2025 Festival Classes Week 2

Participants who have registered will receive a link to choose their classes. (coming soon!)
Pitch for classes is A=440 unless otherwise noted.

Early Morning Class Period: 9:00 - 10:30 a.m.

Early Notation: Das Glogauer Liederbuch, with Annette Bauer

open to all instrumentalists with prior notation experience (intermediate/advanced).

Building Up to Bach with Emily Eagen

For singers.

Recorder Masterclass with Saskia Coolen

For recorders.

The Art of Recorder Consort Playing: Turning Notes into Music

With Héloïse Degrugillier, Eric Haas, Na’ama Lion; for all levels of recorder

Sarah’s Recorder Gym! with Sarah Jeffery

For intermediate recorders.

Renaissance Recorder Consort

With Rotem Gilbert and Wendy Powers; for players familiar with Renaissance recorder fingerings who own or can borrow Renaissance consort recorders (for example Prescott, Livirghi, Ohanessian).

Introduction to Renaissance Recorders: Made Together, Played Together! with Patricia Petersen

For upper intermediate to advanced players who are new to Renaissance consort recorders.

Double Trouble, a Reed Potpourri

With Daniel Stillman and Wouter Verschuren, for upper-intermediate to advanced shawms and dulcianss.

Sackbut, or Getting down to Brass Tacks, with Liza Malamut

For sackbut players.

Cornetto Revealed, With Kris Kwapis

For cornetto players.

Before and After: Musical culture in Germany leading up to the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648)

With Rosamund Morley, Patricia Ann Neely; for viols.

Harpsichord Masterclass

Faculty to be announced, for harpsichords.

Coffee Break 10:30 - 11:00 a.m.

Late Morning Class Period: 11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.

Concord of Brethren: Music from Leipzig and Dresden at the Dawn of the Baroque, with Lawrence Lipnik

For recorders and viols (singers welcome, recorders reading alto up may be required. Viols please note that class pitch is A=440.)

Polychoral Ensembles

With Liza Malamut and Rotem Gilbert, for cornetto, sackbut, shawm, and dulcian.

Polychoral Ensembles: Music of Venice and Seville

With Liza Malamut, Wouter Verschuren; for upper intermediate cornetto, sackbut, shawm, dulcian.

Renaissance Viol Consort: What’s in a Name? Elselein, Kätterlein and friends, with Rosamund Morley

For Renaissance viols (instruments will be available on loan for players)

Harpsichord Topic Class

Faculty to be announced, for harpsichords.

Early Afternoon Class Period: 1:45 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Notation: It’s Printed! with Patricia Petersen

For recorders. Familiarity with C clefs and duple meter notation expected.

A Proper Polyphony: Chants & Motets from the Choralis Constantinus with Tracy Cowart

For singers.

Renaissance Recorders Consort

With Tish Berlin and Héloïse Degrugillier; for players familiar with Renaissance recorder fingering who own or can borrow Renaissance consort recorders (for example Prescott, Livirghi, Ohanessian).

Praetorius: Dances from Terpsichore with Teresa Deskur

For intermediate recorders.

Getting into Contemporary Techniques with Sarah Jeffery

For upper intermediate to advanced recorders

Going Dutch with Saskia Coolen

For intermediate to upper-intermediate recorders

Carmina Burana with Annette Bauer

Open to instrumentalists and singers, and those who are comfortable doing both!

Renaissance Flute Consort with Na'ama Lion

For Renaissance flutes at A=440.

Lassus with Wouter Verschuren

For advanced loud players.

The Pomeranian Lassus with Daniel Stillman

For cornetto, sackbut, dulcian.

Sacred German Motets with Kris Kwapis

For upper-intermediate to advanced cornetto, sackbut, dulcian, continuo.

Lust und Freud with Marilyn Boenau

For shawms and bass dulcian.

Musical Banquets and Games: Festive Consorts for Viols from Northern Germany c. 1600

With Larry Lipnik and Patricia Ann Neely, for viols.

Tenorlied with Shira Kammen

For intermediate to advanced soft instruments of all kinds, and singers.

Fun with Schemata, with Alissa Duryee

For harpsichordists of all levels.

Late Afternoon Class Period: 3:30 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.

Early Notation: Music from 16th century German prints with Annette Bauer

Open to all instrumentalists and singers - basic notation experience required.

Renaissance Theory with Loren Ludwig

Open to all.

Baroque Ensembles

Faculty will be drawn from the following: Coolen, Degrugillier, Duryee, Gilbert, others tba; for voice, recorder, flute, oboe, bassoon, viol, violin, harpsichord, other.

Vocal Technique with Historical Inspirations for the 21st-Century Singer with Emily Eagen

For singers of all levels.

Alles zusammen: German baroque music for recorder ensemble with Sarah Jeffery

For upper intermediate recorders.

The Wittenberg Nightingale: Martin Luther & Music with Wendy Powers

For intermediate to upper intermediate soft instruments (renaissance flute, recorder, viol, other soft instruments) and voices.

Music Appreciation – or how to recognize and enjoy what you are hearing when you listen to music with Frances Blaker

For all musicians.

Teacher and Student: Isaac and Senfl with Patricia Petersen

For upper intermediate to advanced recorders.

Renaissance Flute Consort: Musica Teutsch with Eric Haas

For Renaissance flutes.

Spaghetti Spätzle: Italian German Fusion in 17th Century Madrigals with Kris Kwapis

For upper-intermediate to advanced cornetto, sackbut, dulcian, continuo

Vox Humana with Liza Malamut

For advanced singers, sackbuts, cornetti, and dulcians.

Dulcian Ensemble with Wouter Verschuren

For upper-intermediate to advanced dulcians.

Beginning Renaissance Reeds with Marilyn Boenau

Open to all.

The Bamberg Manuscript with Shira Kammen

For intermediate to advanced soft instruments of all kinds, and singers.

Musica Musarum Germana “Music, Sister of the Muses": Works for Renaissance Viol Consort with Lawrence Lipnik

For Renaissance viols (instruments will be available on loan for players).

From Voice to Viols with Rosamund Morley

For intermediate viols.

Percussion with Spiff Wiegand: Dum Without Doom!

All are welcome.