Viols West Workshop 2011
Rosamund Morley, Music Director
Melita Denny, Administrative Director
August 7-13, 2011
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA

The Workshop
We offer five full days of varied classes for players at different levels. Most students take four daily classes, two smaller sessions in the morning, one in the early afternoon, and a larger voices and viols class in the late afternoon. The evening programs include faculty led large group playing sessions or lectures on topics of special interest. The faculty presents an informal concert on one evening and at the end of the week a student concert is given. Evenings also provide ample opportunities for students to form groups for self-directed playing; some faculty members can be on hand to assist in this process.

The Setting
We return to the campus of California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, CA. "SLO-town" is nestled in a broad valley six miles inland, half way between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Surrounded by gently rolling hills dotted with native oaks, its Mediterranean-like climate complements a charming downtown with a restored Mission. Both a small airport (with connecting commuter flights) and Amtrak serve the city. Our shortened Thursday schedule (no dinner served on campus) allows you to take advantage of SLO's popular Farmers’ Market night where there are plenty of choices for your dinner. In the afternoon you can spread your towel by the ocean, visit giant Morro rock and the nearby nature preserve, or tour some of the local wineries.

Housing

Housing will be in the North Mountain dormitories this year, with our general meeting space and the large classes held in one of the adjacent South Mountain dorms (the red brick buildings). We will not all be under one roof, as we have been in the past, but all the buildings are close together and there are pleasant lawns and flowers in between. The North Mountain dorms are two-story buildings with all rooms accessible from the outside. The rooms are large and comfortable and each has its own mini refrigerator. The North Mountain dorms do not have AC. The weather in August is usually pleasant, but of course we can give no guarantees. Please note that the facilities available to us are NOT fully ADA-compliant, but we do try to make it as easy on you as possible. Meals in the dining commons are a gamba-stretching stroll away. Walking trails are everywhere.

For dorm pictures see: http://www.housing.calpoly.edu/oc_futr_frsh_where_live.cfm#

Enrollment & Fees

Tuition this year is $450.00.

Room and Board is $575.00 for single rooms and $510.00 per person for doubles. Both ethernet connection and parking permit are included in residence fees.

Unfortunately, the Recreation Center will not be available to us this year as it will be under reconstruction.

A $100.00 workshop deposit must be received by July 15. The full balance is due at check-in on Sunday, August, 7, 2:30-4:30 PM. (All checks must be made payable to VdGS-Pacifica.)

IT WILL NOT BE POSSIBLE FOR ANYONE TO STAY OVERNIGHT ON SATURDAY, AUGUST 13. PLEASE PLAN ACCORDINGLY.

Questions
Classes: Ros Morley, 718 852-1247; morley.ros@gmail.com
Everything else: Melita Denny, 805-472-9036; melitadenny@netscape.net

The North Mountain dorms are on N. Perimeter Rd. between Mountain Lane and Village Dr. (See map: http://www.maps.calpoly.edu/flashmap/CalPolyMap.html. Look for buildings 100-104.) Registration will start at 2 PM on Sunday, Aug. 7. If you get to the campus early, have a look around. If you will be arriving late, PLEASE INFORM US.
For Airport or Amtrak pickup, be sure to let Melita know by mail or e-mail when and where you will be arriving. We need to know flight numbers and times of both arrival and departure. You will be picked up at the airport or the train station. For last minute changes, contact Melita on her cell phone (this number will be given to students after enrolment).

We tune at A=415
Don't forget your marked music stand, strings, tuners, rosin, pencils, etc. You can make copies in the Student Union weekdays only, or in town. Light is adequate but not brilliant; lamps and extension cords can be very useful. Linens, blankets, towels, and teensy soaps are provided. Everything else is up to you— hangers? fan? a mug for the morning coffee break?

Weather
Anything is possible. Bring a jacket or sweater for foggy mornings. Dress is casual.

Alcohol Policy
Cal Poly is a DRY campus. DO NOT go outside the dorm with "adult beverages" and DO NOT discard any such bottles in campus dumpsters or leave them behind in your room. If you bring it in, you MUST take it out with you and discard or recycle OFF CAMPUS.

Phones
Each room has a phone (free local calls, use credit card for long distance). There are pay phones in the lobby. Additional campus numbers: 7AM-9PM: 805 756-5680, and absolute emergency ONLY: 805 756-2281.

VIOLS WEST 2011 – FACULTY

Joanna Blendulf, Eugene, OR
Joanna Blendulf, on treble and bass viola da gamba and pardessus de viole, has performed and recorded with leading early music ensembles throughout the U.S. and is a sought-after instructor, coach, and masterclass teacher. She is currently performing with Wildcat Viols, the Catacoustic Consort, the Portland Baroque Orchestra, Musica Angelica and the Oregon Bach Festival Orchestra, where she is the viola da gamba soloist. Joanna has received performance degrees from the Cleveland Institute of Music and the Indiana University School of Music.

John Dornenburg, Oakland, CA
John Dornenburg teaches viol at Stanford University and is professor emeritus in music history at CSU Sacramento. He holds the Soloist's Diploma from the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, studying with Wieland Kuijken, and also studied with Nikolas Harnoncourt at the Salzburg Mozarteum. He is a member of Sex Chordae Consort of Viols, Magnificat, Music's Re-creation, Archetti Baroque Strings and appears on over 30 CD recordings of solo and chamber music for viol.

Julie Jeffrey, Richmond, CA
Julie Jeffrey has been playing the viol since 1976. She has performed throughout the U.S., in Canada, Mexico, Europe and Australia, and teaches privately and at workshops in the U.S. and abroad. Ms. Jeffrey is a member of Sex Chordae Consort of Viols, founder and creative mastermind of Wildcat Viols, and embodies half of the viol duo Hallifax & Jeffrey. She is co-founder and co-director of Barefoot Chamber Concerts, serves on the Viola da Gamba Society of America board of directors, and is a co-founder and active member of the Viola da Gamba Society, Pacifica Chapter.

Josh Lee, San Francisco, CA

Josh Lee performs on viols and double bass with some of the world's leaders in early music. Founder of the ensemble Ostraka, he has performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Carmel Bach Festival, Musica Pacifica, Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, Seattle Baroque Orchestra, Les Délices, and Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra. Josh's performances have been heard on National Public Radio's Performance Today and Harmonia, and he has recorded for Dorian, Koch International and Reference Recordings. Recently praised as “a master of the score’s wandering and acrobatic itinerary” by the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Josh is a resident of San Francisco and director of the Viola da Gamba Society of America’s Young Players’ Weekend.

Larry Lipnik, Sunnyside, NY

Larry Lipnik has performed with many acclaimed early music ensembles from Anonymous 4 and ARTEK to Piffaro and the Waverly Consort, and is a founding member of the viol consort Parthenia and vocal ensemble Lionheart. He has prepared performing editions of Monteverdi's Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria (presented by Wolf Trap Opera, for which he was also continuo gambist) and Cavalli’s La Calisto (commissioned by the Juilliard School and performed by the San Francisco Opera). In addition to performing, he enjoys a busy teaching schedule which has included national and international festivals from the Benslow Music Trust in the UK, Port Townsend Early Music Workshop, and the San Diego Early Music Festival to Pinewoods and Amherst Early Music, instructor of viol, recorder and early music performance at Wesleyan University. He is a contributor to the Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and is music editor for an upcoming authoritative edition of the original songs from Shakespeare’s plays.

Ann Marie Morgan, Broomfield, CO.

Violist da gamba and baroque cellist, Ann Marie Morgan, is active internationally as a soloist, chamber musician and recording artist. She has been viola da gamba soloist in the Bach St. Matthew and St. John Passions with the Philadelphia and the Minnesota Orchestras, under the direction of Helmuth Rilling. Her expertise on the viol has been called for at long standing Bach Festivals and she has performed with orchestras and choirs all over the United States and in Europe at the Prague Spring Festival. She has toured as soloist with Les Violons du Roy (Bernard Labadie) and continues to be in demand throughout North America. Ms. Morgan has taught at the Interlochen Center for the Arts and the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University. She gives master classes at universities across the country and recently served on the faculty at a weekend for young viol players in Boston. She teaches privately and coaches period ensembles in the Denver/Boulder area, recently serving as Interim Director of the Regis University Collegium.

Rosamund Morley, Brooklyn, NY
Rosamund Morley has performed on all the viols and their medieval ancestors with ensembles as diverse as ARTEK, Piffaro, The Boston Camerata, Sequentia and Les Arts Florissants, and she has toured worldwide with the Waverly Consort. As a longtime member of Parthenia she loves to play both early and new music. Her teaching schedule has taken her to workshops in the UK, Canada and Italy and she is regularly on the faculty of the Viola da Gamba Society's annual Conclave. She directs the viol consort for the Yale Collegium Musicum and teaches viol at Columbia University.

David Morris, Oakland, CA

David Morris is an active performer and coach specializing in the music of the 17th and 18th centuries. He performs with The King’s Noyse, the Galax Quartet, Quicksilver, the Sex Chordae Consort of Viols and NYS Baroque, and has coached at the Madison Early Music Festival, SFEMS summer and regional workshops and conclaves of the VdGSA. He received his B.A. and M.A. in Music from U.C. Berkeley, and has recorded for Harmonia Mundi, New Albion, Dorian, New World Records, Drag City Records (with Joanna Newsom) and New Line Cinema.

Craig Trompeter, Chicago, IL

Craig Trompeter, baroque cellist and violist da gamba performs and teaches throughout the United States. He appears in concert and over the airwaves with Baroque Band, Musica Maris, Urban Baroque, the Second City Musick, Chicago Opera Theater, and the Smithsonian Chamber Music Society. He has recorded on the Harmonia Mundi, Cedille, and Centaur labels. In 2003 he founded the Feldenkrais Center of Chicago where he teaches Awareness Through Movement and Functional Integration. Mr. Trompeter is artistic director of the Haymarket Opera Company.

VIOLS WEST 2011 – CLASSES

Before selecting class choices and filling out the registration form, please take a few minutes to read the new self-rating guide from the VdGSA. http://vdgsa.org/pgs/conclave-2011/2011Self-RatingGuide.pdf

FIRST MORNING CLASS

A Morning "Homeroom" Technique and Repertoire Class. Participants will be grouped according to experience and size of viol.

SECOND MORNING CLASS

It Shouldn’t Be This Easy! Connect yourself to the innate wisdom of your brain; play with ease using the simple movements of the Feldenkrais® Method. Incorporate new ways of learning in easy consort music or your own solos and duets. (Trompeter, all levels)

Bow Soul. Learn to make your bowing the most expressive it can be and implement this expressiveness in playing consort music and targeted exercises. (Morgan, all levels)

French 101. Let French style be demystified in this class while playing beautiful dance music by Lully, Charpentier and Marais arranged for viol consort. (Lee, MI)

Italian Canzonas. Play the 4-part consort music that was popular in Italy in the very early 17^th century by Guami, Cima and others. (Dornenburg, doubling possible, MI-UI)

Music of the Psalms. Musical settings of the psalms proliferated after the reformation in both vocal and instrumental forms. Explore the many different ways psalms were set to music from simple homophony to complex polyphony. Music by Goudimel, Byrd, Rossi, Sweelinck, Hassler, DuCuarroy and more. (Morley, MI-UI)

Late and Lovely. Meet notes you’ve never played before in sumptuous Italian madrigals with heart-wrenching chromaticism by Gesualdo, d’India, Luzzaschi. (Morris, MI-UI)

Brownings, Bells and Beyond. Play 5 and 6 part English viol consort music built on a variety of devices, both serious and fanciful: cantus firmus, hexachords, pop tunes, bells, trumpets and more. (Jeffrey, MI-UI)

Rhetoric and Rhythm. Explore the antecedents of the consort repertoire from the early 3 and 4 part polyphonic song settings by master poet/composer Machaut, through the beautiful polyphony of Josquin, to the musique mesurée of LeJeune and his contemporaries. (Lipnik, UI)

The Consorts of Lupo, Lawes and Hingeston. Experience the challenging, beautiful, division-filled ensemble music of these often overlooked composers and compare it to the well-known music of the beloved William Lawes! (Blendulf, UI-A)

FIRST AFTERNOON CLASS

Treble Technique. Refine your treble skills in a fun and relaxed setting with exercises that will improve your tone and make those high notes easier to find. (Blendulf, all levels)

Create Your Own Divisions. Learn the fundamentals of 17^thcentury division style while developing your technique and your ear. (Morris, all levels)

The Bowed Word. Focus on phrasing while playing vocal works by Palestrina, Lassus, Monteverdi, Ferrasbosco and more. (Lipnik, doubling possible, MI-UI)

Pavan and Galliard. See the development of these two forms from functional dance genre to sophisticated, abstract art music playing pavan/galliard pairs from Italy, France, Germany and England. (Jeffrey, LI-MI)

Byrd Bath. Cleanse your ears and your spirit while studying the marvelous consort music of William Byrd. (Morgan, MI-UI)

Apt for Vyalls and Voyces. See how the Jacobean consort composers never abandoned their love of Italian madrigals. Music by Ward, Gibbons and Coperario. (Lee and Morley, 2 sections, MI-UI)

Basking in Josquin. Explore the riches of the late 15^th and early 16^th century music by this master of the Franco-Flemish style. (Trompeter, limit 8, doubling possible, UI)

Marin Marais. Learn a different French dance each day, by playing solo music as a group. Bass and alto clef reading required. (Dornenburg, UI-A)

SECOND AFTERNOON CLASS

Voices and Viols

Musica Iberica: early to modern music from Spain, Portugal and Latin America. Llibre Vermell, Flecha, Lobo, Victoria, Guerrero to Villalobos and Piazzola. (Lipnik, for singers and players, all levels)