Musicians who participated in the 2005-06 season

Trevor Stephenson, harpsichordist and artistic director of the Madison Bach Musicians received a DMA in Historical Performance of 18th-C. Music from Cornell University. With his colleague, Norman Sheppard, he has rebuilt and customized a series of historical keyboard instruments ranging from Italian Renaissance harpsichords to Victorian pianos. He has released eleven recordings on the Light & Shadow label, and tours throughout the United States as performer and lecturer. His harpsichord was made in 1997 by Norman Sheppard of Madison; it is modeled on a late 17th-C. Dutch instrument by Couchet.

Kangwon Lee Kim, has given solo and chamber recitals throughout the U.S. and in Korea, Canada, Puerto Rico, Switzerland, and Norway and has recorded for the Deutsche Harmonia Mundi and CRI labels. The live recordings of her performances have been heard on NPR, WFLN, and WPR. Ms. Kim recently earned the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and also holds degrees from the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, the Manhattan School of Music, and Temple University. She has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, the Wilmington Music School, and Ripon College. Starting this fall, she will be teaching at Biola University in California as an assistant professor.

Leanne Kelso League is associate concertmaster of the Madison Symphony Orchestra and assistant concertmaster of the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra. Leanne is on the faculty of UW-Whitewater, where she teaches violin and viola. From 1996-1999, she was a fellow at the New World Symphony in Miami, Florida. She earned her M.M. in performance from UW-Madison, where she studied with Vartan Manoogian and held an assistantship at UW as a violinist in the Strelow String Quartet. Her undergraduate studies were completed at Florida State University and Eastman School of Music. As a Baroque violinist, she studied with Karen Clarke and has performed with Nicholas McGegan, Max von Egmont, the Tallahassee Bach Parley, and the Wisconsin Baroque Ensemble.

Edith Hines is pursuing her DMA degree in violin performance as a student of David Perry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She performs frequently at school and around Madison; an active chamber musician, she has also participated in the Norfolk, Yellow Barn, and Ravinia festivals and has toured the U.S. and Japan as a substitute member of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. Edith's former teachers include David Updegraff and Donald Weilerstein; she holds degrees from the Cleveland Institute of Music, New England Conservatory, and Case Western Reserve University. Edith's bow is provided by a scholarship grant from the Virtu Foundation.

Violinist Darby BeDell, a recent graduate from the University of Wisconsin MM program, is in his second season as a member of the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra and the Madison Symphony. While studying at UW with Professor David Perry, Darby received the graduate fellowship in MSO's Hunt Quartet. He also played with the Madison Bach Musicians on their 2004-2005 premier concert series. Originally from Edwardsville, Illinois, Darby spent his early years playing in and around the St. Louis area, including several years with the St. Louis Symphony Youth Orchestra.  He graduated from Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville, where he studied violin with Dr. Lenora-Marya Anop, with degrees in Music Performance and Genetic Engineering. He has participated in summer festivals in Aspen, Steamboat Springs and Weathersfield, Vermont.

Violist Marika Fischer Hoyt earned her B.A. degree in Music from Smith College, graduating Cum Laude, and her Master's Degree in Viola Performance from the Indiana University School of Music. While at Indiana she studied with noted baroque violinist Stanley Ritchie, playing viola in the baroque orchestra. She has since played in orchestras and string quartets around the country, including the Richmond (VA), Charleston (WV) and Des Moines (IA) Symphonies. Marika moved to Madison in 1999, is a member of the Madison Symphony and the Ancora String Quartet, and loves playing in this ensemble devoted to her favorite composer, J.S. Bach.

Anton TenWolde began cello lessons at the age of 11 in Delft, the Netherlands. During his academic years he performed with Tom Koopman, and toured with Dutch national student chamber groups. He moved to Madison in 1973, where he has performed extensively, especially in early music ensembles. For many years he played principal cellist with the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra. He is a founding member of the Wisconsin Baroque Ensemble, and recently joined Con Vivo! a Madison chamber music group.

Ross Gilliland is a member of the Madison Symphony Orchestra, and serves as principal bass in the UW Chamber Orchestra. Ross performs chamber music regularly with faculty at UW-Madison, with the Madison-based ensemble Con Vivo, and has appeared annually for four years at the Token Creek Chamber Music Festival. He has degrees in physics and music from UW-Madison. Ross spends his Summers entertaining America's youth in his ska band.

Russell Wagner, viola da gamba, began his studies in early music performance at the College Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati. As a founding member of Musica Camerata, he toured throughout the midwest and made appearances on The Prairie Home Companion Show and with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. He is a frequent performer in Chicago's early music community including appearances with The Newberry Consort, Bella Voce, The Forces of Virtue, The Second City Musick, and the Catacoustic Consort. Wagner is a leading restorer of cellos in this country, working from his studio, Chicago Celloworks.

Jennifer Baron, viola da gamba, has enjoyed professional engagements in Kansas with the Lawrence Chamber Players and Spencer Consort, and since moving to Madison, she has pursued many musical goals. Jennifer has performed with L'ensemble Portique, Madison Consort, and previous concerts with Trevor Stephenson. She is co-founder of the Madison Viol Consort, a group that has partnered with the Madison Early Music Festival in outreach programs and performances, including Wisconsin Public Radio's Live at the Elvehjem. Jennifer has also enjoyed a spot on the faculty of the Madison Early Music Festival, teaching beginning viol in the summers of 2004 and 2005.  Most recently, Jennifer was awarded one of twelve spots in a national young professionals program for viol players at this year's Viola da Gamba Society Conclave in Worcester, Massachusetts. 

With "dazzling natural technique and brilliant interpretation," Lisette Kielson has performed to acclaim on both recorder and flute in the United States and Europe. She holds a BM and MM in flute performance from Indiana University and a Diploma in recorder performance from The Royal Conservatory of The Hague, Netherlands. Lisette is Artistic Director of L'Ensemble Portique (www.LEnsemblePortique.com), a group whose mission embraces performing both Baroque and contemporary chamber music. Under its label, LEP Records, Lisette has released Taste of Portique and Telemann: Canons and Duos. Her love of teaching leads her to direct workshops across the country and maintain studios in Madison and Milwaukee.

Patrick O'Malley, recorder, has performed from California to New York, as well as in the Netherlands and the Czech Republic.   He appears regularly with orchestras, chamber music groups and early music ensembles and live on WFMT-FM. Patrick runs a private teaching studio and is on the faculty of the Music Institute of Chicago and the Suzuki Music School of Lincoln Park. He teaches master classes and workshops nationally and makes outreach presentations at elementary schools. Patrick earned a Master of Music degree from Indiana University. With a Netherlands Fulbright Fellowship, he pursued further studies at the Rotterdam Conservatory.

A longtime resident of Madison, Marc Fink is Professor of Music at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he teaches oboe, coaches chamber music, and performs in the Wingra Woodwind Quintet. For many years Marc has performed as principal oboist of the Madison Symphony Orchestra. Past president of the International Double Reed Society, Marc hosted the annual concert in Madison in 1999. He has performed around the world, from the Northslope of Alaska to the South Bohemian Music Festival in the Czech Republic and at double reed festivals in St. Petersburg, Russia, and Tokyo, Japan. His CD for oboe and strings featuring Marc and the Pro Arte Quartet, will soon be released by the School of Music recording series.

Kathryn Montoya is completing a doctorate at Indiana University, where she studied historical oboes with Washington McClain and recorder with Eva Legêne . She holds degrees from Oberlin Conservatory and Indiana University. Ms. Montoya has performed with many ensembles, including Apollo's Fire, the Newberry Consort, Chicago Opera Theatre, the Cleveland Orchestra, Ensemble Arion in Montreal, Aradia Ensemble in Toronto, and tours internationally with the Celtic group Ensemble Galilei. She is a recipient of the prestigious Performers Certificate at IU and was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study in Germany. In the summer of 2005 she performed with the Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra for the US premiere of Johann Mattheson's Boris Goudenow and toured Costa Rica with her chamber group, Ensemble x579. Kathryn records for the Naxos label.

MaryAnn Shore, baroque oboe and oboe da caccia, holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and an MM from the University of New Mexico.   MaryAnn has performed extensively on modern oboe in the Washington, D.C. area and in New Mexico. She has been with Musica Antigua de Albuquerque since 1995, performing on various Medieval and Renaissance instruments, and is a founding member of the Albuquerque Baroque Players.   As well as Santa Fe Pro Musica, MaryAnn has performed on Baroque oboe with Orchestra of New Spain, Jefferson Baroque Orchestra and the St. Mary Chamber Orchestra, and as soloist with the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestra of the Duke.

Sung Lee is currently pursuing a master of music degree in early music at Indiana University. He is studying baroque oboes and classical oboe with Washington McClain. In the last two years Sung has participated in Bloomington Early Music Festival, Amherst Early Music Festival, Boston Early Music Festival, and Albuquerque Double Reed Workshop.   In addition, he has played for Indiana Baroque Orchestra, and Ensemble Voltaire. At the university he is an active member of Baroque Orchestra, Concentus (renaissance ensemble), and various chamber music groups.

C. Keith Collins is completing the doctor of music degree in historical bassoon at Indiana University's Early Music Institute. While there he studied with Michael McCraw, and received a master of music degree in modern bassoon under Kim Walker. He is currently adjunct instructor of historical bassoon at University of North Texas. He has played with such groups as Chicago Opera Theater, Washington Bach Consort, Apollo's Fire, Trinity Consort, Dayton Bach Society, and is a founding member of the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra. As interpretive specialist for music at Conner Prairie Living History Museum in Fishers, Indiana, he leads the various historically-informed musical activities and does research on nineteenth-century American music in the classical and traditional idioms. He has been an apprentice to Dan Speer of Argent Fox harps, with whom he built a fifteenth-century style wire-strung Gaelic harp based on the Queen Mary harp.

Lin Foulk, horn, is Assistant Professor of Horn at Western Michigan University, where she teaches horn, women in music, and is a member of the Western Brass Quintet. Especially interested in music with horn by female composers, she has performed and presented lectures on works by women throughout the United States and as a Guest Artist at the 2004 International Horn Symposium in Valencia, Spain. She has served as Principal Horn with the Oshkosh and Manitowoc Symphony Orchestras, Second Horn with the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, and has frequently performed with the Milwaukee, Madison, Kalamazoo, and Battle Creek Symphony Orchestras. Dr. Foulk received the Doctor of Musical Arts and Master of Music degrees in horn performance from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Bachelor of Music degree in horn performance from the University of Missouri-Kansas City.   Her principal teachers include Douglas Hill, Nancy Cochran, Laurence Lowe, and Bruce Heim.

Kristin Thelander has been the Director of the University of Iowa School of Music since 2000, and last July she was also appointed Director of the UI Division of Performing Arts.   She has had a rich and active performing career on both natural horn and modern horn, appearing as a soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States, Europe, Mexico, Brazil, South Korea, and China. She has been a featured artist at many international horn workshops and brass symposia, and she has performed with summer orchestra and chamber music festivals in Colorado, Oregon, and New York. Her highly acclaimed CD, Music of the Early 19 th Century for natural horn and fortepiano, is available from Crystal Records. Having received her doctoral degree from the University of Wisconsin, she is pleased to be performing again in Madison.

Mimmi Fulmer performs repertoire ranging from early music to premieres of works written for her. She has been featured soloist around the nation, including concerts at Aspen, Bang on a Can, the Kennedy Center, CAMI Hall, and the Walker Art Center. Her solo CD of 20th-century music, "About Time", was called "a spectacular show" by American Record Guide, and she can also be heard on the CRI and Innova labels. She is Professor of Voice and Associate Director of Opera at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In December 2005, she premiered a one-woman, multi-media opera, "Mirror Story" at the University of Michigan.

Deanna Horjus-Lang recently returned to the US after twelve years in the Netherlands. In Europe she was active as a soloist, performing oratorio and opera repertoire including works by Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Monteverdi and Gounod. She has also performed and premiered modern music including works by Berio and Stockhausen. She received a BM from Viterbo U., a MM at Northwestern U., and a Certificate in Baroque Music Performance and Practices at the Royal Conservatory in the Hague.

Consuelo Sanudo, mezzo-soprano, lived and performed in Germany for 9 years.
Highlights include the title role of Arianna, an opera by Alexander Goehr at its German premiere, the Young Singer/Octavian in Liebe Tod Kaiserwalzer by Ju(umlaut) rgen Schirrmacher, a theater piece for two singers, an actor and a video camera, and concerts in Europe as a concert and oratorio soloist as well as Lieder recitals.  She has sung with Sequentia, Las Huelgas Ensemble, Karta(umlaut)user Kantorei and BONNEN, with which she went on tour in Russia through the Goethe Institut, and her most recent recording was for Volker Staub's Suarogate, for solo vocal quartet and instruments. 
After returning to the USA she has continued to perform: Reflections on the French Baroque, a program with music of Delalande, Monteclair, Satie, Hahn and others, at the Austin Music Festival, and regular engagements as a soloist in the Madison area.

Joel Burcham, tenor, has performance experience in opera, oratorio, concerts and song. Most recently, he sang the role of Dancairo in Carmen with Cedar Rapids Opera Theatre. Other 2004/05 credits include his Madison Opera debut as Pang in Turandot , to which he received rave reviews. He was also seen performing several operas with Opera Omaha including Meriwether Lewis in Stephen Mager's Dream of the Pacific , Gastone in La Traviata and Pang once more. In 2003, Joel was an Apprentice Artist with Central City Opera, where he understudied and performed Lindoro in Rossini's L'Italiana in Algeri . Other opera roles he has sung include Don Ramiro in La Cenerentola , Ferrando in Così Fan Tutte , and Peter Quint in Britten's The Turn of the Screw . Joel's upcoming engagements include Studio Artist work with Utah Opera and Symphony in which he will appear as tenor soloist in Handel's Messiah , Ernesto in a tour of Don Pasquale and the Tamino understudy in Die Zauberflöte in 2006. He will also be singing Spoletta in Tosca with Madison Opera in November.

Anne Horjus was born in Friesland, the northernmost part of the Netherlands. His music studies at the Royal Conservatory in the Hague included an emphasis on art song, baroque music and opera. He has appeared in many opera productions including Le Nozze di Figaro , L'Ormindo , Dialogues des Carmélites and L'incoronazione di Poppea and has extensive oratorio experience including works by Mozart, Handel and Bach. He has also recorded a CD of Frisian art songs.