Category Archives: Orchestra Musicians
Violinist Maxine Nemerovski Joins the Orchestra
Violinist Maxine Nemerovski has been a near-constant presence on Philharmonia Baroque’s stage for the past fifteen years. In recognition of...
Violinist Elizabeth Blumenstock Celebrates 30 Years with Philharmonia Baroque
The Bay Area has benefited from Elizabeth Blumenstock’s presence in the violin section of Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra for 30 years...
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R.J. Kelley’s Horn is a Time Machine
For many musicians, playing an instrument provides an escape from reality. They become so deeply absorbed in the notes and...
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Violist Aaron Westman’s passion for early music
The Santa Rosa Press Democrat features Philharmonia Baroque’s own violist Aaron Westman in a recent article about his passion for...
David Tayler and his theorbo
As Philharmonia Baroque prepares to present its next concerts this weekend featuring countertenor David Daniels, theorbo player David Tayler is...
Good luck Aaron
Violist Aaron Westman is in the news today. He is in the running for the position of music director of...
Philharmonia Baroque featured in SFCV today
Learn about where we’ve been and where we’re going in Jesse Hamlin’s article “The Joyful Long Life of Philharmonia Baroque”...
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Behind the Scenes: Robert Levin plays Mozart
Hope you’re looking forward to our concerts TONIGHT (!), this weekend and next week as much as we are! Our...
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“Transcending limitations:” On playing the fortepiano
David Wilson joins us again for the last of three posts about fortepianos, which is the featured instrument of our September concerts. In...
September Concert Prelude: “The Demonic in Mozart”
Anthony Martin, violin and viola, joins us to pose the question “what’s so special about D minor?” The Piano Concerto...
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What I did on my summer vacation: Pt. 2
In honor of Labor Day, which seems to to mark the end of summer for most for us, here is...
What I did on my summer vacation: Pt. 1
‘What have your musicians and singers have been up to all summer?’ you ask? Well, let’s find out! In June,...
Japanese Handel?
Is of course courtesy of our Music Director! Who else did you expect! Read more.
Gonzalo in the Wall Street Journal
One of the volunteers who is helping us with our season ticket mailing mentioned this morning that Gonzalo Ruiz is...
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Congratulations Hanneke!
We are pleased to announce a recent appointment to the membership of Philharmonia Baroque. Effective next season, Hanneke van Proosdij...
Congratulations SFRV!
Have you picked up your issue SF Weekly‘s “Your San Francisco?” We just wanted to take a minute to congratulate...
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Glorious sounds of centuries past
On June 10-12, come say hello to us at our table at “BFX TEN” – the 10th bi-annual early music...
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Like the human voice…
Though Toronto indie rocker Charles Spearin’s Happiness Project is one the most touching explorations of humanity through sound in recent...
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Announcing 2010-11 – Our 30th Anniversary Season
Today, we announced our 30th Anniversary Season! Current subscribers can renew their subscriptions now! General public subscriptions go on sale...
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Family Concert