Musician Profiles
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EMI TANABE, assistant concertmaster, holds a Professional Diploma from Roosevelt University and a Master’s degree in music from the University of North Texas. She is an adjunct faculty member at Benedictine University in Chicago. She enjoys a multifaceted career as a violinist – performing not only with baroque ensembles but also with modern groups including jazz, Latin, world music, and theatrical Cirque-style dinner theater shows, among others. JULIE ANDRIJESKI, violin, is one of the USA’s leading baroque violinists and is a respected specialist in 17thcentury repertoire. An active baroque dance teacher and performer, she is a founding member of Apollo’s Fire, Artistic Director of the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra, and Co-director of the 17thcentury ensemble Quicksilver. A fulltime faculty member in the CWRU Music Department, she directs the baroque music and dance ensembles and teaches seminars in historical performance. She also teaches baroque violin at the Cleveland Institute of Music and leads baroque dance seminars at The Juilliard School. In 2016 she received a coveted Creative Workforce Fellowship from Cuyahoga Arts and Culture as well as Early Music America’s Thomas Binkley award for excellence in performance and scholarship. PETER BENNETT, organ, is Associate Professor of Musicology and Head of Historical Performance Practice at CWRU, and Head of Harpsichord at the Cleveland Institute of Music. As a keyboard player and director he has appeared in the UK and Europe, recording and broadcasting to critical acclaim with Ensemble Dumont. As
a scholar he has published widely on music in early-modern France, focusing particularly on the intersection of music, religion, and politics at the court of Louis XIII. CHLOE FEDOR, violin, is known for her “lovely, plush, seductive tone” (NEW YORK TIMES) and lauded for her “soulful, virtuosic” playing and “impeccable technical control” (OPERA NEWS). She is the Baroque Concertmaster and Artistic Advisor for the Lakes Area Music Festival, and she performs in multifaceted roles with The American Classical Orchestra, Apollo’s Fire, Carmel Bach Festival, EMNY, Handel and Haydn Society, New York Baroque Incorporated, and Trinity Wall Street Baroque Orchestra, among others. In 2018, she appeared on Broadway as the onstage Baroque violinist in Farinelli and the King, the Shakespeare’s Globe production starring Sir Mark Rylance. EVAN FEW, violin, is a freelancer living in Philadelphia. An assertive, collaborative instrumentalist, he is equally adept as music director, orchestral musician, and chamber soloist and has performed on stages across the globe with some of its most esteemed early music ensembles, including Anima Eterna Brugge, Bach Collegium Japan, and the Taverner Consort. Mr. Few is a core member of Apollo’s Fire and Carmel Bach Festival; Artistic Administrator and Assistant Concertmaster of the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra; regular collaborator with Chatham Baroque and Four Nations Ensemble; and, most recently, cofounder of Filament. He holds Master’s degrees from Oberlin and Koninklijk Conservatorium Den Haag, and is a devoted home cook and yogi.
