Collegium Musicum of Columbia University
	You are cordially invited to our next concert on Saturday, January 27, 2007 at 8 p.m. in 301 Philosophy Hall (next to St. Paul’s Chapel on the CU campus) The program will be jointly presented with the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Chamber Singers.
	Corelli J.S. Bach Purcell		Concerto Grosso in F major, Op. 6 no. 2 Keyboard Concerto in D minor, BWV 1052 “Welcome to all the pleasures” “Remember not Lord our offenses” “Hear my prayer, O Lord”
	Members of the Columbia University Community are invited to audition for the 2006-2007 season.
		Unique among Columbia'pwds ated ensembles because of its focus on historically informed performance, the Collegium Musicum incorporates vocal and instrumental performance practice techniques, improvisation, and gesture.
		Concerts this year will include the music of Purcell, Bach, Handel, Pergolesi, Cozzolani, and Pepusch.
	>> Students may receive one academic credit per semester. <<

Audition Information

Singers of all voice parts and all instrumentalists, especially pianists, are encouraged to audition. Auditions are held in 405 Dodge Hall as follows or by appointment:

Thursday	August 31^st	1 to 5 pm
Wednesday	Sept. 6^th	7 to 10 pm
Thursday	Sept. 7^th	7 to 10 pm

No advance sign-up is required, but you may sign up for a time slot on the sheet posted on the bulletin board near the Music Dept. Office, 621 Dodge Hall.

Singers: Please bring a prepared piece if possible.  The audition will consist mainly of vocalizing. 

Instrumentalists: Please bring a prepared solo piece or orchestral excerpt, preferably Baroque or Classical.  There will also be some sight reading.

Rehearsals for singers are Mondays and Wednesdays, 7 to 9 pm.

Rehearsals for instrumentalists are to be arranged.

For more information or to schedule an audition, please contact

Sean M. Parr

Director and Conductor, Collegium Musicum

Graduate Student . Historical Musicology

smp2109@columbia.edu

About the Collegium Musicum

In the 18th Century, a collegium musicum was a university society of students and townspeople who met to play and to sing for their own pleasure. In our own day, the term is used for an ensemble that performs early music, music for which there is not a continuous performance tradition from its own time to the present. Columbia.s collegium was established in the 1950.s, a time when recorded examples of early music were few and public performances even fewer. Directed by a graduate student in the Department of Music, it continues to give students an opportunity to experience the early as well contemporary repertories of Western music as listeners and performers.

November 2005 Program (pdf)

Last updated: April 11, 2007

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