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, she divides her time between Berlin (Germany) and Boston (Massachusetts), where she performs regularly with the Handel & Haydn Society Orchestra, the Arcadia Players, and other organizations. During 2006-8 she was in residence at the University of the Arts in Berlin as a research fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. She is the featured soloist on four CDs of eighteenth-century flute music, including the world-premiere recording of the six Quantz Flute Quartets, which she discovered in 2002. 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." Additional 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 her edition of the solo sonatas of C. P. E. Bach was published by 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, as well as a faculty member in Historical Performance at The Juilliard School. He previously taught at the University of Notre Dame, Columbia University, and other institutions. His books include the textbook and anthology Music of the Baroque, The Keyboard Music of J.S. Bach, and The Music of Wilhelm Friedemann Bach. He has edited several volumes of keyboard sonatas and concertos by 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 numerous recitals for the Boston Clavichord Society, 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.