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Orinda: French renaissance songs.


Mezzo-soprano Jennifer Lane is recognized internationally for her stunning interpretations of repertoire ranging from the early baroque to that of today's composers. She has appeared at festivals worldwide, with conductors Michael Tilson-Thomas, Mstislav Rostropovich, William Christie, Nicholas McGegan, Andrew Parrott, Marc Minkowski, Helmut Rilling, and Robert Shaw, among others.

Jennifer has performed in opera and concert with the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, Tanglewood Festival, Boston Early Music Festival, the New Getty Center, the Frick Collection in New York, Cite la Musique in Paris, Opernhaus Halle, Opernhaus Dessau, Utah Opera, Opera du Caen, Salzburger Bachgesellschaft, Seattle Baroque Orchestra, Portland Baroque Orchestra, Tafelmusik, Handel & Hayden Society, Les Arts Florissants, Le Parlement de Musique, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Jerusalem Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, Orchestra della Toscana, and the New York City Opera, where she has performed over twenty roles, including the role of Amastre in NYCO's acclaimed production of Handel's Xerxes, directed by Stephen Wadsworth and voted "opera production of the year" by USA Today.

She is a frequent guest of the Groningen Haendel Festival, appearing with conductor Nicholas McGegan in Ariodante, which was recorded on harmonia mundi usa and won a Gramophone Award, Arianna, and Giustino, which was also recorded on harmonia mundi. She created the title role in Augusta Read Thomas's opera Ligeia, based on the life of Edgar Allen Poe. Ligeia was commissioned and conducted by Mstislav Rostropovich at his own festival, in Evian, France. Jennifer has toured the dual roles of Dido and the Sorceress in the Mark Morris Dance Group's production of Dido & Aneas, as well as performing them in the film produced for BRAVO television by Rhombus Media and recorded on CD by CBC Records. The film has won many awards, including the Banff Television Festival and the San Francisco International Film Festival.

1999 was Jennifer Lane's debut season with the Metropolitan Opera, in productions of Schoenberg's Moses und Aron and Janacek's Katya Kabanova. She was recently presented by the Capella Cracoviensis in Cracow, Poland in a recital of American songs and in Bach's Mattheuspassion. She was invited to perform Dido and the Sorceress with Capella Ministrers at the Palau de la Musica in Valencia, Spain, having previously appeared as the Sorceress with Nigel Rogers in the Palau de la Musica in Barcelona. She recently joined the San Francisco Opera Company, covering the role of Anne in Christopher Alden's production of Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson's The Mother of US All.

Jennifer Lane has over three dozen recordings on harmonia mundi usa, Naxos, Opus 111, CBC Records, Koch International, Newport Classic, Arabesque, Centaur, and PGM. Her most recent releases include the solo disc The Pleasures & Follies of Love, Schoenberg's Gurrelieder (Waldtaube) and Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex (Jocasta). Jennifer Lane has taught master classes at Old Dominion University, Mannes College, CW Post University, Royal Academy of Music in London, San Francisco Conservatory, and for the San Francisco Opera Young Artists Program. In the summer, Ms. Lane teaches at the Amherst Early Music Festival, the San Francisco Early Music Society (SFEMS) Workshops, the International Baroque Institute at Longy, and the Lake Placid Institute Vocal Seminars.

In September,1996, Jennifer Lane joined the faculty of music at Stanford University, where she has produced and directed several operatic productions, including a period-style production of Dido & Aeneas, mounted as the culminating event in the Music Department's 50th anniversary celebration, an evening of mostly 20th century one act operas, and, most recently, Mozart's The Magic Flute.

David Tayler received his B.A. in music and interdisciplinary studies from Hunter College and his M.A. and Ph.D. in musicology from the University of California at Berkeley, where he studied performance practice with Philip Brett and Alan Curtis and musicology with Joseph Kerman, Richard Crocker and Daniel Heartz.

He is a member of Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and Director of the Bay Area Collegium Musicum and Ensemble Pandore. David has appeared with American Bach Soloists, Tafelmusik, the San Francisco Opera & Symphony, the Dallas Bach Society, the Oregon Bach Festival and the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, among others, and has recorded over fifty discs for BIS, harmonia mundi USA, Koch International, ORF, Sony, Reference, Arabesque, BMG, RCA, Musica Omnia and Teldec.

As a specialist in the art song of the early seventeenth century he has performed in lute song recitals throughout Europe and the United States; he is Guest Conductor at the San Francisco Early Music Society Renaissance Workshop.

Hanneke van Proosdij studied harpsichord and organ with Jacques Ogg at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, the Netherlands, where she also studied recorder and composition. She received her DM (teaching diploma) in 1992 and UM (solo diploma) in 1995. She performs with Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, the American Bach Soloists, Magnificat, Parnassus Ave, Chanticleer, Orinda and Farallon Recorder Quartet. Festival appearances include the Berkeley Early Music Festival, Internationale Handel Festpiele Gronigen, Amherst Early Music Festival, Festival d'Ambronnay, Wratislavia Cantans, Contemporary Improvised Music Festival and the American Bach Soloists SummerFest. Hanneke is the Director of the San Francisco Early Music Society Medieval Renaissance Summer Festival.

Proosdij also performs with the Farallon Recorder Quartet as well as having her own solo recording.

  Orinda

[Airs de Cour by Orinda]

Airs de Cour



Orinda lives in California, USA.

Tagged as: Classical, Chamber Music, Baroque, Renaissance, Classical Singing, Composer: Ennemond Vieux Gaultier, Composer: Etienne Moulinie, Composer: Gabriel Bataille, Composer: Gilles Durant de la Bergerie, Composer: Jacques Mauduit, Composer: Michel Lambert, Composer: Pierre Guedron, Composer: Sebastien Le Camus, Harpsichord, Lute.


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