Ensemble Electra is comprised of recorder player Vicki Boeckman, cellist
Joanna Blendulf and harpsichordist Jillon Stoppels Dupree.
Vicki Boeckman is an active and passionate performer of all styles of music and
plays all sizes of recorders. Her travels and performances have taken her across
the United States as well as Denmark, Norway, Sweden, England, Scotland and
Germany. Her various recordings can be heard on the Kontra Punkt, Classico, Da
Capo, Horizon, Musical Heritage America, Paula, Kadanza, and Primavera labels.
In great demand as a teacher of the recorder and related performance practices,
Vicki coaches and teaches at workshops and seminars all over the United States
and in British Columbia. She was chosen to be the recorder in-resident at the
Sitka Center for Art and Ecology in 2005 and 2010. She is current Artistic
Director for the Port Townsend Early Music Workshop and is the Music Director
for the Portland Recorder Society. Vicki has been on the faculty of the Music
Center of the Northwest in Seattle since 2005, and with colleague, Darlene
Franz, is the resident recorder teacher for the 3rd grade recorder program at
West Woodland Elementary. She is also on the faculty for the newly launched
early music program at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle.
Since settling in Seattle in 2004, Vicki has been a featured soloist
with the Seattle Baroque Orchestra, the Portland Baroque Orchestra,
Portland Opera, Philharmonia Northwest Orchestra and the Skagit
Symphony. In addition to co-founding Ensemble Electra, Vicki is a
returning guest with the Medieval Women's choir led by Margriet
Tindemans, and the Gallery Concerts. Her duo with recorder maker David
Ohannesian is a popular addition to the Early Music Guild's School
Programs, and is often asked to return to the same schools year after
year.
Vicki resided in Denmark from 1981-2004. She taught at the Royal Danish Academy
of Music in Copenhagen for 12 years, and at the Ishøj Municipal School of Music
for 23 years. She co-founded a regional recorder orchestra for children and
teenagers which continues to flourish and grow. She was also co-founder of two
Danish-based ensembles, Opus 4, and Wood'N'Flutes, with whom she continues to
perform as often as possible in spite of the geography.
Joanna Blendulf has performed as soloist and continuo player in leading period
instrument ensembles throughout North and South America. Ms Blendulf holds
performance degrees with honors from the Cleveland Institute of Music and
Indiana University, where she studied with Stanley Ritchie, Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi
and Alan Harris. In 1998, she was awarded the prestigious Performer's
Certificate for her accomplishments on baroque cello from Indiana University.
Joanna performs regularly with the Portland, Seattle and Indianapolis Baroque
Orchestras, Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra and American Bach Soloists.
Ms. Blendulf is also an active chamber musician, performing, touring and
recording with the Cascade Consort, Catacoustic Consort, Ensemble Mirable,
Reconstruction, the Streicher Trio and Wildcat Viols. Joanna teaches modern
cello, baroque cello and viola da gamba privately and in workshops and master
classes across the country and has directed the Collegium Musicum as an adjunct
professor at the University of Oregon. Ms. Blendulf's summer engagements have
included performances at the Bloomington, Boston and Berkeley Early Music
Festivals, the Aspen and Ojai Music Festivals as well as the Carmel and Oregon
Bach Festivals. Her recording of the complete cello sonatas of Jean Zewalt
Triemer with Ensemble Mirable can be found on the Magnatune label.
Jillon Stoppels Dupree has captivated audiences in such cities
as London, Amsterdam, Chicago, New York, Boston, and Los Angeles. Her playing
can be heard on the Meridian, Wild Boar, Orange Mountain, Decca and Delos record
labels, and she has also appeared live on BBC England, Polish National
Television, CBS Television and National Public Radio. She has been a featured
artist at the York (England), Boston and Berkeley Early Music Festivals, the
National Music Museum, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Santa Barbara Art
Museum, and numerous universities and colleges. The New York Times described her
world premiere recording of Philip Glass's Concerto for Harpsichord and Chamber
Orchestra as "superb."
Ms. Dupree collaborates with numerous international musicians, including
recorder virtuoso Marion Verbruggen, viola da gamba master Wieland Kuijken,
violinists Stanley Ritchie and Jaap Schroeder, and sopranos Ellen Hargis and
Julianne Baird. Her ensemble collaboration includes performances with Musica
Pacifica, The Newberry Consort, Music's Re-Creation, the Seattle Symphony (with
whom she has recorded), and the Seattle Baroque Orchestra. She has taught harpsichord at the Oberlin College
Conservatory and the University of Michigan, and currently serves on the faculty
of Seattle's Accademia d'Amore Baroque Opera course. She is also on the faculty
of the Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle in addition to teaching master
classes at the University of Washington.
Ms. Dupree was a recipient of a Fulbright fellowship and the National Endowment
for the Arts Solo Recitalist's grant. Ms. Dupree's teachers included Gustav
Leonhardt, Ton Koopman, and Lisa Goode Crawford. She is the founding director of
Seattle's Gallery Concerts early
music series.
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