Enjoy this performance from almost anywhere in the world viaLIVE@jacobs!About the DirectorsJoanna Blendulf is professor of music (baroque cello/viola da gamba) at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. She has performed and recorded with leading period-instrument ensembles throughout the United States and abroad and is currently co-principal cellist and principal viola da gamba player of the Portland Baroque Orchestra. She has also performed as principal cellist of Pacific MusicWorks, Pacific Baroque Orchestra, American Bach Soloists, Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra, Apollo's Fire Baroque Orchestra, and the New York Collegium. She was a principal cellist of the New World Symphony under Michael Tilson Thomas and has performed with other modern orchestras, including the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and the Nashville Chamber Orchestra. Blendulf is an avid chamber musician, performing regularly on major concert series and appearing on numerous recordings with her groups, including the Ensemble Electra, Ensemble Mirable, Music of the Spheres, Nota Bene Viol Consort, and Wildcat Viols. She appears as a frequent guest viol player with the Catacoustic Consort and Parthenia and has collaborated with such acclaimed artists as Monica Huggett, Stephen Stubbs, Matthias Maute, Bruce Dickey, and Joan Jeanrenaud. Blendulf's world-premiere recording of the complete cello sonatas of Jean Zewalt Triemer with Ensemble Mirable was released in 2004. Blendulf's festival engagements have included performances at Tage Alter Musik Regenburg, Musica Antigua en Villa de Leyva in Colombia, the Bloomington, Boston, and Berkeley early music festivals, the Ojai Music Festival, and the Carmel and Oregon Bach Festivals. She is sought after as a teacher and chamber music coach and has served as a classroom and private instructor at the University of Oregon and the Berwick Academy. As an active member of the Viola da gamba Society of America, she teaches regularly at viol workshops including the annual Conclave, Viols West, and Young Players Weekend, and has served as a national Circuit Rider teacher. She earned performance degrees with honors from the Cleveland Institute of Music and the Jacobs School of Music, where she earned a Performer's Certificate for her accomplishments in early music performance.Dana Marsh is professor of music (early music/voice), chair of Historical Performance, and director of the Historical Performance Institute at the IU Jacobs School of Music. Previous academic posts include collegiate appointments at Oxford University, as well as assistant director of music and director of chapel music at Girton College Cambridge. Marsh coaches singers in historical performance and teaches classes in early notation, performance practice, and rhetoric. He has also directed Jacobs ensemble recordings for broadcast on NPR. Cited by the Washington Post as "a superb choral conductor, energetic and precise," Marsh is artistic director of the Washington Bach Consort, one of the nation's leading period instrument and vocal ensembles. Marsh trained as a boy chorister at St. Thomas Choir School in New York and Salisbury Cathedral in England. He earned his undergraduate degree from the Eastman School of Music as an organist, with master's and doctoral degrees in historical musicology from the University of Oxford. As a vocal soloist and consort singer (1992-2008), he received critical acclaim from the Los Angeles Times: "Marsh gave object lessons in ornamentation as a graceful countertenor" and from the New York Times as a "powerful and expressive countertenor." He appeared with such ensembles as the American Bach Soloists, Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra, Seattle Baroque Orchestra, the Concert Royal, New York Collegium (under Gustav Leonhardt), and the Academy of Ancient Music. While undertaking doctoral research, he was a core member of the Choir of New College Oxford, performing on 25 international tours and 15 recordings, one of which won the Gramophone Early Music award in 2008. As a guest conductor, he has collaborated with the London Mozart Players, Studio de Musique Ancienne Montréal, Festival International de Musique Baroque de Lamèque, Cappella Romana, Portland Baroque Orchestra, the Choirs of St. Thomas Fifth Avenue and Trinity Wall Street, Trinity Baroque Orchestra and New York Baroque Incorporated. He has recorded variously for Acis, Decca, Avie, Sony, Universal, Koch International Classics, Erato, Signum, and Public Radio International. Meeting URL: