Country Dance and Song Society Early Music Week at Pinewoods June 26 - July 3, 2003

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Early Music Week at Pinewoods June 26 - July 3, 2003 Program Director: Larry Lipkis Staff: Peter Barnes Sheila Beardslee Julian Cole Frances Fitch Brad Foster * Eric Haas Janet Haas Shira Kammen Joan Kimball Sarah Mead * Rosamund Morley Gene Murrow * Dorothy Olsson Mark Rimple Chris Rua * Cynthia Shaw Aaron Smith Ellen Tepper Tricia van Oers Robert Wiemken *Advisors

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

Love and springtime will be in the air at Early Music Week 2003! Our week's theme, "Sweet Lovers Love the Spring," is taken from Thomas Morley's famous lute song "It was a Lover and His Lass." In honor of the 400th anniversary of the death of Morley's patron, Queen Elizabeth, we'll revel in a glorious pageant of music, dance and theatrical entertainments from the Golden Age of English music. And, as always, we'll explore thematically related gems of the early music repertory from all eras and locales.

New for 2003: English Dance Leaders Training in Music with Gene Murrow and Peter Barnes. This course, with separate registration, will work with Gene on the relation of music to the dance. They will join us for one instrument class, the English dance classes, gatherings, meals, parties, non-class activities and evening programs. The course also offers early music musicians of all levels an opportunity for hands-on experience playing for dancers and working with callers. Under the occasionally stern but always playful eye of Peter Barnes, here's your chance to enjoy performing and learning in a real-life dance situation. Also new: the Morning Medieval Ensemble, led by Shira Kammen, an afternoon krummhorn ensemble led by Joan Kimball and a class in early music notation, led by Mark Rimple.

We'll also have our usual array of morning techniques classes, Baroque instrumental ensembles, the Mostly Monteverdi Ensemble, a recorder masterclass, five dance classes, classes for beginners in viol, harp and, back by popular demand, bagpipes, 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? The week starts on Thursday June 26 in the afternoon and runs through breakfast on Thursday July 3.

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Peter Barnes (Keyboard) has been playing piano, flute, whistle, guitar and assorted other instruments for dancers and listeners for many years, and has been invited to most major contra, square, English and Irish dance events throughout the U.S., performing for dances and concerts, leading ensemble workshops and generally acting in a crazy and often undignified manner. He is one of Boston's busiest musicians, and has played for festivals and tours from Budapest to Hawaii. He currently divides his time among bands Bare Necessities, The Latter-Day Lizards, singer Cathie Ryan and the NPR radio show "Sez You!". He has also published 3 music books and appears on over 50 recordings.

Sheila Beardslee (Recorder, English Country Dance) has taught recorder, historical flutes, viol and period dance at Pinewoods, Amherst, LIRF and for early music societies from Maine to Florida and a good many places in between. Director of BRS West and Concordia Consort and a member of the Phillips Consort of Viols, she teaches privately and at the Boston Archdiocesan Choir School where recorder has taken the school by storm! She has led seven performance/study tours to Italy and has recorded for the Viola da Gamba Society-New England, Amherst Early Music and Northeastern.

Julian Cole (Recorder) 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 Piffaro, and recorded with Revels, Inc. Julian has taught Early Music at Union College and at workshops throughout the Northeast.

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.

Brad Foster (English Country Dance) has been teaching and playing piano, accordion and concertina for country dancing for 35 years, and is known throughout the U.S., Canada and Europe for his clear teaching and insightful approach to English and American country dance. Brad is the Executive and Artistic Director of CDSS, was a founding director of the Bay Area Country Dance Society, and was a co-founder of the Mendocino dance weeks.

Eric Haas (Recorder, Flute) 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. Eric 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).

Janet Haas (Viol) performs regularly on viola da gamba and violone throughout New England. She studied gamba with Laura Jeppesen and John Hsu, and has performed with La Sonnerie, the viol trio Oriana and the Folger Consort. She has recorded with the Boston Camerata on the Erato label, teaches strings and conducts three orchestras for the Lexington, MA public schools, and has taught at the Viola da Gamba Society of America Conclave, the Mideast Workshop and numerous regional workshops.

Shira Kammen (Violin, Vielle) received her degree in music from UC Berkeley and studied vielle with Margriet Tindemans. A member for many years of Ensembles Alcatraz and Project Ars Nova, and Medieval Strings, she has also worked with Sequentia, Hesperion XX, the Boston Camerata and the King's Noyse, and is the founder of Class V Music, an ensemble dedicated to performance on river rafting trips. She has performed and taught in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Israel, Morocco and Japan and on the Colorado and Rogue rivers. Shira happily collaborated with singer/storyteller John Fleagle for 15 years, and performs now with several new groups: a medieval ensemble, Fortune's Wheel; a new music group, Ephemeros; an eclectic ethnic band, Panacea; and Trouz Bras, a band devoted to the dance music of Celtic Brittany.

Joan Kimball (Renaissance Winds) is co-director of Piffaro, 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. Joan teaches recorder at The Philadelphia School, where she has a dozen or more students age 6 to 16, some of whom are venturing into Renaissance bagpipes, krummhorns and shawms. She also teaches at early music workshops throughout the U.S.

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 in 2002 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 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 worldwide 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. 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 Musique 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.

Gene Murrow (Recorder, Dance Leadership) has been active as a performer and teacher in the early music and English dance communities since 1965. Currently the General Manager of New York's Ensemble for Early Music, he has taught frequently at the Amherst, Pinewoods and Port Townsend early music workshops. He has been teaching English country dancing for 20 years, and since 1997 has been offering a course in musicianship for English dance leaders. He performs and records with the band MGM and is producer of a continuing series of English dance CDs with Bare Necessities. He is a member of the CDSS Governing Board, and was President of the American Recorder Society from 1994-2000.

Dorothy Olsson (Renaissance Dance) is Director of the New York Historical Dance Company, and has performed and choreographed for many early music ensembles including Piffaro, Folger Consort, Parthenia, the Philadelphia Classical Symphony and the Mannes Camerata. She has given numerous workshops in historical dance and her article on 17th-century dance appears 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. Originally a bassoonist, she studied recorder with Shelley Gruskin, and has her Masters in Musicology from Manhattan School of Music. For ten years she was an Assistant Professor in Dance Education at New York University, where she received her Ph.D. in Performance Studies. With her German dance partner Kaspar Mainz, she has co-written four books on historical dance. She is also a budding web designer, recently creating her dance company's website.

Mark Rimple (Lute, Voice) is active in the Philadelphia and New York areas as a countertenor, lutenist and composer. Along with Drew Minter and Marcia Young, he is a founding member of Trefoil, a New York-based vocal-instrumental trio devoted to the performance of 14th-century music. He has appeared as a countertenor and lutenist with The Newberry Consort, The Folger Consort, Ex Umbris, Piffaro, Voice of Orpheus, The New York Collegium, New York's Ensemble for Early Music, Brandywine Baroque and The Philadelphia Classical Symphony. He is also a composer whose works have been performed by Parnassus and Network for New Music, and often include countertenor, lute and Renaissance instruments. Recently his Portrait of a Dying Empire for soprano saxophone and harpsichord was given its New York premiere by Marshall Taylor and Joyce Lindorff in the International Stephan Wolpe Festival at Symphony Space. He is a specialist in the theory and notation of medieval through baroque music and has taught these subjects in workshops at Amherst Early Music, the Madison Early Music Festival and the Early Music Program at Interlochen Summer Arts Camp. He holds a DMA in composition from Temple University, and is an Assistant Professor of Music Theory and Composition at West Chester University.

Chris Rua (Recorder) is a versatile musician who has performed a wide spectrum of music, from Medieval to jazz, on instruments and voice. She has performed in the U.S. and abroad with her own ensemble Jadis as well as with New York's Ensemble for Early Music, Ex Umbris, Piffaro, The City of Ladies and Voice of the Turtle. In the Boston area, where she resides, she has performed with Emmanuel Music, the SoHIP Concert Series, the Boston Early Music Festival and with Revels Inc. Through Young Audiences, Chris performs throughout New England with her ensemble Promised Land presenting programs on immigration and family history. She has been on staff at Christmas Week at Berea College, KY, at English and American Week at both Buffalo Gap and Pinewoods, and at Early Music Week, where she was the director from 1998-2000. In her spare time, Chris teaches music at the Charles River School in Dover, MA and has the good fortune to lead summer workshops in the Sierras.

Cynthia Shaw (Theater, Voice), musical director for the New York Christmas Revels since 1995, has appeared on Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion at NYC's Town Hall and on NPR. As an accompanist she performs with singers in NYC and is a regular pianist for Country Dance*New York's contra and English dance sessions, being featured in this year's Playford Ball. As a professional soprano, she is an original member of The Douglas Frank Chorale whose premiere recording, The A Cappella Singer, was recently named "Best Classical Album of 2001" by the Contemporary A Cappella Society and was recently a soloist for the American Festival of Microtonal Music concert singing works of Andreas Werckmeister. She sings at Lincoln Center with the New York Philharmonic and The American Symphony Orchestra and is the Upper School Chorus teacher at the Brooklyn Friends School. Personal Webpage

Aaron Smith (Recorder) has been coming to Pinewoods for over 20 years, as a staff and family member of Early Music Week. Originally a clarinetist, he began his interest in early music while attending college, first picking up the recorder then adding the myriad of other wind instruments from the Renaissance period. He has performed with various early music ensembles from the New York area including The New York Renaissance Band, The New York Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble and The Mannes Camerata. He has also appeared with The Waverly Consort, Calliope, The Folger Consort, The New York and Washington Revels, The Providence Consort, The Utah Shakespeare Festival, Pandolfo, The Irregulars and The Bristol 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), a French hornist for many years before turning to early music and period instrument performance, is now a multi-instrumentalist, focusing on the double reed instruments of the Medieval through the Baroque periods, most notably the Renaissance and early Baroque dulcian, or curtal and the Baroque bassoon. He is currently co-director of Piffaro and also directs the early music ensembles at Temple University's Esther Boyer College of Music in Philadelphia. He has performed with numerous ensembles, including New York's Ensemble for Early Music, the Grande Band, the Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, the Philadelphia Classical Symphony, Brandywine Baroque Orchestra, the Folger Consort, the Kings Noyse and others. He has recorded on the Newport Classics, Deutsche Grammophon Archiv Produktion, Dorian Records, Vanguard Classics, Windham Hill and Pasacaille labels. He is also a noted reed maker, specializing in the double reeds of the Medieval through Baroque periods.

Early Music Week at Pinewoods Daily Schedule
7:45 - 8:15	Breakfast
8:30 - 8:50	Morning warm-ups for all
9:00 - 10:30	First morning class
11:00 - 12:00	Dance classes
12:00 - 12:30	Break, swimming, etc.
12:30	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

Class Descriptions: [Back to Top]

FIRST MORNING CLASS: 9:00-10:30
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 Dorothy 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	J Haas
Intermediate Bagpipes	I	bagpipes	Kimball
In May, that Lusty Season: Music from Elizabeth's Youth	LI/I	mixed inst and voices	Fitch
Music from Shakespeare's Plays	LI/I	mixed inst and voices	Kammen
Pammelia and Other Popular Musickes of Elizabethan England	LI/I	recorders	Rua
Sweet Love in Medieval and Renaissance Europe	I/HI	mixed inst and voices	Van Oers
Doulce Memoire: The Sweetest Melodies of the Flemish Masters	I/HI	mixed inst	Mead
Sound and Sense: Why We Must Play the Words and Sing the Notes	HI/A	mixed inst and voices	Cole
Dance Band: English Country Dance Style and Ensemble Technique	I-A	mixed inst, keyboard	Barnes
Love Songs in Early Music Notation	HI/A	mixed inst and voices	Rimple
Loud Band: 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 -- Tie-in with Theatrical Production	all	dancers	Olsson
Chorus: Sacred and Secular Works for Those with Some Choral Experience	all	voices	Mead
Music from the Reign of Elizabeth: Tie-in with Theatrical Production	I-A	mixed inst and voices	Lipkis
Theatre: Help Create a Celebration of the Life of Queen Elizabeth. Performance on Wednesday afternoon before the banquet	all	any	Shaw
Recorder Orchestra: Holborne and More!	LI-A	recorders	Beardslee
String Orchestra: Holborne and More!	LI-A	strings	Morley
Krummhorn Ensemble: All that Buzz!	LI-A	krummhorns	Kimball
Play in the Band or Dance to the Leadership Course Students	all	any	Barnes and Murrow
Time Out -- choose to audit and observe, or take a practice break

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