Tropical Baroque Festival XI Brian Neal of the Miami BrassThe Tropical Baroque Festival returns to Coral Gables for its 11th Anniversary. The Festival will be presenting performers from around the globe for its series of concerts starting with Concerto Soave, from France, on February 27, and continuing with the premier of Brian Neil’s exciting new ensemble Miami Brass. It continues with celebrated musician from Italy, England, Germany, and Argentina.
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Staff
Donald
Oglesby
Miami
Artistic Director, MBS
Dr. Oglesby is one of the original founders of the Miami Bach Society. He received a Bachelor of Music degree from Birmingham-Southern College, a Masters degree in musicology from the University of Illinois, and a Doctor of Music degree with distinction from Indiana University, where he concentrated in conducting.
Professor of Choral Music at the University of Miami for 30 years; Dr. Oglesby is also Director of Choral Music at Plymouth Congregational Church, Coconut Grove. He has been president of the Florida chapter of the American Choral Directors Association, and also the Miami chapters of Pi Kappa Lambda and Pi Kappa Phi honor societies. In December 1989, his performance of Handel’ s Messiah was broadcast nationally on Christmas Day. Under Dr. Oglesby’s direction the University of Miami Collegium Musicum and the Plymouth Church Choir have toured the eastern United States, Great Britain and Europe. He serves on the Editorial Board of the Choral Journal and has served three terms as Chair of the Research and Publications Committee of the American Choral Directors' Association
Dr. Oglesby has worked at the Center for Baroque Music in Versailles, France; he is the author of the Bach Cantata Data Base, Score Preparation: A Study Guide for Conducting Students, A Guide to the Bach Cantatas, and articles in the Choral Journal. He translated editorial notes for an edition of grand motets by Rameau, published by the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles in 2006, and is currently working on an anthology of Martin Luther’s music.
Miles Morgan
New York
Co-Artistic Director, Tropical Baroque Music
Miles Morgan is well-known in international early music circles, and has been active in every aspect of early music for more than four decades. A graduate of Harvard University, he trained as a conductor in both the United States and Italy. For many years, he was the music director of the Associazione Musicale Romana (Italy), followed by stints with the Bangor Symphony Orchestra (Maine) and many years directing the Bamboo Organ Festival (Manila). He currently lives in New York and collaborates with the Boston Early Music Festival and the Venice Music Festival. Before accepting the position as Co-Music Director of the International Baroque Music Festival, he served as its Artistic Advisor during its planning and initial five seasons.
Jay Bernfeld
Paris
Co–Artistic Director, Tropical Baroque Music Festival
Jay Bernfeld is increasingly admired as a performer of great expressivity on the viola da gamba; the lyrical beauty of his playing the result of his deep love of the singing voice. Hundreds of live performances of the great singers of the twentieth century, in particular those of Renata Tebaldi, have helped him to forge a new perspective on the performance of earlier repertoires as witness the performances of Fuoco e Cenere, the ensemble which he directs.
Passionately interested in the rediscovery and development of 17th century theater and operahe has directed the 1589 Florentine Intermedii La Pellegrina, Monteverdi’s Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria at the Athens Concert Hall, and Marco da Gagliano’s La Dafne at the Palladian Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza, as well as Lorenzani's long forgotten pastoral opera Nicandro e Fileno on the stage of Versaille's Royal Opera. Jay Bernfeld has founded Opera Fuoco with Maestro David Stern. The tandem Bernfeld/Stern have presented Handel’s Hercules at prestigious sites in Greece.
As director, soloist and chamber musician, Jay Bernfeld has delighted audiences on such prestigious stages as the Concertgebouw-Amsterdam, the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, Rome's Villa Medici. He has taught the viola da gamba in Italy, France, Norway, Switzerland and the United states, as well as instrumental and vocal repertoire spanning five centuries. He has held master classes on baroque style and technique at the Festival d'Art Lyrique Aix-en-Provence 's vocal academy, and at the Leipziger Bachtage on the theme of "Bach and French Music".
Jancy Ball
New York
Technical Director
Ms. Ball is the principal of SHW Productions, a video and event production company located in New York, NY. She began her career in the entertainment industry over thirty years ago as a roadie at the Fillmore East. She also worked as production coordinator on the original tour of Jesus Christ Superstar, and as assistant to the producer of The Living Center, the organizers of the original Renaissance Faire in California. After returning to New York and the corporate world, she worked for Viacom and CBS International. Jancy established SHW Productions in 1983 and has produced many projects including AIDS, Me and My Baby (Electronic Media Associates, 1988), SkiTime (Sunset and Vine, ITV, 1994) and The OLAP Summit (Cognos, 1996). She also produced and directed Wait Til You See What I Can Do (Las Cumbres Learning Center, 1986), The Oldest Kid On The Block (Brooklyn Children's Museum, 1989), The Street of Ships (The South Street Seaport Museum, 1992), and Hormone Replacement Therapy And Your Heart (PeerMed, 1997).
In 1999, Jancy directed a PSA for Chandler Chicco featuring Jennifer Holliday and executive produced Quartzite Falls, a documentary about the Salt River in Arizona. Ms. Ball has been a judge for The International Emmy Awards (1986-1999) and The National Academy of Arts and Sciences (1989-1998). She just completed a three-year term as NYWIF Vice-President of Membership where she continues to be the head of the Intern/Mentor Program and was recently in London for The Women in Film and Television International Summit as a featured panelist on mentoring programs. She has been involved with the Miami Bach Society's Tropical Baroque Music Festival as technical director since 2003.
Kathryn B. Gaubatz
Miami
Executive Director
Kathryn Ball Gaubatz is a graduate of Wellesley College and received her Masters of Social Work degree from the University of Chicago. She holds a Certificate in Non-Profit Management from the Mandel Center for Non-Profit Organizations at Case Western Reserve University. She has practiced social work with children, been director of Public Relations for Fairchild Tropical Botanical Gardens and has been active on several governmental advisory boards in the South Florida community. She became the Executive Director of The Miami Bach Society in 1995, after being a member of its Board of Directors since 1984.
In 2000, Ms. Gaubatz founded the international Tropical Baroque Music Festival. Guided by the example of the Festival d’Arte Lyruique in Coral Gables' sister city of Aix-en-Provence, France, she conceived of the Festival as a place for international musicians to perform for the benefit of the community’s residents as well as national and international visitors. Her dream, formulated with the help of renowned international music festival organizer, Miles Morgan, has gained a worldwide reputation as one of the premier early music festivals in the United States. In recognition of her work, the French Government during Tropical Baroque Music Festival V presented Mrs. Gaubatz with its esteemed Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters. In the spring of 2005, her work was further being recognized by the Miami Chapter of the American Red Cross, which has selected her to receive its Sara Hopkins Woodruff Spectrum Award for Culture.