John Burkhalter

John Burkhalter 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 the noted Dutch recorder virtuoso, scholar and conductor Frans Bruggen. In addition, he received instruction from the distinguished Swiss Baroque oboist and recorder virtuoso Michel Piguet. Mr. Burkhalter, founder of The Practitioners of Musick, also performs with Le Triomphe de l'amour, Brandywine Baroque, the newly formed Princeton University group Early Music Princeton, La Fiocco, Riverview Consort, and "Les Agréments de musique" He regularly performs in various English Country Dance Bands in association most notably, with the Germantown Colonial Assembly in Philadelphia and  New York City’s 92nd Street Y.