The board members of the Viola da Gamba Society - New England all feel that this fiscal year would be a good time to show our appreciation for the current recording/corresponding secretary, Martha Davison. It is high time that Martha be recognized for all that she has done, and continues to do, to support and promote viol playing in New England and beyond.
Powers Music School, founded by VdGS-NE founder Ellen Powers, remains a center for Boston area viol activities, offering both private lessons and coached consorts with Jane Hershey. Several classes meet weekly during the year at various levels including consorts for experienced players, and and an ensemble skills class for those who want development in the […]
The VdGS-NE is pleased to announce that the fall workshop will take place on October 20th at Mt. Holyoke College in Western Massachusetts.
The VdGS-NE announces its Spring 2019 workshop: Comme femme discomfortée: a fifteenth century song goes viral. The workshop takes place at Trinity Church in Concord on April 27, 2019 and Wendy Gillespie is the Music Director.
Applications for the 2019-2020 Gian Lyman Silbiger grant for performances featuring voices and viols are now being accepted by the grant committee.
The VdGS-NE winter workshop took place at Brandeis University on Saturday February 2, 2019. The topic was “Motets of Alfonso Ferrabosco II” and the Music Director is Hannah Davidson.
The Fall 2018 workshop took place on Saturday, November 3, at Brandeis University. In the workshop, entitled “This is the Record of Orlando: Verse Anthems and Consort Songs,” music director Sheila Beardslee lead participants through verse anthems of Gibbons and his contemporaries.
The VdGS-NE Silbiger Committee is proud to announce that the 2018-2019 Silbiger Grant has been awarded to Emmanuel Church of Boston, for an April. 14, 2019 Palm Sunday 11:00am service. The Emmanuel Church’s professional choir is directed by Ryan Turner, and the viol player/organizer for the service is Laura Jeppesen. The music will be selections […]
On Tuesday, July 10, the VdGS-NE helped present This Cross Upon My Breast, the 2018 Silbiger Grant performance. Joshua Garvey, with a viol consort assembled by Hannah Davidson, performed works by Dowland and gave the New England premiere of John Harbison’s The Cross of Snow. A review of the performance follows.
This year’s spring workshop took place at Brandeis University on Sunday, April 29. The theme of the workshop was “Music at the Württemberg Court and beyond” with directors, Anne Legêne and Karen Burciaga, members of Long and Away Consort of Viols. Local coordinators were Hannah Davidson and Alexandra Hawley. For a full description, see Workshop Flyer.
The 2017 winter workshop took place on Saturday, January 27 at Brandeis University, and was directed by Patricia Ann Neely. The title of the workshop: “William White and Shades of White – William White and his Contemporaries”.