Ensemble Lipzodes-Artists

Juan Carlos Arango
Born in Colombia, Juan Carlos Arango received his degree in oboe with Vaclav Vinecky at the University of Brasilia, Brazil and studied dulcian with Michael McCraw at Indiana University's Early Music Institute. He has performed with many early music ensembles such as Música Ficta and Fénix de los Ingenios. He has performed in international festivals such as Singapore Festival of Arts; JakArts Festival, Jakarta; II Festival de Música Antigua y Religiosa de Bogotá; Festival de Música Antigua y Barroca "Los Fundadores," San Luis Potosí, Mexico; II Latin-American Baroque Music Festival of Chiquitos, Bolivia; X Festivale "Il Canto delle Pietre" Italy. He has also performed for The Education Ministry of the Embassy of Spain in Philadelphia, the Colombian Embassy in Tokyo, the Mexican Cultural Institute, Washington, D.C., and the Cleveland Museum of Art in Ohio. Juan was a faculty member in The Third Annual Magdalena Early Music Workshop in New Mexico and has acted as coordinator for woodwind instruments for the Plan Nacional de Bandas, a project of the Ministry of Culture in Colombia. In addition, he has been active as a teacher of oboe, chamber music and music theory at universities in Colombia. He has recorded for the Milan-Jade label.

Ensemble Lipzodes	Artist Biographies
Juan Carlos Arango Born in Colombia, Juan Carlos Arango received his degree in oboe with Vaclav Vinecky at the University of Brasilia, Brazil and studied dulcian with Michael McCraw at Indiana University's Early Music Institute. He has performed with many early music ensembles such as Música Ficta and Fénix de los Ingenios. He has performed in international festivals such as Singapore Festival of Arts; JakArts Festival, Jakarta; II Festival de Música Antigua y Religiosa de Bogotá; Festival de Música Antigua y Barroca "Los Fundadores," San Luis Potosí, Mexico; II Latin-American Baroque Music Festival of Chiquitos, Bolivia; X Festivale "Il Canto delle Pietre" Italy. He has also performed for The Education Ministry of the Embassy of Spain in Philadelphia, the Colombian Embassy in Tokyo, the Mexican Cultural Institute, Washington, D.C., and the Cleveland Museum of Art in Ohio. Juan was a faculty member in The Third Annual Magdalena Early Music Workshop in New Mexico and has acted as coordinator for woodwind instruments for the Plan Nacional de Bandas, a project of the Ministry of Culture in Colombia. In addition, he has been active as a teacher of oboe, chamber music and music theory at universities in Colombia. He has recorded for the Milan-Jade label.
C. Keith Collins C. Keith Collins is a doctoral student at Indiana University’s Early Music Institute, where he studies historical bassoon with Michael McCraw. He holds the Master of Music degree in modern bassoon from Indiana University and has Bachelor degrees in music education and German from Berry College, in Rome, Georgia. As a baroque and classical bassoonist, Keith has performed or recorded with Apollo’s Fire, Atlanta Baroque Orchestra, the Bach Ensemble, Chicago Opera Theater, Dayton Bach Society, Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra, Washington Bach Consort and Wolftrap Opera Company, among others. He can be heard on the upcoming recording of French baroque instrumental music with Michael McCraw on the Centaur label. Keith has served on the faculty of the Indiana University Recorder Academy and is currently historical music supervisor for the Conner Prairie Living History Museum in Fishers, Indiana. As a musician interested in the folk traditions of his native Appalachia, he plays and teaches clawhammer fretless banjo, Appalachian dulcimer and shape-note singing. He has self-produced a recording of 17th - through 19th-century banjo and dulcimer music using historical instruments and reproductions. His interest in the Gaelic harp led him to an apprenticeship at Argent Fox Harps in Hendricksville, Indiana, where he has made Gaelic wire-strung harps based on 15th-century originals.
Anna Marsh Anna is currently pursuing a doctorate in historical bassoons, with Michael McCraw at Indiana University. She has a wide variety of musical interests and performs regularly on modern, baroque and classical bassoon and contrabassoons, shawms, dulcians, saxophone, and voice. Anna received her bachelor’s and master's degrees in modern bassoon from the University of Southern California where she studied early music with James Tyler. She continues to be involved in numerous performances in Seattle, New York, Boston, Los Angeles, and also performs in Canada, Germany and the Czech Republic. She has appeared with and at the Hollywood Bowl, Banff Centre for the Arts, the Boston Early Music Festival, Sante Fe Pro Musica, Atlanta Baroque Orchestra, Chicago Chorale, Symphony in the Barn and others. Anna will appear as a guest artist on a forthcoming album on Centaur Records “Bassically French”.
Kathryn Montoya Kathryn is completing a doctorate at Indiana Univeristy, where she studies baroque oboe with Washington McClain and recorder with Eva Legêne. She holds degrees from Oberlin Conservatory and Indiana University. Ms. Montoya has performed with many ensembles, including Apollo's Fire, the Newberry Consort, Chicago Opera Theatre, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Casa Mateus Festival Orchestra in Portugal, Aradia Ensemble in Toronto, and tours internationally with the Celtic group Ensemble Galilei. She is a recipient of the prestigious Performers Certificate at IU and was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study in Germany. Ms. Montoya was assistant instructor of recorder for five years at Indiana University and has coached and given master classes at Eastern Illinois University and the Hoosier Hoot in Indiana. She was a finalist in the American Bach Soloist Competition and has appeared as a soloist with the Bloomington Early Music Festival Orchestra and the Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra. Kathryn records for the Naxos label.
Wolodymyr J. Smishkewych Wolodymyr Smishkewych has specialized in medieval solo song and chant and contemporary classical music since the mid-1990s. His broad repertoire also spans baroque opera, oratorio and lieder. As a member of Sequentia Ensemble for Early Music and also of Theatre of Voices, he has recorded for the Sony/BMG-Classical and Harmonia Mundi labels, as well as for DaCapo and Ex Cathedra records. Most recently, he has been heard on the Grammy-nominated recording of Stockhausen’s Stimmung with Theatre of Voices. Radio and film credits include Antena 3 National Spanish Radio, National Public Radio/PRI, Radio Suisse Romande, Danmark Radio, MDR-German Radio and Universal Pictures. In addition to performing, he also builds and restores string instruments of the medieval period and earlier. His current performance research includes reconstructions of early Kievan-Rus epic repertoire and an online digital facsimile of the Lugo Breviary from Galicia, Spain. He has been a guest lecturer of early music, world music and contemporary music at universities in Europe and North America, and recently returned to the United States with his partner, harpsichordist Yonit Kosovske, after holding a 2005-2006 Fulbright fellowship in Spain researching the history of the zanfona (vielle a roue) on the Iberian Peninsula. He is currently a candidate for the Doctor of Music degree in voice performance at Indiana University.
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