Linda Burman-Hall, Artistic Director

Artistic Director Linda Burman-Hall, a performer on harpsichord, fortepiano, and organ, is a specialist in music theory and performance with degrees from the University of California, Los Angeles, and Princeton University. She is active not only as a recitalist and ensemble director but also is well known as a research musicologist. After post-doctoral research at the University of Amsterdam, she joined the faculty at University of California Santa Cruz, where she currently teaches music theory, harpsichord, chamber music and world music courses. 

While approaching early keyboard literature from an independent perspective, Dr. Burman-Hall has studied with Alan Curtis and Gustav Leonhardt. Her festival appearances include the Carmel Bach Festival, E. Nakamichi Baroque Festival, Berkeley Early Music Festival, Aston Magna, and American Musicological Society. In 1982, she was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellowship. She has performed on the East coast and in Jakarta, Indonesia, during her fourteenth musicological research session abroad. She has been featured in concerts at the Getty, de Young, and Huntington Museums, on local and national radio, with Chanticleer, America's premiere vocal ensemble, and the American Baroque Ensemble. 

Linda Burman-Hall is founder and Artistic Director of the Santa Cruz Baroque Festival. Under her direction, the Baroque Festival has presented more than 175 concerts in twenty-two years, and has received numerous grants, including National Endowment for the Arts and California Arts Council funds. For this contribution to the local community, the Santa Cruz, County Arts Commission has recently named her 1994 'Artist of the Year'. 

Her Baroque chamber music recordings are available on Sonic Arts and Musical Heritage Society. Her first solo release, the complete harpsichord music of Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, was released in July, 1986 by Musical Heritage. Recent recordings of chamber music include three volumes of C.P.E. Bach sonatas for flute and continuo and works for solo and multiple flutes by Boismortier (Centaur and Musical Heritage CDs with Leta Miller), and Geminiani's sonatas for violoncello and continuo (with Anner Bylsma). Albums devoted to 17th century French harpsichord and organ music by Jacques Hardel, Etienne Richard, and Joseph de la Barre have also been recorded for release on Wildboar.