Biographies
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Mary Oleskiewicz is an international performer on the Baroque flute, a highly regarded teacher of historical and modern woodwind instruments, and one of the leading scholars of her generation on the music of J.S. Bach and his contemporaries. An Associate Professor of Music at the University of Massachusetts Boston, during 2006-8 she has been in residence at the University of the Arts in Berlin (Germany) as a research fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Her world-premiere recording of the six Quantz Flute Quartets, which she discovered in 2002, appeared in 2004, following her highly acclaimed 2003 recording of solo and trio sonatas by Quantz. A winner of the triennial Baroque Flute Artist competition of the National Flute Association, she was also a finalist in the Early Music America/Dorian recording competition, and her playing has been described in Early Music Review as "ravishing." Performance credits include the Great Performers Series at Lincoln Center, the Boston Early Music Festival, and the Library of Congress. A 1998 recipient of the Ph.D. in Musicology from Duke University, she has published major articles in Early Music, Bach Perspectives, the Galpin Society Journal, and the Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society and has won two grants from the Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst to support research in European archives and instrument collections. Her editions of chamber works by Quantz are issued by Steglein Publications and A-R Editions, and she is currently preparing editions of music by C. P. E. Bach for the Packard Humanities Institute. A much-sought speaker, she has given public lecture-demonstrations in the US, Germany, England, and Scotland. Born in Ohio, she was formerly flutist in the Youngstown Symphony Orchestra and has recorded for Mushroom Records. From 1999 to 2001 she served as Assistant Professor of Music at the University of South Dakota and Curator of Musical Instruments at the National Music Museum, an internationally recognized collection of historical musical instruments in Vermillion, South Dakota. See her personal website for additional professional information.
David Schulenberg is one of America's foremost authorities on the music of the Bach family and an internationally respected performer on harpsichord and other early keyboard instruments. A native of New York City, he is Professor of Music and Chair of the Music Department at Wagner College on Staten Island in New York, having previously served on the faculties of the University of Notre Dame, Columbia University, and several other institutions. His books include the textbook and anthology Music of the Baroque, The Keyboard Music of J.S. Bach, and The Instrumental Music of C.P.E. Bach. He has edited two volumes containing keyboard sonatas of C. P. E. Bach and has published numerous articles and reviews. In addition, he has held research fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Andrew Mellon Foundation and has presented lectures and concerts in and around Tokyo as a Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. Performance credits include solo recitals for the American Bach Project, the Berkeley Music Sources series, and the International Bach Harpsichord Festival in Montreal, as well as concerts and lecture-demonstrations at the Library of Congress, the Boston Early Music Festival, and the Great Performers at Lincoln Center series. His recordings of quartets and sonatas by J. J. Quantz with Baroque flutist Mary Oleskiewicz are published on the Hungaroton and Naxos labels. See his personal website for additional professional information.
