Due to the upheavals from COVID-19 and the uncertainty around next season, the Silbiger Grant committee is extending the deadline for applications for the 2020-2021 season to September 1, 2020 with notification by October 1. Performances may be held any time through the end of 2021.
The 2020 Silbiger Grant concert has been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Schola Cantorum will make every effort to reschedule some time in early summer.
The VdGS-NE spring workshop led by Parthenia has been cancelled due to the COVID-19 epidemic.
The VdGS-NE Winter 2020 workshop English Composers on the Continent took place at Brandeis University on January 25,2020.
The VdGS-NE Fall 2019 workshop Mostly Maximilian took place at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley MA on Sunday, October 20, 2019. The registration deadline is September 28, 2019.
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 Spring 2019 workshop: Comme femme discomfortée: a fifteenth century song goes viral, took place at Trinity Church in Concord on April 27, 2019 and Wendy Gillespie is the Music Director.
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.