EarlyMusicNews.Org

Early music workshop held in Seattle, Washington, held every 2 years.

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Added on: Jul 07, 2011 | Hits: 263

“This biennial event is designed for a wide audience, and particularly for lovers of early music from the medieval to the baroque, dance and visual arts. Thanks to the widespread and generous support of people in our community WEMF has been successful since its inaugural year, June 2004. A different country or cultural focus is featured each year. Past festivals were:

• 2004 “Music of England”
• 2005 “Spain and the New World”
• 2006 “Musica Antica d’Italia,” – Music of Italy
• 2008 “From Hildegard to Bach” – Early Music Masterpieces from Germany
• 2010 “La Musique Magnifique” – Early Music Masterpieces from France

In 2006, we decided to move to an every other year format, to alternate years with the Boston Early Music Festival, and provide more time for development and planning.

In 2007, we initiated a special weekend of events in response to the public demand for “a taste of early music” on the “off” year. We continued this in 2009 with a Gala Concert featuring eight performing groups in one concert evening.

Our programs seek to be diverse and inclusive of many aspects of musically-centered culture. We include lectures, special art tours based on the Festival’s theme, post-concert receptions to encourage discussion between audience and performers, demonstrations of period instruments, and workshops that have focused on – dance, medieval and renaissance; instrumental, baroque and medieval; vocal, renaissance/baroque choral, medieval chant. …”

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“The competition welcomes young pianists (ages 6-19) throughout the world who pursue the musical ideals espoused by Rosalyn Tureck. …“

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Added on: Jul 28, 2011 | Hits: 277

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The Over the Water Hurdy-Gurdy festival brings together hurdy-gurdy players, builders, and teachers for intensive instruction, jamming, fellowship, and good food. Classes cover melodic techniques, rhythm, repertoire, and instrument setup and maintenance, with instruction tailored for beginning through advanced players.

Evening events include instructor concerts, an open mike, and many jam sessions (including slow jams for those of us who don't learn tunes at warp speed). On Saturday evening we will gather for a dance party featuring live music by festival participants, who collectively form the largest hurdy-gurdy band in the Western Hemisphere. ..“

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Added on: Jul 29, 2009 | Hits: 371

"The Texas Toot is a Texas-based non-profit devoted to early music education and performance, presenting two workshops each year. The Fall Texas Toot is a short weekend workshop with instruction in recorders, viols, early reeds, harp, lute, voice, and more. The Summer Texas Toot is a one-week program of classes in Renaissance and Baroque music at all levels, for recorders, viols, singers, plucked strings, Renaissance reeds and brass, and harpsichord. The Toot also sponsors or supports other events, including the Renaissance Polyphony Weekend. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

Added on: Feb 24, 2008 | Hits: 472

“The Tallis Scholars Summer Schools are dedicated to exploring our great heritage of renaissance choral music, under the direction of Peter Phillips and members of the Tallis Scholars. Set in beautiful campus surroundings in the UK, USA and Australia, each of our three summer schools welcomes singers from across the globe for an exhilarating week of music-making.”

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Added on: May 06, 2011 | Hits: 185

Symposium held yearly at Stony Brook Graduate Music programme. 

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Added on: Dec 13, 2011 | Hits: 212

“The Smithsonian Folklife Festival is an international exposition of living cultural heritage annually produced outdoors on the National Mall of the United States in Washington, D.C., by the Smithsonian Institution's Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage.

The Festival takes place for two weeks every summer overlapping the Fourth of July holiday. It is an educational presentation that features community-based cultural exemplars. Free to the public, like other Smithsonian museums, each Festival typically draws more than one million visitors.“

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“The Sixteenth Century Society and Conference (SCSC) promotes scholarship on the early modern era, broadly defined (ca. 1450 – ca. 1660). Providing opportunities for intellectual exchange among scholars of the period, the Society also actively encourages the integration of younger colleagues into the academic community. The geographical scope of the organization is as international as its membership. The SCSC welcomes scholars from all disciplines in early modern studies, including history, art history, religion, history of science, musicology, and literary and cultural studies in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish. The Society holds one annual meeting in a different city each year, usually during the month of October, with an average of more than 700 participants.“

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Full days of classes, coaching, and rehearsals are followed by optional evening events, including faculty concerts and lecture-demonstrations, plus more light-hearted activities, from Morris and Renaissance dancing to croquet or poetry readings.

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“Since 1954, the Renaissance Society of America has been the leading organization in the Americas for the interdisciplinary study of the period 1300-1650 in Western history. The RSA brings together members from many backgrounds who are interested in a wide variety of disciplines related to this period.

The RSA actively encourages the continued spread of learning about the Renaissance. The Society organizes an annual meeting every year, which features the most distinguished Renaissance scholars in North America and beyond. The Society further encourages scholarship by offering prizes and research grants of up to $3,000 in three categories (pre-doctoral scholars, junior scholars, and senior scholars).

The RSA sponsors many publications. The Society publishes the journal Renaissance Quarterly, its electronic counterpart, the online edition of Renaissance Quarterly, and the newsletter Renaissance News & Notes. The RSA also sponsors its own text, bibliography, and special purpose series (RTS), a reprint series (RSARTS), and the program of the annual meeting with abstracts of all the papers, and subsidizes editions, translations, and research tools published outside the RSA series. The RSA's Directory of members is available on this website. Finally, through its partnership with Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance, the RSA helps to make access to information about Renaissance scholarship broadly accessible.”

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Added on: May 14, 2010 | Hits: 263

“Every two years the the Seattle Recorder Society presents a summer Early Music Workshop, which provides the opportunity for recorder and viol players to study and play music of the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Baroque, and the 20th century.”

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Added on: Apr 19, 2011 | Hits: 339

“The Parkening International Guitar Competition honors Christopher Parkening's lifetime commitment to fostering musical excellence in young artists as demonstrated by his mentor, the great Spanish guitarist Andrés Segovia. It is held on the beautiful campus of Pepperdine University in Malibu, California, where Christopher Parkening is Distinguished Professor of Music. The Parkening International Guitar Competition is the most prestigious classical guitar competition in the world. Cash prizes in excess of $50,000 U.S. will be awarded, representing the largest prize purse of any classical guitar competition worldwide.

The first Parkening International Guitar Competition was held at Pepperdine University in 2006. With generous grants from Howard and Roberta Ahmanson, the Parkening International Guitar Competition is held every three years.”

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“The fifth biennial Baroque Flute Artist Competition is for outstanding performers on baroque flute/traverso. Six semifinalists will be selected on the basis of their recorded preliminary auditions to compete at the convention. Three finalists showing the highest levels of technical proficiency, musical ability, and successful application of principles of historical performance practice will be chosen and presented in a convention recital. Cash prizes of $1,500, $750, and $400, co-sponsored by the David Hart Memorial Fund and the NFA Endowment Fund, will be awarded at the discretion of the judges. Prize of $100 will be awarded to each semifinalist not chosen as a finalist. All applicants must be age 35 or younger by the final day of the convention. ..“

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“Preliminary qualification by recording, submitted electronically (required, no CDs accepted). Further information, required online application, and instructions for electronic submission of sound files are available at www.sehks.org. Semi-final and final rounds held at the Historical Keyboard Society joint conclave at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati, Ohio. A maximum of twelve players from the preliminary round will be admitted to the semi-final round. …”

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"MEMF was created to provide an opportunity for musicians, scholars, teachers and early music enthusiasts to gather and exchange information and ideas about Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque music and to bring acclaimed early music artists to the Midwest to perform in beautiful Madison, Wisconsin. There are opportunities for everyone from those who simply enjoy listening to concerts and lectures to early music scholars and performance opportunities for amateurs and professionals. All listeners, singers, players and dancers are welcome! " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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“The Harvard-Lyrica Dialogues are interdisciplinary symposia and lecture-recitals intended to complement the broad, interdisciplinary nature of critical inquiry across the Harvard campus. Held each Spring term, the Dialogues exploit inter-related yet independent facets of a common theme. The 2008 Dialogues, Music and Memory - Music as Memory, honor the C. Douglas Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France, Professor Susan Suleiman's recent book Crises of Memory and the Second World War (Harvard University Press, 2006) . ..“

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Visit the Lute Society of America website for more information re: their bi-annual Seminar and Lute Festival. (Admin)

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“Adults, Children, Teachers; (Inclusive of Non-Suzuki recorder players and Suzuki participants), Recorder Levels: intermediate, advanced, professional. Ensembles, sight-reading, master classes, concerts, Renaissance-Late Baroque, play-in, Music and Movement, Suzuki Association of the Americas Units (Independent Study Sessions). …”

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Added on: May 24, 2011 | Hits: 412

“The International Baroque Institute at Longy offers a comprehensive program for professional and pre-professional singers and players of Baroque violin, cello, recorder, traverso, oboe, viola da gamba, harp, lute and harpsichord, taught by an unparalleled international faculty. Other instrumentalists or continuo players are welcome to participate in chamber ensembles or the institute orchestra. The seminar features eight full days of master classes, ensembles, orchestra sessions, continuo coaching, concerts, lectures and projects, and opportunity for public performances. To provide the highest level learning experience, we select our faculty from among the finest performers and teachers in the field of Baroque music. ..“

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Early music festival held in Indianapolis.

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Added on: Jul 30, 2011 | Hits: 250

“The website for Antiqua/Nova: Celebrating the Harpsichord Across the Centuries, the 2012 Joint Meeting and Festival of the Midwestern and Southeastern Historical Keyboard Societies, is now up and running at historicalkeyboardsociety.org. The 5-day event will be held at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, March 21-25, 2012, and promises to be a rich experience.“

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Added on: Apr 18, 2008 | Hits: 1056

“Founded in 1982, the New London-based Connecticut Early Music Society presents an annual festival of between six and nine concerts each June. The term “early music” refers to both a repertory (European music written before about 1800, including medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, and early Classical music) and an approach to performance (“historically-informed performance,” including the use of period instruments).

Performers and scholars of early music seek to discover and present music from times past and to explore a repertory of music that is otherwise little known. From Gregorian chant to the music of Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven, the repertory spans a millennium, from roughly 800 to 1800. Early music specialists also aim to recreate the sound-worlds of earlier times through the use of period instruments and techniques. …“

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Added on: Aug 18, 2007 | Hits: 498

"Imagine a long weekend filled with music-making, camaraderie, good food, and a beautiful setting in nature,and you are already having dreams of attending the Columbia Gorge Early Music Retreat.  Located just 20 miles east of Portland, and perched o­n a bluff overlooking the spectacular Columbia River, Menucha is an idyllic retreat center.

Ensemble classes for beginning to advanced recorder players will range from renaissance consort music and baroque to contemporary works and music for double reeds and percussion.   Viola da gambas are also welcome. Five faculty members ensure small class sizes with personalized attention. Evening events will include a faculty concert, English Country Dance, and madrigal singing. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

Added on: Mar 04, 2009 | Hits: 394