As a guitarist born without arms, Tony Melendez has touched countless lives with his of resilience, faith, and triumph over adversity. The internationally acclaimed singer-songwriter has played the guitar—with his feet—for Pope John Paul II, at the 1989 World Series, and on numerous TV talk shows. He’ll be performing his guitar music and sharing his incredible life story at EMU’s annual gala concert on Friday, Nov. 7.

The concert will be held at 7 p.m. at EMU’s Lehman Auditorium. It will also be available to watch online through a livestream on the .

The annual gala concert has not only become one of the most popular arts events on campus each year, but also one of the most exciting and unique concerts held in the Valley, said David Berry, music program director at EMU.

“This year’s gala, themed Shared Stories, will be a spectacular evening of warmth, brilliant music making, and joy celebrating the beauty of our unique and collective stories,” Berry said. “The concert will feature electrifying world music, a host of exciting guest artists, beautiful choral singing, orchestra, wind band, and more.”

In addition to Melendez’s music, the event will showcase the world premiere of Our Story, an innovative and eclectic new work that brings together folk and world musicians from a range of styles, including Appalachian music trio After Jack, Ukrainian bandurist and electric guitarist Alex Lagoda, African soul artist Makinto, gospel singer Tabatha Parrott, and The Harrisonburg Kurdish/American String Ensemble. EMU Interim President Rev. Dr. Shannon Dycus will be the narrator for the piece.

Other highlights will include Elaine Hagenburg’s choral masterwork “Illuminare” by the University Choir and Chamber Orchestra, along with performances by the Chamber Singers, Wind Ensemble, and Jazz Ensemble.

‘Too good not to share’

Guest artist After Jack will perform programs for more than 1,000 K-8 students throughout Harrisonburg and Rockingham County schools in conjunction with , a nonprofit dedicated to making the arts accessible to students throughout the region. 

“This is sure to be an unforgettable night of beauty, exhilaration, community, peace, and joy,” Berry said. “A concert this special is too good not to share with as many people as possible.”

Thanks to lead sponsor Everence Financial for supporting this event.

EMU’s Lehman Auditorium has surely seen its share of historic firsts over the years, though last week might have marked the first time a memorandum of understanding has ever been signed on its stage. 

Representatives from EMU and the Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival (SVBF) advisory board, along with supporters of the festival, gathered on the auditorium stage on Thursday, Aug. 14, to celebrate the SVBF’s status as an independent 501(c)(3) organization. The event included a ceremonial signing of documents and drew more than two-dozen people. 

EMU financially sustained the annual summer festival since its start in 1993 until last year. The agreement signed last week outlines the transfer of ownership from the university to Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival Inc., which was granted tax-exempt nonprofit status in January 2025 and officially became independent from EMU on July 1. Signers included Dr. Tynisha Willingham, provost and vice president of academic affairs at EMU, and members of the SVBF executive committee: Christine Fairfield, chair; Angela Showalter, vice chair; Cara Modisett, secretary; and Fred Kniss, treasurer. 

Thursday’s ceremony provided an opportunity for donors, staff, and stakeholders to mark the momentous occasion and reflect on the history of the 33-year-old festival.

Following a piano performance of Bach’s Prelude in E major, BWV 854, from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1, from Dr. David Berry, director of the music program at EMU and artistic director of the SVBF, Professor Emeritus Dr. Kenneth J. Nafziger offered a historical perspective on the founding of the festival. 

Nafziger, a member of EMU’s music faculty for 39 years before he retired in 2017 and founding conductor and artistic director of the SVBF, shared stories from the festival’s earliest days.

In 1992, near the start of the fall semester, he was having a dinner with several EMU friends when they began asking him about his experiences conducting the Lake Chelan Bach Fest in north-central Washington that summer. “I noticed that Joe (former EMU President Joseph Lapp) was taking notes,” Nafziger shared. “When the note-taking stopped, he said, ‘What would it take to get something like that going here?’ We took him at his word…and in January of 1993, we were given the go-ahead to do a festival in June. With expert help from Helen (Nafziger), Scott Hosfeld, and Marcia Kauffman, we made the first one happen, and it included vanilla ice cream and hot raspberry sauce at intermission.”

“The beginnings of rehearsals from the second season forward resembled a family reunion,” he continued. “Local orchestral players, including JMU friends, local singers and relatives from east of the Mississippi and Canada, we grew.”

Willingham spoke about the relationship between EMU and the SVBF. “You are still a part of the EMU family and the fabric of EMU,” she said. “EMU has three core values—academic excellence, peace and justice, and active faith—and the Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival exemplifies those core values.”

“We know that in our public schools, the arts have been the first things that have been cut,” she said, crediting the festival’s “pay-what-you-can” ticket pricing with allowing everyone to experience music, regardless of economic status. “The Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival is a gift. It’s been a gift to EMU for over 30 years, it’s been a gift to our community for over 30 years, and it’s been a gift to everyone who has stood on this stage.” 

Included in the memorandum of understanding is an agreement that Lehman Auditorium and Martin Chapel will continue to serve as venues for SVBF performances for at least the next three years, said Les Helmuth, interim executive director of the festival.

“What I discovered in this past year of talking with donors, businesses, and people behind the festival is that the breadth and depth of support is this wide,” he said, stretching out his arms. “It comes from all walks of life, and it’s fabulous. It really is. It’s a great community treasure, and we desperately need to keep it going.”

The Rev. Dr. Sarah Ann Bixler, dean for the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at EMU, delivered the blessing for the event. Other EMU representatives in attendance included Interim President Rev. Dr. Shannon W. Dycus and Kirk Shisler, vice president for advancement.

The 34th annual Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival will be held from June 8-13, 2026. Find out more at .

The Grants for Arts Projects (GAP) award will support general operations of the 34th annual Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival, which will be held in June 2026.

Les Helmuth, interim manager of the SVBF, said this marks the first time the festival has received an NEA grant. “It’s amazing to be recognized by the NEA for the quality of the artists and other key individuals involved in creating great music for the Shenandoah Valley,” he said. “It’s truly an honor to be the recipient of an NEA grant.”

Bach Festival Artistic Director and EMU Music Program Director David Berry noted that receiving support from the NEA has long been a prestigious mark of distinction for any arts organization. “We’re grateful the NEA has chosen to support the Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival as we celebrate our 34th year next June,” he said. “This honor speaks to how special the festival truly is and its great legacy of beautiful music-making.”

Amanda Gookin, previous executive director of the SVBF, wrote and applied for the GAP grant. It is one of more than 1,100 GAP awards nationwide, totaling more than $31.8 million, announced by the NEA on Tuesday.

“The NEA is proud to continue our nearly 60 years of supporting the efforts of organizations and artists that help to shape our country’s vibrant arts sector and communities of all types across our nation,” said NEA Chair Maria Rosario Jackson, PhD. “It is inspiring to see the wide range of creative projects taking place, including EMU’s Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival.”

About the Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival

The annual weeklong summer festival presents vibrant performances on the EMU campus and in Downtown Harrisonburg, Virginia, by Bach Festival Musicians and guest artists, the Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival Orchestra, Baroque Academy Faculty, and Festival Choir. Learn more at:

About the National Endowment for the Arts

Established by Congress in 1965, the NEA is an independent federal agency that is the largest funder of the arts and arts education in communities nationwide and a catalyst of public and private support for the arts. Its Grants for Arts Projects (GAP) provides expansive funding opportunities to strengthen the nation’s arts and cultural ecosystem, including opportunities for public engagement with the arts and arts education, for the integration of the arts with strategies promoting the health and well-being of people and communities, and for the improvement of overall capacity and capabilities within the arts sector.

Works center around the festival theme of “Unity” and range from J.S. Bach’s Wedding Cantata to Richard Strauss’ Four Last Songs to Valerie Coleman’s Umoja: Anthem of Unity and Ernst von Dohnányi’s Sextet in C Major, Op. 37, said Bach Festival Artistic Director and EMU Music Program Director David Berry, a prominent pianist who will perform in the latter work in Festival Concert I.

“This year’s festival includes works that explore themes we can all relate to in our humanity, composers that are underrepresented and we don’t get a chance to hear, and pieces that bring together various different elements to create something entirely new like Antonín �ٱ���řá��’s Symphony No. 9 ‘From the New World,’” shared Berry. “I’m thrilled to welcome audiences to experience this year’s festival featuring an absolutely stellar lineup of musicians from around the world, including artists from EMU, JMU, Shenandoah Conservatory, and the Virginia Symphony Orchestra, as well as rising star performers from the Shenandoah Valley.”

Featured artists include guest conductor Deanna Tham, associate conductor of the Oregon Symphony and music director of the Union Symphony Orchestra, who will conduct Festival Concerts II and III; Benjamin Bergey, assistant professor of music at EMU and conductor of EMU’s Orchestra, Chamber Singers, and University Choir; Berlin-based soprano Sara Duchovnay, a “dynamic and expressive” vocalist who sings with “warmth and luster” (OperaWire); Penelope Shumate, who sings soprano solos with “appealing bell-like clarity and surpassing sweetness” (The New York Times); and Mexican American violinist Alejandra Switala, a top prize winner at the 2023 Sphinx Competition in Detroit, Michigan.

Other highlights include Open Mic Night at Pale Fire, which offers listeners the opportunity to hear—and mingle with—festival performers in a casual setting, and a free talk titled “Harry T. Burleigh, Antonín Dvořák, and the Symphony from the New World” by music historian, author and EMU alumna Jean Snyder ‘63 on Thursday, June 13 at 4 p.m. at Massanutten Regional Library.

At the intersection of harmony, humanity and nature, the Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival gathers internationally-recognized artists and inquisitive audiences to celebrate the life and joy of great music. We like to say “Bach is just the beginning” to share our deep appreciation of the breadth of work influenced by the musical inventions of Bach. The festival began under the artistic direction of Ken J. Nafziger, professor emeritus of EMU Music, in 1993.

For tickets to the Bach Festival, visit . Tickets to Festival Concerts I, II and III at EMU’s Lehman Auditorium and to the Baroque Faculty Concert at Asbury United Methodist Church are pay what you can from $10-40 and free to college students; tickets to Festival Concerts I, II and III include pre-concert talks. Noon concerts at Asbury United Methodist Church and other on- and off-campus concerts are free for all.

He will be succeeded in his role as artistic director by ��ݮ���� professor and music program director David Berry. Berry is an accomplished pianist who has performed in the festival since 2017 and brings artistic leadership experience from EMU as well as other organizations. A part of Berry’s role as artistic director will be to lead the search for the conductor of the festival for the 2023 summer festival.

“The Bach Festival is grateful to Ken for his many years of vision and inspiration,” said Amanda Gookin, executive director. “He is one of the most special leaders I know and it has been a deeply meaningful experience working together. I look forward to celebrating Ken to the fullest in our 30th season. I am absolutely thrilled the artistic leadership will pass on to David Berry whose artistic excellence and innovative voice will carry forth the legacy of the Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival.” 

Nafziger expressed support for Berry in his new role and the festival’s strong future. “With David in place as the new artistic director, the festival is in a good place for its development. He is a well-known musical presence here in the Shenandoah Valley, and an active supporter of and performer in the Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival. David has all the right qualifications, imagination, enthusiasm, a field of wide musical acquaintances who can grace this festival, all the right stuff for a position like this. I stand ready to be of support and assistance as he finds his way and leads this festival with competence in the years ahead.”

Nafziger will contribute his final time as the artistic director and conductor for the 30th anniversary celebration June 12-19, 2022, on the campus of ��ݮ���� and in area venues in Harrisonburg. 

Audience members can expect “world-class performances,” Gookin said, with works by Johannes Brahms, Florence Price, contemporary composer Leo Brouwer, and the great B Minor Mass by Johann Sebastian Bach among others. 

The celebration will be poignant for Nafziger, who has long said the furious pace of the summer festival was one of his favorite times of every year.

“The Bach Festival at 30 is a myriad of wonderful memories: the community that came to be around the festival, working intensely with local musicians and many from farther away, so many great musical moments, soloists from near and far, appreciative audiences, and the fatigue of doing nothing but what one would most like to do for ten days every June,” he said. “To everyone who listened, who played, who sang, who supported, who encouraged, you are owed many and heartfelt thanks.”

Berry, who has participated in the festival since joining the faculty of EMU, praised Nafziger and festival leadership. 

“It is my absolute honor to join the Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival as its next artistic director,” Berry said. “Ken and the leadership of the festival have done a wonderful job of creating a truly unique and beautiful festival. As we celebrate the 30th anniversary and legacy of the festival this year, I am excited to begin the work of looking toward the future and exploring the possibilities of what the next chapter may hold.”

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Berry maintains a rigorous schedule of teaching, performing, adjudication and artistic direction, including as the coordinator of chamber music and member of the artistic planning committee for the Gateways Music Festival. The festival is hosted by Berry’s undergraduate alma mater Eastman School of Music and celebrates the contributions of musicians of African descent to classical music, and features over 120 players from major American orchestras and university faculties. Berry earned his master’s and Doctor of Musical Arts degree from The Juilliard School. 

Nafziger, a professor emeritus of music at EMU, plans to continue other musical involvements, including as music director of the chamber choir Winchester Musica Viva in Winchester, Virginia. He has a long history of working with many of Cuba’s premier orchestra and choral ensembles, including guest conducting appearances, teaching master classes, and participating with musical colleagues in a number of joint projects. Nafziger’s work in church music is widely known across many denominations. He has edited or assisted in editing three hymnals, producing correlated teaching materials and recordings for those hymnals, and co-wrote a book on the significance of singing among Mennonites. He is a frequent guest conductor, workshop leader, and clinician across the United States and Canada.

Nafziger was honored in 2015 with the Circle of Excellence in the Arts Award for sustained contributions in the arts and his creative and superior accomplishments that have improved the cultural vitality of the Shenandoah Valley. The award is given by the Forbes Center for the Performing Arts, the Arts Council of the Valley, and the College of Visual and Performing Arts at James Madison University.

MORE ON KEN NAFZIGER 

Read a profile of Ken Nafziger on his retirement from EMU.

Read more about this 2015 awards presentation.

This award, the highest honor given by the organization, was conferred because of Nafziger’s work as a conductor, educator, hymnal editor and practitioner of church music, according to a press release.

In addition to a long teaching and conducting career, Nafziger has been active animating congregational singing and song leadership through workshops, writing, and hymn editing. He was music editor of Hymnal: A Worship Book (1992), editor of its accompaniment handbook and assistant to the editor of its two supplements, Sing the Journey (2005) and Sing the Story (2007). These Mennonite collections are well-known for their accessibility and celebration of music from around the world. He co-authored Singing, a Mennonite Voice with Marlene Kropf (Herald Press, 2001).

Speaking of his friend and colleague, hymnwriter Adam Tice said that his support for recent Mennonite hymnal projects “has meant the world to us.”

“Ken’s contributions as an educator, editor and scholar have been wide-reaching ecumenically, as well as transformational within the Mennonite Church,” said Benjamin Bergey, music editor of the upcoming Mennonite hymnal and music professor at EMU. “More than that, Ken’s heart for congregational song has brought so many people closer to God, and he has been one of my most important and influential mentors.”

At EMU, Nafziger led the Chamber Singers and taught courses in conducting, world music, worship and music, and interdisciplinary humanities studies. In 2015, he earned the Circle of Excellence in the Arts Award, “for outstanding accomplishments and sustained contributions in the arts, improving the cultural vitality of the Shenandoah Valley.” The award was given by the Forbes Center for the Performing Arts, the Valley Arts Council, and the College of Visual and Performing Arts at James Madison University.

He is artistic director and conductor of Winchester Musica Viva, a chamber choir in Winchester, Virginia.

Founded in 1922, The Hymn Society in the United States and Canada is an ecumenical organization of people who are passionate about hymns and congregational song. We recognize the importance of the people’s song in worship and want to assure its vitality in the future.

The Hymn Society community, open to all, is made up of scholars, church musicians, poets, composers, choir directors, choir members, clergy, worship planners, song leaders, music publishers, music educators, and people who love to sing. We believe that the holy act of singing together shapes faith, heals brokenness, transforms lives, and renews peace. Our mission, therefore, is to encourage, promote, and enliven congregational song.

Early Music America’s mission is to develop, strengthen and celebrate early music in North America. Its members include professional and amateur performers, educators, ensembles, presenters, instrument makers and philanthropists, among others.

“It is a great honor to be elected to the Early Music America Board of Directors,” McCormick said. “I have a strong desire to give back to this organization that has provided me with many wonderful opportunities. As a resident of Virginia, I hope to represent budding early music scenes in the Shenandoah Valley, central Virginia and the Carolinas.”

McCormick first became acquainted with EMA as a student member. The organization sponsored his appearance at the Young Performers Festival, part of the Boston Early Music Festival, and later awarded McCormick an educational outreach grant that supported a series of concerts on the music of Thomas Jefferson’s era in Charlottesville schools.

In addition to his Bach Festival involvement, McCormick is also the founding artistic director of Charlottesville-based Early Music Access Project and a co-founder of Alkemie, a medieval ensemble based in New York City. In 2017, he was honored with Shenandoah Conservatory’s Rising Stars Alumni Award.

EMA defines early music as music of the medieval, renaissance, baroque and classical eras (classical being understood as pre-mainstream classical) played on reproduction or historic instruments — though McCormick notes that the genre is also still defining itself: “It’s growing tentacles as we speak, but accurate to say that we strive to stay true to the aesthetics of the musicians of the particular time period.”

This veracity “requires the right hardware, period instruments and vocal techniques, and the right software: performance style, improvisatory skills, understanding of traditions and conventions,” according to EMA.

McCormick is in his fourth year as the festival’s executive director, which among many other events, features a week-long Virginia Baroque Performance Academy. An immersive workshop provides players of all levels with experience in technique and interpretation through masterclasses and coaching sessions.

“It is really a delight to oversee this,” McCormick said, “since it’s exactly an event like this that really shaped my career.”

McCormick earned his bachelor’s degree in music education and a master’s degree in violin performance from Shenandoah University. While there, he was encouraged to explore baroque music by a staff member in the registrar’s office who played baroque basoon. But his career stayed on a more traditional path, despite hearing the artistic promise of a favorite Bach recording performed by a baroque violinist.

McCormick first played baroque violin on a borrowed instrument at the Oberlin Baroque Performance Institute.

“I literally came home from Oberlin and bought a baroque violin,” he said. “That experience completely changed the trajectory of my career.”

He finished an artist’s diploma at Shenandoah University while traveling to learn from baroque teachers in Washington D.C. and Baltimore, and also earned a master’s degree in medieval Renaissance and Baroque music from Case Western University in Cleveland, Ohio.

“They thought it was funny and then tried to mimic the sounds by changing the notes and we would have a little back and forth between the two instruments,” he said.

Honking—Chaplin’s own word choice—is an apt, animal-oriented descriptor for various sounds emitted during the second annual Instrument Petting Zoo held Feb. 1 at the Explore More Discovery Museum in Harrisonburg, though event founder certainly hopes for more sonorous prospects for the young attendees.

A music educator, professional musician and executive director of the , McCormick says the main goal is to “get kids interested in classical music and in playing instruments.”

A classical string trio at the front door introduced melodious possibilities to young minds. Further inside the museum was the menagerie: violins, recorders, trombones and percussion—available to hold, touch, and play—with the help of friendly volunteers.

More than 500 children and parents attended this year’s event, which was partially funded by an Arts Council of the Valley “Advancing the Arts” grant. Volunteers included faculty, staff and student musicians from ��ݮ���� and James Madison University. Kiwanis Club members also helped out at two instrument-building stations.

Hannah Menefee, a senior music education major currently student-teaching in Harrisonburg City Schools, interacted with enough shy children during the three hours that she came up with a strategy: hand the instrument to the adult.

And then there was the little girl who really did just want to hold the instrument and pet it.

“These outreach events show anyone just how fun and exciting it is to play an instrument,” she said. “They’re an easy and fun way for the community to learn about music education outside of the school setting. Not only does it help the children but also the parents learn and engage with their children’s education.”

Faculty from EMU’s Preparatory Music Program offered information about lessons, offered year around, and Bach Festival concerts, held each summer at EMU. “We made a lot of good connections,” McCormick said.

Getting kids hooked on music early is important, says Chaplin, who grew up in a musical family and eventually, played clarinet at Parry McCluer High School in Buena Vista, Va., in concert, district and area honor bands. At EMU, he sings with the University Choir and plays in three instrumental groups, as well as in a wind trio he formed with friends.

Exploratory events like the instrument petting zoo “allow kids of all ages to come and try real instruments and get an idea of what instrument they would like to learn,” Chaplin said. “It is never too early to start learning how to play.”

This festive concert will feature soprano Sheena Ramirez, trumpet player Judith Saxton, trombonist Jay Crone, pianist David Berry, and the Bach Festival String Quartet. Artistic Director Kenneth Nafziger will lead the assembled forces in works of Bach, Handel, and Vivaldi, plus some of the season’s most famous carols.

A reception will follow the concert.

About the artists

Sheena Ramirez, described as a “light, perky soprano” (New York Times) has been thrilling classical audiences all over the country and around the world. This summer she presented a solo voice and organ recital in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland and participated in the Opera Studio program at the American Institute of Musical Studies (AIMS) in Graz, Austria. In 2015, she won “Best Female Voice” at the International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival in Harrogate, England as the lead in Patience with the Blue Hill Troupe. She sang leading roles in the American premiers of Olivo e Pasquale (Isabella) and I Due Figaro (Inez) with New York City Opera company Amore Opera, as well as the roles of Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Frasquita (Carmen), and Gretel (Hansel and Gretel).  In 2016, she began work on her Doctorate in Voice Performance, Pedagogy, and Literature at James Madison University. In her time there, she has sung the role of Cunegonde (Candide), performed solo works at the Contemporary Music Festival, all while serving as the Director of Recruitment for the College of Visual and Performing Arts.  Sheena is a graduate of Oberlin Conservatory (BM) and New England Conservatory (MM).

David Berry, a native of Syracuse, NY, is an active soloist and chamber musician. Berry earned his BM from the Eastman School of Music, and MM and DMA degrees in piano performance from the Juilliard School. He currently serves as Assistant Professor of Music at ��ݮ����.

Jay Crone, professor of music, joined the Virginia Tech faculty in 1994. Mr. Crone is currently the Principal Trombone of the Roanoke Symphony Orchestra, Opera Roanoke, the Wintergreen Festival Orchestra, the Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival Orchestra, and also performs regularly with the Richmond Symphony (VA).

Judith Saxton is an international trumpet soloist, chamber and orchestral musician, and educator across the U.S. and recently in China, Greece, UK, Italy and Brazil. She is on the Eastern Music Festival faculty and has over 20 recordings. She is a Conn Selmer Trumpet Artist and Certified Alexander Technique Teacher.

About the festival

The Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival . on the campus of ��ݮ����, is a week-long summer music festival devoted to promoting an appreciation and understanding of the music of Bach and a featured composer, country, era or people.  The week includes three featured concerts with orchestra, soloists, and choir; six chamber music concerts; a Leipzig Service; and open rehearsals. Additional offerings include internships, youth programs, Road Scholar (Elderhostel), and the Virginia Baroque Performance Academy.

The Festival Orchestra, with its fine professional musicians from all over the country, produces vibrant performances. Membership in the Festival Choir, a volunteer ensemble, is open to the public and allows vocalists, both amateur and professional, to sing the most celebrated works of the orchestral-choral repertoire.

The free concert begins at 7:30 p.m. in Lehman Auditorium. Donations are welcome for the EMU music student scholarship fund.

The concert program “Love to My Liking” features music of the trouvères of northern France, including songs of public and private adoration, and choreographies based on contemporary sources.

“I’m thrilled to bring Alkemie to EMU this November,” said McCormick. “This will be a unique concert experience. We bring medieval music to life with creative arrangements, dancing, and an emphasis on improvisatory and folk styles of the period. Fans of the Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival will recognize four of our members as guest artists from the 2018 Festival.”

Founded in the spring of 2013 by five friends with a zeal for medieval music, Alkemie’s mission is to share the life-affirming and alternative perspectives to be experienced in the sounds of centuries past. Alkemie specializes in medieval music for high voices and instruments, with a particular interest in exploring the porous boundaries between the “high” and “low” music of the period.

A June 2018 performance at the Indianapolis Early Music Festival was lauded as “enchanting” and “indicating [the] future health” of the field of early music.