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The Artists we Support and Their Background. |
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Matthias Maute: "Known for his stunning blend of dazzling virtuosity and
colorful expressivity, Matthias Maute is recognized as one of the foremost
recorder players of his generation and has earned an international reputation
for his formidable talents as a traverso player as well as a composer.
Matthias is the Artistic Director of Ensemble Caprice, for whom he has
developed some highly original programmes which include his own arrangements
and compositions. The ensemble has performed at several major European
and American venues. Matthias also tours regularly in Europe and the United
States with the baroque ensemble REBEL as a recorder and flute soloist. |
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Daniel Zuluaga is a native of Colombia, where he
received his musical education. His interest in the early plucked-string
instruments took him to the Early Music Institute at Indiana University in
Bloomington, US, where he studied lute under the tutelage of Nigel
North. His 6-year collaboration with the Colombian early music ensemble
Musica Ficta focused on the research and performance of renaissance and
baroque repertory from Spain and Latin America, and has taken him to concert
halls in Europe, Japan, Southwest Asia and the Americas His solo work has
been praised for its 'rhythmic vitality and a fine sense of color'(Joseph
McLellan, Washington Post) |
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London-born Monica Huggett is one of the world's leading baroque violinists. As both soloist and leader she has worked with all the major conductors and orchestras in Europe. She was invited to form the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra with Ton Koopman, and was the orchestra's concert master from 1980-1987. Currently she spends much of her time in the USA, where she is artistic director of the Portland Baroque Orchestra, and also in Spain, where she holds a similar position with the Seville Baroque Orchestra. In the UK her work centres on her ensemble Sonnerie, which won the prestigious Baroque Instrumental Gramophone Award in 2002 with a CD of Sonatas by HIF Biber, the late 17th century Bohemian violin virtuoso and composer. Monica has been working on regular basis with the Irish Baroque Orchestra since early 2004, and in June 2006 was appointed musical director. Monica
started the Montana Baroque Festival with
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Cellist Tanya Tomkins received her Soloist Diploma from The Hague Conservatory in The Netherlands, where she studied with Anner Bijlsma. While in Holland, where she lived for fourteen years, she became interested in early instruments. She founded the Trio d'Amsterdam, which toured extensively throughout Europe and made their New York debut at the Frick Collection. The trio has been recorded on the Koch label. In 2001
Ms. Tomkins won the Bodky Competition for Early Music Soloists in
Boston. Ms. Tompkins has played principal cello of the Portland Baroque
Orchestra and co-principal cellist of the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra in
San Francisco with whom she has also appeared as a soloist. She
performs regularly in recitals with pianist and fortepianist Eric Zivian (for
information, see their web site: ziviantomkinscuo.org} |
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