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For Ye Violls
February 5 @ 3:30 pm - February 8 @ 4:00 pm

An intensive workshop for viol players at all levels in Albuquerque NM, Feb. 5 – 8, 2025.
Status: Waiting List
All spots have now been filled. Submit a registration form (no deposit required) to secure a spot on the waiting list.
For Ye Violls presents an intimate four-day workshop for viol players at all levels featuring six-part consort repertoire from England, Italy, and the low countries. Each class will be limited to six players with three classes each day, one-to-apart. There will be free time each afternoon with an optional “siesta class”, sightseeing, or a real siesta, and after-dinner playing welcome to all.
The workshop’s three instructors, Lawrence Lipnik, David Morris, and Mary Springfels are among the most outstanding coaches in the field. Each tutor has chosen a repertoire, with play-in and faculty concert on the final afternoon of the workshop. There will be 8 formal sessions, plus a final reading and faculty concert. While the instrumental ensembles may be fixed for the weekend, every player will work with every instructor.
Mary Springfels
Director of Severall Friends
The Franco-Flemings who invented the Renaissance: from Josquin to Willaert.
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Mary Springfels
Mary Springfels is a veteran of the American early music movement. She began her career at the age of 21 with the New York Pro Musica, and has played with most of the major ensembles in the field, including the Waverly Consort, The Folger Consort, Philharmonia Baroque, the Seattle Baroque Orchestra, Musica Sacra of New York, and Pomerium Musices, to name a few. In 1983 she became Musician in-Residence at the Newberry Library, and was the director of the Newberry Consort for 20 years. In 2008, she fulfilled a lifelong dream, and moved to New Mexico. Since then, she has travelled widely, working with Sonoma Bach, the Lobo Baroque Orchestra, the Arizona Bach Society, Ars Lyrica of Houston, The Texas Early Music Project of Austin, and continues to work with Drew Minter, and her beloved colleagues at the Folger Consort. She can be heard on dozens of recordings. Springfels is also a very active teacher and coach. She and Elizabeth Blumenstock are Co-Directors of the newly founded Severall Friends, based in Santa Fe.
Late 17th c. Italians, native and adopted: music of Giaches de Wert, Giovanni Croce, Alessandro Striggio, and others.
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David Morris
Dubbed a “basso continuo wizard” by Gramophone (UK), David Morris has made a specialty of performing 17th- and 18th-c. music on a variety of historical bass instruments including the viola da gamba, baroque cello, bass violin and lirone. He has performed in the U.S. and abroad with the Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, Tafelmusik, the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Mark Morris Dance Group. He has recorded for Harmonia Mundi, Drag City Records (Joanna Newsom’s double-CD, Have One on Me), CBC/ Radio-Canada and New Line Cinema (as viola da gamba soloist for The Nativity Story). He is a frequent coach at the Viola da Gamba Society of America’s regional workshops as well at its national Conclaves, and has also taught at the Amherst and Madison Early Music Workshops.
Musica Transalpina: Continental repertoire embraced by the Elizabethans. Works by Marenzio, Ferrabosco, and Byrd’s Italian side.
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Lawrence Lipnik
Lawrence Lipnik has performed with many acclaimed early music ensembles from Anonymous 4 to Piffaro and the Waverly Consort, and is a founding member of the viol consort Parthenia and vocal ensemble Lionheart. He has prepared an authoritative edition of Francesco Cavalli’s La Calisto, commissioned by the Juilliard School, served as gambist and recorder player for staged opera productions including Monteverdi’s Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria at Wolf Trap and Telemann’s Orpheus with the New York City Opera. In addition to performing, he enjoys a busy teaching schedule which has included national and international festivals including the Benslow Music Trust in the UK, Port Townsend, San Diego and Madison Early Music Festivals, Pinewoods, Collegium Director at Amherst Early Music, viol, recorder and early music performance instruction at Wesleyan University and is a contributor to The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Contemporary Dramatists. Highlights from this past season have included performances with lutenist Paul O’dette of Dowland’s complete Lachrimae collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, concerts at the Berkeley Festival, appearances with ARTEK, TENET, the Indiana University Historic Performance Institute at the Bloomington Early Music Festival and early opera residency at Carnegie Mellon University.
The Workshop Venue:
The workshop venue is Nativo Lodge (www.nativolodge.com) on the north side of Albuquerque. This site, though lacking the privacy of retreat centers, features modern amenities with comfortable rooms, great views, and private baths.
3:30 – 6:00 pm |
Arrival, reception, registration |
6:00 – 7:00 pm |
Dinner |
7:30 – 9:00 pm |
Opening group play-in |
8:00 – 9:00 am |
Breakfast |
9:30 – 10:45 am |
1st class |
10:45 – 11:15 am |
Coffee |
11:15 – 12:30 pm |
2nd class |
12:30 – 2:30 pm |
Lunch |
2:30 – 3:45 pm |
3rd class |
3:45 – 4:15 pm |
Tea break |
4:15 – 5:30 pm |
Optional “siesta class”—sign up at lunch; or sightsee |
6:00 – 7:30 pm |
Dinner |
7:45 – 8:45 pm |
Evening consorts with faculty—sign up at lunch |
8:45 – 10:00 pm |
Late-night consorting |
8:00 – 9:00 am |
Breakfast |
9:30 – 10:45 am |
1st class |
10:45 – 11:15 am |
Coffee |
11:15 – 12:30 pm |
2nd class |
12:30 – 2:30 pm |
Lunch (but check out first) |
2:30 – 4:00 pm |
Final play-in and faculty concert |
Fees:
Single room: $875, Double room: $725, Commuters: $475
All breakfasts and opening night dinner are included. We’re on our own for both lunch and dinner Thursday and Friday, and lunch on Saturday. The Lodge’s Garduños Restaurant is poised to serve us from their not-pricey menu (see it at https://tinyurl.com/yprsp9pv ) for those lunches and dinners, but other restaurants are only minutes away.
Getting Here (And Back):
Nativo Lodge location is located on the very north end of Albuquerque at 6000 Pan American Fwy. NE.. If you’re driving on I-25, get off on San Mateo Av. and you’ll see it right there, but your GPS will navigate you through the maze of ramps. If you’re flying in, you’ll need to find a transportation option at ABQ airport—it’s a straight shot up I-25—but if you let us know your itinerary well in advance we may be able to pick you up. If you’re flying out, try to find flights that leave ABQ 6 pm or later.
Registration:
All spots have now been filled. Submit a registration form (no deposit required) to secure a spot on the waiting list.
The registration deadline (below) is a bit earlier than usual because I’ll have been in Argentina for the last half of January and in Tierra del Fuego, hiking and out of communication with the wider world, from January 23 to February 2. So I’ve got to get this all wrapped up well in advance of that trip. (I’ll have lots of photos.)
Please print and return the registration form with a non-refundable deposit of $100.
Registration deadline: Saturday, December 21, 2024.
Registration Form
Self-Rating Guide
Workshop Brochure
For More Information:
Content/pedagogy: Mary Springfels, 505.627.1487, mvspring@gmail.com
Everything else: Ken Perlow, 708.989.1729, manager@SeverallFriends.org