Charles Weaver is on the faculty of the Juilliard School, where he teaches historical plucked instruments and Baroque music theory. He also works with the New York Continuo Collective, an ensemble of players and singers exploring seventeenth-century vocal music in semester-length workshop productions. He is associate director of music at St.
Charles Weaver
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Charles Weaver performs on early plucked-string instruments as a recitalist and as an accompanist. He also works with the New York Continuo Collective, an ensemble of players and singers exploring seventeenth-century vocal music in semester-length workshop productions, and has taught at the Lute Society of America Summer Workshop in Vancouver, the Madison Early Music Festival, and the Western Wind Workshop in ensemble singing. Weaver is associate director of music at St Mary Church in Norwalk, Connecticut, where he specializes in Renaissance polyphony and Gregorian chant. Blue Heron is engaged in the exploration of Renaissance and medieval vocal music, putting the study of original sources in the service of vivid live performance. Widely regarded as the finest ensemble of its type in North America, Blue Heron presents a subscription series in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a catalog of exceptional recordings is available on the Blue Heron label. Touring engagements have taken the group across the United States as well as to Canada and England. Blue Heron is early music for the 21st century.
Performances
Guido's Musicians:. Petersburg Chamber Philharmonic. An accomplished soloist, he was awarded top-prize at the 6th International Mae and Irving Jurow Harpsichord Competition in and has performed J. Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. He currently resides in New York City. Elizabeth Baber , soprano, has been passionately interested in early music since her training began in the demanding choral program at Christ Church Cathedral, Lexington, Kentucky. She now lives in New York City and is an avid participant in its ever-growing early-music community.
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