Performing with The Jackson Symphony, November 7, 2015
I have the privilege of being Guest Artist for The Jackson Symphony in Jackson, Tennessee on November 7, 2015 at an all Baroque concert. I will be playing harpsichord continuo for the entire concert as well as soloing in Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto #5, noted for its fabulous, dazzling, and demanding harpsichord part.
The Jackson Symphony, 7 p.m. First Baptist Church, 1627 N Highland Ave, Jackson, TN 38301
Attended The Westfield Center Conference: The Forte/Piano, Cornell University, Aug. 5-9, 2015
I attended Forte/Piano, a once in a lifetime gathering of the world’s many of the greatest lovers of the historical piano including performers, scholars, and builders. Words cannot express. It was an honor and a privilege.
Boston Early Music Festival Exhibition, June 9-13, 2015
I once again have the great pleasure of exhibiting for myself and The Paris Workshop at The Boston Early Music Festival Exhibition.
I will be showing kits as well as debuting the AMD Logo line of harpsichords from the Atelier Marc Ducornet.
HKSNA 2015 in Montreal, May 20-24
Attended a fabulous meeting of the Historical Keyboard Society of North America, for which I serve on the Board, in beautiful Montreal at McGill University.
Goliards Spring Concert: From the Shetlands to Galicia. May 10, 2015
Celebrate Mother’s Day with “>The Goliards at a concert of some of the oldest surviving music from Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Brittany and Galicia sung in various forms of Gaelic, Breton and Latin performed by John Hillenbrand, vielle and rebec; Jimmy Broberg vielle and percussion; Anne Durant, harp and percussion; Anne Acker, symphonie and positiv organ: Kat Broberg, vocals and recorder; and Melissa Flummerfelt, vocals.
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 34th & Abercorn Sts., Savannah, Georgia. 3 p.m.
The Creation by Haydn, performed by The Savannah Philharmonic
I have the great pleasure of playing continuo (fortepiano) with The Savannah Philharmonic at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, E. Harris St., Savannah, GA on January 31, 2015 at 7:30 p.m. Haydn’s masterpiece, with great soloists and interpretation!
performance for Advent with The Goliards at St. John Episcopal, Savannah, GA , Dec. 18, 2014
The instrumentalists (John Hillenbrand, Anne Durant, Anne Acker) of The Goliards along with soprano Ashley Roper, will perform medieval and Renaissance music appropriate for the Advent season at St. John Episcopal Church, 1 W. Macon St, in beautiful, historic downtown Savannah at 5:30 p.m.
with The Goliards: The Message of Gabriel, Sunday, Dec. 21, 3 p.m., 2014
The Goliards will perform The Message of Gabriel, a program of English Advent and Christmas music that covers a period of approximately 300 years (ca. 1150-ca. 1450), on Sunday, December 21, at 3:00 P.M.. The concert will taker place at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church (34th and Abercorn). Admission is $10.00. Instrumentalists include John Hillenbrand (vielle), Anne Durant (harp and percussion), and myself on organ and sinfonye.
The program features five sopranos (Ashley Adams Roper, Melissa Flummerfelt, Mary Catherine Mousourakis, Cuffy Sullivan, and Leila Sullivan), and will include examples of varied choral genres – Gregorian Chant, two hymns by St. Godric of Finchale (ca. 1065-1170), two 13th-century Marian motets, and a variety of early-15th-century carols (ranging from pious to raucous) from the Selden Codex. The texts of the works in the program are to be sung in Latin or in Middle English.
The Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments, 2nd Edition, FINALLY PUBLISHED
I had the great weight and pleasure of serving as a Senior Editor as well as a writer for the 2nd edition of The Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments. My responsibilities included all stringed keyboard instrument related articles, some other keyboard articles, all Electronics related entries, as well as all ‘odd’ difficult to categorize instruments, and assisting with acoustics, temperament and whatever needed more hands on deck in a hurry. I wrote too many articles to list here, but perhaps one of my favorites was The Cosmophone, should you care to look that up.
I cannot say enough good things about our amazing Editor in Chief, Laurence Libin, who is a true inspiration of energy, detail, excellence, unbelievable slicing of word counts to the bone, and good humor.