Beyond the Fanlight: Musick in Georgian Dublin

John Burkhalter, lecturer and player of English and small flutes, studied the performance of early music at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston under Daniel Pinkham, and the performance of Baroque music at Harvard University under Dutch recorder virtuoso, scholar, and conductor Frans Brüggen. He also received instruction from the distinguished Swiss Baroque oboist and recorder virtuoso Michel Piguet. In addition to EMP (Early Music Princeton), Mr. Burkhalter performs with The Practitioners of Musick, Le Triomphe de l’amour, Brandywine Baroque, and Les Agréments de musique. He has lectured extensively on various early music topics for The Princeton Festival, The New Jersey Council for the Humanities, The American Handel Society, Yale Center for British Art, and the Horniman Museum (Dolmetsch Collection) in London, amongst many others. He regularly plays in various English Country Dance Bands, in association most notably with the Germantown Colonial Assembly of Philadelphia and at New York City’s 92nd Street Y. He has also played “period instruments” in premieres of new music by Peter Schickele, David Van Tieghem, and Ninfea Crutwell-Reade, and collaborated with Bora Yoon and with the Princeton Laptop Orchestra (“PLOrk”) directed by Jeff Snyder.

Dr. Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek, mezzo-soprano, is a singer, conductor, educator, and composer. She was a member of the world-renowned vocal quartet Anonymous 4 and recorded twelve award-winning CDs with the ensemble including American Angels, which twice topped Billboard’s classical music charts, and The Cherry Tree, one of the top selling classical CDs of 2010. Anonymous 4′s performance of the Irish lament “Caoineadh” on Christopher Tin’s album Calling All Dawns, with Jacqueline as featured soloist, led to a Grammy for Best Classical Music Crossover Album. She is currently Artistic Director of ModernMedieval Voices, a women’s ensemble dedicated to creating programs that combine early music with new commissions. Dr. Horner- Kwiatek has a DMA from The Juilliard School and is on the performance faculty at Princeton University where she teaches voice, directs the Early Music Princeton Singers, and is Associate Director of the Certification Program in Consort Singing. She is also on the voice faculty at New York University. She is in demand as a clinician and gives masterclasses, ensemble technique workshops, and vocal pedagogy for composers seminars all over the USA. Her website is ModernMedieval.org.

Kerry Heimann, harpsichordist and organist, earned his doctoral degree in harpsichord and early music from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, with a minor in choral conducting and literature. His principal teachers have included Charlotte Mattax Moersch, Michael Farris, Chet Alwes, Fred Stoltzfus, and Nicholas Temperley. During his academic programs, he received several awards and honors, including the Gerald M. Crystal Fellowship and the prestigious Theodore Presser Award, as well as being inducted into Pi Kappa Lambda National Honor Society in Music. A widely sought-after accompanist, conductor, and collaborator, Mr. Heimann has played at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, and The Kennedy Center, and performed at festivals throughout Europe and North America. He has performed at national and regional conferences for such organizations as the American Choral Directors Association and the Society for Seventeenth Century Music. In addition, he serves as Operations and Patron Services Manager for Princeton University Concerts and as Associate Minister of Music for Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Trenton, New Jersey.