REBEKAH AHRENDT (viols) holds the artist's diploma in viola da gamba and historical performance practice from the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. Currently, she is a graduate student in historical musicology at UC Berkeley. This is her first visit to Palomar.
JANET BEAZLEY (viols, recorders and flute) performs on historical flutes and recorders with the LA Baroque Orchestra, Musica Angelica, LA Musica Viva, Les Folies and with her own group, Accenti. Dr. Beazley completed her Doctorate in Early Music Performance at the USC Thornton School of Music, where she is now instructor of historical flutes and recorders and lecturer on early music performance practices. She is also the director of the Collegium Musicum at UC Riverside. In addition to early music, Janet also performs, records and teaches bluegrass with Chris Stuart & Backcountry, a nationally- and internationally-touring bluegrass/Americana band.
MARK DAVENPORT (wind instruments) is a specialist on renaissance and baroque woodwinds. His early performing career includes touring with the internationally acclaimed New York Pro Musica, in their production of the thirteenth-century liturgical drama The Play of Daniel. Davenport has performed throughout the U.S. Since moving to Colorado in 1992, he has performed as a recorder soloist with the Boulder Bach Festival Orchestra, the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra, Columbine Pro Musica, and recently with his group Trio Dolce (with gambist Ann Marie Morgan and harpsichordist Phebe Craig). Davenport has served on the faculty of numerous Early Music workshops in the U.S. and currently directs the Collegium Musicum at Regis University, in Denver, where he is an Assistant Professor and Director of the Music Program. He is also Director of the newly established Recorder Music Center, housed in Dayton Memorial Library, on the Regis University campus. His music publishing company, Landmark Press, is devoted to the publication of music for early instruments and voice. Davenport did his undergraduate work at Sarah Lawrence College and the State University of New York, College at New Paltz, where he received his B.A. in Music History and Literature, summa cum laude. He holds M.M. and Ph.D. degrees in Musicology from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Davenport has established a significant body of scholarly publications, especially in the field of Early Music, where he is recognized as one of the leading authorities on the early seventeenth-century English court composer, William Lawes.
INGA FUNCK (recorders) was born in Hamburg, Germany. Inga 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. Funck
has been featured in solo performances and period instrument ensembles in
Germany, Austria, Hungary, Denmark, and the Netherlands. Aspiring to find a
balance of appreciating the past while engaging the present, she sets high
standards in the authenticity of her early music performances and at the same
time is expanding the musical dimension of the recorder into modern days. Prior
performance with members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic have included the
contemporary piece by György Kurtág, Quasi una fantasia, and she was
recently heard as a member of Les Folies, a recorder ensemble, playing
at the Microfest at REDCAT. Funck also concertizes with Musica Angelica, the Los
Angeles Baroque Orchestra, Los Angeles Musica Viva, South West Chamber Music,
and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and can be heard on recordings with
Ensemble de' Medici. She is adjunct faculty at the California Institute of the
Arts and teaches private lessons.
RICHARD GLENN (lute, guitar) studied and taught music in Switzerland for 6
years. While there, he concertized in England, Germany and Switzerland. Richard
teaches lute and guitar at Concordia University, UC Riverside, Orange Coast
College and Irvine Valley College. He has performed in the US at the National
Cathedral and Smithsonian Institute, and has recently been performing with west
coast early music ensembles in local venues.
JOHN MARK ROZENDAAL (viols) specializes in teaching and performing stringed instrument music from the Baroque and Renaissance eras. As founding Artistic Director of Chicago Baroque Ensemble, JMR performed and led seven seasons of subscription concerts, educational programs, radio broadcasts, and recordings for the Cedille and Centaur labels. Rozendaal served as principal 'cellist of The City Musick, and Basically Bach, and has performed both solo and continuo roles with many period instrument ensembles, including the Newberry Consort, Orpheus Band, and the King's Noyse. Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, the Catacoustic Consort, Philomel, Parthenia, The New York Consort of Viols, and Empire Viols. JMR performs as a member of Trio Settecento with violinist Rachel Barton Pine and harpsichordist David Schrader. Rozendaal's viola da gamba playing has been praised as "splendid" (Chicago Tribune), and "breathtaking" (Sun-Times). Recordings are available on the Cedille and Centaur labels. More at www.jmrozendaal.com.