Biographies

David Granger serves as principal bassoonist with the Sacramento Philharmonic Orchestra, the Modesto Symphony Orchestra, the Napa Valley Symphony, the Fremont Philharmonic, and is a member of the Oakland East Bay Symphony. He received his Bachelor of Music in 1973 and his Master of Music in 1975 from the Manhattan School of Music in New York City. Mr. Granger was principal bassoonist of the Sacramento Symphony from 1981 until 1996. In 1983 he began teaching at the University of California, Davis, and, in 1985, became coordinator of the music department's student chamber music program. He began teaching at the University of California, Berkeley in 2002. Mr. Granger also attended Indiana University's Early Music Institute and received a Performer Diploma in baroque bassoon in 2004. There he studied early bassoons with Michael McCraw and worked with some of the leading artists in period instrument performance. His period instrument experiences include performances with the American Bach Soloists and the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra in Toronto, Canada. Mr. Granger plays on a copy of an early 17th century dulcian built by Leslie Ross, New York, 2000.

Edwin Huizinga is a recent graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Ohio where he studied baroque and modern violin with Marilyn McDonald. Edwin began playing the violin at the Suzuki string school in Guelph, Ontario, at age 5. In 1998, Mr. Huizinga began studies with Mark Fewer at the Glenn Gould School of Music’s Young Artist Performance Academy in Toronto. In January 2005, he traveled to Panama, where he toured with his quartet and taught at the National Music Festival in Panama City. Mr. Huizinga has appeared as soloist with the Kitchener Waterloo Chamber Orchestra on March 25, 2006, performing Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 5, and with the Oberlin Baroque orchestra. He also performed in both the chamber and contemporary orchestras at the Oberlin Conservatory. From December 2005, through January 2006, he participated in the Oberlin Orchestra tour of China. This past summer he studied in Berlin with the concertmaster of the Berliner Philharmoniker, and was invited to play in the 2006 Carmel Bach Festival Orchestra. He will be returning to Carmel for this upcoming summer’s festival. On a recital given as a fundraiser during the summer of 2005, the Puslinch Pioneer wrote “[Mr. Huizinga’s] ambition is to bring classical music to the attention of younger people in such a way that makes it more appealing to them. It was a wonderful, magical evening of music.” Mr. Huizinga is currently continuing his studies in performance and chamber music at the San Francisco Conservatory.

Adriane Post became interested in Historical Performance during her studies at Oberlin, where she first learned baroque violin by osmosis, playing for fun with her friends. She received her BM from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, studying both modern and baroque violin with Marilyn McDonald. Adriane is a member of Apollo's Fire and New Trinity Baroque, and has appeared with both groups as soloist. She has performed with Baroque groups such as Concert Royal, New York State Baroque, Publick Musick, and L'academie, and has engagements at several Festivals in Europe, including the International Handel Festival, in Göttingen, Germany, and the Vammala Early Music Festival in Finland. Her diverse interests have led her to Improvisation and Jazz, and she especially enjoys playing in as many different small ensemble settings as possible. Adriane studied in Boston with Nicolas Kitchen, and in France with Régis Pasquier, where she studied music and French for a year, and her mentors include Cynthia Roberts and Jeanne Lamon. A native of Burlington, Vermont, Adriane is now based in Brooklyn, New York, and freelances on modern and baroque violin.

GUEST ARTISTS

Cited for his "stylish and soulful playing" by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Josh Lee leads a mixed up musical life performing on viols and double bass with some of the world's leaders in early music. An alum of the Peabody Conservatory and the Longy School of Music, he studied double bass with Harold Hall Robinson and viols with Ann Marie Morgan and Jane Hershey. Josh is the founder of the ensemble Ostraka, and has performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, Carmel Bach Festival, Musica Pacifica, Atlanta Baroque Orchestra, Wiener Akademie, Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra, New Trinity Baroque, Musica Angelica, Hesperus and Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra. Josh's performances have been heard on Performance Today and Harmonia, and he has recorded for Dorian Sono Luminus, Reference Recordings, NPR and Koch International. A resident of San Francisco, Josh is director of the Viola da Gamba Society of America Young Players' Weekend.

John Lenti has performed on lute and theorbo throughout the United States, at early music festivals in Indianapolis, Bloomington (IN) and Boston, the Festival Guldener-Herbst in Sondershausen, Germany, and at the Magnolia Baroque Festival in North Carolina. John is assistant director and regularly plays continuo for the Seattle Baroque Orchestra and has performed with the Seattle Opera and the Pittsburgh Opera (with Chatham Baroque), besides playing chamber music with groups like Ensemble Amarelli, Stolen Bread, Harmonious Blacksmith and La Monica. His recording credits include The Amorous Lyre with La Monica, The Courtesan's Arts with Ellen Hargis on Oxford University Press, and a forthcoming album of lute songs and lute solos with soprano Linda Tsatsanis. A native of South Carolina, John studied guitar at the North Carolina School of the Arts before going to London to study lute with Jacob Heringman and Elizabeth Kenny. He returned to the United States in 2002 to study with Nigel North at Indiana University. Other significant musical help and inspiration have come from Ricardo Cobo, Ronn McFarlane and Pat O'Brien.

Kathryn Montoya is currently her DMA at Indiana University, Bloomington in historical winds. Kathryn has performed with many ensembles, including the Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, Ensemble Arion, the Cleveland Orchestra, Tafelmusik, Chicago Opera Theatre, Portland Baroque Orchestra, Musica Angelica, Hesperus, and the Washington Bach Consort among others. She is a recipient of the prestigious PerformersCertificate at IU and was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study in Germany. Ms. Montoya is currently professor of recorder at University of North Texas and has given master classes at Northwestern University,Eastern Illinois University, Iowa State University and appeared on faculty at Oberlin's Baroque Performance Institute. She has recorded for the Naxos, CPO, and NCA labels.

Violinist and violist David Sego has recently moved to the Bay Area from Phoenix, Arizona. As a student of William Magers, he received Bachelor and Master's degrees in viola performance from Arizona State University. He has studied Baroque violin with Marilyn McDonald and David Douglass, and has participated in masterclasses with Monica Huggett, Andrew Manze and Stanley Ritchie. In Arizona, David was an active freelancer, appearing with Bernadette Peters, Josh Groban, Stevie Wonder, Johnny Mathis and Sarah Brightman, among others. In the Spring of 2005, David enjoyed a stint as a member of the pit orchestra for Disney's The Lion King (Cheetah touring company). David has taught music at Tempe Preparatory Academy, violin at Arizona School for the Arts and baroque violin at Arizona State University. David has already established an active performing career in the Bay Area, appearing with Sacramento Baroque Soloists, Ensemble Mirable, Jubilate! and Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra. He is a member of Bay Area early music ensemble Galileo Project, which he co-founded in 2002.

Canadian-born soprano Linda Tsatsanis enjoys an active and diverse career. Hailed as "ravishing" (New York Times) and possessing a voice with "crystalline purity" (Seattle Times), Ms. Tsatsanis' career spans the concert hall, the opera stage, and performance in movies and television making early music a specialty. Ms. Tsatsanis has appeared as soloist with the Seattle Baroque Orchestra, Auburn Symphony, Gallery Concerts, Seattle Choral Company, Harmonious Blacksmith, Seattle Trumpet Consort and the Early Music Guild and performs regularly with the Pacific Northwest ensembles such as the Tudor Choir, Cappella Romana and the Seattle Opera Chorus. She has made recent appearances at the Indianapolis, Boston and Bloomington Early Music Festivals. Ms. Tsatsanis holds degrees from the University of Toronto and Indiana University. She has a new solo album with Origin Classical and can be heard on recordings by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and Naxos.