Jane McKinley, oboist & artistic director of the Dryden Ensemble, received degrees in music from
Northwestern University and Princeton
University, where for ten years she coached the Renaissance recorder
ensemble. She studied Baroque oboe in Vienna with the late Jürg
Schaeftlein of Concentus Musicus. Her professional credits include
appearances with the Washington Bach Consort, the Smithsonian Concerto Grosso, and the New York
Collegium in their staged production of the St. Matthew Passion with
director Jonathan Miller at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Ms. McKinley
has a passion for creating concert programs which combine Baroque music
with readings from contemporaneous sources. Her latest project, "Queen Christina Goes to Rome," will premiere on November 20 & 21. For seven years she has been seriously engaged in writing poetry. Her manuscript Vanitas was recently awarded the Walt McDonald First-Book Prize and will be published by Texas Tech University Press in early 2011.
Vita Wallace, principal violinist, is known as a powerful, sensitive, and versatile
musician. She is a member of the Baroque ensembles Anima, ARTEK,
Philomel, and Foundling and she is a frequent guest artist with other
Baroque ensembles and festivals. She has also performed and recorded
extensively as violinist of the Orfeo Duo. The duo’s unedited recording
of the complete Schumann sonatas on period instruments was described as
"daring and fresh" by the National Post. Their other recordings have
been described as "impassioned and deeply involving...strangely moving"
(American Record Guide) and "magnificent" (Classics Today). Vita’s
teachers included Louis Krasner, Julius Levine, Lorand Fenyves, and
Nancy Wilson. She graduated from the Mannes College of Music with the
Felix Salzer Award.
Lisa Terry practices, performs and teaches viola da gamba and violoncello in New
York City, where she is a long-time member of Parthenia and the Dryden
Ensemble, and a new member of BaroQue Across the River. She was a
founding member of ARTEK, and has performed with the New York
Philharmonic, New York City Opera, Juilliard Opera Orchestra, Opera
Lafayette, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Concert Royal, New York Collegium,
American Classical Orchestra, Four Nations Ensemble, Santa Fe Pro Musica
and Chicago Opera Theatre. She earned her degree in cello performance
from Memphis State University and continued her studies in New York with
Richard Taruskin, viol, and Harry Wimmer, cello. Ms. Terry appears to
great acclaim as soloist in the Passions of J.S. Bach, notably under the
batons of Robert Shaw, Richard Westenburg, and Lyndon Woodside in
Carnegie Hall, in the Jonathan Miller staged performances at the
Brooklyn Academy of Music conducted by Paul Goodwin, and with Andrew
Parrot, Gary Thor Wedow, Kent Tritle and Simon Carrington. Ms. Terry
teaches viola da gamba and cello at the French-American School of Music
in New York and at workshops around the country.
Webb Wiggins, harpsichord and chamber organ, recognized and lauded internationally for his
innovative and musical continuo realizations, has performed and
recorded with many ensembles in the United States. They include the
Folger Consort, the Dryden Ensemble, the Violins of Lafayette, Hesperus,
the Baltimore Consort, NYS Baroque, Apollo’s Fire, the Philadelphia
Classical Orchestra, the Smithsonian Chamber Players and Orchestra, the
Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, and the
National Symphony. 0His collaborations with soloists, both vocal and
instrumental, have earned him a treasured place in the world of baroque
music. Webb has also established himself as one of the foremost teachers
of harpsichord as well as a coach for chamber music and director of
baroque opera. Formerly the coordinator of the Early Music Program at
the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, Webb is now Professor of
Harpsichord at Oberlin Conservatory. He also serves on the faculty of
the Oberlin College Baroque Performance Institute and the Amherst Early
Music Festival in Connecticut each summer. Webb’s solo performances are
admired for their elegance and musical intensity. The Washington Post
stated in April, 2000, “the art of rhythm and ornamentation was
brilliantly delivered by Wiggins in a stellar rendition of a Frescobaldi
toccata. Wiggins’s sense of timing during the entire event was
indispensable to an effective concert performance.” He is heard on the
Dorian, EMI, Bard, Smithsonian, and PGM labels and has performed
throughout the US, New Zealand, Taiwan and three times between Rotterdam
and Montreal on the Atlantic!
Daniel Swenberg plays a variety of Renaissance and Baroque Lutes, Theorbos, and early
Guitars. His principal devotion is to basso- continuo playing (the
Baroque practice of semi-improvised accompaniment from the bass), though
he also performs solo lute repertoire from 18th-century Germany,
Austria, and Italy and music for the Baroque guitar from Spain and New
Spain/Latin America. Among the ensembles with whom he works regularly
are: ARTEK, REBEL, Ensemble Viscera, the Mark Morris Dance Group,
Tafelmusik, Opera Atelier, The Metropolitan Opera, the Canadian Opera
Company, The Orchestra of St Luke's, Staatstheater Stuttgart, New York
City Opera, The Four Nations Ensemble, The Grand Tour Orchestra, and
Apollo's Fire. He has accompanied Renee Fleming and Kathleen Battle at
Carnegie Hall. He has received awards from the Belgian American
Educational Foundation (2000) and a Fulbright Scholarship (1997) to
study in Bremen, Germany. And yes, he spends a lot of time tuning and
wondering why he did not take up a smaller instrument.
Andrea Andros, violin and viola, is a performer whose wide range of expertise and
varied interests keeps her in great demand. She acts as concertmaster at
Radio City Music Hall, the NY Gilbert and Sullivan Players, and
performs regularly with the NY Grand Opera and Orchestra of St. Luke's.
Ms. Andros performs along the east coast with the Boston Early Music
Festival, Handel and Haydn Society, ARTEK, and the Connecticut Early
Music Festival, among others. Her discography includes over 30
recordings and her commercial credits include numerous movie
soundtracks, television, and radio spots. Recent Broadway shows include
Les Miserables, Tom Sawyer, and Wonderful Town. An avid cook, Ms. Andros
has appeared on the Food Network's "Pressure Cooker.”
Mark Zaki, viola, Building on many diverse interests, Mark Zaki's career encompasses a wide range of artistic territory. As a performer Mark has played with many of the leading period instrument ensembles in the United States. In addition to being a prolific composer of concert and computer music he's written many film scores, notably the dramatic feature The Eyes of van Gogh, and the Peabody award nominated PBS documentary The Political Dr. Seuss. His work includes both onscreen and soundtrack performances for films by Lasse Hallstrom, Hayao Miyazaki and Martin Scorsese. This winter he can be seen as a violinist in the upcoming HBO miniseries Mildred Pierce. Mark currently teaches composition at Rutgers University where he is also director of the Rutgers Electro-Acoustic Lab (REAL). For the upcoming academic year, he was awarded a Penn Humanities Forum Mellon Regional Faculty Fellowship to present his work in the area of computer-generated visual music. He lives outside New York City with his wife, two daughters, three cats and a considerable amount of software.
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Julianne Baird, soprano
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Paul
Hecht made his debut on Broadway
as the Player in Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead (Tony
nomination 1968). Other Broadway appearances include: Night & Day
with Maggie Smith and Invention of Love. (Tom Stoppard), 1776
(original company), the Rothschilds, Shaw’s Caesar & Cleopatra
and Pirandello’s Henry IV ( both with Rex Harrison). He has performed as
Cyrano at the Guthrie, as Marc Antony, (Julius Caesar & Antony and
Cleopatra) at the American Shakespeare Festival, and in plays by Shaw,
Shakespeare, Chekhov, Turgenev, and Charles Dickens at McCarter in Princeton.
TV Audiences may have recognized him over the years as Charles in Kate &
Allie and several unsavory characters in Law and Order, Starsky and Hutch,
Hawaii Five-0, and Remington Steele. He has appeared in films with Bette Davis,
Jane Fonda, Jeremy Irons, Chris Rock, and Howard Stern, and also in Every Good
Boy Deserves Favour (Stoppard-Previn) with the Philadelphia Orchestra.
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Jolle Greenleaf, soprano
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