One of the world's most exciting celebrations of early music is the Berkeley Festival & Exhibition and the American Recorder Society will be there with a series of ARS-sponsored events. Those events, concerts featuring recorders, and much more are yours to experience as the Berkeley Festival & Exhibition once again brings to life the glorious sights and sounds of centuries past.

ARS Events

Saturday, June 7
St. Mark's Episcopal Church Parish Hall
2300 Bancroft Way, Berkeley

Next Generation Concert, 1:30 to 2:30 pm
A series of vignette recitals showcasing the next generation of recorder professionals. Emerging professionals will have an opportunity to be heard at a major early music venue.

ARS Roundtable Discussion, 2:45 to 3:45 pm
"Early Music Is Hot! How Do We Make the Recorder Sizzle?" will be the topic as professional recorder players and concert presenters take part in this discussion.

ARS Coached Playing Session, 4 to 5 pm
Joan Kimball, directing
All players are welcome--just bring a music stand and your instruments.
 

For more information, contact Letitia Berlin, tishberlin@sbcglobal.net, 510-559-4670.
 

Concerts Featuring Recorders

Sunday, June 1
7 to 8:30 pm
Annette Bauer, Shira Kammen, Peter Maund
The Lost Mode: Medieval and Modal Music from Elsewhere

Medieval music meets European modal traditions in an enticing
instrumental setting of vielle, harp, recorders, and percussion
St. Joseph of Arimathea Chapel
2543 Durant Street
Tickets: $10-$20 sliding scale
Information: www.annettebauer.com, 510-847-7023

Monday, June 2
8:00 - 10:00 pm
AVE and The Whole Noyse
Monteverdi, Vespro della Beate Vergine (1610)

AVE and The Whole Noyse will perform the Vespers with 17th-century period instruments, including: portativ organ, cornetts, sacbuts, recorders, chitarrone, Renaissance harps, curtal, flutes, viola, violins, and violone.
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church
2300 Bancroft Way
Tickets: $35 for preferred/$25 for regular seating.
$25 Student/Senior preferred/$15 regular seating.
Info: www.ave-music.org

Tuesday, June 3
Noon to 1 p.m.
Ensemble Vermillian

Heartfelt English chamber music for recorder, violin, cello, and harpsichord/organ,
including works by Purcell, Locke, and Lawes.
Trinity Chapel
2320 Dana (at Durant)
Tickets: $15 general/$12 sfems/$10 students, seniors, persons with disabilities
Nobody turned away for lack of funds.
Info: www.trinitychamberconcerts.com or 704-560-0101 or 510-559-4670.

Tuesday, June 3
6:30 to 7:30 pm
The King's Trumpetts and Shalmes

The King's Trumpetts and Shalmes gets the 2008 Festival off to a rousing start
with a lively program of Renaissance music for shawms
and sackbut, crumhorns, and recorders.
Trinity Chapel
2320 Dana (at Durant)
Tickets: $15/$12/$10
Information: 415-752-7290

Wednesday, June 4
3:00 - 4:00 pm
Three Trapped Tigers
A Plaine and Easie Introdution to Listening
Recorderists David Barnett & Tom Bickley: 21st century music with 14th century insights and vice versa. Engaging works by Landini, Geysen, Bickley, Rzewski and more.
Trinity Chapel
2320 Dana at Durant
Tickets: $15 general, $12 SFEMS members, $10 seniors/students/disabled.
No one turned away for lack of funds.
Information: www.metatronpress.com/artists/ttt, 510-204-0607

Thursday, June 5
4: to 5:15 pm
Wild Rose Ensemble
Thorns and Roses
Leila Lazenby, voice; Shira Kammen, strings; Letitia Berlin and Frances Blaker, recorders; Barbara Blaker-Krumdieck, baroque cello; Robbie Link, bass; and Henry Lebedinsky,
harpsichord, perform an eclectic mix of Renaissance, Baroque, and folk music.
Trinity Chapel
2320 Dana at Durant
Tickets: $15/$12/$10
Information: trinitychamberconcerts.com, 510-559-4670

Piffaro, The Renaissance Band 

Friday, June 6
8 to 10 pm
Piffaro, The Renaissance Band, and The Concord Ensemble
Trionfo d’Amore e della Morte:
Florentine Music for a Medici Procession

Grant Herreid, lute, guitar; Greg Ingles, sackbut, percussion; Joan Kimball, shawm, recorder, bagpipe; Christa Patton, shawm, harp, bagpipe; Priscilla Smith, shawm, recorder; Robert Wiemken, shawm, dulcian, recorder, percussion; Tom Zajac, sackbut, recorder, bagpipe, percussion; Paul Flight, countertenor; Pablo Corá, N. Lincoln Hanks and Daniel Carberg, tenors; Matthew Leese, baritone; and Scott Graff, bass-baritone perform music from the Golden Age of Florence. It’s carnival time, with its triumphal wagons, lascivious songs mocking the lanzi, songs of the penitents, motets, and lively dances making up the
wide ranging repertoire of this glorious period in a fabled city’s history.
Hertz Hall, UC Berkeley Campus
Tickets and information: Berkeley Festival Box Office

Saturday, June 7
11 am to 12:30 pm
Piffaro, The Renaissance Band
Pied-Pipers of the Renaissance:
A Colorful Tour of Instruments and Music

Grant Herreid, lute, guitar; Greg Ingles, sackbut, percussion; Joan Kimball, shawm, recorder, bagpipe; Christa Patton, shawm, harp, bagpipe; Priscilla Smith, shawm, recorder; Robert Wiemken, shawm, dulcian, recorder, percussion; and Tom Zajac, sackbut, recorder, bagpipe, percussion, invite you to join them for an enchanting journey into the musical world of the 15th and 16th centuries presented on a vast and varied collection of Renaissance instruments. Hear and see shawms, sackbuts, slide trumpets, dulcians, krumhorns, recorders, bagpipes, harp, lutes, guitars, and all manner of percussion in this
program that will delight children of all ages.
Hertz Hall, UC Berkeley Campus
Tickets and information: Berkeley Festival Box Office


Glen Shannon

Saturday, June 7
3 to 4 pm
Glen Shannon, composer
Early Music Written Today!

Glen Shannon, a composer of music in historical styles, will present four pieces in three flavors. Italian Baroque will be represented by Vivaldi’s Ark Celebration Concerto, an exciting concerto for 12 (6 pairs- recorders, oboes, clarinets, trumpets, violins, cellos) plus solo cowbell and continuo, in a Very Vivaldi style. Two recorder ensemble works reminiscent of the Flemish Renaissance will be presented, and a French Baroque dance suite for traverso, oboe d’amore, violin and continuo will finish the set.
Trinity Chapel
2320 Dana at Durant
Tickets: $10 at the door
Information: www.glenshannonmusic.com, 510-525-1249

Exhibition & Music Marketplace

June 5, noon to 6 pm
June 6, 10 am to 6 pm
June 7, 10 am to 5 pm
First Congregational Church
2345 Channing Way, Berkeley

The American Recorder Society will be present at the Exhibition & Marketplace, where you can meet publishers, instrument builders, service organizations, and other early music practitioners. Free and open to the public.
Presented by Early Music America.

Additional information about the Festival can be found at
 http://bfx.berkeley.edu