Instruments
Vicki Boeckman
is playing a soprano recorder after Ganassi and alto recorders after P.
I. Bressan and J. Denner, all by the late Frederick G. Morgan of
Daylesford, Australia, and a soprano recorder after Rafi by Francesco
LiVirghi of Rome.
Cecilia Archuleta
performs on a 1615 Brescian violin by Zanetto Peregrino.
Elizabeth Blumenstock
plays a violin by Andrea Guarneri (Cremona, 1660) generously lent to her
by the Philharmonia Trust (San Francisco).
Tekla
Cunningham’s violin was made in Prague by Johannes Ulricus Eberle
in 1807.
Laurel Wells’s viola is by John Blair (Edinburgh, 1800).
Margriet Tindemans is
playing a violas da gamba by Ray Nurse of Vancouver (1994, after Barak
Norman, London, 18th century).
Meg Brennand’s cello
dates from 1730 and was made in Vienna by Daniel Stadlmann.
Page Smith’s cello
was made by Ch. J. B. Collin-Mezin in 1889.
Jillon Stoppels
Dupree’s single-manual 17th-century Italian-style harpsichord is by
Zuckermann Harpsichords, rebuilt by David Calhoun; her Flemish
double-manual harpsichord, based on the 1624 “Colmar” Johannes Ruckers
instrument, was built by Kevin Fryer in 2002.
The concert grand by
Chickering (Boston, 1867) used by George Bozarth, Shuann
Chai, and Tamara Friedman on the Brahms Festival was once
owned by Miles C. Moore, the last Governor of the Washington Territory
and is the same model as the piano presented by Chickering to Franz
Liszt. Tamara Friedman’s
classical pianos are a replica of an Anton Walter grand piano (Vienna,
1795), built by Rodney Regier in 1986, and an original square piano by
John Broadwood & Sons (London, ca. 1820).