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Andrew Fouts, baroque violin, performs regularly with American Bach Soloists, Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra, and the Napa Valley Symphony and has appeared with Philharmonia Baroque, El Mundo and the National Cathedral Baroque Orchestra. Performances at festivals and series have included Chamber Music Sedona, the Arizona Early Music Society, Redwood Arts Council, Columbia University's Miller Theatre, the San Luis Obispo Mozart Festival and Aston Magna. This summer Andrew served as principal violin for the Bloomington Early Music Festival's performance of Monteverd's L'Orfeo and recorded with the festival orchestra for Indiana University Press. Andrew studied violin with Charles Castleman at the Eastman School of Music where he performed in collegium with Paul O'Dette and was active with the contemporary music ensemble Alarm Will Sound with whom he recorded Steve Reich's The Desert Music for Cantaloupe Records. Andrew recently received a Performer's Diploma from the Early Music Institute at Indiana University Bloomington where he was a student of Stanley Ritchie and the winner of the 2007 concerto competition. This season he looks forward to his first engagements with American Opera Theater and Ensemble Galilei. He performs on a violin by Claude Pierray, Paris, c. 1710. Patricia Halverson, viola da gamba, holds a doctoral degree in Early Music Performance Practice from Stanford University. After completing her graduate work she studied in Holland with Anneke Pols at the Royal Conservatory in the Hague. A native of Duluth, Minnesota, Ms. Halverson is a founding member of Chatham Baroque and has been instrumental in raising the level of baroque chamber music performance in the Pittsburgh area. Her playing has been praised by the Cleveland Plain Dealer as "invested with feistiness and solidity." Ms. Halverson teaches viola da gamba in the Pittsburgh area and in April, 2008 will be playing in New York City with viola da gamba player Martha McGaughey. Scott Pauley, theorbo, lute and baroque guitar, holds a doctoral degree in Early Music Performance Practice from Stanford University. Before settling in Pittsburgh in 1996 to join Chatham Baroque, he lived in London for five years, where he studied with Nigel North at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. There he performed with various early music ensembles, including the Brandenburg Consort, The Sixteen, and Florilegium. He won prizes at the 1996 Early Music Festival Van Vlaanderen in Brugge and at the 1994 Van Wassenaer Competition in Amsterdam. In North America Scott has performed with Hesperus, Musica Angelica, Apollo's Fire, The Folger Consort, The Bottom Line, The Toronto Consort, and in 2007 was a soloist with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. In 2008 Scott will appear with Il Tempesta di Mare in Philadelphia. He has performed in numerous baroque opera productions as a continuo player, both in the USA and abroad. |
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