Country Dance and Song Society Early Music Week at Pinewoods June 27 - July 4, 2002

This program is completed. Please look for informationon the 2003 season in the Fall.

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Early Music Week at Pinewoods June 27 - July 4, 2002 Program Director: Larry Lipkis Staff: Jack Ashworth Peter Barnes Sheila Beardslee Frances Fitch Beverly Francis Eric Haas Joan Kimball Catherine Liddell Sarah Mead* Rosamund Morley Dorothy Olsson Alice Robbins Paul Ross Cynthia Shaw Jennifer Barron Southcott Ellen Tepper Tricia van Oers Robert Wiemken Larry Zukof *Advisor, plus: Gene Murrow Chris Rua

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Look up our Adult Programs for some general information; here is more detail about this particular program and staff.

One of America's oldest and best-loved early music workshops, Pinewoods provides high powered teaching in a low-key atmosphere. The faculty members 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. Early music performers from relative beginners to highly experienced players will find Pinewoods to be an enriching and rewarding experience.

This year's theme is "Carnival". Led by a staff of talented performer-teachers, students will celebrate the sacred and secular aspects of the pre-Lenten festival known worldwide as Carnival. We'll revel in glorious polychoral motets of Venice, frivolous frottole from Florence, and festive and spiritual music from all across Western Europe. And the colorful world of the Commedia dell'arte will come to life in song, dance, and theatre.

Back by popular demand: bagpipe instruction! Last year's beginning class had a waiting list ten deep, so get in your requests early. This year we will also offer intermediate instruction for those who wish to further develop their piping skills.

As usual, there will be the usual array of morning techniques classes, a Baroque and "Mostly Monteverdi" ensemble, a recorder master class, three levels of dance classes, and a panoply of theme-related 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?

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Jack Ashworth (Viols) teaches harpsichord, early strings and winds at the University of Louisville. A frequent member of early music workshop faculties both in the U.S. and abroad, he is the 1999 recipient of EMA's Thomas Binkley Award and past president of the Viola da Gamba Society of America.

Peter Barnes (Keyboard) has been playing piano, flute, whistle, guitar and assorted other instruments for dancers and listeners for an embarrassingly large number of years, and has been invited to most major contra, square, English and vintage dance events throughout the U.S., performing for dances and concerts, leading ensemble workshops and generally acting in a crazy and often undignified manner. Averaging over 250 gigs per year since 1980 he is one of Boston's busiest musicians and has played for festivals and tours from Prague to Hawaii. He currently works with the bands Bare Necessities, The Latter Day Lizards, Yankee Ingenuity and with singer Cathie Ryan and has performed with many traditional greats too numerous to mention. He has also published 3 music books and appears on over 40 recordings.

Sheila Beardslee (Recorder, English Country Dance) is delighted to be back at Pinewoods. Director of BRS West, Concordia Consort and Pavane Renaissance Dance Ensemble, she teaches in Boston and has led six performance/study tours to Italy.

Frances Fitch (Keyboard), 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.

Beverly Francis (English Country Dance) has taught country dance in New York City for more than 20 years. She has emceed several New York Playford Balls and has called dances and led workshops around the U.S. and Canada and at Pinewoods. When not pursuing her particular interest in the country dance of Jane Austen's time, Beverly is a member of New World Sword.

Eric Haas (Recorder) received a M.M. degree in early music performance from the New England Conservatory of Music, where he studied recorder with John Tyson and baroque flute with Sandra Miller. He has taught at New England Conservatory, Tufts University and Wheaton College, as well as numerous early music workshops, including Pinewoods, Amherst Early Music, the Long Island Recorder Festival and the Mideast Workshop. Mr. Haas has performed with La Sonnerie and Duo Pentimento, and has appeared with the Ocean State Chamber Orchestra and Emmanuel Music. He has served as music director of the Boston Recorder Society for more than 15 years and is currently on the staff of the von Huene Workshop, Inc. (the Early Music Shop of New England).

Joan Kimball (Renaissance Winds) is Co-Director of Piffaro, The Renaissance Band, which presents concerts in Philadelphia, tours throughout the U.S. and Europe, and has numerous CDs out on the Deutsche Grammophon/Archiv and Dorian labels. In addition to her playing of early wind instruments -- recorders, shawms, bagpipes -- she also makes reeds for historical woodwinds and collaborates with instrument builder Joel Robinson on making Renaissance bagpipes.

Catherine Liddell (Plucked Strings) is active as a lutenist in the Boston area where she performs and teaches. She is co-founder of Charivary (with Jane Hershey and Laura Jeppesen, violas da gamba) and Ensemble Chanterelle (with Sally Sanford, soprano and Brent Wissick, viola da gamba and 'cello). Ms. Liddell is in demand as a continuo player with leading early music groups across the U.S. including NY Collegium, Boston Baroque, Seattle Baroque Orchestra and in the 2001 BEMF production of Lully's Thesee. She has recorded La Belle Voilee (music of 17th-century French composer Jacques Gallot) for Centaur Records and published Sacred Music for Lute for Lyre Music Publications. She has recorded Handel's Triumph of Time and Truth with Aston Magna for Centaur, Bach's Harpsichord Concertos with the Seattle Baroque Orchestra also for Centaur, Motets of Francesco Bonporti with Ellen Hargis and Ensemble Ouabache for Dorian Records.

Larry Lipkis (Viol) performs and records with the Baltimore Consort and directs early music activities at Moravian College in Bethlehem, PA, where he serves as Professor of Music and Composer-in-Residence. He has written several works based on the characters of the Commedia dell'arte: his bass trombone concerto, Harlequin, was premiered in 1997 by the Los Angeles Philharmonic and his bassoon concerto, Pierrot, was premiered earlier this year by the Houston Symphony. Larry is also a music director of the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival and hosts a classical music show on WDIY-FM, an NPR affiliate in Bethlehem.

Sarah Mead (Viol) holds degrees from Yale and Stanford Universities. She has been on the faculty of the Department of Music at Brandeis University for 20 years, where she holds a full-time appointment as Artist-in-Residence. A frequent freelancer in the Boston area, she has performed with Emmanuel Music, the Handel and Haydn Society and the Boston Viol Consortium. She is the author of Plain and Easy: a Practical Guide to Renaissance Theory and the chapter on 16th-century theory in A Performer's Guide to Renaissance Music, published by G. Schirmer. A frequent teacher at local and national early music workshops, she has also been Program Director for Early Music Week at Pinewoods and has directed early music ensembles at Tufts and Northeastern Universities. Last fall she taught at Trinity College of Music in London as part of an exchange with British gambist Alison Crum.

Rosamund Morley (Viol) has toured world wide playing viol, vielle and violone with the Waverly Consort. She is also a founding member of the Elizabethan ensemble, My Lord Chamberlain's Consort and a member of the viol consort Parthenia. With the New York Consort of Viols she performs and records contemporary music for viola da gamba. She has toured with Sequentia and performed as soloist at the Brooklyn Academy of Music with Les Arts Florissants. She works regularly with ARTEK, The Four Nations Ensemble and Le Studio de Musicque Ancienne de Montreal. She studied in her hometown at the University of Toronto and at the Royal Conservatory of Music in The Hague and now teaches viol at Columbia University. She has recorded for CBS Masterworks, Arabesque, Musical Heritage Society, Classic Masters and EMI/Angel

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. Dorothy teaches at the Amherst Early Music Festival where she has choreographed for and/or directed several historical theatrical productions. She teaches at New York University, where she received her Ph.D. in Performance Studies.

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) 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.

Cynthia Shaw (Theater, Voice) has been the music director for the New York Christmas Revels since 1995 and appeared last year on Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion at New York City's Town Hall and on National Public Radio. She is frequently heard as pianist for Country Dance*New York's Tuesday English Dance sessions and performs contra dances with The Fish Family and Oxalis. As a professional soprano, she is an original member of The Douglas Frank Chorale whose premiere recording of the classic book of madrigals and motets, The A Cappella Singer, was recently named "Best Classical Album of 2001" by the Contemporary A Cappella Society . She sings regularly in New York at Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall and has co-written a children's musical Operation Isolation with author Susan Wallach. As a camper at Pinewoods since 1988, she is thrilled to be on staff. Personal Webpage

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, where she is also the Coordinator of Outreach Programs for Seniors, and for Worcester Hills Recorder Society, where she is the ARS Chapter President. Jennifer is the Co-Director of the Recorder & Viol Workshop for Seniors, now in its fourth 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 on CDSS and Playford Consort labels, with The Playford Consort.

Ellen Tepper (Harp) began to play the harp, dance and sew at age eight 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.

Tricia van Oers (Recorder) was born in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. In 1998 she graduated from the Rotterdam Conservatory (teacher and soloist degrees), where she studied recorder with Thera de Clerck and Han Tol. She received a Performer Diploma with high achievement in Early Music-Instrumental performance from Indiana University's Early Music Institute, where she also served as an Associate Instructor. Until the summer of 2000 she was employed by the Von Huene Workshop in Boston, making, repairing and testing recorders. She was Director of the 1999 North American Recorder Teacher's Conference at Indiana University's School of Music, and was on the faculty of the Amherst Early Music Festival, I.U.'s Summer Academy and the 2000 North American Recorder Teacher's Seminar. She has performed in solo and ensemble recitals in The Netherlands, Portugal and the U.S. She now lives in New York, from where she is able to continue her career in performing and teaching.

Robert Wiemken (Renaissance Winds) is Co-Director of Piffaro, The Renaissance Band, which keeps him busy playing dulcians, shawms, recorders, rackett, krumhorns and percussion, to say nothing of the administrative demands. He also directs the Early Music Ensembles at Temple University's Esther Boyer College of Music in Philadelphia and in his spare time makes reeds for a bewildering array of early reed instruments with clients hither and yon.

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 Boston Camerata, a recent soloist with flutist Paula Robison and Boston Classical Orchestra under Harry Ellis Dickson in Faneuil Hall, the Director of Neighborhood Music School in New Haven, CT, and a member of Pro Arte Singers.

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 classes
12:15 - 1:00	Break, swimming, etc.
12:45 - 1:30	Lunch served cafeteria style
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

Class Descriptions: [Back to Top]

FIRST MORNING CLASS: 9:15-10:45
In the morning there are technique and repertory building classes for instrumental and vocal consorts at all levels. There are classes in

Beginning Renaissance Dance with Dorrie Olsson teaching the basic figures and dances from the standard repertory

FIRST AFTERNOON CLASS: 2:00-3:15

Class	Level	Instrument	Teacher
Beginning Harp	B	harps	Tepper
Beginning Viol	B	viols	Morley
Beginning Bagpipes	B	bagpipes	Kimball
Carnival of Animals: music from the Glogauer Liederbuch., etc.	LI/I	mixed inst.	Beardslee
The Glories of Venice: polychoral motets and canzonas	LI/I	mixed inst and voices	Fitch
Florentine Intermedii: frivolous frottole and more	LI/I	mixed inst.	Liddell
Carne Vale: songs for overindulgence	LI/I	mixed inst. and voices	Mead
A Medici Carnival: festive music from the early 16th century	I/HI	recorders	Southcott
Dance Band: English country dance style and ensemble technique	I-A	mixed inst., keyboard	Barnes
The Glories of Venice: polychoral motets and canzonas	HI/A	mixed inst and voices	Zukof
Carnival Music: a pan-European repertory of songs and dances	HI/A	mixed inst and voices	van Oers
A Medieval Spring: Pre-Lenten, Lenten, and Easter music	HI/A	strings and voices	Robbins
Loud Band: Carnival music for cornets, sackbut, and shawms	HI/A	reeds, brass	Wiemken
Time Out - choose to audit and observe, or take a practice break

SECOND AFTERNOON CLASS: 3:30-4:45

Class	Level	Instrument	Teacher
Historical dance -Renaissance dance from the European court. plus tie-in with theatrical production	all	dancers	Olsson
Chorus - sacred and secular works for those with some choral experience	all	voices	Mead
Commedia Classics: Music for the theatrical production	I-A	mixed inst. and voices	Lipkis
Theatre: help create a Pinewoods Commedia dell'Arte show. the performance will be on Wednesday afternoon before the banquet	all	any	Shaw
Recorder Orchestra: sacred and secular polyphonic music	LI-A	Recorders	Zukof
String Orchestra: sacred and secular polyphonic music	LI-A	Strings	Ashworth
Time Out - choose to audit and observe, or take a practice break

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