New in 2012 on the campus of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts is the Magnolia Baroque Festival Summer Institute, May 21-31.

An outgrowth of the well-established and highly successful Magnolia Baroque Festival, the Institute will offer select students the opportunity to studyhistorical performance practice and establish connections with prominent early music artists.

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Students in the 10-day workshop will have daily master classes, daily chamber ensemble coaching and daily dance classes. Disciplines include violin, viola, cello/gamba, theorbo/lute, keyboard instruments, oboe/recorder, trumpet, and voice, and Baroque dance, and students will participate in a reading orchestra. Additional classes in performance practice and special topics will also be offered. A mini-festival of student performances will be held near the end of the session, and students will have the opportunity to attend the public performances of the Magnolia Baroque Festival, which will run concurrently with the Institute. For a sample daily schedule of workshop classes, click here. Please note that this schedule is subject to change.

Violin

Julie Andrijeski
Ms. Andrijeski teaches early music performance practice and baroque dance at Case Western Reserve University, where she also directs the baroque orchestra and chamber ensembles. She regularly appears with several ensembles; most notably, the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra (Artistic Director), New York State Baroque (Concertmaster), Apollo's Fire (Principal Player), and Quicksilver (Co-Director). She has recorded on the Dorian, Centaur, and Musica Omnia labels.

Ingrid Matthews
Ingrid Matthews is the Music Director of the Seattle Baroque Orchestra and one of today’s most highly-respected baroque violinists. She has appeared as soloist, guest director or concertmaster with many of today’s leading early music ensembles including the New York Collegium, the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, the Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, Musica Angelica (Los Angeles), New Trinity Baroque (Atlanta), the Bach Sinfonia (WashingtonDC), Tafelmusik, and many others. Matthews has won international critical acclaim for her solo discography which ranges from early Italian literature through J.S. Bach. Ingrid has taught at the University of Toronto, Indiana University, the University of Southern California, and numerous festivals and workshops, and she is currently on the faculty of the Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle.

Viola

Karina Fox
Karina Fox holds degrees from New England Conservatory of Music and the Cleveland Institute of Music. She is currently principal second violin with Tempesta di Mare in Philadelphia, principal violist with Apollo’s Fire, assistant principal violist of the Carmel Bach Festival Orchestra, and violist with New York State Baroque.

Cello/Gamba

Brent Wissick
Mr. Wissick is professor of music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he teaches cello, viola da gamba and early music ensembles. He is a member of Ensemble Chanterellle and the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra, and a frequent guest with American Bach Soloists, Folger Consort, Concert Royal, Musica Angelica, Smithsonian Chambers Players and Dallas Bach Society. He has recorded on the Centaur, Albany and Koch International labels.

Oboe/Recorder

Debra Nagy
Debra Nagy earned her doctorate in Early Music from Case Western Reserve University, where she directs the singers and instrumentalists of the Collegium Musicum. Among the ensembles with which she has performed at American Bach Soloists, Musica Angelica, Portland Baroque Orchestra, Seattle Baroque Orchestra, Apollo’s Fire, Tempesta di Mare and Clarion Society and Ensemble Rebel.

Trumpet

Barry Bauguess
Barry Bauguess frequently performs with period instrument orchestras including the Portland Baroque Orchestra, Apollo’s Fire, the Smithsonian Chamber ORchstra, the Washington Baroque Consort, the American Bach Soloists, Tafelmusick and New York’s Ensemble for Early Music. He is a faculty member of the Baroque Performance Institute at Oberlin Conservatory; co-founder of Clarino Consort, the nation’s only professional baroque trumpet ensemble; and owner of The Baroque Trumpet Shop in New Bern, NC. He was a founding member of Matrix Brass Quintet and Kordax Brass Quintet, and he has recorded extensively.

Theorbo/Lute

John Lenti
A graduate of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and Indiana University, John Lenti performs extensively across the United States and abroad. He is assistant music director for the Seattle Baroque Orchestra, for which he plays continuo, and is a founding member of Plaine & Easie and the I-90 Collective.

Continuo/Harpsichord

Joseph Gascho
Joseph Gascho’s varied career includes performing as a soloist and collaborative artist; conducting opera, orchestra and choir; editing and arranging scores, and teaching and lecturing. He teaches at George Washington University and at Oberlin Conservatory’s Baroque Performance Institute.

Baroque Dance

Paige Whitley-Bauguess
Paige Whitley-Bauguess earned her bachelor’s degree in ballet from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and her master’s degree in dance history from the University of California at Riverside. She has interpreted and performed baroque theatre dance in venues all over the world, and is a former member of the New York Baroque Dance Company. Ms. Whitley-Bauguess currently serves as director of the Baroque Arts Project and Atlantic Dance Theatre in New Bern, NC.

Voice

Glenn Siebert
A member of the faculty of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts since 1991, tenor Glenn Siebert has performed with the New York Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Royal Flanders Philharmonic, among other orchestras. He has appeared with opera companies and at music festivals including Ravinia, Blossom, Tanglewood and Oviedo. His interest in baroque music has led to performance with original instrument ensembles including Philharmonia Baroque, Boston Baroque, Chicago’s Music of the Baroque and Anima Eterna in Brussels.

Jeanne Fischer
Soprano Jeanne Fischer is a member of the voice faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she teaches studio voice, diction, and baroque performance practice. She has performed with early music ensembles up and down the east coast, including the Smithsonian Chamber Players, the Bach Sinfonia, the Dryden Ensemble, the Washington Bach Consort and Ensemble Courant. She holds graduate degrees in voice from London’s Royal Academy of Music and the University of Maryland

May 21 - 31, 2012

Please note: costs subject to approval by UNCSA Board of Trustees and may change slightly

UNCSA Summer 2012 – Deadlines and Cancellation Policy

Deadlines

Online Registration opens                   January 9

Deadline for International Students      April 1

Priority Registration deadline*              April 25

Payment in full due                               May 1

* Priority Registration guarantees your place in your chosen program. Registrations received after April 25, 2012 are accepted on a case-by-case basis as residence hall space allows.

Space in each program is limited. Registrations received after a program has filled will be placed on a waiting list pending withdrawals.

Cancellation terms

$300 non-refundable deposit due at registration – check or credit card (credit cards accepted at a later date)

Student withdrawal by May 1: refund of one-half of total paid, less non-refundable deposit

Student withdrawal after May 1: no refunds

In the event a program is cancelled by UNCSA, payments will be refunded in full

Students who wish to apply should send an mp3 or video of representative repertory to siebertg@uncsa.edu.

Students who have been pre-approved can receive an application link from the teacher or from siebertg@uncsa.edu.