Performers at our most recent concert were (in order as in the photo):
Douglas Miller, Baritone, lute, renaissance guitars, and sackbut - Doug is a Research Scientist, working in Cambridge, MA. He first performed with the Everyman Guild in 1995.
Matilda Giampietro, Soprano and recorders - Matilda teaches Music at The Washington Montessori School and at The Center for Montessori Teacher Education, and conducts music workshops at the graduate education level. She has performed with the Everyman Guild since 1993.
Erica Warnock, Viola da gamba - Erica is an enthusiastic player of the viol and in her spare time keeps house and cares for her husband and children. She has performed with the Everyman Guild since 2003.
William Bowie, Recorders, cornamuse, kortholt, and other double reeds - Bill is a Chemist, working in Milford, and an Adjunct Professor of chemistry and physics at Quinnipiac University. He has performed with the Everyman Guild since 2000.
Douglas Simms, Tenor, recorders, percussion - Doug is owner and CEO of DRS consultants in Oxford CT. He first performed with the Everyman Guild in 1987.
Linne Landgraf, Wooden flutes, recorders, bowed psaltery - Linne retired from graphic design for an actuarial consulting firm in Simsbury. She plays for contra dances. She has performed with the Everyman Guild since 2005.
Suzanne Nemeth, Alto - Suzanne is a dentist with a practice in Bantam. She first performed with the Everyman Guild in 1993.
Performing in
renaissance costume, we recreate early dances, and use poetry and drama to build informative,
theatrical and engaging programs.
The simple elegance of this music, with its complementary melodic lines, clean, spare harmonies,
poetic texts and engaging rhythms make it relevant and accessible today.
An Everyman Guild concert is music sung and played by a small group of musicians who work together
closely on interpretation, and who know each other well. This offers the musicians and the audience
a personal and direct musical experience.
Renaissance music is an authentic living history of people of the past, and perhaps the most
intimate way we can connect with them. We hear in their music the same elemental feelings,
emotions, and rhythms that we experience in our own lives. Come with us into the Renaissance,
and be moved to a deeper understanding of our world today.
Past Everyman Guild performances have included The Yale British Arts Museum, Sacred Heart University, The Mattatuck Museum, The Fraser McCann Concert Series at the Roxbury Minor Memorial Library and Music Mountain in Falls Village, CT.
Performances by the Everyman Guild in 2006 included:
December 18, 2006 Bronson Library, Waterbury, CT; December 23, 2006 First Congregational Church, Washington, CT (Benefit for the Judea Nursery School). Buenas Nuevas: Christmas Music from Renaissance Spain
Friday, July 7, Music Mountain, Falls Village, CT. Pastyme with Good Companye: Songs of Love and Adventure from Renaissance Europe June 3, Saturday, Lyme Arts Academy, Old Lyme CT, The Everyman Guild were featured performers at a Renaissance Ball.
January 28, Saturday, Trinity Episcopal Church, Torrington, CT. The Everyman Guild were featured performers at a Medieval Banquet held as a fund-raiser for the Trinity Arts Series.
