Tenet Vocal Artists Announce 2022-2023 Season
The early music ensemble TENET Vocal Artists today announced their 2022-2023 season featuring a deep dive into beloved masterworks and rarely-heard gems from across Europe and the Americas.
TENET Vocal Artists Announces 2022-2023 Season
The innovative and acclaimed early music ensemble TENET Vocal Artists today announced their 2022-2023 season featuring a deep dive into beloved masterworks and rarely-heard gems from across Europe and the Americas.
The San Francisco Early Music Society to Welcome Back Quicksilver in January
The San Francisco Early Music Society has announced the return engagement of Quicksilver, 'revered like rock stars within the early music scene' (The New York Times). Led by violinists Robert Mealy and Julie Andrijeski, the ensemble will perform a program titled The (very) First Viennese School, featuring music from the courts of Holy Roman Emperors Matthias to Leopold I: works by Valentini, Bertali, Buonamente, Pandolfi, Kerll, Legrenzi, f*x, Muffat and Schmelzer. Quicksilver performs at 8:00 pm Friday, January 29at First Presbyterian Church in Palo Alto; at 7:30 pm Saturday, January 30 at St. John's Presbyterian Church in Berkeley; and at 4:00 pm Sunday, January 31 at St. Mark's Lutheran Church in San Francisco. Individual tickets from $34 to $40 as well as three-concert subscription packages are available for purchase online at SFEMS.org.
Dark Horse Consort Performs Concerts in California This Weekend
The San Francisco Early Music Society is proud to present Dark Horse Consort, a 4-year-old ensemble comprised of sackbut players Greg Ingles, Erik Schmalz and Mack Ramsey, together with cornettist Kiri Tollaksen, Nathaniel Cox on cornett and theorbo, and Peter Sykes on harpsichord and organ. Inspired by the bronze horse statues in Venice's St. Mark's Basilica, the ensemble recreates the glorious sounds of an early 17th-century brass ensemble. Guest vocalists Jolle Greenleaf and Molly Quinn join Dark Horse in their Bay Area debut. Dark Horse Consort will perform a program including pieces by German baroque masters Schutz, Schein and Scheidt as well as several composers they influenced.
Dark Horse Consort to Perform Concerts in California, 2/20-22
The San Francisco Early Music Society is proud to present Dark Horse Consort, a 4-year-old ensemble comprised of sackbut players Greg Ingles, Erik Schmalz and Mack Ramsey, together with cornettist Kiri Tollaksen, Nathaniel Cox on cornett and theorbo, and Peter Sykes on harpsichord and organ. Inspired by the bronze horse statues in Venice's St. Mark's Basilica, the ensemble recreates the glorious sounds of an early 17th-century brass ensemble. Guest vocalists Jolle Greenleaf and Molly Quinn join Dark Horse in their Bay Area debut. Dark Horse Consort will perform a program including pieces by German baroque masters Schutz, Schein and Scheidt as well as several composers they influenced.
Houston Early Music Festival to Welcome Ciaramella, 2/15
Los Angeles-based Ciaramella will perform songs, dances and sacred chants from medieval and Renaissance times as a part of Houston Early Music's 2014-2015 season series. Presented as a main-stage concert for the Houston Early Music Festival, the ensemble's performance, titled 'Make a Joyful Noise' will take place at Houston's First Evangelical Lutheran Church on Sunday, Feb. 15, at 3 p.m.
Berkeley Festival Announces Early Music Program, 6/1-8
The San Francisco Early Music Society, in association with Early Music America, has announced the program for its biennial Berkeley Festival & Exhibition, June 1 - 8, 2014. Since its inauguration in 1990, the Festival has been recognized worldwide as one of the foremost events of its kind, bringing together early music performers, scholars, instrument makers, publishers and enthusiasts for a week of concerts, lectures, conferences and master classes centered in and around First Congregational Church and St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Berkeley.
San Francisco Early Music Society to Present Quicksilver, 2/28-3/2
The San Francisco Early Music Society will present the West Coast debut of one of America's most acclaimed new chamber groups,Quicksilver. The New York Times calls Quicksilver 'rock stars within the early music-scene'.Early Music America describes their playing as 'drop dead gorgeous'. And the Huffington Postnames their 2011 recording, Stile Moderno: New Music from the Seventeenth Century, its 'Breakthrough Album of the Year'. The weekend of February 28 to March 2, Quicksilver performs a program titled The Early Moderns, exploring the strange and extravagant trio sonatas and related music from seventeenth-century Italy and Germany.
NYC's Vocal Ensemble Tenet Announces Fifth Anniversary Season
TENET, one of New York's preeminent vocal ensembles, under the artistic direction of soprano Jolle Greenleaf, announces its fifth New York season with 5 major events highlighting the music of Claudio Monteverdi, Henry Purcell, Michael Praetorius and other renaissance and baroque masters. Tickets for TENET's series performances are available by visiting (http://www.tenetnyc.com/) or calling Showclix at (888) 71-TICKETS (888-718-4253).
TENET Announces 2012-13 Season
TENET, under the artistic direction of soprano Jolle Greenleaf, has announced their fourth New York season featuring four programs highlighting the music of Claudio Monteverdi and other masters of early music. Tickets for most TENET performances are available online (http://www.tenetnyc.com/) or by calling Showclix at (888) 71-TICKETS (888-718-4253).
Houston Early Music Presents Ciaramella in A PIPER'S NOEL, 12/13
Houston Early Music presents a Renaissance musicale that is a must-see holiday event for Houston audiences. On Monday evening, December 13, Christ Church Cathedral will resonate with enchanting sounds and the musical imagery of early Christmas when world-acclaimed ensemble Ciaramella takes the stage.