Baroque Music Festival Corona del Mar

Gabriel Arregui holds degrees from the University of Southern California (Accompanying and Collaborative Piano) and Loma Linda University (in Organ Performance). His professors have included Gwendolyn Koldofsky, Brooks Smith, and Jean Barr (Collaborative Piano), Anita Norskov Olson (Solo Piano), Malcolm Hamilton (Harpsichord), and Donald J. Vaughn (Organ). While at USC, he won the Hans Schiff Memorial Scholarship for excellence in chamber music, as well as the award for outstanding graduate from the Accompanying Department.

He has appeared in recital with sopranos Julianne Baird and Rosa Lamoreaux, has taught 18th-century counterpoint, and has performed for Queen Elizabeth II, the Duke of Edinburgh, and the Archbishop of Canterbury. Arregui currently serves as Organist-Choirmaster at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Encinitas, California. He has been with the Festival since 1994, performing at one time or another in each of the five concerts.

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Elizabeth Blumenstock Violin, viola d’amore, leader

Elizabeth Blumenstock, whose performances have been called “rapturous” and “riveting,” is a frequent violin soloist, concertmaster and leader with Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra under Nicholas McGegan, American Bach Soloists under Jeffrey Thomas, the Italian ensemble Il Complesso Barocco under Alan Curtis, the Goettingen Handel Festspielorchester, and the newly formed Los Angeles–based group Les Surprises Baroques.

She studied viola at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Royal Conservatory of Music in The Hague, and switched to the Baroque violin in the early ’80s. Her love of chamber music has involved her in several of California’s finest period instrument ensembles, including Musica Pacifica, Live Oak Baroque, the Galax Quartet, the Arcadian Academy, Ensemble Mirable, and Trio Galanterie. She has performed at the Boston and Berkeley Early Music Festivals, the Carmel Bach Festival, the Oulunsalo Soi festival in Finland, and the San Luis Obispo Mozart Festival, among many others. She has recorded over 100 CDs for Harmonia Mundi, Deutsche Grammophon, Virgin Classics, Dorian, BMG and others.

An enthusiastic teacher, she is an adjunct faculty member at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and teaches at both the American Bach Soloists Academy and the International Baroque Institute at Longy. She plays a violin built by Andrea Guarneri in 1660, in Cremona, which is on generous loan to her from the Philharmonia Baroque Period Instrument Trust.

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Rob Diggins Viola, violin

Rob Diggins has performed at home and abroad on the stage and in the studio with most of the important turn-of- the-century period instrument orchestras and ensembles. He currently plays with Les Conversations Galante, Magnificat, the Portland Baroque Orchestra, Music from Green Mountain, and the Dizzy Vipers, his gypsyjazz band. While touring with his wife, violinist Jolianne von Einem, and their daughter, he studies South Indian classical music with Shree Vidya Chandramouli and yoga with Swami Veda Bharati and other senior students of H. H. Swami Rama.

Diggins teaches yoga and meditation in the Himalayan Yoga tradition and, when not on the road, enjoys teaching his many talented string students in the Eastern European classical tradition and attending to various sustainable gardening and community projects in Northern California.

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Michael DuPree Oboe

Michael DuPree studied the modern oboe with Raymond Duste at Stanford University and with Dr. Allan Vogel at the University of California at Los Angeles. After changing to Baroque instruments, he attended the Koninklijk Conservatorium in The Hague, where he studied with Ku Ebbinge.

DuPree lives in Los Angeles and performs with Musica Angelica. He has performed and recorded with numerous national ensembles, including the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, American Bach Soloists, San Francisco Bach Choir, Seattle Baroque Orchestra, Portland Baroque Orchestra, Trinity Consort, Orchestra of New Spain, and Philadelphia Classical Symphony. He has participated as tenor oboist in the oboe band and orchestra of the Boston Early Music Festival production of Lully’s Thésée. Internationally, he has performed with Tafelmusik and Les Arts Florissants.

Jolianne von Einem received her musical training at UCLA and USC, where she studied modern violin with Alex Treger and Alice Schoenfeld. Concurrently she studied Baroque violin with Monica Huggett and began dedicating her career to historical performance practices.

She is a member of the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Magnificat, and Portland Baroque Orchestra, and has also been featured with the Allard String Quartet, American Bach Soloists, California Bach Society, Los Angeles Baroque Orchestra, Musica Angelica, and the Seattle Baroque Orchestra; in Europe she has performed and recorded with the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Hausmusik, and Trio Sonnerie. Recordings include the acclaimed CD of Mendelssohn’s Octet with Hausmusik on EMI; “Early Music of the Netherlands 1700-1800” with Trio Sonnerie on Emergo; and “Eighteenth Century Music for Lute and Strings” with Trio Galanterie on Audioquest.

Born in Hamburg, Germany, Inga Funck grew up in a musical family and played recorder from early childhood. She studied historical recorders and flutes with Peter Holtslag at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater, Hamburg, and participated in many workshops throughout Europe. She has been featured in solo performances and period instrument ensembles in Germany, Austria, Hungary, Denmark, and the Netherlands. Performances with members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic in the Walt Disney Concert Hall have included the contemporary piece by György Kurtág Quasi una fantasia, conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen, and Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos, conducted by Giovanni Antonini.

Funck has performed as a member of the Los Angeles Opera, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and Musica Angelica, and is a founding member of Les Folies, a recorder ensemble, playing at the Microfest at REDCAT. She is a founding member of Les Surprises Baroques and serves as the organization’s executive director. She conducts the monthly meetings of the Southern California Recorder Society, the Orange County Recorder Society, and the San Diego Recorder Society, and teaches workshops as well as private lessons.

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Shirley Edith Hunt Violoncello

Shirley Edith Hunt embraces life as a multi-instrumentalist and collaborator in the Bay Area. Equally at home on Baroque and modern cello as well as the viola da gamba, she performs extensively with Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, American Bach Soloists, Musica Angelica, Wiener Akademie, Agave Baroque, and Bach Collegium San Diego. Recent engagements include performances with Archetti, Berkeley Symphony, Musica Pacifica, Mark Morris Dance Group, Portland Baroque Orchestra and the San Francisco Symphony.

Hunt holds degrees from Northwestern University and the University of Southern California. She has been an artist-inresidence at the Banff Centre for the Arts, a visiting teaching artist at California Institute of the Arts, and has given master classes at Cornish College of the Arts and Willamette University. She can be heard on the NCA and Origin Classics labels, as well as on numerous pop/rock albums and feature film soundtracks.

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Timothy Landauer was hailed as “a cellist of extraordinary gifts” by the New York Times when he won the coveted Concert Artists Guild International Award of 1983 in New York. Today, as principal cellist of the Pacific Symphony, he can look back on numerous prestigious prizes, among them the National Gregor Piatigorsky Memorial Cello Award, the Samuel Applebaum Grand Prize of the American String Teacher’s Association, and the 1984 Hammer- Rostropovich Scholarship Award.

Landauer’s extensive engagements include his highly acclaimed recitals at Carnegie Hall, the Ambassador Auditorium in Los Angeles, the Orford Arts Center in Montreal, the City Hall Theatre in Hong Kong, and in Hannover, Germany. He has performed as a soloist with orchestras in Russia, Portugal, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Beijing and Shanghai. In the United States, he has also appeared with the Maryland Symphony, the Grand Teton Festival Orchestra, and the Pacific Symphony Orchestra.

Ian Pritchard has been playing the harpsichord since the age of 13, beginning studies with Susanne Shapiro in his native Los Angeles. He earned his BMus in harpsichord performance at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Ohio, where he studied with Lisa Crawford. In 2000 he moved to London to study with John Toll at the Royal Academy of Music, graduating with Distinction and earning the DipRAM for an exceptional final recital. He later continued studies on organ and harpsichord with James Johnstone. Being a dual national citizen of the USA and Britian, he had the opportunity to live in Europe until 2007, performing with groups such as Florilegium, the Academy of Ancient Music, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightment, the Orquesta Nacional de España and the Irish Baroque Orchestra, and as a chamber musician with Monica Huggett, Rachel Podger and Peter Holtslag, among others. With Florilegium he has toured in Cyprus, South America, and throughout Europe.

Pritchard has appeared frequently on BBC Radio 3 and on the BBC 2 production “Vivaldi Unmasked.” He won First Prize in the 2001 Broadwood Harpsichord Competition and was a prizewinner in the 2003 1st International Harpsichord Competition P. Bernardi in Bologna, Italy. In the same year, he was awarded a US Fulbright Scholarship to Italy to research early Italian keyboard music and to study organ and harpsichord with Andrea Marcon and organ with Liuwe Tamminga. He is currently pursuing his PhD in Historical Musicology at USC, where he plans to write his dissertation on Italian keyboard music, notation, and performance practice in the 16th century. His first solo CD, a disc of 16th-century Venetian virginal music entitled L’arpicordo, has been released on Morphic Resonance Music and is currently available on Itunes as well as on other digital and online stores. He is currently organist and director of music at Trinity Lutheran Church, Pasadena, and is also extremely happy to be closely involved with two exciting new early music groups in southern California: Tesserae (of which he is a founding member) and Les Surprises Baroques.

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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.

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Janet Worsley Strauss Violin

Janet Worsley Strauss enjoys an active career as a leading Baroque violinist in Los Angeles. She has performed with the Los Angeles Opera and Los Angeles Master Chorale, is a principal member of the Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra, and is co-founder of the chamber ensemble Angeles Consort. Strauss often appears with Seattle Baroque, Portland Baroque Orchestra, and Trinity Consort (Portland, Oregon), where she has worked with Monica Huggett, Eric Milnes, Reinhard Goebel, Paul Goodwin, and Richard Egarr.

She has performed with the American Bach Soloists, Musica Pacifica, San Francisco Bach Choir, Magnificat, Camerata Pacifica, and Galanterie. She has performed at the Indianapolis Early Music Festival, Tage Alte Musik Regensberg, and the Brighton Early Music Festival. She holds a Bachelor of Music degree in performance from USC and has recorded for Koch, Centaur, and Loft.

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Lara Wickes is principal oboist of the Santa Barbara Symphony. She performs regularly with many orchestras in Southern California, including the Pasadena Symphony, Pacific Symphony, San Diego Symphony, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. She holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Southern California, a Master of Fine Arts degree from the California Institute of the Arts, and a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Oregon. She works frequently as a recording musician, and can be heard playing oboe and English horn on many motion picture soundtracks.

Her appearances at music festivals have included the Lucerne Music Festival under the direction of Pierre Boulez, as well as the Spoleto Festival USA, Henry Mancini Institute, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Sarasota Music Festival, and solo performances at the Chintimini Festival in Oregon. She has appeared on television with several legendary singers, including Prince, Mariah Carey, and Andrea Bocelli. In addition to oboe, Lara also plays theremin, and she has performed in Carnegie Hall and Disney Hall on both instruments.

Leif Woodward holds a Doctoral degree from USC’s Thornton School of Music, where he graduated Pi Kappa Lambda, as well as Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. He performs with Musica Angelica, Los Angeles Master Chorale, Pacific Chorale, Les Surprises Baroques, Santa Barbara Symphony, Bach Collegium San Diego, and Tesserae. He appears at the Carmel Bach Festival, San Luis Obispo Mozart Festival, and on chamber music series at the Getty Museum, LACMA, Les Salons de Musiques, and Redlands Chamber Music Society.

Woodward has been a guest lecturer at USC and the Colburn School, and is on the faculty for orchestra and chamber music at the Orange County High School of the Arts and Long Beach Poly High School. He adjudicates for competitions such as the Los Angeles Spotlight Awards, MTAC State Finals, CMEA, and the Long Beach Mozart Festival.

A winner of the Beverly Hills Auditions of the Consortium of Southern California Chamber Music Presenters on viola d’amore, Los Angeles native Adriana Zoppo performs professionally on violin, viola, baroque violin, Baroque viola, and viola d’amore. In addition to performing in the string sections of the Santa Barbara, Pacific and Long Beach Symphonies, and with the Long Beach Opera, Los Angeles Master Chorale, Pacific Chorale and other symphonic groups, she appears frequently on the Glendale Noon Concerts series, where she is Director of the early-music Ergo Musica subseries, and with numerous chamber ensembles in the Southern California area. She also plays with the Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra, Les Surprises Baroques, Bach Collegium San Diego, and the Los Angeles Baroque Players. A member of the Carmel Bach Festival Orchestra for several years, she has served on the faculty of the Maud Powell Festival as Baroque violin performer and teacher.

Zoppo has played in numerous motion pictures and television shows, solo artist recordings, Broadway musicals, and live shows encompassing musical styles from classical to jazz. She currently plays for the TV shows American Idol and Mad Men, and played viola d’amore on the soundtrack of the newly released film After Earth.