Special Programs

BEGINNING VIOL

As a community outreach, this class is offered free to local residents and to guests of Conclave registrants. The class emphasizes technique, practice habits, and goals for the coming year. Instruments will be available free of charge. The class will meet Monday through Saturday. Contact Sarah Mead, email: Sarah Mead.

PRE-FORMED CONSORTS

Register as a group for 1 class only. Priority to 6-member groups. Register early and all at about the same time.

SEASONED PLAYERS

This program is for professionals who are not on faculty, highly advanced amateurs, and semi-pros who want to work on specific projects or just read through consort repertoire. Participants in the SP Program pay only the Conclave conference fee and do not take classes (or take just one class at the one-class rate). Applicants for this program should be strong readers and sufficiently competent with the consort literature to be comfortable playing more than one instrument on the more difficult repertoire. For more information, contact Ken Perlow (708) 989-1729, email: Ken Perlow.

THE CONSORT COOPERATIVE

The Consort Cooperative is an intensive, peer-directed program for pre-professional and professional viol players that runs concurrently with Conclave. CC participants hone their directing skills as they explore both traditional and unusual consort repertoire in peer-coached consorts. Participants in CC'10 will perform an afternoon mini-concert. For details and applications see the March VdGSA News, or Consort Cooperative. Contact Loren Ludwig, email: Loren Ludwig.

BUILDERS AND DEALERS

Builders and dealers of instruments, bows, and related materials are invited to exhibit at Conclave. Secure display space will be available adjacent to the VdGSA Store. One table per exhibitor is guaranteed ($25 per day plus pro-rated conference fee for exhibitors not registered as tuition students). We will make every effort to provide as much display space as you require, but we can guarantee one table only. Exhibitors are strongly urged to register on-line. The on-line registration includes a special program for builders and exhibitors with the option of part-week stays and pro-rated fees. Exhibitors must complete all registration forms–including housing requests—by June 15. Contact Susan Marchant, email: Susan Marchant, phone: (662) 816-9959.

WORK-BASED SCHOLARSHIPS AND STIPENDS

Conclave Work-Study positions come with full-tuition scholarships ($400) or part-time stipends ($200 for Consort Cooperative players only). Work-Study students handle the VdGSA Store, photocopying, registration, stage-managing and other similar duties. The application form for Work-Study Scholarships/Stipends is available during the online registration process. If you wish to apply but do not have internet access, contact the scholarship coordinator as soon as possible (see below). Applications must be received by May 9. Most recipients should know by May 23 if they will receive a subsidy. These positions fill quickly, so be sure to apply promptly! Contact Sarah Poon 604-512-9152, email: Sarah Poon.



This year there are two possibilities for housing on campus:

• Apartment-style dorm - single
• Apartment-style dorm - double

For more details, get the whole story here.

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This year we will be trying a new approach to the four-period schedule. In the past, the last period of the day has been relatively unstructured, featuring open coached playing sessions and ad hoc consorts. Many have used this as a free period to practice, take a private lesson, or relax. This year participants will have the opportunity to choose which of the 2nd, 3rd or 4th periods to use as their "open" time. Each of these periods will offer a slate of classes, but also the OPEN option. Select your unstructured period to match your own preferred pace. Perhaps you would like the chance to practice before lunch to solidify new concepts from your first morning class. Maybe you'd appreciate a breather after lunch to get your second wind. If, however, you prefer to keep playing, each OPEN option includes a drop-in class you can attend as often as you like during the week. Just remember that everyone must choose one OPEN period for the whole week.

First Period (9:00-10:30)

Level	Teacher	Class Focus
B	Hershey	Beginning Viol: Open to all! Instruments provided free of charge with advance reservation. No limit.
LI - MI	Morris	Swap Meet: your chance to bone up on a new size of instrument (or a new clef) among friends. Limit 8.
LI - MI	Zusman	La Dolce Vita: satisfy your sweet tooth for English and Italian madrigals. Limit 10.
LI - UI	Mead	Mixed Blessings: from Blessed Bowers to Beatus Vir, a mixed bag of blessings for mixed levels. Limit 8.
LI - UI	Meints	Left-Handed Complement: learn how good left-hand habits can affect the quality of your sound. Limit 10.
MI - UI	Wissick	Right-Hand Man: focus on sound bowing technique. Limit 12.
MI	Tindemans	Quincentennial Consorts: Clemens, Ortiz, Ruffo, A. Gabrieli & Nola celebrate their 500th birthday. Limit 10.
MI	Springfels	Musica Scotia: a hearty mix of Scottish music apt for viols, voices, and fiddles. Limit 10.
UI	Lipnik	Let Your Viol Sing: from Verdelot to Marenzio, the madrigal as consort music. Limit 6.
UI	Morley	Pass it On: give-and-take your instruments and play all the parts in a variety of English consorts. Limit 6.
UI - A	Dalby	Totally Treble: ensembles for equal voices, solos, and exercises for the high-minded. Limit 8.
UI - A	Jeffrey	Technically Tenor: focus on technique for the ultimate go-between. Limit 8.
UI - A	Dornenburg	Basically Bass: exercises for improving bow control, left hand independence and shifting. Limit 8.
UI - A	Rozendaal, Gillespie, Terry	30/60: daily workouts combining 30 minutes of focused technique and 60 minutes of consort repertoire. Limit 6 per consort
A	Bishop	The Talented Mr. Jenkins: fantasias from modern editions and facsimile. Limit 6.

Second Period (11:00-12:15)

Level	Teacher	Class Focus
LI	Bishop	Free for the Taking: early music freely available on the Internet. Limit 10.
LI - MI	Dalby	Dancing Around the World: from pavans and galliards to tangos and more! Limit 10. Percussionists welcome.
MI - UI	Jeffrey	Tenor on Top: music for low instruments. Limit 8, tenors & basses only.
MI - UI	Dornenburg	Italian Consorts: 4-part music by Cima and his contemporaries. Limit 8.
UI	Zusman	Sweet Remembrance: multiple settings of Doulce memoire from George Houle’s book. Limit 8.
UI	Wissick	Taking Breaths, Giving Voice: exploring the consort song literature. Limit 5.
UI - A	Hershey	Madrigal to Fantasia: adapting Monteverdi’s madrigals for viols. Limit 5.
UI - A	Tindemans	Take a Ground, Make a Passamezzo: following Ortiz’s advice for playing over chord patterns. Limit 6.
UI - A	Rozendaal	Baroque Gamba Orchestra: Lawes, Purcell, and Charpentier for many viols. No limit, all sizes.
A	Meints	Digging into Lawes: an in-depth study of Lawes’ viol consorts. 5 or 6 players.
OPEN	Gillespie	Music in Motion: well-traveled polyphony that covered the Continent. Viols & voices, all levels.

Third Period (2:00-3:15)

Level	Teacher	Class Focus
Any	Bishop	Lovely Lyras: lyra ensemble music for inexperienced tab-players. Limit 10, any size.
LI - MI	Gillespie	A Tune a Day: famous tunes from the Renaissance in a panoply of guises. Limit 10.
LI - MI	Springfels	Allemand Left: lively German dance music by composers you’ve never heard of. Limit 10.
MI	Zusman	Sweet Harmony: the music of John Dunstable, mathematician, astronomer, model for Dufay. Limit 8.
MI	Mead*	Push-me/Pull-you: (see below) two consorts of two levels, together & alone, as partners & observers. Limit 6.
UI	Terry	How to Perform: learn skills to overcome brain-freeze & have a successful consort performance. Limit 6.
UI - A	Morley	Taking from the Old, Giving to the New: contemporary consorts for viols, some doubling. 4 or 8 players.
UI - A	Morris	Bach to Bach: the 4-part preludes and fugues arranged for viols, from the PRB books. 4 or 8 players.
UI - A	Dornenburg	Chaconne-a-Day: a non-threatening approach to music for the solo bass viol. No limit, basses; alto & bass clefs.
A	Mead*	Push-me/Pull-you: (see above) consort master-class, self-coaching, mentoring, modeling & co-playing. Limit 6.
A	Rozendaal	Sit Fast: buckle your seatbelts for a ride through the trio literature. 6 or 9 players.
OPEN	Lipnik	From cantare to sonare: the Italian Canzona from its vocal roots to the polychoral masters (All sizes, all levels)

          *This is one class comprising two consorts

Fourth Period (3:45-5:00)

Level	Teacher	Class Focus
Any	Meints	Not just for Ladies: the special thrills and challenges of the pardessus de viole. Limit 6, pardessus.
LI - MI	Hershey	Vivan las diferencias!: Spanish music for viols – villancicos, tientos and diferencias. Limit 10.
MI - UI	Morris	Introduction to French Style: join the crowd and jump in with both feet. No limit, all sizes.
MI - UI	Morley	Playing Catch: exploring the duet repertoire from East & Locke to Schenck & Couperin. Limit 10, basses.
UI	Springfels	Faithful Shepherd: settings of Guarini's Il Pastor Fido by Wert, Marenzio, and Monteverdi. Limit 5.
UI - A	Jeffrey	Apt for Viols & Voices: from the upcoming PRB edition of Weelkes madrigals by Julie Jeffrey. Limit 6.
UI - A	Lipnik	Ludi Musici: get your rhythm-game on with dance music of Schein and Scheidt. Limit 5.
UI - A	Dalby	Spanish Stylings of Francisco Guerrero: vocal & instrumental music of a lesser-known master. Limit 6.
A	Tindemans	Passion and Excess: the strange and exciting music of Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa. Limit 5.
OPEN	Wissick	Jenkins for All: taking ideas from European traditions and giving them his personal style (All sizes, all levels)

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Workshop Fees

Room and board

Room Type	Cost for the week	Saturday arrival cost (includes meals starting with Saturday supper)	Daily rate
Single	$425	$65	$65
Double	$325	$50	$50
A few $125 subsidies for R & B are available for students and others on limited income. This option is available during the application process.
The banquet is included in the Room and Board. If you are staying off campus but would like to attend the banquet, the cost is $35.

Tuition

Full tuition (2 or more classes) $400 Partial tuition (one class only) $300 Non-participants (guests, non-playing partners, Seasoned Players and Consort Cooperative members not taking classes) $200 Area participants in the Beginning Viol Class only — No charge Full refund for cancellation before June 15. Non-members must join the VdGSA (unless already a member of a foreign viola da gamba society) and will be charged an additional $20 for their 1st-year membership.