Summer Programs

Faculty

Faculty
 
     

Kenneth Slowik, Artistic Director
Baroque Cello, Viola da Gamba

Baroque Cello, Viola da Gamba Artistic Director, Smithsonian Chamber Music Society; Axelrod Quartet; Smithsonian Consort of Viols; Castle Trio; L'Archibudelli; University of Maryland

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Oberlin Baroque Ensemble

 
      

Michael Lynn
Recorder, Baroque Flute

Professor of Recorder and Baroque Flute at Oberlin; Principal, Apollo's Fire, ARTEK, Capriccio Musicale; publisher and founder of Early Music Facsimilies, general editor and founder of The Courant.

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Marilyn McDonald
Baroque Violin

Professor of Violin at Oberlin, Axelrod Quartet; Castle Trio; Principal, Boston Baroque; artist-in-residence, Boston University

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Catharina Meints
Viola da Gamba, Baroque Cello

Associate Professor of Viola da Gamba and Baroque Cello at Oberlin; Oberlin Consort of Viols; Cleveland Orchestra; Case Western Reserve; founding faculty, BPI

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Webb Wiggins
Harpsichord, Organ

Associate Professor of Harpsichord at Oberlin, Folger Consort; Apollo's Fire; Dryden Ensemble; Catacoustic Consort; Smithsonian Chamber Players;

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Special Guest Artist

 

Elizabeth Wallfisch (Week 1 only)
Violin

Guest-director of Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Netherlands Bach Society, Tafelmusik, Apollo's Fire, The Hanover Band, L'Orfeo Barockorchester, the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra and the Philharmonia Baroque.

Faculty

 

Julie Andrijeski
Violin, Baroque Dance (week 2 only)

Visiting Lecturer, Case Western Reserve University; New York State Baroque Orchestra (concert master); Apollo's Fire (principal player); The King's Noyse; Cecilia's Circle; Spiritus Collective; Madison Early Music Festival.

 

Mary Anne Ballard
Viola da Gamba

Oberlin Consort of Viols; Baltimore Consort; Recordings: Dorian, Classic Masters

 

Thomas Baird (Week 1 only, T-F)
Dance

Co-director, Apollo's Banquet; Lecturer, The Juilliard School, Mannes School of Music, Manhattan School of Music; Faculty at Opera Division at Suny Purchase, Kaatsbaan (American Ballet Theatre's Summer Ballet Intensive), and at the Gelsey Kirkland Academy of Classical Ballet; choreographer/performer of period dances for the New York Philharmonic's Young People's Concerts

Barry Bauguess
Trumpet

Principal, Apollo's Fire, Portland Baroque Orchestra, Magnolia Baroque Festival, Atlanta Baroque Orchestra. Owner of the Baroque Trumpet Shop


 

David Breitman (Week 1 only)
Clavichord, Fortepiano

Director, Oberlin Conservatory Historical Performance Program, recital partner of baritone Sanford Sylvan, Oberlin Fortepiano Trio with Elizabeth Wallfisch and Jaap ter Linden

 

James David Christie (Week 2 only)
Organ

Professor of Organ at Oberlin; former faculty, MIT, Boston Conservatory, Boston University; Founding director, Ensemble Abendmusik; Boston Symphony Orchestra, Bach Ensemble, Boston Early Music Fesrival Orchestra, Handel & Haydn Society, Boston Baroque

 

Lisa Goode Crawford
Harpsichord

Emeritus, Oberlin Baroque Ensemble; Recordings: harmonia mundi france, Gasparo, Smithsonian

 

Marc Destrubé
Baroque Violin

Co-concertmaster, Orchestra of the 18th Century; Axelrod Quartet; former director, Pacific Baroque Orchestra; guest soloist/director with Lyra Baroque, Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, etc.; recordings with L'Archibudelli

 

Joseph Gascho
Continuo Class

Founder/director, Harmonious Blacksmith; conductor, Opera Vivente and Magnolia Baroque Festival; faculty, George Washington University

 

Lucas Harris
Lute, Theorbo, Baroque Guitar

Tafelmusik; New York Collegium; Seattle Baroque, Smithsonian Chamber Players, Toronto Continuo Collective

 

Penelope Jensen
Soprano

Ensemble Courant; soloist with Bach Ensemble, Ars Musica, Smithsonian

 

Christopher Krueger
Baroque Flute, Recorder

Principal: BEMFO, Handel & Haydn Society, Smithsonian; Boston University, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

 

John McKean
"Discover the Harpsichord!" program

Studied with Lisa Goode Crawford and Webb Wiggins at the Oberlin Conservatory and with Robert Hill at the Freiburg Staatliche Hochschule für Musik, and has received instruction from the most influential modern masters of historic keyboard, including Jacques Ogg, Skip Sempé, Jesper Christiensen, and Gustav Leonhardt. Performances with Apollo's Fire and the Catacoustic Consort; at Fondazione Cini in Venice, the Montisi Music festival in Tuscany, Festwochen Attersee in Austria; and on a live broadcast of Deutschland Radio Berlin.

 

Cynthia Roberts
Baroque Violin (Week 2 only)

University of North Texas concertmaster, Apollo's Fire, Concert Royal has performed as concertmaster for Les Arts Florissants, American Bach Soloists, New York Collegium associate concertmaster, Carmel Bach Festival performs regularly with Tafelmusik and Philharmonia Baroque, among others.

 

Gonzalo Ruiz
Baroque Oboe (Week 2 only)

Philharmonia, The English Concert, Sonnerie, Portland Baroque Orchestra, Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, Musica Angelica

 

Marc Schachman
Baroque Oboe (Week 1 only)

Aulos Ensemble, Philharmonia Baroque, the Smithsonian Chamber Players, Handel and Haydn Socitey, Boston Baroque, The American Classical Orchestra, Boston Univeristy

 

William Sharp
Voice

Peabody Institute of Music, has performed with the American Bach Soloists, Tafelmusik, New York Philharmonic, St Louis Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, National Symphony, New Jersey Symphony, and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival, Aspen Music Festival, Bach Aria Group, the Handel and Haydn Society, and the Maryland Handel Festival; GRAMMY Award nominee.

 

Jane Starkman
Baroque Violin, Viola

Aston Magna; Boston University; The King's Noyse; Orpheus Trio; Handel & Haydn Society

 
   Nancy Zylstra
Voice


 

 

 

Contact

Anna Hoffmann
Program Administrator
Phone: (440) 775-8044
Fax: (440) 775-8942
E-Mail: Anna.Hoffmann@oberlin.edu