Seattle Area
Early Music Performers
As a service to local early music performers, the Early Music Guild is
providing this list of Seattle-area professional and semi-professional musicians
who have performed in programs supported by the Guild through its Concert Assistance and Professional Affiliate Programs.
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- Lisa Cardwell, see Lisa Cardwell Pontén, soprano
- Doug Fullington, countertenor
- Richard Hill, tenor
- Katherine Hanson-Mack, soprano
- Emily Nelson, soprano
- Lisa Cardwell Pontén, soprano
- Linda Strandberg, soprano
- David Stutz, baritone and countertenor
- Linda Tsatsanis, soprano
- Valerie Yockey, soprano
- Nancy Zylstra, soprano
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 Doug Fullington,
countertenor
Mr. Fullington received his undergraduate degrees in Music History from the
University of Washington, Seattle, where he now is completing a Master's Degree
in Music History concurrently with a degree in Law. In 1989, he formed The
English Singers, which led to the establishment of The Tudor Choir in 1993, for which he is
Artistic Director. His areas of specialty include vocal music of Tudor England,
early American music, 20th-century religious devotional music and ballet music
since the 19th century. In addition to these areas of interest, Mr. Fullington
applies his knowledge of performance practice to musical and liturgical
reconstructions, such as the concert DEVOTIO, which The Tudor Choir presented during its
1994-95 season. Mr. Fullington sings alto for the St. Mark's Cathedral and
Compline Choirs in Seattle and also performs as a freelance singer.
4203 Brooklyn Avenue NE #107
Seattle, WA 98105-5912
(206) 633-5018
 dougf@u.washington.edu
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Richard Hill, tenor
Singing in Seattle since 1982, Richard has studied voice with Nancy Zylstra and Jeffrey Francis and attended workshops
given by Paul Hillier and Laurie Monahan. He currently studies with Margriet Tindemans and performs with the
University of Washington's Collegium Musicum and Bones
'n' Drones. As a faculty member of "A
Medieval Experience" he teaches early music and dance to students
throughout King County. Richard is also an accomplished performer and teacher of
traditional Scottish Gaelic song and is the lead singer for Keltoi, a Celtic
band based in Seattle. Keltoi's first recording, "Drunk with Autumn,"
was released in 1994.
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Katherine Hanson-Mack, soprano
Katherine Hanson-Mack loves performing music that is really old and really
new. In addition to being a founding member of Le
Nuove Musiche, she sings with the Esoterics, the Tudor Choir, the Medieval Women's Choir (teaching member)
and the 16 Visions Ensemble. Some of her more recent solo work has
included playing Thomas More in Garrett Fisher's "The Passion of St. Thomas
More", recorded solos on the Esoterics' "Antiphonia" and
Garrett Fisher's "Moon in the Bucket" CD's and frequent performances
of Hildegard von Bingen's virtuosic medieval chant music in Seattle and Spokane.
She has a Greek and Latin degree from Amherst College and has studied German,
music theory and history at UW.
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 Emily
Nelson, soprano
Emily Nelson holds degrees in voice and music history from Indiana University
and the University of Utah. Her work with jazz quartet, Luna Picasso Project,
her early music ensemble, Le Pain Perdu, which she founded and directed, and her
participation in the New Music Ensemble at the University of Utah in addition to
solo recitals, club dates and opera performances in Salt Lake City and Indiana
have encompassed a wide variety of musical styles, from medieval liturgical
drama to Morton Feldman, to Appalachian ballads, Brazilian pop and the second
Viennese school. Most recently, she has pursued her interest in French medieval
song literature, exploring the finer points of text pronunciation with Indiana
University’s Dr. Samuel Rosenberg. Her teachers and mentors have included Julie
Wright-Costa, Rebecca Hample, Paul Elliott, and Anne Azema.
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Lisa Cardwell Pontén, soprano
Lisa is an experienced soloist in Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque and early
Classical repertoire. She completed her graduate degree at the Indiana
University Early Music Institute, studying with Medieval specialist Thomas
Binkley. She has been a soloist with many Northwest choral organizations
including the Seattle Choral Company and City Cantabile Choir, and sings
regularly with the professional ensembles Opus 7 and The Tudor Choir. She is a Cathedral
Soloist at St. James Cathedral, Seattle, and Assistant Director of the Women of
St. James Schola.
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Linda Strandberg, soprano
Linda Strandberg has appeared as soloist with the Pacific Northwest Chamber
Chorus, the Seattle Choral Company, and Choral Arts Northwest. As an early music
performer, she is a member of the Tudor
Choir, and has performed on the Gallery Concerts series. Her opera credits
include the West Coast premiere of Philip Glass' A Madrigal Opera at the
Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles as well as leading roles in Menotti's The Old
Maid and the Thief, Amahl and the Night Visitors, and The Medium.
She currently teadhes voice at Seattle Community College.
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 David Stutz, countertenor and baritone.
David Stutz' forays into staged performance span a wide range of musical
genres, and include contemporary and baroque opera, renaissance proto-opera, and
medieval mystery plays. Locally, he was a cast member in the EMG
production of Venus and Adonis, and sang Aeneus in Seattle Baroque's
Dido and Aeneus. He premiered the role of Henry VIII in Garrett
Fisher's The Passion of St. Thomas More, and has become a regular in the
Northwest Puppet Center's annual opera productions, including a Magic Flute
in which he simultaneously interpreted the roles of Papageno, Zarastro, the 3rd
boy, and the 3rd lady. He is singing in their 2007 production of Francesca
Cacinni's The Liberation of Ruggiero from the Island of Alcina.
Over his career, David has been involved in numerous radio broadcasts and
recording projects. He is a member of two highly regarded Northwest vocal
ensembles that specialize in early music: The Tudor Choir and
Cappella Romana. He was also a
member of Seattle's notorious Schola Senexis and Chicago's Double Dudley Buck
Quartet, both of which were groups dedicated to live comedic performance.
David has sung, composed, and/or produced incidental music for many plays,
ballets, and films. In the distant past, David dabbled fleetingly in musicology
while spending a pleasant fellowship year in Florence, Rome, and Oxford
transcribing music manuscripts, composing, and performing. He continues to
compose, and has recently begun performing and recording electro-acoustic music
using laptop computers and electronic instruments.
David is a familiar face to Seattle and Chicago
early music concert-goers. He performed for many years as a soloist and with
ensembles specializing in vocal chamber music, and has recorded with the
Newberry Consort and His Majestie's Clerkes. His
forays into musical drama have spanned a wide range of roles. He has sung
contemporary parts such as Noye in Britten's Noye's Fludde and Henry VIII
in Garrett Fisher's The Passion of Thomas More, which he both premiered
and recorded. He has sung baroque characters such as Purcell's Aeneas and La
Discorde in Charpentier's Les Artes Florissant, monodic roles in early
proto-operas by Peri and Caccini, and some of the very early chanted roles in
medieval mystery plays. David is currently a member/soloist with The Tudor Choir, Schola Senexis and the
Harwood Early Music Ensemble of Chicago.
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Dean Suess, countertenor
Dean Suess holds a Bachelor of Music in French Horn from Pacific Lutheran
University and a Master in Choral Conducting from the University of Washington.
He has done extensive post-graduate work in musicology with Dr. Joanne Taricani
at the University of Washington both as a Brechemin Scholar and as a Boeing
Endowment Scholar in Musicology. As a countertenor soloist, he has appeared at
St. Mark's Cathedral in the annual Messiah performances with the Portland
Baroque Orchestra, and with the Seattle Chamber Singers, Seattle Bach Choir,
University of Washington Opera, Seattle Pro Musica and Capella Romana.
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 Linda
Tsatsanis, soprano
Canadian-born soprano Linda Tsatsanis enjoys an active and
diverse career. After graduating from the University of Toronto she continued
her education at Indiana University’s Early Music Institute in the studio of
Alan Bennett, working with faculty such as Nigel North, Elisabeth Wright, Paul
Elliott and Wendy Gillespie. During the years between degrees Ms. Tsatsanis
remained in Toronto as a freelance soloist, movie and television actor, and
full-time member/soloist of Canada’s leading choir, The Elmer Iseler Singers.
Currently she divides her time between opera and concert performance. She was
featured as Venus in Blow’s Venus and Adonis, Fanny in Arne’s The Cooper,
Arthebuze in Charpentier’s Actéon and will be performing in Seattle’s Early
Music Guild production of L'incoronazione di
Poppea. Linda also appeared in the Early Music Guild's production of
"Capriole's Caper" as part of its Early Music Discovery
series, and with the Seattle Baroque
Orchestra. Her concert performances range from oratorio to renaissance
song to a world premier performance of the Prelude’s of the Bach Cello Suites
arranged for soprano, cello and orchestra. Having made Seattle her home at the
beginning of 2006, Ms. Tsatsanis is happy to call this city home and has
co-founded Dulces Exuviae with
lutenist John Lenti. The New York Times
described her performance at the 2005 Boston Early Music Festival as
“ravishing.” Ms. Tsatsanis can be heard on various recordings by the Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation and the new Norton Anthology recording.
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Valerie Yockey, soprano
Ms Yockey has been active as a recitalist and soloist in Connecticut, Alaska,
Boston, New York, Vancouver, and Seattle, with harpsichordists John Gibbons and Byron Schenkman, the Bach Aria
Festival, Wesleyan University, the Kronos Quartet, Seattle Men's Chorus, Gallery Concerts, Northwest Chamber
Orchestra, On the Boards, Marzena, and Musique du Jour, performing music from
the Baroque through the 20th century. Recently she appeared in the "Music
of the Time of Jane Austen" concert with pianist George Bozarth. She holds an MM in
Historical Performance in Voice from the New England Conservatory and has served
on the faculties of the University of Washington and the Cornish College of the
Arts. She maintains an active private studio in Seattle.
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Nancy Zylstra, soprano
Nancy Zylstra has gained critical acclaim throughout the United States and in
Europe for her accomplished and expressive singing in varied repertoire. As an
Early Music specialists, she has appeared in Seattle as a soloist in St. Mark's
Cathedral's annual performances of Handel's Messiah and in the Gallery Concerts series, and has
performed as a member of the vocal ensemble Circa 1600. She has also been a
soloist with the American Bach Soloists (San Francisco), the Tafelmusik
Baroque Orchestra (Toronto), the Portland Baroque Orchestra, the Amsterdam
Baroque Orchestra, and the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra (San Francisco),
singing under such conductors as James De Priest, Gustav Leonhardt, Ton Koopman,
and Nicholas McGegan. A member of the faculty of Oberlin's Baroque Performance
Institute, she has taught voice at the Cornish College of the Arts and Pacific
Lutheran University. Her recordings have appeared on the Erato, Koch
International, Wildboar, Gasparo, and Arkay labels.
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