https://www.raresongjax.net/blog daily 0.75 2021-04-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59396fdcdb29d6cb76c7f510/1497148951466-7UM4H7MS48J2Q272KA3W/RareSong---Pat-accomp-by-Marcy%2C-3-2016-09-24-adj.png Upcoming Performances https://www.raresongjax.net/blog/2021/4/22/follow-us-on-youtube monthly 0.5 2021-04-22 https://www.raresongjax.net/blog/2021/4/22/renaissance-rivalries-amp-reunions-april-8-2021 monthly 0.5 2021-04-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59396fdcdb29d6cb76c7f510/1619109941404-70UGY9IM4E3K8TQD90Y2/RareSong+Seated.jpg Upcoming Performances - Renaissance Rivalries & Reunions https://www.raresongjax.net/who-we-are daily 0.75 2020-03-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59396fdcdb29d6cb76c7f510/1585661852062-P1K98M5AYC0MC9GU44MV/RS-at-St-Paul%2527s%252C-2-9-16.jpg Meet Us https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59396fdcdb29d6cb76c7f510/1497469797675-OXI81K7BXFM6XZ6R1LKU/Marcy-headshot%2C-3_0332---Pat%27s-choice-adj.png Meet Us - Marcy Jean Brenner (viol, percussion, alto) Having tried just about every musical instrument known to Western Civilization, Marcy Jean Brenner (nee Zimmermann) decided on harpsichord and viola da gamba around her 18th year while at Oberlin College. She has degrees in both instruments. Her teachers have included Lisa Crawford (harpsichord) and August Wenzinger, José Vásquez, and Wieland Kaijken (viol). Having gone to Vienna as a Fulbright scholar, her career centered in Europe for 28 years (freelancing, teaching and recording). Since traveling with her second husband Michael Brenner on their Motor Sailer Trade Wind and landing in St. Augustine, Marcy has branched out. She is a founding member of Savannah Baroque, plays Irish Music on cello (with 2 to 3 other cellists) in Linda Minke's group Celtic Fire, takes Djembe lessons with a noted teacher, and sings with Jacksonville Harmony Chorus, the (internationally) fourth-ranked mid-sized Sweet Adeline Chorus (i.e. women singing barbershop harmony). Marcy's son from her first marriage, Benedikt Boelli, is a world famous Kitefoil racer and will be competing in the professional tour this year. He also develops and tests the equipment for Flysurfer of Germany. Marcy plays on instruments built by her son’s father, Matthias Boelli. His seven-string French model is her favorite. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59396fdcdb29d6cb76c7f510/1497469690012-OQPG2D73C0ZAGQR556XN/Tony-Cruz%2C-3--headshot-adj.png Meet Us - Tony Cruz (baritone and tenor) Tony Cruz is a graduate of Jacksonville University and is a candidate for the Master of Arts degree at Trinity Lutheran Seminary in Columbus, OH. Since YEAR, he has served as Cantor at St. Mark’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, Jacksonville, playing the organ and conducting the Festival Choir and St. Mark’s Ringers. Tony is a past-dean of the Jacksonville Chapter of the American Guild of Organists. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59396fdcdb29d6cb76c7f510/1497469872591-QXB9WLZTOA6IHUXORXYB/Pat-3-adj.png Meet Us - Patricia DeWitt (recorders, viol, soprano) After studying organ and clarinet at the University of Florida, Patricia DeWitt fell in love with early music (Bach and before) at the University of Michigan while completing a Ph.D. in musicology. She was assistant director of the Collegium Musicum and directed music for Medieval Festivals in Ann Arbor, Michigan. For several years, she performed with a Baroque ensemble at Shorter College in Rome, Georgia, taught music history and directed the instrumental ensembles for its Madrigal Dinners. Pat gradually acquired a passion for the core of early music before the Baroque: vocal polyphony. From 1989 to 2003, she recruited and directed chamber choral groups performing sacred and secular music of the Renaissance and music of the 19th to 21st centuries inspired by that tradition. These performances included productions intended to put this music in its historical context, including complete masses and dramatized madrigal entertainments. These groups received several Georgia arts grants. In 2012, she retired to Jacksonville from a significant non-musical career as a college administrator, an organist/choirmaster position, and the ensemble for The Play of Herod in Atlanta. In 2015, she organized RareSong. She is Dean of the American Guild of Organists, Jacksonville chapter, and frequently serves as a supply organist. Pat’s leadership has included the founding of a state branch of the Association for Institutional Research, holding office in a multi-college data sharing organization, and serving on two state boards of directors of the American Association of University Women. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59396fdcdb29d6cb76c7f510/1497469964760-46GMDYPONA24N8POJ6R1/Pete-3-adj.png Meet Us - Peter DeWitt (recorder, tenor, keyboard, percussion) Peter DeWitt retired to Jacksonville in 2012, after 37 years as professor of music and theory and college organist at Shorter College in Rome, GA. During that period, he performed more than 100 times both as soloist and collaborator as organist, harpsichordist, pianist, singer, and actor throughout the Southeast and occasionally in Germany, France, Scandinavia, Russia, England and Spain. In 2000, he made several presentations of the complete Clavierubungs of Bach as a series of five concerts. He is a past president of the South Eastern Historical Keyboard Society, and past treasurer of the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra. He was coordinator of the American Guild of Organists Southeast Regional Convention, which took place in Jacksonville and St Augustine in June 2017. He is especially proud of the numerous awards won by his organ and composition students. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59396fdcdb29d6cb76c7f510/1497469997606-ZK8GH0SM1J4NBZTUXA3W/Barrie%2C-3%2C-2016-07-25.png Meet Us - Barrie Mosher (recorders, baritone) After a childhood spent in intensive preparation to become a concert pianist, Barrie Mosher took an abrupt musical turn in Junior High School by opting to become an oboist instead. His formation as a musician involved study with a series of fine teachers—among them, Antonia Brico (conducting), John Holmes (oboe), James Eversole (composition), and Hale Smith (composition). Having earned a BMus at Boston University and an MMus at UMASS-Lowell, he earned a graduate certificate in Jazz composition from the Berklee School of Music and completed all coursework toward a DMA in composition at the University of Connecticut. His compositions (for choirs and for instrumental ensembles of various sizes and combinations) have been well-received in NYC and Nashville, among other places. His skill as an oboist has always been in demand for solo, chamber-ensemble, and orchestral performances. During his nineteen years as director of music at Pomfret School (CT), Barrie taught instrumental music and assisted with the choir. He also developed expertise in computer-applications instruction and went on to teach in this field at the Buckley School in NYC for eighteen years and to earn a graduate certificate in computer graphic design from the New School. Now retired from teaching, Barrie plays oboe and English horn in the Civic Orchestra of Jacksonville and performs with his wife Lucinda as the Mosher Double-Reed Duo. He also assists with the music program at St Mary’s Episcopal Church (Green Cove Springs) and is the technology and editorial assistant for NeighborFaith Consultancy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59396fdcdb29d6cb76c7f510/1497060853719-HS8WSTQR9ERWOI7GK94X/LAM-headshot-in-office-adj.png Meet Us - Lucinda Mosher (recorders, percussion, alto) Having begun study of piano at age eight, and study of clarinet the following year, Lucinda Mosher soon added bassoon, saxophone, flute, recorder, and folk-guitar to her performance repertoire. A determined multi-instrumentalist, she even played viola in her high school orchestra for a year. While earning her BMus magna cum laude at Boston University, she studied bassoon with Matthew Ruggiero and John Miller, and began study of organ with George Faxon. After completing an MMus from UMASS-Lowell, she engaged in further study of organ with Christa Rakich (with whom she also studied harpsichord), Barclay Wood, and Charles Callahan; “Revels” performance practices with John Langstaff; and conducting with Alan Lanham, Robert Fountain, and Robert Shaw. Church music being one of her main loves, Lucinda has been a church choir director and organist for several decades, including a year of service in Florence, Italy. She is now the music director at St Mary’s Episcopal Church (Green Cove Springs). She is a past dean of the NE Connecticut Chapter of the American Guild of Organists and a former columnist for the journal of the American Choral Directors Association. For some twenty-five years, Lucinda was a public and independent school choral and instrumental music instructor. During her nineteen years as director of music and chapel organist at the Pomfret School (CT), she took her choral ensembles on concert tour to East and West Germany, the USSR, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and England; was music-director for numerous Broadway musical and Gilbert-and-Sullivan operetta productions; and cultivated her fondness for early music by involving her prep school students in madrigal, motet, and instrumental consort performances. Subsequently, Lucinda was for eighteen years a member of Chelsea Winds—a New York City recorder ensemble performing literature of all eras. Currently, she is a bassoonist with the Civic Orchestra of Jacksonville; and, with her husband Barrie, performs as the Mosher Double-Reed Duo. Intentionally bi-vocational since the mid-1990s, Lucinda also holds a doctorate in theology. A specialist in multifaith concerns, she is a part-time as a member of the Hartford Seminary faculty and is founder-principal of NeighborFaith Consultancy, LLC. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59396fdcdb29d6cb76c7f510/1497470080971-CNR2GLEBFKBRIJNOO5R4/lynne-3-adj.png Meet Us - Lynne Radcliffe (alto) Lynne Radcliffe has been active as an accompanist, performer, and music teacher since moving to the Jacksonville area in 1983. She holds a Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance from Memphis State University, and returned to Tennessee in 2009 for a year of graduate study in musicology at the University of Memphis. Having taught at Episcopal High School for seventeen years, she now teaches music theory and piano at the First Coast Community Music School, and piano at University of North Florida. Since YEAR, Lynne has served as organist-choirmaster at St. Paul’s by-the-Sea Episcopal Church in Jacksonville Beach—a position she also held from 1997-2004. She is a member of the Jacksonville Chapter of the American Guild of Organists. 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