Severall Friends

Bach 2 Bach
2020-02-28 19:30 - 21:30 UTC | Unitarian Church of Los Alamos, Los Alamos, 1738 N Sage Loop St, Los Alamos, 87544, United States
Bach 2 Bach: Duos for Violin and Harpsichord
An intimate evening of duos by Johann Sebastian Bach, performed by Elizabeth
Blumenstock, violin, and Matthew Dirst, harpsichord.
Friday, February 28, 7:30 pm; Unitarian Church of Los Alamos, Los Alamos
Saturday, February 29, 7:30 pm; San Miguel Chapel, Santa Fe
Admission $20; students free with ID.
Sunday, March 1, 10:30 am; Chatter Sunday, 1512 1st St. NW, Albuquerque.
To purchase tickets for Chatter visit www.ChatterAbq.org.

Bach 2 Bach
2020-02-29 19:30 - 21:30 UTC | San Miguel Chapel, Santa Fe, 401 Old Santa Fe Trail, SANTA FE, NM, 87501, United States

From the Heart
2022-03-05 19:30 - 21:30 UTC | San Miguel Chapel, Santa Fe, 401 Old Santa Fe Trail, SANTA FE, NM, 87501, United States
From the Heart:

String music in 17th century Austria and Germany

During the 17th century, beset by climate change, wars, famine, and pandemics, Austria and Germany were home to the flowering of the new stylus fantasticus, a free, virtuosic style of music. Its union with older dance forms produced a uniquely eloquent, and wonderfully human music, full of warmth, vigor, pathos, and endless invention. This program showcases string consort music in this “fantastic style” by Heinrich Biber, Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, Dietrich Buxtehude, and Johann Herman Schein, among others. Performing are Elizabeth Blumenstock and Cynthia Black, violin; Lisa Grodin, violin and viola; Jeffrey Smith, viola; Mary Springfels, viola da gamba, and Kathleen McIntosh, harpsichord.

Saturday, March 5, 7:30 pm
San Miguel Chapel, 401 Old Santa Fe Trail, Santa Fe
All tickets: $20
Tickets to From the Heart are sold out. Thank you for your support!

The Lovers’ Bane
2022-05-27 19:30 - 21:00 UTC | Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 107 W. Barcelona Rd, Santa Fe, NM, 87501, United States
The Lovers’ Bane:

The Story of Tristan and Yseut, as told in music of the 13th Century

The potion had been drunk; the secret lovers exposed. Tristan is in exile and has become a knight of the round table. He and Yseut (Isolde) will yearn for one another for the rest of their days. All that is left to them is the poetry and music through which they put out their hearts. Their tragedy was told and retold throughout the Middle Ages, and, in more modern times by Richard Wagner. Two precious 13th Century French manuscripts contain imaginative recreations of what their songs might have been like. Performers Shira Kammen, vielle and harp; Christopher LeCluyse, tenor; Emily Noël, soprano; Drew Minter, baritone and harp; and Mary Springfels, vielle and citole; will present evocative words, music, and images from the period.

Open Rehearsal: Friday, May 27, 7:30 pm
Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 107 W. Barcelona Rd, Santa Fe
All rehearsal tickets: $10
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Concert: Saturday, May 28, 7:30 pm
San Miguel Chapel, 401 Old Santa Fe Trail, Santa Fe
All tickets: SOLD OUT

The Nightingale of Instruments
2023-01-22 15:00 - 17:00 UTC | San Miguel Chapel, Santa Fe, 401 Old Santa Fe Trail, SANTA FE, NM, 87501, United States
Our season opener features a trio of violins, charmingly called “nightingales” by the passionate 17th century music-lover, Roger North. Accompanied by viola da gamba and harpsichord, you will hear them in exceptional and delectable music from diverse composers including Marini, Uccellini, Buonamente, Gabrieli, Scarlatti, Purcell, and Blow. A rare treat!

Featuring Elizabeth Blumenstock, Stephen Redfield, and Shelby Yamin, violins; Mary Springfels, viola da gamba; and Caitlyn Koester, harpsichord. Sunday, January 22; San Miguel Chapel, 401 Old Santa Fe Trail, 3 pm.

For Ye Violls
2023-03-23 08:00 - 2023-03-26 17:00 UTC
Announcing…
An intensive weekend workshop for viol players at all levels in Albuquerque, NM
March 23 – 26, 2023.
We are now at full enrollment, but do send in a registration form without the deposit if you’d like to get on our wait list, and we’ll let you know if a spot opens up for you. For Ye Violls 2023 will be an intimate four-day weekend for viol players at all levels featuring five-and six part consort music from England, Flanders, and Italy. The workshop’s three instructors—Wendy Gillespie, Larry Lipnik, and Mary Springfels—are among the most outstanding coaches in the field. Each tutor has chosen a repertoire. There will be six formal sessions, plus a final reading and faculty concert. There will be free time each afternoon for an extra drop-in class, siesta, or sightseeing.

Workshop topics include:

Flemish masters: From Josquin des Prez to Giaches deWert (taught by Mary Springfels)
Have you driven a Ward lately? Consort music of Jacobean composer John Ward (taught by Wendy Gillespie)
A lieta vita: Giovanni Gastoldi, Thomas Morley, and the anglici-zation of the Italian madrigal (taught by Larry Lipnik)

The workshop venue is the Norbertine Retreat Center in Albuquerque, NM. This pastoral site, just minutes from Albuquerque Airport (ABQ), features modern amenities with comfortable rooms, most with private baths.

For more information, see the attached PDFs below.

All participants must present proof of full vaccination for Covid as per CDC protocols. Masks must be worn indoors for all activities except meals, as required by our hosts at the Norbertine Abbey. Please print and return the registration form (registration page only) with a non-refundable deposit of $100.
Registrations must be received by January 21, 2023.
MEET THE FACULTY
LARRY LIPNIK
WENDY GILLESPIE MARY SPRINGFELS

Monteverdi’s Venice
2023-09-17 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Denver)
THE CONCERT HAS BEEN POSTPONED DUE TO PERFORMER ILLNESS.
Click HERE to view the updated event details.
We are saddened to inform you that Severall Friends’ Sunday concert, originally scheduled for September 17th and featuring Monteverdi’s Venice, has been canceled due to the illness of our singer, Emily Noel. However, we are committed to rescheduling this event later in the season. If you have purchased a ticket for the canceled concert, rest assured that we have already processed reimbursements for your convenience.

Should you require further information or have any questions, please do not hesitate to get in touch with us. We appreciate your understanding and continued support.

Telemann in Paris
2024-02-25 16:00 - 18:00 (America/Denver) | New Mexico School for the Arts, 500 Montezuma Ave, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 87501, United States
REGULAR SEASON OPENER
Telemann in Paris
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Sunday, February 25, 4:00 pmNew Mexico School for the Arts, 500 Montezuma Av., Santa FeAdmission $30 ($10 for students) sold on-line only at SeverallFriends.org

We are thrilled to devote much of our program to three of Georg Philipp Telemann’s twelve “Paris” Quartets. Telemann absolutely nailed the virtuosic, sophisticated, and delicious French style; these quartets became so inordinately popular in Paris that he had to travel there to shut down a booming pirating industry. The program will also feature an evocative and lively duo by Joseph Bodin de Boismortier for flute and violin.
Both Telemann and Boismortier were highly successful entrepreneurs, at a time when the exploding bourgeoisie was avidly seeking high-quality music to perform at home. While Boismortier focused exclusively on composing music in the (faintly Italianate) French style, Telemann was a stylistic genius, fascinated by, and master of regional styles, throughout Europe and beyond, including many wonderful and virtuosic folk idioms. Telemann, who traveled frequently to get first-hand exposure to unfamiliar music, commented after a trip to Poland, “…in eight days a man could collect enough musical ideas for his whole life!” You will hear a bit of his wonderful sensitivity to these “bohemian” styles, as he has brilliantly involved them in these wonderful pieces.
Sandra Miller, New York City’s preeminent Baroque flutist, joins Severall Friends’ wonderful local players: Elizabeth Blumenstock, Baroque violin, Mary Springfels, viola da gamba, Katie Rietman, Baroque ‘cello, and Kathleen McIntosh, harpsichord. Don’t miss this concert!

Sandra MillerFlutist
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Sandra Miller

Sandra Miller lives and works in New York, where she has been an active free-lance musician, on both modern and historical flutes, for many years.
Recipient of a Solo Recitalist’s Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, First Prize in the Bodky Competition for Early Music, and a New York recital debut sponsored by the Concert Artists Guild, she has performed extensively throughout the United States and abroad, with Concert Royal, the Smithsonian Chamber Players, American Bach Soloists, the American Classical Orchestra, Toronto’s Tafelmusik and Boston’s Handel and Haydn Society. Her strong commitment to teaching is reflected by her appointment to the faculty of Juilliard’s Historical Performance Program, and by previous appointments at the SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Music, the Mannes College of Music, the New England Conservatory of Music, in CUNY’s doctoral program, as Kulas Visiting Artist at Case Western Reserve University, as well as in many historical-instrument summer workshops and festivals.

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Elizabeth BlumenstockViolin
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Elizabeth Blumenstock

Elizabeth Blumenstock is a long-time concertmaster, soloist, and leader with the Bay Area’s PhilharmoniaBaroque and American Bach Soloists, concertmaster of the International Handel Festival Orchestra inGoettingen, Germany, and Artistic Director of the Corona del Mar Baroque Music Festival. Her love ofchamber music has involved her in several accomplished smaller ensembles including Voices of Music,Galax Quartet, Live Oak Baroque, Ars Lyrica Houston Chamber Players, Sarasa, and Severall Friends. Ms.Blumenstock teaches for Juilliard’s Historical Performance Program, at the San Francisco Conservatory ofMusic, American Bach Soloists’ Summer Festival and Academy, the International Baroque Institute atLongy, and the Valley of the Moon Music Festival. She plays a 1660 Andrea Guarneri violin built inCremona, Italy, on generous loan to her from the Philharmonia Baroque Period Instrument Trust.

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Mary SpringfelsViola da gamba
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Mary Springfels

Mary Springfels is a veteran of the American early music movement. She beganher 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.

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Katie RietmanBaroque ‘cello
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Katie Rietman

Katie Rietman has performed as a cellist on over 60 CD recordings and numerous concerts and radio broadcasts with notable baroque ensembles worldwide.
Her performing career has taken her to 21 countries in Europe, North America ,and South America. She is a prizewinner in the Bonporti competition ( Rovereto, Italy) and a semi-finalist in the Van Wassenaer competition ( Den Haag, Netherlands.)
Katie studied cello at the Cleveland Institute of Music and the Sweelinck Conservatorium in Amsterdam, then lived in Cologne, Germany for ten years, performing with countless European early music groups.
She has been the principal cellist in New York of the Trinity Wall Street Baroque Orchestra for the complete cycle of the Bach Cantatas; the Clarion Society; and with the St. Thomas Boys’ Choir. She is also principal cellist of Aradia in Toronto, Spire Kansas City, the Hawaii Performing Arts Festival, and the Dallas Bach Society.
She currently lives in Santa Fe and has performed there with the Desert Chorale , Pro Musica, Opera West, the Santa Fe Opera, and on the new baroque concert series “MarketMusic” at NMSA, where she is the cello teacher. In addition, she has a large private cello studio and very much enjoys teaching the next generation!

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Kathleen McIntoshHarpsichord
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Kathleen McIntosh

Harpsichordist Kathleen McIntosh has appeared in the Esteban Salas Festival in Havana nearly every year since 2002. She has been featured in the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival since 1996, and in festivals in the United States, Japan, Peru and Germany. A resident of Santa Fe, New Mexico, she has appeared on every local concert series, and with the Santa Fe Symphony, Santa Fe Pro Musica and Serenata of Santa Fe. McIntosh is a champion of contemporary music. She appeared regularly with the series 20th Century Unlimited and is part of the McFish Duo. From 1999-2009, she performed with the Vail Valley Bravo! Festival, which commissioned a work by Melinda Wagner especially for her that premiered in the 2005 season. Other premieres have included works by Leo Brouwer, John Steinmetz, Carl Mansker, Alex Shapiro and many others.
McIntosh has been soloist with the Chamber Orchestra Kremlin in Moscow, Vietnam National Symphony in Hanoi, Solistas de La Habana, Santa Fe Friends in Tsuyama, Japan, and with many American groups. She teaches regularly in Cuba as part of the Semana Sacra sponsored by the national cathedral, in Peru at the national conservatory in Lima, and in Opole, Poland at the Diecezjalny Instytut Musyki Koscielnej. In November 2015, she performed the entire Clavier-Ubung of J.S.Bach in five concerts in Los Angeles, California, with organist Ron McKean and harpsichordist Janine Johnson. Ms. McIntosh was a student of John Hamilton and Thurston Dart. She can be heard in recordings from Gasparo and Maricam Studios.

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Monteverdi’s Venice
2024-04-14 16:00 - 18:00 (America/Denver) | New Mexico School for the Arts, 500 Montezuma Ave, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 87501, United States
We’re sold out, but we are assembling a waiting list; if you’d like to be on that, please email treasurer@SeverallFriends.org. It’s not likely ticket holders will lose interest, but some do let us know they find they have other commitments.
SEASON FINALE
Monteverdi’s Venice
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Sunday, April 14, 4:00 pm
New Mexico School for the Arts, 500 Montezuma Av., Santa Fe
Admission $30 ($10 for students), sold on-line only at SeverallFriends.org
Immerse yourself in a mesmerizing showcase of compositions by the visionary geniuses who shaped the soundscape of 17th Century Venice. At the turn of the 17th century Venice appeared to embody all that was glorious about European culture. Its architecture owed nothing to the Roman past, or, for that matter, to Northern Gothic building styles. It was exotic, being influenced by the East as much as the West. Its visual appeal was matched by the sounds that it made. There were the impressive outdoor processions of the Scuola Grande di San Rocco, and the raucous celebrations during the Carnival season. There were the new public opera houses, the overwhelmingly beautiful singing which resounded in the churches and ospidale, and the private recitals to be heard in grand houses.
From the soul-stirring notes of Monteverdi to the vibrant melodies of Castello and Marini, this concert promises an unforgettable journey through time. Soprano Emily Noël and lutenist Michael Leopold will join our regular ensemble of Elizabeth Blumenstock and Stephen Redfield, violin; Mary Springfels, viola da gamba; and Kathleen Macintosh, harpsichord; in bringing these works to life.
Emily Noël
Soprano
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Emily Noël

Soprano Emily Noël has appeared as a soloist with many leading early music ensembles, including The Folger Consort, The Gabrieli Players, and the Washington Bach Consort. Recent stage credits include Measure + Dido at the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington DC; Davenant’s Macbeth at the Folger Shakespeare Theatre; The Merchant of Venice at the Wanamaker Theatre at Shakespeare’s Globe in London; Vaughn Williams’ Riders to the Sea at the Amsterdam Grachtenfestival; and Verdi’s Rigoletto at Ente Concerti Città di Iglesias in Sardinia, Italy. This summer will mark Emily’s tenth year singing with the Santa Fe Desert Chorale. A passionate educator, Emily has served on the faculties of Franklin and Marshall College, Notre Dame of Maryland University, and The Community College of Rhode Island. She currently teaches at Otterbein University, where she directs the Cardinal Singers.

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Michael Leopold
Lutenist
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Michael Leopold

Michael Leopold holds both an undergraduate degree in music and a master’s degree in historical plucked instruments from American Universities as well a degree in lute and theorbo from L’Istituto di Musica Antica of the Accademia Internazionale della Musica in Milan, Italy. Originally from Northern California and after living in Milan, Italy for 16 years and Canada for 5 years, he now resides in the United States. He has performed both as a soloist and as an accompanist throughout Europe, Australia, Japan, South America, Mexico, Canada and the United States. Michael has played with a number of leading Italian early music groups, including Concerto Italiano, La Risonanza, La Venexiana and La Pietà de’ Turchini and several American period-instrument ensembles. He has also collaborated with several orchestras and opera companies, including Orchestra Verdi di Milano, Opera Australia, San Francisco Opera, Barcelona Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Washington National Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Chicago Opera Theater, Cincinnati Opera, Portland Opera, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Gulbenkian Mùsica, Houston Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, Charlotte Symphony and the Nashville Symphony. His performances in operas have been noted in various reviews, “Michael Leopold was a standout on theorbo, providing some of the most sensitive and heartfelt musical moments of the evening,” (Kathryn Bacasmot, Chicago Classical Music 1 May 2012. Teseo, Chicago Opera Theater) and “High marks especially to the marvelous theorbo, lute and baroque guitar specialist, Michael Leopold, whose recitatives added dazzling color.” (Harvey Steiman, Seen and Heard International 7 November 2011. Xerxes, San Francisco Opera). He can be heard in recordings on the Stradivarius, Glossa, Naïve, Linn, Avie, Centaur and Naxos labels.

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Elizabeth Blumenstock
Violin
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Elizabeth Blumenstock

Elizabeth Blumenstock is a long-time concertmaster, soloist, and leader with the Bay Area’s Philharmonia
Baroque and American Bach Soloists, concertmaster of the International Handel Festival Orchestra in
Goettingen, Germany, and Artistic Director of the Corona del Mar Baroque Music Festival. Her love of
chamber music has involved her in several accomplished smaller ensembles including Voices of Music,
Galax Quartet, Live Oak Baroque, Ars Lyrica Houston Chamber Players, Sarasa, and Severall Friends. Ms.
Blumenstock teaches for Juilliard’s Historical Performance Program, at the San Francisco Conservatory of
Music, American Bach Soloists’ Summer Festival and Academy, the International Baroque Institute at
Longy, and the Valley of the Moon Music Festival. She plays a 1660 Andrea Guarneri violin built in
Cremona, Italy, on generous loan to her from the Philharmonia Baroque Period Instrument Trust.

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Stephen Redfield
Violin

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Stephen Redfield

Violinist Stephen Redfield, D.M.A., is a member of the University of Southern Mississippi School of Music faculty, where he performs with the Mississippi Chamber Circle and the Impromptu Piano Trio. Throughout the year Stephen acts as concertmaster of the Santa Fe Pro Musica, and each summer plays with the Victoria Bach Festival; his performances as concertmaster and soloist there have been produced on discs and broadcast nationally. He has also often led the Oregon Bach Festival orchestra, where he has participated in numerous recordings, including the Grammy Award-winning disc “Credo.” In addition, Stephen is concertmaster of the Arizona Bach Festival, was the long-time principal second violin of the Sunriver Music Festival, and served for five years as Assistant Concertmaster of the Austin Symphony Orchestra.
Stephen has particularly extensive experience in the choral-orchestral repertoire: over his 30 years with the Oregon Bach Festival, he performed the majority of this repertoire with Helmuth Rilling (including recording eight works, and premiering two commissioned pieces). He is concertmaster for Craig Hella Johnson and the coral ensemble Conspirare. He has led a period B Minor Mass for Joshua Habermann and the Santa Fe Desert Chorale, and was concertmaster for Robert Shaw in the Berlioz Requiem and for Fiora Contino in Haydn’s Creation and the St. John Passion.
Stephen is an active chamber musician throughout the United States and abroad. He has collaborated with artists Andre-Michel Schub, Peter Wiley and Mark Peskanov. His Cayuga Quartet was a winner of the Coleman and Monterey Chamber Music Competitions and earned an Aspen Quartet Fellowship. In addition to the festivals mentioned before, Stephen has been featured in chamber concerts at Loon Lake Live!, Taos Soundscapes, Serenata of Santa Fe, Quad-Cities Mozart Festival, and the Anchorage Festival, among others. He coached with the Cleveland Quartet and Abram Loft, the Emerson Quartet and Earl Carlyss, and the LaSalle and Audubon Quartets.
He frequently performs as a soloist; during 2009, Mendelssohn’s 200th birth-year, he performed both Mendelssohn violin concertos (and also toured with his three sonatas). His specialty is 18th and early 19th-Century concertos and concert pieces, often leading the ensemble while playing the solo. Highlights include Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, each of the Bach Concertos, and selected concertos and works by Beethoven, Mozart and Haydn. He also performed a Western-U.S. premiere of the Michael Daugherty’s “Ladder to the Moon.”
Stephen has also developed a specialization in period performance. He performs regularly as a Baroque violinist, including as a member of the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra, and he has led the ensembles Albuquerque Baroque Players and Nashville’s Music City Baroque. Stephen’s Baroque chamber music credits include concerts with Marion Verbruggen, Mary Springfels, Elizabeth Blumenstock and Kenneth Slowik., and with the Newberry Consort and the Smithsonian Chamber Players. As a member of the Sebastian Ensemble, with harpsichordist Kathleen McIntosh, Stephen travelled twice to Lima, Peru, for the Festival Internacional de Música Antigua‏. Specializing in J.S. Bach’s Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord Obligato, this period performance group has toured throughout the United States as well as in Spain, Japan and Cuba.

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David Felberg
Violinist
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David Felberg

Violinist David Felberg, an Albuquerque native, is the Artistic Director and Co-Founder of Chatter, a groundbreaking series exploring both new and old music, and producing/presenting over 120 performances per year in Albuquerque and Santa Fe. David has performed Baroque violin with the Santa Fe Pro Musica baroque ensemble, Market Music, and recently on a CD featuring the music of Graupner. He is also the Concertmaster of The Santa Fe Symphony, and has recently taken up the viola d’amore.

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Mary Springfels
Viola da gamba
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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.

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Kathleen McIntosh
Harpsichord
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Kathleen McIntosh

Harpsichordist Kathleen McIntosh has appeared in the Esteban Salas Festival in Havana nearly every year since 2002. She has been featured in the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival since 1996, and in festivals in the United States, Japan, Peru and Germany. A resident of Santa Fe, New Mexico, she has appeared on every local concert series, and with the Santa Fe Symphony, Santa Fe Pro Musica and Serenata of Santa Fe. McIntosh is a champion of contemporary music. She appeared regularly with the series 20th Century Unlimited and is part of the McFish Duo. From 1999-2009, she performed with the Vail Valley Bravo! Festival, which commissioned a work by Melinda Wagner especially for her that premiered in the 2005 season. Other premieres have included works by Leo Brouwer, John Steinmetz, Carl Mansker, Alex Shapiro and many others.
McIntosh has been soloist with the Chamber Orchestra Kremlin in Moscow, Vietnam National Symphony in Hanoi, Solistas de La Habana, Santa Fe Friends in Tsuyama, Japan, and with many American groups. She teaches regularly in Cuba as part of the Semana Sacra sponsored by the national cathedral, in Peru at the national conservatory in Lima, and in Opole, Poland at the Diecezjalny Instytut Musyki Koscielnej. In November 2015, she performed the entire Clavier-Ubung of J.S.Bach in five concerts in Los Angeles, California, with organist Ron McKean and harpsichordist Janine Johnson. Ms. McIntosh was a student of John Hamilton and Thurston Dart. She can be heard in recordings from Gasparo and Maricam Studios.

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We’re sold out, but we are assembling a waiting list; if you’d like to be on that, please email treasurer@SeverallFriends.org. It’s not likely ticket holders will lose interest, but some do let us know they find they have other commitments.

MarketMusic
2024-06-08 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Denver) | New Mexico School for the Arts, 500 Montezuma Ave, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 87501, United States
Season Opener
Baroque Blockbusters

Music of Corelli, Handel and Vivaldi
Artists include: Elizabeth Blumenstock, Stephen Redfield, and Lisa Grodin, violins; Katie Rietman, cello; Kathleen McIntosh, harpsichord Admission: Enjoy free admission to all concerts, though donations are warmly appreciated.
Food For Thought: Each of the eight concerts this summer will also feature spoken word, as we invite chefs who sources locally, agricultural producers, or nonprofit leaders working in the food arena to give a brief “Food for Thought” talk as part of each presentation.
This week, Nina Rosenberg a member of the Executive Board of Slow Food Santa Fe will be our speaker. Slow Food envisions a world in which all people can eat food that is good for them, good for the people who grow it and good for the planet. Nina will speak about Slow Food Santa Fe’s in-person programming and radio broadcasts. For more information please click here.

About the Performances: Our one-hour concerts feature a stunningly fresh repertoire and include a short break at the midpoint for a Food-Talk, featuring Santa Fe’s leading food experts—chefs, authors, and producers.

Venue: These world-class performances are held at the Gallery of the New Mexico School for the Arts, located at 500 Montezuma. Complimentary parking is available across the street.

MarketMusic
2024-06-22 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Denver) | New Mexico School for the Arts, 500 Montezuma Ave, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 87501, United States
The Consort Concert
Music of Byrd, Holborne and Dowland for viols and voice

Artists include: Kathleen Ritch, Soprano; Lisa Grodin and Stephen Redfield, violins; Jeffrey Smith, viola; Mary Springfels and Sarah Biber, viols
Food for Thought: Santa Fe Farmers’ Market CEO Debbie Burns joins us as this week’s speaker. Debbie leads the year-round Saturday Railyard Santa Fe Farmers’ Market with over 100 vendors, as well as the seasonal Tuesday Market and the Market del Sur. Under her leadership, The Santa Fe Farmers’ Market ranks consistently in the top 10 farmers markets nationwide and is a must for tourists visiting Santa Fe as well as locals. Although she grew up in the Midwest learning about agriculture during summers working on her uncles’ farms, she came to Santa Fe by way of Northern Italy where she worked with children, teaching them about nutrition and the importance of eating sustainable, locally sourced food.
Admission: Enjoy free admission to all concerts, though donations are warmly appreciated.
About the Performances: Our one-hour concerts feature a stunningly fresh repertoire and include a short break at the midpoint for a Food-Talk, featuring Santa Fe’s leading food experts—chefs, authors, and producers.
Venue: These world-class performances are held at the Gallery of the New Mexico School for the Arts, located at 500 Montezuma. Complimentary parking is available across the street.

MarketMusic
2024-07-06 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Denver) | New Mexico School for the Arts, 500 Montezuma Ave, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 87501, United States
Harpsichord Obbligato
Harpsichord chamber music of J.S. Bach and others

Artists include: David Solem, harpsichord; Jeffrey Smith, violin
Food for Thought: Today’s speaker is the enterprising Nina Ladegaard, Founder|Director of the award-winning Squash Blossom Local Food, the 2022 Local Hero for Innovation & Food Justice, Edible New Mexico and the 2018 City of Santa Fe’s Small Business of the Year. Squash Blossom is Santa Fe’s lead distributor of wholesale local produce to restaurants in and around Santa Fe. Squash Blossom is also the purveyor of local produce for individual consumers through Blossom Bag Subscriptions complete with home delivery. Nina describes Squash Blossom “as a social enterprise. We work to protect and preserve traditional, low-impact farming methods, and prioritize above all else, fairness for every entity in the farmer ➟ eater value chain.”

In addition to sourcing from Ground Stone Farm which Nina and her husband Mat own in Nambé, New Mexico, Nina has developed a network of 25 farms from which she and her team obtain fresh produce for her wholesale and retail clients. You may also visit with Mat Ladegaard at his booth at the Santa Fe Farmers’ Market pre-concert.

Admission: Enjoy free admission to all concerts, though donations are warmly appreciated.
About the Performances: Our one-hour concerts feature a stunningly fresh repertoire and include a short break at the midpoint for a Food-Talk, featuring Santa Fe’s leading food experts—chefs, authors, and producers.
Venue: These world-class performances are held at the Gallery of the New Mexico School for the Arts, located at 500 Montezuma. Complimentary parking is available across the street.

MarketMusic
2024-07-20 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Denver) | New Mexico School for the Arts, 500 Montezuma Ave, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 87501, United States
Il Barocco Italiano:
Music of Corelli, Vivaldi and their contemporaries

Artists include: Lorenzo Colitto and Lisa Ferguson, violins; Sally Guenther, cello; Kathleen McIntosh, harpsichord
Food for Thought: Pam Roy is a leader in food policy in New Mexico, and she had lent her talents to a number of important organizations in the food arena. We are honored to have her speak today. The 2016 Community All Star, traces her Farmers’ Market Institute roots back to 1989 when the organization was a fledgling start-up.

She is the Executive Director and Policy Director of Farm to Table which has Food Policy and Advocacy as a core part of its mission. In this role she coordinates the New Mexico Food & Agriculture Policy Council, Santa Fe City and County Food Policy Council, serves as the Rocky Mountain Farmers Union Government Relations for New Mexico, is a partner of the NM Grown Coalition and the Office of the Governor’s Food Initiative. In a nutshell, if there is an important conversation about our State’s agricultural policy, you’ll find this native New Mexican in a seat at the table.

Admission: Enjoy free admission to all concerts, though donations are warmly appreciated.
About the Performances: Our one-hour concerts feature a stunningly fresh repertoire and include a short break at the midpoint for a Food-Talk, featuring Santa Fe’s leading food experts—chefs, authors, and producers.
Venue: These world-class performances are held at the Gallery of the New Mexico School for the Arts, located at 500 Montezuma. Complimentary parking is available across the street.

MarketMusic
2024-08-03 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Denver) | New Mexico School for the Arts, 500 Montezuma Ave, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 87501, United States
Gold Medal French Baroque

Music of Couperin, Rameau and others

Artists include: Matthew Dirst. guest harpsichord, Elizabeth Blumenstock and Stephen Redfield, violins and Katie Rietman, cello

Food for Thought: Travel + Leisure lists Ojo Santa Fe Spa Resort as one of the world’s best destination spas. The recipient of a 2022 OpenTable Diners’ Choice Award, Blue Heron Restaurant is an integral part of the spa’s wellness experience. With a background in nutrition and healthcare coupled with engagements at elite hotels such as Bishop’s Lodge, Ojo Santa Fe Spa Resort and Chef Zachary seem to be a match made in heaven.

This week’s speaker, Managing Chef Zachary Perron said he has “a passion for supporting people in their journey of improving themselves,” which he accomplishes through food. “It is part of the integrated approach I have to my work,” he added. “I am fortunate to have access to the Ojo Farm in Ojo Caliente, but I also enjoy shopping at the Santa Fe Farmers’ Market. Santa Fe is really a small town and I enjoy the community connections and hearing the stories of the farmers and ranchers.” For more information, please click here.

Admission: Enjoy free admission to all concerts, though donations are warmly appreciated.

About the Performances: Our one-hour concerts feature a stunningly fresh repertoire and include a short break at the midpoint for a Food-Talk, featuring Santa Fe’s leading food experts—chefs, authors, and producers.

Venue: These world-class performances are held at the Gallery of the New Mexico School for the Arts, located at 500 Montezuma. Complimentary parking is available across the street.

MarketMusic
2024-08-17 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Denver) | New Mexico School for the Arts, 500 Montezuma Ave, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 87501, United States
Hochschule für Violine
German Baroque works featuring the Violin Music by J.S. Bach, Handel, and Telemann

Features guest violinist Carla Moore and characteristic violin rep of 17th and 18th century Germanic cultures.
Local violinists David Felberg and Elizabeth Blumenstock, cellist Katie Reitman and harpsichordist Kathy McIntosh join her in elucidating the glories of this music!
Food for Thought: Today’s speaker, Susan Tarver, was designated the 2023 Community All Star by the Santa Fe Farmers’ Market Institute. Susan founded the Eldorado Farmers’ Market in 2006 which she oversees to this day. Since 2008, Susan has also been the Executive Director of Bienvenidos Outreach Inc. which sponsors an essential food pantry on Fifth Street here in Santa Fe. We’ll hear from Susan about the state of food insecurity in our area, as well as her efforts to support local farmers and to make sure those sourcing their food from the food pantry receive fresh locally-grown food along with nonperishables.
Admission: Enjoy free admission to all concerts, though donations are warmly appreciated.
About the Performances: Our one-hour concerts feature a stunningly fresh repertoire and include a short break at the midpoint for a Food-Talk, featuring Santa Fe’s leading food experts—chefs, authors, and producers.
Venue: These world-class performances are held at the Gallery of the New Mexico School for the Arts, located at 500 Montezuma. Complimentary parking is available across the street.

MarketMusic
2024-08-31 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Denver) | New Mexico School for the Arts, 500 Montezuma Ave, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 87501, United States
Baroque Bassoon

Music by Fasch, Telemann, Vivaldi, and Zelenka with Bassoon at its core
Artists include: Anna Marsh, bassoon; Katie Rietman, cello Food for Thought: Mary Dixon, longtime vendor at the Santa Fe Farmers’ Market representing Green Tractor Farm and Secretary of the Board of the Santa Fe Farmers’ Market Institute, will join us as our speaker. Green Tractor Farm was named a 2013 All Star Farm. A family enterprise founded by Mary’s husband Tom, Green Tractor’s operations have now been passed on to next generation. Rachel Dixon, and her husband Ned Conwell, grow a diverse selection of produce and flowers on 3 acres of land in La Cienega, New Mexico. The farm has been certified organic since 2006.

Admission: Enjoy free admission to all concerts, though donations are warmly appreciated.

About the Performances: Our one-hour concerts feature a stunningly fresh repertoire and include a short break at the midpoint for a Food-Talk, featuring Santa Fe’s leading food experts—chefs, authors, and producers.

Venue: These world-class performances are held at the Gallery of the New Mexico School for the Arts, located at 500 Montezuma. Complimentary parking is available across the street.

MarketMusic
2024-09-14 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Denver) | New Mexico School for the Arts, 500 Montezuma Ave, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 87501, United States
Fantastic Finale

Embrace Your Inner Voices: Music with layered richness in inner harmonies by Bach, Biber, and more.

Featuring: Elizabeth Blumenstock and Aaron Westman, violins; Anna Washburn and Lisa Grodin, violas; Mary Springfels, viola da gamba; Katie Rietman, cello; Deborah Dunham, violone

Admission: Enjoy free admission to all concerts, though donations are warmly appreciated.

About the Performances: Our one-hour concerts feature a stunningly fresh repertoire and include a short break at the midpoint for a Food-Talk, featuring Santa Fe’s leading food experts—chefs, authors, and producers.

Venue: These world-class performances are held at the Gallery of the New Mexico School for the Arts, located at 500 Montezuma. Complimentary parking is available across the street.

Food for Thought: This week, Edible Magazine’s Local Hero Award for Best Restaurant in Santa Fe, 2022 recipient Marja Martin will be our speaker. Under Marja’s direction as Owner of Paloma and its sister restaurant Esquina Pizza, Paloma’s team strives for full sustainability in its business practices and in how they approach food. In her own words, “Driven by the creativity and inspiration that comes from our own community and that of our neighbors across the border, we strive to bring you a fresh perspective via Mexican-inspired cuisine.” For more information please click here.

MarketMusic
2024-11-30 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Denver) | New Mexico School for the Arts, 500 Montezuma Ave, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 87501, United States
Saturday, November 30, 2024

Time: 12:00 PM
Venue: The Gallery at New Mexico School for the Arts,
500 Montezuma Avenue, Santa Fe, 87501

Pastorale:
Baroque Christmas music from around the world! Guest soprano Jennifer Perez sings works reflecting Germanic, French, Italian and Peruvian holiday traditions.

Featuring:
Jennifer Perez, soprano; Elizabeth Blumenstock and Stephen Redfield, violins; Lisa Grodin, viola; Mary Springfels, viola da gamba; Kathleen McIntosh, harpsichord

Food for Thought: We will feature a speaker (TBA) who will talk about Christmas food traditions in New Mexico.

Questions? Call: (505) 930-9393
MarketMusic is deeply grateful to the New Mexico School for the Arts for welcoming our artists and audiences into its gallery, a wonderfully intimate concert venue.
If you would like to join our growing list of supporters, please make a contribution through our secure website, or make a check payable to Severall Friends and mail it to:

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Program and artists subject to change.
Jennifer Perez
Soprano

Elizabeth Blumenstock
Violin
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Elizabeth Blumenstock

Elizabeth Blumenstock is a long-time concertmaster, soloist, and leader with the Bay Area’s Philharmonia
Baroque and American Bach Soloists, concertmaster of the International Handel Festival Orchestra in
Goettingen, Germany, and Artistic Director of the Corona del Mar Baroque Music Festival. Her love of
chamber music has involved her in several accomplished smaller ensembles including Voices of Music,
Galax Quartet, Live Oak Baroque, Ars Lyrica Houston Chamber Players, Sarasa, and Severall Friends. Ms.
Blumenstock teaches for Juilliard’s Historical Performance Program, at the San Francisco Conservatory of
Music, American Bach Soloists’ Summer Festival and Academy, the International Baroque Institute at
Longy, and the Valley of the Moon Music Festival. She plays a 1660 Andrea Guarneri violin built in
Cremona, Italy, on generous loan to her from the Philharmonia Baroque Period Instrument Trust.

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Stephen Redfield
Violin

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Stephen Redfield

Violinist Stephen Redfield, D.M.A., is a member of the University of Southern Mississippi School of Music faculty, where he performs with the Mississippi Chamber Circle and the Impromptu Piano Trio. Throughout the year Stephen acts as concertmaster of the Santa Fe Pro Musica, and each summer plays with the Victoria Bach Festival; his performances as concertmaster and soloist there have been produced on discs and broadcast nationally. He has also often led the Oregon Bach Festival orchestra, where he has participated in numerous recordings, including the Grammy Award-winning disc “Credo.” In addition, Stephen is concertmaster of the Arizona Bach Festival, was the long-time principal second violin of the Sunriver Music Festival, and served for five years as Assistant Concertmaster of the Austin Symphony Orchestra.
Stephen has particularly extensive experience in the choral-orchestral repertoire: over his 30 years with the Oregon Bach Festival, he performed the majority of this repertoire with Helmuth Rilling (including recording eight works, and premiering two commissioned pieces). He is concertmaster for Craig Hella Johnson and the coral ensemble Conspirare. He has led a period B Minor Mass for Joshua Habermann and the Santa Fe Desert Chorale, and was concertmaster for Robert Shaw in the Berlioz Requiem and for Fiora Contino in Haydn’s Creation and the St. John Passion.
Stephen is an active chamber musician throughout the United States and abroad. He has collaborated with artists Andre-Michel Schub, Peter Wiley and Mark Peskanov. His Cayuga Quartet was a winner of the Coleman and Monterey Chamber Music Competitions and earned an Aspen Quartet Fellowship. In addition to the festivals mentioned before, Stephen has been featured in chamber concerts at Loon Lake Live!, Taos Soundscapes, Serenata of Santa Fe, Quad-Cities Mozart Festival, and the Anchorage Festival, among others. He coached with the Cleveland Quartet and Abram Loft, the Emerson Quartet and Earl Carlyss, and the LaSalle and Audubon Quartets.
He frequently performs as a soloist; during 2009, Mendelssohn’s 200th birth-year, he performed both Mendelssohn violin concertos (and also toured with his three sonatas). His specialty is 18th and early 19th-Century concertos and concert pieces, often leading the ensemble while playing the solo. Highlights include Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, each of the Bach Concertos, and selected concertos and works by Beethoven, Mozart and Haydn. He also performed a Western-U.S. premiere of the Michael Daugherty’s “Ladder to the Moon.”
Stephen has also developed a specialization in period performance. He performs regularly as a Baroque violinist, including as a member of the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra, and he has led the ensembles Albuquerque Baroque Players and Nashville’s Music City Baroque. Stephen’s Baroque chamber music credits include concerts with Marion Verbruggen, Mary Springfels, Elizabeth Blumenstock and Kenneth Slowik., and with the Newberry Consort and the Smithsonian Chamber Players. As a member of the Sebastian Ensemble, with harpsichordist Kathleen McIntosh, Stephen travelled twice to Lima, Peru, for the Festival Internacional de Música Antigua‏. Specializing in J.S. Bach’s Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord Obligato, this period performance group has toured throughout the United States as well as in Spain, Japan and Cuba.

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Lisa Grodin
Viola

Mary Springfels
Viola da gamba
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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.

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Kathleen McIntosh
Harpsichord
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Kathleen McIntosh

Harpsichordist Kathleen McIntosh has appeared in the Esteban Salas Festival in Havana nearly every year since 2002. She has been featured in the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival since 1996, and in festivals in the United States, Japan, Peru and Germany. A resident of Santa Fe, New Mexico, she has appeared on every local concert series, and with the Santa Fe Symphony, Santa Fe Pro Musica and Serenata of Santa Fe. McIntosh is a champion of contemporary music. She appeared regularly with the series 20th Century Unlimited and is part of the McFish Duo. From 1999-2009, she performed with the Vail Valley Bravo! Festival, which commissioned a work by Melinda Wagner especially for her that premiered in the 2005 season. Other premieres have included works by Leo Brouwer, John Steinmetz, Carl Mansker, Alex Shapiro and many others.
McIntosh has been soloist with the Chamber Orchestra Kremlin in Moscow, Vietnam National Symphony in Hanoi, Solistas de La Habana, Santa Fe Friends in Tsuyama, Japan, and with many American groups. She teaches regularly in Cuba as part of the Semana Sacra sponsored by the national cathedral, in Peru at the national conservatory in Lima, and in Opole, Poland at the Diecezjalny Instytut Musyki Koscielnej. In November 2015, she performed the entire Clavier-Ubung of J.S.Bach in five concerts in Los Angeles, California, with organist Ron McKean and harpsichordist Janine Johnson. Ms. McIntosh was a student of John Hamilton and Thurston Dart. She can be heard in recordings from Gasparo and Maricam Studios.

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Romancing the Rose
2025-01-26 15:00 - 16:30 (America/Denver) | Thaw Gallery at New Mexico School for the Arts, 500 Montezuma Avenue, Santa Fe, 87501, United States
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If any cancellations occur, a limited number of tickets may become available at the door on a first-come, first-served basis. Thank you! The Romance of the Rose was one of the most influential works of medieval imaginative literature. It was copied innumerable times, from its inception in the 1200s until the age of the printing press, and was read throughout Europe, from England to Italy.
Severall Friends will offer a tasting menu of delicacies by Machaut, Ciconia, Dufay, and others.

Featuring:
Daniel Meyers, winds
Emily Noël, voice
Mark Rimple, strings
Mary Springfels, strings
Desirée Mays, narrator

We are thrilled to announce that guest projection designer Shawn Keener will be joining us for the Romancing the Rose concert. Shawn will be illuminating the performance with beautiful, captivating images, adding a unique visual experience to complement the music.
Daniel Meyers
Winds
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Daniel Meyers

A versatile multi-instrumentalist, Dan Meyers is a flexible and engaging performer of both classical and folk music; his credits range from premieres of contemporary chamber music, to headlining a concert series in honor of Pete Seeger at the Newport Folk Festival, to playing Renaissance instruments on Broadway for Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre Company. He is a founding member of the early music/folk crossover group Seven Times Salt, and in recent seasons he has performed with the The Folger Consort, The Newberry Consort, Hesperus, Dünya, The Henry Purcell Society of Boston, Early Music New York, Amherst Early Music, The 21st Century Consort, In Stile Moderno, and the Cambridge Revels, making concert and theatrical appearances in NYC, Washington DC, Chicago, Minneapolis, Memphis, Santa Fe, at the Yellow Barn Festival in Vermont, and at at the “La Luna e i Calanchi” festival in Basilicata (Italy).
He enjoys playing traditional Irish music with the bands Ulster Landing and Ishna, as well as eclectic fusion from around the Mediterranean with the US/Italy-based group Zafarán; he also played winds and percussion for over a decade with the award-winning Italian folk music group Newpoli. As an educator, he has taught historical wind instruments for the Five Colleges Early Music Program in Massachusetts, at Tufts University, and at festivals and workshops around the Northeast.
www.danmeyersmusic.com

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Emily Noël
Voice
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Emily Noël

Soprano Emily Noël has appeared as a soloist with many leading early music ensembles, including The Folger Consort, The Gabrieli Players, and the Washington Bach Consort. Recent stage credits include Measure + Dido at the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington DC; Davenant’s Macbeth at the Folger Shakespeare Theatre; The Merchant of Venice at the Wanamaker Theatre at Shakespeare’s Globe in London; Vaughn Williams’ Riders to the Sea at the Amsterdam Grachtenfestival; and Verdi’s Rigoletto at Ente Concerti Città di Iglesias in Sardinia, Italy. This summer will mark Emily’s tenth year singing with the Santa Fe Desert Chorale. A passionate educator, Emily has served on the faculties of Franklin and Marshall College, Notre Dame of Maryland University, and The Community College of Rhode Island. She currently teaches at Otterbein University, where she directs the Cardinal Singers.

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Mark Rimple
Strings
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Mark Rimple

Mark Rimple has garnered critical notice for his interpretation of early music from national newspapers and journals including the Philadelphia Inquirer, The New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, The Washington Post, Early Music America, and Early Music (UK).
He is a founding member of the vocal-instrumental ensemble TREFOIL and appears frequently with viola da gambist Mary Springfels’ ensemble Severall Friends (Santa Fe, NM). He has appeared with The Folger Consort, The Newberry Consort, Piffaro, the Renaissance Band, The Nota Bene Viol Consort, The King’s Noyse, Les Delices and Blue Heron, Ex Umbris (at the Clinton White House), New York’s Ensemble for Early Music, Mélomanie, Pomerium, Tempesta di Mare, Network for New Music, Seven Times Salt, The Brandywine Singers, Cygnus Ensemble and the GEMS production of The Play of Daniel. His CD of solo Italian lute music for three different instruments (Tre Liuti, available on CDBaby, ITunes, etc.) received highly favorable reviews.
Mark principally plays medieval and Renaissance lute, archlute, gittern, citole, psaltery, cittern, and viol. In early 2023, he will make a recording of solo works for archlute and classical guitar (playing without nails) featuring works by Bach (BWV 1004 and 998) on archlute, and guitar repertoire by Villa Lobos, Tansman, Mompou, and Turina Before his early music career, he was an accomplished classical guitarist, specializing in new music. Mark has recorded early and new music as countertenor and lutenist with the Newberry Consort, Trefoil, Seven Times Salt, and Cygnus Ensemble and has performed with The Pennsylvania Ballet Orchestra and Curtis Orchestra (on mandolin), The Philadelphia Chamber Orchestra (lute), Network for New Music (lute, guitar, mandolin) and The Philadelphia Classical Symphony (guitar).
Mark is a Professor of Music Theory and Composition at The Wells School of Music at West Chester University of Pennsylvania.

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Mary Springfels
Strings
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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.

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Shawn Keener
Projection Designer
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Shawn Keener
Projection Designer
Trained as a music historian, Shawn Keener is a graphic designer, translator, and book indexer based in Chicago. Her scholarly work examining the intersection of vernacular song and cultural memory in 16th-century Venice was supported by a Fulbright grant (Italy, 2007–08) and a Harper Dissertation-Year Fellowship at the University of Chicago. Since 2012 she has curated and designed projections for live performance and concert videos that are visual extensions of historically informed performance. She has collaborated with the Newberry Consort (Chicago), Les Délices (Cleveland), Blue Heron (Boston), Trobár (Cleveland), and Severall Friends (Santa Fe). Before launching Keener Editorial in late 2019, Shawn worked for several years at the Newberry Library in Chicago and was for three years a staff editor in the Recent Researches series at A-R Editions (Middleton, WI), the leading North American publisher of scholarly editions of music.
www.keenereditorial.com

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Desirée Mays
Narrator
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Desirée Mays
Narrator
Desirée Mays narrated Severall Friends’ medieval version of Tristan and Isolde in 2023. She returns to tell the tale of The Romance of the Rose, a timeless poem on the trials and tribulations of Love. Desirée speaks all over the US to opera companies and groups; she is the author of the Opera Unveiled series of books, and is a radio producer and interviewer on opera. She will return this summer to The Santa Fe Opera as the preview speaker for Die Walküre.

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For Ye Violls
2025-02-05 15:30 - 2025-02-08 16:00 (America/Denver) | Nativo Lodge, 6000 Pan American Fwy NE, Albuquerque, NM, 87109, United States
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.

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David Morris

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.

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Lawrence Lipnik

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.

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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.
Tentative Schedule:
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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

Dancing in the Isles
2025-04-27 15:00 - 16:30 (America/Denver) | The Muñoz Waxman Gallery at CCA, 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM, 87505, United States
Come join Severall Friends for “Dancing in the Isles”, a festive program of Baroque music from the British Isles! We will present Scottish, Irish, and English traditional tune medleys, along with art music from Purcell, Locke, and others, running the gamut from the contemplative to the utterly rousing!

Venue: The Muñoz Waxman Gallery at CCA (Center for Contemporary Arts), 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe

Featuring:
Violinist Elizabeth Blumenstock is joined by guest artists Judith Linsenberg, recorder and Stephanie Noori, violin; and by our regulars Mary Springfels, viola da gamba and Kathleen McIntosh, harpsichord.
Elizabeth Blumenstock
Violin
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Elizabeth Blumenstock

Elizabeth Blumenstock is a long-time concertmaster, soloist, and leader with the Bay Area’s Philharmonia Baroque and American Bach Soloists, concertmaster of the International Handel Festival Orchestra in Goettingen, Germany, and Artistic Director of the Corona del Mar Baroque Music Festival. Her love of chamber music has involved her in several accomplished smaller ensembles including Voices of Music, Galax Quartet, Live Oak Baroque, Ars Lyrica Houston Chamber Players, Sarasa, and Severall Friends. Ms. Blumenstock teaches for Juilliard’s Historical Performance Program, at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, American Bach Soloists’ Summer Festival and Academy, the International Baroque Institute at Longy, and the Valley of the Moon Music Festival. She plays a 1660 Andrea Guarneri violin built in Cremona, Italy, on generous loan to her from the Philharmonia Baroque Period Instrument Trust.

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Judith Linsenberg
Recorder
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Judith Linsenberg

Called “the Jascha Heifetz of the recorder,” Judith Linsenberg is one of the leading exponents of the recorder in the US and has been acclaimed for her “virtuosity,” “expressivity,” and “fearless playing.” She has performed throughout the US and Europe, including solo appearances at the Hollywood Bowl and Lincoln Center; and has been featured with such leading ensembles as the San Francisco Symphony, the SF and Los Angeles Operas, the Oregon Symphony, LA Chamber Orchestra, Philharmonia Baroque, American Bach Soloists, the Portland and Seattle Baroque Orchestras, the Oregon and Carmel Bach Festivals, among others. The winner of national performance awards, she has premiered several new works for the recorder and has recorded for Virgin Classics, Dorian, Solimar, Navona, harmonia mundi usa, Koch International, Reference Recordings, Musical Heritage Society, Drag City Records (with Joanna Newsom), and Hännsler Classics. She holds a doctorate in early music from Stanford University, and has been a visiting professor at the Vienna Conservatory and Indiana University’s Early Music Institute. In her spare time, she enjoys hanging out with her dog, Jasper, and playing a bit of Klezmer clarinet. Website

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Stephanie Noori
Violin
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Stephanie Noori

Stephanie Noori has been playing violin since she was 4 years old. However it was her teacher Deirdre Ward, one of the violin faculty at Chetams School of Music and a modern and baroque violinist, that helped inspire her to take up music professionally.
In 2006, Stephanie moved back to the U.S. in order to pursue a BM in modern violin performance at the University of North Texas with Dr. Igor Borodin and Julia Bushkova and in 2007 she was one of the winners of the UNT Concerto Competition with Shotakovich’s Violin Concerto No.1 in A minor under the direction of Maestro Anshel Brusilow.
Whilst at UNT, Stephanie actively participated in the baroque program, initially starting baroque violin lessons with Cynthia Roberts and then viola da gamba with Pat Nordstrom and Allen Whear. In 2009 and 2011 she had the opportunity to perform with the UNT Baroque Orchestra at BEMF (Boston Early Music Festival)
In 2011 Stephanie continued her education at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music under the direction of Stanley Ritchie and the EMI (Early Music Institute) faculty where, in 2013, she obtained a Master of Music in Early Music Performance. Most recently, she won the Indianapolis Baroque Concerto Competition with Vivaldi’s Concerto for 3 Violins in F major and performed with the IBO.
Additionally, Stephanie has played with ensembles such as the Denton Bach Society, Orchestra of New Spain, Austin Baroque Orchestra, San Francisco Bach Choir, Ascolti, Vox Reflexa, Exordium, Aston Magna, and Mountainside Baroque. Currently, Stephanie is an active member of the viol consort Les Touches, with whom she recently appeared as a finalist at the York Early Music International Young Artists’ Competition in the UK.

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Mary Springfels
Viola da Gamba
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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.

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Kathleen McIntosh
Harpsichord
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Kathleen McIntosh

Harpsichordist Kathleen McIntosh has appeared in the Esteban Salas Festival in Havana nearly every year since 2002. She has been featured in the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival since 1996, and in festivals in the United States, Japan, Peru and Germany. A resident of Santa Fe, New Mexico, she has appeared on every local concert series, and with the Santa Fe Symphony, Santa Fe Pro Musica and Serenata of Santa Fe. McIntosh is a champion of contemporary music. She appeared regularly with the series 20th Century Unlimited and is part of the McFish Duo. From 1999-2009, she performed with the Vail Valley Bravo! Festival, which commissioned a work by Melinda Wagner especially for her that premiered in the 2005 season. Other premieres have included works by Leo Brouwer, John Steinmetz, Carl Mansker, Alex Shapiro and many others.
McIntosh has been soloist with the Chamber Orchestra Kremlin in Moscow, Vietnam National Symphony in Hanoi, Solistas de La Habana, Santa Fe Friends in Tsuyama, Japan, and with many American groups. She teaches regularly in Cuba as part of the Semana Sacra sponsored by the national cathedral, in Peru at the national conservatory in Lima, and in Opole, Poland at the Diecezjalny Instytut Musyki Koscielnej. In November 2015, she performed the entire Clavier-Ubung of J.S.Bach in five concerts in Los Angeles, California, with organist Ron McKean and harpsichordist Janine Johnson. Ms. McIntosh was a student of John Hamilton and Thurston Dart. She can be heard in recordings from Gasparo and Maricam Studios.

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MarketMusic
2025-08-16 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Denver) | Thaw Gallery at New Mexico School for the Arts, 500 Montezuma Avenue, Santa Fe, 87501, United States
Saturday, August 16, 2025

Time: 12:00 PM
Venue: Thaw Gallery at New Mexico School for the Arts,
500 Montezuma Avenue, Santa Fe, 87501

Potpourri:
A varied collection of Baroque favorites
With guest: David Solem, harpsichord

Questions? Call: (505) 930-9393
MarketMusic is deeply grateful to the New Mexico School for the Arts for welcoming our artists and audiences into its gallery, a wonderfully intimate concert venue.
If you would like to join our growing list of supporters, please make a contribution through our secure website, or make a check payable to Severall Friends and mail it to:

Severall Friends NFP
64 Vista del Oro, Cerrillos, NM 87010

Program and artists subject to change.

MarketMusic
2025-08-30 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Denver) | Thaw Gallery at New Mexico School for the Arts, 500 Montezuma Avenue, Santa Fe, 87501, United States
Saturday, August 30, 2025

Time: 12:00 PM
Venue: Thaw Gallery at New Mexico School for the Arts,
500 Montezuma Avenue, Santa Fe, 87501

Music for Four Strings:
Baroque and Classical quartets
Featuring: Stephen Redfield, violin and Katie Rietman, cello

Questions? Call: (505) 930-9393
MarketMusic is deeply grateful to the New Mexico School for the Arts for welcoming our artists and audiences into its gallery, a wonderfully intimate concert venue.
If you would like to join our growing list of supporters, please make a contribution through our secure website, or make a check payable to Severall Friends and mail it to:

Severall Friends NFP
64 Vista del Oro, Cerrillos, NM 87010

Program and artists subject to change.

MarketMusic
2025-09-13 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Denver) | Thaw Gallery at New Mexico School for the Arts, 500 Montezuma Avenue, Santa Fe, 87501, United States
Saturday, September 13, 2025 – Fantastic Finale

Time: 12:00 PM
Venue: Thaw Gallery at New Mexico School for the Arts,
500 Montezuma Avenue, Santa Fe, 87501

Musick 1650-1750:
Riches of the London Baroque
With guest: Kathryn Montoya, oboe, and James Oxley, tenor

Questions? Call: (505) 930-9393
MarketMusic is deeply grateful to the New Mexico School for the Arts for welcoming our artists and audiences into its gallery, a wonderfully intimate concert venue.
If you would like to join our growing list of supporters, please make a contribution through our secure website, or make a check payable to Severall Friends and mail it to:

Severall Friends NFP
64 Vista del Oro, Cerrillos, NM 87010

Program and artists subject to change.

MarketMusic
2025-12-06 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Denver) | Thaw Gallery at New Mexico School for the Arts, 500 Montezuma Avenue, Santa Fe, 87501, United States
Saturday, December 6, 2025

Time: 12:00 PM
Venue: Thaw Gallery at New Mexico School for the Arts,
500 Montezuma Avenue, Santa Fe, 87501

Baroque Noëls:
Featuring: Jennifer Perez, soprano and Kim Pineda, flute

Questions? Call: (505) 930-9393
MarketMusic is deeply grateful to the New Mexico School for the Arts for welcoming our artists and audiences into its gallery, a wonderfully intimate concert venue.
If you would like to join our growing list of supporters, please make a contribution through our secure website, or make a check payable to Severall Friends and mail it to:

Severall Friends NFP
64 Vista del Oro, Cerrillos, NM 87010

Program and artists subject to change.

MarketMusic
2025-12-20 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Denver) | Thaw Gallery at New Mexico School for the Arts, 500 Montezuma Avenue, Santa Fe, 87501, United States
Saturday, December 20, 2025

Time: 12:00 PM
Venue: Thaw Gallery at New Mexico School for the Arts,
500 Montezuma Avenue, Santa Fe, 87501

A Baroque Winter:
Featuring: Michael Hix, baritone

Questions? Call: (505) 930-9393
MarketMusic is deeply grateful to the New Mexico School for the Arts for welcoming our artists and audiences into its gallery, a wonderfully intimate concert venue.
If you would like to join our growing list of supporters, please make a contribution through our secure website, or make a check payable to Severall Friends and mail it to:

Severall Friends NFP
64 Vista del Oro, Cerrillos, NM 87010

Program and artists subject to change.

For Ye Violls on the Pecos
2026-02-12 15:30 - 2026-02-15 14:30 (America/Denver) | Benedictine Monastery in Pecos, NM., 16 Guadalupe Ln, Pecos, 87552, United States
Status: Waiting List Workshop registration is now at full capacity. If you’d like to get on the wait list please send in the registration form without the deposit, and we’ll let you know if a spot opens up.
An intensive weekend workshop for viol players at all levels in historic northern NM
Thursday February 12 – Sunday February 15, 2026
For Ye Violls on the Pecos will be an intimate four-day weekend for viol players at all levels featuring fiveand six-part music from England and Germany. The workshop’s three instructors—Larry Lipnik, David Morris, and Mary Springfels—are among the most outstanding coaches in the field, and if there’s sufficient enrollment we can add a fourth. Each tutor has chosen a repertoire. There will be six formal sessions, plus a final reading on Sunday morning. There will be free time each afternoon for an extra drop-in class, siesta, or sightseeing.

Mary Springfels
Director of Severall Friends
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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.

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The Peace of the Roses: Gloriously beautiful early Tudor motets and instrumental music.

David Morris
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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.

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English & German Dance Music: Featuring repertoire by Brade, Holborne, Hammerschmidt & others.

Lawrence Lipnik
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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.

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Amorous Fire, Liquid Silver: Happy anniversary Giovanni Coperario & Thomas Weelkes!

The Workshop Venue:

The workshop venue is the Benedictine Monastery in Pecos, NM. This pastoral site, right on the Pecos River, features modern amenities with comfortable rooms. All rooms are singles and have private baths.
Tentative Schedule:
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Tuition:
$1,000 (single room) – All meals are included

Getting Here:
The Benedictine Monastery is on the north end of the town of Pecos, about a half-hour drive northeast of Santa Fe on I-25 and thence onto State Hwy. 50. We assume most people will be driving. If flying, the nearest airport is the cute, tiny one on the south side of Santa Fe (SAF), albeit with very limited service; otherwise it’s Albuquerque’s (ABQ), an hour’s extra drive. If you fly in to ABQ and don’t rent a car, it’s dicey: the one shuttle service to Santa Fe stopped operations in November. There is a train from downtown Albuquerque, the Rail Runner, but only a half dozen or so run every day, and it doesn’t stop at the airport. We’ll do our best to arrange to pick you up in Santa Fe or ABQ if you let us know your itinerary.
Registration:
Status: Waiting List Workshop registration is now at full capacity. If you’d like to get on the wait list please send in the registration form without the deposit, and we’ll let you know if a spot opens up. ALL REGISTRATIONS MUST BE RECEIVED BY MONDAY 12 JANUARY 2026.
Please print and return the registration form (registration page only) with a non-refundable deposit of $100, or scan and send your registration back via email and mail the check separately.
Registration deadline: Monday, January 12, 2026.
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
