Joan Parsley, Harpsichord and fortepiano / Artistic Director

Artistic Director JOAN PARSLEY is known internationally for her advocacy and vision for special projects in the field of early music. Over the past 25 years in Milwaukee, she has been the recipient of the Pro Musica Award by the Milwaukee Sentinel for her Beethoven In Vienna festival and exhibit and the Early Music America Early Music Brings History Alive National Award for her work on the music and life of J.S. Bach and his contemporaries (The American Bach Project). In 2011, under her guidance, Ensemble Musical Offering has been appointed Artists-In-Residence at the Cathedral Church of All Saints in Milwaukee. Her recent travels to Warsaw, Krakow and Dresden influenced her interest and defined research in 18th century Polish chamber music.

Combining the performing arts with the humanities, Joan has been an Honorary Scholar for the Wisconsin Humanities Council and independent study recipient with colleague Sylvester Kreilein, Ph.D. for the National Endowment for the Humanities. With an intense interest in language, history, religion, the decorative and visual arts as well as assembling a broad network of early music conductors, museum curators, and scholars, Parsley co-curated Fashion and Furnishings in the Age of Mozart at the Milwaukee Art Museum, and Beethoven in Vienna: The Second Style Period showcased at the Haggerty Art Museum. An Aston Magna Foundation at Rutgers University scholarship recipient to study the Spanish Baroque, she also created and produced the special project Spain and Its New World Empire, 1550-1750.

In recent years, Joan has been researching and studying the music of the early to mid-1800's in Germany and Austria which allowed Musical Offering to produce In Harmony: At Home with Biedermeier. Her most recent venture, The Vivaldi Project: The Composer's Affinity to the Natural World, will spans the 2010-2012 concert seasons.

Joan has studied 18th century early keyboard performance practice at the Oberlin Baroque Institute and Cornell University, as well as private studies with harpsichordists Edward Parmentier (University of Michigan-Ann Arbor), John Gibbons (Boston, MA), Gustav Leonhardt (Amsterdam) and Tom Koopman (Bussum). Over the years, she has performed with the Racine Symphony, Kenosha Symphony, Sullivan Ensemble, Milwaukee Symphony and Madison Chamber Orchestra.

Christin Hauptly Annin, Baroque Violin

Baroque violinist CHRISTINE HAUPTLY ANNIN recently located to Milwaukee from Cincinnati, Ohio where she was a member of the Catacoustic Consort, Adastra Duo and Harmonious Blacksmith. She has baroque orchestral experience with Boston's Handel and Haydn Society Orchestra, New York State Baroque, Publick Musick and the Eastman Collegium where she served as guest Concertmaster for several productions. Her modern violin background includes work with the Dayton Philharmonic, Cincinnati Symphony and ProMusica Chamber Orchestras in Ohio. She has attended numerous early music performance institutes such as Oberlin Baroque Performance Institute, International Baroque Institute at Longy and Toronto's Tafelmusik Workshop and has studied baroque violin with Monica Huggett and Lucy van Dael. The 2011-2012 season represents her first season with Ensemble Musical Offering.



Paul Arvil, Horn



Terry Barber, Countertenor

TERRY BARBER, a classically-trained countertenor with an extreme range, and versatile voice, is equally at home in the concert hall, recording studio, theater, and opera house. He has been a soloist for Metropolitan Opera, Carnegie Hall, London's Queen Elizabeth Hall, and Moscow's Svetlanov Hall, to name a few. Terry was a member of the Grammy-winning Chanticleer, and the solor voice of Adiemus V (EMI) with the London Philharmonic. Performing with many outstanding early music ensembles, he has sung under the baton of Gustav Leonhardt, Christophe Rousset, Andrew Parrot, Roger Norrington, Grant Llewellyn, Nicholas Kramer, and more. He has recorded for Sony, Warner, EMI, Columbia Records and his own record label, rEvolv Music. Terry's recordings can be found in iTunes, CDbaby.com, and associated with an iPhone application. Terry has a Masters degree in historically informed performance from Trinity College, London, where he directed vocal ensembles. His current national tour where he presents music in every vocal range, from every period, "Classical for Everyone" has more than 40 dates. His own website, www.Terry-Barber.com has more information.

William Bauer, Baroque Viola

WILLIAM BAUER is the artistic director of the (Dallas area) McKinney Kammergild and the St. Louis Baroque Festival and Academy. He has been a member of Milwaukee's Ensemble Musical Offering since 2000 and is an active member of Atlanta's New Trinity Baroque, Chicago's Ars Antigua and The Comic Intermezzo. As a soloist he has appeared at the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, S.C.; in Mexico at the Journadas de Musica Antigua in Gunanajuato, and the Festival de Musica Barocca in San Miguel De Allende; the Iraklion International Festival (Crete); as well as the Lisbon, Boston and Vancouver Early Music festivals. William has programmed and led concerts for special exhibits at The Art Institute of Chicago, The Loyola University Museum of Art, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Detroit Institute of Arts and The Saint Louis Art Museum. His recordings can be found on the Deutsche Grammophon.

Jonathan Brodie, Baroque Viola, Viola da gamba

JONATHAN BRODIE studied modern violin with Abraham Chavez and viola with Robert Emile. In Whitefish Bay Public Schools, where he has taught for the past 21 years, he works enthusiastically to incorporate consort music of the 15th and 16th Century into his daily classroom teaching. In 2009, he was named "Music Teacher of the Year" by the Milwaukee Civic Music Association. He has performed, as a baroque violist with several Midwest early music ensembles; St. Louis Baroque, and Shakespeare's Band; in Milwaukee with the Playford Trio, the King's Musick, and most recently, Ensemble Musical Offering. He also plays folk-klezmer violin with the Chai Guys and finds both solace and recreation in playing viola da gamba in various Milwaukee area viol consorts.

Geoffrey Burgess, Baroque Oboe

GEOFFREY BURGESS has played Baroque oboe around the globe for thirty years. After initial studies in his hometown Sydney, a Dutch Government Scholarship allowed him to study in The Hague with Ku Ebbinge. He worked over a twenty-year period with the Paris-based opera company, Les Arts Florissants, an association that triggered a passion for French Baroque opera that culminated in a doctoral dissertation for Cornell University. His book, The Oboe, written in collaboration with Bruce Haynes, won the 2007 Bessaraboff Prize from the American Musical Instrument Society. Geoffrey was a key figure in the early-instrument revival in Australia, and was a founding member of the Brandenburg Orchestra in Sydney. He has worked with baroque ensembles across North America, from Seattle to Boston and Los Angeles to Montreal and has appeared as soloist with the Washington Bach Consort, Dallas Bach Society and Philadelphia Bach Festival, and in recitals with prominent artists such as Julianne Baird and Elizabeth Futral. In addition to some twenty-five orchestral and operatic recordings, Geoffrey has recorded music of the Bach Family with Ann Morgan for Move Records, and Invocations and Incantations features new music written for Duod'amore with harpischordist Elaine Funaro. In collaboration with Joel Robinson (New York) he makes copies of modeled originals by the renowned 18th-century Parisian builder Charles Delusse. Dr. Burgess has taught at the Baroque Performance Institute at Oberlin College, and on the musicology faculties of Stony Brook, Case Western, Duke and Columbia Universities. He presently lives in Philadelphia, and is the Baroque oboe instructor at the Eastman School of Music.

Jennifer Gettel, Soprano

Soprano JENNY GETTEL has served as principal soprano soloist with the Bach Babes and with Ensemble Musical Offering, where she worked with Stanley Ritchie, Marion Verbruggen, Joshua Rifkin, and other Baroque specialists.  Ms. Gettel has appeared as soloist with Present Music, Bach Chamber Choir, Lutheran A Cappella Choir, Racine Symphony, and Skylight Opera, where she performed in a cycle of Monteverdi operas under the direction of Stephen Wadsworth.  She teaches private voice lessons at UW-Milwaukee, at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music, and at her home in Grafton. She was director of the Jubilate Choir of the Milwaukee Children’s Choir and is currently Director of Music at St. Boniface Episcopal Church in Mequon.
 

Kurt Hansen, Tenor

Carrie Henneman, Soprano

Soprano CARRIE HENNEMAN SHAW is known across the US for her vivid, unique performances of Baroque and contemporary classical music. Praised as a "major musical force" (St. Paul Pioneer Press), "consistently stylish" (Boston Globe), a "cool, precise soprano" (Chicago Tribune), and "startlingly moving" (Hub Review), she performs with Boston Early Music Festival, Chicago Symphony's MusicNow series, The Newberry Consort, Les Delices, Haymarket Opera Company, and Lyra Baroque Orchestra. In the realm of early music, Carrie most recently starred as 'Euridice' in two productions of Charpentier's 'La descente d'Orfee aux Enfers'; collaborated with Bloomington-based Generation Harmonique on a program of French Baroque dramatic cantatas; and was featured by the Bach Society of Minnesota in a concert of virtuoso soprano cantatas with baroque oboist Debra Nagy. Carrie holds degrees from Lawrence University and the University of Minnesota and serves as an instructor at the national Lute Society of America conference in Cleveland. She is co-artistic director of St. Paul-based Glorious Revolution Baroque.

Edith Hines, Baroque violin

Based in Madison, Wisconsin, EDITH HINES performs frequently on Baroque and modern violins. She is adjunct instructor of violin and viola at Ripon College and directs an early music ensemble through the University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Continuing Studies. A member of the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra and Madison Symphony Orchestra, her primary interest is Baroque violin, on which she performs with the Madison Bach Musicians, Bach Collegium Fort Wayne, and violin/keyboard duo Ensemble SDG with harpsichordist John Chappell Stowe. Edith has studied modern violin with David Updegraff, Donald Weilerstein, and David Perry and has had coaching in historical performance from Julie Andrijeski, Robert Mealy, and others. She holds degrees from the Cleveland Institute of Music, New England Conservatory, and University of Wisconsin-Madison. 2010 marked her debut with Ensemble Musical Offering.

Celeste Holler, Horn

CELESTE HOLLER SERAPHINOFF earned undergraduate and graduate degrees from the Indiana University School of Music studying horn, viola and early music performance and MBA coursework through the IU School of Business. She was an associate instructor under Thomas Binkley, founder of the IU Early Music Institute. She has performed with numerous period instrument orchestras across the country as both an ensemble player and soloist. Ms. Holler is also an active freelance musician on the modern horn and performs regularly with ensembles in Bloomington and the surrounding area, and also with the Buselli-Wallarab Jazz Orchestra in Indianapolis. Celeste served as corporate controller of the Monroe County YMCA for 13 years and as director of financial aid and external business affairs at the IU Jacobs School of Music.

Paul Jacobson, Baroque flute

PAUL JACOBSON, principal flutist and cofounder of The Lyra Baroque Orchestra and flutist for The WolfGang and Ensemble Musical Offering, has performed with many notable ensembles throughout the United States, among them the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra, Oberlin BPI Orchestra, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Chicago Baroque Ensemble, Bach Society of Minnesota, The Schubert Club, The Rose Ensemble, and The St. Louis Baroque Festival Orchestra. He has been a featured soloist for National Flute Association conventions, the International Artists Series of Worcester, Massachusetts, the Iowa Historical Keyboard Association, the UW-EC Baroque Series, the Shrine to Music of South Dakota, and The St. Cloud Chamber Music Society. Known nationally as a proponent for early music, Paul has been a National Flute Association board member, chairperson of its Historical Flutes Committee, and vice-president of the board of directors for Early Music America. His teachers include Martha Bixler, Steven Silverstein, Sandra Miller, Robert Willoughby, Chris Krueger, and Wilbert Hazelzet.

Tedd King, Organ

Organist TEDD KING graduated from Northern Illinois University (NIU) earning Master Degrees in Music (1978) and Computer Science (1986). Tedd began organ studies with William Voltmer, Organist and Choirmaster at First Luther Church in DeKalb, Illinois, and continued studies with Dr. Robert Reeves at NIU and Oscar Peter at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria. After completing degrees in Music at NIU, Tedd served as organist and choirmaster at First Lutheran Church in DeKalb. He extended his postgraduate education by pursuing degrees in Computer Science at NIU. After completing the Master of Science degree in Computer Science, Tedd moved to Neenah, WI to take a position with Kimberly-Clark. In 1989, Tedd moved to Milwaukee to work for MI Data Services, now known as the FIS, as a Senior Information Technology Architect. Along with his position at FIS, Tedd served as organist and choirmaster at St. John’s Northwestern Military Academy in Delafield, WI and is currently the sub-organist of the Cathedral Church of All Saints, Episcopal, Milwaukee.

Theresa Koenig, Baroque Bassoon

THERESA KOENIG at the age of 18 made her solo debut with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra as a soloist-finalist of their Young Artist Competition, and since then has remained active performing around the country with a variety of ensembles. On historical winds Ms. Koenig has performed with the Chicago's Baroque Band, Lyra Baroque Orchestra, and is a member of Eliza's Toyes Ensemble. On modern bassoon she collaborates and performs in chamber, solo, and orchestral settings. Recent performances include solo recitals with Duo Ricercata, concerts with the Ligeti Woodwind Quintet, and as a guest with Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra.

Ms. Koenig received her Bachelor and Master's  degree, and was awarded the illustrious performer's certificate, from the Indiana University Jacob School of Music, studying with Kim Walker. Ms. Koenig was the first bassoonist to receive the Paul Collins Distinguished Fellowship at UW-Madison, where she is completing her Doctor of Musical Arts Degree.

Gesa Kordes, Baroque violin

GESA KORDES performs with numerous chamber ensembles and Baroque Orchestras on both sides of the Atlantic, including the Washington Bach Consort, Ensemble Musical Offering, Muses' Delight, Opera Lafayette, Ensemble Tra i Tempi, and the Rheinisches Barockorchester Bonn, as well as the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra. She has toured as soloist and chamber musician in the U.S., Central America, Europe, and Israel and has recorded for NPR, harmonia mundi, FONO, Dorian, and Naxos. She performs frequently at international music festivals, such as the Bloomington, Berkeley, and Boston Early Music Festivals, the Staunton Music Festival, Troisdorf Barock, and the Carmel and Victoria Bach Festival.

Since 1998, Gesa has been increasingly in demand as teacher and as ensemble director of chamber groups and period orchestras in the U.S. and Europe. After teaching at Indiana University and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, she joined the faculty of the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa in August 2009 as the director of the newly-founded Early Chamber Ensemble program.

Sung Lee, Baroque Oboe

SUNG LEE is a versatile musician who plays oboe, traverso, and shawm with early music ensembles throughout the United States. The principal oboist of the Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra, he also performs with Bach Collegium - Fort Wayne, Bourbon Baroque, and Ensemble Lipzodes. Additionally, he co-directs the ensemble Generation Harmonique, programming innovative concerts and collaborations.

Sung holds a graduate degree in historical oboe performance from Indiana University as well as bachelors degrees in architecture and music therapy. Presently, he is the administrative assistant at Indiana University's Early Music Institute, and serves on the board of the Bloomington Early Music Festival.




Robert Levine, Baroque viola

ROBERT LEVINE has been the Principal Violist of the Milwaukee Symphony since September 1987. Prior to joining the MSO, Robert was a member of the Orford String Quartet, Quartet-in-Residence at the University of Toronto, with whom he toured extensively throughout Canada, the United States, and South America. He has also served as principal violist of The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and as guest principal violist with the Indianapolis Symphony and the Hong Kong Philharmonic. Robert has been featured as soloist with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Oklahoma City Symphony, the London Symphony of Canada, the Midsummer Mozart Festival (San Francisco), and numerous community orchestras in Northern California, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. He has also been featured on American Public Radio's nationally broadcast show "St. Paul Sunday Morning" on several occasions.

As an active chamber musician, Robert has performed at the Festival Rolandseck in Germany, the Grand Teton Music Festival, the Palm Beach Festival, the "Strings in the Mountains" Festival in Colorado, and numerous concerts in the Twin Cities and Milwaukee. He has also been active in the field of new music, having commissioned and premiered works for viola and orchestra from Minnesota composers Janika Vandervelde and Libby Larsen.

Robert attended Stanford University and the Institute for Advanced Musical Studies in Switzerland. His primary teachers were Aaron Sten and Pamela Goldsmith. He also studied with Paul Doctor, Walter Trampler, Bruno Giuranna, and David Abel. Though he has performed Soler quintets in prior years with Joan Parsley, the 2010-2011 season marked Robert’s offical debut on Baroque viola with Ensemble Musical Offering.



Debra Lonergan, Baroque cello

DEBRA LONERGAN performs with the early 17th century ensembles Voci dell'Anima, Anaphantasia, La Gente d'Orfeo, the period string quartet Mirabel, and has been a core member of Milwaukee's Ensemble Musical Offering since 1995. She has played continuo in concert for several of today's leading early music soloists, among them, Jaap Schroeder, Stanley Ritchie, Marilyn McDonald and John Holloway, and she concertizes in a variety of settings throughout the United States.

As a long-standing member of the Michigan Opera Theatre Orchestra in Detroit, Ms. Lonergan began to study and specialize in early music in 1985. She then worked extensively with Ann Arbor's American Baroque Ensemble, as well as its predecessor, Ars Musica, and participated in the 1989 Michigan MozartFest with Roger Norrington, as well as a twenty-city national tour celebrating the 1985 Bach anniversary year.

Ms. Lonergan has made an extensive study of string pedagogy, and for nearly a decade was an academic program administrator for Detroit's Center for Creative Studies-Institute of Music and Dance, serving hundreds of students from the greater metropolitan area of Detroit. With nearly 30 years of experience teaching all ages, she maintains an active private studio.



Eric Miller, Viola da gamba

ERIC MILLER, viola da gambist and baroque cellist, performs actively and eclectically in Southern Wisconsin and Illinois. Regular appearances have been with the Wisconsin Baroque Ensemble and Madison Bach Musicians in addition to various other baroque ensembles. In the 2010 Season, he appeared on stage as a cellist with the renowned American Players Theater and will return in 2011 for the production of the The Gift of the Magi. Having long nurtured a love for improvised music, including jazz and folk idioms, he consistently takes part in performance and recording projects in many styles and traditions. Eric holds his M.M. in cello performance from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and B.M. in Education from Northern Illinois University, where, in addition to cello, he also studied trumpet and began self-directed viola da gamba studies which have since been augmented by the input of many fine gambists and baroque specialists from throughout the country. His primary cello studies have been with Marc Johnson of the Vermeer Quartet and Parry Karp of the Pro Arte Quartet. A registered Suzuki cello teacher, Eric maintains a cello studio in Madison, and also teaches trumpet and viola da gamba. In addition, he teaches strings for the Madison Metropolitan School Distract and has taught viola da gamba at the Madison Early Music Festival for the past three years.

Eric performs on a seven--string bass viola da gamba by Daniel Foster, Blacksburg, Virginia, 2008. His baroque bow is by Louis Begin, Lantier, Quebec.

Rick Murrell, Baroque Trumpet

Originally from Muncie, Indiana, RICK MURRELL graduated in 1979 from Ball State University with degrees in Music Performance and Music Education. He is currently the Director of the Pittsburgh Ceremonial Brass Quintet, Artists-in-Residence at Fox Chapel Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh, PA and Founder of the Pittsburgh Baroque Ensemble. Rick has also performed with Tempesta di Mare: The Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra and most recently with Apollo’s Fire: The Cleveland Baroque Orchestra.

In 1980, he was offered a position as principal trumpet in the Veracruz Symphony Orchestra in Veracruz, Mexico. Since returning to the U.S., Rick has won positions in many different orchestras and festivals playing with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Loren Maazel, Leonard Slatkin and Charles Dutoit Leonard Slatkin , Charles Dutoit and Marvin Hamlisch.

The 2011-2012 season heralds performances with the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra, Tempesta di Mare, Ensemble Musical Offering - Milwaukee’s Midwest Bande for Early Music, and in Cleveland, with the Apollo’s Fire production of Mozart’s Magic Flute in Severence Hall.

He performs on an Egger “Historic” Model Trumpet reproduction of Johann Ehe II, ca. 1720.

David Myford, Baroque violin

DAVID MYFORD began his career as a violinist in the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. A decade later he began playing early music on baroque violin as principal violinist in Chicago's first early music orchestra, The City Musick. Subsequently he moved to the east coast and served as principal violinist in early music ensembles in Princeton, NYC, Philadelphia, and Wilmington, Delaware. He performs on a historic copy of an Andrea Amati violin of Cremona built in 2002 by Roger Graham Hargrave of Meyenburg, Germany. He and his wife travel as often as possible to Milwaukee to take in a great city.  David made his debut with Ensemble Musical Offering as part of the 2010-2011 The Vivaldi Project.

Patrick O’Malley, Recorder

Hailed as “distinguished” by the Chicago Tribune, PATRICK O’MALLEY has performed from California to New York, as well as in the Netherlands and the Czech Republic. Locally he has appeared with Music of the Baroque, Chicago Opera Theater, Baroque Band, Bach Week Festival Orchestra, Rembrandt Chamber Players, Chicago Chamber Orchestra, Trio Settecento with Rachel Barton Pine, Lincolnwood Chamber Orchestra, North American Choral Company, harpist Stephen Hartman, many of Chicago’s early music ensembles, and “Live from Studio One” on WFMT.

He has presented the world premiere of “Passacaille” by Isaac Watras and the American premiere of Christopher Ball’s “Concerto for Recorder and String Orchestra.” With Lisette Kielson he has released a 2-disc recording, Telemann: Canons and Duos. Mr. O’Malley runs a private teaching studio and is on the faculty of the Music Institute of Chicago. Patrick earned a Master of Music degree in recorder from Indiana University, where he studied with Eva Legêne and served as Associate Instructor. As the recipient of a Netherlands Fulbright Fellowship, Patrick pursued further studies with Han Tol at the Rotterdam Conservatory. He has served as board member of the American Recorder Teachers Association. His articles have been published in American Recorder and The Recorder Education Journal.

Laura Osterlund, Recorder

LAURA OSTERLUND has been a student of early music and the recorder since 1999.  Among her teachers are Clea Galhano, Matthias Maute, and Natalie Michaud.  Currently, Laura resides in Montréal where she is pursuing a Bachelor of Music degree with major concentrations in Early Music Performance and Music History at McGill University.  Laura is an active musician throughout Montreal and Chicago and an avid member of the movement to promote Early Music performance, pedagogy, research, and appreciation throughout North America.  She currently works as a writer for the early music radio program Harmonia and the website for Early Music Radio.  She is also an instructor at workshops such as the Madison and Whitewater early music summer festivals.  In 2011, Laura received EMA’s prestigious Barbara Thornton Memorial Scholarship for medieval music.  After the completion of her McGill University degree, Laura will  continue her musical studies at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel, Switzerland. 

Sarah Richardson,

SARAH RICHARDSON holds a Master of Music degree from UW-Milwaukee and a Bachelor of Music degree from Viterbo University. During her studies, she performed the roles of Eurydice (Orpheus in the Underworld), Laetitia (The Old Maid and the Thief), Madame Goldentrill (The Impresario) and Queen of the Night (The Magic Flute). Sarah currently teaches voice in the Milwaukee area and holds a choral scholar position at All Saints Episcopal Cathedral. Sarah has also performed with the Milwaukee Choral Artists, East Side Chamber Players, Kalliope Vocal Arts, and will be making her Milwaukee Opera Theatre debut later this spring.

Philip Rukavina, Lute

PHILIP RUKAVINA studied lute with Hopkinson Smith at the Academie Musical in Villecroze, France and in Basel, Switzerland, and also with Patrick O'Brien in New York, NY. He performs nationally and internationally as a lute and vihuela soloist, ensemble performer, and as a continuo player.He is a founding member of the Venere Lute Quartet, the Chambure Vihuela Quartet, and the Terzetti Lute Duo as well as a regular guest instrumentalist with the early vocal group the Rose Ensemble. Philip has performed with numerous singers and instrumental ensembles including the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the New World Symphony, soprano Carrie Henneman Shaw, and others.  He has been a regular member of the faculty at the Lute Society of America's bi-annual Seminars at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, and directed the event in 2008 and 2010. He has also directed the lute program at the Amherst Early Music Festival in New London, Connecticut in 2005, 2007, and 2009.

Three solo lute recordings are credited to his name including his recent 2010 release, Music from the Casteliono Lutebook 1536. A new recording by the Venere Lute Quartet, titled Airy Entertainments, is expected to be released by the Lute Society of America in January, 2011.

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