Karen Flint • Friday, April 24 at 7:30 pm
Karen Flint is the founding artistic director of Brandywine Baroque with concerts held in Wilmington and Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. Ms. Flint established the Dumont Concerts in 2003, a weekend festival of harpsichord recitals. Now called Harpsichord Heaven, the programs are given on her collection of antique instruments in Delaware. She studied harpsichord with Edward Parmentier and Egbert Ennulat and organ with Fenner Douglass and Paul Terry and has degrees from Oberlin Conservatory of Music and The University of Michigan. Ms. Flint is Adjunct Instructor of Harpsichord at the University of Delaware.
Dongsok Shin • Friday, April 24 at 8:30 pm
Dongsok Shin was born in Boston and played the modern piano from the age of four. Since the early 1980's, he has specialized exclusively on harpsichord, organ, and fortepiano.
Much in demand as a soloist and continuo player, Mr. Shin has appeared with the American Classical Orchestra, ARTEK, Concert Royal, Early Music New York, Carmel Bach Festival, Mark Morris Dance Group, the New York Philharmonic, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. He has toured throughout North America, Europe, and Mexico, has been heard on numerous radio broadcasts nationally and internationally, and has recorded for ATMA Classique, Bridge Records, Dorian/Sono Luminus, Hänssler Classic, Helicon, Lyrichord, and Newport Classic. He was a founding member of the Mannes Camerata, receiving international critical acclaim as music director for their productions of early baroque operas, and he was a member, as well as a guest director of NYS Baroque in Ithaca, NY.
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In his spare time, he tunes and maintains harpsichords in the New York area (he is the harpsichord technician for the Metropolitan Opera and tuner of the antique keyboards at the Metropolitan Museum), and he is well known as a recording engineer, producer and editor of numerous early music recordings.
Dylan Sauerwald • Saturday, April 25 at 1:00 pm
Dylan Sauerwald is a distinctive historical keyboardist and conductor. At the keyboard, he has been praised for his “fleet fingers” and “sophisticated playing,” (Capriccio) and as a conductor, his performances have been called “heart-wrenching and self-reflecting” (OperaWire). Dr. Sauerwald has performed in venues from New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art to Taipei's National Recital Hall, and his playing is featured in the BBC historical drama Poldark. As a recording artist, he can be heard on the New Focus, Coro, and Urtext labels, as soloist and continuo player on the harpsichord, organ, fortepiano, and lautenwerck performing works from the 16th century to the 21st.
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A champion of early opera, he has led productions of rarely performed works acclaimed as “refined and flexible,” (Boston Globe) “fearless,” (Voce di Meche) and “a remarkable musical experience” (OperaWire). Dr. Sauerwald is Director of Music Ministry at Green’s Farms Church in Westport, CT.
Gwendolyn Toth • Saturday, April 25 at 2:30 pm
Recognized as one of America’s leading performers on early keyboard instruments, Gwendolyn Toth performs with equal ease on the harpsichord, lautenwerk, organ, fortepiano, and clavichord. Her interpretations have been acclaimed for their spirit and intelligence. She has been heard in concert throughout North America, Europe and the Far East, on radio networks in Holland, Germany, France, and America’s National Public Radio. She has performed in festivals in Boston, Berkeley and Indianapolis, USA; Utrecht, Holland; Regensburg, Germany; Edinburgh, Scotland; Trevi nel Lzaio Italy, and the Czech Republic. She has a recorded the organ works by Heinrich Scheidemann, Böhm, Scheidemann, Pachelbel, and Reincken and J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations for Zephiro Recordings.
Currently, she is the director and founder of New York City’s virtuoso period instrument ensemble, ARTEK. Under her direction, the ensemble released the first North American recording of Monteverdi’s opera, Orfeo, on the Lyrichord Early Music Series label, to outstanding critical acclaim. Other CDs include “Love Letters from Italy,” “I Don’t Want to Love”, Monteverdi’s Madrigals Book 5, and Solo Cantatas of Rosenmüller. Ms. Toth and ARTEK have toured throughout America and Europe with the Mark Morris Dance Group performing madrigals of Monteverdi. ARTEK has appeared most recently at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC and made its Lincoln Center debut in 2010. Ms. Toth has also conducted at Sadler’s Wells Theater in London with Mark Morris and his company, Skylight Theater in Milwaukee, Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York City, and for the German Radio Broadcasting system. In 2001, she was honored as the first recipient of the "Newell Jenkins Prize" for excellence in early music performance. Ms. Toth holds the D.M.A. in performance from Yale University. She has taught previously at Yale University, Mount Holyoke College, Barnard College, Rutgers University, Mount Saint Vincent College, and Hunter College of CUNY. Currently, in addition to being the artistic director of ARTEK, she is Orchestra Director at Manhattan College and teaches harpsichord at Montclair State University.
Janine Johnson • Saturday, April 25 at 4:00 pm
Janine Johnson performs on harpsichord and early piano, is a harpsichord builder and decorator, composer, and landscape artist. As a person with with such diverse interests, it has been a lifelong challenge to find outlets for her passions.
Ms. Johnson began her musical studies on the modern piano, and as a teenager, began playing the harpsichord as well. As a piano performance major (and two dimensional art) at California State University, Northridge, she focused on piano and harpsichord, performing on both. She began building harpsichords in earnest at this time (having made her first, at age 17), and has continued as an instrument maker ever since. For the past 26 years she has been working with renowned harpsichord builder and restorer John Phillips of Berkeley http://www.jph.us/ both as a maker and decorator.
Her performing career is primarily based in the San Francisco Bay Area where she gives numerous solo and chamber music recitals, often including original works. She composes solo and chamber music for the fortepiano and harpsichord, and was second place winner this year in the International Alienor Competition for harpsichord composition.
Arthur Haas • Saturday, April 25 at 7:30 pm
Arthur Haas, widely known as a performer and teacher of Baroque music, studied harpsichord with Albert Fuller at Juilliard and Alan Curtis in Berkeley and Amsterdam, as well as receiving a master’s degree in Historical Musicology from the University of California, Los Angeles. Mr. Haas is Professor of Harpsichord, Early Music Performance and Continuo at Stony Brook University and teaches harpsichord at the Yale School of Music. As a capstone to his distinguished career as musician and pedagogue, he was awarded the Howard Mayer Brown award in 2023 for lifetime achievement in the field of Early Music - the highest honor bestowed by Early Music America.
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After receiving the top prize in the Paris International Harpsichord Competition in 1975, he continued to live in France until 1983, performing and teaching in many of the major European early music festivals.
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Mr. Haas has toured with Marion Verbruggen, Jaap ter Linden, Julianne Baird, Wieland Kuijken and Bruce Haynes. For over thirty years, he was a member of the Aulos Ensemble, one of America's premier early music ensembles, and now plays with Empire Viols and the newly formed Gold & Glitter, touring the USA and Canada. Annual summer workshop and festival appearances include the Virginia Baroque Academy, the Maine Bach Virtuosi Festival in Portland, Lands End Festival on Cape Cod and the Amherst Early Music Festival, where he served as artistic director of their Baroque Academy from 2002-2012.
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Mr. Haas regularly teaches masterclasses at the Flint Collection and has appeared during Harpsichord Heaven since its founding. For plectra Music he has recorded the works of Rameau, Pasquini, François Couperin and Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre.