Modern Early Music Institute (MEMI)

The Modern Early Music Institute (MEMI) offers professional string players the opportunity to study 18th-century performance practices using their own modern instruments. The Institute is co-directed by Elizabeth Field and Stephanie Vial and runs for 4 days. It teaches elements of 18th-century musical expressions through an investigation of bowing techniques, applications of vibrato and ornamentation, aspects of musical grammar and rhetoric, and general principles of interpreting 18th-century musical notation. The goal is to provide not merely a set of technical tools, but an instrumental "vocabulary" through which this incredibly rich, varied, and complex musical language can be conveyed effectively on modern instruments. The Institute also includes instruction in baroque dance and demonstrations of historical instruments. Participants have the opportunity to perform solo repertoire in a master class setting and as part of the MEMI chamber orchestra in the concert which concludes the course.

For more information on MEMI, please visit that website here.