Northwest Center
for
Early Music Studies
Margriet Tindemans, workshop director
Workshop Faculty
Margriet Tindemans, workshop director, has delighted
audiences all over the world with her performances on early stringed
instruments: viola da gamba, medieval fiddle and rebec, Renaissance and
baroque viola, lira da braccio, gittern, harp, and psaltery. She
performs and records as a soloist and with Medieval Strings, the King's
Noyse, and Seattle Baroque. She was a founding member of Sequentia and
directs the Medieval Women's Choir in Seattle. Her life-long involvement
with the music of Hildegard von Bingen has led to many engagements as
lecturer, performer and teacher. She is a passionate teacher: at the
University of Washington, as director of Seattle's Northwest Center for
Early Music Studies, and at the Baroque Program of the Vancouver Early Music
Summer Festival.
Shira Kammen,
bowed strings, has dedicated her life to performing and teaching
music. She received her degree in music from UC Berkeley and studied vielle
with Margriet Tindemans. A member of Ensemble Alcatraz, Ensemble P.A.N., and
Medieval Strings, she has also worked with Sequentia, Hesperion XXI, and the
Boston Camerata, and is a founding member of Class V Music, a group
dedicated to performing on rafting trips. Ms. Kammen has taught and
performed music in the U.S., Europe, Canada and Morocco, and on the Colorado
and Rogue Rivers.
Drew Minter, voice, is regarded as one of the world’s
finest countertenors. Drew received his early training as a boy treble in
the Washington Cathedral Choir of Men and Boys. He continued his education
with a B.S. in Music and Languages from Indiana University and a Diploma in
Lieder and Oratorio from the Academy of Music in Vienna. Mr. Minter is a
founding member of the The Newberry Consort and Trefoil and sings and plays
early harps regularly with My Lord Chamberlain’s Consort, ARTEK, and the
Folger Consort. He has made over 50 recordings on Harmonia Mundi,
Decca/London, Newport Classics, Hungaroton and others. He appears in two
films: as Tolomeo in Peter Sellars’s "Giulio Cesare," and as the
Devil in "In the Symphony of the World; a Portrait of Hildegard of
Bingen." He writes regularly for Opera News.
Mark Rimple, medieval lute and voice, is active in the
Philadelphia area as a countertenor, lutenist, and composer. Along with Drew
Minter and Marcia Young, he is a founding member of Trefoil, a New
York-based vocal-instrumental ensemble devoted to the performance of
fourteenth century music. He has also appeared as a countertenor and
lutenist with Piffaro, the New York Collegium, The Ensemble for Early Music,
Brandywine Baroque, the Mark Morris Dance Company, and the Philadelphia
Classical Symphony. As a composer he has written a number of works for early
instruments including "Portriat of a Dying Empire" for soprano
saxophone and harpsichord, and a setting of Ave Maris Stella for two voices
and baroque organ.
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