Amherst Early Music Events
Memorial Day Weekend Workshop May 24-27, 2013
Amherst Early Music Festival
Music of the British Isles
Directed by Frances Blaker
July 7-14 and 14-21, 2013
Connecticut College, New London CT
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The Amherst Early Music Festival is America's largest and most comprehensive early music workshop. All levels are welcome, from intermediate up, with no audition necessary. The exciting offerings at AEMF 2013 include:
❧ 2 weeks of classes for amateurs and pre-professionals - come for one or both!
❧ NEW all-day English Country Dance program called New London Assembly
❧ The Flanders Recorder Quartet
❧ Lute Society of America Seminar East
❧ Expanded offerings for singers
❧ Largest recorder program in North America
❧ Historical dance program Reed and brass program, from Renaissance to Baroque
❧ New viol program with emphasis on earlier repertoire and vielle
❧ Early notation program, multi-level from beginner to advanced
❧ Nina Stern and Glen Velez on traditional music for recorder and frame drum
❧ Festival Concert Series
❧ Music and Instrument Exhibition
Intensive audition-only programs this year:
❧ Baroque Academy and Opera: Henry Purcell's The Fairy Queen
❧ Recorder Boot Camp
❧ Virtuoso Recorder
❧ Recorder Seminar
❧ Ensemble Singing Intensive
