Seminars

LSA 2012 Summer Seminar

      The 2012 Lute Society of America Summer Seminar and Lute Festival, 24 through 29 June, will again take place at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.  The faculty will include some old familiar faces, Robert Barto, Doug Freundlich, Ellen Hargis, Christopher Morrongiello (along with other members of The Bacheler Consort), Nigel North, Pat O’Brien, Paul O’Dette, and Crawford Young, and we are excited to announce that Eduardo Egüez and Sylvain Bergeron will be joining the roster this time.  The Pat O’Brien Scholar will be Grant Herreid, perhaps best known for his performances with Piffaro, and the Lute Doctor will be Andrew Rutherford. Full details including schedule, registration form and fee structure have been posted.

LSA 2011 Summer Seminars

      The Lute Society of America sponsored two Summer Seminar events in conjunction with Amherst Early Music (17 – 24 July 2011) and Early Music Vancouver (1 – 5 August 2011), as we have recently in odd-numbered years.

      The faculty in Vancouver consisted of Robert Barto, Sylvain Bergeron, Pat O’Brien, Stephen Stubbs, and Grant Tomlinson, with Travis Carey providing instrument maintenance.  The coordinator for the LSA was board member Michael Miranda.

      The focus of the Seminar on the east coast was sacred music of the 16th-century in the Iberian peninsula.  The faculty included Nigel North, Grant Herried, Doug Freundlich, and Christopher Morrongiello.  Phillip Rukavina was the LSA coordinator for this Seminar.

LSA Seminar 2010

      The Lute Society of America Summer Seminar 2010 ran from Sunday afternoon, 27 June, through Saturday morning, 3 July.  The venue was once again Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.

      Attendees were able to participate in two to four daily classes or lectures and enjoy one major concert and one shorter recital per day.  Our Pat O’Brien lecturer was Stephen Stubbs.  He was also in charge of another major focus of the week, which was the preparation for a complete performance on Friday evening of Dafne, a very early opera by Marco da Gagliano.

      Faculty for the 2010 Summer Seminar included:

• Robert Barto – Concert:  Lute Music by Conradi and Weiss
• Doug Freundlich
• Gail Gillispie – Concert:  Music From the Marsh Lute Book
• Ellen Hargis (voice) – Concert:  Wait!  I’m singing now…  (accompanied by Paul O’Dette)
• Carrie Henneman Shaw (voice)
• Edward Martin
• Ronn McFarlane – Concert:  “Blame Not My Lute” (with Robert Aubry Davis, spoken word)
• Christopher Morrongiello – Concert:  1592
• Nigel North – Concert:  Lute music by Sylvius Leopold Weiss
• Pat O’Brien
• Paul O’Dette – Concert:  Concerto per L’Aquila:  Works of Marco dall’Aquila
• Phillip Rukavina
• Stephen Stubbs
• Thomas Walker, Jr.
• Crawford Young – Concert:  Quattrocento Intabulations

      Many members of the faculty presented concerts or shorter recitals during the week, as indicated above.  In addition, there were recitals by

• Duo Marchand – Concert:  My Cousin Vinny:  Shoestring Italian Relations
• Good Pennyworths – Concert:  True Love Never Did Run Smooth
• Terzetti Lute Duo – Concert:  Lute Duets from Phalèse & Besard
• The Venere Lute Quartet – Concert:  Galileo’s Father
• Christopher Wilke – Concert:  Entrée d’Apollon:  Lully and the Italian Influence in the French Baroque

Retrospectives of Past LSA Seminars

    A photographic record of the great fun that was had by all:

• 2008 – Cleveland
• 2007 – Seminar East:  Amherst
• 2007 – Seminar West:  Vancouver
• 2006 – Cleveland
• 2005 – Seminar East:  Amherst
• 2005 – Seminar West:  Vancouver
• Baroque Lute Weekend, Cleveland, October 2005
• 2004 – Cleveland
• 2003 – Vancouver
• 2002 – Cleveland
• 2001 – Vancouver
• 2000 – Cleveland

    A more complete listing of the Seminars that have been
sponsored by the Lute Society of America can be found
on our History page.

International Seminars

•  The Third International Festival of Lute Societies (Previously called the European Lute Festival) was held in Gijòn Spain, 16 – 19 July 2011 in conjunction with the 7th annual meeting of the Sociedad de la Vihuela.  Some videos appear on YouTube documenting the recital performed by Phillip Rukavina and Edward Martin, who represented the LSA at that event.
•  The Second European Lute Festival took place in Füssen im Allgäu, Germany, 21 – 24 May 2010, under the sponsorship of the Deutsche Lautengesellschaft.  In conjunction with the Festival there was also to be a two-day conference, “Lute making in the Füssen-region and Northern Italy during the 15th – 18th Century, migration and interactions among lute makers.”
•  The Seventh Early Music Workshop & Concert Series of the Association Guitare et Luth took place in Gruyères, Switzerland, 22 – 29 August 2010.  The focus was the baroque violin and German Baroque music for bowed strings.
•  Les Journées du Luth 2008 of the Société de Luth Français – 25, 26 & 27 January 2008, Toulouse.  Masterclasses, concerts and exposition.  Recto (121 KB) & verso (352 KB) of the flyer.
•  Fifth Annual Meeting of the Sociedad de la Vihuela – 30 October – 2 November 2009, Valencia, Spain.
•  Festival de Luth de la Société de Luth de la Nouvelle-France, 14 – 16 May 2004.