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Musica Pacifica
Musica Pacifica performs 17th-and 18th-century music on varying combinations of recorder, oboe, violin, cello/gamba, harpsichord, and percussion. Each of the Musica Pacifica's seven CD releases on the Virgin Classics and Dorian labels was chosen as "CD of the Month" by the early music journal Alte Musik Aktuell (Regensburg). Their Telemann CD received the Chamber Music America/WQXR's 2003 Record Award. Musica Pacifica is the recipient of a grant from the San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music and was chosen as one of a small number of ensembles to appear on the Early Music America Touring Artists Roster. Judith Linsenberg, recorder, is one of the leading exponents of the recorder in the US. A Fulbright scholar to Austria, she was awarded the Soloist Diploma with Highest Honors from the Vienna Academy of Music. She is a summa cum laude graduate of Princeton University, holds a doctorate in early music from Stanford University, and has been a visiting professor at the Vienna Conservatory and Indiana University's Early Music Institute in Bloomington. David Morris, cello/viola da gamba, is a member of Musica Pacifica, The King's Noyse, the Galax Quartet, Quicksilver, the Sex Chordae Consort of Viols and NYS Baroque. He was the founder and musical director of the Bay Area baroque opera ensemble Teatro Bacchino, and has produced operas for the Berkeley Early Music Festival and the San Francisco Early Music Society series. Mr. Morris received his B.A. and M.A. in Music from UC Berkeley, and has been a guest instructor in early music performance-practice at UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Mills College, Oberlin College, the Madison Early Music Festival and Cornell University. Mr. Morris plays modern cello with the ensemble "Parlor Tango". Baroque violinist Elizabeth Blumenstock is a frequent soloist, concertmaster, and leader with Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, American Bach Soloists, the Santa Fe Pro Musica, and the Italian ensemble Il Complesso Barocco. She is also a member of several of California's finest period instrument ensembles, including Musica Pacifica, Trio Galatea, the Arcadian Academy, and Trio Galanterie. She is instructor of baroque violin at the University of Southern California, and has taught at the International Baroque Institute at Longy, Oberlin's Baroque Performance Institute, and the Austrian Baroque Academy, and has coached university Baroque ensembles at USC, Roosevelt University, the University of Virginia, and California Institute of the Arts. Charles Sherman, harpsichord, has been a member of Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and Musica Pacifica since 1997. He was previously a member of the Aulos Ensemble (NY) for many years. Mr. Sherman holds degrees in History and Musicology from The University of Chicago and in Harpsichord Performance from the Juilliard School. |
