Sheila Beardslee

Sheila Beardslee (recorder, historical dance) has taught recorder, historical flutes, viol and historical dance for early music societies and workshops in Maine, Florida and a good many places in between. Sheila served as EM Week Program Director, 2009-2011. Director of Recorders/Early Music Metrowest and Concordia Consort, she teaches privately and led the recorder program at the Boston Archdiocesan Choir School for 10 years. She also directs the vocal ensemble Ars et Amici, and is a founding member of Phillips Consort of Viols, twice winner of the VdGS-NE's Silbiger Grant. She has led ten performance/study tours to Italy (most recently to Venice and the Dolomites) and one to Croatia. Recordings: VdGS-NE, Amherst Early Music, Northeastern, BACS and Concordia labels.

http://earlymusicboston.com/

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Michael Barrett

Michael Barrett (voice, chorus) is active in the Boston area as a professional musician and teacher. As a singer he has collaborated with the Boston Camerata, Huelgas Ensemble, Blue Heron, the Netherlands Bach Society, L'Académie, Seven Times Salt, and Exsultemus, and has performed in several recent operas produced by the Boston Early Music Festival. He can be heard on harmonia mundi and Blue Heron record labels. Mr. Barrett directs the Renaissance choir Convivium Musicum and the professional vocal ensemble Sprezzatura, and he serves on the advisory board of L'Académie, a professional ensemble for Baroque music. Mr. Barrett has worked as a conductor and music theory teacher at Harvard University. He is a faculty member of IMC, a New York-based company for music curriculum and instruction, and has served as a workshop leader for professional development courses. He also maintains a studio for private instruction in voice, piano, and music theory. Mr. Barrett earned an AB in music from Harvard University, an MM in choir conducting from Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, and First Phase Diploma in Baroque and Classical singing from the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. In the fall of 2010 he began doctoral studies in choral conducting at Boston University.

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Frances Fitch

Frances Conover Fitch has performed extensively in North America and Europe, and recorded for Swiss, German, Dutch, and French National Radio as well as for the BBC and NPR. Her ground-breaking ensemble, Concerto Castello, won critical acclaim as well an Honorable Mention in the Deutsche Schallplatten Preis of 1983. A particularly sensitive and inventive continuo player, she has worked and played with Spiritus Collective, Cantata Singers, Emmanuel Music, Aston Magna, Boston Cecilia, Handel and Haydn Society, Concerto Palatino, and the Boston Camerata, among others. Ms. Fitch has participated in major music festivals, including the Gilmore Festival, the Festival d'Art Lyrique/Aix-en-Provence, Pepsico Summerfare, Tanglewood, Boston Early Music Festival, Tage Alter Musik (Regensburg), the Castle Hill Festival and the Festival de Musica Antigua in Mexico City, where she also gave master classes at the National Conservatory. She has over twenty solo and ensemble recordings on the EMI-Reflexe, Titanic, Harmonia Mundi, Nonesuch, Centaur, Koch International and Wild Boar labels. Ms. Fitch teaches at Tufts University and The England Conservatory of Music and for many years was Chair of the Early Music Department at the Longy School of Music, teaching harpsichord, organ, chamber music, figured bass improvisation and bibliographic research. She has also served on the faculties of Wellesley College and the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, and recently completed a semester as Guest Professor in Performing Arts at Ferris University in Yokohama, Japan. Ms. Fitch has degrees from Bard College and New England Conservatory, and pursued studies with Gustav Leonhardt and Veronika Hampe at the Sweelinck Conservatorium in Amsterdam. Her playing has been praised as “perceptive”, “stylish” and “spectacular”, and noted for its “precision and delicacy of wit”.

http://www.francesconoverfitch.com/

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Wayne Hankin

With over 4000 concerts to his credit, period wind specialist Wayne Hankin has played every major city in the United States and Canada, as well as countless venues worldwide. He has worked on 7 productions with Cirque du Soleil, most recently Totem. His varied career includes over a hundred performances with Early Music NY. He's served as music director for top theatre companies (Schaubühne, Long Wharf, Alley, Center Stage, BAM, Odeon Paris), recorded on major labels (ECM, RCA, BMG, SONY), television (CBS, ABC, NBC, HBO, BRAVO) and made his conducting debut at Houston Grand Opera. He has performed solo on many major Hollywood films from Resident Evil II to Disney's Princess Adventures and his most recent television work has been Breaking Bad on AMC. With over 300 works composed for period instruments, Wayne has received numerous awards and commissions for this work (ASCAP Awards, National Endowment of the Arts). His film 7 SOLOS was awarded best short subject by the World Music and Independent Film Festival.

http://www.waynehankin.com

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Scott Higgs

Scott Higgs has been calling and composing English and contra dances for over 25 years -- delighting novices and experts alike. From Seattle to Antwerp, dancers praise Scott's engaging programs, dynamic presentation, and emphasis on fun. His business card says it all: Playful, spirited, elegant, zesty, joyful contra, English, morris, and couple dancing.

http://www.scotthiggs.com

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Shira Kammen

Shira Kammen has spent well over half her life exploring the worlds of early and traditional music as a multi-instrumentalist and vocalist. A member for many years of Ensembles Alcatraz, Project Ars Nova and Medieval Strings, she has also worked with Sequentia, Hesperion XX, the Boston Camerata and the King's Noyse, and is the founder of Class V Music, an ensemble dedicated to performance on river rafting trips. She has performed and taught in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Israel, Morocco, Latvia, Russia, Japan and on the Colorado and Rogue rivers. Shira happily collaborated with singer/storyteller John Fleagle for 15 years and performs now with a diversity of collaborators, including storyteller Patrick Ball, the English country dance band Roguery, medieval ensembles Fortune's Wheel and Tapestry, and the California Revels, among many others. She occasionally has played on movie and television soundtracks, when weird medieval instruments are called for.

http://www.shirakammen.com/

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Joan Kimball

Joan Kimball, artistic co-director and a founding member of Piffaro, The Renaissance Band, has toured and concertized with the ensemble throughout the U.S., Europe, and parts of South America, and has performed with many of the leading early music artists and ensembles in this country. She gave full time to early music performance in 1980 after a number of years as an educator, and still treasures her work with students of all ages. She teaches recorder and early winds to children and adults and is on the music faculty of The Philadelphia School, an elementary and middle school, where she has a full roster of private recorder students and recorder ensembles. Joan also organizes Piffaro’s educational programs, initiated a residency in a Philadelphia School district elementary school where she taught recorder and percussion to third grade classes, and plans special outreach projects built around Piffaro’s concert series. In addition, she collaborates with instrument maker Joel Robinson of New York City on the construction of Medieval and Renaissance bagpipes and is a maker of double reeds for Renaissance shawms, dulcians and capped winds. Joan teaches bagpipe, recorder and double reed classes at summer music workshops and festivals. In addition to her recordings with Piffaro she can also be heard on Vanguard Classical, Eudora and Vox Amadeus.

http://www.piffaro.com/

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Joseph Lewnard

Joseph Lewnard

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Catherine Liddell

Catherine Liddell is in high demand for her skill, sensitivity and experience as a continuo player, performing on theorbo, lute and/or baroque guitar with many of America’s leading period instrument ensembles, including most recently, Boston Baroque, the Handel & Haydn Society, and in the Aston Magna and the Boston Early Music Festivals. She recently performed in the U.S. Premier of Heiner Goebbel's Songs of War I Have Seen with the London Sinfonietta and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment as part of the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra's 50th Anniversary Celebration. Recent engagements include a recital with Wieland Kuijken and Laura Jeppesen at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and performances of Handel's Agrippina with Boston Lyric Opera. She has recorded for Musical Heritage Society, Titanic, Dorian, Wildboar and Centaur Records. Her solo recording, La belle voilée, 17th Century French Lute Music by Jacques Gallot and others is available on the Centaur label. Her edition, Sacred Music for Lute, Vol. I is available through Lyre Editions (Forth Worth, TX). A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, Ms. Liddell earned the Soloist Diploma from the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel, Switzerland. She is a Lecturer at Boston University.

http://www.catherineliddell.com/

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Larry Lipkis

Larry Lipkis is a Professor of Music and Composer-in-Residence at Moravian College, where he directs the early music ensembles at the college and also teaches composition. Since 1986, Larry has performed and recorded with the Baltimore Consort, an internationally acclaimed early music ensemble specializing in popular music of Shakespeare’s time. This fall, the group will release its fifteenth CD—a collection of Renaissance Christmas music. Their previous release, entitled Adio España, focused on music from the Iberian Peninsula, circa 1500. Larry has composed over eighty works for chamber ensembles, choir, and orchestra. His bassoon concerto Pierrot, which was premiered by the Houston Symphony, marked the completion of a trilogy of concerti based on characters from the Commedia dell’Arte. Scaramouche for cello and orchestra was recorded by Carter Brey and the Lehigh Valley Chamber Orchestra on the Koch International label. Harlequin for bass trombone and orchestra was premiered by Jeffrey Reynolds and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Larry is a music director for the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival and the Unitarian Universalist Church of the Lehigh Valley, and serves on the Board of Managers of the Bach Choir of Bethlehem. He often leads workshops in both recorder and viola da gamba performance practice, and gives presentations on musical rhetoric and composition. Last month, he lectured on the topic of Bach’s Mass in B Minor at a National Endowment for the Humanities Institute in Leipzig, Germany.

http://www.larrylipkis.com

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Sarah Mead

Sarah Mead first encountered early music in high school, when she danced and sang as Queen Elizabeth in a production led by Ingrid Brainard. After studying music history and choral conducting at Yale, she pursued graduate study in early music at Stanford both as a viol player and a choral conductor. She and her spouse were musicians at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival before moving east in 1979. She began teaching viols at Brandeis University in 1982, and is now Associate Professor of the Practice there, directing the Early Music Ensemble, teaching music history, and serving as a frequent guest choral conductor. In 2007 Early Music America recognized her with the Thomas Binkley Award for Outstanding Achievement by a Collegium Director. Her handbook on 16th-century music theory is a staple in performance practice programs, and she is recognized throughout North America as a clinician in historical performance. She has taught early music ensembles at Tufts & Northeastern Universities in the Boston area, as well as at Trinity College of Music in London, and has taught theory & performance practice in the graduate program in early music at Longy School of Music in Cambridge. She has been a guest International Tutor for workshops in Australia and Great Britain. Formerly Program Director for Early Music Week at Pinewoods, she now directs the annual Conclave of the Viola da Gamba Society of America. She serves on the boards of the VdGSA, Early Music America, and Pinewoods Camp, Inc.

www.nb-viols.org

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Pat Petersen

Pat Petersen is Director of Fortuna vocal ensemble (recorded on the Titanic label); she has also recorded music of Heinrich Isaac with the Amherst Festival Choir, and appears with the Solstice Assembly on three recordings. She is the assistant director of Amherst Early Music and director of the Collegium at U of North Carolina at Greensboro, as well as director and faculty member at many early music and dance workshops. She has been a guest soloist with Charleston (SC)  Symphony Orchestra. She regularly teaches and plays for English country dance at home in Durham, NC, and at early music workshops

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Tim Rayborn

Tim Rayborn, an acclaimed multi-instrumentalist, plays dozens of musical instruments from medieval Europe, the Middle East, and the Balkans. In addition to solo work, he co-directs the medieval ensemble Cançonièr with Annette Bauer, performs with harpist Patrick Ball, and regularly works with Shira Kammen. Tim lived in the U.K. for seven years, and holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in Medieval Studies from the University of Leeds. He has toured in the U.S. and Europe (from Ireland to Turkey) extensively, performing at both the York and Beverley Early Music Festivals (U.K.), Alden Biesen Castle (Belgium), Bunyola (Majorca), and the Spitalfields Festival (London). He has given a number of performances for BBC in the U.K. and Channel Islands, toured in Canada and Australia, and worked with folk musicians in Marrakech and Istanbul. Recent concerts include the Renaissance and Baroque Society of Pittsburgh, the Indianapolis Early Music Festival, the Kalamazoo Medieval Congress, and World Arts West. Future performances include the MusicSources' 2012-13 season, the SFEMS concert series, and a 2013 tour of Australia. Tim has taught at the SFEMS Medieval & Renaissance workshop and Pinewoods Early Music week in Massachusetts, and has collaborated and performed with a number of early and world music professionals, including Ensemble Alcatraz, Margriet Tindemans, Sinfonye, Kitka, and many others. His music has been heard on BBC, NPR, and Harmonia radio. He has recorded to date on over 35 CDs for a number of labels, including Gaudeamus, Wild Boar, Magnatune, and Harmonia Mundi.

http://www.timrayborn.com

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Jacqueline Schwab

Jacqueline Schwab (English dance music, piano) enjoys encouraging musicians of many ages and levels of experience to play with energy, confidence, flow and joy. She is a founding member of Bare Necessities and has been an English country dance musician for over 30 years and also has played for Scottish, contra, vintage, ballet and modern dance. She has been widely heard on the soundtracks to over a dozen of Ken Burns's PBS documentaries (including The Civil War, Baseball, Mark Twain, The War, and National Parks: America's Best Idea). She has performed on over 50 recordings, including more than 15 with Bare Necessities, as well as on three solo CDs and recordings with Scottish singer Jean Redpath and fiddlers Alasdair Fraser and Laura Risk. She has performed for former President Clinton at the White House and, with Jean Redpath, on A Prairie Home Companion and the Late Show with David Letterman. A longtime dancer, Jacqueline plays for and teaches English dance workshops with Bare Necessities around the country and abroad.

http://www.jacquelineschwab.com/

English Dance Musicians Course

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Mary Springfels

Mary Springfels is a highly respected an player of the viola da gamba, professor, and director of early music programs. She is a founding member and former director of the Newberry Consort and the former director of Northwestern University Early Music Ensemble. She has also played with the New York Pro Musica and the Waverly Consort as well as many other U.S. and European ensembles and is a founding member of the ensembles Elizabethan Enterprise and Les Filles de Sainte-Colombe. She has recorded for the Harmonia Mundi USA label as member of the Newberry Consort, as a soloist in a set of Stradella solo cantatas (with Christine Brandes and Paul O'Dette) and in solo instrumental works with recorder player Marion Verbruggen. She has also appeared on the Decca, Columbia, Nonesuch, and Titanic labels.

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Lisa Terry

Lisa Terry (viola da gamba, violoncello) practices, performs and teaches viola da gamba and violoncello in New York City, where she is a longtime member of Parthenia and the Dryden Ensemble, and a new member of BaroQue Across the River. She was a founding member of ARTEK and has performed with the New York Philharmonic, New York City Opera, Juilliard Opera Orchestra, Opera Lafayette, Orchestra of St. Luke's, Concert Royal, New York Collegium, American Classical Orchestra, Four Nations Ensemble, Santa Fe Pro Musica and Chicago Opera Theatre. She earned her degree in cello performance from Memphis State University and continued her studies in New York with Richard Taruskin, viol, and Harry Wimmer, cello. Ms. Terry has appeared to great acclaim as soloist in the Passions of J.S. Bach, notably under the batons of Robert Shaw, Richard Westenburg and Lyndon Woodside in Carnegie Hall, in the Jonathan Miller staged performances at the Brooklyn Academy of Music conducted by Paul Goodwin, and with Andrew Parrot, Gary Thor Wedow, Kent Tritle and Simon Carrington. Ms. Terry teaches viola da gamba and cello at the French-American School of Music in New York and at workshops around the country.

http://www.learningmusician.com/gambalisa

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Tricia van Oers

Tricia van Oers (Recorder) graduated with high honors in 1998 from the Conservatory of her native city Rotterdam with a Teachers and Performers Degree. She did graduate work at Indiana University's Early Music Institute, where she received a Performer Diploma with high achievement in Early Music Performance. Based in New York State her activities include performances with Bard College and Williams College, with Early Music New York, the Long Island Baroque Ensemble, Concert Royal (NYC), the Saratoga Chamber Singers, Vernon Chorale, The Cantata Singers (Boston), The Choral Arts Society of Philadelphia and the CT-based baroque ensemble and orchestra Crescendo whose aim it is to promote early music performance on historical instruments. She has performed as a guest soloist with the Bethlehem (PA) Bach Festival Orchestra, Tempesta di Mare (PA), Musica Sacra and Amor Artis (NYC). As a founding member of the Rotterdam-based ensemble Scarabee she recorded at the Great Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles (France), and has played in solo and ensemble recitals in Europe. She regularly teaches at workshops and summer classes across the U.S., and performs on a free-lance basis.

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Peggy Vermilya

At six years of age, Peggy Vermilya whirled about her basement, listening to Peter and the Wolf, longing to be both a ballerina and an orchestra. She took lessons in tap, ballet, and acrobatics as a child; as a teenager she jitterbugged, strolled, twisted, and did things called “the mashed potatoes” and “the monkey.” Subsequently, international folk dance, contra and squares, and eventually English country dance claimed her heart. For more than a decade she has enjoyed teaching English country dance at the Neighborhood Music School in New Haven, being described by Marshall Barron as an “exciting,” “sensitive,” “inspiring” and “skillful” teacher. Peggy has attended many dance weeks at Pinewoods and has become a regular at Early Music Week where she began her love affair with the recorder and performances of early music. With her husband Peter she sails a Beetlecat named Poussette and a cruising catboat named Purcell.

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Bob Wiemken

Bob Wiemken began his musical life as a French hornist many years ago and continued pursuing modern brass for some 18 years. Eventually, however, he became inexplicably enamored of the double-reed instruments and leapt at the chance to begin playing early reeds in the Collegium while a graduate student in Classics at the University of Pennsylvania. That began a long love affair with medieval through early Baroque double-reed instruments that has only crescendoed over the past 27 years of playing, exploring, studying, maintaining, servicing and, above all, making reeds for shawms, dulcians, bassoon, krumhorns and more, for himself and many others. As Artistic Co-Director of Piffaro, The Renaissance Band, he has performed worldwide, recorded extensively, built over 100 programs of Renaissance and early Baroque music and commissioned new works for early winds and chorus. He has been very fortunate to perform with many of the world’s leading early music ensembles, in festivals in North and South America and throughout Europe, and in spaces contemporary with the music that helped him define the role, sound and capabilities of double reeds in historic performance settings. He is an eager and well-appreciated teacher and lecturer in college and university settings, having directed the Early Music Ensembles at the Esther Boyer College of Music and Dance at Temple University for 20 years, bringing the world of early reeds to modern players. He also teaches regularly at festivals and workshops throughout the country. Currently, in addition to his performing, researching, recording and educating responsibilities, he continues to attempt to plumb the depths of early reed construction, design and technique in an effort to understand the mysteries of these glorious instruments.

http://www.piffaro.com/

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