Camps and workshops
Camps in New England/Ontario for Teens
New England Teen Traveling Camp III
Massachusetts/Maine/New Hampshire/Vermont
August 1-21 , 2010 (20 days)
Led by Larry Gordon, Malkhaz Erkvanidze,
Megan Henderson
THIS CAMP IS FULL.
Malkhaz Erkvanidze--founder of Tbilisi's Anchiskhati Ensemble and currently director of Sakhioba, is a sought-after workshop leader. In his fourth summer teaching with Village Harmony, Malkhaz will delight everyone with his humor and his expertise in teaching the vibrant folk music of Caucasus Georgia.
Village Harmony founder Larry Gordon will teach South African songs, American shape-note and gospel songs, and Bulgarian arrangements, and will lead the group in Balkan and other folk dances every morning during the rehearsal week. oining VH after a long hiatus is Megan Henderson, a veteran of Village Harmony's early days and a wonderful keyboard player, who will teach a set of baroque works. This camp will have plenty of opportunities for instrument players to strut their stuff.
Rehearsal week will be at Woolman Hill Quaker Retreat Center outside of Deerfield, in western Massachusetts, and the concert tour will take the group through Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont.
$1,225
Leaders
LARRY GORDON has been making community music in Vermont since the early 1970s. He founded Village Harmony in 1988. Though his first love was medieval and renaissance music, he is a vital figure in New England shape-note singing. Larry is an inspired organizer with an unerring eye for good repertoire and a unique knack of pulling together interesting combinations of singers and letting them shine. His patient and relaxed, yet demanding, teaching style and collaborative approach have shaped the welcoming atmosphere of the Village Harmony community since the beginning. Larry has led Onion River Chorus in Montpelier since the late 1970s, and is well known across the US and internationally for leading stunning periodic adhoc incarnations of Northern Harmony, a semi-professional tour group made up largely of veteran Village Harmony singers.
MALKHAZ ERKVANIDZE has been at the forefront of the revival of medieval polyphonic Georgian sacred music, with many unique recordings and publications to his credit as founder-director of the Anchiskhati Ensemble and more recently of Ensemble Sakhioba in Tbilisi, Georgia. Born in the central mountainous region of Imereti, Malkhaz grew up singing folk music; with the formation of Anchiskhati in 1988 he begun a lifelong passion to research,and promote the forgotten tradition of three-part polyphonic church chant indigenous to the Orthodox Church in Georgia. Malkhaz teaches at the Tbilisi State Conservatory. This is Malkhaz’s fourth summer working with Village Harmony.
MEGAN HENDERSON is an engaging conversationalist, currently the interim choral director at the Winsor School and one of the conductors for the PALS Children's Chorus. She has sung with Schola Cantorum of Boston for over 25 years and has made several recordings with the Boston Camerata. Megan is also a collaborative pianist in the Boston area and is delighted to be returning to Village Harmony after over a decade’s hiatus.
Woolman Hill Quaker Center
Deerfield, Massachusetts
Woolman Hill is a Quaker retreat and conference center situated on 110 ridge-top acres of meadows and woodlands in western Massachusetts. We will sleep in bedrooms in the main farmhouse and four rustic cabins in the wooded areas, with primarily dormitory-style housing.. The main lodge also has sitting rooms and a large, open dining hall which will double as a rehearsal space; the separate historic Quaker meeting house--relocated board by board from Cape Cod--can also be used for singing sessions.
http://www.woolmanhill.org/