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MOUNTAIN COLLEGIUM FACULTY

In alphabetical order is the 2011 Faculty

Jack Ashworth - Viol & other Strings. He has been the director of the Early Music Ensemble at the University of Louisville since 1977 and has has taught for about that long on workshop faculties in the United States, Canada, England and Australia.  He is past president of the Viola da Gamba Society of America and received the Thomas Binkley Award for Outstanding Achievement by a Collegium Director from Early Music America in 1999, as well as U of L's Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award in 1995.  Jack is active in both early music and traditional music, on instruments ranging from Renaissance winds and strings to fiddle and concertina.  He is also active as a continuo harpsichordist, in which capacity he has performed with Wieland Kuijken, Brent Wissick and Margriet Tindemans as well as Fretwork and Trio Settecento, among others.  He has published on topics from basso continuo to the banjo.

Valerie Austin - Recorder and Renaissance Winds. She is the Director of Graduate Studies in Music at University of North Carolina, Pembroke.  As a musicologist and music educator her research areas include early instrumental music and 20th century American music, specifically the crossover between popular and 'classical' forms.  Austin  was  one of the first nationally board certified music teachers in music, holds three Orff levels, and presents workshops in the Integration of Music History and Music Education, and Teaching Medieval and Renaissance Music in the Elementary Classroom.  She has presented numerous academic papers in the areas of musicology and music education, both nationally and internationally.  With musical origins as a symphonic trumpet player, Austin specializes on the cornett and recorder.  She is the founding director of the UNCP Early Music Group.

 

Martha Bishop, Assistant Director - Viol.  B. Mus. Ed., M.A. Musicology, post-graduate at Cornell University in viola da gamba. In addition she is widely known as a teacher, performer, composer and editor as well as being a member of Atlanta Baroque Orchestra, New Trinity Baroque, and artist faculty at Emory University.  For many years she served as Music Director for the Viola da Gamba Society of America annual Conclave.  She is also a Hambidge Center for the Arts and Sciences fellow, as well as a member of Pi Kappa Lambda .

Photo by Richard Calmes

 

 

Lorraine Hammond - Folk Harp, Dulcimer. Goddard College; Teacher; Performs with Bennett Hammond, guitarist; Recordings with Shanachie, Greenhays, Snowy Egret. Author: The Magic Dulcimer, and Barley Break, Elizabethan Music for Dulcimer; Director WUMB Summer Acoustic Music Week, Center Harbor, NH, Spring Dulcimer Festival, Cambridge, MA.

 

 

Lisle Kulbach - Viol & other Strings. She is a long time staff member at Mountain Collegium, teaching and playing viola da gamba, recorder, voice, harpsichord, and rebec. She holds a Bachelor of Music degree from New England Conservatory and is a founding member of the Sephardic music group, Voice of the Turtle, with whom she has made 12 recordings. She has performed in many Revels with additional 3 recordings and is a sought-after teacher/performer.

 

Holly Maurer - Viol. Ms. Maurer received a BA from St. Lawrence University in music and religion and the MM from The New England Conservatory in performance practice of early music. She performs regularly with Carolina Baroque of Salisbury, NC and has been a member of Carolina Pro Musica of Charlotte for 15 seasons playing viola da gamba, transverse flute and recorder. She has performed extensively in the southeast and toured London with Carolina Pro Musica in 2005. Before becoming a full time faculty member of Central Piedmont Community College, she taught at Rowan Cabarrus Community College, Queens College and UNC Charlotte.

 

Sarah Mead - Viol. Music Director of the Viola da Gamba Association of America Conclave, Ms. Mead teaches and performs in the Boston area. The 2007 winner of the Thomas Binkley Award from Early Music America, she is Associate Professor of the Practice of Music at Brandeis University, where she directs the Early Music Ensemble and is a frequent guest choral conductor. She has also taught at Tufts and Northeastern Universities, the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, and Trinity College of Music in London. Her handbook on sixteenth-century theory is used in graduate programs and ensembles around the country. She has performed with Spiritus Collective and Parthenia in New York, and recently appeared with Exsultemus in Boston. She serves on the Boards of the VdGSA and EMA, and is former Program Director for Early Music Week at Pinewoods Camp.

Jody Miller, Director - Recorder & Renaissance Winds. He is director of Lauda Musicam of Atlanta and teaches private recorder and French horn lessons in the Atlanta area.  Previously, he has served on the faculty of the Atlanta Early Music Alliance Mid-Winter Workshop and has taught recorder workshops through the Atlanta Recorder Society, the Birmingham Recorder Society, and the Memphis Flute Society.  Miller performs most frequently with Ritornello Baroque Ensemble, but often collaborates with modern instrumentalists when performing his favorite works--contemporary chamber music for recorder.  He works closely with composer Timothy Broege and is currently working on a compact disc recording of the recorder music of Broege.

 

Patricia Petersen - Recorder & Renaissance Winds. She holds an MFA in Early Music Performance from Sarah Lawrence College.  A Director Emerita of Amherst Early Music, she is a regular faculty member at that and many other weekend and week-long workshops.  She performs on recorder and other early winds, and has appeared with the Charleston Symphony Orchestra.  She has coached early music ensembles at Wake Forest University and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.  An ARS certified teacher, she teaches recorder, early music, and English country dance in North Carolina and at workshops around the country, and has a passion for playing from facsimiles of early 15th-century music. 

Gwyn Roberts - Recorder, Baroque Flute. In recent seasons she has been a featured recorder and traverso soloist with the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, the Portland Baroque Orchestra, Hesperus, Recitar Cantando of Tokyo, and at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC. American Record Guide has called her “a world-class virtuoso”, and the Washington Post remarked, “with her sparkling technique and sensitive attention to musicality, she infused the music with operatic drama.” Her recording of Veracini Recorder Sonatas earned a five star rating from BBC Music Magazine . As co-director of Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra Tempesta di Mare, she leads the ensemble in frequent performances from Oregon to Prague, records for Chandos (UK), and appears frequently on NPR's Performance Today . Other recordings include Deutsche Grammaphon, Dorian, Sony Classics, Vox, PolyGram, PGM, Newport Classics, and Radio France. Ms. Roberts is Director of Early Music at the University of Pennsylvania and is on faculty at Peabody Conservatory. She studied recorder with Marion Verbruggen and Leo Meilink and baroque flute with Marten Root at Utrecht Conservatory in the Netherlands. (Photo credit: Bill Cramer | Wonderful Machine)

 

Gail-Ann Schroeder, Assistant Director - Viol. She holds a Bachelor of Music in Music History University of Michigan, First Prize and Higher Diploma Royal Conservatory of Music, Brussels - She has taught at Royal Conservatory, Brussels as well as being a member of Huelgas Ensemble, Capilla Flamenca, and Combattimento Consort Amsterdam.

 

Anne Timberlake - Recorder.
Ms. Timberlake has appeared across the United States performing repertoire from Bach to twenty-first-century premieres to Celtic tunes. She holds degrees in recorder performance from Oberlin Conservatory, where she studied with Alison Melville, and Indiana University, where she studied with Eva Legene and won the 2007 Early Music Institute Concerto Competition. Anne has received awards from the American Recorder Society and the National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts, and was awarded a Fulbright Grant to study recorder performance in Belgium. She is a founding member of the ensemble Wayward Sisters, specializing in music of the early Baroque. The Newberry Consort recently presented Wayward Sisters as Emerging Artists for their 2010-2011 concert season. With Musik Ekklesia, Anne has recorded for the Sono Luminus label. Anne Enjoys teaching as well as playing. In addition to maintaining a private studio, Anne has coached through Indiana University's Pre-College Recorder Program, Oberlin's Baroque Performance Institute, Catacoustic's community recorder program, and numerous ARS chapters.

 

John Trexler - Flute, Whistle, Recorder, Hurdy-gurdy, Clarinet, Bagpipes. His past and current ensemble memberships include: Charlotte Symphony; Wicklothian; Magpye; Celtic Folkers; Acme Celi Band; Drums&Drones; Gobal Warning (contra dance) CPCC Early & Baroque Music Consorts.

 

 

Barbara Weiss - Keyboard & Recorder. A versatile and engaging musician, Ms. Weiss' diverse musical experiences range from recording and performing ancient classical Cambodian music to directing a baroque opera company to chairing a university's early music program.  She has been on the faculty of both the Oberlin Conservatory and the Peabody Institute, as well as Concordia College and the University of Minnesota and Pennsylvania.  She regularly teaches at summer workshops such as the Oberlin Baroque Performance Institute, the Madison Early Music Festival, and Indiana University's Recorder Academy.  Ms. Weiss has performed at the Boston, San Antonio and Berkeley Early Music Festivals, and the Winnipeg Folk Festival.  Her collaborations include Belladonna, the Newberry Consort, Quicksilver, Chatham Baroque, the Smithsonian Chamber Players, the King's Noyse, Apollo's Fire, the Chicago Opera Theater and Piffaro. Ms. Weiss has recorded with the Dorian, Flying Fish and Harmonia Mundi labels.  She currently lives in Asheville, NC, where she performs with a new group, Muses Delight.