Soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral player Lisette Kielson has been described by the press as “sparkling with life” and “performing with true character and style.” Throughout the Midwest Lisette has had the honor and pleasure of performing at Bach Festivals, College Artist Series, and with, among others, Lyric Opera of Chicago (stage band soloist), Chicago Opera Theater, Haymarket Opera Company, Music of the Baroque, Chicago’s Bach Week Festival and with many Chicago-area early music ensembles including Chicago Recorder Trio. Lisette has released recordings of Bach and Boismortier with Centaur Records as well as CDs under her own label. Past President of the American Recorder Society and former Director of Bradley University’s Collegium Musicum, Lisette currently teaches on the faculty of the Whitewater Early Music Festival, serves as Music Director of the Chicago Chapter of the ARS, and maintains an active schedule as workshop presenter across the country. She holds Bachelor and Master Degrees from Indiana University and a post-master’s Diploma from The Royal Conservatory of The Hague, Netherlands. A former resident of Madison, Lisette loves coming ‘up north’ to collaborate with Madison Bach Musicians!
Eric Hoeprich is a specialist in performing on historical clarinets, in music from the Baroque to the late Romantic. Educated at Harvard University and the Royal Conservatory of Music in The Hague, he is currently on the faculties of the Royal Conservatory of Music (The Hague) and the Royal Academy of Music in London, having previously taught at the Paris Conservatoire and Indiana University as well. A founding member of Frans Brüggen’s Orchestra of the 18th Century (1982), Hoeprich has performed frequently as a soloist with this orchestra as well as with many of the major early music ensembles and several “enlightened” modern orchestras. In the 1980s, he founded two wind ensembles, NACHTMUSIQUE and the Stadler Trio (three basset horns), which have toured around the world. His dozens of recordings have appeared on labels such as Deutsche Grammaphon, Philips, EMI, SONY, Harmonia Mundi, Glossa and Decca. Collaboration with string quartets, chamber ensembles and vocal soloists also feature regularly on his calendar. Recent recordings with the London Haydn Quartet include clarinet quintets (Mozart and Brahms, Weber and Krommer) and the clarinet quartets of Bernhard Crusell (all on the Glossa label). The clarinet concertos of Carl Maria von Weber and Karol Kurpinski with Orchestra of the 18th Century were released last year.
His interest in historical clarinets has led to the publication of a general text on the clarinet, published by Yale University Press (The Clarinet, 2008), as well as numerous journal articles and contributions to the New Grove Dictionary. Hoeprich has amassed a collection of more than a hundred antique clarinets, which has also led to restoration and construction of replicas of period originals; he maintains a workshop at his home near London.
Elizabeth Blumenstock is a long-time concertmaster, leader, and soloist with the San Francisco Bay Area’s Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and American Bach Soloists, and is concertmaster of the International Handel Festival in Göttingen, Germany. In Southern California, Ms. Blumenstock has been Artistic Director of the Baroque Music Festival Corona del Mar since 2011. Her love of chamber music has involved her in several accomplished and interesting smaller ensembles including the Galax Quartet, Live Oak Baroque, Voices of Music, and Severall Friends. Ms. Blumenstock currently teaches for the Juilliard Historical Performance program, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, the American Bach Soloists Festival and Academy, and the Valley of the Moon Music Festival. Her discography includes some 100 CDs for such labels as harmonia mundi usa, Dorian/Sono Luminus, Koch, Naxos, Reference Recordings, and Virgin Veritas. Ms. Blumenstock plays a 1660 Andrea Guarneri violin built in Cremona, Italy, on generous loan to her from the Philharmonia Baroque Period Instrument Trust.
Australian soprano Morgan Balfour has been praised for her “thrilling clarity,” and “impressive vocal control and dynamic sensitivity.” With a strong affinity for early music, Morgan was the 2019 Handel Aria Competition First Prize Winner, and will perform a recital at the London Handel Festival. She will also be a Virginia Best Adams Fellow at the 2021 Carmel Bach Festival. For the 2019/2020 Season, Morgan joined Lyric Opera of Kansas City as the Soprano Resident Artist. Morgan has appeared as a soloist with Pinchgut Opera, American Bach Soloists, Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Sydney Philharmonia, Canberra Symphony Orchestra, and California Bach Society.
Soprano Sarah Brailey has been hailed by The New York Times for her “exquisitely phrased” singing and by Opera UK for “a sound of remarkable purity.” Recent highlights include Handel’s Messiah with The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, performing John Zorn’s Madrigals in front of the Mona Lisa at the Louvre Museum, and The Soul in the world premiere recording of Dame Ethel Smyth’s The Prison, for which she received a 2021 GRAMMY Award for Best Classical Solo Vocal Album. Co-founder of the Just Bach concert series in Madison, Wisconsin, Sarah is also the Artistic Director of the Handel Aria Competition. Learn more at www.sarahbrailey.com.
Dann Coakwell, tenor, can be heard as a soloist on the Grammy-winning The Sacred Spirit of Russia (2014), the the Grammy-nominated albums Hope of Loving(2019) and Considering Matthew Shepard(2016), and the critically praised Zabur(2016). Coakwell has sung internationallyunder conductors such as Helmuth Rilling, Masaaki Suzuki,Monica Huggett,William Christie, Nicholas McGegan, María Guinand, and Craig Hella Johnson. Having performed in venues such as Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, he has also appeared with organizations such as Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart (Germany), Bach Collegium Japan, Orquesta Sinfónica de Venezuela, Pacific Baroque Orchestra (Canada), Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra (San Francisco), Oregon Bach Festival, Portland and Indianapolis baroque orchestras, Dallas Bach Society,Conspirare, and the symphonyorchestras of Orlando, Charlotte, Nashville, Indianapolis, Quad Cities, and Kansas City. Dr. Coakwell serves on the voice faculty at Ithaca College. www.danncoakwell.com
Mezzo-soprano Chelsea Lyons enjoys a colorful singing career of solo, choral, and chamber ensemble performances of music from a wide variety of stylistic periods and genres. Recently, Chelsea premiered David Clay Mettens’ Ink Dark as soloist with Grammy-nominated Spektral Quartet at Constellation in Chicago. Other soloist engagements include Bach’s Magnificat, Vivaldi’s Dixit Dominus and Gloria; Handel’s Messiah; and Mozart’s Great Mass in C Minor and Requiem. On the operatic stage, Chelsea has performed the roles of Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro), Hansel (Hansel & Gretel), and Nancy (Albert Herring). Chelsea is a member of Philadelphia’s acclaimed new-music ensemble, The Crossing, and can be heard on several studio albums, including the 2020 Grammy-nominated Carthage. Additional choral ensemble memberships include the Grant Park Music Festival Chorus, Music of the Baroque, and Chicago a cappella. Chelsea is a graduate of Northwestern University and California State University, Fullerton.
Mezzo-soprano Clara Osowski, who sings “from inside the music with unaffected purity and sincerity” (UK Telegraph), is an active soloist and chamber musician hailed for her “rich and radiant voice” (UrbanDial Milwaukee). On international stages, Clara became the first-ever American prizewinner when she placed second at Thomas Quasthoff’s International Das Lied Competition in Heidelberg, Germany, where she was accompanied by Tyler Wottrich. Recent performance highlights include Clara’s Minnesota Opera debut as Mrs. Herring in Britten’s Albert Herring, and her debut recital accompanied by Julius Drake in October of 2021 at London’s Wigmore Hall. For more information please visit www.claraosowski.com.
James Reese is a versatile performer whose singing has been praised for its “intensity and sensitivity…spirituality and eloquence.” He is a frequently sought performer with leading orchestras and ensembles throughout North America. James is a noted interpreter of baroque music, giving performances both “splendid” (San Francisco Chronicle) and “captivating” (Broad Street Review). In the 2022-23 season, James debuts with the Boston Early Music Festival and the Madison Bach Musicians, and returns to sing with Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and the American Bach Soloists. Additionally, he will present numerous recitals with pianist Daniel Overly. James is a graduate of Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music and holds a masters degree from the Yale School of Music.
Kangwon Lee Kim, Madison Bach Musicians concertmaster and Assistant Artistic Director, is a versatile violinist with repertoire ranging from baroque to 21st-century music using both baroque and modern violins. She has performed throughout the US as well as in Korea, Canada, Puerto Rico, Switzerland, Norway, and Czech Republic and has collaborated with world-renowned musicians including Menahem Pressler and Laurence Lesser. As a baroque violinist, Ms. Kim has been heard in faculty recitals at the Baroque Performance Institute at Oberlin and with the Smithsonian Chamber Players, Brandywine Baroque, Indy Baroque, Lyra Baroque, and the Third Coast Baroque orchestras. Ms. Kim was Assistant Professor of Violin and Chamber Music at Biola University in CA and has also taught at Ripon College and Lawrence University Conservatory. During the summer, she teaches at the Credo summer chamber music festival at Oberlin College and is the director of MBM’s Summer Chamber Music Workshop.
Originally from Madison, WI, Christine Hauptly Annin holds degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Rice University. On modern violin, Christine has held positions with the ProMusica Chamber Orchestra, Dayton Philharmonic, Rochester Philharmonic, and Madison Symphony. She has also performed with the Cincinnati, Milwaukee, and Elgin Symphonies. As a baroque violinist, Christine has performed in numerous ensembles across the country, including the Catacoustic Consort, Sonata à Quattro, Handel and Haydn Society Orchestra, and others. Additionally, Christine maintains a busy schedule as a music educator. She holds positions as part-time associate lecturer at UW-Milwaukee, part-time elementary general music specialist, and private violin teacher.
3Arts awardee and violinist Brandi Berry, whose “four-string acrobatics” and “indispensable skill” (TimeOut Chicago) have been praised as “alert [and] outstanding” (Chicago Classical Review), and noted for her “riffs.. powered by a flashing blur of bow arm, [as they] rolled out with irresistible glee” (Washington Post). She has appeared with numerous groups including Kings Noyse, Apollo’s Fire, Newberry Consort, Ars Lyrica, Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra, Bach Society Houston, Madison Bach Musicians; and numerous series including the Library of Congress, Dame Myra Hess, Early Music Now, the Boston, Berkeley, Chicago, Indianapolis, and Madison Early Music Festivals, and others. Brandi serves on the faculty of DePaul University as co-director of Baroque Ensembles, and for the Madison Early Music Festival.
Emily Dupere has performed as a soloist, chamber musician and orchestral player throughout Europe, the USA and Australia. She studied under Paul Wright at the University of Western Australia and completed her studies in baroque violin at The Royal Conservatoire in The Hague with Ryo Terakado, Kati Debretzeni and Walter Reiter. Emily has performed with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra, as an Emerging Artist with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, the Sartory String quartet, Les Passions de l’âme (CH), Les Inventions (FR), Haagsche Hofmuziek (NL), The English Baroque Soloists (UK), Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique (UK), Bach Collegium Japan and Anima Eterna Brugge (BE).
Violinist Lee Joiner’s career has included a wide variety of performance and teaching appointments. He was a member of the Blair Quartet in Nashville, has taught at numerous summer festivals in the States and in Canada, and now teaches at Wheaton College in the Chicago area where he has performed with leading Chicago musicians. His interests include improvisation, the development of the bow from early models, staying up to date with current makers, and literature for solo violin from five centuries.
Leanne Kelso teaches violin and viola at UW-Whitewater, and is the assistant concertmaster of the Madison Symphony and Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra. Leanne studied Baroque violin with Karen Clarke, and has performed with several period instruments groups including the Tallahassee Bach Parley, Wisconsin Baroque Ensemble and Madison Bach Musicians. Performing at festivals such as Token Creek Festival and the Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society, she has collaborated with artists such as Toby Appel, Karmit Zori, Parry Karp, and Axel Strauss. Other projects include a performance of the Beethoven Violin Concerto in March 2020 and a presentation on violin pedagogy at the national American String Teachers Convention in Spring 2021.
Violinist Benjamin Lenzmeier studies with David Perry at the Mead Witter School of Music at UW-Madison. He performs with groups such as The Lyra Baroque Orchestra, Just Bach, and the Wisconsin Baroque Ensemble and can be found playing early music around the Midwest. Mr. Lenzmeier hopes to continue his exploration of historically informed performance into his graduate studies and beyond.
An award-winning artist and educator, Mary Perkinson began her violin studies at the age of 5 in the Philadelphia public schools. She performs with the Omaha Symphony and has toured internationally with the musical The King and I. She has been a visiting artist/lecturer in Japan, Lithuania, Latvia, Indonesia, and at institutions in CO, KS, PA, SD, and WI. She graduated magna cum laude from Boston University; received a Performance Diploma from Boston Conservatory; and completed the MM, K-12 Certification, and DMA at UW-Madison; and is currently Coordinator of String Studies at the University of Nebraska Omaha.
Micah Behr received his Doctorate in Viola Performance at UW Madison where he studied viola with Sally Chisholm and collaborative piano with Martha Fischer. His original compositions and transcriptions have been premiered by the Madison Bach Musicians, Stoughton Chamber Music Festival, and the Griffon String Quartet. He also composes music for Geneva Campus Church where he serves as Worship Director and Artist-in-Residence.
Madlen H. Breckbill, viola and violin, lived in Berlin (Germany) for the last four years working as an orchestral trainee with Konzerthaus Berlin, as the violist of the TAÏGA String Quartet in Denmark and as a chamber music trainee for Villa-Musica in Rheinland Pfalz. She is a graduate of UW-Madison where she studied with David Perry, and the Glenn Gould School in Toronto, where she studied with Paul Kantor, Barry Shiffman, Erica Raum and Steven Dann. In 2019, Madlen started the Stoughton Chamber Music Festival, bringing in professional musicians for ever-shifting summer chamber music collaborations. Madlen lives in Stoughton, WI, where she is establishing herself in the Midwest as a collaborator, teacher, and concert organizer.
In Memorium – Marika Fischer Hoyt (April 11, 1962 – February 22, 2023)
Even in these pandemic times, violist Marika Fischer Hoyt maintains an active schedule. This summer she performed in the outdoor Courtyard Ensemble, led by Wes Luke. With the Ancora String Quartet (now in its 20th Season), she performed throughout the summer and fall, in Madison and Fort Atkinson. She’s Co-Director and Violist for the monthly Just Bach series at Luther Memorial Church, with concerts now posted online. She also serves as Artistic Director of the Bach Around The Clock festival, now planning for March 2021. And this winter and spring she looks forward to concerts with the Madison Bach Musicians.
Kiyoe Matsuura is a Chicago-based violinist and violist. Her enthusiasm for historical performance began while pursuing her master’s degree at DePaul’s School of Music and continued with further studies at Oberlin’s Baroque Performance Institute, American Bach Soloists Academy, Amherst Early Music Festival, and Juilliard at the Piccola Accademia. Kiyoe performs frequently with many of Chicago’s finest baroque ensembles including (most recently) Ars Musica Chicago and Haymarket Opera Orchestra. Kiyoe is a co-founder of the MENT Consort, which was selected as a Pegasus Rising Young Artist group in 2016. She is on faculty at the DePaul Community Music Division.
Anton TenWolde (baroque cello) was born in the Netherlands, where he studied with Sylvain van Amerongen, cellist with the The Hague Philharmonic Orchestra (Residentie Orkest). While earning his degree in Applied Physics at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, Anton performed several times with Ton Koopman, and toured with the Netherlands Student Chamber Orchestra and the Netherlands Student Baroque Orchestra. In 1973 he moved to Madison, Wisconsin, where he worked for 28 years as a Research Physicist at the Forest Products Laboratory. For many years he played principal cello with the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra. He has been interested in baroque music performance since the early 1970’s, and has played the baroque cello since 1989. He is a founding member and current president of the Wisconsin Baroque Ensemble, and regularly performs with the Fort Wayne Bach Collegium in Indiana.
Martha Giese Vallon is a graduate of the Rotterdam Conservatory (The Netherlands) and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Having grown up in Madison, WI, she took a circuitous route to Europe via Berkeley, CA where she was awarded a Hertz Fellowship (UC-Berkeley) for study abroad. She has performed in hundreds of concerts and participated in many recordings with the leading European baroque and classical orchestras including The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Les Arts Florissants, La Chapelle Royale and the Orchestre des Champs Elysées. Martha has performed throughout Europe, Israel, and Japan in various chamber music and orchestral settings and has taught in several notable early music courses. She plays an anonymous baroque cello made in the 18th century and a newly made viola da gamba by Francis Beaulieu of Montréal. Martha maintains an active private studio in Madison with students ages 7 – 70. She teaches cello in the summer at the UW-Madison Music Clinics.
Known for “nuanced, richly ambered” interpretations of Bach (LucidCulture NYC), cellist and viola da gamba player James Waldo has lived and breathed period performance his whole life, having been raised in the home of two musicians who specialized in recorder, traverso, and renaissance choral music. After graduate studies (MM, PDPL) at Mannes College and nine years of life as a professional musician in New York City, James returned to his alma mater, UW-Madison (B. of Music ’07), in the fall of 2017 for DMA studies with cellist Uri Vardi. Having successfully passed his DMA defense this August, James begins studies this fall at UW as a Leland Coon Fellow in the PhD program for Historical Musicology, where he will specialize in the music of Russia and the Soviet Union. In between recital tours with pianist and wife Alyona Aksyonova Waldo (awduo.com) James plays on period instruments with such ensembles as North Carolina Baroque, Salon/Sanctuary Concerts, and LeStrange Viols. In pre- (and hopefully, post-) pandemic times, James is the principal cellist of Cecilia Chorus of NY, performing historical and newly commissioned works twice a year in Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall.
Brandon Acker is a classical guitarist and specialist on early plucked instruments such as the theorbo, baroque guitar, and lute. His latest passion has been running his successful Youtube channel which now has over 336,000 subscribers and 24.5 million views. His channel provides educational content about early plucked instruments as well as guitar tips and artistic performance videos. In 2020, he and his wife started an online school for “all things that go pluck!” called Arpeggiato. The school offers lessons from professional musicians from around the world on lute, baroque guitar, vihuela, mandolin, oud, classical guitar, and more. Within the first year of opening, this online school has taught over 2000 lessons to students in over 20 countries.
Brandon’s performance career has varied from starting out playing electric guitar in metal bands to his current main focus researching and performing on early plucked instruments from the Renaissance and Baroque periods. He has toured extensively through England, Canada, Scotland, and Wales, and performed with notable groups such as the Leipzig Baroque Orchestra, Piffaro, the Joffrey Ballet, the Chicago Philharmonic Orchestra, the Newberry Consort, Haymarket Opera Company, Music of the Baroque, Third Coast Baroque, Opera Lafayette, and Bella Voce. For more information, please visit www.brandonackerguitar.
Philip Spray, violone, performs with period instrument ensembles across the country in concert and on recordings. Co-founder of the Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra under Barthold Kuijken, he also is founding director of Musik Ekklesiawhose first recording, The Vanishing Nordic Chorale, was nominated for a Grammy in 2010. Most recently, his ensemble Alchymy Violsis experimenting with repertoire of the 16th and 17th centuries performed nationally in newly devised masque forms.
Timothy Steis is an accomplished classical guitarist born in the Chesapeake Bay area of Maryland. He has received Performance Degrees from Florida State University and Shenandoah Conservatory under renowned pedagogues Bruce Holzman and Julian Gray. He has won prizes in multiple competitions, and has performed in the Masterclasses of SoloDuo, Pavel Steidl, Jorge Caballero and many more. Aside from being a player, Tim is also a renowned luthier. He began building guitars during his time at FSU, and was self-taught until apprenticing with renowned Baltimore luthier Ross Gutmeier while pursuing his Master’s degree. He is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, and is a recipient of the prestigious Paul Collins Fellowship.
Trevor Stephenson– harpsichordist, fortepianist, and pianist–is the Artistic Director and founder of the Madison Bach Musicians. He received a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Historical Performance of 18th-Century Music from Cornell University, where he studied fortepiano with Malcolm Bilson. With his colleague, Norman Sheppard, he has made and refurbished a series of historical keyboard instruments ranging from Italian Renaissance harpsichords to Victorian pianos. He has released sixteen recordings on the Light & Shadow label and tours throughout the United States as performer and lecturer. During March-September 2020 he completed a six-part concert-lecture video series: J. S. Bach, Haydn & Mozart, Chopin & Debussy, Scott Joplin: Ragtime, The Romantics: Clara & Robert Schumann, Mendelssohn, and Grieg, Harpsichord Premier! Information at trevorstephenson.com.
Marc Vallon has been Professor of Music, Bassoon at the UW-Madison since 2004. A native of France, Vallon studied at the Paris Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique, an institution he joined in 1992 as Professor of early bassoon. He started playing professionally at the age of 18 during his conservatory studies and joined the Paris-based Orchestre National de France and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio-France, performing under many renowned conductors including Sergiu Celibidache, Leonard Bernstein, Seiji Ozawa, Karl Boehm, and Lorin Maazel. Soon afterward Vallon’s interests led him to the numerous smaller Parisian groups specializing in contemporary music. He was a founding member of the Nielsen Quintet in 1975, with which he played hundreds of concerts devoted largely to 20th century repertoire. He also collaborated with the Ensemble Intercontemporain, conducted by Pierre Boulez, and took part in the first performance of Boulez’s major work, Répons. Concurrently, he earned a degree in philosophy at the Paris-Sorbonne (University of Paris).
Marc Vallon was one of the pioneers of the early music movement in the 1980s. He was principal bassoonist with the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra for more than 20 years and performed with other leading early music ensembles such as La Chapelle Royale, Les Arts Florissants, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, and Tafelmusik. His personal collection of early instruments includes originals and copies of instruments dating from 1670 to 1920.
Vallon has taught modern and baroque bassoon at the Paris Conservatory and the Lyon Conservatory and has given master classes worldwide. His name can be found on more than one hundred commercial recordings, among them his acclaimed rendering of the Mozart bassoon concerto with the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra.
As a historical performer, Luke Conklin has worked with early music groups throughout North America including American Bach Soloists, Portland Baroque Orchestra, New York Baroque Incorporated, and the Trinity Wall Street Baroque Orchestra and Choir. A frequent collaborator with Cleveland-based Apollo’s Fire Baroque Orchestra, he appears on their recent album Christmas from Sugarloaf Mountain, playing recorder, Celtic and Medieval harps, Irish flute, and shawm. Luke holds a D.M.A. in Historical Performance Practice from Case Western Reserve University and an M.M. in Historical Performance from the Juilliard School and an M.A. in Gregorian Chant and Ritual Song from the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance.
Kristen Davies is a freelance flutist who holds degrees in flute performance from Eastern Illinois University (BM) and the University of Oklahoma (MM). She currently performs with Pentissimo Woodwind Quintet and Zephyr Sextet, as well as throughout the area on modern, 19th century, and baroque flutes. After having first been introduced to the alto recorder by her church music director in high school, she was delighted to continue performing with recorder consorts and in cantatas and operas with both renaissance and baroque recorders throughout her masters and doctoral programs.
Jennifer Kirby lives in Bloomington, Indiana and is an active performer on modern and historical oboes. She has performed with the Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra, Music City Baroque, Kansas City Baroque Consortium, Bourbon Baroque, and is regularly seen with the Bloomington Bach Cantata Project. On modern instruments she holds positions with the Terre Haute Symphony Orchestra, Columbus Indiana Philharmonic, and Lafayette Symphony. Jennifer was awarded a Doctor of Music in Oboe Performance with Minors in Historical Winds and Music History from Indiana University in August of 2013, where she studied with Washington McClain, Michael McCraw, Linda Strommen, and Roger Roe.
Sigrun Paust, soprano recorder, studied the recorder beginning in first grade while growing up in Germany. She studied with former students of Frans Brüggen and Michala Petri, studied music theory through Mannheim University, and played with a recorder quartet which placed at the state level of “Jugend Musiziert” youth music competition in Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany. Ms. Paust played harpsichord in a school opera production as well as with a local early music group. Once in the US, Ms. Paust played with the Early Music Ensemble under Jeanne Swack at UW Madison and with Bruce Bengtson at Luther Memorial. While following her non-musical passions for counseling and teaching full-time, she is very excited and grateful to have ongoing opportunities to play recorder and especially enjoys performing Baroque music with local and regional ensembles.
Percussionist, Timpanist, Composer, Pianist, Harpsichordist, and Conductor Sean Kleve is the founder of Madison Wisconsin’s premiere percussion quartet, Clocks in Motion. The group is dedicated to performing new and classic works for percussion instruments while promoting and supporting the education and future of new music. Sean has worked closely with a number of important composers and artists including Steven Schick, Charles Wuorinen, Steve Reich, Paul Lansky, Gunther Schuller, Krzysztof Penderecki, John Heiss, and Joan Tower. Besides performing new music, Sean teaches piano and percussion, performs regularly with the Madison Symphony, and performs early music on the harpsichord.