BRENT
WISSICK is on the faculty at the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he teaches cello, viola
da gamba and early music ensembles. A member of Ensemble Chanterelle
and the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra, he is a frequent guest with
American Bach Soloists (San Francisco), Folger Consort (Washington,DC),
Concert Royal (New York), Boston Early Music Festival and Dallas
Bach Society as well as Collegio di Musica Sacra in Poland. He
was a 1993 NEH Fellow at Harvard, taught at the 1997 Aston Magna
Academy at Yale and served as chair of Higher Education for Early
Music America. A former student of John Hsu at Cornell University,
he has performed and taught at many of the important schools and
festivals in North America, Australia, Europe and Asia. He is
a past President of the Viola da Gamba Society
of America. He has recorded for Albany
Records, Koch International, and
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CATHERINE
LIDDELL is much in demand for her skill, sensitivity and experience
realizing continuo accompaniments on theorbo. She has performed
with many of the leading American period-instrument ensembles
including Boston Baroque, New York Collegium, Orchestra of St.
Luke’s, Apollo’s Fire, Seattle Baroque Orchestra and
Boston’s Handel & Haydn Society. She has performed in
Boston Early Music Festival productions of Monteverdi’s
L’Orfeo and in Lully’s Thesé. Ms. Liddell is
a founding member of Ensemble Chanterelle. She is a co-founder
of Charivary with violists da gamba Laura Jeppesen and Jane Hershey.
She is a past President of the Lute Society
of America and has taught frequently in the Society’s
summer seminars. Past teaching appointments have included the
Longy School of Music, the San Francisco Conservatory, and Mount
Holyoke College. A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, Ms. Liddell
holds the Soloist Diploma from the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis
in Basel, Switzerland, where she studied Renaissance and Baroque
lutes with Eugen Dombois. She has recorded for Musical Heritage
Society, Titanic Records, Wildboar, Dorian, and Centaur
Records. Her solo CD, La belle voilée: 17th Century
French Lute Music by Jacques Gallot is available on the Centaur
label and her edition, Sacred Music for Lute is published by Lyre
Publications, Fort Worth, Texas. For additional information, please
visit Ms. Liddell's web site. |
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Internationally
recognized as one of the leading authorities in the history of
vocal style and technique, soprano SALLY SANFORD has performed
in recital, baroque opera, oratorio, and staged medieval dramas
across the United States and in Canada, Germany, Holland, and
Switzerland. She has collaborated with many distinguished artists
and ensembles. Miss Sanford has been invited to lecture at international
conferences and has given master classes at many colleges and
universities across the United States. She has been a singing
judge for the International J.S. Bach Competition in Leipzig,
Germany. As a choral clinician, she has worked with many amateur
and professional choirs, including the New York Collegium and
Zephyrus, a Renaissance vocal ensemble. She has produced recordings
for Zephyrus and the Wellesley College
Choir, among others. She is a contributor to A Performer’s
Guide to Seventeenth Century Music and the Journal
of Seventeenth Century Music, among others. Miss Sanford has
been an Artist-in-Residence at UCLA, Duke, UVA, Florida State,
and the University of Southern Maine, among others, and has taught
courses in music history, theory and performance practice at Queens
College-CUNY, Dartmouth, and the Hartt School of Music. She was
a member of the voice faculty at Wellesley College from 1996-2003,
where she also directed the Collegium Musicum. Miss Sanford had
a long association with Aston Magna, as Guest Artistic Director
and as Associate Director of the acclaimed Aston Magna Academy.
A summa cum laude graduate of Yale, where she studied
both literature and music, she holds a DMA degree from Stanford
University. She has studied voice with former Metropolitan Opera
mezzo soprano Herta Glaz and soprano (now conductor) Susan Davenny
Wyner. Miss Sanford has recorded for Albany
Records, Centaur Records, Deutsche
Harmonia Mundi, Lyrachord, and Musical Heritage Society. She currently
maintains private teaching studios in Concord, Massachusetts;
Charlottesville, Virginia; and New York City and is writing a
book on singing. For additional information, please visit Miss
Sanford's web site. |
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