One of the most exciting and varied components of every Berkeley Festival is The Fringe, a series of self-produced concerts by soloists and ensembles from around the world. Please note that Fringe events are independently produced and priced. Tickets are available at the door or directly from the artists.
Check the calendar listings below for detailed concert information, artist bios and programs.
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Saturday, May 31, 2014
Bach Se Piace–Katherine Heater, Elisabeth Reed, and Anthony Martin
Sonatas for Harpsichord, Violin, and Viola da Gamba BWV 1018, 1019, & 1027
8:00 PM Saturday, May 31
TRINITY CHAPEL – 2320 Dana Street, between Bancroft and Durant
Tickets available at the door. Prices: $15 general admission, $10 students, seniors, and disabled.
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Sunday, June 1, 2014
Robin Snyder, Mark Grote, Michelle Levy and Kathryn Canan
He Said, She Said: Troubadours Debate the Laws of Love
2:00 PM Sunday, June 1
UNIVERSITY LUTHERAN CHAPEL – 2425 College Avenue
Tickets available at the door. Prices: $15 general, $10 students and seniors.
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Charites
La Voce Meravigliosa: The Music of Luzzaschi, Monteverdi, and Strozzi
2:00 PM Sunday, June 1
LOPER CHAPEL, FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH – 2345 Channing Way (entrance at Dana and Durant)
Tickets available at the door. Price: $15.
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Lacuna Arts Chorale
Singet dem Herrn: Sacred Choral Works of the Baroque
3:00 PM Sunday, June 1
ST. CLEMENT’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH – 2837 Claremont Boulevard, Berkeley
Tickets available at the door. Prices: $15 general admission, $10 SFEMS members, students, and seniors.
Monday, June 2, 2014
John Lutterman and Friends
Virtuoso cello and gamba music
11:00 AM Monday, June 2
UNIVERSITY LUTHERAN CHAPEL – 2425 College Avenue
Tickets available in advance or at the door. Prices: $15-20.
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Ensemble Vermillian and Les Violettes
The Rose and the Bear
12:00 PM Monday, June 2
TRINITY CHAPEL – 2320 Dana Street, between Bancroft and Durant
Tickets available at the door. Prices: $15 adults; $10 students and seniors; free for children 10 and under.
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Artists’ Vocal Ensemble (AVE): Resonance
Wise and Foolish Virgins
12:00 PM Monday, June 2
SANCTUARY, ST. MARK’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH – 2300 Bancroft Way
Tickets available at the door. Price: $20.
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Bertamo Trio and Friends
The Nations: Concerti, Sonatas and Suites
2:30 PM Monday, June 2
TRINITY CHAPEL – 2320 Dana Street, between Bancroft and Durant
Tickets available at the door and in advance (contact). Prices: $15 at the door, $10 in advance.
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Franklin Lei, lutenist
Reichardt’s Choice: Bach, Weiss and Giuliani
5:30 PM Monday, June 2
TRINITY CHAPEL – 2320 Dana Street, between Bancroft and Durant
Tickets available at the door. Prices: $15 general; $10 seniors, disabled, students, SFEMS members.
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Tuesday, June 3, 2014
The Albany Consort
The Life of Mary II: Music by Henry Purcell
11:00 AM Tuesday, June 3
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION – 2601 Durant Avenue
Tickets available in advance or at the door. Prices: $15-20.
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Frances Feldon and the Galax Quartet
Wingin’ It: New Compositions, Baroque Music & Improvisations Inspired by Birds
12:00 PM Tuesday, June 3
TRINITY CHAPEL – 2320 Dana Street, between Bancroft and Durant
Tickets available at the door. Donation suggested.
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Alice’s Renaissance String Band
Jewels from England’s Crown
1:00 PM Tuesday, June 3
ST. JOSEPH OF ARIMATHEA CHAPEL – 2316 Bowditch Street, between Bancroft and Durant
Tickets available at the door. Donation suggested.
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Doris Williams, Lute and Soprano
A Renaissance of Love Expressed
1:00 PM Tuesday, June 3
PARISH HALL, ST. MARK’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH – 2300 Bancroft Way
Tickets available at the door. Price: $15/$10.
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Zoe Vandermeer and Howard Kadis
Cinquecento: Italian Music of the 16th Century
3:00 PM Tuesday, June 3
TRINITY CHAPEL – 2320 Dana Street, between Bancroft and Durant
Tickets available at the door. Prices: $15 General Admission; $10 for SFEMS members, seniors, and students.
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Derek Tam, harpsichord
La marche des Scythes: French harpsichord music of the 18th century
3:30 PM Tuesday, June 3
LOPER CHAPEL, FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH – 2345 Channing Way (entrance at Dana and Durant)
Tickets available at the door. $15 suggested donation.
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Ensemble Vermillian
The Tulip and the Olive Tree: music of 17th century Holland and Italy
12:00 PM Wednesday, June 4
TRINITY CHAPEL – 2320 Dana Street, between Bancroft and Durant
Tickets available at the door. Prices: $15 general, $10 SFEMS/EMA/ARS members, seniors, and disabled.
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Owen Daly, Harpsichordist and Instrument Maker
Solo Harpsichord Works by Muffat, Kuhnau, J.S. Bach and C.P.E. Bach
3:00 PM Wednesday, June 4
ST. JOSEPH OF ARIMATHEA CHAPEL – 2316 Bowditch Street, between Bancroft and Durant
Tickets available at the door. Price: $15/$10 for seniors and students.
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Natur Early Music Ensemble
The Roman School of Musica Poetica ca. 1610
3:00 PM Wednesday, June 4
PARISH HALL, ST. MARK’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH – 2300 Bancroft Way
Tickets available at the door. $15 suggested donation.
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Farley Pearce and Yuko Tanaka
In “D”: the Viennese-tuned Bass
3:00 PM Wednesday, June 4
TRINITY CHAPEL – 2320 Dana Street, between Bancroft and Durant
Tickets available at the door. Prices: $15 general admission, $10 students, seniors, and disabled.
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Coro Ciconia
England’s Glory: The Music of John Dunstable (1380-1453)
4:00 PM Wednesday, June 4
BERKELEY CITY CLUB – 2315 Durant Avenue, between Ellsworth and Dana
Tickets available at the door. Prices: $15/10.
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David Cates
The Great Trifecta of 1685 – Harpsichord music by Bach, Handel, and Scarlatti
4:15 PM Wednesday, June 4
ST. JOSEPH OF ARIMATHEA CHAPEL – 2316 Bowditch Street, between Bancroft and Durant
Tickets available at the door. Prices: $15/5 for seniors and students.
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Berkeley Baroque Strings
Favorites from the English Baroque
6:30 PM Wednesday, June 4
TRINITY CHAPEL – 2320 Dana Street, between Bancroft and Durant
Tickets available at the door, for free!
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Barefoot Chamber Concerts
The Marais-a-thon
11:00 AM – 5:00 PM Thursday, June 5
PARISH HALL, ST. MARK’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH – 2300 Bancroft Way
Tickets available at the door. Price: $20 all-day pass
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The Albany Consort
A Big Band Concert
11:00 AM Thursday, June 5
UNIVERSITY LUTHERAN CHAPEL – 2425 College Avenue
Tickets available in advance or at the door. Prices: $15-20.
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Musica Glorifica
Glorious Baroque: Bach, Telemann, Corelli, Uccellini, Hotteterre and more
11:00 AM Thursday, June 5
TRINITY CHAPEL – 2320 Dana Street, between Bancroft and Durant
Tickets available at the door. Prices: $15 general admission; $10 students, seniors, EMA and SFEMS members.
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San Francisco Pro Music Antiqua
The Petrucci Project
1:00 PM Thursday, June 5
ST. MARY MAGDALEN CHURCH – 2005 Berryman Street
Tickets available at the door. Price: $20 General; $15 students, seniors, and SFEMS members.
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Arethusa Musica
Sumer is icumen in: A Medieval Mosaic
1:00 PM Thursday, June 5
ST. JOSEPH OF ARIMATHEA CHAPEL – 2316 Bowditch Street, between Bancroft and Durant
Tickets available at the door. Prices: $15 general, $10 students and seniors.
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Harmonie Universelle
En Amour
1:00 PM Thursday, June 5
TRINITY CHAPEL – 2320 Dana Street, between Bancroft and Durant
Tickets available at the door. Prices: $15 general, $10 students, seniors, and disabled.
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Alphabet Baroque Club
All Over the Map
3:00 PM Thursday, June 5
BERKELEY PIANO CLUB – 2724 Haste Street, between College and Piedmont
Tickets available at the door. Price: $10.
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Ensemble “Pomposo”
The Harmonious Gospel: Arias for Tenor, Oboes, and B.C.
3:30 PM Thursday, June 5
TRINITY CHAPEL – 2320 Dana Street, between Bancroft and Durant
Tickets available at the door. Prices: $15/10.
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Theatrum Musicum – Sean Smith and Leslie Ifshin, lutes
The Lute Player as Traveling Jukebox
4:00 PM Thursday, June 5
ST. JOSEPH OF ARIMATHEA CHAPEL – 2316 Bowditch Street, between Dana and Durant
Tickets available at the door. Price: $15.
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Dan Winheld
Flowers from the Garden
6:00 PM Thursday, June 5
BERKELEY ARTS FESTIVAL GALLERY – 2133 University Avenue, between Shattuck and Oxford
Tickets available at the door. Prices: $15 general admission; $10 students, seniors, and SFEMS members.
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Laudami Ensemble
Passionate Differences
11:00 AM Friday, June 6
UNIVERSITY LUTHERAN CHAPEL – 2425 College Avenue (at Haste)
Tickets available in advance or at the door. Prices: $10-15.
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Vinaccesi Ensemble
Songs & Psalmody: Salamone Rossi Hebreo & Benedetto Marcello
11:30 AM Friday, June 6
TRINITY CHAPEL – 2320 Dana Street, between Bancroft and Durant
Tickets available in advance at http://vinaccesifringe.bpt.me and at the door on the day of the concert. Prices: $15/10.
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Carla Moore
L’Arte del Arco: Fantasias, variations and assaggi for unaccompanied violin
12:00 PM Friday, June 6
LOPER CHAPEL, FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH – 2345 Channing Way (entrance at Dana and Durant)
Tickets available at the door. Prices: $15 general, $10 seniors/students/SFEMS/EMA members.
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Antic Faces
Music for Broken Consort by Morley and Viol Fantasies by Gibbons
12:00 PM Friday, June 6
PARISH HALL, ST. MARK’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH – 2300 Bancroft Way
Tickets available at the door or in advance. Prices: $15 General, $13 SFEMS members/seniors/students.
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Jarring Sounds
Songs of Love and Loss
12:00 PM Friday, June 6
ST. JOSEPH OF ARIMATHEA CHAPEL – 2316 Bowditch Street, between Bancroft and Durant
Tickets available at the door. Free admission, donations accepted.
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Ensemble Artemisia
The Best of Both Worlds: 17th Century German and Italian Music
12:10 PM Friday, June 6
BERKELEY PIANO CLUB – 2724 Haste Street, between College and Piedmont
Tickets available at the door. Prices: $15 and $10.
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Bay Area Baroque Orchestra
BABO on the Fringe
2:00 PM Friday, June 6
PARISH HALL, ST. MARK’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH – 2300 Bancroft Way
Tickets available at the door, for free!
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Janine Johnson
J. S. Bach’s Well Tempered Clavier, Book 1
2:30 PM Friday, June 6
TRINITY CHAPEL – 2320 Dana Street, between Bancroft and Durant
Tickets available at the door. Prices: $15/10.
Harmonie Universelle
The Return of the Hunt
2:30 PM Friday, June 6
UNIVERSITY LUTHERAN CHAPEL – 2425 College Avenue (at Haste)
Tickets available at the door. Prices: $15 general, $10 students, seniors, and disabled.
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Peter Fisher
Masterworks for Flute Alone
3:00 PM Friday, June 6
BERKELEY CITY CLUB – 2315 Durant Avenue, between Ellsworth and Dana
Tickets available at the door. Price: $15 general, $5 people 16 and younger or 75 and older
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Boel Gidholm & Christopher Haritatos
From Dall’Abaco to Zappa: The violin/cello duo in the 17th and 18th centuries
3:00 PM Friday, June 6
LOPER CHAPEL, FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH – 2345 Channing Way (entrance at Dana and Durant)
Tickets available at the door. Prices: $15 general, $10 students and SFEMS/EMA members.
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Burning River Baroque
Obsession and Unrequited Love…
3:30 PM Friday, June 6
PARISH HALL, ST. MARK’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH – 2300 Bancroft Way
Tickets available at the door. Prices: $15 general admission, $10 students and seniors.
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KontraBande
Pergolesi, Scarlatti and Boccherini
4:00 PM Friday, June 6
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION – 2601 Durant Avenue
Tickets available in advance or at the door. Prices: $15-20.
Saturday, June 7, 2014
Elaine Thornburgh, harpsichord
Early Morning Ragas of Byrd and Sweelinck
9:00 AM Saturday, June 7
LOPER CHAPEL, FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH – 2345 Channing Way (entrance at Dana and Durant)
Tickets available at the door. Prices: $15 general, $10 students, seniors and SFEMS and WEKA members.
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Junior Recorder Society of the East Bay and the Barbary Coast Recorder Orchestra
From the Mountains to the Heavens: Music for Recorder Orchestra and Youth Recorder Ensemble
10:15 AM Saturday, June 7
SANCTUARY, ST. MARK’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH – 2300 Bancroft Way
Tickets available at the door. Donation suggested.
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Agave Baroque with Reginald L. Mobley, countertenor
Queen of Heaven: Music of Isabella Leonarda
11:00 AM Saturday, June 7
MEMBERS’ LOUNGE, BERKELEY CITY CLUB – 2315 Durant Avenue, between Dana and Ellsworth
Tickets available at the door. Prices: $15 General Admission; $12 for SFEMS and EMA members.
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Harmonie Universelle
The Last Rose
11:00 AM Saturday, June 7
LOPER CHAPEL, FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH – 2345 Channing Way (entrance at Dana and Durant)
Tickets available at the door. Prices: $20 general, $15 students, seniors, and disabled.
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Quicksilver
Violini a due: an Italian Journey
11:30 AM Saturday, June 7
BERKELEY CITY CLUB DRAWING ROOM – 2315 Durant Avenue, between Ellsworth and Dana
Tickets available at the door. Prices: $20 general admission; $15 students, seniors, EMA and SFEMS members.
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Zinkbut
Mini-Performance of Renaissance Music for Sackbuts and Cornetto (plus a surprise)
12:00 PM Saturday, June 7 (following the Harmonie Universelle concert)
FRONT LAWN, FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH – 2345 Channing Way (entrance at Dana and Durant)
Frank Jensen, sackbut; Jeff Mertens, sackbut; Scott Sterling, sackbut; Ron Cohen, cornetto
Price: Free!
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Musica Pacifica and Friends
Concerto! Virtuoso Concertos for diverse instruments by Bach and Telemann
12:30 PM Saturday, June 7
TRINITY CHAPEL – 2320 Dana Street, between Bancroft and Durant
Tickets available at the door. Prices: $15 general admission; $10 SFEMS, EMA, ARS members; seniors; students; and disabled.
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Vajra Voices and Angelorum led by Karen R. Clark, contralto and Cheryl Ann Fulton, harp
Hildegard von Bingen: Music to Celebrate the Divine Feminine
1:00 PM Saturday, June 7
SANCTUARY, ST. MARK’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH – 2300 Bancroft Way
Tickets available at the door. Suggested donation: $20 general admission, $15 seniors and students.
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Silverstein-Walden Duo
Stylus Phantasticus // Avanguardia
2:00 PM Saturday, June 7
LOPER CHAPEL, FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH – 2345 Channing Way (entrance at Dana and Durant)
Tickets available at the door. Prices: $15/10.
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Passamezzo Moderno
Erster Theil Instrumentalischer Sachen: Johann Michael Nicolai and His Contemporaries
3:00 PM Saturday, June 7
UNIVERSITY LUTHERAN CHAPEL – 2425 College Avenue (at Haste)
Tickets: $20 suggested donation at the door, $15 in advance by donation to SFEMS for Passamezzo Moderno. (Indicate when you make your donation that it is for Passamezzo Moderno.)
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Feldmusik
Die Lustige Feld-Musik: Baroque Music for Oboe Band
3:30 PM Saturday, June 7
TRINITY CHAPEL – 2320 Dana Street, between Bancroft and Durant
Tickets available at the door. Prices: $15/10.
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Vince B. Ho
Medieval and Renaissance Keyboard Tablature / Keyboard Music of the Middle Ages
3:00 PM Workshop, Saturday, June 7
4:00 PM Concert, Saturday, June 7
ST. JOSEPH OF ARIMATHEA CHAPEL – 2316 Bowditch Street, between Bancroft and Durant
Tickets available at the door. Price: $15 for lecture (including materials); $15 for concert.
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Sunday, June 8, 2014
Passamezzo Moderno
17th Century German Chamber Music
2:00 PM Sunday, June 8
UNIVERSITY LUTHERAN CHAPEL – 2425 College Avenue (at Haste)
Tickets: $20 suggested donation at the door, $15 in advance by donation to SFEMS for Passamezzo Moderno. (Indicate when you make your donation that it is for Passamezzo Moderno.)
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Jonathan Dimmock, organist
Johann Sebastian Bach and his influence
2:00 PM Sunday, June 8
ST. ALBERT’S PRIORY CHAPEL – 6172 Chabot Road, Oakland
Tickets available at the door. Price: $10.
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Nash Baroque Ensemble
“Sweet Prospect”: 17th- and 18th-century Music of the British Isles and Colonial America
2:00 PM Sunday, June 8
LOPER CHAPEL, FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH – 2345 Channing Way (entrance at Dana and Durant)
Tickets available at the door. Price: $15/10.
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THE 2014 BERKELEY FESTIVAL & EXHIBITION IS PRESENTED BY
THE SAN FRANCISCO EARLY MUSIC SOCIETY AND EARLY MUSIC AMERICA.