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Corrinne Byrne
Soprano
Hailed for her “inimitable delivery” and versatility, Boston and New York-based soprano Corrine Byrne has quickly become a sought-after interpreter of repertoire from the Medieval to the Baroque era, and music by today’s most daring composers.
Byrne’s recent roles include Miranda (The Onion by Eric Sawyer), Loralei (Mallory by Nathaniel Parks), Roya (We the Innumerable by Niloufar Nourbahksh), Filia (Jepthe),
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Eric Christopher Perry
Tenor
Lauded by the Boston Classical Review for his “expressive energy and ringing high notes,” deemed “sweet and appealing” by the Boston Globe, and complimented for his “clear and even tone” by New York Arts, Eric Christopher Perry is gaining an international reputation for his “indefatigable” energy and his imaginative chamber music performance as a conductor, vocal artist, and educator.
Eric made his professional singing debut at the Fredonia Bach and Beyond Festival under the baton of Grant Cooper in 2007.
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Andy Kozar
Trumpet
A native of Pittsburgh, Andy Kozar is a New York City and Boston based trumpeter, improviser, composer and educator that has been called a ‘star soloist’ by TimeOutNY and noted for his ‘precise trumpeting’ by New York Classical Review.
An advocate of contemporary music, he is a founding member of the contemporary music quartet loadbang which has been called ‘inventive’ by the New York Times and ‘cultivated’ by The New Yorker.
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Pete Walsh
Violone
Pete Walsh is a double bass player based in Boston, MA. He enjoys a vibrant, musically diverse career compromised of orchestral work, chamber music, historical performance, jazz and electric bass, and everything in between.
As an orchestral musician he has performed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Boston Pops, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Boston Lyric Opera, and Odyssey Opera. Pete is Principal Bass of the Boston Festival Orchestra,
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Will Prapestis
Bass
Possessing a “resonant, beautiful” sound and heralded for his “expressive, florid” singing, Baritone Will Prapestis performs frequently as a soloist and ensemble member in the U.S. and Europe, and is the 2019-2020 Lorraine Hunt Lieberson Fellow.
He has had the pleasure of singing as a soloist and chorister with Emmanuel Music, Renaissance Men — of which he is a founding member — Boston Baroque, the Orpheus Singers, Exsultemus,
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Guinevere Connor
Violone
Guinevere approaches music from a historically informed viewpoint; striving to bring music from the past to life. As a baroque bassist and viola da gambist, she has a unique view of looking at pieces from the bottom up.
Music is built with many layers, and while each layer communicates with the others, the top usually gets the most attention. Guinevere looks instead at the bassline and see how many ways she can play it,
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Colleen McGary Smith
Baroque Cello
A versatile and adventurous performer, Colleen McGary-Smith appears throughout New England on historical and modern cellos as well as viola da gamba. Colleen is a member of the Handel and Haydn Society, with whom she has recorded on the Coro Label. She also performs with Emmanuel Music.
Past season highlights include performances with Boston Baroque, Vista Philharmonic, The Berry Collective, Les Bostonades, Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, Boston Lyric Opera,
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Jenny Stirling
Baroque Viola
Born in the UK, from a family of fine classical musicians, Jenny Stirling trained at the Guildhall School of Music in London as a student of David Takeno. Diverting for a few years to explore her love of Culinary Arts, she resumed her musical studies, acquiring degrees in violin performance at the New England Conservatory of Music, and viola at SUNY, Stony Brook.
Jenny played for many years with Craig Smith and Emmanuel Music,
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The Harpsichord
A harpsichord is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. Unlike a fortepiano or modern piano that users hammers to strike strings, the keyboard on a harpsichord activates a row of levers that turn a trigger mechanism that plucks the strings with a small plectrum made from quill or plastic. The strings are under tension on a soundboard, which is mounted in a wooden case. The soundboard amplifies the vibrations from the strings so that the listeners can hear it.
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The Natural Trumpet
The natural trumpet was originally used as a military instrument to facilitate communication (e.g. break camp, retreat, etc.). Even before the late Baroque period the natural trumpet had been accepted into Western music. The baroque trumpet is designed to allow more modern performers to emulate the natural trumpet when playing music of that time. Some modern performers use natural trumpets unchanged in design since the Baroque era while others choose baroque trumpets constructed with vents which help to ensure acceptable intonation.
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