Baltimore Consort
Baltimore Consort
Baltimore Consort
Mary
Anne
Ballard,
early
strings,
also
currently
plays
with
Galileo’s
Daughters,
Mr.
Jefferson’s
Musicians,
and
Fleur
de
Lys.
Formerly,
she
directed
or
coached
early
music
at
the
Peabody
Conservatory,
Princeton
University,
and
the
University
of
Pennsylvania,
where
she
founded
the
Collegium
Musicum
and
produced
medieval
music
drama.
She
is
now
on
the
faculty
of
Oberlin’s
summer
Baroque
Performance
Institute.
A
resident
of
Indiana
and
New
York
City,
she
music-‐directed
the
Play
of
Daniel
for
75th
Anniversary
of
the
opening
of
The
Cloisters
Museum
and
for
the
Twelfth
Night
Festival
at
Trinity
Wall
Street
Church
in
New
York.
Mark
Cudek
is
Director
of
the
Early
Music
program
at
the
Peabody
Conservatory,
and
also
Artistic
Director
of
the
Indianapolis
Early
Music
Festival.
In
recognition
of
his
work
as
Founder/Director
of
the
Peabody
Renaissance
Ensemble
and
also
the
High
School
Early
Music
Program
at
the
Interlochen
Arts
Camp,
Mark
received
from
Early
Music
America
the
2001
Thomas
Binkley
Award
and
the
2005
Award
for
Outstanding
Contribution
to
Early
Music
Education.
He
has
regularly
performed
with
Apollo’s
Fire,
The
Catacoustic
Concort,
and
Hesperus,
and,
in
his
youth,
worked
as
a
café
guitarist
in
the
Virgin
Islands.
Mark
is
the
2014
recipient
of
the
Johns
Hopkins
University
Alumni
Association’s
Global
Achievement
Award.
Larry
Lipkis
is
Composer-‐in-‐Residence
and
Director
of
Early
Music
at
Moravian
College
in
Bethlehem,
Pa.
He
has
also
served
as
Director
of
Pinewoods
Early
Music
Week,
and
is
a
longtime
Music
Director
for
the
Pennsylvania
Shakespeare
Festival.
His
cello
concerto,
Scaramouche,
appears
on
the
Koch
label,
and
his
bass
trombone
concerto,
Harlequin,
was
premiered
by
the
Los
Angeles
Philharmonic
to
rave
reviews.
The
trilogy
was
completed
when
his
bassoon
concerto,
Pierrot,
was
performed
by
the
Houston
Symphony.
Larry is on the Board
of Managers of the Bach Choir of Bethlehem, and often lectures on the topic of Bach and Rhetoric. He has
served as a faculty member at the NEH Bach Summer Scholar Institute in Leipzig in July 2012 and 2014.
Ronn
McFarlane
has
released
over
30
CDs
on
Dorian
and
Sono
Luminus,
including
solo
collections,
lute
songs,
lute
duets,
music
for
flute
&
lute,
Elizabethan
lute
music
and
poetry,
the
complete
lute
music
of
Vivaldi,
and
Baltimore
Consort
albums.
In
the
tradition
of
the
lutenist/composers
of
past
centuries,
Ronn
has
composed
new
music
for
the
lute.
These
original
compositions
are
the
focus
of
his
solo
CD,
Indigo
Road,
which
received
a
Grammy
Award
Nomination
in
2009.
The
CD
release,
One
Morning,
features
“Ayreheart,”
a
new
ensemble
brought
together
to
perform
Ronn’s
new
music.
Visit
www.ronnmcfarlane.com.
Mindy
Rosenfeld,
a
founding
member
of
the
Baltimore
Consort
whose
playing
graced
our
first
decade,
is
also
a
long-‐time
member
of
San
Francisco’s
Philharmonia
Baroque
Orchestra.
Fluent
in
a
wide
range
of
musical
styles,
she
plays
both
wooden
and
modern
flutes
in
addition
to
recorders,
whistles,
crumhorns,
and
early
harp.
Mindy
actively
freelances
on
the
West
Coast
and
is
Principal
Flute
at
the
Mendocino
Music
Festival
in
her
hometown.
The
mother
of
five
boys,
she
loves
dancing
and
tending
her
organic
garden
at
home
on
“The
Boy
Farm”.
Danielle Svonavec, soprano, is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame (BS in mathmatics, 1999, and
MM in Voice, 2003) where she now teaches voice. While still a student, she stepped in on short notice as
soloist for the Baltimore Consort’s nine-concert 1999 Christmas tour. Since then she has toured with the
Consort and appeared with the Smithsonian Chamber Players, Pomerium, the South Bend Chamber
Orchestra, and the South Bend Symphony. She currently serves as the Cantor for the nationally televised
mass at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart at Notre Dame, and recently began teaching Middle School music at
the Trinity School Greenlawn in South Bend. Danielle lives with her husband and three daughters on a farm
near Goshen, Indiana
A
note
about
our
instruments
The
Fairy
Queen
and
her
maides
daunced
about
the
garden,
singing
a
Song
of
six
parts,
with
the
musick
of
an
exquisite
consort;
wherein
was
the
lute,
bandora,
base-‐violl,
citterne,
treble
viol
and
flute.
—from
The
Honourable
Entertainment
at
Elvetham,
anon.,
1591.
The
“exquisite
consort”
that
entertained
Queen
Elizabeth
upon
her
visit
to
the
Earl
of
Hertford
in
September
1591
was,
in
respect
to
the
specific
instruments
employed,
the
exact
equivalent
of
the
Baltimore
Consort.
Referred
to
in
modern
times
as
a
“mixed”
or
“broken”
consort,
this
band
enjoyed
popularity
in
the
Elizabethan
and
early
Jacobean
periods.
Combining
the
sultry
viols,
the
ethereal
flute,
the
‘sprightly
and
cheerful’
cittern,
the
‘deep’
bandora
and
the
‘noble’
lute,
the
ensemble
is
capable
of
many
moods,
from
the
joyful
to
the
melancholy.
The
Baltimore
Consort
will
not
be
using
a
bandora
in
tonight’s
concert;
instead,
we
will
provide
additional
instrumental
color
by
including
bagpipes,
recorders,
fifes,
krummhorns,
and
a
gemshorn.
Like
the
plays
for
which
it
often
provided
accompaniment,
Elizabethan
consort
music,
“reflected
the
remarkable
synthesis
of
popular
taste
and
humanist
eloquence
which
gave
vitality
to
the
Shakespearean
theatre”
in
appealing
“to
every
level
of
spectator,
from
the
simplest
groundling
who
could
hum
along
with
his
favorite
ballad
tune
to
the
most
sophisticated
gallant
who
could
take
delight
in
the
rich
harmony
and
embroidery
surrounding
the
melody”
(from
Sydney
Beck’s
introduction
to
his
edition
of
Morley’s
Consort
Lessons).