Instrumentalists

Gabriel Arregui   Organ, harpsichord

Gabriel Arregui holds degrees from the University of Southern California (Accompanying and Collaborative Piano) and Loma Linda University (Organ Performance). His professors have included Gwendolyn Koldofsky, Brooks Smith and Jean Barr (Accompanying), Anita Norskov Olson (Piano), Malcolm Hamilton (Harpsichord), and Donald J. Vaughn (Organ). He has appeared in recital with Julianne Baird, Rosa Lamoreaux and John Thiessen, has taught 18th-century counterpoint at La Sierra University, and currently serves as Organist-Choirmaster at St Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Encinitas, California.

This is his 17th year with the Baroque Music Festival, performing, at one time or another, at each of the five concerts.

Jolianne von Einem   Violin

Jolianne von Einem currently appears with the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Magnificat, the California Bach Society, and the Portland Baroque Orchestra. She has traveled to Japan with the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, to Singapore and Hong Kong with the American Bach Soloists, and has appeared in New York City, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany, England and France. Her recordings include the Mendelssohn Octet with Hausmusik on EMI, Eighteenth Century Music for Lute and Strings with Trio Galanterie on Audioquest, and Legrenzi cantatas and trio sonatas with El Mundo on Koch International.

A native of Los Angeles, she holds degrees from UCLA and the University of Southern California, where she studied modern violin with Alex Treger and Alice Schoenfeld. Baroque violin study with Monica Huggett led her to specialize in historical performance practice, and she became a founding member of the Los Angeles Baroque Orchestra. She performs regularly with fellow violinist Rob Diggins.

Timothy Howard   Organ/Harpsichord

Timothy Howard is Lecturer in Music at California State University, Northridge, where he teaches organ, harpsichord, music theory and music technology. He is founding Artistic Director of Opus Performing Arts, a professional arts group. He is the organist at the Pasadena Presbyterian Church and has held a number of elected positions in the American Guild of Organists, including Far West Regional Councillor and local chapter Dean. Howard holds the Doctor of Musical Arts degree with honors from the University of Southern California and is a member of Pi Kappa Lambda, the national music academic honor society.

For some fifteen years, Howard was Chorusmaster for the Los Angeles Music Theatre Company, preparing vocal ensembles for that company’s semi-annual opera productions; in 1998 he made his operatic conducting debut, leading singers and orchestra in Mozart’s Bastien und Bastienne and Der Schauspieldirektor. His work as composer, arranger, and collaborative performer can be heard on Christopher Parkening’s Simple Gifts (Angel Records), and he has several published compositions and arrangements to his credit.

Timothy Landauer    Violoncello

Timothy Landauer was born in Shanghai, the son of musicians. He studied with his father and attended the Shanghai Conservatory Middle School. He continued his studies with Eleonore Schoenfeld at USC, where he earned his master’s degree and was immediately invited to join the faculty as a lecturer and assistant to Lynn Harrell. He has performed as a soloist with the Russian Philharmonic Orchestra, Gulbenkian Orchestra (Lisbon), Hong Kong Philharmonic, Taiwan National Symphony, Beijing Symphony, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Maryland Symphony, Pacific Symphony Orchestra, and the Grand Teton Festival. Other engagements have included recitals at Carnegie Recital Hall, the Ambassador Auditorium in Los Angeles, and Montreal’s Orford Arts Center.

Landauer has won numerous prestigious prizes, among them the Concert Artists Guild International Award, the national Gregor Piatigorsky Memorial Cello Award of the Young Musicians Foundation, the Samuel Applebaum Grand Prize in the American String Teachers Association’s National Solo Competition, and the Hammer-Rostropovich Scholarship Award. He received Arts Orange County’s “Outstanding Individual Artist Award” in 2004.

David Shostac   Flute

David Shostac, principal flutist and a frequent soloist with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, has collaborated as a featured artist with conductors Sir Neville Marriner, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Iona Brown, Christopher Hogwood, Cristof Perick, Gerard Schwarz, Claudio Scimone, Karl Richter, Helmut Rilling, Jorge Mester, Henryk Szeryng, Jeffery Kahane, and many others. Solo appearances have included the Hollywood Bowl, Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival, the Casals Festival of Puerto Rico, the Aspen Music Festival, the Ojai Festival, the Stratford (Ontario) Festival, and the Carmel Bach Festival.

Shostac holds a master’s degree from Julliard, where he studied on a scholarship with Julius Baker. He has recorded on the Crystal, Angel, Nonesuch, Excelsior Records and Columbia labels, most recently J.S. Bach: The Six Flute Sonatas with harpsichordist Igor Kipnis and cellist John Walz. He played the flute solos on the 2006 Academy Awards show, heard by over one billion people, and will perform his own Carmen Fantasy for solo flute and orchestra at the National Flute Association Convention in Albuquerque this August. Formerly a faculty member at the University of Southern California and currently on the faculty of California State University Northridge, he is the author of Super Warm-ups for the Flute, and his recording of the Vivaldi flute concertos with the Song of the Angels Flute Orchestra has just been released on CD.

William Skeen   Violoncello, viola da gamba

William Skeen regularly performs with Philharmonia Baroque and American Bach Soloists in the Bay Area, and Musica Angelica in Los Angeles. He has appeared as cello soloist with the Baroque orchestras of Los Angeles, Portland and Seattle, as well as with the San Diego Bach Collegium. He is a notable and frequent continuo cellist at major American opera houses such as Chicago Opera and San Diego Opera. He also performs with the New Esterhàzy Quartet, Voices of Music, El Mundo, Galanterie, and La Monica, which he cofounded in 1999.

A graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Music and the University of Southern California, Skeen has taught Baroque cello and viola da gamba at USC since 2000. He is associate principal cellist of the Carmel Bach Festival, and held the same position in the Stockton Symphony for many years. He has recorded for Koch, Delos, BIS, Hannsler, Sono Luminus, and Pandore records. He returns regularly to our Festival as violoncello and gamba soloist, along with his wife Ondine, who plays viola in our Festival Orchestra.