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Early Music Festival |
3:00 pmPorter Center,Brevard College |
January 27, 2008 |
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Harmonia Baroque is a period instrument ensemble based in Boone, NC, . Join them for an afternoon of celestial harmony at Brevard College’s Porter Center. They will be performing music of Janitsch, Bach, Handel, Lully, Jacques Morel, and music from Monteverdi’s L’incoranozione di Poppea, joined by Michael Porter, tenor. This concert is a part of the “Brevard College Presents” series, and is hosted by the Brevard College Department of Music. |
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Harmonia Baroque |
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To contact us: |
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Phone: 828-505-2858 E-mail: info@eemf.net |
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Bios Michael Bell, harpsichordist, is a graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. He has performs frequently throughout the state as accompanists, soloist, and ensemble member. He is organist at the Jefferson United Methodist church and accompanist for the Ashe County Choral Society. Mr. Bell is Vice President of the Ashe County Arts Council, and appears often under their auspices. Alicia Chapman, a founding member of Harmonia Baroque, teaches oboe at the Hayes School of Music at Appalachian, and is director of the Collegium Musicum, an early music performance class and ensemble for students and members of the community. She has studied at the Baroque Performance Institute at Oberlin and the Cambridge Early Music Summer School (UK). She is principal oboist with the Harrisburg (PA) and Asheville Symphonies, and performs chamber music and solo recitals in the area. She has toured Europe, the former DDR, and Southeast Asia as a chamber musician and performed with the Metropolitan and New York City Operas while living in New York. Alicia lives in Boone, and has recently reawakened her equestrian ardor. Barbara Blaker Krumdieck grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area where she studied cello with Katherine Scott, Thomas Stauffer and Mildred Rosner. She went on to study baroque cello with Phoebe Carrai (of Musica Antiqua Koln) at the Conservatory of Music in Hilversum, The Netherlands. While living in Europe, Barbara toured, performed and recorded with Concerto Koln, playing in the Palace of Versailles and the Paris Opera House. She currently resides in Davidson, NC. Mezzo-soprano Priscilla Porterfield teaches voice and directs the Treble choir at ASU. Her staged repertoire extends to the light vein, having performed comic roles in the operettas of Offenbach and Sullivan. She is equally as versatile with within the concert repertoire, and she sings regularly with chamber music groups and orchestras throughout North Carolina as well as the Midwest. Her recent interest in the Anglo-American ballad and its influence on the Appalachian region resulted in a travel grant to sing a series of recitals in Great Britain. Nancy Schneeloch-Bingham teaches flute and directs the flute ensemble at the Hayes School of Music at ASU. She has performed with the Western Piedmont Symphony, North Carolina Symphony and the Salisbury, Tallahassee, and Kingsport Symphonies. Dr. Schneeloch-Bingham is a member of the traditional music group, Sunday’s Well, and also serves as a faculty member for the Hayes School of Music study abroad program in Irish traditional music. An active recitalist and clinician, she has performed most recently, at the National Flute Association’s annual convention in Las Vegas. C. Michael Porter, director of choral activities at Brevard College, has served as visiting choral instructor at Bloomsburg University and graduate assistant at Truman State University and The University of Iowa. Regularly performs with the Carnegie Hall Choral Conducting Workshop Chorus. Is an associate conductor with the Asheville Lyric Opera Company and was a guest conductor for the ALO’s performance of The Merry Widow. For more biographical info, see EEMF’s page for L’Orfeo. |