Early Music Day at Stony Brook University
Monday, March 3, 2014
Saturday, March 2, 2013
Sunday, March 3, 12-3 PM
Friday, February 15, 2013
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Third Annual Early Music Day: March 18, 2012
Sunday March 18 2012, 12-3 pm
Staller Center for the Arts on Stony Brook's main campus (off of Nicolls Rd)
Stony Brook University's Music Department blasts back in time for its third annual Early Music Day. An open-house atmosphere will allow attendees to explore every aspect of music from the Baroque, Renaissance and even Medieval periods. Included are abundant demonstrations on early instruments and music performances.
FREE Admission. All ages. Come and go as you please. Performances and Demonstrations by the Stony Brook Baroque Ensemble, graduate music majors, and guest artists. Bring your sheet music if you are a musician.
Period Instrument Demos on:
Keyboards: harpsichord, fortepiano, virginal, portative organ, clavichord, organ
Strings: violin, viola, cello, viola da gamba, violone, harp, guitar
Percussion: timpani, tenor drum, tambourine
Brass: horn, cornet, trumpet
Woodwinds: oboe, bassoon, flute traverso
Featured Presenters:
The Gregorian Chant Group at Stony Brook
Harpsichord Builder Allan Winkler
Followed by a "Baroque Sundays at 3" concert:
Sang Joon Park – One of the greatest Baroque flautists of his generation, and past winner of the Samuel Baron Award brings his new group, Aula Harmoniae to the Staller Center (Professor Arthur Haas, harpsichord; Martha McGaughey, gamba). Featured will be French Baroque masterpieces and newly discovered Spanish flute repertoire.
For more information, please email Bethany.Cencer@stonybrook.edu
Early Music Day 2012
Sunday, March 18, 12-3 PM
Schedule of Events
Please note: you are free to come and go to events as you please. Explore the different instruments!
(* indicates opportunity for visitors to touch and play instruments.)
Second Floor
Lobby Ensemble Music
Stony Brook Baroque Ensemble Members and Robert Warner, harpsichord
2309 Baroque Violin
Hyewon Kim
2310 Baroque Bass String Instruments: Cello, Viola da Gamba, Violone
Josh Schwalbach, Peeter Coco, Mohit Mansukhani
2313 Baroque Woodwinds: Oboe, Bassoon, Flute (flute 2-3 pm only)
Glenda Bates, Jessica Kunttu, Laurie Baefsky
2314 Lecture/Demonstration on French dances (1:30-3 pm, presentations every half hour)
Caren Abramoff
2315 *Introduction to Harpsichord Building
Allan Winkler
2318 Renaissance Harp (1-3 pm, presentations every half hour)
Rachel Brandewein
2319 *Harpsichord Lessons
Anna Parkitna
2322 Harpsichord Recital (12:45-2:45 pm, please enter/exit quietly)
Students of Arthur Haas
2338 *Brass and Organ: Natural Horn, Cornetto, Valveless Trumpet, Portative Organ
Amanda Tabor, Luke Balslov, Stephen Gamboa
2343 *Fortepiano and Virginal (12:30-3 pm)
Joyce Chen
Third Floor
3317 Stony Brook Chant Group (performances begin at 1 & 2)
Michael Richardson, David Blake, Jacek Blaszkiewicz, Christopher Reames, J.J. Hudson
3319 *Clavichord
Jeff Schaufeld
3331 *Baroque Percussion: timpani, side drum, tambourine
Megan Bednarz
3352 Baroque Guitar
Barkley Heuser
Thank you to the following individuals for assisting with this event:
Michael Hershkowitz, Director of Concerts and Community Education
Paul Newland and the Staller Center for the Arts
Dr. Judith Lochhead, Chair of the Stony Brook Music Department
Anna Reguero for publicity assistance
Andrea Paldy, writer for The Village Times Herald
All of the participants for volunteering their time and talents
Harpsichord movers and tuners
Harpsichordists:
Bethany Cencer
Joyce Chen
Stephen Gamboa
Laurence Vesyoly
Robert Warner
Greeters:
Natalie Kress
Laurence Vesyoly
Bill Wolf
***Events are ongoing unless specified otherwise. Note that the Gregorian chant group will sing from 1-1:30 and 2-2:30 only.
Link to Allan Winkler's homepage: http://www.mindspring.com/~
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Early Music Day 2011 Events
COME AND GO AS YOU PLEASE…
12-1 PM Events
THIRD FLOOR
3317 “Stony Brook Early Music Choir”
Enjoy the soothing sound of medieval chant and organum, performed by an à capella choir. ~Michael Richardson, musicologist and director
3319 “Quiet, Yet Commanding” Hands-on Clavichord Demo with Jeff Schaufeld
3331 “Harpsichord Hurrah” Harpsichord Demo/Lessons with Anna Parkitna
SECOND FLOOR
LOUNGE (NEAR ELEVATOR) “Recorders Represent” Recorder Demos with John Bracco
2310 “The Other Harp” Baroque Harp Demo with Christa Patton
2314 “Seventeenth-Century Strum” Baroque Guitar with Yannis Petridis
2318 “Elizabethan Splendor” English Virginal and Portative Organ Demos/Lessons
with Satono Norizuki
2322 “Strings with Attitude” Baroque Violin & Viola Demos with Kristi Hendricks and Emmy Holmes-Hicks
BASEMENT
Rm 0066 12:15-1 pm “Renaissance Dance Workshop” All ages/no experience necessary.
Learn how people danced in the 1500s: fun, easy to learn dance steps accompanied by live music!
~Dorothy Olsson (Director, New York Historical Dance Company)
0111 1230-1:10 pm “Baroque Jam Session” All ages
For all musicians and instruments (bring your own instrument, or play the school’s harpsichord or Baroque percussion). Music is provided. Casual atmosphere.
~Stephen Gamboa (harpsichordist and conductor)
1-2 PM Events
THIRD FLOOR
3319 “Quiet, Yet Commanding” Hands-on Clavichord Demo with Jeff Schaufeld
3331 “Harpsichord Hurrah” Harpsichord Demo/Lessons with Anna Parkitna
3354 “Romantic or Baroque?” Interpreting a Vivaldi Aria with Elena Mindlina
1-2 PM Events cont.
SECOND FLOOR
LOUNGE (NEAR ELEVATOR) “Recorders Represent” Recorder Demos with John Bracco
2310 “The Other Harp” Baroque Harp Demo with Christa Patton
2314 “Seventeenth-Century Strum” Baroque Guitar with Yannis Petridis
2315 “Recital Renditions”
Professor Haas and his students perform a potpourri of harpsichord music. Walk-ins welcome.
2318 “Elizabethan Splendor” English Virginal and Portative Organ Demos/Lessons
with Satono Norizuki
2322 “Strings with Attitude” Baroque Violin & Viola Demos with Kristi Hendricks and Emmy Holmes-Hicks
2343 “Not Your Mother’s Piano” Fortepiano Demo/Lessons with Marie Blair
BASEMENT
0111 1:20-2 pm “Baroque Jam Session” All ages
For all musicians and instruments (bring your own instrument, or play the school’s harpsichord or Baroque percussion). Music is provided. Casual atmosphere.
~Stephen Gamboa (harpsichordist and conductor)
0113 “Woodwind Wonders” Baroque Flute and Oboe Demo/Performance
with Glenda Bates and Robert Warner
2-3 PM Events
THIRD FLOOR
3317 “Stony Brook Early Music Choir”
Enjoy the soothing sound of medieval chant and organum, performed by an à capella choir. ~Michael Richardson, musicologist and director
3319 “Quiet, Yet Commanding” Hands-on Clavichord Demo with Jeff Schaufeld
3331 “Harpsichord Hurrah” Harpsichord Demo/Lessons with Anna Parkitna
SECOND FLOOR
LOUNGE (NEAR ELEVATOR) “Recorders Represent” Recorder Demos with John Bracco
2310 “The Other Harp” Baroque Harp Demo with Christa Patton
2314 “Seventeenth-Century Strum” Baroque Guitar with Yannis Petridis
2315 “Recital Renditions”
Professor Haas and his students perform a potpourri of harpsichord music. Walk-ins welcome.
2-3 PM Events cont.
2318 “Elizabethan Splendor” English Virginal and Portative Organ Demos/Lessons
with Satono Norizuki
2322 “Strings with Attitude” Baroque Violin & Viola Demos with Kristi Hendricks and Emmy Holmes-Hicks
2343 “Not Your Mother’s Piano” Fortepiano Demo/Lessons with Marie Blair
BASEMENT
0113 “Woodwind Wonders” Baroque Flute and Oboe Demo/Performance
with Glenda Bates and Robert Warner
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3 PM: BAROQUE SUNDAYS AT 3 CONCERT TODAY (FREEWILL DONATION)
RECITAL HALL (ENTER OUTSIDE THROUGH STALLER CENTER)
“The Gift of Song” - Come to hear some of the most endearing vocal music from the Baroque period for singers and instruments. This concert features cantatas, songs, and excerpts from operatic masterpieces.