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Enhance your technique and ensemble playing during an intensive workshop with director Letitia Berlin and other stellar faculty. Two fabulous weeks - choose either week or both! Week #1 October 27 - November 2, 2024.
2024 Theme
Continental Connections: Exploring the relationships between native composers and émigrés in Italy and Germany from 1300 - 1750 and beyond. Musicians often traveled far from home, going where the work called them. European courts vied for teh best composers, singers, and instrumentalists, luring them with competing salaries and prestigious positions. The result? A rich blend of Franco-Flemish with Italian styles, and English and Italian influences on German genres. This year we'll explore the distinct styles of these countries and the gorgeous new sounds created by contact with "foreign" composers and colleagues.
Week 2: November 3 - 9, 2024
Recorder, viol, dulcian, & shawm technique classes geared toward application of technique practice to the repertoire - making music out of notes! Master class and consort classes.
Workshop Directors, Letitia Berlin and Lawrence Lipnik
All-Workshop Orchestra, conducted by Frances Blaker
Recorder Faculty, Letitia Berlin, Frances Blaker, and Lawrence Lipnik
Viola da gamba Faculty, Lawrence Lipnik and Mary Springfels
Dulcian/shawm Faculty, Marilyn Boenau
Dulcian consort class, Letitia Berlin
Location
The workshop takes place at the Hidden Valley Music Seminars, An Institute of the Arts in Carmel Valley, California, nestled amongst oak and buckeye trees below majestic hillsides. Along with our rich opportunities for music making, bird watching and walking can be enjoyed nearby.
Schedule
The workshop includes four daily classes, morning exercise/dance, and impromptu group playing. Wednesday includes a free afternoon to explore the beautiful Carmel Valley area, play music, or just relax!
And there's more!
- Evening tutti playing sessions – all welcome (in addition to recorders and viols, bring your krummhorns and other reed instruments if you have them)
- Evening playing sessions, led by YOU! Bring your favorite pieces and be a conductor for an evening!
- Faculty Concert on Thursday eveing
- Student Concert on Friday before dinner
- Open Mic on Friday after dinner
- Happy Hour every day
COVID Prevention Measures
Road Scholar no longer requires COVID vaccination, though keeping up to date on covid and flu vaccinations and boosters is strongly recommended.
Hidden Valley requires testing and isolation measures that go above the current Road Scholar policies for the Early Music program in 2024. Details will be posted closer to the program start.
Instrument Information/Level
The Road Scholar Recorder/Early Music Workshop is open to adult recorder, viol, dulcian, and shawm players of all ages who play at intermediate to advanced levels. Recorder players must be able to play at least one F instrument and one C instrument.
This program week includes a renaissance reeds track (dulcian/shawm) which is open by audition. Please contact the workshop director, Tish Berlin tishberlin@sbcglobal.net to arrange an online audition.
Harpsichordists also welcome. Harpsichordists, please contact music director, Tish Berlin tishberlin@sbcglobal.net before registering. All participants must bring their own instruments.
Registration
There is a new Road Scholar policy that all programs will be closed to enrollment 35 days before they start. This means that you MUST register for the Early Music Workshop week #1 through Road Scholar by Saturday September 28th. Road Scholar does not offer any exceptions to this rule.
To register by telephone, call Road Scholar Registration toll-free at 1-800-454-5768 and ask for program number #6254. To register online Click here.
For more information contact Hidden Valley at info@hiddenvalleymusic.org or (831) 659-3115.