Severall Friends

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
