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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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Added on: Sep 28, 2011 | Hits: 230

“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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Added on: May 27, 2011 | Hits: 246

“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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Added on: Nov 25, 2011 | Hits: 257

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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“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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Added on: Nov 24, 2011 | Hits: 273

“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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“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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Added on: Jul 21, 2011 | Hits: 300

“Wendy Rolfe is one of the United States' leading performers on historical and modern flutes.  She has just been accepted to the Fulbright Program Senior Specialists Candidate Roster as a Candidate for international projects. Ms Rolfe has toured the USA with a Solo Recitalist Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, presenting her unique "The Flute Through the Ages". This program illuminates musical history with flutes from her own collection, including an 1818 Claude Laurent crystal flute. Ms. Rolfe also annually tours Brazil, giving recitals and master classes at the Universities of Sao Paulo, Brasilia, Campinas and Rio. In 2005, she was guest artist and professor at the XV International Flute Festival in Quito Ecuador. Currently, Ms Rolfe is engaged in a Berklee College of Music Faculty Fellowship project in Brazil, working with the Flautistas da Pro Arte education program in Rio de Janeiro, and recording a solo CD of Brazilian music for flute and piano with leading Brazilian pianist Maria Jose Carrasqueira. ..“ Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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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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Added on: May 03, 2010 | Hits: 344

“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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Added on: May 03, 2010 | Hits: 346

"Lars Johannesson, flutist, is an active performer and teacher in the San Francisco and Monterey Bay areas. Lars studied modern flute with Lloyd Gowen and Tim Day at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where he also began playing Baroque flute. He pursued post-graduate studies in Baroque flute with Wilbert Hazelzet at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, Holland. Recent engagements include performances with Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Portland Baroque Orchestra, Santa Cruz Baroque Festival, Ensemble Monterey Chamber Orchestra, Jubilate! and Santa Cruz Chamber Players. Having an interest in different musical genres, Lars also performs Celtic, Swedish and other traditional music. As a studio musician, Lars has recorded for numerous CD releases, including many on the Gourd Music label. Lars lives in Santa Cruz with his wife and twin sons. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

Added on: May 04, 2008 | Hits: 364

“Stefano Bet was born in Friuli Venezia Giulia (Italy) in 1960. Since many years he has devoted his career to the study of original early instruments and the historical performance of the repertory for flute (Renaissance, Baroque, Classic). He is self-taught relative to historic instruments, studied with Barthold Kuijken at the Academie Internationale of Antwerp, Sigiswald Kuijken at Centro di Musica Antica of Rome, Nikolaus Harnoncourt at the Salzburg Mozarteum. Finalist at the Utrecht International Early Music Competition, today he is one of the most famous italian early flute player. His concert work includes many International Festivals: debut  in 1983 at the Festival Vivaldi of Venezia (Fondazione Cini) and after....Teatro alla Scala Milano, Musica e Poesia a San Maurizio Milano, Società del Quartetto-Settimane Bach Milano, .. .“ Visit website for more information. (ed.)

Added on: Apr 22, 2009 | Hits: 364

“Zephyrus - the English Bagpipe Orchestra - offer the glorious harmony and sinuous counterpoint of six sweetly toned bagpipes underpinned by driving percussion. Formed by Jon Swayne in 1998 to perform his piece The Halfe Hannikin Variations, Zephyrus brings together some of the best players of modern English bagpipes. The polyphonic style of writing developed by Jon is quite unique and exploits to the full the amazingly rich sonority offered by six pipes. The group have released two CDs of their music, Halfe Hannikin and English Suite.

The Halfe Hannikin Variations is a suite of music inspired by the tune of the same name in John Playford's 1651 edition of The English Dancing Master. It comprises Prelude - Theme, Slowish Waltz, Polka, Slow Five, Bourrée, Dark Seven, Wodgy and Finale. The piece is far from a static presentation, the musicians having worked out carefully choreographed moves so as to enhance both the visual and the musical impact. ..“

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Added on: May 11, 2009 | Hits: 367

" Kiri Tollaksen enjoys a varied career as a performer and teacher. Equally skilled on trumpet and cornetto (a wind instrument used primarily in 17th century Western Europe), Kiri has been praised for her "stunning technique, and extreme musicality," (Journal of the International Trumpet Guild). She has performed extensively throughout North America and Europe with numerous groups such as Apollo's Fire, The Folger Consort, Piffaro, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, New York Collegium, Concerto Palatino, La Fenice, the Huelgas Ensemble, the Catacoustic Consort and Seattle Baroque Orchestra. She has performed both at the Boston Early Music Festival, and at the Bloomington Early Music Festival, and she is a regular member of the quartets La Gente d'Orfeo and Anaphantasia, both based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. " See website for more information. (ed.)

Added on: Mar 03, 2008 | Hits: 387

“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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Added on: May 03, 2010 | Hits: 387

“Study of baroque, classisal and romantic flutes with Marten Root at the Utrecht Conservatory and Sweelinck Conservatory Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Private studies of modern flute.

Masterclasses by Barthold Kuijken, Wilbert Hazelzet, Nancy Hadden, Richard Egarr and Michael Rosenberg.

Flutist with the baroque orchestras l'arco, Hannover and Les Perruques, Amsterdam.

Free lance work with different period instrument orchestras in Germany.

Chamber music work with different enembles, a.o. ensemble le petit bruitand Ensemble Phoebus Amsterdam".

Performances and recordings made with
the Orchestra of the Nederlandse Bachvereniging, under Gustav Leonhardt, René Jacobs, Ivan Fischer and Jos van Veldhoven,
the orchestra Anima Eterna under Jos van Immerseel,
Ensemble Musica ad Rhenum under Jed Wentz,
the European Union Baroque Orchestra under Roy Goodman and Mark Minkowsky.

Teaching at the Early Dance and Music Center, Groningen and privately.“

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Early Flute ensemble.

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Added on: Feb 08, 2010 | Hits: 416

"Born in Cagliari, he graduated as flutist at the Conservatory "G. P. da Palestrina" in Cagliari under the direction of Maestro G. Pellegrini. For more than year he has carried on an intense concert activity, mainly in the field of chamber music. He took part to the seminar of flute interpretation by Maestro C. Klemm. He has played with Orchestra dellíEnte Lirico "G. P. daPalestrina" of Cagliari, with Orchestra "S. Cecilia" of Milano, the Chamber Orchestra "New Art Ensemble" of Novara and with the Orchestra "G. Donizetti" of Sesto S. Giovanni (Milano) as solo player. He has played in several chamber formations at the International Festival "Kammermusik" in Bellagio, at the International Festival "Alfonso Reyes" in Monterrey (Mex), at "Magno Festival Palafoxiano" in Puebla (Mex), at the " Saint Hill European Art Festival" in Sussex (GB) and he took part to seven editions of the "Sui Sentieri della Fantasia" at Montisola (Brescia). Tours of concert have taken him to Egypt, Portugal, Mexico, Lebanon. He has recorded two pieces of the composer S. G. Masoni on the CD "The Clear Project" and in July 1999 is available his last CD "TIME BANDITS :Time's deception" recorded with Pier Paderni.

Since February 1995 he ha been studyng baroque flute and after winning a CEE scholarship he attended the VI edition of courses in baroque music at Porto (Portugal) specializing under the direction of E. Di Felice. At present he studing under the direction of M. Castellani at the Conservatory of Verona. (Italy) "

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Added on: Aug 05, 2008 | Hits: 453

“Philippe Allain-Dupré studied baroque flute with Barthold Kuijken au Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles where he obtained his “Diplôme supérieur” in 1987.

He plays on instruments he has constructed from designs copies of various museums:  la flûte de Rafi, la flûte de Van Eyck, la flûte de Hotteterre, la flûte Quantz that was played by Frédéric II of Prusse and la flûte Tortochot de l'époque de Devienne. ..”

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" Hans Olav Gorset is Associate Professor of music at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo, teaching recorder, baroque flute and performance practice. He was educated in Oslo, New York, Basel, and Amsterdam and is a veteran of the early music movement in Norway. He pursues a career as a soloist and as a member of various ensembles, but also finds time to make historical instruments and host early music programs for the Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK). He directs Pro Musica Antiqua, Oslo, an ensemble noted for its lively performances of medieval and renaissance music. With this ensemble he has recorded CDs with Scandinavian medieval and renaissance music and performed in many European countries.

As a member of the Nordic Baroque Quartet he has toured Scandinavia and recorded a program of little-known 18th century music. His solo recording of the flute suites by Pierre Philidor (with Rolf Lislevand and Paolo Pandolfo) he has won international acclaim. Gorset is also accomplished in improvised music in many styles and genres. He has recorded music for film and theatre, and performed as a soloist with several orchestras, both with modern and baroque instruments. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

Added on: Mar 12, 2008 | Hits: 475

"Since its formation the Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet has explored the boundaries of the recorder consort. Its musical adventure started in 1978 when studying at the Sweelinck conservatory in Amsterdam and discovering the quartet as a new phenomenon. The ensemble's reputation grew quickly when they emerged as the winner of the 1981 Musica Antigua Competition in Bruges despite testing the competition rules by performing an unusual arrangement of a Stevie Wonder song.

What followed was the recognition as a serious ensemble of unparalleled virtuosity, a recording contract with Decca and the start of an international career. Both their playing style and choice of repertoire, something unheard of at the time, made them appear at many festivals and they toured throughout Europe the United States, South America and Japan. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

Added on: Apr 16, 2008 | Hits: 475

"Jeremy West is one of the few people alive today making a living from the 17th Century cornett (cornetto, Zink). His working life encompasses performance with His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts; teaching at The Royal College of Music and Trinity College of Music, London as well as privately; instrument manufacture with Christopher Monk Instruments; and most recently with the publication of interesting, newly researched repertoire for the instrument and its various ensemble possibilities.

The cornett was the most popular wind instrument of its day, coming closer in sound, according to contemporary reports, to the human voice than any other. Curiously and sadly its popularity waned during the second half of the 17th century and eventually it died out altogether. The cornett is, however, making a serious comeback and Jeremy West is widely regarded as one of the pioneers of this revival. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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" Philippe Emmanuel Haas was born in Basel, Switzerland, in 1962.

Studies of Pan-pipes in ancient and classical music in Berne and at the Hilversum Conservatory, in the Netherlands.

Participation in masterclasses for the interpretation of ancient and classical music on copies of historical instruments at the "Centre International de Formation Musicale" in Nice, France, with Jean-Loup Grégoire and Simion Stanciu "Syrinx"; at the "Gesellschaft für Alte Musik" in Rastatt, Germany, with Hans-Martin Linde; as well as at the "Académie de Musique de Sion", within the "Festival Tibor Varga" in Sion, Switzerland, under the direction of Jordi Savall.

Concerts as a soloist, accompanied by the organ, the harpsichord, the harp or the lute, and as a member of ensembles of ancient music, during international music festivals in Austria, Estonia, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Spain and Switzerland.

Artistic director of the international Festival "Festliche Musik in der Kirche Rötteln / Lörrach", Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, dedicated to the ancient music.

Guest lecturer at the "Académie Musique et Danse Florigammes" at Sartène-Propriano, Corsica. Teacher of Pan-pipes at music schools in Switzerland.

CD recordings, for the labels AUROPHON CLASSICS and VDE-GALLO, of music of the Renaissance and the Baroque periods, accompanied by the harpsichord, the violoncello and the organ. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

Added on: Jun 29, 2008 | Hits: 512

“Hailed as one of the finest flute players of our time, Chris Norman proves over and over again that the simple wooden flute is the original- and still unsurpassed- woodwind of expression, passion, joy and subtlety. His influential work as a performer, composer, recording artist and teacher has brought the simple wooden flute to the forefront as an alternative voice to the modern orchestral instrument.

Born in Halifax Nova Scotia, he began his musical studies at the age of ten. His interest in the traditional music of Maritime Canada; Scottish, Irish and French Canadian Styles, drew him from his early path studying classical flute. Chris embarked upon a quest to learn the music from the tradition bearers, travelling across North America and Europe. His subsequent work has redefined the boundaries of both traditional and classical styles, forging a synthesis that has been embraced by audiences, scholars, and critics of both schools. ..“

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