Mid-Peninsula Recorder Orchestra Special Events


Upcoming MPRO Concerts


Upcoming MPRO Workshops

Saturday, January 19, 2013 9:30AM to 4:30PM
Music from Spain and its colonies during the 16th to 18th centuries
directed by Claudia Liliana Gantivar

Saturday, January 19, 2013 from 9:30 A.M. to 4:30 P.M.

Holy Trinity Episcopal Church
330 Ravenswood Avenue,
Menlo Park

Claudia is a specialist in early music with a Master of Arts Degree in Recorder Performance at the Conservatory of Music in Geneva, Switzerland. In her native Colombia, she was a professor in the Early Music Program at the Conservatory of Music of Bogota. She has performed throughout Europe and Latin America. In 2006, she founded the early music ensemble Esfera Armoniosa. She is currently teaching at the Community School of Music and Arts in Mountain View.

The morning session of the workshop will include polyphonic works from Renaissance Spain by Tomás Luis de Victoria, Antonio de Cabezón and others. The afternoon session will focus on popular villancicos by various composers who were active in the Spanish colonies of South America. The workshop will conclude with a short sacred piece by Juan de Herrera, who was a composer at the Cathedral of Bogotá during the late 17th and early 18th centuries.

Click HERE for more info, a registration form, and a map to the workshop.


Other Area Events of Interest

Save the date in 2012-13!!

November 30, December 1, 2, 2012
Musica Pacifica Concert (SFEMS)

December 1, 2012
Flanders Recorder Quartet Workshop, San Jose

December 2, 2012
Flanders Recorder Quartet Concert

December 13-16, 2012
Philharmonia Baroque Bach Christmas Concert

February 10, 2013
Concert -- Baroque Journeys: Michala Petri and Friends
4:00 p.m., The Center for Performing Arts at Menlo-Atherton
Tickets: $50/$45 adult; $25/$20 student