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Barriere: Cello Sonata in B minor
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Barriere: Cello Sonata in B minor
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Released: Jul 28, 2011
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  • Genre: Classical

    Location Woodside, Un

    Profile Views: 14445

    Last Login: 5/2/2013

    Member Since 1/31/2007

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  • Bio

    ENSEMBLE LEONARDA was formed at the Peabody Conservatory of Music, where its founding members were participating in the early music program. Named after the composer Isabella Leonarda (1620–1704), this group of gifted individuals came together to form an ensemble dedicated to performing works of the Baroque masters with vim, vigor, and enthusiasm. Past performances have included recitals at the Church of the Epiphany as part of the "Washington Musicians for Nuclear Disarmament" series; Squires Recital Salon at Virginia Tech; St. Peter's Lutheran Church, St. Paul's Chapel–Columbia University, the Donnell Library Center, Music in Chelsea, Church of the Transfiguration, and the Midtown concert series at St. Bartholomew's Church.

  • Members

    Susan Graham, traverso; Marika Holmqvist, violin; David Himmelheber, cello; Nancy Kito, harpsichord.

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  1. Ensemble Leonarda

    We're playing in Brooklyn!: Sun. May 19 at 3pm. St. JME, 283 Prospect Ave, Park Slope, Brooklyn. http://t.co/96dOeXGSQw

  2. Ensemble Leonarda

    We're playing Park Slope, Brooklyn next! Save the date: Sunday, May 19 at 3 pm. St. JME, 283 Prospect Ave, Brooklyn.

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    EL's next concert, "French Fabulosity" Sun. March 10, 4pm.With singers Lauren Alfano & Amaranta Viera, Couperin's Lecons de Tenebres.

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    Our next concert, Sun. Jan. 27 at 4pm, French Church du St. Esprit, 109 E. 60th St. All-German program. With guest violinist Nadir Adlam.

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    Our next concert, "Teutonic Titans" Sun. Jan. 27, 2013 at 4pm. Music of C.P.E. Bach, Telemann, Fischer, & others. http://t.co/c88DVZS3

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ABOUT THE MUSICIANS

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Flutist SUSAN GRAHAM graduated from the Peabody Conservatory of Music, where she served as principal flute in the Peabody Symphony Orchestra. She holds a Master's degree in performance from Rutgers University. Her teachers have included Robert Willoughby, Timothy Day, Mark Sparks, James Scott, and Janet See. Ms. Graham has a large private teaching studio, performs as soloist throughout the metropolitan area, and appears frequently as guest artist with the Summit Strings Quartet.

MARIKA HOLMQVIST, a native of Finland, currently serves as concertmaster and Artistic Co-Director of Cambridge Concentus, concertmaster of Buxtehude Consort in Philadelphia, co-concertmaster of Sinfonia New York, and Aradia in Toronto. She has toured extensively throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Asia performing under conductors such as Joshua Rifkin, Ton Koopman and Richard Egarr, and can be heard on several CD labels including Naxos, Ex Cathedra and Brilliant Classics. Marika has taught baroque string playing techniques at Rutgers University, and was recently asked to lead and coach two student baroque opera productions at Harvard University and Cornell University. She holds two masters’ degrees (Baroque Performance Practice and Baroque Violin Pedagogy) from the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, The Netherlands.

DAVID HIMMELHEBER, cellist, is a graduate of the Mannes College of Music in New York City. His principal teachers include Dr. William Grubb, Marcy Rosen, and Timothy Eddy. David has performed in master classes for such artists as Lynn Harrell, Raphael Wallfisch, Norman Fischer, Joel Krosnick, Bonnie Hampton, and Timothy Eddy, as well as members of the Mendelssohn, Brentano, Orion and Juilliard Quartets. As a solo artist, David has performed at the Eastern Music Festival, with the Carmel Symphony, and was invited to perform Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations with the Tchaikovsky International Festival Orchestra. His work in the baroque style has led to collaborations with Andrew Megill at Westminster Choir College, Fuma Sacra, Ensemble Duriusculus and the Australian Vocal Consort. He is a frequent solo and chamber recitalist in New York City.

NANCY KITO holds degrees from New York University (B.A., M.A. in French and Classical Studies; minor in secondary education) and the Peabody Conservatory of Music (B.M. organ performance), with additional studies in harpsichord at the Université de Montréal in Canada. She studied organ with Walter Hilse and Donald S. Sutherland, harpsichord with Webb Wiggins, and has participated in masterclasses/coachings with Jaäp Schroder and Arthur Haas, as well as the International Baroque Institute at Longy, the Baroque Academy of the Amherst Early Music Festival, and the Cambridge Early Music Summer School (Cambridge University, England). Ms. Kito has performed at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival with Ronald Roseman, Phyllis Bryn-Julson, Frank Morelli; the Yale Center for British Art; the Yale Chamber Players, under the direction of Jaäp Schroder; and the New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra. She is an active organist in the metropolitan New York area.

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