KATHIE STEWART
Kathie Stewart is on the faculty of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, where she teaches baroque flute in the Historical Performance Department. She also serves as the Conservatory's Curator of Harpsichords, tuning and maintaining a world-class collection of historical reproductions. A founding member of Apollo's Fire: the Cleveland Baroque Orchestra, she has performed with that ensemble as soloist and in the flute/recorder section since the group's inception in 1992. Also an avid proponent of Irish music, Kathie plays Irish flute in the Cleveland based band Turn the Corner. Stewart has also performed with the Cleveland Orchestra, the Oberlin Baroque Ensemble, ARTEK, Cleveland Lyric Opera, and Cleveland Opera.
STEPHEN SCHULTZ
Stephen Schultz, called "among the most flawless artists on the baroque flute" by the San Jose Mercury News, and “flute extraordinaire” by the New Jersey Star-Ledger, is solo and Principal flutist with the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and Musica Angelica and performs with other leading early music groups such as Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Chatham Baroque, and Apollo's Fire. Concert tours have taken him throughout Europe and North and South America. Schultz is currently an Associate Teaching Professor in Music History at Carnegie Mellon University and director of the Carnegie Mellon Baroque Ensemble. As solo, chamber, and orchestral player, he appears on fifty recordings and has been very active in commissioning new music written for acoustic and electric Baroque flute.
WEBB WIGGINS
Webb Wiggins, recognized and lauded internationally for his innovative and musical continuo realizations, has performed and recorded with many US ensembles. They include the Folger Consort, the Dryden Ensemble, Kings Noyse, Chatham Baroque, Hesperus, the Oberlin Baroque Ensemble, the Catacoustic Consort, the Baltimore Consort, the Violins of Lafayette, Apollo’s Fire, the Smithsonian Chamber Players and Orchestra, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the National Symphony, and the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra. His collaborations with soloists, both vocal and instrumental, have earned him high respect among his colleagues in the world of baroque music.
Wiggins is also one of the foremost teachers of harpsichord as well as a coach for chamber music and director of baroque opera. He is associate professor of harpsichord at the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music and serves on the faculty of the Oberlin Baroque Performance Institute and the Amherst Early Music Festival. For over fifteen years, Wiggins was coordinator of the early music program at the Peabody Conservatory of Music. His recordings can be heard on the Dorian, EMI, Bard, Smithsonian, and PGM labels.
Wiggins holds degrees in organ performance from Stetson University and the Eastman School of Music and has done additional harpsichord study at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam. He is perhaps the only harpsichordist in modern times to have given multiple performances on trans-Atlantic voyages.
STEUART PINCOMBE
Steuart Pincombe received a B.M. in modern cello and a M.M. in viola da gamba and baroque cello at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. Steuart has appeared in solo and chamber music performances in major venues in the U.S., Poland, Germany, and The Netherlands. He has also independently released two CD's of the complete Bach suites for solo cello and has recorded new music for the Centaur label.
While a dedicated modern cellist, Pincombe is an advocate of historically informed performance and as a baroque cellist and viola da gambist, he has collaborated in chamber concerts with many of the leading American baroque performers and ensembles. He has appeared in performance at Oberlin’s Baroque Performance Institute, Boston Early Music Festival, Robert Conant’s Festival of Baroque Music, the Kennedy Center, and Festwhoche Attersee in Seewalchen, Austria.
As a teacher, Pincombe has given technique classes and master classes at such institutions as Biola University, Gordon College, University of California Domingez Hills, Missouri State University (MSU) and the Westchester Conservatory; and guest lectures at MSU, Oral Roberts University, and the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.
Pincombe plays a rare, original Carlo Antonio Testore baroque cello from 1720 kindly on loan from the Jumpstart Jr. Foundation in The Netherlands. He currently lives with his wife Michelle in Oberlin, Ohio and is the cellist of the Credo Trio and a baroque cellist in Apollo's Fire: The Cleveland Baroque Orchestra.
