AEMA KEYBOARD WORKSHOP ON BAROQUE INSTRUMENTS JANUARY 2929----30,30, 2016 Atlanta Early Music Alliance, as a part of Early Music America, presents KEYBOARD WORKSHOP ON BAROQUE IIINSTRUMENTSINSTRUMENTS FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 2016 SATURDAY, JANUARY 30, 2016 Open to pianists and harpsichordists of any level of accomplishment , the workshop will provide some area pianists with their first opportunity to play early keyboard music on instruments similar to those which inspired that music (no harpsichord experience and memorization required). The workshop will be relevant for young pianists who participate regularly in the local MTAs, NMTA, J. S. Bach and other competitions. Piano college/university students know very well that any serious musical competition requires a Baroque piece in the program. Just as Bach’s Well- Tempered Clavier was intended for the harpsichord or clavichord – as opposed to the modern piano – it can be equally revelatory that French Baroque music sounds better on a harpsichord designed after French examples, than on a Flemish-styled instrument. Students (and their teachers!) will have a unique opportunity to participate at the workshop, either as listeners or performers, and have a chance to play on the several instruments that the event will offer: harpsichord, clavichord, and lautenwerck (lute-harpsichord). The workshop will include presentations on Baroque repertoire for beginner to advanced levels. Clinicians will include AEMA members David Buice, Daniel Pyle, and Raisa Isaacs. The workshop will be held at Peachtree Christian Church in Atlanta On Friday evening, January 29 (7pm-8:30pm) , there will be a presentation-demonstration of all the featured keyboard instruments, with an opportunity for participants to experience the various keyboards, “hands on”, following the demonstration performances. Saturday, January 30 (9:30pm-3pm). The faculty will present lectures on the different problems of Baroque Performance Practice and the Master class will continue after lunch. AEMA members are invited to join AMTA participants in adding to your understanding and enjoyment of these instruments that are so central to early music! Students attending all presentations and participating in the master class will receive AEMA Baroque Keyboard Workshop Certificate (Active). Students attending and observing the Workshop will receive AEMA Baroque Keyboard Workshop Certificate (Passive) If you have questions, please contact: David Buice, [email protected] Daniel Pyle, [email protected] Raisa Isaacs, [email protected] Faculty BIO David Buice is Performing Artist-in-Residence at Oglethorpe University and Harpsichordist-in-Residence at the Oglethorpe University Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia. He made his New York City debut in two recitals at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, playing the Museum’s historic 1830 Appleton pipe organ, as well as becoming the first solo harpsichordist to be presented on the exclusive Patrons Lounge Recital Series. He returned to The Metropolitan Museum of Art to play a lautenwerck (lute-harpsichord) recital for the Patrons Lounge Series. Other performances have included recitals and master classes at The University of Memphis and The University of Mississippi, while his West Coast tours have taken him to Las Vegas, Nevada, and to numerous venues in California, including Berkeley, Claremont (Pomona College), Monterey, Oakland, San Diego, San Francisco, Redlands, and Malibu (Pepperdine University). His performances have been broadcast on Public Radio and Television as well as on the Turner Broadcast System. Since 2001 he has given historic keyboard performances, playing harpsichords, lautenwerck, clavichord and fortepiano at Oglethorpe University’s Museum of Art. David Buice was a founding member of the Southeastern Historical Keyboard Society. His numerous awards and honors include a major grant from the Georgia Council for the Arts and the National Endowment, which commissioned for his use a concert harpsichord by Richard Kingston, which has been heard in recitals and master classes throughout the Southeast. Recordings include La Sylva and Other Seductions, featuring his large Kingston harpsichord, Go Calmly into Christmas with Sally Chapman Phillips, Soprano, and Heaven and Earth: Ancient Music for Relaxation and Meditation, in which his playing of a lautenwerck (lute-harpsichord) by Anden Houben evokes the 17th-century use of the lute and its music to induce altered states for healing and enlightenment. David Buice is Minister of Music at Doraville’s Church of the New Covenant, directing the Chancel Choir and Asbell Ringers, where he assists in developing the uniquely varied worship service for which the church is known. Daniel Pyle -keyboardist for the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra, taught at Clayton College and State University and is organist and music director for the Church of Our Saviour in Atlanta. Dr. Pyle and his wife Catherine Bull are founding members of the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra and have performed with them throughout the group’s existence. Dr. Pyle served as Resident Director for seven years. Dr. Pyle has appeared as organ-soloist with Georgia’s Albany Symphony Orchestra, playing Poulenc’s Organ Concerto and the Saint-Saëns Organ Symphony; has performed as harpsichord-soloist with the Alabama Symphony Orchestra performing all of Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos; and with Orchestra Atlanta in Roswell. His CD The Maiden’s Songe: Virginal Music on the Lautenwerk was released in 1998 on the Gasparo label. As a chamber-musician, Dr. Pyle has played with the ensemble Harmonie Universelle in Paris, Amsterdam, the Utrecht Early Music Festival, London’s St. Martin-in-the-Fields and other venues, and throughout the American Southeast and Mid-West, including the 1992 Piccolo Spoleto Festival and the Boston Early Music Festival. Their American performances have been heard many times on NPR’s Performance Today. He studied organ and harpsichord at the University of Alabama and the Eastman School of Music, and in Amsterdam with Gustav Leonhardt and Hans van Nieuwkoop, and at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in the class of Kenneth Gilbert. Since returning to this country, he has also taught at the University of Kansas and at Louisiana State University. Raisa Isaacs pianist and harpsichordist, earned her Doctorate of Chamber Music at the Kazan State Conservatory, Russia. She continued her studies in post-doctoral courses at the Moscow Conservatory, Gnesinuch Russian Academy in Moscow and Gorky Conservatory in Nizhni Novgorod, Russia. As a harpsichordist she studied at the Collegium of Early Music of the Moscow Conservatory, with Professor Lucy-Holman Russel (Germany) and with Professor Edward Parmentier (University of Michigan). She served as Associate Professor and Head of Chamber Music and Accompaniment Department at the Ufa State Institute of Arts, teaching chamber music, piano and harpsichord. She was Artistic Director and harpsichordist of the “Early Music Ensemble” of the Ufa State Institute of Arts. After moving to US, consistently performs in Baroque recitals on period instruments, creating her own programs with soloists of ABO and Trinity Baroque. The recent programs include: German Baroque, The Court Music of Louis XIV, German-French Baroque, and “Baroque Cocktail”. Besides her performances in Atlanta Metro Area (Canon Chapel of the Emory University, Oglethorpe University Museum of Arts, Steinway Piano Gallery Atlanta, Reinhardt University) she performed in Regensburg, GE, RU, Ann Arbor, MI, Lucy Moses School, NY, Monmouth Conservatory, NJ, and the Boston Goethe-Institute at the Boston Early Music Festival, MA. She is a frequent lecturer on authentic Baroque performance. .