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    • About >
      • Directors
      • Guest Artists & Instructors
      • What we do
      • Board & Staff
      • Venues
  • Our Ensembles
    • Sonoma Bach Choir
    • Circa 1600
    • Green Mountain Consort
    • Live Oak Baroque Orchestra
  • Concerts & Tickets
    • 2018-2019 Season >
      • Opening Recital: Tokens of Peace
      • Thanksgiving: I Fear Namore the Night
      • Early Music Christmas: Let There Be Light
      • Organ Recital: The Candle in the WInd
      • Guest Recital: The Bright Field
      • Sacred Realms: Agnus Dei
      • Spring Returns: An Affirming Flame
      • Major Works: A Human Requiem
    • Concert Tickets
    • Season Pass
    • Build Your Own Ticket Package
    • 2017-2018 Season >
      • Opening Recital: A Room with a View
      • Major Works Series: Monteverdi Vespers of 1610
      • Early Music Christmas: Windows to the Soul
      • Midwinter Recital: A New Perfection in Music
      • Organ Recital: All Roads Lead to Rome
      • Sacred Realms: The Eternal City
      • Early Music Uncorked: Musica Transalpina
      • Season Finale: A Tale of Two Cities
  • Learning & Exploration
    • Midsummer Night Sings 2018
    • Ready, Set, Sing! 2019
  • Support
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2013-14 Classes

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Flammarion Engraving 1888
Bach Talk:  Music of the Spheres
Dan Solter
  • Thursday; April 10, 2014 @ 7pm
    Event to be held at a private home.  Directions will be sent to those who RSVP
Long time Sonoma Bach Choir member Dan Solter discusses the repertoire for our final concert of the season, The Fifth Brandeburg and Three Great Cantatas, in a casual, salon-style setting.

Come with your questions for a lively evening with choir & audience members. Light refreshments provided.

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Photo: Augie Ray
Baroque Strings Workshop
Elizabeth Blumenstock, violin, director
Mary Springfels, viola da gamba
Aaron Westman, violin/viola

William Skeen, cello
Phebe Craig, harpsichord

  • Friday, January 3 - Sunday, January 5, 2014
    Sheraton Hotel
    745 Baywood Dr., Petaluma, CA 94954
    Get directions
Attention Baroque String Players! Sonoma Bach invites you to participate in a weekend workshop led by Elizabeth Blumenstock, Baroque violin and Mary Springfels, viola da gamba with Aaron Westman, Baroque violin & viola; William Skeen, cello; & Phebe Craig, harpsichord.

This intensive weekend course includes technique & repertoire classes as well as ensemble work culminating in a final performance. This exciting opportunity is open to emerging professionals, enthusiastic amateurs, & auditors who seek a grounding in the style, technique, repertoire, and rhetoric of Baroque music. Participants have the opportunity to play a variety of Baroque repertoire in both small and large ensembles by a variety of composers. Harpsichordists are also invited to apply. This workshop may serve as an introduction to Baroque technique for modern string players (you will need to tune to A=415 and have a Baroque bow - we may be able to help you find one to borrow.)

Please contact Cheryl Moore, Administrator, if you have any questions: cheryl@sonomabach.org

Fees:
  • Tuition: $250 Resident / $315 Commuter                                                                                                           
    (includes Breakfast on Saturday and Sunday; 1 ticket to faculty concert; box lunches will be available for purchase)
  • Lodging: $238 plus tax per room (Friday and Saturday night; single or double occupancy)

Application:
  • Please fill out the application form and pay the $25 application fee below by November 9, 2013.  Applications will continue to be considered until all slots are full.
  • Applicants will begin being notified of their status by 9 November 2014

Registration:
  • Registration and Fees are  due by 3 December 2013
  • Late Application and Registration will be accepted only if space permits

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Gerard van Honthorst
"Musical group on a balcony" (1622)
Ready, Set, Sing!
  • Tuesdays, January 21, 28 & February 4, 11, 2014
    Center for Spiritual Living
    2075 Occidental Rd, Santa Rosa, CA 95401
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This popular class, taught by internationally recognized countertenor Christopher Fritzsche, focuses on improving individual technique in the context of choral and solo singing. Designed for a range of singers from beginning to experienced levels, each session includes work on foundational as well as advanced technical concepts. The class is limited in size in order to give participants more individual attention. 

All participants will leave with a new understanding of their own instrument as well as tools and exercises designed specifically for them. This personalized instruction occurs in mini voice lessons that take place in the context of the class. Participants are encouraged to bring questions about vocal technique as well as specific vocal challenges to be worked on and improved in class.

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Caravaggio "Riposo durante la fuga in Egitto"
(c. 1597)
Explorachorium: 
The Renaissance Takes Flight
Robert Worth, Music Director
  • Saturday, February 22, 2014
  • 9am - 3pm
  • Penngrove Clubhouse
    385 Woodward Ave., Penngrove

You are cordially invited to join Sonoma Bach for a day of singing the winged-themed songs of Renaissance composers like Weelkes, Janequin, and Monteverdi led by Sonoma Bach's Music Director Robert Worth along with a local early-music vocal quintet.

All music will be rehearsed and performed a cappella and will focus on repertoire exploration in the tutti ensemble.  While participants need not be professional singers, some experience in small ensemble singing and a moderate sight-singing ability will be helpful.

Snacks will be provided during breaks.  Please bring your own lunch along with a pencil and a binder (to hold all the beautiful music!).

If you have any questions, please contact administrator Cheryl Moore: cheryl@sonomabach.org

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Leipzig c.1780
Bach Talk: 
J.S. Bach in Church and Chamber
Dan Solter
  • Thursday; April 10, 2014 @ 7pm
    Event to be held at a private home.  Directions will be sent to those who RSVP
Long time Sonoma Bach Choir member Dan Solter discusses the repertoire for our final concert of the season, The Fifth Brandeburg and Three Great Cantatas, in a casual, salon-style setting.
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