Country Dance and Song Society Early Music Week at Pinewoods July 14 - 21, 2001

As of May 8, there is a short wait list at this week.

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Early Music Week at Pinewoods July 14 - 21, 2001 Program Director: Larry Lipkis Staff: Mary Anne Ballard Kathleen Campbell Michael Cicone Julian Cole Frances Conover Fitch Doug Freundlich Jane Hershey Frederick Jodry Joan Kimball Margaret Ann Martin Dorothy Olsson Pat Petersen Laurie Rabut Alice Robbins Paul Ross Chris Rua* Carol Schlaikjer Jennifer Barron Southcott Ellen Tepper Robert Wiemken *Advisor, plus: Sarah Mead Gene Murrow

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One of America's oldest and best-loved early music workshops, Pinewoods provides high powered teaching in a low-key atmosphere. The faculty are recognized for their high quality of teaching, working with students of all levels to improve their playing and their enjoyment of music both as individuals and as ensemble-members. Classes range from consorts to baroque ensembles, master classes to introductory courses for beginners.

This year's theme will be "2001: A Musical Odyssey". Led by a staff of talented performer-teachers, students will experience early music odysseys of all kinds: to a 16th c. Italian villa, to a Spanish abbey, to the English countryside, or perhaps to more exotic locales, such as countries in Eastern Europe, Latin America or the Middle East. Who knows, there may be a little intergalactic travel as well! Early music performers from relative beginners to highly experienced will find Pinewoods to be an enriching and rewarding experience.

New in 2001: classes for beginners in viola da gamba and bagpipes! In both cases, instruments will be provided, but space is limited so put in your requests right away. And as usual, there will be the usual array of morning techniques classes, Baroque and Monteverdi ensembles, three levels of dance classes, and a panoply of topical classes in the afternoon.

English country and court dancing, in daily classes and nightly dances, provides a musical and social core to the week, while the rustic setting in a pine forest nestled between two ponds promotes a feeling of community amongst the students and staff. Even the excellent meals overlooking the water are a distinction - how many workshops are renowned for their food?!

Early Music Week at Pinewoods Daily Schedule
7:45 - 8:15	Breakfast
8:45 - 9:05	Morning warm-ups for all
9:15 - 10:45	First morning class
11:15 - 12:15	Dance class
12:15 - 1:00	Break, swimming, etc
12:45 - 1:30	Lunch
2:00 - 3:15	First afternoon class
3:30 - 4:45	Second afternoon class
5:00 - 5:30	Teatime
5:30 - 6:30	Free time, with faculty rehearsals and informal camper readings
6:30	Dinner
7:45	Mini-lectures
8:15	Community Dance Party
9:45 - 11:00	Special Events

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Mary Anne Ballard (Viol) is a founding member of the Baltimore Consort and is the principal researcher for the Consort's programs. She also plays with the Oberlin Consort of Viols and the Philadelphia Classical Symphony. She is currently on the faculty of the Oberlin Baroque Performance Institute and the University of Notre Dame.

Kathleen Campbell (Special Events) teaches and sings in the NYC area. A former soprano soloist with the Wiener Kammeroper and the Ensemble Musica Antiqua of Vienna, she is also an active country dancer and body movement student. She is a frequent Pinewoods staff member, and has formed a performance duet with Margaret Ann Martin, specializing in 19th-century and Edwardian songs.

Michael Cicone (English Country Dance) has taught English country dancing around New England since 1980, when a six-month stint as a dancer at the Oregonian Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, OR, gave him an intensive introduction to the form, and changed his life forever. He also plays and teaches the hammered dulcimer, and sings with the trio Kallet, Epstein and Cicone.

Julian Cole (Recorder, Theatre) performs and teaches music in the Boston area. He has performed at the Boston Early Music Festival with Phoenix, toured English cathedrals with the duo Jadis, appeared as a guest artist with Ex Umbris, and recorded with Revels, Inc. He recently became a member of the jazz-singing quartet Euphoria. Julian has taught Early Music at Union College and at workshops throughout the Northeast.

Frances Conover Fitch (Keyboard, Chorus), experienced choir director, organist and harpsichordist, performs and records throughout Europe and North America. On the faculty at Tufts and the Longy School of Music, she plays with many Boston ensembles, and has been a guest artist at international music festivals. Her recordings are on Harmonia Mundi, Wild Boar, Titanic, Koch International, Nonesuch and Erato.

Doug Freundlich (Lute) has performed with the Boston Symphony, Boston Baroque, Musicians of Swanne Alley, Renaissonics, and many other ensembles. Doug teaches lute at the Longy School and this summer will direct the lute program at Amherst Early Music. When not playing the lute, Doug cross-trains as a bebop bassist, catalogs music manuscripts at Harvard's Isham Library, and teaches a course on music cognition at Tufts. He has recorded for TelArc, Titanic and Sine Qua Non.

Jane Hershey (Viol) studied at The Hague Conservatory with Wieland Kuijken. She has performed on viola da gamba and violone with Monadnock Music, the Arcadia Players, Emmanuel Music, Abendmusik and the Aston Magna Festival. Her trio, Charivary, was a finalist in the EMA/Dorian 2000 Recording Competition and has performed this season at Boston's MFA and in Providence, Maine and Seattle. Recent recordings are with Hesperus (on Koch and Dorian). Jane teaches at the Powers Music School, the Longy School and Tufts University and directs the Tufts Early Music Ensemble.

Frederick Jodry (Voice) is active in New England as a conductor, organist, harpsichordist and countertenor. He directs the choirs of Brown University in Providence and serves as Organist/Choirmaster at Trinity Church in Newport. Since 1982 he has led the Schola Cantorum of Boston in performances of Renaissance Polyphony. The Schola has performed and recorded extensively with Joel Cohen and the Boston Camerata.

Joan Kimball (Renaissance Winds) is Co-director of Piffaro, The Renaissance Band, playing recorders, shawms, bagpipes and other assorted wind instruments. She teaches private lessons on recorder and bagpipes at an elementary/middle school in Philadelphia, ensuring the next generation of early music performers, and in addition collaborates on the making of Renaissance bagpipes with instrument builder Joel Robinson. She has recorded for Newport Classic, Deutsche Grammophon/Archiv Produktion, Dorian, Vanguard Classical and Vox Amadeus.

Larry Lipkis (Viol, Recorder) is a professor in the Music Department at Moravian College in Bethlehem, PA, where he directs the early music program and teaches music theory. He plays viols and Renaissance winds with the Baltimore Consort. As a composer, Larry has three pieces on CD, and his most recent orchestral work, "Harlequin," was premiered in 1997 by the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

Margaret Ann Martin (Keyboard) has been coming to Pinewoods since 1970. She has played accordion and/or piano for English and traditional country dances, square dances, contra dances and morris. Lately, she teaches piano at the Neighborhood Music School in New Haven, CT; she plays for English country dances with the Playford Consort and MGM, and has recorded with both bands. Other performance venues are duo-piano recitals and programs of popular music of the 19th and 20th centuries performed with Kathleen Campbell.

Dorothy Olsson (Renaissance Dance) is Director of the New York Historical Dance Company, and has performed and choreographed for Piffaro, Folger Consort, Parthenia and the Mannes Camerata. She wrote the chapter on dance in A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth-Century Music, published by G. Schirmer. She teaches at the Amherst Early Music Festival and at New York University where she received her Ph.D. in Performance Studies.

Pat Petersen (Recorder, English Country Dance) is Director of Fortuna vocal ensemble (recorded on the Titanic label); she has also recorded music of Heinrich Isaac with the Amherst Festival Choir, and appears with the Solstice Assembly on three recordings. She is the assistant director of Amherst Early Music and director of the Collegium at U of North Carolina at Greensboro, as well as director and faculty member at many early music and dance workshops. She has been a guest soloist with Charleston (SC) Symphony Orchestra. She regularly teaches and plays for English country dance at home in Durham, NC, and at early music workshops.

Laurie Rabut (Viol) is a frequent performer on baroque violin, viola, and viola da gamba in the Northeast. She is a member of Arcadia Players Baroque Orchestra and performances with Boston Baroque, Boston Cecilia, American Classical Orchestra, Apollo Ensemble. She is on the string faculty and is orchestra director for the Amherst Public Schools and is an ensemble coach and workshop clinician.

Alice Robbins (Viol) performs widely on baroque cello and viola da gamba with the Handel and Haydn Society, Arcadia Players, Oberlin Consort of Viols, the Early Music Ensemble of Boston, as well as with the Studio der Fruhen Musik, the Smithsonian Chamber Players and the Boston Camerata. A resident of Amherst, MA, she teaches in the Five College Early Music Program and the Historic Performance Department at Boston University.

Paul Ross (English Country Dance) Paul is one of the regular dance callers in New York City and Westchester and has called dances from Princeton to Woodstock. He was a dance leader at the Fried-for-All in Lenox, MA and helps direct and dances with the Chelsea English Country Dancers. He has set down some thoughts about teaching in a pamphlet, How to Teach English Country Dancing and composed several dances.

Chris Rua (Recorder) Chris performs a wide spectrum of music from Medieval to jazz, on instruments and voice. She has performed in the US and abroad with her own ensemble Jadis as well as with Ex Umbris, Piffaro, and New York's Ensemble for Early Music and locally with Emmanuel Music, the Boston Early Music Festival and with the Boston Shawm and Sackbut Ensemble. She also performs with Promised Land through Young Audiences and has recorded with Libana and with Revels, Inc. She teaches at her studio in Lexington, MA and at numerous workshops throughout the country including a music/hiking workshop through Sierra Club. Chris was director of Early Music Week from 1998 - 2000.

Carol Schlaikjer (Voice) was trained at the music conservatory in Cologne, Germany and at the Schola Cantorum in Basel, Switzerland. She has performed with Sequentia and with other ensembles throughout Europe and Australia as a concert and recording artist. Carol appears on a total of 11 CDs on Sony, Harmonia Mundi (BMG) and Focus Labels. She teaches privately and in after school programs in the Plymouth area and runs summer vocal workshops for young singers in Southeastern Massachusetts.

Jennifer Barron Southcott (Recorder) holds degrees from Sarah Lawrence College and New England Conservatory. She has taught at Pinewoods, at ARS workshops throughout the Northeast and currently teaches for Indian Hill Music Center and for Worcester Hills Recorder Society, where she is also the ARS Chapter President. Jennifer is the Workshop Director of the Recorder & Viol Workshop for Seniors, now in its third year. She composes for and is Artistic Director of Phoenix, performing Renaissance and contemporary music, and has performed with Phoenix at Boston Early Music Festival. Jennifer has recordings of English Country dance music and dance music of Henry Purcell on CDSS and Playford Consort labels, with The Playford Consort.

Ellen Tepper (Harp) began to play the harp, dance and sew at age 8 in Vienna, Austria. A childhood spent being dragged through every available ruin resulted in a passion for early music, embroidery, dance and a backyard that looks like ancient rubble. She teaches early, modern and folk harp in the Philadelphia area, serves on the board of the Historical Harp Society and plays in the English dance bands E.T. and the Aliens, Sutton Who? and Quidditas. She has taught workshops on dance music for the International Society of Folk Harpers and Craftsmen, presented lectures for the American Harp Society and released several CDs.

Robert Wiemken (Renaissance Winds) a french hornist in a former musical life, turned his musical attentions in the early '80's to early music and the wonderful array of Renaissance woodwind instruments. He is now co-director of Piffaro, The Renaissance Band, in which ensemble he performs on shawms, dulcian, recorders, krumhorns, rackett and percussion. He is also a freelance Baroque bassoonist and noted reed maker. In his spare time he directs the early music ensembles for Temple University's Esther Boyer College of Music.

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