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The workshop is an opportunity for adult amateur string players to get together to play with others and to work a bit on technique and musicality with some of the northwest's best performers and teachers*, and to join together to play some great string music. Our goal is to make the workshop accessible to intermediate level players and also be enjoyable for more advanced players.
Sequence of Events
Ferries:
San Juans interisland ferry arrives at 9:50 am
Mainland ferry leaves Anacortes at 10:35; get there an hour early if you are bringing your car! Arrives Lopez at 11:20.
Activities:
- 10:30-11:30 am early arrivals rehearse repertoire with Celia
- 11:30 am-12:30 pm picnic-style lunch for participants (provided)
- 12:30-1:30 pm 1 hour class on vibrato, tone, intonation, and expression, and sectional rehearsals of the afternoon's repertoire. Violins/violas meet with Sharyn, celli/basses meet with Matt;
- 1:45-2:45 pm choice of Improving Rhythm Skills with Mother Felicitas (this class is open to all interested musicians, whether string players or other), or Learning by Ear (Celtic songs) with Celia
- 3:00-4:30 pm Full Ensemble rehearsal, Sharyn Peterson conducting
- 5:00-6:00 pm Concert (see the poster)
- Matt Rehfeldt plays a solo Bach Suite on the cello
- Sharyn Peterson plays Paganini
- Sharyn and Matt play the Passacaglia by Handel/Halvorsen
- Celia Rosenberger and Mother Felicitas play Bartok violin duets
- Celia and Lopez violinist Lexi Taylor play Appalachia Waltz by Mark O'Connor
- The workshop participants play the best of the repertoire
- 6:30 optional dinner at the Galley Restaurant, or takeout
More Ferries:
7:30 pm ferry to Shaw/Orcas (takeout from the Galley will be available),
8:25 pm ferry to the mainland,
7:30 pm or 9:15 pm ferry to San Juan Island.
Skill Level for Participants
- * Be able to learn your part in advance;
- * Be able to keep your place rhythmically and play independently and in tune in a group.
- * Use good judgment when choosing your part; choose one that you can play easily so you will enjoy the workshop and sound your best in the concert.
The Brandenburg Concerto has 6 violin-viola parts. I have transcribed the viola parts into the treble clef so participants can pick a part that is within their comfort zone. The top 2 violin parts require position work. All violin-viola parts require facility with fast G and D major scales and 16th-note string crossings between 2 adjacent strings. The cello and bass parts require facility with fast G and D major scales. Faculty will be playing with the ensemble if anyone needs to lay out on the hardest bits.
Parts are available by clicking here and it will be a lot more fun if everyone learns their part beforehand!
View a performance of the Elegie on YouTube.
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Click here to get the Registration Form
Click here to download the music
Matt Rehfeldt's CD of the complete Bach Suites for Cello will be available for purchase.
Getting to Grace Church on Lopez Island:
If necessary, take the ferry to Lopez Island. Mainlanders use the Anacortes ferry landing.
Google Maps has Grace Church in the wrong location! Don't use it!
From the Lopez ferry landing: drive south about 3.8 miles on Ferry Road (it's the only road from the ferry landing);
stay on the main road; it will become Fisherman Bay Road at one point.
As you approach the village, Grace Church is the big church on the left. Turn left at Sunset Lane.
A photo of Grace Church as seen from the south.
Click here to see the concert poster
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Faculty
 Celia Rosenberger is masterminding this event, at the urging of her dedicated students. She teaches violin, viola, cello, bass viol, and beginning piano on Lopez Island and in Bellingham. She taught at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and was a member of the San Franciso Opera and Ballet Orchestras before moving to Lopez Island in 1991. She is dedicated to the cause of creating opportunities for older non-professional musicians to make beautiful music together. more
 Matt Rehfeldt, cellist and guitarist, was born into a musical family. He received a bachelor's degree from the University of Redlands with a major in cello performance and a minor in classical guitar. Matthew was honored with the University of Redlands Most Outstanding Performer Award and was also winner of the Redlands Bowl Competition. He has performed as featured soloist with the University of Redlands Chamber Orchestra and the Skagit Symphony. Mr. Rehfeldt has held the post of principal cellist for many symphony orchestras including the Claremont Young Musicians' Orchestra, University of Redlands Chamber Orchestra, Mancini Symphony of the Desert, Southern California Youth Orchestra, Cascade Symphony and the Starry Night Orchestra. He is currently a freelance cellist performing regularly as soloist, principal cellist, and chamber musician throughout the Western Washington area.
 Sharyn Peterson, a northwest native, has been performing as a violin, viola, and voice soloist and chamber musician for many years in the greater Seattle area, Canada, and Costa Rica. She conducts the Fidalgo Youth Symphony and the Mt. Baker Youth Symphony, and directs Summer Sounds Music Festival each year. She also enjoys conducting musical theatre productions (Fiddler on the Roof, Oliver, The King and I, Fame, Cinderella). Mrs. Peterson has served on the faculties of Seattle Pacific and Western Washington Universities, and Skagit Valley College. In 2004 she co-founded Skagit Opera, and was Concertmaster and orchestra agent for the first five seasons. Founder and Artistic Director of both Starry Night Chamber Series and Peterson Conservatory, she can often be heard as violin soloist/concertmaster with Northwest choral and symphonic ensembles (Whatcom Symphony, Skagit Symphony, Thalia Symphony, Skagit Valley Chorale, Northwest Community Chorale, Lynden Choral Society, Snohomish Music Teachers Awards Concert) She also performs in a Gypsy jazz quartet-“Le Chat Souriant”.
 Mother Felicitas Curti,OSB, Ph.D., is a former Assistant Professor of music at Rutgers University and Lecturer at the City College of New York. She is a nun at the Priory of Our Lady of the Rock on Shaw island. She teaches violin and plays and performs with Celia Rosenberger, and also with pianist John Brantigan of Shaw Island. . As Martha Curti in her former life, Mother Felicitas grew up in Madison, Wisconsin, where she played in two adult orchestras, the Madison Civic Symphony and the Wisconsin School of Music String Orchestra. Her degrees: B.A., Music, Oberlin College and Conservatory, 1954 M.A., Musicology, City College of New York, 1967 Ph.D. Musicology, Rutgers 1977. After coming to Shaw Island, she worked closely with Mother Kateri Visocky, FSE, as founding member of the Island Consort which later became the Island Sinfonia. She was concertmaster of both these groups, and has performed in trios and quartets on the islands.
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