2014 Participants

2014 Participants FLUTE Mili Chang is pursuing a DMA in flute performance at University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she is the Collins Distinguished Fellow. She has played baroque flute for two years and is involved in UW-Madison’s Collegium Musicum. She enjoys the simplicity and the complexity of baroque music. Mili received a BMus and MMus in her native Taiwan. TBSI 2013 Leighann Daihl, historical flutist, has concertized throughout central Europe and the US as both a soloist and collaborator of chamber and orchestral music. She holds a BMUS in traverso from the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, and a MMus in traverso from Indiana University. Roseen Giles is completing a PhD in musicology at the University of Toronto. Her dissertation explores the aesthetics of Claudio Monteverdi’s late madrigals, in particular the relationship between music and poetry in the composer’s settings of Giambattista Marino’s verses. Her scholarly interests are broad and far-reaching, including music and devotional practice in the early modern period; occult philosophy and the music of the Renaissance; and the musical notation of medieval Armenia. Roseen is the 2013 recipient of the American Musicological Society’s Howard Mayer Brown Fellowship. TBSI 2008-2011 Joanna Marsden is a flautist from Lincoln, Massachusetts. She completed her MMus at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague with Wilbert Hazelzet. She works with Ensemble 1729, Les Vents Atlantiques, Compagnie Baroque Mont-Royal, Boston’s Musical Offering, and Rococonut. She won second prize at the 2012 NFA competition. She lives in Montréal. OBOE Luke Conklin is a baroque oboist currently studying for his Doctorate with Debra Nagy at Case Western Reserve University. A member of the first graduating class of the Historical Performance programme at the Juilliard School, Luke has performed with American Bach Soloists, Madison Bach Musicians, Juilliard Baroque, Trinity Baroque Orchestra and many others. He has a strong interest in the music of Rameau, as well as a side interest in Irish traditional flute performance. TBSI 2009, 2010, 2012 Ruth Denton is completing an Advanced Certificate in Baroque Performance at the University of Toronto, studying with John Abberger. She sings with the Pax Christi Chorale and has taken up the tenor viol, her first stringed instrument. While completing a BMus on modern oboe at the University of Manitoba, she was active as a choral singer and conductor. She also plays the alto saxophone, and has been a member of the National Youth Band of Canada for the past five years. TBSI 2012, 2013 Sarah Huebsch performs on modern and historical oboes throughout North America. Projects this year have included concerts with the Washington National Cathedral Baroque Orchestra, Ensemble Lipzodes, Spire Baroque Orchestra, Bourbon Baroque, Callipygian Players, and the Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra. Sarah is a graduate of the New England Conservatory and Indiana University. TBSI 2011 Maria Raffaele is a modern and historical oboist currently living in Basel, Switzerland. After graduating in 2012 with a BMus in Oboe Performance and Professional Writing from Carnegie Mellon University, she began her studies at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis for a second BMus in historical oboes with Katharina Arfken. BASSOON Georgeanne Banker earned her BMUS and BA degrees from McGill University and her MMUS from the San Francisco Conservatory, where she also studied harpsichord and continuo. She is a founding member of One Found Sound, a conductorless chamber orchestra based in San Francisco, CA. TBSI 2011-2013 Born and raised in New Hampshire, bassoonist Leah Kohn is currently pursuing a Master’s degree at the Julliard School, after completing her undergraduate degree at the Manhattan School of Music. She was first introduced to the baroque bassoon at the Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Institute in 2010. TBSI 2010-2013 Hayley Pullen is a London, UK-based based musician, specialising in historical bassoons. She holds an honours degree from the Royal Academy of Music, where she received a full scholarship to study. During her time at the Academy, Hayley discovered her love for historically informed performance and is currently in the middle of a Master’s degree in Historical Performance and Research, generously funded by the Leverhulme Trust. Hayley is an active freelance player with period and modern instrument orchestras and is a passionate chamber musician. TBSI 2010 French bassoonist François Viault was admitted to the Conservatory Supérior of Lyon in 2003 in the class of Laurent Lefèvre, where he also studied the baroque bassoon. During this time, Francois continued to further his education in classical and romantic bassoon with the Jeune Orchestre Atlantique. Francois has played in numerous orchestras, including the Opera Bastille, La Petite Bande, l’Ensemble Matheus, Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, Opera Tours, Auvergne Orchestra, l’Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse , l’Orchestre Colonne, l’Orchestre Lamoureux, Le Palais Royal, Ensemble Caprice, Arion Orchestra, and Les Violons du Roy. Settled in Montreal for almost three years, François is actively involved in the musical life of the city. VIOLIN Alexis Brett holds a BMUS degree from McGill University, and a Master’s degree from the Royal Academy of Music in London, England, where she studied with Simon Standage. She has performed with ensembles throughout Europe and Canada, and now lives in Toronto. TBSI 2003 A versatile chamber and orchestral musician, violinist Natalie Carducci has recently performed with Bach Collegium San Diego, Pacific Bach Project, the San Francisco Bach Choir, El Mundo, and is a founding member of MUSA and the Alchemy Trio. When she's not playing or teaching, one can usually find her riding her bike. TBSI 2009 Vanessa Castillo (playing both the violin and viola for TWI) pursued a Bachelor's Degree in Violin Performance at Arizona State University and then a Master's for Historical Performance on Baroque Violin at Indiana University, where she is currently working on a Performer's Diploma. She is also currently learning how to build and repair violins. TBSI 2009, 2013 Violinist Allene Chomyn holds a MMus from the University of Toronto and is in her seventh season as a first violinist in the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony. She has been playing baroque violin since 2011 and currently studies privately with Jeanne Lamon. TBSI 2011, 2013; TWI 2013 The Québecoise violinist Noémy Gagnon-Lafrenais is currently based in Brooklyn, NY, where she is attempting to create a bridge between the historical performance movement and the so- called modern scene. Currently enrolled at the Juilliard School in the Historical Performance Program, Noémy has also worked with Elizabeth Blumenstock, Corey Jamason, and Elisabeth Reed. She took part in the American Bach Soloists Academy and performed as a soloist in the Berkeley Early Music Festival. Noémy also holds an Artist Certificate in Chamber Music and MMus from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Recent professional engagements include San Francisco Bach Choir and the concertmaster position of Parnassus Symphony. Transmitting the love of music is important to Noémy: she has taught at Starr King Elementary School’s after- school program (San Francisco), at University of California in Berkeley’s Young Musicians Program, at Stage Musical d’Été Vivaldi in France, and the Camp Musical de l’Estrie in Québec. Valerie Gordon is originally from Denver, Colorado and has recently completed a Master’s degree at Indiana University, where she was the recipient of an Associate Instructorship studying baroque violin with professor Stanley Ritchie. Recent activities include performances with Aradia Ensemble and Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra. Valerie is a founding member of Elixir Baroque Ensemble, and is on the faculty of the Laurier String Academy and the Kingsway Conservatory in Toronto. Elyssa Lefurgey-Smith’s musical studies began at the age of five under Heilwig von Koenigsloew at the Nanaimo Conservatory of Music in British Columbia. Since moving to Toronto in 2007 Elyssa has performed with the Aradia Ensemble, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Opera Atelier, Talisker Players, Opera in Concert, Orchestra London, and the Hamilton Philharmonic. Elyssa has been invited to perform as a guest artist with the IFURIOSI Baroque Ensemble and the Windemere Quartet, and has appeared as a soloist with the Corktown Chamber Orchestra. Elyssa is an active teacher and the founder of the Bellwoods Academy of Music, which opened its doors September 2013. She is a co-founder of the Elixir Baroque Ensemble that has many wine-and-cheese chamber music concert sightings in its new studio home, Artscape Youngplace. TBSI 2006, 2007 Originally from St. Catharines, Ontario, Peter Lekx performs extensively on baroque violin and viola, as well as medieval strings. Currently based in Cleveland, he is artistic director of Burning River Baroque, and has performed with various ensembles including Baroque & Beyond, Bourbon Baroque, Cambridge Concentus, Cascata, Kentucky Baroque, hūmAnómalin, Mallarmé Chamber Players, Music for a while, New Comma Baroque, North Carolina Baroque Orchestra, and Quicksilver. With Cambridge Concentus, he toured Japan under the baton of Joshua Rifkin. Known also for his exciting interpretations of contemporary music on modern viola, he has premiered many new compositions. Peter completed his Performance Diploma at Boston University, and holds both a MMus (Penn State University) and a BMus (Wilfrid Laurier

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