Chalice Consort: Early Music Mining Conference

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.

NOTE: We regretfully announce that we are now presenting only four "newly" edited pieces rather than the originally announced five. We just learned that one of the pieces has been indeed published in the second volume of 'Gyffard' (EECM 51) in 2009, which is not yet widely available in university music libraries. Therefore in keeping true to the EMSC criteria, the Mundy's Mass upon the square 2 - Gloria has been removed from the competition. However, the editor has been invited to present her edition at the conference. (updated March 3, 2010)

This conference is sponsored by:

Early Music America serves and strengthens the early music community in North America and raises public awareness of early music. EMA was founded in 1985 and provides its 3,000 members with publications, advocacy, and technical support. Visit Early Music America on the web at www.earlymusic.org.

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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.

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.

Date & Time:
Saturday, April 10, 2010
10am to 6:30pm, doors open at 9:30am

Agenda: (updated 4/7/2010)

9:30am – 10am: Doors Open/Registration

10am – 10:20am: Opening Remarks & Introductions

10:20am - 10:40am: Thomas Ashwell "Missa Ave Maria" - Gloria

10:40am - 11:05am Michael Anderson , Eastman School of Music, Rochester NY, USA )

11:05am - 11:30am
Date of piece: pre 15th century
Composer and title: Anonymous: Office Plainchant for St. Anne
Source: Italy, Turin, Bn MS J.II.9
Scholar: Michael Anderson (Eastman School of Music, Rochester NY, USA)
Director: David Trendell

11:30am - 11:40am - Thomas Ashwell "Missa Ave Maria" - Credo

11:40am - 12:05pm - Daniel Donnelly, McGill University, Canada (via pre-recorded video)

12:05pm - 12:30pm -
Date of piece: [c.1480-90?]
Composer and title: Anonymous (attributed to Heinrich Isaac): Salve virgo sanctissima
Source: Spain , Segovia CS 15, no. 45, f. 87v-89
Scholar: Daniel Donnelly (McGill University , Montréal, Canada)
Director: Davitt Moroney

12:30pm -1:30pm - lunch break

1:30pm - 1:40pm - Thomas Ashwell "Missa Ave Maria" - Sanctus

1:40pm - 2:05 - Sean Doherty, Ireland (via pre-recorded video)

2:05pm - 2:30pm -
Date of piece: c.1520
Composer and title: Anonymous: [Vidi Aquam] Egredientem de templo
Source: Great Britain, Arundel Choirbook [Lambeth MS 1]
Scholar : Sean Doherty (Trinity College, Dublin)
Director: Jeremy Summerly

2:30pm - 2:55pm - Jessica Chisholm, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA

2:55pm - 3:20pm -
Date of piece: c.1550-57
Composer and title: William Mundy (c.1528-1591) : Gloria from the Mass upon the square
Source: Great Britain, British Library, "Gyffard" partbooks, GB-Lbl 17802-5
Scholar: Jessica Chisholm (Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA)
Director: David Trendell

3:20pm - 4pm - Afternoon tea break

4:00pm - 4:10pm - Thomas Ashwell "Missa Ave Maria" - Agnus Dei

4:10pm - 4:35pm - Peter S. Poulos, U. of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

4:35pm - 5pm -
Date of piece: 1597
Composer and title: Simone Molinaro (c.1570-1636) : Quae est ista quae progreditur
Source: Italy, Bologna: Motectorum Liber Primus (Vincenti: Venice 1597)
Scholar: Peter S. Poulos (University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA)
Director: Geoffrey Webber

5pm - 5:30pm - final panel discussion just prior to voting

5:30pm - 5:45pm - voting

5:45pm - 6pm - counting of the votes

6pm - Announcing of the winners!

Registration:
Online registration is open until April 8, 2010, at 5pm PDT

$60 General Admission
$50 Current members of Early Music America & St. Mark's Lutheran Church
$40 Students with ID & Seniors
$275 General Group Purchase for 5 people
$180 Students with ID & Seniors Group Purchase for 5 people

Half-day tickets are now available: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/584567457

$25 10am to 12:30pm General Admission
$20 10am to 12:30pm Current members of Early Music America & St. Mark's Lutheran
$15 10am to 12:30pm Students w ID & Seniors (65+)
$35 1:30pm to 6:30pm General Admission
$30 1:30pm to 6:30pm Current members of Early Music America & St. Mark's Lutheran
$25 1:30pm to 6:30pm Students w ID & Seniors (65+)

NOTE: Tickets at the door for anyone is $60. No group tickets will be available at the door.

If you want to pay by check, please email katie@chaliceconsort.org to receive instruction on where to mail the check.

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1111 O’ Farrell Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
http://stmarks-sf.org/
(415) 928-7770