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Early Music Week at Pinewoods

August 14-21, 2010

Program Director

Sheila Beardslee (recorder, historical dance) has taught recorder, historical flutes, viol and historical dance for early music societies and workshops in Maine, Florida and a good many places in between. Sheila served as EM Week Program Director, 2009-2011. Director of Recorders/Early Music Metrowest and Concordia Consort, she teaches privately and led the recorder program at the Boston Archdiocesan Choir School for 10 years. She also directs the vocal ensemble Ars et Amici, and is a founding member of Phillips Consort of Viols, twice winner of the VdGS-NE's Silbiger Grant. She has led ten performance/study tours to Italy (most recently to Venice and the Dolomites) and one to Croatia. Recordings: VdGS-NE, Amherst Early Music, Northeastern, BACS and Concordia labels.

http://earlymusicboston.com/

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Staff

Michael Barrett

Michael Barrett (voice, chorus) is active in the Boston area as a professional musician and teacher. As a singer he has collaborated with the Boston Camerata, Huelgas Ensemble, Blue Heron, the Netherlands Bach Society, L'Académie, Seven Times Salt, and Exsultemus, and has performed in several recent operas produced by the Boston Early Music Festival. He can be heard on harmonia mundi and Blue Heron record labels. Mr. Barrett directs the Renaissance choir Convivium Musicum and the professional vocal ensemble Sprezzatura, and he serves on the advisory board of L'Académie, a professional ensemble for Baroque music. Mr. Barrett has worked as a conductor and music theory teacher at Harvard University. He is a faculty member of IMC, a New York-based company for music curriculum and instruction, and has served as a workshop leader for professional development courses. He also maintains a studio for private instruction in voice, piano, and music theory. Mr. Barrett earned an AB in music from Harvard University, an MM in choir conducting from Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, and First Phase Diploma in Baroque and Classical singing from the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. In the fall of 2010 he began doctoral studies in choral conducting at Boston University.

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Héloïse Degrugillier

Héloïse Degrugillier (recorder) has worked extensively as both a recorder performer and teacher throughout Europe and the U.S. She has performed with leading period ensembles, including the Boston Early Music Festival Opera, Newport Baroque, Harmonious Blacksmith, the Dunya Ensemble and L'Academie. Recent performances include a concert at the Indianapolis Early Music festival that was praised by the Indianapolis Nuvo: “Recorder players Justin Godoy and Héloïse Degrugillier blended their dissimilar-looking instruments to near perfection.” Héloïse also enjoys an active teaching career, working with the Boston Recorder Society, Recorder Guild of New York and others. She has recently completed her studies in the Alexander Technique and has a Masters in Music from the Utrecht Conservatory in the Netherlands. She studied recorder with Heiko ter Scheggett, Saskia Coolen and Pedro Memelsdorff.

http://www.godoymusic.com/pgs/teachers.html

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Frances Fitch

Frances Conover Fitch has performed extensively in North America and Europe, and recorded for Swiss, German, Dutch, and French National Radio as well as for the BBC and NPR. Her ground-breaking ensemble, Concerto Castello, won critical acclaim as well an Honorable Mention in the Deutsche Schallplatten Preis of 1983. A particularly sensitive and inventive continuo player, she has worked and played with Spiritus Collective, Cantata Singers, Emmanuel Music, Aston Magna, Boston Cecilia, Handel and Haydn Society, Concerto Palatino, and the Boston Camerata, among others. Ms. Fitch has participated in major music festivals, including the Gilmore Festival, the Festival d'Art Lyrique/Aix-en-Provence, Pepsico Summerfare, Tanglewood, Boston Early Music Festival, Tage Alter Musik (Regensburg), the Castle Hill Festival and the Festival de Musica Antigua in Mexico City, where she also gave master classes at the National Conservatory. She has over twenty solo and ensemble recordings on the EMI-Reflexe, Titanic, Harmonia Mundi, Nonesuch, Centaur, Koch International and Wild Boar labels. Ms. Fitch teaches at Tufts University and The England Conservatory of Music and for many years was Chair of the Early Music Department at the Longy School of Music, teaching harpsichord, organ, chamber music, figured bass improvisation and bibliographic research. She has also served on the faculties of Wellesley College and the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, and recently completed a semester as Guest Professor in Performing Arts at Ferris University in Yokohama, Japan. Ms. Fitch has degrees from Bard College and New England Conservatory, and pursued studies with Gustav Leonhardt and Veronika Hampe at the Sweelinck Conservatorium in Amsterdam. Her playing has been praised as “perceptive”, “stylish” and “spectacular”, and noted for its “precision and delicacy of wit”.

http://www.francesconoverfitch.com/

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Scott Higgs

Scott Higgs has been calling and composing English and contra dances for over 25 years -- delighting novices and experts alike. From Seattle to Antwerp, dancers praise Scott's engaging programs, dynamic presentation, and emphasis on fun. His business card says it all: Playful, spirited, elegant, zesty, joyful contra, English, morris, and couple dancing.

http://www.scotthiggs.com

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Douglas Kirk

Douglas Kirk (recorder, louds) studied musicology at The University of Texas at Austin and McGill University, and early music performance practice at the Royal Conservatorium of Music in The Hague, Holland. He specializes in liturgical and instrumental music of Spain and Italy in the late Renaissance. He is also a well-known cornettist and shawm player, and has played throughout North America and Europe with such groups as the Studio de Musique Ancienne de Montréal, the Boston Camerata, the Boston Shawm and Sackbut Ensemble, the Taverner Consort of London, Les Sonneurs (Montréal), the Toronto Consort, Tafelmusik, and the Ensemble Claude Gervaise. He can be heard on numerous recordings of 17th-century Venetian, Spanish, and German music with such ensembles as the Taverner Consort of London directed by Andrew Parrott, the Gabrieli Consort of London directed by Paul McCreesh, the Boston Camerata under Joel Cohen, and the Studio de Musique Ancienne de Montréal directed by Christopher Jackson.

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Larry Lipkis

Larry Lipkis is a Professor of Music and Composer-in-Residence at Moravian College, where he directs the early music ensembles at the college and also teaches composition. Since 1986, Larry has performed and recorded with the Baltimore Consort, an internationally acclaimed early music ensemble specializing in popular music of Shakespeare’s time. This fall, the group will release its fifteenth CD—a collection of Renaissance Christmas music. Their previous release, entitled Adio España, focused on music from the Iberian Peninsula, circa 1500. Larry has composed over eighty works for chamber ensembles, choir, and orchestra. His bassoon concerto Pierrot, which was premiered by the Houston Symphony, marked the completion of a trilogy of concerti based on characters from the Commedia dell’Arte. Scaramouche for cello and orchestra was recorded by Carter Brey and the Lehigh Valley Chamber Orchestra on the Koch International label. Harlequin for bass trombone and orchestra was premiered by Jeffrey Reynolds and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Larry is a music director for the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival and the Unitarian Universalist Church of the Lehigh Valley, and serves on the Board of Managers of the Bach Choir of Bethlehem. He often leads workshops in both recorder and viola da gamba performance practice, and gives presentations on musical rhetoric and composition. Last month, he lectured on the topic of Bach’s Mass in B Minor at a National Endowment for the Humanities Institute in Leipzig, Germany.

http://www.larrylipkis.com

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Dana Maiben

Dana Maiben, (violin) hailed by the Boston Globe for her “supremely joyous artistry,” performs on violin, viola, medieval fiddles, tenor viol and harpsichord and as a conductor. She was a founder member of the groundbreaking ensemble for 17th-century music, Concerto Castello, and in 2002 she launched a new ensemble for 17th-century music, Concerto Incognito. She serves as music director of the string orchestra and women's advocacy group, Foundling, and is a founding member of the new 5-part string band, Quince. Dana was also a founding member of the ensemble for medieval music, Sequentia, following an apprenticeship with the Studio der Fruhen Musik in Basel, Switzerland. She has been on the faculty of the Amherst Early Music Baroque Academy since 2004. Since 1989 she has taught at the Longy School of Music, where she teaches violin and performance practice, coaches chamber music, offers classes in baroque and medieval music and occasionally directs opera.

http://pegasusearlymusic.org/content/biographies/danamaiben.html

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Gene Murrow

Gene Murrow has been an English country dancer and musician since 1965 and has taught and called since 1988 at clubs, workshops, festivals and balls throughout the U.S. as well as Britain, Europe and Japan. In 1996, he organized the Amherst Assembly, a week-long conference devoted to a scholarly and practical look at the origins and evolution of the country dance. Sought out for his deep understanding of both music and dance and for his exceptional clarity when teaching, Gene has written a resource guide and training curriculum on musicianship for English country dance leaders. He has also performed on four recordings as a member of MGM, produced the CDS Boston English Country Dance series featuring Bare Necessities and served on the Board of Directors of CDSS and Early Music America. Gene is the Executive Director and Founder of Gotham Early Music Scene.

English & American Dance Week at Pinewoods

Emily O'Brien

Emily O'Brien (recorder, flutes) is a native of Washington, DC where she played recorder from a young age. She studied recorder and french horn at Boston University, and recorder and Baroque flute at the Hochschule für Musik in Karlsruhe, Germany. She performs and teaches in the Boston area, including the Society for Historically Informed Performance concert series, the Boston Recorder Society concert series, and in fringe events surrounding Boston Early Music Festival, as well as Early Music New York, Helios Opera, and the NEC Baroque Society. She is also on staff as a dance musician this summer at Amherst Early Music's New London Assembly, and plays frequently for English country dance in the Boston area. Currently she is also working with Friedrich von Huene on his "Well-tempered Recorder" project, a collection of recordings of the entire Well-tempered Klavier in arrangements for recorders. Emily works for the Von Huene Workshop and the Early Music Shop of New England in Brookline, MA as well as for her own company, Dill Pickle Gear, making instrument cases and cycling bags. In her spare time, she enjoys long distance cycling.

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Dorothy Olsson

Dorothy J. Olsson has given numerous workshops in historical dance and has choreographed for and/or performed with Piffaro, the Folger Consort, Western Wind Vocal Ensemble, SUNY Stony Brook, Mannes Camerata, Wake Forest University and Princeton University. Dorothy directs and teaches at the Historical Dance Program at the Amherst Early Music Festival where she has directed several historical theatrical productions, and choreographed for more than thirty theatre projects or operas. Dorothy received her B. M. in Music Education, major in Bassoon, from the Crane School of Music (State University College at Potsdam, NY), and received her Master of Music in Musicology from Manhattan School of Music. She completed her Ph.D. in Performance Studies at New York University, with a dissertation on early twentieth-century dance. She was an Assistant Professor of Dance Education at New York University for ten years. Dr. Olsson has co-authored seven books on historical dance, including Terrstepery, A Primer for Historical Dance. Her article on Seventeenth-Century Dance appears in A Performer’s Guide to Seventeenth-Century Music (ed. Stewart Carter, Schirmer Books). She is the Founder and Director of the New York Historical Dance Company. The company performed in October 2010 in Philadelphia for Piffaro’s 25th Anniversary Gala Celebration, The Royals’ Baptism & Ballet, along with Parthenia & The Blue Heron Renaissance Choir. In March 2010, Dorothy presented a lecture demonstration at The Metropolitan Museum of Art entitled The Jigge Is Up: Dance in Shakespeare’s Time; the musical ensemble Flying Forms provided musical accompaniment.

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Tim Rayborn

Tim Rayborn, an acclaimed multi-instrumentalist, plays dozens of musical instruments from medieval Europe, the Middle East, and the Balkans. In addition to solo work, he co-directs the medieval ensemble Cançonièr with Annette Bauer, performs with harpist Patrick Ball, and regularly works with Shira Kammen. Tim lived in the U.K. for seven years, and holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in Medieval Studies from the University of Leeds. He has toured in the U.S. and Europe (from Ireland to Turkey) extensively, performing at both the York and Beverley Early Music Festivals (U.K.), Alden Biesen Castle (Belgium), Bunyola (Majorca), and the Spitalfields Festival (London). He has given a number of performances for BBC in the U.K. and Channel Islands, toured in Canada and Australia, and worked with folk musicians in Marrakech and Istanbul. Recent concerts include the Renaissance and Baroque Society of Pittsburgh, the Indianapolis Early Music Festival, the Kalamazoo Medieval Congress, and World Arts West. Future performances include the MusicSources' 2012-13 season, the SFEMS concert series, and a 2013 tour of Australia. Tim has taught at the SFEMS Medieval & Renaissance workshop and Pinewoods Early Music week in Massachusetts, and has collaborated and performed with a number of early and world music professionals, including Ensemble Alcatraz, Margriet Tindemans, Sinfonye, Kitka, and many others. His music has been heard on BBC, NPR, and Harmonia radio. He has recorded to date on over 35 CDs for a number of labels, including Gaudeamus, Wild Boar, Magnatune, and Harmonia Mundi.

http://www.timrayborn.com

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Alice Robbins

Alice Robbins (viola da gamba, violoncello) has performed widely in various chamber ensembles, including the Early Music Quartet (Studio der frühen Musik), Concerto Vocale, Smithsonian Chamber Players, Boston Camerata, and the Oberlin and Boston Consorts of Viols. She was a founding member of Concerto Castello, an international quintet specializing in the music of the early 17th century, and currently performs with Handel & Haydn Society, Arcadia Players, Washington Bach Consort, Opera Lafayette and Folger Consort. She received degrees from Indiana University and the Schola Cantorum of Basel, where she was a student of Hannelore Mueller. Alice has recorded for Telefunken, EMI-Reflexe, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, Smithsonian and Gasparo Records, as well as for many radio stations. A resident of Amherst, MA, Alice teaches at Smith and Mount Holyoke Colleges in the Five College Early Music Program.

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Jacqueline Schwab

Jacqueline Schwab (English dance music, piano) enjoys encouraging musicians of many ages and levels of experience to play with energy, confidence, flow and joy. She is a founding member of Bare Necessities and has been an English country dance musician for over 30 years and also has played for Scottish, contra, vintage, ballet and modern dance. She has been widely heard on the soundtracks to over a dozen of Ken Burns's PBS documentaries (including The Civil War, Baseball, Mark Twain, The War, and National Parks: America's Best Idea). She has performed on over 50 recordings, including more than 15 with Bare Necessities, as well as on three solo CDs and recordings with Scottish singer Jean Redpath and fiddlers Alasdair Fraser and Laura Risk. She has performed for former President Clinton at the White House and, with Jean Redpath, on A Prairie Home Companion and the Late Show with David Letterman. A longtime dancer, Jacqueline plays for and teaches English dance workshops with Bare Necessities around the country and abroad.

http://www.jacquelineschwab.com/

English Dance Musicians Course

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Mary Springfels

Mary Springfels is a highly respected an player of the viola da gamba, professor, and director of early music programs. She is a founding member and former director of the Newberry Consort and the former director of Northwestern University Early Music Ensemble. She has also played with the New York Pro Musica and the Waverly Consort as well as many other U.S. and European ensembles and is a founding member of the ensembles Elizabethan Enterprise and Les Filles de Sainte-Colombe. She has recorded for the Harmonia Mundi USA label as member of the Newberry Consort, as a soloist in a set of Stradella solo cantatas (with Christine Brandes and Paul O'Dette) and in solo instrumental works with recorder player Marion Verbruggen. She has also appeared on the Decca, Columbia, Nonesuch, and Titanic labels.

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Lisa Terry

Lisa Terry (viola da gamba, violoncello) practices, performs and teaches viola da gamba and violoncello in New York City, where she is a longtime member of Parthenia and the Dryden Ensemble, and a new member of BaroQue Across the River. She was a founding member of ARTEK and has performed with the New York Philharmonic, New York City Opera, Juilliard Opera Orchestra, Opera Lafayette, Orchestra of St. Luke's, Concert Royal, New York Collegium, American Classical Orchestra, Four Nations Ensemble, Santa Fe Pro Musica and Chicago Opera Theatre. She earned her degree in cello performance from Memphis State University and continued her studies in New York with Richard Taruskin, viol, and Harry Wimmer, cello. Ms. Terry has appeared to great acclaim as soloist in the Passions of J.S. Bach, notably under the batons of Robert Shaw, Richard Westenburg and Lyndon Woodside in Carnegie Hall, in the Jonathan Miller staged performances at the Brooklyn Academy of Music conducted by Paul Goodwin, and with Andrew Parrot, Gary Thor Wedow, Kent Tritle and Simon Carrington. Ms. Terry teaches viola da gamba and cello at the French-American School of Music in New York and at workshops around the country.

http://www.learningmusician.com/gambalisa

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Peggy Vermilya

At six years of age, Peggy Vermilya whirled about her basement, listening to Peter and the Wolf, longing to be both a ballerina and an orchestra. She took lessons in tap, ballet, and acrobatics as a child; as a teenager she jitterbugged, strolled, twisted, and did things called “the mashed potatoes” and “the monkey.” Subsequently, international folk dance, contra and squares, and eventually English country dance claimed her heart. For more than a decade she has enjoyed teaching English country dance at the Neighborhood Music School in New Haven, being described by Marshall Barron as an “exciting,” “sensitive,” “inspiring” and “skillful” teacher. Peggy has attended many dance weeks at Pinewoods and has become a regular at Early Music Week where she began her love affair with the recorder and performances of early music. With her husband Peter she sails a Beetlecat named Poussette and a cruising catboat named Purcell.

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Larry Zukof

Larry Zukof (recorder) has taught at Pinewoods, Amherst Early Music, Skidmore and ARS workshops in Connecticut, New York and Massachusetts. He has a MM from New England Conservatory in recorder and voice. He is a past member of the Boston Camerata and has appeared with the Boston Classical Orchestra and the Pro Arte Singers. Larry is currently the Director of the Neighborhood Music School in New Haven, CT.

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* Advisor, plus

Steve Howe

Sarah Mead

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Daily Schedule

7:00-7:30	Tai-Chi for all
7:45-8:15	Hot Breakfast served cafeteria style
8:15-8:45	Cold Breakfast Coffee/Tea available
8:30-8:50	Morning Warmup: Heloise Degrugillier, Frances Fitch
9:00-10:30	Recorder Classes Recorder Classes The first session of the day is devoted to technique and repertoire in whole consorts grouped by level for recorder, viol and voice. Recorder teachers include Sheila Beardslee,Heloise Degrugillier, Douglas Kirk, Gene Murrow, Emily O'Brien, Dorothy Olsson and Larry Zukof. Early Music Week at Pinewoods
	Viol Classes Viol Classes The first session of the day is devoted to technique and repertoire in whole consorts grouped by level for recorder, viol and voice. Viol teachers include Larry Lipkis, Alice Robbins and Lisa Terry. Viol Intensive at Early Music Week Early Music Week at Pinewoods
	Voice Class Voice Class The first session of the day is devoted to technique and repertoire in whole consorts grouped by level for recorder, viol and voice. The voice class is led by Michael Barrett. Early Music Week at Pinewoods
	Baroque Ensembles Baroque Ensembles The first session of the day is devoted to technique and repertoire in whole consorts grouped by level for recorder, viol and voice. Advanced players may opt to sign up for these Baroque ensembles led by Frances Fitch and Dana Maiben. Early Music Week at Pinewoods
11:00-12:00	English Country Dance Classes English Country Dance Classes Late morning is for dancing. Three levels of English country dancing: Basic English Country Dancing with Peggy Vermilya prepares newcomers for the evening dances. Those with more experience in English country dance can choose to work on style and repertoire in one of these two classes: Intermediate English Country Dancing with Scott Higgs Advanced English Country Dancing with Gene Murrow Renaissance Dance for All with Dorothy Olsson: This class, for people at all levels, introduces simple yet elegant dances from Venice, including an Italian balletto and a canario by dancing master Fabritio Caroso, along with other popular dances of the late Renaissance. Early Music Week at Pinewoods
12:00-12:30	Free time: Swimming, Bookstore staffed
12:30	Lunch
2:00-3:15	Early Afternoon Classes Early Afternoon Classes Early afternoon classes offer a variety of options, exploring repertoires and topics of special interest to our faculty related to our theme. Broaden your horizons by playing in a mixed ensemble, digging into an unfamiliar repertoire or sampling various new instruments. Madrigals & Ensemble Ricercars (LI-I recorders) Héloïse Degrugillier: madrigals from Willaert & de Rore; instrumental music by Merulo & Gabrieli Harmonia (All all) Frances Fitch: learn Baroque harmonies through ground basses Flauti Traversi (I-A flutes) Emily O’Brien: consorts for Renaissance flute Canzone Grande (6 -12 parts; SATB voices, recs, T & B viols, keyboard) Larry Zukof: lavish, ceremonial, expansive music of the influential Gabrielis and their contemporaries Laude di Cortona (I-HI voices & instruments) Tim Rayborn: vernacular Italian songs of religious communities in 13-14c Music of Adrian Willaert (I-HI 4-8 viols) Mary Springfels Canzone a Quattro Flauti: (HI recorders) Gene Murrow: works of Guami, Frescobaldi, Maschera & others Piffari di Venezia: (HI-A uncapped reeds & brass) Douglas Kirk: loud band Viols of Venice (HI-A viols) Alice Robbins: canzoni, sonatas & vocal works Oltremontani – Northerners in Venice (HI-A 5 voices & doubling instruments ) Michael Barrett: works by Willaert, Schütz & others from across the mountains Palazzi & Palaces (I-HI viols) Lisa Terry: comparing great works for viol consorts from the courts of Venice & London Sinfonia del bosco (I-A strings) Dana Maiben: string band Sogni d'oro: nap time Early Music Week at Pinewoods
3:35-4:45	Late Afternoon Classes Late Afternoon Classes Late afternoon classes include several larger ensembles: chorus, recorder orchestra and string band, as well as special choices for capped reeds, viols and brasses. Rondinella (limit of 6) Larry Lipkis: compose your own rounds Capella San Marco (All voices) Michael Barrett: Venetian sacred choral music, from Croce to Gabrieli Baroque Sonatas & Concerti (HI-A winds & strings) Héloïse Degrugillier: works by Vivaldi, Handel, Albinoni & others Trecento Music (HI-A winds & strings) Tim Rayborn: music of the Italian Ars Nova & 14c dance music Improvisation/Diminutions (HI-A all instruments) Douglas Kirk: 17c Italian diminution repertoire Vento Soave (I-A recorders) Sheila Beardslee: Recorder Orchestra Beginning Viol (viols) Lisa Terry: No prior string experience required Pratica o pisolino: practice or rest Early Music Week at Pinewoods
5:00-5:30	Tea
5:30-6:20	Free time: Informal camper readings, Swimming, Bookstore staffed
	Side-by-Sides
6:30	Dinner
7:45-8:15	Mini Presentations
8:15-10:00	All Camp Dance
10:15-11:00	Special Events

August 14 - 21, 2010

Up-to-date availability

2010 Camp Space Availability Update

No space at your favorite week? Explore another!

American Dance & Music (Pinewoods) Aug 28-Sep 4 All done, see you next year

Campers' (Pinewoods)
Aug 21-28 All done, see you next year

CDSS at Timber Ridge
Aug 15-22 All done, see you next year

Early Music (Pinewoods)
Aug 14-21 All done, see you next year

English & American Dance (Pinewoods)
Aug 7-14 All done, see you next year

English Dance (Pinewoods)
Jul 31-Aug 7 All done, see you next year

English Dance Leaders (Pinewoods)
Aug 7-14 All done, see you next year

English Dance Musicians (Pinewoods)
Aug 14-21 All done, see you next year

Family (Ogontz)
Jul 31-Aug 7 All done, see you next year

Family (Pinewoods) Jul 17-24 All done, see you next year

Folk Music (Pinewoods)
Jul 24-31 All done, see you next year

Morris Intensive at Folk Music
Jul 24-31 All done, see you next year

Square Dance Callers (Pinewoods)
Aug 28-Sep 4 All done, see you next year

Teachers Training (Ogontz)
Jul 31-Aug 7 All done, see you next year

Viol Intensive at Early Music Aug 14-21
All done, see you next year

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Program Description

Venetian Glory

Benvenuti a Venezia, la città di canali, dogi e magnifica musica!

Welcome to Venice, the city of canals, doges and magnificent music!

Early Music Week at Pinewoods explores music from that vibrant musical center, the heartbeat of Italian polychoral music, home of famous music publishers, and inspiration to courts and chapels located far beyond the Veneto region. Watch a video about the Early Music Week experience!

Our program offers musical challenges and opportunities to players and singers at every level, from highly experienced to those who are just beginning. From morning technique and consort classes to afternoon special topic ensembles, we will play and sing music from the vibrant Middle Ages to the virtuosic Baroque. The magic of Monteverdi and glory of the Gabrielis, their predecessors and heirs will be ours to celebrate this summer.

If you've never played a musical instrument (but wish you could) or if you studied music years ago (and fear you've forgotten everything), there are classes to get you started or to help brush off the rust. Introductory classes are offered in recorder and viol.
Singers of all abilities will benefit from singing class, chorus and mixed ensembles with instruments.
Dancers and dance teachers can learn an instrument and participate in the daily dance classes and the nightly dance parties.

Advanced and intermediate players and singers have a wide array of classes from which to choose, led by an outstanding and dedicated performing faculty. Our staff features active professionals and acclaimed teachers of early winds (recorders, reeds and brass), strings (viols and violin), harpsichord and voice. Dancers will also find a wealth of activity, including high-level technique classes, challenging ensembles and historical dance. In addition to our music classes, we relax with two ponds for swimming or canoeing, a Camphouse deck for summer reading, afternoon tea and lots of wonderful dancing.

New staff faces this summer are Michael Barrett (voice and chorus), Douglas Kirk (cornetto) and Tim Rayborn (Medieval Music). Also new and offering special programs during Early Music Week are Jacqueline Schwab (English Dance Musicians Course) and Mary Springfels (Viol Intensive). Early Music Week continues its long tradition of superb teaching in a warm and welcoming community, enhanced by special events, presentations, concerts and -- of course -- dancing. Advanced musicians can work intensively, amateurs are engaged and challenged, and beginners are always made welcome.

Viol Intensive

This is a special focus group for six emerging professional viol players to work with Mary Springfels for almost 3 hours every day! The group meets for two sessions daily: a 90 minute class in the morning, to work on technique and consorts in Venetian and Venetian-influenced repertoire; a late afternoon class will explore special repertoire topics with Mary. In addition to these two sessions, there are other afternoon classes in viols, mixed consorts and vocal/instrumental ensembles with other Early Music Week faculty. There is a surcharge for the Viol Intensive program. Please ask for application materials for this class.

Please join us! -- Sheila Beardslee, Program Director

Scholarships are also offered by Early Music America, The Viola da Gamba Society of America, and the American Recorder Society. Deadline for both is April 15, 2010.

American Dance & Music (Pinewoods)	Aug 28-Sep 4	All done, see you next year
Campers' (Pinewoods)	Aug 21-28	All done, see you next year
CDSS at Timber Ridge	Aug 15-22	All done, see you next year
Early Music (Pinewoods)	Aug 14-21	All done, see you next year
English & American Dance (Pinewoods)	Aug 7-14	All done, see you next year
English Dance (Pinewoods)	Jul 31-Aug 7	All done, see you next year
English Dance Leaders (Pinewoods)	Aug 7-14	All done, see you next year
English Dance Musicians (Pinewoods)	Aug 14-21	All done, see you next year
Family (Ogontz)	Jul 31-Aug 7	All done, see you next year
Family (Pinewoods)	Jul 17-24	All done, see you next year
Folk Music (Pinewoods)	Jul 24-31	All done, see you next year
Morris Intensive at Folk Music	Jul 24-31	All done, see you next year
Square Dance Callers (Pinewoods)	Aug 28-Sep 4	All done, see you next year
Teachers Training (Ogontz)	Jul 31-Aug 7	All done, see you next year
Viol Intensive at Early Music	Aug 14-21	All done, see you next year