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Marilyn Engle was visiting professor at Oberlin College Conservatory and a faculty member and performer for several years in Oberlin's summer program in Italy as well as the Niagara Chamber Music Festival (ISMA). She has given classes and residencies at many centers internationally including, the Glenn Gould Professional School, the University of Toronto and New York University. She studied at Juilliard and Aspen with Adele Marcus, Ilona Kabos, and Jeaneane Dowis; and in Europe with Peter Feuchtwanger, and Nikita Magaloff. Her doctoral studies at New York University have focused on the area of rhetorical theory as it applies to musical performance. A laureate in the Washington International Competition, Prof. Engle was the first-prize winner of many national and international competitions including the J.S. Bach International Competition, the MTNA Competition, and the CBC Competition. In recent years she has received several Teaching Excellence Awards from The University of Calgary Students Union. Her compact disc, "Dances, Dreams...," is forthcoming. Email: marilyn@acmuin.com
Currently residing in Paris, Mr. Myron is professor of contrabass and chamber music in the early music department of the Conservatoire Supérieur-CNR de Paris and the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Music de Paris, where he also teaches sight-reading to the modern bassists. Each year, he conducts a Bach cantata program with the baroque orchestra and choir of the CNSM, and is called upon to give master classes in regional conservatories throughout France(Toulouse, St Maur, Aubervilliers). A founding member of the Freiburger Barockorchester and Consort, the Atlantis Ensemble,Il Seminario Musicale and les Basses Réunies, he is also a member of Al Ayre Espa-ol, the Ensemble Baroque de Limoges and the Schönbrunn Ensemble of Amsterdam. Email: richard@acmuin.com
After his studies he concentrated on performance practice with historic instruments. He has worked with some of the most important ensembles in this field as a leader/concertmaster or as a soloist: Il Seminario Musicale (Gerard Lesne, Paris), Al Ayre Espagnol (Lopes Banzo, Madrid), the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra (Ton Koopman), the Orchestra of the Nederlandse Bach Vereniging (Jos van Veldhoven) and the Orchestra Anima Eterna (Jos van Immerseel, Antwerp). He has recorded a number of CD's for the Dutch label Globe, including the complete sonatas of Bach, Beethoven, Schubert and Schumann. As a founding member of the Schönbrunn Ensemble, specializing in performing chamber music on period instruments, he performs both nationally and internationally a repertory ranging from Frescobaldi to Debussy. In the year 2000 to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the death of J.S. Bach, he performed the complete sonatas and partitas at historic venues in the Netherlands. At the Holland Festival of Early Music 2002 he performed the complete works for violin and piano of Beethoven with his duo-partner Julian Reynolds. As a violin soloist he has appeared with The Osaka Symphoniker (Haydn and Mozart) and the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra (Telemann and Vivaldi). In the "Mozart year" 2006, his recording of complete Mozart Violin concertos with his own ensemble La Borea, was released by Challenge Records. Johannes Leertouwer has been a professor of violin at the famous Sweelinck Conservatory of Amsterdam for the past 17 years. His former students are active members of a wide variety of orchestras and ensembles. From 1998 until 2006 he was artistic director and conductor of the Netherlands Youth String Orchestra, where he worked with a selection of the most talented young string players of the Netherlands. Johannes Leertouwer has been a guest conductor and professor at the CNSM of Paris, the Felix Mendelssohn Hochschule in Leipzig and regularly gives master classes in France, Italy, Germany, Israel and the United States of America. Johannes Leertouwer plays an exceptional violin made by Antonius and Hieronymus Amati in Cremona 1619, and a fine instrument by the Dutch violin maker Willibrord Crijnen after Petrus Guarnerius in Marseille 1996. Email: johannes@acmuin.com
Graduating in 84', Mme.Martinie-Myron returned to Paris where she lives with her husband- contrabassist Richard Myron and their son. Since then she has led a varied career: performing with major new music ensembles (world creations by Pascal Dusapin); working with important period instrument groups (diapasons 415-430); and playing in world-class orchestras. She has taught in Paris-area conservatories where she is often asked to be a member of juries. In 1999, after much research at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Library of Congress and the New-York Public library (Performing Arts) Mme. Martinie-Myron founded "La Petite Société", a group of internationally renown artists, performing works in their historic context. In Spring 2001, Barbara Krakauer, near the end of her courageous struggle with breastcancer, asked Marie Martinie-Myron to be her assistant during the upcoming stage. When the need arose, Mme. Martinie-Myron was available to take over, which she did most successfully. Email: marie@acmuin.com
Returning to France, she was named co-principal cello of the Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra, staying three years, until 1988. She then left the orchestra to dedicate herself to solo activities, teaching and chamber music. Regularly invited to participate in international festivals (Les Arcs, Ansouis, l'ANMC of Nancy, Salzburg, Kobe, Japan, Italy, Australia, ex-GDR, ex-USSR, Germany...), her commitment to teaching led her to create and publish a new cello method in 3 volumes (Henry Lemoine Editions) that has been internationally praised. Odile Bourin is also active as a "teacher's teacher" in the training centers for dance and music teachers and in the pedagogy department of the National Superieur Conservatory of Paris. Her substantial discography is dedicated to little known and oft-neglected music. A partner of internationally renown artists such as Felicity Lott, Armin Jordan and the Quatuor Parisii, she regularly takes part in Rotary Club charitable actions (France, USA). A member of SPEDIDAM and ADAMI, she is also chairman of the "Association Femmes et Musique, Paris". In March 2007, she gave master classes and a duet concert in Brescia, Italy. She plays a beautiful instrument by Landolfi(Milano, ca. 1780).
Email: odile@acmuin.com
A participant in the élite Piatigorsky Seminars, Philip performed in master classes by, among others, Yo-Yo Ma and William Pleeth. Currently Principal Cellist of the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, his CD of Latin American cello music is due to be released shortly. Also a conductor, he led the Rose City Chamber Orchestra (USA) performing Baroque repertoire with top principal performers from the USA, France and the Netherlands. He conducts works ranging from Bach Cantatas to a unique chamber arrangement of The Rite of Spring, which was featured on tour in the USA. Email: philip@acmuin.com
Professor Frisch is a specialist in the music of composers from the Austro-German sphere in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, ranging from Schubert to Schoenberg. He has written numerous articles and two books on Brahms, including Brahms and the Principle of Developing Variation (1984) and Brahms: the Four Symphonies (1996). He served as editor of the volume Brahms and His World (1990) and was the founding president of the American Brahms Society in 1983. He is the co-author, with George S. Bozarth, of the Brahms article in the second edition of the New Grove Dictionary (2000). Professor Frisch's publications on Schoenberg include the book The Early Works of Arnold Schoenberg, 1893-1908 (1993) and the edited volume Schoenberg and His World (1999). He also edited and contributed to a volume on Schubert's music, Schubert: Critical and Analytical Studies (1986). Professor Frisch has twice won the ASCAP-Deems Taylor award for his writings. He has also been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany, and the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. His most recent book, which appeared in July 2005 from University of California Press, is German Modernism: Music and the Arts, which investigates the relationships between music and its cultural context in Austria and Germany during the period 1880-1915. He is currently serving as general editor for a new series from Norton, Music in Western Culture, in which he will write a volume on nineteenth-century music. Email: walter@acmuin.com
Upon graduation, Marc moved to Lyon, France where he continued his studies at the Conservatoire National de Région where he received his DEM and two years later his Diplôme d'Etat in classical trumpet, all the while performing in such diverse genres as traditional jazz, Afro-Cuban music and experimental NorthAfrican/Jewish improvisation. As an orchestral musician, Marc participated in the inaugural season of the Molise Music Festival in Italy where he was co-principal trumpet and jazz ensemble arranger and has performed with the Orchestre des Alpes (in Gap), the orchestra of the Operette Festival of Lamalou les Bains. He has also appeared as soloist with the Orchestre de l'Ain (Bourg en Bresse) and the Encore Chamber Orchestra (Chicago). He is currently a member of the brass quintet Quintette Mosaïques, and the Afro-Cuban ensemble Yury. Marc currently teaches at the Thiers Conservatory of Music where, in addition to his role as professor of trumpet, is also in charge of the improvisation curriculum and teaches advanced music theory. Email: marc@acmuin.com
"Following his studies in Avignon, he participated in several international competitions notably the "René Bartoli" and "Carpentras" Guitar Competitions as well as the "St. Marc" Composition Competition for which he was awarded the first prize." In 1994 he founded the Orchestre de guitares de Provence and has since recorded several of his works with this ensemble, such as "Voyage". He regularly gives solo recitals performing classical, romantic and contemporary works, including many of his own compositions. He is also an active chamber musician frequently performing with guitar duos and with violin. As a pedagogue, Denis is the guitar professor at the Carpentras Music School and he is the director of the Pays Voconces Music School in the south of France. His reputation as a teacher and composer/conductor has made him a highly demanded guest instructor for master classes in France and other European countries. Denis' combined musical activities as a concert artist, teacher and composer has constantly inspired him to renew his artistic and pedagogical vision. His compositions and arrangements invite listeners into a unique musical landscape rather than intimidate them with overextended complexity and have thus been played around the world most notably by the French guitar virtuoso Eric Françeries and Frank Koonce to Arizona State University. Email: denis@acmuin.com
Engaged directly thereafter by the very well known French conductor, Michel Plasson as principal flute in the National Orchestre du Capitole of Toulouse, which led her to performances in Carnegie Hall, New York and the Kenedy Arts Center in Washington, D.C., following after, she was engaged by the National Orchestre of Bordeaux-Aquitaine directed by Roberto Benzi in France. Internationally, she has been invited regularly to perform as principal flute by the Foundation Gulbenkian Orchestra of Lisbon - Portugal, under the direction of Muhai Tang, Philippe Bender and Richard Hickox, Wolfgang Sawallisch... Patricia Nagle has performed and recorded under the direction of such illustrious conductors as Zdenek Macal, Eliahu Inbal, John Elliott Gardiner, Kurt Mazur, Klaus Weise, Yann-Pascal Tortelier, Jesus Lobez-Cobos and Nello Santi. Very much involved with classical as well as the contemporary repertoire, she has participated in creations, many recordings notably with EMI, television broadcasts and radio programmes throughout Europe. Her interest in the Music of the 20th century has led her to create and premier works written for her by such composers as Anthony Girard, Vincent Paulet and Alain Besson. She has also appeared as soloist with international orchestras touring in Germany and France. Presently, she is member of the instrumental ensemble comprised of soloists, "A Ciel Ouvert" diercted by Bernard Calmel and is also member of the Romantic European Orchestra performing at the 'Salle Gaveau', Paris. Very involved with research and diffusion in the press concerning her profession and pedagogy, she has interviewed James Galway, Michel Debost, and Joanne Bennett... Also she has written articles concerning physical therapists for musicians, and specifically about the new quarter tone flute, the "System Kingma" invented by the flutemaker Eva Kingma in Holland. Where in fact she owns and performs on a Kingma system Alto flute made for her by this expert craft flutemaker. Currently, Patricia Nagle is also professor at National School of Music in Orsay and the internationally known Conservatory, Ecole Normale de Musique-Alfred Cortot in Paris, and the Conservatory Darius Milhaud - Paris 14. Email: patricia@acmuin.com |
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MARILYN ENGLE is a Professor of Music at the University of Calgary and is also extensively involved in the Mount Royal College Academy program (for gifted youth). She has performed, taught, and lectured widely in North America, Europe, Japan, and Israel. She is also heard frequently in concert and on radio with the chamber ensemble, Aubade, of which she was a founding member.
A native New Yorker, RICHARD MYRON earned his B.M. degree at the Juilliard School as a student of Homer Mensch. Awarded the Frederick Zimmermann Memorial Scholarship, he earned a year later his M.M. degree. His many interests have led him to work with such diverse artists as Leonard Bernstein, William Christie, Gustave Leonhardt, Giora Feidman, Jaap Schröder, Dizzy Gillespie and Jordi Savall. His studies of early music, and great friendship with Albert Fuller have led to his activities as an internationally recognized specialist in historic performance practice with the contrabass and violone.
JOHANNES LEERTOUWER was born in the Dutch city of Groningen and began playing the violin at an early age. A graduate of the Sweelink Conservatory of Amsterdam as a student Bouw Lemkes, he took part in the Oscar Back Violin Competition of 1983 and was awarded the Elisabeth Back Prize as well as the Buma Award for the best performance of the obligatory contemporary work. This enabled him to continue his studies with Josef Suk in Vienna and Prague.
MARIE MARTINIE-MYRON began her violin studies in Paris Conservatory after graduating, she was named by the French Television and the City of Orléans "OutstandingYoung Artist". She participated in Master-Classes given by Pierre Amoyal (technique Jascha Heifetz) and Michèle Auclair (technique David Oistrach). For several summers, she studied with Aurélia Spadaro (technique Zino Francescatti) and her personal mentor, Barbara Krakauer (technique Ivan Galamian) in Provence.Under Barbara Krakauer 's recommendation, she studied at the Juilliard School in Dorothy Delay's violin class, contempory music with Stanley Wolfe and baroque repertoire with Albert Fuller.
Cellist ODILE BOURIN began her studies at the Paris National Superior Conservatory of Music at the age of eleven, and received her diploma with honors as a student of Philippe Muller. She then travelled to The Hague (NL) to work with Anner Bijlsma, followed by post-graduate studies in New York under the direction of Harvey Shapiro at the Juilliard School.
PHILIP HANSEN has performed to acclaim in a variety of musical settings. His specialties in both Baroque and contemporary musical settings speak to his unique artistic and analytic sensibilities as well his communicative power. Called "a delicious cellist" by Portland Baroque Orchestra's Monica Huggett and possessing "virtuosity and élan" (Pulitzer Prize-winner David del Tredici), the Los Angeles Times also praised him for his "admirable virtuosity." He has performed throughout Canada and the USA, including New York's Merkin Hall in a solo appearance, as well as in Europe and Asia, where he performed and taught at the Shanghai Conservatory by invitation of Macarthur "Genius" awardee, composer Bright Sheng.
WALTER FRISCH is H. Harold Gumm/Harry and Albert von Tilzer Professor of Music at Columbia University in New York, where he has taught since 1982. He has also been a guest professor at the University of Freiburg in Germany, Yale University, and the University of Pennsylvania. He has lectured on music throughout the United States, and in England, France, Spain, and Germany. His writings have been translated into French, German, Japanese, Spanish, and Italian.
Born in Chicago, MARC CHEVALIER studied with several renowned pedagogues of the Chicago brass tradition (Arnold Jacobs, Vincent Cichowicz, Ross Beacraft) before receiving his Bachelor of Music degree from Northwestern University in trumpet performance and music theory as a student of Charles Geyer. As a jazz musician, Marc studied with Mike Kocour and received the "Outstanding Jazz Solist" award at the Purdue Jazz Festival.
DENIS MORTAGNE completed his guitar studies at the Conservatory of Avignon all the while studying composition, cello, music history, music theory and conducting. Following his conservatory years, he completed advance studies in composition and guitar with Janine Rueff, Jean Claude Henry, George Hugon and Karel Harms and René Bartoli respectively.
Originally from the United States, PATRICIA NAGLE, after receiving her Bachelors Degree in Performance at the University of Massachusetts, came to France to perfect flute studies with Maxence Larrieu and Michel Debost, while participation in the Master Classes of Jean-Pierre Rampal and Andras Adorjan.