GEMAS - Early Music of the Americas

05/06/2024

Our wonderful friends Piffaro, The Renaissance Band are offering this gorgeous streaming concert for $10 as a gift to us all. Just use the promo code FINAL48 - and enjoy!!

From "Glory of the Wind Band: Music from Portugal & Spain"Recorded live in concert May 12, 2024 at Immanuel Church Highlands, Wilmington, DESTREAMING ONLINE:...

05/06/2024

Our dear friends at Piffaro, The Renaissance Band are offering a sale of their last concert of the season filled with glorious music from Portugal and Spain -

Click the link below and Use the promo code: FINAL48
Then you can watch for $10!

Enjoy!!

19/03/2024

Sonya Headlam and Rebecca Schaefer Cypess played a beautiful recital for GEMAS - Early Music of the Americas last month. it included music by Joseph Bologne, Ignatius Sancho, and Francis Johnson. More information here:
https://www.as-coa.org/events/new-date-sonya-headlam-and-rebecca-cypess-transatlantic-musical-heritage
Thank you MetLife Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation. 😊

07/03/2024

COME HEAR Vincent Lauzer, flûtiste à bec / recorder player LIVE at Americas Society/Council of the Americas MARCH 14TH 7pm!! 680 Park Avenue at E68th! Music of the Americas Gotham Early Music Scene

On March 22nd at 7pm ET, in his Music of the Americas debut, the Canadian recorder virtuoso, Vincent Lauzer, is joined by a stellar group of early music spec...

07/03/2024

We are very excited to present the Canadian virtuoso Vincent Lauzer, flûtiste à bec / recorder player in concert for our final concert of the season in a beautiful program of Bach and Telemann joined by Risa Browder, violin and viola Wade Davis, cello and viola da gamba and John Walthausen, harpsichord. This music will sparkle in our beautiful SImon Bolivar Salon. Tickets are free, please register at the link below!

March 14th at 7pm - Americas Society 680 Park Avenue .68th
Please join us!

The Canadian recorder virtuoso leads a group of baroque specialists in Trio Sonatas by the German composers.

07/03/2024

Thank you John J. Cali School of Music at Montclair State University! Ensemble La Chimera - Eduardo Egüez and Nell Snaidas had a wonderful time with your talented students during ! Music of the Americas Gotham Early Music Scene

02/03/2024

Please join us this Tuesday, March 5th at 7pm at Americas Society as we welcome the incredible Ensemble La Chimera - Eduardo Egüez in their program Mare Nostrum with soprano Nell Snaidas! The concert is free, please register at the link below.

One of Europe's leading early music ensembles, Ensemble La Chimera, led by Argentine lutenist Eduardo Egüez and joined by soprano and GEMAS co-curator Nell Snaidas, makes its Music of the Americas debut with Mare Nostrum, a program with baroque music from around the Mediterranean Sea.

The Mediterranean, which witnessed many voyages between Spain and Italy during the 17th century, inspires the repertoire choice, featuring love songs of these two nations, full of affection, passions, and contrasts by Monteverdi, Mazzocchi, Marin, Ortiz, and others.

The early music group joins Music of the Americas with a program of Spanish and Italian baroque music alongside the Uruguayan-American soprano.

13/02/2024

Due to impending weather Sonya Headlam & Rebecca Schaefer Cypess will present their recital “Transatlantic Musical Heritage from Sancho to Johnson” highlighting Black Classical composers and poets on WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 14 at 7pm. Please join us for what is sure to be a beautiful evening! GEMAS - Early Music of the Americas Gotham Early Music Scene Music of the Americas

11/02/2024

Soprano Sonya Headlam has a voice that is not only warm and gorgeous, but radiates with integrity. “With unwavering purpose here and determination, Sonya has kept music a constant presence in her life, achieving a wide range of accomplishments. These include her critically acclaimed Jamaican debut, where she performed for distinguished guests, including the Governor General of Jamaica, and her attainment of a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts, where she was honored with the Michael Fardink Memorial Award. Sonya has consistently earned the praise of critics for the authenticity and emotional depth of her performances. At the heart of her artistry is her profound belief in the transformative power of music, capable of delving into the depths of human emotions, illuminating the human experience, and forging meaningful connections among us” Come and hear her with the excellent Rebecca Schaefer Cypess in their innovative program of Black Classical composers and poets, Transatlantic Musical Heritage from Sancho to Johnson at Americas Society/Council of the Americas(68th/Park) this Tuesday Feb. 13th at 7pm presented by GEMAS - Early Music of the Americas Music of the AmericasGotham Early Music Scene

11/02/2024

Meet Rebecca Schaefer Cypess! We can’t wait to hear the exquisite program she has put together with the excellent soprano Sonya Headlam this Tuesday Feb 13th at 7pm at Americas Society (68th/Park) A scholar as well as a performer, she has been a leader in the field bringing early music to New Jersey and beyond! A professor at Rutgers University—New Brunswick Mason Gross School of the Arts, Dr. Cypess specializes in the history, interpretation, and performance practices of music in 17th- and 18th-century Europe and America, as well as music in Jewish culture, music in the history of science, and women in music. She has been the recipient of two awards from the American Musicological Society: the Noah Greenberg Award (Early Music America) for contributions to historical performance (2018) and the Ruth A. Solie Award for “a collection of musicological essays of exceptional merit” Please join us as GEMAS - Early Music of the Americas presents this dynamic duo in recital of music by Black Classical composers and poets, with Dr. Cypess on the square piano.
Music of the Americas Gotham Early Music Scene

11/02/2024

Brava Karin Cuéllar Rendón ✨Congratulations!!

Music of the Americas: En CasaKarin Cuéllar Rendon: violinFantasia in B-flat Major, Largo and Allegro: Georg TelemannBolivian historical violinist, scholar, ...

09/02/2024

We are thrilled to present the spectacular soprano Sonya Headlam
and superb scholar/historical keyboard player Rebecca Schaefer Cypess in their program on Tuesday Feb 13th 7pm - Free admission

Transatlantic Musical Heritage from Sancho to Johnson
The musicians explore the music and times of black classical composers Ignatius Sancho, Francis Johnson, and Joseph Bologne.
Tuesday, February 13 at 7:00 pm
AMERICAS SOCIETY, 680 Park Avenue, Manhattan

REGISTER FOR FREE TICKETS HERE: https://ascoa.my.site.com/LightningMemberPortal/s/lt-event?id=a1YTO0000010P97

This program explores the music of Afro-Caribbean British composer Ignatius Sancho and his contemporaries, highlighting the theme of international circulations — featuring music by black composers Joseph Bologne and Francis Johnson, alongside poetry by Olaudah Equiano and Phyllis Wheatley.

In the eighteenth century, Europe, Britain, and the Americas were home to countless musicians of African origin. While many of these musicians engaged in musical performance, participatory music-making, and other ephemeral forms of “musicking”, a number also became composers who notated or published their music. This evening’s program explores the work of three such composers as well as two black poets.

https://www.as-coa.org/events/sonya-headlam-and-rebecca-cypess-transatlantic-musical-heritage-sancho-johnson

Admission: Free

This concert is part of GEMAS, a project of Americas Society/Council of the Americas Society/Council of the Americas Music of the Americas and Gotham Early Music Scene devoted to early music of the Americas, curated by Nell Snaidas and Sebastian Zubieta.

21/05/2023

Please join us as we present our final concert of our 10th season! We are thrilled to bring Piffaro, The Renaissance Band under the direction of Priscilla Herreid with Jonatan Alvarado. The concert is FREE, please register, and learn more about the concert, on the link below. Tuesday, May 23rd 7pm at St. Ignatius of Antioch Church.

The evocative phrase Entre dos Álamos is from Lope de Vega’s novel Las fortunas de Diana, in which the envious river Tagus tries to separate two lovers just awakened by the arrival of the new season. It’s just one example of the magnificent music from 16th and 17th century Peru, Bolivia, and Chile that Piffaro’s virtuosic multi-instrumentalists and a stellar cast of singers will bring back to life. Estelí Gomez, sopranoNell SnaidasKirsten SollekAndrew PadgettHeloise DegrugillierStephanie CorwinDanny MallonDaniel SwenbergGrant Herreid Greg Ingles Erik Schmalz

The early music group, joined by a stellar vocal ensemble, makes its Music of the Americas debut with a program of Latin American 16th-century music.