The American Bach Soloists are pleased to announce their 3rd Annual Free Choral Workshop to be held on
Saturday January 29, 2011
Check-in: 9:30 a.m.
Workshop:
10:00 to 4:00 p.m.
at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church in San Francisco
1111 O'Farrell Street - parking information
At this workshop, Maestro Jeffrey Thomas will explore issues of Baroque vocal technique, phrasing, tempos, choral balance, and rhetoric in Bach’s Motets including "Jesu, meine Freude," excerpts from Bach's Magnificat, and motets by Antonio Lotti.
Help support our free choral workshops with a donation.
ABS is proud to bring this workshop to the Bay Area community completely free of charge and we hope to continue doing so each year. Jeffrey Thomas is insistent that we keep these workshops free, but we've heard from some of you who think we're a bit nutty not to charge at least a nominal fee. If you share that sentiment, we would like to make it easy for you to contribute to this program. Simply click the Donate button below and enter $10, $15, $20, or any amount you like! It's optional and entirely up to you. Thanks for considering it!
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JEFFREY THOMAS is Artistic and Music Director of the American Bach Soloists, with whom he has directed and conducted recordings of more than 25 cantatas, the Mass in B Minor, Musical Offering, motets, chamber music, as well as works by Schütz, Pergolesi, Vivaldi, Haydn, and Beethoven. He has appeared with the Baltimore, Berkeley, Boston, Detroit, Houston, National, Rochester, Minnesota, and San Francisco symphony orchestras; with the Vienna Symphony and the New Japan Philharmonic; with virtually every American baroque orchestra; and in Austria, England, Germany, Italy, Japan, and Mexico. Before devoting all of his time to conducting, he was one of the first recipients of the San Francisco Opera Company's prestigious Adler Fellowships, and was cited by the Wall Street Journal as "a superstar among oratorio tenors," Educated at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Manhattan School of Music, and the Juilliard School of Music, with further studies in English literature at Cambridge University, he has taught at the Amherst Early Music Workshop, Oberlin College Conservatory Baroque Performance Institute, San Francisco Early Music Society, and Southern Utah Early Music Workshops. He is the holder of the Barbara K. Jackson Chair in Choral Conducting at the University of California at Davis. |
