Baroque
ORCHESTRA
"Art isn't a pretty accessory - it's the umbilical cord that connects us with the divine. It insures our humanity"
Nikolaus Harnoncourt
VIOLINS
Maxine Nemerovski
Timothy Johnson, Bloomington, Indiana, 1999 (after Antonio Stradivari, Cremona, Italy, 17th century)
Sara Usher
Desiderio Quercetani, Parma, Italy, 2001
Dmitry Badiarov, Brussels, Belgium, 2003 (after Antonia Bagatella, Padua, Italy, c. 1750)
Lorenzo Carcassi, Florence, Italy, 1765
VIOLAS
David Daniel Bowes
Richard Duke, London, England, c. 1780
Daria D'Andrea
Gregori Ferdinand Wenger, Germany, 1752
Margaret Eldridge
François Breton, Mirecourt, France, ca 1820
CELLOS
Farley Pearce
Antonio Gaccias Rosius, Mendocino, California, 1988 (after Antonio Stradivari, Cremona, Italy)
Gretchen Claassen
Anonymous 19th c. French
VIOLONE
John Dornenburg
Dominik Zuchowicz (after anonymous German original, c.1720).
HARPSICHORD
Yuko Tanaka
John Phillips, Berkeley, 1994, after Giovanni Battista Giusti, 1681,
John Phillips, Berkeley, 1999, after François Blanchet, 1733.
Kevin Fryer, San Francisco, 1992, after Vaudry, 1681.
Eugene Petrushansky
Eugene Petrushansky, 2015, from Zuckermann kit after Colmar Ruckers, 1624
OBOE
Curtis Foster
Daniel Deitch
Sand Dalton ca 1980 after Christian Schlegel of Basel, ca 1715
BASSOON
Daniel Deitch
Barbara Stanley, England, 1993, after I.H. Rottenburgh of Brussels, ca 1720