Early Music Festival & Workshop Faculty

Paul Miller - Baroque violin, viola  (EMF&W Program Director)

Dr. Paul Miller has performed on Baroque string instruments throughout the United States and Germany.  He has lectured at and performed on instruments at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and the Library of Congress in Washington, DC.  Other notable solo engagements have been in Munich, Germany, with the National Cathedral in Washington, DC and the Bethlehem Bach Festival in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.  He will be performing as a viola d'amore soloist with the Philadelphia ensemble Vox Ama Deus in 2012, and as a violinist, violist and viola d'amore soloist with Early Music Colorado and Boulder-based Ensemble Seicento in fall 2011.  Miller is currently collaborating on a recording project that will chart the history of the viola d'amore over three centuries, with Thomas Georgi of the Canadian-based Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra.

Miller is a committed music educator as well as a performer.  The Boulder-based ensemble "Pearl," which he founded in early 2011 has provided extensive performance opportunities for five students during its first year of existence, and will be the ensemble-in-residence of St. John's Episcopal Cathedral in Denver, Colorado.

Currently serving on the music theory faculty of the University of Colorado in Boulder, Miller holds a PhD from the Eastman School of Music (Rochester, NY), a Master's in viola performance (Eastman), and a Bachelor's degree from Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, NY).  Miller studied at Harvard University and the New England Conservatory (Cambridge and Boston) during his undergraduate degree.  His research is forthcoming in an issue of Perspectives of New Music.

Ann Marie Morgan - Baroque cello, viola da gamba

Ann Marie Morgan is active internationally as a soloist, chamber musician and recording artist.  A frequent guest with major orchestras and choral societies she has been viola da gamba soloist in the Bach St. Matthew and St. John Passions with the Philadelphia and the Minnesota Orchestras, under the direction of Helmuth Rilling.  Her expertise on the viola has been called for at long-standing Bach Festivals in Oregon and Bethlehem as well as with the Cleveland Orchestra at Blossom and in Europe at the Prague Spring Festival.  She has toured with Les Violons du Roy (Bernard Labadie) and continues to be in demand throughout North America.

 In addition to concerts and recordings with her own ensemble, Olde Friends, she has performed and recorded with many other early music groups including the Baltimore Consort, Tempesta di Mare, and Cecilia’s Circle. This season marks her second guest appearance as principal cellist of the Dallas Bach Society. She is principal cellist and viola da gamba soloist with the Boulder Bach Festival and frequent guest artist with the Baroque Chamber Orchestra of Colorado. She also expands her musical boundaries as violist da gamba with the front range’s newly-formed “Thyme Quintet” featuring Mintze Wu on violin, Sandra Wong on nyckelharpa, Grant Gordy on guitar and Jayme Stone on banjo.

In live performance Ms. Morgan has been characterized as “a consummate player of this rare instrument (viol), played to perfection” (The Record - Kitchener, Ontario).  It has been noted that her sound comes “straight from heaven” (H&B Recordings Direct) and that she “sings beautifully with her instrument and expresses the rustic symmetry of the line with great economy and understatement” (Classical Disc Digest).  She can be heard on two dozen recordings, many of those as cellist and violist da gamba with Apollo's Fire: the Cleveland Baroque Orchestra. Her solo viola da gamba CD, offering works by French and English composers entitled "Among Rosebuds," was featured for broadcast on the syndicated show "Harmonia." In October of 2010 she joined Grammy-nominated flutist Joshua Smith, harpsichordist Jory Vinikour and baroque violinist Allison Edberg in a recording of the Bach Flute Sonatas with Continuo and the Sonata from the Musical Offering (available on the Delos label). 

As a teacher Ms. Morgan has served on the Early Music Faculties of the Interlochen Center for the Arts, the Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University and the Oberlin Baroque Performance Institute.  She gives master classes at universities across the country, and this season marks her first at the Rocky Mountain Center for Musical Arts, initiating offerings in Early Music.  Ms. Morgan teaches privately and coaches both vocal and instrumental period ensembles in the Denver/Boulder area including the Regis University Collegium and the Baroque Chamber Orchestra of Colorado.  Read more of Ms. Morgan's biography focusing on voice and choir.

Anna Marsh - Baroque bassoon, flute, oboe, recorder

Anna Marsh is a Baroque wind specialist, who is also fluent in Renaissance, Classical and Modern instruments. Her interests lie principally in the double-reed family, though she also performs on the Renaissance and Baroque recorder. She co-directs the group Ensemble Lipzodes, which recently toured Brazil and Ecuador, subsequently recording two CDs (http://www.lipzodes.org). Ms. Marsh is a doctoral candidate in historical performance at Indiana University (Bloomington) and received bachelor's and master's degrees in bassoon from the University of Southern California (Los Angeles), minoring in Germanic languages.

During the last few years, Ms. Marsh has appeared regularly with Ensemble Caprice, Arion Baroque Orchestra, Tafelmusik, Opera Atelier, Tempesta di Mare, Seattle Baroque, Opera Lafayette, Washington Bach Consort, Trinity Wall Street, and the Clarion Music Society. She has also performed with the National Cathedral Baroque Orchestra, Ensemble Voltaire, Apollo's Fire, Foundling, Americantiga, Chicago Opera Theater, the Hollywood Bowl, Banff Centre for the Arts, Musica nel Chiostro, Bloomington Early Music Festival, Boston and Berkley Fringe Festivals, Sante Fe Pro Musica, Aradia Ensemble, and at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. In 2011, she was invited to perform at Versailles, France, with Opera Lafayette.

Also active as a pedagogue, Ms. Marsh has taught a wide range of students at the Amherst Early Music Festival, San Francisco Early Music Society Baroque Workshop, Hawaii Performing Arts Festival, Los Angeles Music and Art School, and the Albuquerque Double Reed Workshop. Her recordings can be heard on the labels Analekta, Centaur, Avie, Naxos, the Super Bowl and Musica Omnia.