Early Music at FIU

Here is a rare opportunity to hear Schütz’ Christmas Oratorio. The FIU contingent for this performance will include countertenor Edgar Sanfeliz-Botta and me on archlute. I hope to see you there.

David Dolata

Owing to curricular realignments and my spring 2018 sabbatical, Collegium Musicum will be on hiatus for 2017–2018. Though we will not be offering the course on an official basis, there are still many opportunities for you to participate in early music activities at FIU informally. For instance, the viol consort will continue to meet on its own, and our recorder players are continuing to meet as well. If you are interested in participating in either of these activities, please let me know so that I can put you into contact with these groups.

Collegium members and alumni will also be participating in concerts that include early repertoire both at FIU and in the community. In the coming days, these events will be added to our temporarily hidden calendar, but as a preview, here are a few dates for you to lock in:

Friday, October 28 at FIU: Soli Deo Gloria: An evening of music exploring the impact of the Reformation on choral singing around the world. All early choral music from the Renaissance and Baroque eras.

Friday, November 17 at FIU: Grand Harmonie. Boston-based ensemble that performs classical period music on early instruments.

Tuesday, November 28 at Palm Beach Atlantic University: Schütz’s Christmas Oratorio with FIU faculty and collegium alumni joining our friends at PBA.

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David Dolata

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David Dolata

For those of you who will be in the Boston area or have friends there who might be interested, David Dolata will be performing two concerts with renowned countertenor Andreas Scholl, his Il Furioso co-director Victor Coelho, and viola da gambist Laura Jeppesen. The full schedule of events sponsored by Boston University’s Center for Early Music Studies can be found below.

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The PBAU Early Music Festival presents Il Furioso, described by critics as “an early music power trio.” For this concert they are joined by rising star male soprano Robert Crowe in a performance of works from their latest CD for Toccata Classics, featuring the first recordings of George Frideric Handel’s complete “Amen, Alleluia” arias, along with stunning vocal works from 17th-century England and instrumental music for the theorbo and organ.

The show will be held in Helen K. Persson Recital Hall in Vera Lea Rinker Hall at 8 p.m.

Tickets: $10 general admission; $5 students with ID; PBA students free.

Join us for Concert I of the Early Music Festival, which features Monteverdi’s “II Combattimento di Tancredi E Clorinda” at 8 p.m. in Vera Lea Rinker Hall on April 7.

This performance is directed by Michael O’Connor and prepared by the Opera Workshop and Producing Director, Marilyn Mims. Performers include Victor Coelho, David Dolata, and Juvenal Correa-Salas of Il Furioso and Adriana Ruiz.

Tickets: $10 general admission; $5 students with ID; PBA students free.

Festival rate: $15 for both performances (Concert I and Concert II on April 8th) if purchased prior to Friday night’s concert.

 

Beginning in Fall 2017, keyboard player and conductor Juvenal Correa-Salas will take over FIU’s Collegium Musicum from David Dolata, who will turn his attention to teaching the graduate Bibliography course instead.

For further information about Collegium Musicum, contact Juvenal Correa-Salas at jcorreas@fiu.edu. For permission numbers, registration information, or instrument check-outs, contact Dr. Dolata at dolatad@fiu.edu.

 

Tolgahan Çoğulu will present his award-winning instrument design microtonal guitar explaining its underlying concept and repertoire. The first prize winner in the 2014 Margaret Guthman Musical Instruments at Georgia Tech, Microtonal Guitar was accepted and funded as a scientific research project at the Istanbul Technical University Dr. Erol Uçer Center for Advanced Studies in Music. All the frets of the microtonal guitar are movable in the channels under each string. Besides, any number of frets can be inserted into or removed from the fretboard.

David Dolata will introduce the Encyclopedia of Tablature, scheduled to be released in 2017, containing 450+ essays on 40 types of tablature written by an international team of leading experts. After its release, the Encyclopedia will take its place as the only comprehensive reference source on tablature. The Encyclopedia is published under the auspices of the Centre d’Études Supérieures de la Renaissance/CNRS, the publisher of the famous series of books on French lute tablature, and Brepols in Belgium, and co-edited by Philippe Vendrix, John Griffiths, and David Dolata.

See http://migf.fiu.edu/lectures/ for more information