Period Performance Workshop
Artistic Director: Carrie Krause
“Commedia dell’arte”
August 15-17, 2025
Bozeman, Montana
Join Arlequino, Pantalone, and your Baroque Music Montana Workshop Faculty this summer for a workshop highlighting the intersections between the traditions of commedia dell’arte and music of the 17th and 18th centuries. The workshop will include history, context and classes in the commedia tradition, as well as musical repertoire from the Italian peninsula and beyond that intersected with commedia. This summer, go behind the masks and join us for an intensive weekend of musicking and exploration.
Presented in collaboration with First Presbyterian Church Bozeman
All events will be held at the church located at
26 W. Babcock St. in downtown Bozeman
Baroque cello on generous loan from Hollinger Violins, Missoula
Baroque Music Montana presents this period practice workshop for modern and baroque performers.
The workshop will explore:
- original sources (manuscript scores and first editions, iconography, writing) and their clues for today’s performers
- varied articulation and rhetorical, communicative sound
- ornamentation and improvisation
- open, centered, & relaxed physical approach to instrument
- larger cultural context of music
- large & small ensembles, lectures, private lessons, and some events just for good musical fun!
Tailored instruction for a variety of levels
Workshop Registration
Eligibility: Students, amateur, and professional players of violin, viola, cello, wind instruments, keyboard instruments, and guitar or lute with at least four years playing experience and adequate reading skills. Ages 14 and older. Limit 50 participants. Viols, singers, and other instruments admitted by request. Professional players have a separate class, contingent upon registration.
Fees:
$260.00 for full workshop or
$125 to audit (contact workshop director first)
Private Lessons: Available upon request – $35 per 30 minutes.
Registration opens Feb 1 and closes May 31.
Scholarships & housing upon request
Schedule of Workshop Events
Thursday August 14, 2025
| 6:00-7:00pm | Backyard Baroque BaMM concert (opt.) @ 500 Black Bear Rd, Bozeman, MT |
Friday August 15, 2025
| 12:30-12:40pm | Orientation |
| 12:50-1:20 | Technique Class |
| 1:30-2:30 | Chamber Ensembles |
| 2:40-3:40 | Special Topics Class with Mace Perlman |
| 3:50-5:00 | Orchestra |
| 5:10-5:40 | Private Lessons (opt.) |
| 5:45-6:15 | Dinner Lecture with Lindsey Strand-Polyak: “Vivaldi’s Ospedale in Venice” |
| 7:00-7:45 | Faculty Concert |
Saturday August 16, 2025
| 10:00-10:20am | Orientation & Warm Up |
| 10:25-11:10 | Chamber Ensembles |
| 11:15-11:30 | Coffee Break |
| 11:35-12:35pm | Special Topics Class with Mace Perlman |
| 12:45-1:15 | Masterclass/ Technique Class |
| 1:20-1:50 | Lunch Lecture with John Lenti: “Creature of the Pit, Playing opera for fun & profit” |
| 1:50-2:45 | Break |
| 2:45-3:45 | Chamber Ensembles |
| 3:55-5:05 | Orchestra |
| 5:15-6:45 | Private Lessons (opt.) |
| 7:30-9:00 | Baroque-okee, 419 S. Grand (opt.) |
Sunday August 17, 2025
| 11:00-12:00pm | Church Music (opt.) |
| 12:30-12:50 | Orientation & Warm Up |
| 12:55-1:40 | Masterclass-Chamber Ensembles |
| 1:50-2:35 | Chamber Ensembles |
| 2:45-3:30 | Orchestra |
| 4:00-5:30 | Final Performance |
| 6:00 | Closing Dinner, Shine |
Public Events
Friday August 15
5:45 pm – 6:15 pm // Dinner Lecture with Lindsey Strand-Polyak: “Vivaldi’s Ospedale in Venice”
(Fellowship Hall)
&
7:00 pm // Faculty Concert
(Sanctuary)
Saturday August 16
1:20 pm -1:50 pm //Lunch Lecture with John Lenti: “Creature of the Pit, Playing opera for fun & profit”
(Fellowship Hall)
Sunday August 17
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm // Student Final Concert
(Sanctuary)
Faculty
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