ensemble lipzodes -- artists

About our Artists and Performers

Born in Colombia, Juan Carlos Arango received his degree in oboe with Vaclav Vinecky at the University of Brasilia, Brazil and studied dulcian with Michael McCraw at Indiana University's Early Music Institute. He has performed with many early music ensembles such as Música Ficta and Fénix de los Ingenios. He has performed in international festivals such as Singapore Festival of Arts; JakArts Festival, Jakarta; II Festival de Música Antigua y Religiosa de Bogotá; Festival de Música Antigua y Barroca "Los Fundadores," San Luis Potosí, Mexico; II Latin-American Baroque Music Festival of Chiquitos, Bolivia; X Festivale "Il Canto delle Pietre" Italy. He has also performed for The Education Ministry of the Embassy of Spain in Philadelphia, the Colombian Embassy in Tokyo, the Mexican Cultural Institute, Washington, D.C., and the Cleveland Museum of Art in Ohio. Juan was a faculty member in The Third Annual Magdalena Early Music Workshop in New Mexico and has acted as coordinator for woodwind instruments for the Plan Nacional de Bandas, a project of the Ministry of Culture in Colombia. In addition, he has been active as a teacher of oboe, chamber music and music theory at universities in Colombia. He has recorded for the Milan-Jade label and for Focus Records.

C. Keith Collins is a doctoral student at Indiana University's Early Music Institute, where he studies historical bassoon with Michael McCraw. He holds the Master of Music degree in modern bassoon from Indiana University and has Bachelor degrees in music education and German from Berry College, in Rome, Georgia. As a baroque and classical bassoonist, Keith has performed or recorded with Apollo.s Fire, Atlanta Baroque Orchestra, the Bach Ensemble, Chicago Opera Theater, Dayton Bach Society, Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra, Washington Bach Consort and Wolftrap Opera Company, among others. He can be heard on the upcoming recording of French baroque instrumental music with Michael McCraw on the Centaur label. Keith has served on the faculty of the Indiana University Recorder Academy and is currently historical music supervisor for the Conner Prairie Living History Museum in Fishers, Indiana. As a musician interested in the folk traditions of his native Appalachia, he plays and teaches clawhammer fretless banjo, Appalachian dulcimer and shape-note singing. He has self-produced a recording of 17th - through 19th-century banjo and dulcimer music using historical instruments and reproductions. His interest in the Gaelic harp led him to an apprenticeship at Argent Fox Harps in Hendricksville, Indiana, where he has made Gaelic wire-strung harps based on 15th-century originals.

Anna Marsh, dulcian, owns five bassoons and enjoys playing them. She has appeared with many outstanding ensembles such as Tafelmusik, Chicago Opera Theater, the Hollywood Bowl, Banff Centre for the Arts, Musica nel Chiostro, Sante Fe Pro Musica, Aradia Ensemble, The National Cathedral, Washington Bach Consort, the National Gallery of Art, Opera Atelier, Opera Lafayette, Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra, Ensemble Voltaire, Publick Musick and many others. She has appeared as a featured soloist with the Foundling Baroque Orchestra with Marion Verbruggen in 2008 and with the Indiana University Baroque Orchestra in 2005. She also helped found and direct Ensemble Lipzodes and From the Depths. Anna has also taught masterclasses or privately at the Eastman School of Music, Hawaii Performing Arts Festival, Londrina Music Festival in Brazil, Los Angeles Music and Art School, and the Albuquerque Double Reed Workshop. She is a doctoral candidate in historical performance at Indiana University and received her minor in Germanic language and bachelor's and master's degrees in modern bassoon from the University of Southern California . Anna has also worked at the National Gallery of Art, Museum of the City of New York , and as an assistant librarian at the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Anna has recorded for the Centaur, Naxos, and Musica Omnia Records.

Kathryn Montoya is completing a doctorate at Indiana Univeristy, where she studies baroque oboe with Washington McClain and recorder with Eva Legêne. She holds degrees from Oberlin Conservatory and Indiana University. Ms. Montoya has performed with many ensembles, including Apollo's Fire, the Newberry Consort, Chicago Opera Theatre, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Casa Mateus Festival Orchestra in Portugal, Aradia Ensemble in Toronto, and tours internationally with the Celtic group Ensemble Galilei. She is a recipient of the prestigious Performers Certificate at IU and was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study in Germany. Ms. Montoya was assistant instructor of recorder for five years at Indiana University and has coached and given master classes at Eastern Illinois University and the Hoosier Hoot in Indiana. She was a finalist in the American Bach Soloist Competition and has appeared as a soloist with the Bloomington Early Music Festival Orchestra and the Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra. Kathryn records for the Naxos label.

Wolodymyr Smishkewych has specialized in medieval solo song and chant and contemporary classical music since the mid-1990s. His broad repertoire also spans baroque opera, oratorio and lieder. As a member of Sequentia Ensemble for Early Music and also of Theatre of Voices, he has recorded for the Sony/BMG-Classical and Harmonia Mundi labels, as well as for DaCapo and Ex Cathedra records. Most recently, he has been heard on the Grammy-nominated recording of Stockhausen.s Stimmung with Theatre of Voices. Radio and film credits include Antena 3 National Spanish Radio, National Public Radio/PRI, Radio Suisse Romande, Danmark Radio, MDR-German Radio and Universal Pictures. In addition to performing, he also builds and restores string instruments of the medieval period and earlier. His current performance research includes reconstructions of early Kievan-Rus epic repertoire and an online digital facsimile of the Lugo Breviary from Galicia, Spain. He has been a guest lecturer of early music, world music and contemporary music at universities in Europe and North America, and recently returned to the United States with his partner, harpsichordist and fortepianist Yonit Kosovske, after holding a 2005-2006 Fulbright fellowship in Spain researching the history of the zanfona (vielle a roue) on the Iberian Peninsula. He is currently a candidate for the Doctor of Music degree in voice performance at Indiana University, where he is on adjunct faculty as director of the Indiana University International Vocal Ensemble.

Guest Artists

A native of Kortrijk, Belgium, oboist Lot Demeyer has, for the past year, performed most extensively in the United States. She has performed with the Intimate Opera and the Bakersfield Symphony, the Santa Ana Symphony, the American Youth Symphony, the University of Southern California (USC) Chamber and Symphony Orchestras, the Colburn and Crossroads Orchestras, and others. As a performer of period instruments, she recently appeared in concert with Los Angeles. Baroque Orchestra Musica Angelica, the Trinity Consort (Portland, OR), the LA Master Chorale, the USC Baroque Sinfonia and the Baroque Oboe Band. She performed on treble shawm with the USC Alta Cappella Ensemble and in trio with Renaissance specialists Adam and Rotem Gilbert. Her first collaboration with Ensemble Lipzodes was in the summer of 2008 on a tour to Brazil for concerts at the 19° Festival de Juiz de Fora, the 28° Festival de Música de Londrina, and concerts in Saõ Paolo and Brasilia. A winner of numerous prizes, honors, and awards, Lot is the most recent winner of the Music Competition of the Belgian American Educational Foundation (BAEF), and first prize winner in the Belgian .Axion Classics. competition. She has been awarded the prestigious Fulbright Grant, as well as a Fellowship from the King Baudouin Foundation. While at USC, Lot was singled out for the USC Scholarship Quintet and the Olive Juliet Hedges Endowed Music Scholarship. She was invited to be member of multiple honor societies, received the Award for Outstanding Achievements from the USC International Services and won the USC Thornton School of Music Chamber Music Award. Lot has appeared in live television broadcasts for TV Senado 1 and 2 (Brazil) and Canvas and RTBF (Belgium). Last June she was featured on Klara, the Belgian classical radio. Lot also appears as principal oboe player of Chamber Orchestra .Il Sono. on their CD recording .Concerti of W.A. Mozart. and as oboe soloist in Mozart's Symphony Concertante with "Orchestre Sturm und Klang" (Belgium). Lot holds a Master's Degree in Oboe Performance from the University of Southern California and a Meestergraad in de muziek from the Royal Conservatory of Brussels. She currently resides in Los Angeles and is pursuing a Doctoral Degree in Oboe Performance at the USC Thornton School of Music.

Capturing audiences with her virtuosic and poetic style, Yonit Kosovske has performed as a soloist and chamber artist in major cities throughout the United States, Israel, Hong Kong, and Spain. Equally at home with repertoire from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries on harpsichord, portative organ, and piano, her performances have been broadcast on numerous radio stations, including National Public Radio.s Performance Today and Harmonia. She has given concerts at the summer early music festivals of Boston, Berkeley, and Bloomington. She recently received a Doctor of Music degree from Indiana University, where she plays regularly for studio lessons, auditions, masterclasses, as well as for faculty and student recitals. She is hoping to publish her dissertation .La douceur du toucher: a Historical Guidebook on Harpsichord Technique for Performers and Pedagogues.. In addition to her concert career, she teaches privately and at Indiana University. She performs regularly with her partner, tenor Wolodymyr Smishkewych.

Sung Lee is a student of Mr. Washington McClain at the Early Music Institute, Indiana University. He is presently pursuing a master's degree in early music. Sung regularly performs with the Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra, Bach Collegium-Fort Wayne, and Ensemble Lipzodes. He has made guest appearances with the Louisville Choral Arts Society, City Concert Opera Orchestra of San Francisco, Dallas Bach Society, and Publick Musick. His past oboe teachers include Michael Dupree, Savatore Spano, and Kimaree Gilad.

Specializing in early wind instruments as well as historical harps, Christa Patton is a member of Piffaro the Renaissance Band and has also been a guest with Ex Umbris. She has recorded with both groups on the Dorian label. Christa has also toured the US, Europe and Japan with New York's Ensemble for Early Music with whom she has recorded "Istampitta" on the Lyrachord label. As a baroque harpist Christa has appeared with Apollo.s Fire, The King.s Noyse, The Toronto Consort, Seattle Baroque Orchestra, La Nef, and ARTEK as well as productions of Monteverdi.s .Ulisse., .Poppea., and .L.Orfeo. with the New York City Opera, Wolf Trap Opera, Tafelmusik, and Opera Atelier. Christa has led workshops at the Madison Early Music Festival, Pinewoods Early Music Camp, and the Medieval Summer Institute at the Longy School of Music. A former Fulbright scholar, Christa studied the Italian baroque harp at the Civica Scuola di Musica in Milan, Italy with historical harp specialist, Mara Galassi. She is currently pursuing a Doctorate at SUNY Stony Brook with early keyboard specialist, Arthur Haas.

Born in Spain, baritone Antonio Santos Garcia received a degree in History and Musicology from the University of Salamanca (Spain) and in Voice from the Professional Conservatory of Music of Salamanca. He attended the courses offered by the Early Music Academy of this university with David Mason and Richard Levit as teachers. In 2008 Antonio received the Performer's Diploma in Voice-Early Music as a student of Paul Elliott at Indiana University. Mr. Santos García is currently an MM voice student at the Early Music Institute at IU. He has performed with numerous ensembles such as Mater Saule (Madrid, Spain), the Chamber Choir of the Early Music Academy (USAL, Spain) and Ensemble Lipzodes (USA). As a soloist he has sung with orchestras including Musica Poetica (Holland), the IU Baroque Orchestra (USA) or the Symphonic Orchestra of Burgos (Spain). He has performed in Spain, Portugal, France, Brazil and USA. In 1999 he founded La Stigia, an ensemble devoted to early music.

Kelsey Schilling is currently pursuing an MM in historical bassoons at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music, where he studies with Michael McCraw. He has performed with ensembles such as the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra, Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra, Washington Bach Consort and with other period orchestras in Chicago, Louisville and North Carolina. He has performed throughout the Midwest with various chamber groups and at the International Double Reed Society Conference in Ithaca, NY. In August 2007, he participated in the International Young Artist's Presentation - Historical Winds in Antwerp, Belgium, where he performed with his ensemble New Harmonie Winds. They were one of eight ensembles invited to the competition and the only ensemble from the United States. Kelsey also holds a BA in Germanic Studies and a BM in baroque bassoon, the first of its kind from the Early Music Institute at IU.