motomi@motogamba.com

Motomi Igarashi, a native of Japan, has played the double bass since she was 12. She received first prize at the Aspen Music Festival Double Bass competition, has given double bass solo recitals and appears as a concert soloist with orchestras in the USA, England and Japan. Motomi studied double bass with Eugene Levinson at the Juilliard School. After graduating from the Juilliard School, she went to France to study viola da gamba. She traveled throughout Europe and spent several years in intensive study with Marianne Muller, Wieland Kuijken, and Paolo Pandolfo and lirone with Erin Headley. Since returning from Paris she has been playing the viola da gamba, violone, the baroque double bass and lirone with various groups such as The American Classical Orchestra, Anima, Artek, Bach Collegium Japan, BEMF, the Concert Royal, Foundling Orchestra, Handel and Haydn Society, Long Island Baroque, and has appeared as a soloist, performing the Brandenburg No. 6 with the New York Philharmonic. Motomi does more than early music, and is featured on the Nathalie Merchant album "Leave your Sleep" and she plays with Jazz pianist Kevin Hays.

llipnik@gmail.com
(917) 533-2920

Technique, consort and solo repertoire.
All ages and experience levels including beginners.
Specialize in late medieval through early baroque styles.
Studio in Western Queens, minutes from Manhattan. Will travel within metropolitan and surrounding areas. Small ensembles may be arranged including viol and mixed consorts, and trio sonatas with recorders.

marthamcg@aol.com
(212) 569-1499

Martha McGaughey has been teaching viola da gamba for 35 years. She taught at the École Nationale de Musique in Angoulême (France), and at Stanford University. Since 1986 she has been on the faculty at The Mannes College of Music. She has twice been a Regents' Lecturer at the University of California, and teaches regularly at Amherst Early Music and other summer workshops. Ms. McGaughey teaches viol privately in New York at her apartment in Upper Manhattan, or at Mannes College. She teaches consorts and Baroque ensembles every semester at Mannes. Her goal as a teacher is to help people play better.

Ms. McGaughey studied in Basel with Jordi Savall and in Brussels with Wieland Kuijken. She was for many years a member of the Paris-based Five Centuries Ensemble, known for its performances of both early and contemporary music. A founding member of Musical Assembly, whose recording of the chamber music of François Couperin received critical acclaim, Ms. McGaughey is also a founding member of Empire Viols, in residence at New York's Second Presbyterian Church since 1997, and of Aula Harmoniae. She has performed with many of the New York Baroque groups, and collaborated with the British viol consort Phantasm in several concerts and a CD of the consort music of William Byrd. She has recorded for the Fonit Cetra and Erato labels, as well as for EMI. For names of current and former students who could provide references, contact Ms. McGaughey directly.

morley.ros@gmail.com
(917) 501-7779

I have a downtown Brooklyn-based studio providing individual and group lessons on viola da gamba and medieval vielle. I teach children and adults at all levels, including total beginners, in technique, solo and ensemble music from the Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque eras. I am willing to travel throughout the Tri-State area to teach you or coach your ensemble in your home.

neelyp@alum.vassar.edu
(917) 657-7907

Patricia Ann Neely (viola da gamba, violone, vielle, baroque bass) is a member of Abendmusik, New York’s Early String Band. She has appeared with many early music ensembles including, the Folger Consort, Smithsonian Chamber Players, the New York Collegium, the Washington Bach Consort, Amor Artis, Glimmerglass Opera, New York City Opera, the Boston Camerata, Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, The Newberry Consort, Bach Vespers at Holy Trinity, The New York Consort of Viols, and Early Music New York, among others, and was a founding member of the viol consort Parthenia.

She spent three years touring with the acclaimed European-based medieval ensemble Sequentia on the medieval fiddle, performing throughout Europe and North America at festivals including, Oude Muziek - Utrecht, Bach Tage – Berlin, Alte Musik – Herne, Wratislavia Cantans - Poland, Music Before 1800, and The Vancouver Early Music Festival.

Ms. Neely began playing the viol at Vassar College and continued her studies, earning an MFA in Historical Performance at Sarah Lawrence College, with additional studies in Belgium with Wieland Kuijken. She has recorded for Arabesque, Allegro, Musical Heritage, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, Ex Cathedra, Classic Masters, Erato, Lyrichord, and Music Masters labels.

Ms. Neely has been a member of the faculty at the Amherst Early Music Summer Festival, the Viola da Gamba Society of America Conclaves, Wagner College, and Vassar College, and is currently on the faculty of The Brearley School where she teaches recorder, double bass and coaches an early string repertoire ensemble. Ms. Neely is also the Executive Director of the Connecticut Early Music Society and Festival.  

mp39@nyu.edu
(212) 228-5820

Expert teaching of technique and solo repertory. Progressive exercises—both tantalizing and musically attractive—from own tried-and-true text, Bass Viol Technique. Emphasis upon student-teacher duet playing. All ages and levels. Happy to form consorts comprised of compatible players. Studio in Greenwich Village, near New York University, easily reached by all major subway lines.

http://www.tearesofthemuses.com

lisa.naef.terry@gmail.com
(718) 219-6166

I teach privately at my home or at the home of students. I teach high school to adult, and all levels: beginner to professional. I especially love to analyze and solve specific technical problems or physical difficulties, in order to make playing music feel good and sound good. Areas of expertise: lyra viol, baroque solo repertoire, chamber and consort repertoire, ensemble coaching (with insights on how to work well as a consort musican). I am a full time member of Parthenia, and also perform with the Dryden Ensemble, the Lyra Consort and Pegasus Early Music. I am principal cellist and viol soloist with Tempesta di Mare, Philadelphia's Baroque Orchestra, and I am President of the Viola da Gamba Society of America.