(s) and music stand.
7:30–9:30PM
Music Room number 060
J.L. Stanford Middle School, 480 E. Meadow, Palo Alto.
650-591-3648 or www.sfems.org/mpro

Friday, February 3

Cal Performances
“The Polychoral Splendors of Renaissance Florence.”
Davitt Moroney directs a large ensemble featuring the combined forces of His Majesty’s Sagbutts and Cornetts and 5 Bay Area choirs in a performance of Alessandro Striggio’s Missa sopra Ecco sì Beato Giorno for 40 and 60 voices, and three other large-scale polyphonic works: an anonymous 40-voice canon, Unum cole deum, ne iures vanum per eum, Stefano Rossetto’s motet Consolamomi popule meus for 50 voices, and Striggio’s motet Ecce beatam lucem. Plus instrumental works of Rossetto and Marco Antonio Cavazzoni.
8PM
First Congregational Church
Dana and Durant, Berkeley.
$56
510-642-9988, www.calperformances.org

East Bay Chapter, ARS
Monthly playing session, David Hogan Smith guest conductor.
New members and guests welcome.
7:30–10PM
Zion Lutheran Church, 5201 Park Blvd., Oakland.
www.eastbayrecorders.org, 510-483-8675 or 415-472-6367

Saturday, February 4

 Cal Performances repeats program of February 3.
“The Polychoral Splendors of Renaissance Florence.”
8PM
First Congregational Church
Dana and Durant, Berkeley.
$56
510-642-9988, www.calperformances.org

 MusicSources
“Leaving Parnassus: The Legacy of the French Viol in the 18th Century.”
MusicSources’ new affiliate ensemble, Ostraka (Josh Lee, viola da gamba; David Walker, baroque guitar & theorbo; and John Lenti, theorbo) perform works of Boismortier, DeVisée, Forqueray, Hervelois, and Marais.
2PM
Most Holy Redeemer Church
100 Diamond, San Francisco.
510-528-1685 or info@musicsources.org, www.musicsources.org, www.canconier.com

 New Esterházy Quartet
“The 7 Last Words of Our Savior on the Cross.”
 Haydn declared his orchestral meditations on the 7 Last Words to be one of his most successful compositions. The New Esterházy Quartet play Haydn’s own arrangement of this masterpiece, with brief homilies chosen and spoken by Alan Jones, former Dean of Grace Cathedral.
4PM
St. Mark’s Lutheran Church
1111 O’Farrell Street at Franklin, San Francisco.
$25/$20/$10 www.newesterhazy.org

Viola da Gamba Society/Pacifica Chapter
Stanford Viol Workshop, led by John Dornenburg. A one-day workshop consisting of repertory and technique classes followed by a large group session to end the day.
9AM–4:30PM
Braun Music Center (Music Department)
Stanford University, Palo Alto.
jdrnbrg@saclink.csus.edu

Sunday, February 5

Creative Arts Series
“Ávila, Musicians and Mystics of Sixteenth Century Spain.”
Amy White, soprano, and Dominic Schaner, lute and vihuela, perform vocal and instrumental works of Mudarra, Valderrábano, et al.
3:30PM
Resurrection Parish
303 Stony Point Road at Third Street (northwest corner), Santa Rosa.
Free off-street parking. $15 707-824-5611 www.CreativeArtsSeries.com

 MusicSources repeats program of February 4.
5PM
St. Mary Magdalen Parish
2005 Berryman St., Berkeley.
510-528-1685 or info@musicsources.org, www.musicsources.org, www.canconier.com

 New Esterházy Quartet repeats program of February 4.
“The 7 Last Words of Our Savior on the Cross.”
4PM
All Saints Church
555 Waverly St., Palo Alto.
$25/$20/$10
www.newesterhazy.org

Calendar of Early Music

Thursday, January 26

Philharmonia Baroque
Richard Egarr: Masters of the English Baroque
Baroque-era England is the setting for this program, a blend of works from native sons Matthew Locke, Henry Purcell, Thomas Arne, and William Lawes flanked by examples from England’s beloved imported son, George Frideric Handel.
Handel, Symphony from Saul, Concerto Grosso in d, Op. 3 No. 5, and “Arrival of the Queen of Sheeba” from Solomon; Locke, music from The Tempest; Purcell, Suite from The Fariy Queen; Arne, Haprsichord Concerto No. 5 in g; and Lawes, String Fantasy á 6.
8PM Pre-concert lecture 45 minutes before performance.
The Center for Performing Arts
555 Middlefield Road, Atherton
$25–$85
415-392-4400 or  www.philharmonia.org/

Friday, January 27

Cal Performances
“New Faces and Old.”

Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi conductor and violin, performs baroque and Classical works, including works of Brioschi, Haydn, Scaccia, Vivaldi, Bach and Handel.

8PM
First Congregational Church
Dana and Durant, Berkeley.
$52
510-642-9988, www.calperformances.org

Philharmonia Baroque repeats program of January 26.
8PM
Herbst Theatre
401 Van Ness & McAllister, San Francisco.
415-392-4400 or  www.philharmonia.org/

Saturday, January 28

Philharmonia Baroque repeats program of January 26.
8PM
First Congregational Church
Dana & Durant, Berkeley.
415-392-4400 or  www.philharmonia.org/

Sunday, January 29

 MusicSources
“Lycanthropos: The Werewolf in Story and Song.”

Tim Rayborn, voice and multi-instrumentalist, will explore the legend of werewolves, a belief which evoked fear and wonder from the Middle East to the Balkans to Ireland, and from Classical Mediterranean civilizations to modern folklore.

7PM
Parish Hall, St. Alban’s Episcopal Church
1501 Washington Ave., Albany.
$30/$25, no one turned away due to lack of funds.
510-528-1685 or info@musicsources.org, www.musicsources.org

Vince B. Ho, keyboards
Keyboard music of the Augsburg Renaissance

Early Baroque Composer Christian Erbach on 1975 Stevenson Italian harpsichord after Baffo 1574 and a 1974 D.A. Flentrop Renaissance Regal. Refreshment (Bavarian) afterwards!

4–5PM
St James Episcopal Church
1540 12th Ave., Oakland.
Suggested Donation: $10 All receipts will go to the church for good cause. Plenty of parking available.
www.vincebho.net, www.stjamesoakland.org, 510-533-2136

Philharmonia Baroque repeats program of January 26.
7:30PM
First Congregational Church
Dana & Durant, Berkeley.
415-392-4400 or  www.philharmonia.org/