Friday, April 5, 2019 — 5:30pm
Music of Bach, Albinoni, Schmelzer, Scheidt, and Lully
Instruments include recorder, viola da gamba, and harpsichord along with oboe, violin, and viola.
Corey Sweeney (oboe and recorder) holds a Master of Music degree in (modern) oboe performance from the University of New Mexico. She performs in Albuquerque and the surrounding areas, and also operates her own business making oboe reeds for sale. Early music has always been one of her greatest passions, and she is thrilled to be the newest member of Turquoise Trail Baroque.
Joseph Fasel (oboe and recorder) earned a B.S. in mathematics at NMSU and a Ph.D. in computer science at Purdue University. Having retired from a career at LANL, he is now a full-time musician. Joe has been playing clarinet from the age of ten and for over thirty years has been the principal clarinetist of the Los Alamos Symphony Orchestra. He has been a recorder player nearly as long, playing in Renaissance consorts and Baroque chamber ensembles. Since his retirement, he has been studying Baroque oboe with MaryAnn Shore.
As a singer, Joe is a countertenor and has sung alto in Coro de Cámara, Cantu Spiritus, and the Sangre de Cristo Chorale, continuing to sing in the Santa Fe Symphony Chorus. For a total of twelve years, Joe served as choirmaster in Episcopal parishes in Lafayette, Indiana and Los Alamos.
Eve Kaye (violin) plays violin and viola with various groups including the Santa Fe Community Orchestra and the Los Alamos Symphony. Her musical life began at age 5 with piano lessons and she considers the keyboard be her primary instrument. When not making music she enjoys homeschooling her children, and studying moral philosophy and the law.
Patricia Fasel (violin) has been involved in choral music in the area for many years and currently sings with the Sangre de Cristo Chorale and the Santa Fe Symphony Chorus. In recent years, her love of baroque music led to taking up the baroque violin so that she is able to enjoy all aspects of the music.
Claire Detels (violin and harpsichord) was born in Seattle and received her BA from Colorado College and her MA and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Washington. She is now a retired Professor Emerita from the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, where she specialized in 19th-century opera, feminist aesthetics, and early music, and establishing and directing the University of Arkansas Collegium Musicum and performing with the Early Music Players of Kansas City and the Duo Courante throughout the South Central Region.
Since her move to Taos in 2014, Claire has served as pianist and Assistant Director of the Taos Community Chorus (TCC), performed with the Taos Opera Institute,Taos Soundscapes, the Los Alamos Symphony Orchestra, the Taos Contraband, Turquoise Trail Baroque, PianoTaos, the Taos Arts in Schools program, and the El Pueblito Methodist Church. She has performed programs in Santa Fe, Los Alamos and Angel Fire as well as Taos.
Hope B. DuBois (viola) has lived in New Mexico since 1979 and in Santa Fe for the last 26 years. She grew up with a love of classical music thanks to the influence of her mother, who played and taught piano. Hope learned to play piano and then violin (both by ear) in her early years and continued with violin through her first year of college. After an 18-year hiatus, she returned to the instrument, but soon became lured by the beautiful rich sound of the viola. Having always loved Baroque music and recalling a brief stint in college playing the rebec in an early music class, she eagerly joined the Turquoise Trail Baroque. Hope also regularly plays modern viola with an informal quartet. She is a Special Education Teacher by training who is currently working as an independent Certified Academic Language Practitioner with children and teens.
Lisa Van Sickle (viola) has lived in Santa Fe since 1980. She plays violin, viola, and sometimes other instruments in musical groups large and small, and enjoys performing both old and new compositions. When not behind a music stand, she works for Bella Media in Santa Fe.
Sarah Manthey (viola da gamba), a viola da gambist from Albuquerque, was in Spain studying guitar when she stumbled into a viol concert and the course of her life was altered forever. Initially self-taught, she attended master classes with Savall and W Kuijken, and eventually moved to Switzerland and then to Germany, where she earned a degree from the Hochschule fuer Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Hamburg. In Europe and more recently in New Mexico, she has had the opportunity to play with many others who share her passion for early music and historical performance practice, including Odhecaton in Madrid; Musica Viva Moelln; Musica Poetica; Turquoise Trail Baroque in Santa Fe; and the Early Byrd Consort of Viols in Albuquerque.