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April 10, 2010, at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, San Francisco Chalice Consort is pleased to announce the first annual Early Music Mining Conference (EMMC), which brings together performers, scholars, and listeners of early music to examine newly-discovered and edited sacred music from the Renaissance and Baroque eras, and select two pieces from those heard at the conference will be performed at a future concert by the Chalice Consort. Eventbrite is the world's larget, fastest growing social commerce company. We empower anyone to host successful live experiences of any type or size by providing an easy way to manage, promote, and sell out the event. Eventbrite brings together transactions with social interactions to allow events to live, flourish and take flight anywhere online. The net result is an intensely social transaction experience that at once helps events sell out, while creating a whirlwind of conversation and social engagement around them. Eventbrite is the engine for a new generation of live experiences. Eventbrite is privately held and backed by Sequoia Capital. For more information, go to www.eventbrite.com. About the Conference: There are hundreds of masses, motets, chants, and other such works surviving in Renaissance and Baroque choral manuscripts that have never been transcribed into modern notation. Chalice Consort is interested in helping the public rediscover some of these works written between 1400 to 1750. To facilitate this discovery, Chalice Consort will produce an annual Early Music Scholars Competition (EMSC) and the corresponding EMMC. The EMSC, as part of the EMMC, is calling for newly discovered and transcribed (i.e. never published or publicly performed) musical works from anywhere in the world that complement the focal piece of the annual conference, which will be reviewed by early music directors, Chalice Consort, and attendees at the EMMC. For the 2010 conference, the focal piece will be Thomas Ashwell’s Missa Ave Maria. Chalice Consort will screen all the music scores submitted by December 31, 2009, and select the top five pieces to present at the EMMC in April 2010. At the EMMC, Chalice Consort will sing the five selected pieces under the direction of highly respected early music directors. The performers and attendees of the conference will discuss the works and vote for their two favorite pieces, which will then be performed by Chalice Consort at an upcoming concert. You can read more about the EMSC here. This conference offers all attendees the opportunity to be introduced to new early music pieces, and to converse with eminent performers, scholars, students, and listeners of early music. There will be a moderated discussion after each piece has been sung at the Conference. The scholars are invited to discuss their submitted piece and their editorial work at the conference. The works may be recorded by Chalice Consort and available for purchase at the conference, subject to appropriate copyright issues. In future years, we hope to expand the program from a one-day conference to a two-day conference or more, and possibly produce the conference in Europe. Guest Directors & Panel Speakers Davitt Moroney (Moderator & Guest Director of Chalice Consort), UC Berkeley Jeremy Summerly (Guest Director), Royal Academy of Music David Trendell (Guest Director), King's College, London Geoffrey Webber (Guest Director), Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Date & Time: Registration: Early Bird Rates (purchase by 02/28/10) Regular Rates (purchase between March 1, 2010, and April 8, 2010) NOTE: Tickets at the door for anyone is $60. No group tickets will be available at the door. Location: St Mark’s Lutheran Church Chalice Consort is a project of Community Initiatives. |
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