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Amanda Burr, baroque violin, has performed with numerous baroque ensembles, including the Arcadia Players, the Vox Consort and Village Harmony, and with keyboardist Monica Jakuc. She received her Bachelors of Music at New England Conservatory and her Masters at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she performed in the Graduate String Quartet and in numerous faculty recitals. Amanda is a recipient of Boston University’s Albert Spaulding Memorial Scholarship. She is a member of the Springfield Symphony and has performed in the Spoleto Festival Orchestra, the National Repertory Orchestra and the Colorado Symphony. Her principal teachers include James Buswell, Marylou Speaker Churchill, and Bayla Keyess. Amanda also enjoys playing gypsy violin with the Bohemian Quartet, which recently released its first CD , Word of Mouth. |
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Doug teaches lute at the Longy
School of Music, where he serves as acting chairman of the Early Music Program.
Other lute teaching includes Amherst Early Music Festival, the Lute Society of America Seminars, Boston
University and Brandeis University. Doug has commissioned many new works for
the lute, and he edited the lute music of composer
Betsy Warren for
Wiscasset Press. He also cross-trains as a violone player and bebop bassist,
catalogs early music manuscripts at Harvard and teaches a popular course on
music cognition at Tufts University.
Doug can be heard on
recording labels Telarc, Titanic, Sine Qua Non, Revels and LSA.
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Marshall has been described as "astonishingly versatile" by the New York Times for his multi-faceted career as a countertenor, composer, violinist, actor, and lyricist. Since graduating from the Juilliard School, he has earned many widely varied theatre, opera and television credits. Marshall was an Artist-in-Residence at St. John the Divine as countertenor soloist with New York's Ensemble for Early Music (EEM) for six seasons. During his tenure with EEM he toured extensively throughout the US and Canada, recorded several CDs and created roles in four acclaimed Early Music Dramas. In 2000 Mr. Coid's Whitman Cantata won the Dessoff Choirs' 75th Anniversary Prize and was premiered in Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center. Mr. Coid is currently the on-stage violin soloist in Chicago on Broadway, countertenor soloist/composer-in-residence with the Queen's Chamber Band in NYC. He has been on the Columbia University Adjunct Music Faculty for more than a decade and each summer appears at the Craftsbury Festival in Vermont as a soloist, composer and educator. |
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Thom, Founder and Artistic
Director of 
In addition to her role as Fanfare Consort Leader, Ms. Rautenberg
performs as a soloist, chamber musician and recording artist. She gave her New York City
solo debut with Concert Royale at the Mostly
Mozart festival in Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center. She performed her New York
City recital debut in Merkin Hall playing virtuoso masters for the baroque
violin. The recital included the first modern-day performances on
original instruments of works by Paganini. Lisa can be heard on over 100
recordings on labels such as Champignon International,
SONY Classical, Virgin Classics, Newport Classics, MCA, Decca, Nonesuch,
Telarc, and Deutsche Grammophone,
including solo violin work on the same recording of Bach’s complete
Brandenburg Concertos as you hear Thom Freas. Ms. Rautenberg has
performed concertos in many of the major halls in America and Europe
including Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Kennedy Center, Orchestra Hall
Chicago, Boston Symphony Hall, Hercules Hall, Concertgebow, BBC London, and
at the Proms festival. Ms. Rautenberg holds a degree
in violin performance with distinction from Indiana University, where she
was a student of Josef Gingold. She also studied early violin techniques
with Marilyn McDonald. Lisa is the Associate Concertmaster
of the Hartford Symphony.
Douglas Freundlich launched
his lute career with The Greenwood Consort, winning the Erwin Bodky Award
and Musical America "Young Artist of the Year." He has performed with
the Boston Symphony, Boston Baroque, Emmanuel Music, Swanne Alley, Ex
Machina, Spoleto Festival, Capriole, and many other ensembles. Doug is a
founding member of the Venere Lute Quartet, whose CD Sweet Division
has received rave reviews from Early Music America Magazine,
Goldberg, and Renaissance Magazine. 
