Amherst Early Music Festival Directed by Frances Blaker July 8-15, and July 15-22 Connecticut College, New London CT Music of France and the Low Countries Largest recorder program in U.S. Expanded vocal programs Renaissance reeds and brass New London Assembly Festival Concert Series Historical Dance Viol Excelsior www.amherstearlymusic.org Amherst Early Music Festival 2018 Week 1: July 8-15 Week 2: July 15-22 Voice, recorder, viol, violin, cello, lute, Voice, recorder, viol, Renaissance reeds Renaissance reeds, flute, oboe, bassoon, and brass, flute, harpsichord, frame drum, harpsichord, historical dance early notation, New London Assembly Special Auditioned Programs Special Auditioned Programs (see website) (see website) Baroque Academy & Opera Roman de Fauvel Medieval Project Advanced Recorder Intensive Ensemble Singing Intensive Choral Workshop Virtuoso Recorder Seminar AMHERST EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL FACULTY CENTRAL PROGRAM The Central Program is our largest and most flexible program, with over 100 students each week. RECORDER VIOL AND VIELLE BAROQUE BASSOON* Tom Beets** Nathan Bontrager Wouter Verschuren It offers a wide variety of classes for most early instruments, voice, and historical dance. Play in a Letitia Berlin Sarah Cunningham* PERCUSSION** consort, sing music by a favorite composer, read from early notation, dance a minuet, or begin a Frances Blaker Shira Kammen** Glen Velez** new instrument. Questions? Call us at (781)488-3337. Check www.amherstearlymusic.org for Deborah Booth* Heather Miller Lardin* Karen Cook** Loren Ludwig VOICE AND THEATER a full list of classes by May 15. Saskia Coolen* Paolo Pandolfo* Benjamin Bagby** Maria Diez-Canedo* John Mark Rozendaal** Michael Barrett** New to the Festival? Fear not! Our open and inviting atmosphere will make you feel at home Eric Haas* Mary Springfels** Stephen Biegner* right away. Valerie Horst Jaap ter Linden* Cayla Cardiff Lisette Kielson* Tracy Cowart PREVIEW OF CENTRAL PROGRAM CLASSES (There will be more!) BAROQUE VIOLIN Pamela Dellal** Na’ama Lion* Julie Andrijeski* Recorder Ars Subtilior, L’Homme Arme masses, Passions of the French Baroque, Practice Alison Melville** Emily Eagen Peter Lekx Paul Guttry Practicing, Renaissance Recorders, Recorder Orchestra with Joris Van Goethem* and Tom Emily O’Brien** Jane Starkman* Patricia Petersen Daniel Johnson Beets**, Baroque Orchestra* with Frances Blaker, Percussion and Recorders**, and more. Wendy Powers BAROQUE CELLO* Temmo Korisheli Bart Spanhove** Jaap ter Linden* Anna Lenti* Viol Paolo Pandolfo* master class, viol consorts, Roman de Fauvel, Vielle, Viol Excelsior**— take Jason McStoots* Nina Stern** DOUBLE BASS* your playing to the next level! Jennifer Streeter Heather Miller Lardin* Drew Minter* Joris Van Goethem* Tracy Mortimore* Adam Pearl* Lawrence Rosenwald Reeds and Brass Philippe de Monte, Shawm Bands in the Netherlands, Reed Making, Hapsburg Paul Van Loey* HARPSICHORD Reine-Marie Verhagen** Aaron Sheehan* Choirbook Project, Triple Choir for Loud Instruments with Wouter Verschuren, and more. John Bailey Peter Stewart* EARLY NOTATION Hsuan-Wen Chen* Kent Tritle* Voice Pamela Dellal** master class, Roman de Fauvel, 16th-century chansons with viols, Vocal Valerie Horst Kathryn Cok** Geoffrey Williams Carol Marsh** Alissa Duryee Ensemble with Temmo Korisheli* and Geoffrey Williams**, and more. Patricia Petersen Arthur Haas* HISTORICAL DANCE* Masayuki Maki Kaspar D. Mainz* Baroque violin and cello: Master classes, Early Baroque String Technique, Baroque Orchestra, RENAISSANCE REEDS Dorothy Olsson* Marilyn Boenau Dylan Sauerwald* Baroque Ensembles. Sally Merriman Jennifer Streeter NEW LONDON ASSEMBLY** Debra Nagy* Peter Sykes* Karen Axelrod** Harpsichord Master classes, Dutch keyboard music, Basso Continuo, Baroque ensembles. Daniel Stillman** Alastair Thompson Philippe Callens** Wouter Verschuren LUTE Brad Foster** Oboe, Flute, Bassoon Master classes, Oboe band, Flute topics and ensembles, Renaissance Flute Shira Kammen** CORNETTO** Xavier Diaz-Latorre* Consort, Baroque Orchestra, and more. Jason Priset Eric Martin** Kiri Tollaksen** Emily O’Brien** SACKBUT** BAROQUE FLUTE Andrew Swaine** Historical Dance Baroque dance technique, rehearsals for Lully opera Cadmus et Hermione. Wim Becu** Na’ama Lion* BAROQUE OBOE* *Week One Only **Week Two Only Debra Nagy* Music Teachers: Learn new repertoire, expand your teaching tools, and receive documentation for CEU’s from your school system. Scholarship available. Amherst Early Music Festival Concerts All concerts at 7:30 in Evans Hall, unless otherwise noted. Join us for pre-concert madrigals Saturday, July 14 7:30 Musique du Joye A festive evening with many top international musicians in the courtyard and post-concert receptions. performing a wide range of repertoire. Virtuosic Baroque solos, gorgeous Renaissance consorts of Tuesday, July 10 14th-Century Avant-Garde Les Delices in collaboration with Blue Heron. The viols, recorders, and loud instruments, Medieval polyphony. 14th century’s unparalleled freedom of thought inspired composers to fearlessly explore rhyth- Monday, July 16 Final Favorites The Flanders Recorder Quartet performs a program of favorite mic complexity and flirt with the limits of what is possible in performance. Music by Machaut, pieces. Don’t miss this chance to hear them in their last season together! Works by Costanzo Festa, Senleches, and others explore the relationships between mathematics, science, symbol, and sound. Robert Parsons, Matthew Locke, and J.S. Bach. After the concert they will be awarded the Scott Metcalfe (vielle & gothic harp), Debra Nagy (recorders, douçaines, harp, and voice), and American Recorder Society’s Distinguished Achievement Award. singers Jason McStoots and Martin Near. Thursday, July 19 The Wanderer Renowned Medieval specialist Benjamin Bagby performs a riv- Thursday, July 12 Amherst Baroque Soloists Dazzling French and Dutch Baroque music with eting solo program of works about travel and adventure: an English voyage to the hereafter from Jason McStoots and Aaron Sheehan, tenors; Julie Andrijeski, violin; Saskia Coolen, recorder; Beowulf, Anglo-Saxon elegies from the 10th century, and colorful stories from the life of Oswald Na’ama Lion, flute; Debra Nagy, oboe; Wouter Verschuren, bassoon; Jaap ter Linden, cello; Paolo von Wolkenstein. Pandolfo and Sarah Cunningham, viol; Heather Miller Lardin, violone; Xavier Diaz-Latorre, lute; Friday, July 20 The Hapsburg Choirbook Belgian sackbut player and conductor Wim Becu leads Arthur Haas and Peter Sykes, harpsichord. this large-scale project of works by Franco-Flemish composers Philippe de Monte and Lambert de Friday, July 13 at 8:00 p.m. Opera Project: Jean-Baptiste Lully’s Cadmus et Hermione (1673) Sayve who worked for the Hapsburgs in Vienna and Graz. Singers, brass, and reed instruments With this piece Lully and Phillippe Quinault invented a new type of entertainment called the will gather around large choirbooks to recreate 16th century performance practice. tragedie lyrique. The delightful plot involves high-born lovers, mythical beasts, gods and goddesses, Saturday, July 21 Student Concerts (in Crozier, free) and comic servants. Fully staged, with student singers, dancers, and orchestra. Drew Minter, stage 11:15 am New London Assembly Musicians; 1:00 Roman de Fauvel; 2:30 p.m. Central Program; director; Adam Pearl, music director. 4:30 p.m. Ensemble Singing Intensive Saturday, July 14 Student Concerts (in Crozier, free) Saturday, July 21 7:30 Musique du Joye A festive evening with many top international musicians. 11:15 a.m. Choral Workshop (Harkness Chapel); 1:00 p.m. Baroque Academy; 2:30 p.m. Central Virtuosic Baroque solos, gorgeous Renaissance consorts of viols, recorders, and loud instruments, Program; 4:30 p.m. Baroque Academy Vocal Soloists perform staged Baroque cantatas with Medieval polyphony. instruments, Jason McStoots, director (Evans Hall) MUSIC AND INSTRUMENT EXHIBITION MUSIC AND INSTRUMENT EXHIBITION Saturday, July 14, and Sunday, July 15 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Come try out a variety of instruments, meet instrument makers, and browse through music and books. Free and open to the public. In Crozier 108. Application Apply on our website, or fill out the application form and mail to: Amherst Early Music, Inc. Marilyn Boenau – Executive Director, Sally Merriman – Administrator Nathaniel Allen House, 35 Webster St., West Newton, MA 02465 [email protected] • 781-488-3337 Amherst Early Music Festival 2018 Connecticut College in New London, Connecticut, has dramatic views of Long Island Sound and a 750-acre arboretum. The College has comfortable dorms, a beautiful concert hall, air-conditioned classrooms, and easy parking. name The student center has a college store, snack bar, and post office. Beaches, nature preserves, Mystic Seaport, coffeehouses, and bookstores are a short drive away. See www.conncoll.edu. address TRAVEL city, state, zip code Connecticut College is 60 miles from Providence, RI, off of I-95 in southeastern Connecticut. Amtrak trains and Greyhound Bus go to downtown New London, just 2 miles from campus. phone: home, work or cell Newark Airport and Boston’s Logan Airport have good connections to Amtrak. The closest airport is Providence, RI (PVD). Van service to the college will leave PVD at 2:00 pm both Sundays and return at 8:00 am the following Sundays; inquire. email address TUITION Principal instrument or dance: ___________ range: (viol and voice) ________ Attend full time both weeks and save $100! Second instrument