Baroque Oboe:
Private students at Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland Institute of Music.
Please visit Case's website to learn more about the graduate program in Early Music and opportunities for baroque oboe study.
Private Lessons are also available in Cleveland and on tour. Please contact me to make arrangements.
BERWICK ACADEMY AT THE OREGON BACH FESTIVAL
The 2024 season features top artists of the early music field. Classes, chamber music, and orchestra in 2024 will focus on both Classical repertoire at A=430 and Baroque at A=415. For more information on the repertory and concerts, view the listing on the class components page. Guests for 2024 include Catherine Manson, Julian Perkins, and John Butt.
Participation is limited to musicians between the ages of 21 and 35 who actively study and perform in period practice on appropriate instruments. As a fully endowed program, selected participants attend free of charge with all tuition and accommodations covered.
Applications are due Jan 31, 2024. Click for Audition Information.
Berwick Academy Wind Faculty in June 2022
American Bach Soloists Academy
The American Bach Soloists’ ACADEMY offers advanced conservatory-level students and emerging professionals unique opportunities to study and perform Baroque music in a multi-disciplinary learning environment. In addition to in-depth coachings and technical studies with masters of their particular instruments, string players, wind players, continuo and keyboard players, and singers will work together with all faculty members, gaining the perspectives of eminent and highly acclaimed professional artists from a variety of disciplines.
ABS ACADEMY: July 29-August 11, 2024
Applications are due Feb 28, 2024 and are available here
Masterclasses:
The Juilliard School, New York, NY
San Francisco Conservatory, San Francisco, CA
University of Southern California, Thornton School of Music
Cincinnati Conservatory, Cincinnati, OH
Cleveland Institute of Music, Cleveland, OH
University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI
Providence College, Providence, RI
Penn State, State College, PA
Case Collegium Musicum at Trinity Cathedral, Cleveland
Case Western Reserve University
Visiting Instructor: 2018 to present
Director, Collegium Musicum: 2003-2005, 2007-2015
Due to an increasingly busy performing schedule, Debra took a hiatus from directing the Collegium at CWRU, but returns occasionally to lead special projects and occasional coachings, enriching the work of the department.
Previously, Debra led instrumental and vocal ensembles in projects ranging from Bach Cantatas to 18th Century French Cantatas, secular music of the Fourteenth-century Ars Nova, music from the Roman de Fauvel, Seventeenth-century Petits Motets, Binchois & his World, Secular works by Johannes Ciconia, Guillaume Dufay, and Guillaume de Machaut, works for strings, brass, and voic from 17th Century Germany, madrigals of Monteverdi, music from late-sixteenth century Antwerp, and Bach Cantatas, among many others.