Chalice Consort Early Music Conference

April 14, 2012, San Francisco


(Photo of then Chalice Consort taken by Stephen Saxon, April 10, 2010)

Chalice Consort is pleased to announce Chalice Consort Early Music Conference 2012(CCEMC), which brings together performers, scholars, and listeners of early music to examine newly-discovered and edited sacred music from the Renaissance and Baroque eras, and select the top piece from those heard at the conference will be performed at a future concert by the Chalice Consort.

About the Conference:

There are hundreds of masses, motets, chants, and other such works surviving in Renaissance and Baroque choral manuscripts that have never been transcribed into modern notation. Chalice Consort is interested in helping the public rediscover some of these works written between 1400 to 1750.

To facilitate this discovery, Chalice Consort produces an annual Early Music Scholars Competition (EMSC) and the corresponding CCEMC.

The EMSC, as part of the CCEMC, is calling for newly discovered and transcribed (i.e. never published or publicly performed) musical works from anywhere in the world that complement the focal piece of the annual conference, which will be reviewed by early music directors, Chalice Consort, and attendees at the CCEMC. For the 2012 conference, the focal piece will be John Sheppard's (c.1515-1558) Reges Tharsis. Chalice Consort will screen all the music scores submitted and select the top five pieces to present at the CCEMC in April, 14 2012. At the CCEMC, Chalice Consort will sing the five selected pieces under the direction of highly respected early music directors. The performers and attendees of the conference will discuss the works and vote for their favorite piece, which will then be performed by Chalice Consort at an upcoming concert. You can read more about the EMSC here.

This conference offers all attendees the opportunity to be introduced to new early music pieces, and to converse with eminent performers, scholars, students, and listeners of early music.

There will be a moderated discussion after each piece has been sung at the Conference. The scholars are invited to discuss their submitted piece and their editorial work at the conference. The works may be recorded by Chalice Consort and available for purchase at the conference, subject to appropriate copyright issues.

In future years, we hope to expand the program from a one-day conference to a two-day conference or more, and possibly produce the conference in Europe.

Guest Directors & Panel Speakers

Davitt Moroney (Moderator & Director of Chalice Consort), UC Berkeley

Jeremy Summerly (Guest Director), Royal Academy of Music, London

David Trendell (Guest Director), King's College, London

Kerry McCarthy (Panelist), Duke University

Peter Poulos (Panelist), U. of Cincinnati, 2010 CCEMC winner

Date & Time:
Saturday, April 14, 2012
10am to 4pm, doors open at 9:30am

Agenda:
10:00am – 10:15am    Introduction of panelists

10:15am – 10:30am    John Sheppard’s Reges Tharsis performance by Chalice Consort

10:30am – 11:15am    Alma Redemptoris Mater by Anonymous (composed between c.1513-1525),
edited by Francis Bevan

11:15am – 12:00pm    Magi veniunt ab Oriente by Jean Larchier (unknown; fl. 1543-1555); edited by Francis Bevan

12:00pm – 1:00pm      Lunch

1:00pm – 1:45pm        Da Pacem Domine by Alfonso Ferrabosco the Elder (c. 1543-1588); reconstructed by James Apgar

1:45pm – 2:30pm        In die tribulationis by Alfonso Ferrabosco the Elder (c. 1543-1588; reconstructed by James Apgar

2:30pm – 3:15pm       Voting & Break

3:15pm – 3:30pm       Announcement of winner

Registration: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/2136390000
Note: online registration closes on April 13, 2011 at 5pm PDT

$25 General Admission ($5 discount if purchased online)
$20 EMA, SFEMS members & seniors ($5 discount if purchased online)
$10 FT Students (free if registered online)

Half-day tickets are available:
$20 (10am to 1pm); ($5 discount if purchased online)
$15 (10am to 1pm) - EMA, SFEMS members & seniors;($5 discount if purchased online)
$5 (10am to 1pm); (free if registered online)

$20 (1pm to 4pm); ($5 discount if purchased online)
$15 (1pm to 4pm) - EMA, SFEMS members & seniors; ($5 discount if purchased online)
$5 (1pm to 4pm); (free if registered online)

If you want to pay by check, please email chaliceconsort@yahoo.com to receive instruction on where to mail the check.

Location: St. Matthew's Lutheran Church, 3281 16th Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
Directions

Past CCEMC Winners:
2010 - Quae est ista by Simone Molinaro (c.1570-1633), edited by Peter Poulos

Chalice Consort is a project of Community Initiatives.

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