Dear lute friends, teachers, students, enthusiasts, April 15 is the application deadline for this summer's Baroque Academy at the Amherst Early Music Workshop, July 10â15 in New London, Connecticut. We have openings for lutenists, theorbists and baroque guitarists. Financial aid is available. Application info here. (Select "Baroque Academy for Instrumentalists. Registration fee waved for applications submitted and paid before May 1.) Baroque Academy is an auditioned, week-long, intensive workshop for professionals, pre-professionals and advanced amateurs. The central project for lute continuo players will be a staged Erismena by Cavalli in an original, seventeenth-century English singing version. The lutenists' major activity will be seventeenth-century Italianate recitative accompaniment, focussing both on ensemble and dramatic shading, through two daily rehearsal and coaching sessions. Baroque Academy participants also take part in coached chamber music ensembles and master classes. This summer's Baroque Academy also coincides with the Lute Society of America's summer workshop on the same campus. Baroque Academy students can take part in master classes with LSA faculty, and LSA attendees will be able to take part in the Cavalli. LSA is offering master classes with Nigel North and Xavier DÃaz-Latorre. I teach the Baroque Academy lute master class and lead the band for the Cavalli. Links to relevant Amherst Early Music and Lute Society website for this workshop are below. Please share this with your students, friends, colleagues, and anybody else you think might be interested. The deadline is soon, though! ⢠Amherst Early Music workshop portal: [1]http://www.amherstearlymusic.org/baroque_academy_aemf ⢠Lute Society of America portal: [2]http://www.amherstearlymusic.org/aemf_lutes âGet in touch if you've got any questions. And please pass along this message to anyone you think might be interested. Best regards, Richardââ Stone Professor of Lute and Theorbo Peabody Institute of Music Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD [3]www.peabody.jhu.edu Artistic Director Tempesta di Mare Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra Philadelphia, PA [4]www.tempestadimare.org
-- References 1. http://www.amherstearlymusic.org/baroque_academy_aemf 2. http://www.amherstearlymusic.org/aemf_lutes 3. http://www.peabody.jhu.edu/ 4. http://www.tempestadimare.org/ To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html