Vocal Programs Flyer 2015

Amherst Early Music Festival 2015
at Connecticut College, New London CT
Programs for Singers
July 5-12 and 12-19, 2015
Ensemble Singing Intensive
July 12-19, 2015
Ensemble Singing Intensive offers advanced musicians the opportunity to learn
and perform a wide repertoire from the Medieval, Renaissance and early
Baroque periods in small ensembles. Daily coachings, rehearsals and
masterclasses help students develop essential skills for singing early music. The
ESI Student Concert on Saturday, July 18, will present music that has been
studied through the week. Directed by Geoffrey Williams. Faculty include
Julianne Baird, Geoffrey Williams, and Craig Phillips.
Audition deadline May 1, 2015.
Baroque Academy
July 5-12, 2015
Opera Program: Handel’s Il Pastor Fido Directed by Drew Minter; conducted by
Kevin Mallon. Staged production. Focus on Baroque gesture, historical singing
style and pronunciation, rhetoric, and acting. Audition deadline April 1, 2015
Vocal Soloist Program: Masterclass with Baroque specialist Julianne Baird,
chamber music coachings; class on Baroque style and ornamentation; Cavalli
opera scenes for voices and lutes. Audition deadline April 1, 2015
Choral Workshop
July 5-19, 2015
Directed by Kent Tritle,
The Choral Workshop is designed to give the serious amateur choral singer an
opportunity to learn and perform masterworks of the Renaissance. Three rehearsals
per day lead to performance on Saturday. Repertoire: works by Palestrina, Guerrero,
and Monteverdi. Participation by permission of the instructor. Send list of choral
repertoire you have sung in the last two years to [email protected]. Section
leaders: Anna Lenti, Geoffrey Williams, Andrew Fuchs, Steven Wilson, Christopher
Herbert. Limited to 40, apply early!
Central Program and Collegium
July 5-12, and 12-19, 2015
Wide variety of offerings for singers, no audition required: Repertoire and Technique classes, Renaissance and Baroque
chamber music with instruments, "A Mode a Day" with Pam Dellal (week 1), Music by Women Composers, solo
opportunities in The Celestial Lyre project with Grant Herreid (week 2). Class list available in May. The All-Workshop
Collegium, open to all singers and instrumentalists, rehearses and performs large-scale choral masterpieces. Week one,
Grant Herreid conducts music of Gastoldi, Monteverdi, Rossi, Wert. Week two, Ross Brownlee conducts Monteverdi's
Messa a 4 voci.
Amherst Early Music Festival 2015
at Connecticut College, New London CT
Programs for Singers
July 5-12 and 12-19, 2015
The Celestial Lyre of Orpheus, directed by Grant Herreid
The Renaissance neo-platonists believed each musical mode was associated with one
of the seven planets, and one of the nine Muses. The magical qualities of music could
be enhanced by constructing a song in an appropriate mode, to resonate with a
particular planet and its Muse. Songs and instrumental pieces running the gamut of
15th and 16th-century styles invoke the seven-stringed celestial lyre of Ficino and
Gaffurius, accompanied by beautiful images of the planets and Muses from the
Mantegna Tarocchi (c. 1500). Lutes, viols, winds and percussion recreate the
Harmony of the Spheres.
Amherst Early Music
PO Box 229
Arlington MA 02476
amherstearlymusic.org
Amherst Early Music Festival 2015
Vocal Programs
We hope you'll join us!