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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- Vicki Boeckman, recorder
- Jeffrey Cohan, renaissance, baroque and classical
flutes
- Charles Coldwell, recorder, renaissance winds
- Sand Dalton, baroque oboe, baroque flute,
recorder
- William McColl, clarinet, basset horn
- Sally Mitchell, recorder
- Peggy Monroe, recorder, percussion
- David Ohannesian, recorder
- Kim Pineda, recorder, baroque and classical
flutes
- Jane See, baroque and classical flutes
- Jennifer Streeter, recorder
- Courtney Westcott, baroque and classical flutes
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 Vicki Boeckman, recorder
Vicki Boeckman has performed as soloist and chamber musician throughout
Scandinavia, the United States, England, Scotland and Germany, and has appeared
on countless productions for Danish and Norwegian radio and television.
Audiences are put at ease by her charming and confident stage manner and moved
by the intensity of her musicality. She can be heard on the Kontra Punkt,
Classico, Horizon, Musical Heritage America, Paula, Kadanza, and Primavera
labels.
Vicki resided in Denmark from 1981-2004. While there she taught at the Royal
Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen for 12 years, and children of all ages at
the Ishøj Municipal School of Music for 23 years. Together with colleague Dorte
Lester she co-founded a regional recorder orchestra for children and young
adults which continues to grow. In demand as a teacher, she has been guest
professor at the Bloomington School of Music in Indiana and at the Luigi
Cherubini Conservatory of Music in Florence, Italy. In the US, she has
coached and taught at workshops and seminars sponsored by early music and
recorder societies in Arizona, California, Colorado, Indiana, Massachusetts, New
Mexico, New York, Oregon and Washington. She has been on the faculty of the
Music Center of the Northwest in Seattle since February 2005.
Vicki was co-founder of two popular Danish-based ensembles: Opus 4, which
concentrates on performing trio sonatas from the 17th and 18th centuries, and
Wood’N’Flutes,
a recorder trio playing works spanning the Middle Ages to the 21st century. In
the Seattle area, Vicki has been a featured soloist with the
Seattle Baroque
Orchestra and Philharmonia Northwest Orchestra. She is a returning guest with
the Gallery Concerts Series with harpsichordist
Jillon Stoppels Dupree, The
Northwest Girl Choir, and the Medieval Women’s Choir with
Margriet Tindemanns.
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Jeffrey Cohan, renaissance, baroque and classical
flutes
Jeffrey Cohan
performs on transverse flutes from the renaissance through the early 19th
century in addition to the modern flute. He won the Erwin Bodky International
Early music Competition in Boston, as well as the highest prize awarded in the
Flanders Festival International Concours Musica Antiqua in Brugge,
Belgium with lutenist Stephen Stubbs. First Prize winner of the Olga
Koussevitzky young Artist Competition and recipient of grants from the Martha
Baird Rockefeller Fund for Music and the French Government, he has performed
throughout Europe, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, and for the USIA
Arts America Program in the South Pacific, South America, Turkey, Portugal
and Spain. Jeffrey resides in Seattle, where directs the period instrument
concert series Concert
Spirituel.
Contact:
Jeffrey Cohan
6852 27th Ave. NE
Seattle, WA 98115
(206) 525-2216
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Charles Coldwell, recorder, renaissance winds,
vielle
Charles has performed on Baroque and Renaissance recorders in solo recitals
and as a member of ensembles throughout the United States. Locally, he has
appeared as a soloist with the Seattle Baroque
Orchestra,
the Northwest Chamber Orchestra, Philharmonia Northwest,
Baroque Northwest, and at Bumbershoot. Charles received a Master of Music
degree in the Performance of Early Music from the New England Conservatory of
Music. He has served on the faculties of the New England Conservatory and the Longy School of Music as an instructor in recorder and historical performance
practices, and was a co-founder of the undergraduate degree program in early
music at Longy. For seven years he was a faculty member and performer at
the Castle Hill Early Dance and Music Weeks (Ipswich, Massachusetts), and for
several seasons he performed as a musician at the American Shakespeare Festival
(Stratford, Connecticut). Charles has served on the board of the Seattle Early
Music Guild, as president of the Seattle Recorder Society, and on the faculty of
the Port Townsend Early Music Workshops. He is presently Library
Applications and Systems Manager in IT at the Seattle
Public Library, where he has previously served as Coordinator of the Fine
and Performing Arts Department.
Contact:
Charles Coldwell
919 13th Ave. E
Seattle, WA 98102
(206) 328-8238
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Sand Dalton, baroque and classical oboe, baroque
flute, recorder
 Sand began playing the Baroque oboe in 1975
after graduating from the California Institute of the Arts, where he studied
modern oboe with Alan Vogel. A year later he made his first instrument and began
an extensive and ongoing study of historical oboes that has taken him to many
museums and private collections in both Europe and North America. Concurrently,
he has pursued an active career as a performer and teacher. Sand
has performed and recorded with many of this country's leading baroque
ensembles, including the Handel and Haydn Society Orchestra (Boston) and the
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra (San Francisco).
His long experience playing in baroque orchestral and chamber music settings has
provided him with an ideal 'laboratory' in which to test and refine his ideas
about making good musical instruments. He has been on the faculties of the New
England Conservatory and Longy School of Music, and also teaches summer
workshops for the San Francisco Early Music Society. The CBC Radio has called
Sand Dalton "one of the leading baroque oboists in North America whose fine
instruments are played around the world."
Now a resident of Lopez Island, he has performed in Seattle with the Gallery
Baroque Players on the Gallery Concerts
series. He is also an internationally recognized maker
of historical oboes. He performs on oboes which he made, copies of
instruments by J. H. Eichentopf (Leipzig, first half of the 18th century) and an
anonymous French oboe from the late 17th century.
Contact:
P.O. Box 786
Lopez Island, WA 98261
Telephone: 360 468-3875
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William McColl, clarinet, basset horn
William McColl is Professor of Clarinet at the University of Washington and a
founding member of the Soni Ventorum Wind Quintet. A graduate of the Vienna
Academy of Music, he has performed with the Emerson, Muir, and Philadelphia
String Quartets and has been a member of the Philharmonia Hungarica in Vienna,
the Orquesta Fillarmonica de las Americas in Mexico City, the Puerto Rico
Symphony, and the Casals Festival Orchestra under Pablo Casals. On period
clarinet he performs with the Classical Consort, which appears regularly on the Gallery Concerts series, and he has
performed with the Handel and Haydn Society Orchestra (Boston) and the
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra (San Francisco). He has built several replicas of
early clarinets and basset horns. As a member of the New World Basset Horn Trio
he has toured and recorded the music of Stadler and Mozca. 1815); his B
flat clarinet is by Mollenhauer (Fulda, ca. 1820).
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Sally Mitchell, recorder
Sally is co-director of the Northwest Center
for Early Music Studies. She has studied Medieval and Renaissance
performance practice with Margriet
Tindemans since 1989 and is a member of the Medieval ensemble
Contrafacta. Sally teaches recorder and Medieval music
at Music Center of the Northwest, and is on the faculty of the Port Townsend
Early Music Workshop.
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Peggy Monroe, recorder, percussion
Peggy has performed for and instructed children or families under the
auspices of the Washington State Cultural Enrichment program, the King County
and Seattle Arts Commissions, and the Seattle Library's Bunn Trust Fund. In
conjunction with the Early Music Guild's education program, she has presented
"A Medieval Experience" at schools
throughout the Seattle area. Peggy is assistant music director of the Seattle Recorder Society, and
teaches and performs in workshops nationally, including the Port Townsend Early
Music Workshop. She is a regular member of early music ensembles in Seattle as a
recorder player and percussionist. Peggy has served on the Board of
Directors of the American Recorder Society, and serves on the Education
Committee of Early Music America.
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David Ohannesian, recorder
David has achieved international recognition as a maker of fine recorders. In addition, he has
performed with Fiori Musicali, The Boston Shawm and Sackbutt Ensemble, The
Spokane Bach Festival Orchestra, The Seattle Pro Musica, The Oregon Baroque
Orchestra, The Northwest Baroque Soloists, The Seattle Recorder Quartet, and
with the Gallery Baroque Players on the Gallery
Concerts series. He also teaches and lectures at a number of workshops and
seminars.
Contact:
David Ohannesian
106 N.W. 104th Street
Seattle, WA 98177
(206) 781-8517
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Kim Pineda, Transverse flute &
 Kim Pineda
photo by
William Stickney Photography LLC
KIM PINEDA has performed on transverse flutes and
recorder through out the U.S., Canada, in Israel, and on National
Public Radio. Music director of Baroque Northwest,
he plays regularly with leading early music ensembles
in the U.S. He has performed at the Boston, Berkeley, Long Beach
Bach, and Bloomington early music festivals, Seattle's Bumbershoot
Festival, and has recorded for Focus and Centaur. He received the
MM degree from Washington University, St. Louis, and the BM degree
from California State University, Northridge. He has taught at Indiana
University, the University of Southern California, at workshops
sponsored
by the San Francisco and San Diego early music societies, and the
Seattle Recorder Society, and has a very active teaching studio.
Kim has adjudicated at the NFA's Tri-annual Baroque Flute Artist
competition, and has worked professionally with Janet See, Jed Wentz,
Matthias Maute, Michael McCraw, Sandra Miller, Nicholas McGegan,
Monica Huggett, Ellen Hargis, Suzi LeBlanc, Laurie Monahan, and Margriet
Tindemans, among others.
Other interests include the culinary, martial and healing arts,
cycling, backpacking, zymurgy, salsa and zydeco dancing, and the pursuit
of the ultimate cadence.
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Janet See, baroque and classical flutes
Janet is one of today's leading performers
on baroque and early classical flute and has been referred to by one music
critic as "the flutist of choice in baroque repertoire." American
born, she grew up in Seattle and trained at Oberlin Conservatory of Music. She
went on to specialize in early music at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. As
a soloist in both orchestral and chamber music, Ms See now performs and records
throughout Europe and North America.
In London, where she resided for 11 years, Ms. See
continues as principal flutist with the English Baroque Soloists and
co-principal with the Orchestre Revolutionaire at Romantique (Sir John Eliot
Gardiner, conductor) both of with whom she has toured and recorded extensively.
She has recorded for the BBC, WDR and French radio and television and has
performed in chamber music festivals throughout Europe.
In America, Ms See is co-principal flautist with
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra (Nicholas McGegan, conductor) with whom she made
a very highly acclaimed recording of Vivaldi Concertos. She has performed in
chamber music festivals in Santa Fe, Seattle, San Francisco, Chicago, and
Vancouver. In Seattle Janet has performed with Seattle Baroque and Gallery
Concerts.
Ms. See has recorded on the Harmonia Mundi, DGG
(Archive), EMI, Erato. Hyperion, and Titanic labels. Her recording of the
complete flute sonatas by J.S. Bach can be found on the Harmonia Mundi USA
label.
In addition to her performing, recording, and
teaching on the flute, Janet See is also a qualified teacher of the F.M.
Alexander Technique having trained in London.
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Jennifer Streeter, recorder
Jennifer has performed throughout the United States and Europe. She
holds masters' degrees in both recorder and harpsichord from the Early Music
Institute at Indiana University, studying with Eva Legene and Elisabeth Wright.
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Courtney
Westcott, baroque and classical flutes
Courtney has performed as a soloist or
principal flute with many of North America's baroque orchestras, including Seattle Baroque, New York State Baroque and Tafelmusik. She has recorded
for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, National Public Radio and the
Wildboar and Focus labels. A founding member of the chamber ensemble, Zephyrus,
her playing has been described as a "consummate flute player... technically
flawless...a conversation with each phrase and detail shaped" (Seattle
Post-Intelligencer). Awarded the Soloist Diploma from the Royal Conservatory
of The Hague, she studied with Barthold Kuijken and Frans Vester. With
flutemaker Peter Noy she collaborates on the research and development of flutes
based on 18th and 19th century originals.
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