Julianne Baird
Soprano, has been hailed as "one of the most extraordinary voices in the service of early music that this generation has produced. She possesses a natural musicianship which engenders singing of supreme expressive beauty." She maintains a busy concert schedule of solo recitals and performances of baroque opera and oratorio.
With over 100 recordings to her credit on Decca, Deutsche Gramophone, Newport Classics and Dorian, Julianne Baird is considered one of America's most recorded women. Julianne Baird is an active teacher and scholar, with degrees from the Eastman School and a Diploma from the Salzburg Mozarteum in performance. She also earned a PhD in music history from Stanford University.
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Yukimi Kambe Viol Consort
This ensemble was organized in 1983 by Yukimi Kambe in Japan both to perform traditional repertoire for viols and a wide variety of contemporary music. Its activities have included more than 230 performances in Japan, Europe, and America. In addition to many regular consort programs the group has also performed for historical dance, for broadcasts, for competitions, and in joint concerts with other individual early music players and groups. Their four tours in the United States have included two performances at Conclaves of the VdGSA and at Early Music Festivals at Berkeley and Boston, the former in a joint concert with the New York Consort of Viols. The members of the consort are Yukimi Kambe, Eriko Ozawa, Maki Noguchi, and Kaori Hashizume. Tn addition to their participation in the consort, they individually pursue various performance activity in early and contemporary music.
Mesut OzgenMesut was born in Turkey, where he completed his medical degree in 1984 and worked as a doctor for seven years. He began playing guitar in 1981 while pursuing his study at the School of Medicine. During his seven years of medical practice, as a self-taught guitarist, he also played concerts and taught guitar at Gazi University, School of Music Education in Turkey. After meeting with Benjamin Verdery in Spain in 1989, he decided to change his career and came to the U.S. in 1991 to study with Verdery at Yale University School of Music. In addition to being a prize winner in the 1997 Portland Guitar Competition, he has performed as featured soloist in the International Paco Pe–a Guitar Festival in Cordoba, Spain, and premiered new music for guitar at the Yale Guitar Festival. He has been on the guitar faculty at the University of California, Santa Cruz since 1998.
Lux Musica was formed in 1994 and is an ensemble of four virtuosi dedicated to presenting the most beautiful works from the Enlightenment, drawing on the versatile combination of historical flutes, violin or viola, violoncello or viola da gamba and keyboards. Rob Diggins, violin and viola, Lars Johannesson, 18th-19th century flute, Linda Burman-Hall, harpsicord and fortepiano, Amy Brodo, violoncello and viola da gamba.
Amy Brodo Cellist and gambist has performed for many years in Italy, Israel, and England before moving to San Francisco, with positions including assistant principal cellist of the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Italy, and cellist with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. She has performed with Andrew Parrott and the Taverner Players, the Norskbarok Orchester, and the Hanover Band. In the San Francisco Bay Area Ms. Brodo has performed on viola da gamba and baroque cello with groups including Lux Musica, Sex Chordæ Consort of Viols, Magnificat Baroque Orchestra, American Bach Soloists, El Mundo, Music. Period, I Favoriti, and Ytan tan. She has performed at Festivals such as the Santa Cruz Baroque Festival, Berkeley Early Music , the Beaunne, France Festival, and the San Luis Obispo Mozart. She has recorded for CDI, Centaur, Sony, DDG, Koch, Helicon, Kleos, and New Albion. She also performs with the Philadelphia Classical Symphony and other East Coast groups and gives recitals of contemporary cello music on modern cello with the Nez-Brodo duo.
Rob Diggins
Rob is a recording artist for Harmonia Mundi and Fidelio, freelances in Europe and North America and performs regularly with several early music ensembles including La Chapelle Royale, Les Arts Florissants, the Gabrieli Consort, Portland Baroque Orchestra, Los Angeles Baroque Orchestra, and Magnificat. Mr. Diggins lives in Humboldt County, California, where he teaches violin and viola, as well as directing the North Bay Chamber Orchestra, in Northern California. Mr Diggins performs and records in a number of progressive genres with a 5-string violectra and enjoys the rural country.
Lars Johannesson
Lars Johannesson, flutist, graduated from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music with a degree in orchestral flute. He pursued post-graduate studies in Baroque flute with Wilbert Hazelzet at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, Holland. Having lived in Santa Cruz since 1992, he performs actively in the San Francisco and Monterey Bay areas. Lars is a regular member of the baroque orchestra Magnificat, the Santa Cruz Baroque Festival and the Bay Shore Lyric Opera Company orchestra, and also appears occasionally with groups such as New Music Works, Santa Cruz Chamber Players, Santa Cruz County Symphony Orchestra and Ensemble Monterey. In addition to ÒclassicalÓ music, Lars also plays and performs Irish and other traditional music. An active studio musician, Lars has recorded for numerous releases, including many on the Gourd Music label. When he is not playing music, Lars works in the IT industry, spends time with his wife and twin sons, and enjoys growing palms & bamboo.
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