A new sonata every week from June 14 – December 27, 2020! Valley of the Moon Music Festival Music Director Eric Zivian has taken up the challenge of learning all 32 Beethoven sonatas for Beethoven’s 250th anniversary year, a time-consuming project he can finally take on while sheltered in place. As a feat of endurance, …

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We’ll explore the lively and lovely repertoire of 13th and 14th century instrumental dance music. All of the music is percussion-friendly and monophonic, allowing us to create accompaniments and our own additions to the repertoire. Some of the melodies require Intermediate+ capabilities, but participants can always try their hand at percussion. If a drum isn't …

Peter Maund (Sundays @ 1pm) Read More »

Lecture by Nicholas McGegan, Music Director Laureate Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale: Much of Bach's music is based on the rhythms of the court dances of his day, not just in the Suites and Partitas with named dance movements but also, less obviously, in the Cantatas and Passions. This talk aims to show how deep …

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Are you a dedicated community, student or professional musician wanting to explore baroque repertoire and learn or develop your baroque playing style? ​Announcing our fall 2020 weekly program: Online Adventures with Alexa Haynes-Pilon "Click and Learn" Los Angeles Baroque's goal is to encourage, support and expand the early music community in Los Angeles, and beyond, and to …

Los Angeles Baroque: Online Adventures with Alexa (7 weekly 90-minute workshop sessions) Read More »

October 4 The English Baroque: Music for bassoon and other bass instruments This class will study Stephen Paxton’s Solos for bassoon or cello.     A=415, intermediate level   Please download and print Sonatas 1 and 2. October 11 The Early Sonata: Bertoli Sonatas Part 2 This is a continuation of the Bertoli class given in …

Anna Marsh (Sundays @ 3pm) Read More »

Join members of Jouyssance on Zoom as we sing (and play) together at home! Artistic Director Nicole Baker will lead singers in singing along to Palestrina’s Missa Brevis and Thomas Tallis’ Nine Tunes for Archbishop Parker’s Psalter. (Instrumentalists are welcome to play along as well!) Many aspects of this experience will be similar to an …

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In this five-part set of classes we will consider and practice the fundamental building blocks of playing the baroque violin and viola, and build on them to practice more advanced techniques. We will reacquaint ourselves with those primary principles and use them to solve technical problems in the baroque repertoire.  Pitch A=415 for all classes …

David Wilson: Fundamentals of the Baroque violin & viola (Sundays @ 5pm) Read More »

This talk will walk us through the court of Mantua, and in particular the occasion of the first performance (1607) of Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, arguably the first great opera. The audience (all male) thought they were going to a play (with an all-male cast). Where were the famous women singers of Mantua? We will have a …

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Open to any string and woodwind students of intermediate-to-advanced playing ability and intermediate ability in reading music notation. Explore the essential graces that make Baroque music come alive. Learn how to perform them and how to add them to your current pieces.

featuring composer Errollyn Wallen CBE! with hosts Richard Egarr, PBO Music Director Tarik O'Regan, PBO Artistic Partner PBO's What's New and H.I.P. with Tarik and Rick features Music Director Richard Egarr and Artistic Partner Tarik O'Regan in conversation with British composer Errollyn Wallen, CBE! Together they will chat candidly about all kinds of things musically-minded — the connections between counterpoint …

What’s New and H.I.P. with Tarik and Rick — Episode 3 [feat. Errollyn Wallen] Read More »

This fall, TENET Vocal Artists will present a weekly series of virtual concerts highlighting TENET’s exceptional artists. Our programs represent passion projects by our artist roster, and they have been created especially for our loyal, music-loving audience. TENET will release weekly concerts on Thursdays from September 10 to December 31, 2020, and all programs will remain on demand for …

TONight Series: In Memoriam: Remembrances and Joy Read More »

In each of these classes, participants are invited to sing and play music that reflects discoveries based on Adam Gilbert’s research. Music for each class will be provided as PDFs and on the screen.   Singers and instrumentalists are all welcome, though a few of the works no longer have their original text.  October 2 …

Adam Gilbert: Songs and Symbols That Know Each Other (Fridays @ 5pm) Read More »

O Rosetta”: Songs of Love and Youth from Seventeenth-Century Italy - Friday, Oct. 30 at 7:00pm PST Led by Rotem Gilbert, Jennifer Kampani, and Jason Yoshida, the USC Thornton Baroque Sinfonia presents a virtual concert of seventeenth-century Italian music in its first performance of the season! Capturing a lively spirit, the concert will feature sacred and secular …

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Are you a dedicated community, student or professional musician wanting to explore baroque repertoire and learn or develop your baroque playing style, in our weekly outdoor small-group sessions? This program is designed to give players a chance to make music again, in a safe and controlled setting. LAB Artistic Director Lindsey Strand-Polyak (violin) wants to …

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Join Catherine Turocy, Artistic Director of The New York Baroque Dance Company and James Richman, Artistic Director of the Dallas Bach Society, as they dance through the music of Bach. This is an active dance class teaching basic steps and phrases for dance forms found in Bach’s music. With eight one hour classes, students can …

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Vicki’s class will encourage students to recognize and practice typical sequential patterns and melodic bits in various keys that can be applied to many Baroque sonatas. We will look at sonatas by Telemann, de Fesch, Handel and Barsanti. Alto and bass recorders will be used for this class, but the techniques will apply to any …

Vicki Boeckman: Practice patterns and methods for the Baroque Repertoire Read More »