early music activities at FIU and the community
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
Collegium Musicum in Fall 2017 will include both Viol Class throughout the school year and/or participation in Collegium Musicum’s concert as a part of the FIU School of Music’s celebration of the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. We will need vocal soloists, strings, viol players, trumpets, oboes, and continuo (keyboard and cello).
To sign up for either Collegium Musicum or Viol Class, register for the following:
MUN 1471: freshmen and sophomores
MUH 3474: juniors and seniors
MUH 5477: graduate students
You may also sign up for 0 credit.
Contact Dr. Dolata for permissions.
Viol class usually takes place on Tuesdays from 3:30–5:00 in WPAC 157 though it is still too early to firmly establish the schedule. Rehearsals for the Reformation concert will take place either on Tuesday afternoons at 3:30–5:00 (at the same time as Viol Class) or Tuesday evenings at 5pm and/or on an ad hoc basis depending on the participants’ schedules. Many of the rehearsals will take place as a component of another ensemble’s rehearsal time, e.g., choir, orchestra, etc.
Please let Dr. Dolata know if you are interested as soon as you can and contact him with any questions.
Angel Marchese, tenor and David Dolata, lute at the Coral Gables Museum at FIU Magazine’s TotalBank Distinguished Speaker Series Spanish and Mediterranean Studies Program: Shakespeare and Cervantes Timeless Commentators on the Human Condition. Text by David Dolata with the assistance of Angel Marchese and Marcus Norris, written for FIU’s Frost Art Museum exhibition of Shakespeare’s First Folio.
Angel Marchese, David Dolata, Roberto Lopez-Trigo, Hanah Davenport, and Adriana Ruiz having fun backstage before their April 22 concert at the Coral Gables Museum at FIU Magazine’s TotalBank Distinguished Speaker Series Spanish and Mediterranean Studies Program: Shakespeare and Cervantes Timeless Commentators on the Human Condition.
David Dolata with BU countertenor Wee Kiat Chia.
The Venus and Adonis performances on Sunday Feb. 21 at 3 pm and Monday Feb. 22 at 7:30 pm will be live streamed at FIU School of Music Livestreaming. You can also return to that site at a later time to enjoy the performances after they are archived.
https://youtu.be/3wyoW1kUCvg
Board of Directors
The Miami Bach Society is pleased to announce that Florida International University Professor of Musicology David Dolata has joined its Board of Directors, further strengthening the bond between Miami’s premier early music presenting organization and the FIU School of Music.
The Bulletin de la Société Française de Luth has referred to Dolata as a “gentleman de la Renaissance” for his activities as a performer and scholar. He is familiar to Miami audiences as a lutenist and can be heard on several American and European recordings and is currently chair of the American Musicological Society Performance Committee. Dr. Dolata has served as visiting research professor at the Centre d’Etudes Supérieures de la Renaissance (CESR) at the Université François-Rabelais de Tours – CNRS where he continues his association as Chercheur Associé and co-editor of the CESR Encyclopedia of Tablature with John Griffiths and Philippe Vendrix. Dolata also maintains a long-standing affiliation with Boston University’s Center for Early Music Studies and co-directs Il Furioso with Victor Coelho. His Meantone Temperaments on Lutes and Viols will be published by the Indiana University Press in the Spring of 2016.
According to FIU School of Music’s Interim Director, Robert B. Dundas, “All of us at the School are delighted and proud that Dr. David Dolata has joined the Board of Directors for Miami Bach Society. Formalizing our long-standing partnership is a logical and gratifying step. We look forward to combining our resources and creative energies to provide South Florida with the finest in Early Music performances in the years to come!”
Miami Bach Society’s General Manager, Margie Lopez, explains, “The Miami Bach Society is happy to welcome its newest Board Member, David Dolata. Professor Dolata is a long time friend, artist, and supporter of the Miami Bach Society. This addition to our Board also speaks volume to the increasing collaboration between Florida International University and the Miami Bach Society. Many wonderful projects are planned between our two organizations to increase the opportunities available to students and our South Florida community to experience this genre of music, its rich history, and the beauty of its period instruments.”
In recent years the Miami Bach Society and FIU have collaborated on the presentation of many concerts and master classes both at FIU and in the community, a partnership that continues this year with several performances including their presentation of vihuelist John Griffiths and a performance of John Blow’s opera Venus & Adonis by the FIU Opera Theater and Collegium Musicum in April 2016 during the annual meeting of the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music, hosted by FIU at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Coconut Grove. The Miami Bach Society also provides the FIU School of Music with a music business internship and recently donated over 300 CDs to the FIU Library to create the Kathy Gaubatz Early Music Recording Collection.
More information about the Miami Bach Society, visit ww.miamibachsociety.org.