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“Mary Oleskiewicz specializes in historical flutes and flute playing. She and her duo partner, harpsichordist Dr. David Schulenberg, are available for concerts, masterclasses, lessons, and general or scholarly lectures on a wide variety of subjects, including tuning and temperament, playing pitch, pedagogy, and performing practice. In 2001 she was the first-prize winner of the National Flute Association's triennial Baroque Flute Artist competition.

Mary Oleskiewicz has appeared worldwide as a flutist and lecturer. An associate professor of music at the University of Massachusetts Boston, where she has taught since 2001, during 2006-8 she carried out research as a Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the University of the Arts in Berlin (Germany). Previously she held a joint curatorial and faculty appointment at the National Music Museum and the University of South Dakota. She received the Ph.D. in 1998 in Performance Practice from Duke University.  ..“

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“B.M., Tel Aviv University; Soloist Diploma, Arnhem Conservatory; Artist Diploma, Longy School of Music; D.M.A., Boston University. Baroque flute with Wilbert Hazelzet, Carla Kemme-Mahler, Christopher Krueger, Michael Melzer, Pieter van Howelingen. Masterclasses with Barthold Kuijken, Maarten Root, Jed Wentz, Ton Koopman. Flute with Sergio Feidman, Uri Shoham. Faculty: Atlantic Union College, Amherst Early Music Summer Workshop. Director, Chamber Music at Mather House. Performances with Handel & Haydn Society, Boston Baroque, Sequentia. Member: La Donna Musicale. Founding member: New Quartet, Kammerton. Recordings: Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, Centaur, and private labels. “

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“Washington McClain is a former member of the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and current principal oboist of l'Ensemble Arion (Montreal) and Apollo's Fire Baroque Orchestra (Cleveland, Ohio). He has performed with many baroque orchestras in the United States and in Canada.

Washington's extensive teaching and performing experience in workshops and festivals in North America includes The Amherst Early Music Festival, Albuquerque Baroque Double Reeds, the Madison Early Music Festival, The International Baroque Institute at Longy (Boston), Festival International de Musique Baroque de Lamèque (New Brunswick, Canada), The Staunton Music Festival (Virginia), and the Boston Early Music Festival. He is also the first period instrument performer to be featured in an article of Windplayer Magazine.

McClain has made recordings for Sony Classical Vivarte, ATMA Records, Analekta Records, and Centaur Records.“

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“Michael McCraw is cited in the newest edition of Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians as one of the most important early bassoon players and pedagogues of our time. A pioneer in the field of baroque performance with original instruments, he began his career in New York City as a member of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.

McCraw has played with such ensembles as Musica Antiqua Koeln, Concentus Musicus Wien, London Baroque, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, and Camerata Koeln. From 1991 through 2002, he was principal bassoonist of the Tafelmusik Orchestra.

McCraw has taught at festivals and workshops all over the world and was a faculty member of the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. His recordings number more than 140 and include a highly acclaimed CD of Vivaldi bassoon concerti with the Seattle Baroque Orchestra. McCraw serves as musical director of the baroque double reed workshop in Albuquerque, N. M. “

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Kelly Nivison Roudabush is a versatile flutist with expertise in both modern and historical flute performance. She teaches privately in Bloomington, Indiana, and has experience teaching ages 6 through adult. Kelly is an up and coming name in the early music community. She has been a semi-finalist twice in the National Flute Association's Baroque Flute Artist competition (2007, 2009), and has won the National Flute Association's Baroque Masterclass Performers competition (2011). She has performed for notable period flutists, including Barthold Kuijken, Rachel Brown, Janet See, Christopher Krueger, and Stephen Preston. Her primary traverso teachers include Barbara Kallaur and Nancy Schneeloch-Bingham. 

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“Stephen Hammer plays and teaches oboes of all periods, recorders, and Renaissance reeds, and is active as an instrument-maker and music administrator. He is especially interested in the musical rhetoric of the Baroque period, and also enjoys tennis, playing jazz, and making web sites.“

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“Georgia Browne is a freelance historical flute player. She specialises in repertoire from the Baroque to the early Romantic era, performing on original and replica flutes as both a chamber and orchestral musician. She is principal flute and soloist with The New Dutch Academy and has performed with numerous other period instrument ensembles in Europe and Australia.

Georgia has been a guest teacher at musical institutions in Iceland, Indonesia and Australia and teaches historical flute privately in London where she is currently based. “

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“¡Sacabuche! is a sackbut and cornetto ensemble that began as a collegium ensemble based at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music's Early Music Institute and performs the beautiful and lesser-known repertoire of baroque trombones, organ and voice. This ensemble is noted for its dedication to creative and engaging interpretations of early Baroque and late Renaissance masterpieces and a willingness to explore multi-genre works. …“

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“Raymond Honing studied at the Conservatory of Amsterdam and chamber music with flute and Baroque flute at Harrie Starreveld Marten Root. He also attended masterclasses with the French flutist Patrick Gallois. His repertoire ranges from 18th-century, Early Romantic music on period instruments to contemporary and world music on the modern flute. The Amsterdam Quintet was a prizewinner at the International Wettbewerb für Junge Kultur in Düsseldorf and the Musical Ensemble L'Esprit won a prize at the International Competition of Wassenaer 2000. Raymond is artistic director of the Baroque ensemble La Barca Leyden. In addition to performing as a chamber music partner, Raymond also occurs as a regular soloist. He was the soloist for the world premieres of the flute concert by Robin Raaff (NL) and Uzong Choe (Korea) and also in Bach and Vivaldi concerts. He has made CD recordings of works by De Raaff, Ruynemann and Feldman and played eg in the Nieuw Ensemble, the Asko Ensemble, the Ives Ensemble, the Dutch Bach Society and the Frankfurt Baroque Orchestra. Besides numerous concerts in the Netherlands, he has also made appearances on concert stages and festivals in Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, Czech Republic and Scandinavia. In addition to his flute playing, Raymond is also active as a conductor.”

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“Lesley Schatzberger has been at the forefront of historical instrument performance whilst also remaining active in a broad range of music making. After studying at the junior department of the Royal Manchester College of Music, she went on to the University of York, and then for postgraduate studies to the Royal Academy of Music. She was appointed as principal clarinet with Roger Norrington's London Classical Players, John Eliot Gardiner's English Baroque Soloists and Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique. She has toured many times in Europe, the United States, and Japan, including performances with Stockhausen's chamber ensemble and with the Academy of Ancient Music.

Lesley teaches at the Royal Northern College of Music and also runs Jessie's Fund, a charity helping seriously ill children through music, which was established in memory of her daughter. In 2006 she was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of York. “

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“The Maryland Early Brass Consort is dedicated to the performance of early brass music of the Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, and Romantic eras on instruments of the period, such as natural trumpets and horns, cornettos, sackbuts, and baroque tympani, as well as early versions of valved brass instruments.  MEBC plays as an ensemble and joins with other musical groups to form larger ensembles.  MEBC also presents educational programs for elementary, high school, and university classes, in which students are encouraged to try out our collection of instruments.“

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