2010 MOUNTAIN COLLEGIUM FACULTY

In alphabetical order

Jack Ashworth - 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 - Viola da gamba.  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.

 

 

Atossa Kramer - Recorders, Theory. She is on the music faculty of Berea College teaching piano, clarinet and recorder. Longtime staff member at Mountain Collegium as well as recorder teacher and musician at several folk dance camps. Plays clarinet in the Lexington Philharmonic Orchestra. Performs frequently in the Central Ky. area including with the early music group, Musik's Company. Graduate of Oberlin and University of KY.

 

 

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.

 

Jody Miller - Recorder. 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.

Pat Petersen, Director - Recorder. 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.

 

 

Ann Stierli - Viola da gamba. She holds a Bachelor of Music degree in flute performance from Eastman School of Music. Former member of the Miami Philharmonic Orchestra, the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, and the Early Music Consort of Miami. Currently member of KEMP, the Knoxville Early Music Project and director of the Knoxville Chapter of the American Recorder Society. Teaches flute, recorder and viol privately in the Knoxville area.

 

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.