Amherst Early Music

Amherst Early Music Festival 2007

Connecticut College
New London, CT
July 8–15 and July 15-22, 2007

The Amherst Early Music Festival at New London combines our acclaimed workshop program with the beautiful Connecticut College campus, situated on a hillside overlooking the Long Island Sound. We offer two week-long programs of classes in Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque music and dance at all levels. Join us for either week or both. The Workshop Program is our largest, open to all, no audition required. We also offer small, week-long Intensive Programs for accomplished amateurs, pre-professionals and professional performers.

Music of Italy and the Mediterranean

Overview of Festival

July 8-15
Workshop Program: Classes in most early instruments, voice, and dance, plus:
• Baroque flute, oboe, and bassoon
• Cornetto and sackbut
• Lute Society of America Seminar
Intensive Programs
• Amherst Baroque Academy
• Baroque Opera Project: Cavalli's La Calisto, Alex Weimann, director
• Historical Dance Program
Plus:
New! Van Eyck Marathon July 8-15, 2007

In honor of the 350th anniversary of the death of Dutch recorder player and composer Jacob van Eyck, we will play all of “Der Fluyten Lust-Hof” during the first week of the Amherst Early Music Festival.

The marathon is being organized by recorder faculty members from the Netherlands, Saskia Coolen and Reine-Marie Verhagen. Recorder faculty members and advanced students are invited to participate. Marathon playing sessions will be scheduled daily throughout the week. Stay tuned for more information!

July 14-15
Music and Instrument Exhibition


July 15-22
Workshop Program: Classes in most early instruments, voice, and dance, plus:
• Historical Harp Society Conference
• Theater Project: "Petrarch's Triumphs," Grant Herreid, director
Intensive Programs
• Virtuoso Recorder
• Recorder Seminar for young adults
• Flutes and Drums around the World: A New Approach to Classroom Recording Teaching, taught by Nina Stern and Mauricio Molina