OCA offers a two-day workshop in Renaissance music performance for recorder featuring world renown faculty Adam Gilbert and Rotem Gilbert. By invitation to amateur players of meantone tuned recorders such as those made by Thomas Prescott, Martin Praetorius or Adrianna Breukink.
When: 20-21 July, approx 9:30 am to 4:30 pm (schedule forthcoming)
Where: Occidental Center for the Arts, 3850 Doris Murphy Ct., Occidental, CA 95465
Fee: Tuition is $200 due by July 1, 2021 for accepted participants. Includes lunch both days.
Additional information: David Benefiel 707-396-3182 or djbene@pacbell.net
Pitch will be A=440 Hz. Workshop format will be small groups, mostly one-to-a-part.
Proof of COVID-19 Vaccine required to participate, as per CA State Guidelines.
Due to limited space, registration is available by invitation only.
Rotem Gilbert
Rotem Gilbert is a native of Haifa, Israel and a founding member of Ciaramella, an ensemble specializing in music of the 15th and 16th centuries. Ciaramella has performed throughout the United States, in Belgium, Germany, and Israel, and released a CD on the Naxos Label, and two recordings with Yarlung Records. Their recent CD, Dances on Movable Ground, has earned fice stars by the British magazine Early Music Today and was picked as Editor’s Choice, lauded for its “expressive fluidity and rhythmic vitality.” She was a member of Piffaro (1996-2007) and has appeared with many early music ensembles in the United States and in Europe. After studies on recorder at Mannes College of Music, she earned her solo diploma from the Scuola Civica di Musica of Milan where she studied with Pedro Memelsdorff. She earned her doctorate in Early Music performance practice at Case Western Reserve University. She teaches musicology and Early Music courses at USC Thornton School of Music. Rotem received the 2012 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching at USC and is the joint recipient (with Adam Gilbert) of Early Music America’s 2014 Thomas Binkley Award for “outstanding achievement in performance and scholarship by the director of a university or college early music ensemble.” Rotem can be heard on the Deutsche Grammophon’s Archiv, Passacaille, Musica Americana, Dorian, Naxos and Yarlung labels.
Adam Gilbert
Adam Gilbert, musicology, recorder and historical double reeds, is one of the premier international players of the Renaissance shawm. He grew up in Columbia, South Carolina. The first graduate of the Early Music program at the Mannes College of Music in New York City, he has performed as a member of New York’s Ensemble for Early Music, the Waverly Consort and Piffaro, the Renaissance Band. He has appeared with ensembles such as Calliope, ARTEK, New York Cornet and Sackbut Ensemble, The Court Dance Company of New York, the Folger Consort, Concert Royal, The Bach Ensemble, Chatham Baroque, Newberry Consort, Canto (Colombia) and La Caccia Alta (Belgium) among others. He is also a founding member of ensemble Ciaramella, which performs concerts of fifteenth-century music in the U.S., Israel, and Belgium, and has recorded on the Naxos label.
Gilbert studied recorder at Rotterdams Conservatorium and studied in Leuven, Belgium from 1998 to 2000 as a recipient of the Fulbright and Belgian American Education Foundation Grants working on his dissertation “Elaboration in Heinrich Isaac’s Three-Voice Mass Sections and Untexted Compositions.” He completed his Ph.D. at Case Western Reserve University in 2003 and taught for two years as a visiting assistant professor at Stanford University. Gilbert can be heard on Dorian, Deutsche Grammophon’s Archiv, Passacaille, Musica Americana and Lyrichord labels. His research specialties include allusion in fifteenth-century song and Mass, pastourelles and their symbolism, improvisation, compositional processes and embellishment from 1400–1700. He lectures, gives master classes internationally and is an adjunct faculty of Tilburg Conservatorium in Holland.