Dana Maiben

Baroque Violin

B.A. cum laude, Smith College, following professional studies at Oberlin Conservatory and Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. Studies with Jaap Schröder (violin); James Caldwell (Baroque performance); Lisa Crawford (continuo); Thomas Binkley, Sterling Jones, Barbara Thornton, Andrea von Ramm (medieval music, fiddles, voice, theater, recitation); Klaus Linder (fortepiano). Composition studies with Lou Harrison, Ronald Perera, and Robert Stern; conducting with Mark Russell Smith. Founding Music Director of Foundling, a Baroque orchestra and women's advocacy project; founder and director of Concerto Incognito and Capella Serenissima; founder and former Music Director of Genesee Baroque Players. Principal violin for Arcadia Players, Ensemble Abendmusik, and Apollo Ensemble; member, New York Collegium. Founding member of Duo Francesca, Florentine Trio, Arcadia Players Trio, New Quartet, Eastman Baroque Ensemble, Sequentia, Concerto Castello. Former faculty, Eastman School of Music. Recordings: BMG, Centaur, Dorian, EMI, Erato, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, Fuga Libera.

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