Goliards Spring Concert: From the Shetlands to Galicia. May 10, 2015
Celebrate Mother’s Day with “>The Goliards at a concert of some of the oldest surviving music from Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Brittany and Galicia sung in various forms of Gaelic, Breton and Latin performed by John Hillenbrand, vielle and rebec; Jimmy Broberg vielle and percussion; Anne Durant, harp and percussion; Anne Acker, symphonie and positiv organ: Kat Broberg, vocals and recorder; and Melissa Flummerfelt, vocals.
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 34th & Abercorn Sts., Savannah, Georgia. 3 p.m.
The Creation by Haydn, performed by The Savannah Philharmonic
I have the great pleasure of playing continuo (fortepiano) with The Savannah Philharmonic at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, E. Harris St., Savannah, GA on January 31, 2015 at 7:30 p.m. Haydn’s masterpiece, with great soloists and interpretation!
performance for Advent with The Goliards at St. John Episcopal, Savannah, GA , Dec. 18, 2014
The instrumentalists (John Hillenbrand, Anne Durant, Anne Acker) of The Goliards along with soprano Ashley Roper, will perform medieval and Renaissance music appropriate for the Advent season at St. John Episcopal Church, 1 W. Macon St, in beautiful, historic downtown Savannah at 5:30 p.m.
with The Goliards: The Message of Gabriel, Sunday, Dec. 21, 3 p.m., 2014
The Goliards will perform The Message of Gabriel, a program of English Advent and Christmas music that covers a period of approximately 300 years (ca. 1150-ca. 1450), on Sunday, December 21, at 3:00 P.M.. The concert will taker place at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church (34th and Abercorn). Admission is $10.00. Instrumentalists include John Hillenbrand (vielle), Anne Durant (harp and percussion), and myself on organ and sinfonye.
The program features five sopranos (Ashley Adams Roper, Melissa Flummerfelt, Mary Catherine Mousourakis, Cuffy Sullivan, and Leila Sullivan), and will include examples of varied choral genres – Gregorian Chant, two hymns by St. Godric of Finchale (ca. 1065-1170), two 13th-century Marian motets, and a variety of early-15th-century carols (ranging from pious to raucous) from the Selden Codex. The texts of the works in the program are to be sung in Latin or in Middle English.
Baroque Chamber Music Concert, sponsored by The Savannah Philharmonic, Feb. 2, 2014
Feb. 2, 2014, SUPER BOWL SUNDAY, we had a sold out performance of a Bach cantata and other baroque works, with myself (on a double manual Flemish harpsichord I had built) in the rotunda of the beautiful historic Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA.
Goliards Christmas Program, December 22, 2013, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
Our annual much loved Medieval and Renaissance Christmas Concert at the wonderful gothic St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 1802 Abercorn St., Savannah, GA at 3 p.m.
Two harpsichord concert with JooSoo Son, Hilton Head and Savannah performances, late October 2013
Details to be announced. Music to include Bach’s Concerto in C major for two harpsichords, Edwin McLean’s Sonata for Two Harpsichords, and more. First Presbyterian Church, 540 William HIlton Parkway, Hilton Head, SC, and St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 1802 Abercorn St., Savannah, GA. Details to be announced!
Harpsichords by Anne Acker and William Dowd.
The Goliards: Performance of Sephardic Music, Sunday, September 29, 2013, 3 p.m.
Come to a fantastic program of Medieval Sephardic music in the gothic space of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 1802 Abercorn St, Savannah, GA at 3 p.m. I’ll be playing sinfonye and portative organ, along with John Hillenbrand on vielle, Anne Durant on harp, bray harp and miscellaneous percussion, and singers Cuffy Sullivan, Melissa Flumertfelt, and Mary Catherine Mousourakis. This is a concert not to be missed!
No, I wasn’t doing nothing for a year and a half! Senior Editor and contributor for the 2nd Edition of the Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments.
Yes, I played quite a few concerts during this time with The Goliards and The Savannah Childrens Choir, as well as with the Savannah Philharmonic Chamber Music Series, and I gave talks. So why have I not updated this website? For the last several years, I was serving as a Senior Editor and contributor to the 2nd edition of the Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments for Oxford University Press. As you might imagine it took a LOT of time! What a great job it was though. I was in charge of all stringed keyboard instruments, as well as many organs, a few odds and ends, and all the Electronics and many of the Acoustics and other unusual modern creations. We wrapped up in June 2013 and since then I’ve been playing catch up in my workshop. I may or may not get around to putting in the performances and the like from the last couple years as really do need to work on my instrument queue and practice for the next concerts!