2006-2007 Season

We are delighted to announce that we are offering free half-hour lectures before the Sunday performance of each concert set. All ticket holders are invited to join us an hour prior to the concert for these entertaining and informative talks.

Lecturer Alexandra Amati-Camperi is Assistant Professor and director of the Music Program at the University of San Francisco. A musicologist specializing in Italian secular music of the Renaissance and in Italian Opera, she received her Masters and Doctoral degrees at Harvard University. Dr. Amati-Camperi was raised in Italy, completing a degree in Linguistics and Slavic Studies at the University of Pisa and studying piano and composition at the Conservatory of Music in Lucca. She has published a number of scholarly books and articles on her specialty, the Italian madrigal, and is currently working on the critical edition of one of Rossini’s earliest operas, La cambiale di matrimonio. Her book containing the first modern edition of Verdelot’s six-voice madrigals is due to be printed in Italy.

Four years ago, she inaugurated a music program—including a University Choir, Orchestra, and a high-quality concert season—at USF, where her husband also teaches. Dr. Amati-Camperi currently serves as the President of the Northern California Chapter of the American Musicological Society, as Vice-President of the SFBC, and as concert committee chair of the San Francisco Boys Chorus, where one of her three children sings.