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Ensemble Vermillian (sic) brings to audiences unusual, exciting and moving compositions from the Baroque period played in historically informed style on recorder, Baroque cello, viola da gamba and harpsichord. The group has made many innovative transcriptions (a common practice during the baroque period) as well as playing works composed for their instruments. Using several types of recorder and interspersing solo/basso continuo with pieces with multiple obligato parts, Ensemble Vermillian provides wide-ranging and enthralling programs to audiences across the country.
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To contact us: |
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Phone: 828-505-2858 E-mail: info@eemf.net |
BioFrances Blaker received her Music Pedagogical and Performance degrees from the Royal Conservatory of Music in Copenhagen where she studied with Eva Legêne. She also studied with Marion Verbruggen in the Netherlands. Ms. Blaker has performed as a soloist and with various ensembles in the United States, Denmark, England and the Netherlands, including the Farallon Recorder Quartet and the recorder duo Tibia. She teaches privately and at workshops throughout the United States, including the San Francisco Early Music Society Baroque workshop and Port Townsend; she is a co-director of the Amherst Early Music Festival, Inc. Ms. Blaker is the author of The Recorder Player's Companion and the "Opening Measures" column in the American Recorder, and a collaborator and performer on the Disc Continuo series of recordings. |
BioBarbara Blaker Krumdieck grew up in the East Bay, studying cello with Mildred Rosner and Jeff Stauffer. She changed her focus to Baroque cello after attending the San Francisco Early Music Society’s Baroque Workshop, and went on to study with Viola ter Hoeg in the Netherlands, and Pheobe Carrai at the Conservatory of Music in Hilversum, NL. She has toured all over Europe and recorded with Concerto Köln, of Germany, and is currently a member of various early music groups including the Wild Rose Ensemble, Vita Nova and Ensemble Vermillian. She is a sought-after teacher of cello in Davidson, North Carolina, and can be heard on the Disc Continuo series of recordings as well as Ensemble Vermillian’s CD “Stolen Jewels”. |
BioGail Ann Schroeder graduated in 1980 from the University of Michigan with a Bachelor of Music degree in Music History. She furthered her performance studies on the viola da gamba at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels with Wieland Kuijken, where she obtained the First Prize in 1983 and the Higher Diploma, with distinction, in 1986. She has performed extensively as soloist and with various ensembles including the Huelgas Ensemble, Capilla Flamenca, Combattimento Consort Amsterdam and the Leipzig Barokorchester. She has participated in numerous radio and television productions, and on CD recordings for such labels as DHM, Sony Classical, Ricercar and Erato. From 1988-2002 she was assistant to Wieland Kuijken at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels where she taught viola da gamba and didactics of viola da gamba, and where she was director of the viol consort. Currently living in North Carolina, she is now teaching privately and freelancing on viola da gamba and lirone.
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Bio Keyboardist Alissa Duryee, originally from New Jersey, moved to France in 1997 where she studied piano with Gerard Fremy and Guigla Katsarava, harpsichord with Olivier Baumont, Noelle Spieth, and Frederic Michel, and organ with Marie-Louise Langlas.
As a resident artist at the Fondation des Etats-Unis in Paris, she cofounded PONT, an organization devoted to promoting young artists and musicians, and the Orchestre FMR, an orchestra composed of young international musicians supporting student soloists and conductors, and promoting the works of student composers. During this residency, a grant from the Harriet Hale Woolley Foundation allowed her to pursue an interest in instrument building by constructing a fretted clavichord and a French double manual harpsichord.
As a performer, she has appeared throughout Europe and North America and completed a residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts. As a collaborative artist she works with such institutions as the Conservatoire de Chartres, Conservatoire de Region de Paris, and the Amherst Early Music Festival, as well as numerous freelance projects. She maintains a class of keyboard students in Nogent-le-Rotrou, France. Current projects include the study of fortepiano with Patrick Cohen and the writing of a thesis on the topic of the musical traditions of the Couperin, Bach, and Scarlatti families. |