JANET BEAZLEY, recorders, flute, San Juan Capistrano, California
Performs on recorders and flutes with Bach Collegium San Diego, Music Angelica, Concordia Clarimontis, and her own group, Accenti. Holds a Doctorate in Early Music Performance from USC. Director of the Collegium Musicum at U.C. Riverside, teaches recorder and flute at Claremont Graduate University, and baroque flute at USC. Has taught at many West Coast early music workshops, including San Francisco, Hidden Valley Elderhostel, and Port Townsend. Janet also tours, performs, and teaches music in the bluegrass tradition.
LETITIA BERLIN, recorder, Albany, California
Teaches privately and at workshops around the country. Performs with the Farallon Recorder Quartet, the recorder duo Tibia and the Sitka Trio. Directs the Hidden Valley Early Music Elderhostel and the San Francisco Early Music Society Music Discovery Workshop for children. Active early music performer since 1992. Has taught and performed in the U. S., Canada, and Europe. Past President of the American Recorder Society.
FRANCES BLAKER, recorder, Albany, California
Teaching and performing degrees from Royal Danish Conservatory. Performs with the Farallon Recorder Quartet and the recorder duo Tibia, and the chamber music group Ensemble Vermillian; published composer for recorder and other instruments and voice from solo to recorder orchestra,; workshop teacher throughout the U.S. Author of Th e Recorder Player’s Companion; consultant and performer on DiscContinuo series of recordings as well as with Farallon and Vermillian.
VICKI BOECKMAN, recorder, Seattle, Washington
International performing artist now based in Seattle. Former teacher at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen, and at the Ishøj Municipal School of Music. Co-founded two popular ensembles, Opus 4, and recorder trio, Wood’N’Flutes. Teacher at workshops throughout the United States and Canada. Featured with the Seattle and Portland Baroque Orchestras, Philharmonia Northwest, Gallery Concerts Series, and Medieval Women’s Choir. Teaches privately and at Music Center of the Northwest. Recordings for many labels.
LOUISE CARSLAKE, recorder, baroque flute, Oakland, California
Performances in Europe, China, New Zealand, and across the U.S. Teaches early music ensembles at Mills College and baroque flute at UC Berkeley. Member of Music’s Re-creation, Farallon Recorder Quartet, Magnificat, and Jubilate Orchestra. Has made over ten CD recordings for labels in U.K. and U.S. Former co-director of SFEMS Medieval-Renaissance Workshop. Co-founder of the Junior Recorder Society in the Bay Area.
CHARLES COLDWELL, recorder, Seattle, Washington
Recorder soloist with Seattle Baroque, Northwest Chamber Orchestra, Tudor Choir, Baroque Northwest, the Berkeley Early Music Festival and Seattle’s Bumbershoot. Former faculty, New England Conservatory and Longy School of Music. Arranger and publisher of music for recorder through Editions Dolcimelo.
ROTEM GILBERT, recorder, Pasadena, California
Teaches at USC, Los Angeles. Founding member of Ciaramella, with performances in the United States, Canada and Europe. Touring member of Piffaro (1996-2007). Appearances with many ensembles and was featured with the LA Opera, Musica Angelica. Debuted at Disney Hall with the LA Phil. Studies at Mannes College of Music in New York; Scuola Civica di Musica of Milan; doctorate in Early Music performance practice at Case Western Reserve University. Faculty at workshops across the U.S. and in Israel. Recordings for many labels.
JULIE JEFFREY, viola da gamba, Richmond, California
Member of Sex Chordae Consort of Viols, Wildcat Viols and the viol duo Hallifax & Jeffrey. Teaches privately and at workshops in the U.S. and abroad. Viol player since 1976, performing throughout the U.S., in Canada, Mexico, Europe and Australia. Co-director of Barefoot Chamber Concerts; serves on the Viola da Gamba Society of America board of directors; cofounder and active member of the Viola da Gamba Society, Pacifica Chapter.
SHIRA KAMMEN, vielle, Berkeley, California
Performs and teaches medieval, renaissance and traditional music nationally and internationally. Directs a number of ensembles and choruses in the Bay Area and has produced several recordings and books of her own compositions and arrangements. Can be heard on dozens of other recordings and soundtracks for fi lm and video games.
PETER MAUND, percussion, Walnut Creek, California
Has performed and recorded with several early music and contemporary music ensembles including Ensemble Alcatraz, Chanticleer, Davka, Hesperion XX, Kitka, Alasdair Fraser’s Skyedance, The Harp Consort and Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra. Has also presented lectures, workshops, and classes in the United States, Canada, Scotland and Israel.
KIM PINEDA, flute, Eugene, Oregon
Has performed throughout the US, Canada, in Israel, and NPR. He’s performed at the Boston, Berkeley, Long Beach Bach, and Bloomington early music festivals, the Bumbershoot Festival, and has recorded for Focus, Centaur and Origin Classical. Has taught at Indiana University, USC, and directs the Baroque Flute and Continuo Players Boot Camp in Seattle.
ELLEN SEIBERT, beginning viol, Seattle, Washington
Freelance performer with several ensembles in the Northwest. Teaches and coaches viol in Seattle. Board member, Seattle Early Music Guild. Founding member and former president, Pacific Northwest Viols. Former VdGSA board member.
PETER SEIBERT, theory, composition, & large ensembles, Seattle, Washington
Active composer who writes for professional musicians as well as for amateurs. His music has been performed on four continents, and his output extends from music for historical instruments to works for chorus (Missa brevis, 2002, and Requiem, 2007) and for modern orchestra (Terpsichore Revisited, 2009). Has taught at early music workshops since 1968, has been music director of the Seattle Recorder Society since 1970, and taught recorder at the University of Washington School of Music from 1971–1991.
MARGRIET TINDEMANS, viola da gamba, vielle, Seattle Washington
Has performed, recorded, and taught early music on four continents. Performs with Seattle Baroque Orchestra, Pacific Operaworks, Folger Consort and in duo with Shira Kammen. Director of Medieval Women’s Choir, Seattle. Director of Pacific Northwest Viols workshops. Past director of Port Townsend Early Music Workshop, Vancouver Early Music Workshop, and Northwest Center for Early Music Studies. Music director for Northwest Puppet Center, for whom she has arranged and directed The Magic Flute and Don Giovanni, among other productions.
BRENT WISSICK, viola da gamba, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Past President, VdGSA, and frequent teacher at workshops throughout the U. S. Associate professor of cello and viol at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Performs with Ensemble Chanterelle, the American Bach Soloists, the Boston Bach Ensemble, Atlanta Baroque, and other groups.
