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GALILEI
recorded A Winter's Night on the Maggie's Music label with the musicians pictured to the right: Liz Knowles, fiddle, viola
Deborah Nuse, Scottish small pipes, fiddle
Sue Richards, Celtic Harp
Carolyn Anderson Surrick, viols
Sarah Weiner, oboe, tin whistle, recorder.Currently, their lineup
includes Katheryn Montoya on oboe and recorder and a variety of
exciting special guests including NPR Host Neal Cohen from Talk of the
Nation. They tour throughout the USA and Ensemble Galilei specializes in the performance
of Celtic music, Early music and new compositions. Featuring
Celtic harp, fiddle, Scottish small pipes, oboe, recorders,
penny-whistle, viola da gamba and percussion, the repertoire
ranges from instrumental arrangements of chant by Hildegard
von Bingen, to Renaissance dance music, to chaconnes from
the Baroque, to Irish jigs and reels, to music composed
by the performers in the traditional style.
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In 1994 Ensemble
Galilei won a Wammie for "Best Chamber Ensemble" awarded
by the Washington Area Music Association. Excerpts of their
concerts have been heard on NPR's Performance Today
over twenty times since 1990, including Christmas Day 1997,
and the group has done two in-studio 30 minute concerts
there. Ben Roe of Performance Today said "There's
an ease about the way they play that seems to break down
the barriers that normally exist between the audience and
the performer. The repertoire is very engaging and the audience
is clearly enthusiastic." They have been interviewed by
Robert Siegel on All Things Considered and have performed
and been interviewed on the Diane Rehm Show.
 Here
is the original Ensemble Galilei in its first incarnation
when they recorded Music in the Great Hall (1992) and Ancient
Noels (1993).Pictured here are Maggie's Music artists:
Maggie Sansone
on hammered dulcimer, Sue
Richards on Celtic harp and special guest Bonnie Rideout on Scottish fiddle with Carolyn
Anderson Surrick on viola da gamba, Jim Brooks on recorders
and Marcia Diehl on recorder, pennywhistle and bowed psaltery.
"The music is filled
with quiet passion and a lot of strength. If music is the
food of the gods, this disc comes from their private stock."
- Stereophile
Magazine
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