Bach Cantata Residency | Chamber Music New Zealand

Applications are invited for a Bach cantata residency with Masaaki Suzuki (Bach Collegium Japan) to be held in Nelson, New Zealand, on 3-5 June 2017. Singers and instrumentalists are invited to apply by 10 March 2017. This is a wonderful opportunity to work in person with one of the greatest living exponents of the performance of Bach's sacred music.

Oregon Bach Festival - The Berwick Academy

Auditions are now open for the Berwick Academy, a FREE auditioned summer school for Historical Performance Practice, in Oregon, July 2017. "We are well into the audition process for the 2017 Berwick Academy and have had many exciting developments over the last few weeks. Would you help us out by sharing this email with your colleagues and students? The December 1 audition deadline is quickly approaching, but there is still time for musicians to submit their materials! We are excited to announce our 2017 Berwick Academy guest directors, each presenting programs featuring works of the Baroque period: The Academy season opens with a concert directed by violinist Monica Huggett on Saturday, July 1, and includes WF Bach, Adagio and Fugue in D minor, Fasch, Concerto a 7 in G minor, Telemann, Suite in A minor for 2 oboes and strings, JS Bach, Suite no 1 in C major, Telemann, Concerto in E minor, Fasch, Concerto in D minor, and Graun,Violin Concerto in D minor. OBF Artistic Director, Matthew Halls, conducts the Berwick Academy on Friday, July 7, featuring Rebel, Les Caractères de la Danse, Lully, Le Bourgeois gentilhomme suite, and a concert version of John Blow’s,Venus & Adonis. The Academy closes the season with a program conducted by EUBO Music Director and harpsichordist, Lars Ulrik Mortensen on Thursday, July 13, including Rameau, Suite from Zoroastre, Georg Muffat, Sonata V from Armonico Tributo, Telemann, Ouverture Burlesque de Quichotte, and Rameau, Danse des Zephyrs. It promises to be an exciting season! We have added some new faculty, including flutist, Stephen Schultz, bassist, Jonathan Cable, and cellist, Sarah McMahon. You can read about them, and our other wonderful faculty, here: 2017 Berwick Academy Faculty. We are also excited to announce the addition of lute and harpsichord slots for the 2017 Academy!"

MCM Baroque Ensemble and Viol Consort Semester 2 Concert

Medieval and Renaissance Ensemble Semester 2 Concert

Just intonation in the Renaissance

A wonderful explanation and demonstration of just intonation in Renaissance vocal music. Do check it out!

Photos from Early Music Studio, Melbourne Conservatorium of Music's post

The wonderful Medieval and Renaissance Ensemble, directed by Ruth Wilkinson and John Weretka, preparing for their end-of-semester concert on Tuesday 25 October!

The Secret Musick of the Last Great Lutenist

A wonderful forthcoming recital by Melbourne-based lutenist Andrew Byrne, featuring works by Sylvius Leopold Weiss (1687-1750). 4pm, Sunday 30 October Medley Hall

Why we must value early music

Great article by Jane Downer in CutCommon: "Why we must value early music".

Review: The Descent of Orpheus into the Underworld (MCM)

Great review of our production of Charpentier's La descente d'Orphée aux Enfers, in Limelight, Australia's classical music and arts magazine!

Catherine Martin (baroque violin) in recital

Peninsula Summer Music Festival

Exciting opportunity at the Peninsula Summer Music Festival Academy, 8-15 January 2017, to prepare and perform Handel's Acis and Galatea with Sophie Daneman, Donald Nicolson, and Julia Fredersdorff! ELIGIBILITY AND PLACES AVAILABLE The 2017 Festival Academy is open to singers and instrumentalists at undergraduate or postgraduate equivalent level. All participants must be aged 18 or older. The following places/roles are available : Orchestra : 2 Oboes (doubling Recorder), 8 violins (some doubling on viola), 2 celli, 1 double bass,1 Bassoon, 1 harpsichord, 1 theorbo Soloists : Galatea (Soprano), Acis (tenor), Damon (tenor or soprano), Polyphemus (Bass), Corridon (Tenor or Soprano) Choir : 3 soprani, 2 altos, 2 high tenors, 2 tenors, 3 basses CONDITIONS, FEES, TRAVEL & LOCATION The academy costs $720 AUD per participant. This includes tuition, accommodation and all meals during the Academy period. Participants are responsible for their own travel arrangements to and from the Academy venue, Toorak College in Mt Eliza. Please note: Successful vocal applicants will be expected to sing their part and all of the ensembles by heart on the first day of rehearsal. AUDITIONS Candidates should complete the attached application form and return it via email as well as uploading their audition sound file (for instrumentalists) or Video for singers. These files should be made available through a url link to a file sharing website such as Dropbox, box.net, YouTube or Vimeo. Please make sure the file names of these recordings mention your name and the works performed. Instrumentalists • should include 2 contrasting movements of an 18th century work by Handel or one of his German, Italian or English contemporaries. The movements may be from different works. Singers • must submit a video file including 2 extracts of 18th century repertoire, at least one of which must be in English Applications must be emailed to the following email address: psmfacademy@gmail.comPlease make sure that all url links are valid for the entire assessment period up until the start of the academy on the 8th of January. MORE INFORMATION? For more information please contact us at the above email address

Charpentier's time comes at long last

Article in Limelight magazine about our forthcoming production of Charpentier's La descente d'Orphée aux Enfers by the Early Music Studio's Dr Erin Helyard!