Benefits of membership include:
Members of the VdGS-GNY receive and are listed the Society’s annual membership list, an essential tool for New York area viol players to make contacts and stay in touch.
Members vote to elect the VdGS-GNY Board of Directors
Members have access to the VdGS-GNY collection of rental instruments including both viols for new students and a small number of fine instruments reserved for the use of artist performers.
Members of the VdGS-GNY receive notice of VdGS-GNY activities and the opportunity to participate in them.
Each year the VdGS-GNY sponsors:
• a Fall Play Day, open for members of all levels of ability to play consort music;
• an all-day workshop in the spring featuring outstanding guest faculty;
• two Soirèes, opportunites for VdGS-GNY members to perform for one another and to hear one another;
• several mini-workshops and masterclasses.
How to Become a Member
To become a member, please send the following information by snail mail to our treasurer by email or snail mail: name, mailing address, telephone number, and email address; and pay membership dues of $20 (or $15 for students, $30 for families) by mailing your check or money order to our treasurer:
The Viola da Gamba Society
of Greater New York
99 Bank Street, #2R
New York, New York 10014