Kiri Tollaksen
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Kiri Tollaksen enjoys a varied career as a performer and teacher. Equally skilled on trumpet and cornetto (a wind instrument used primarily in 17th century Western Europe), Kiri has been praised for her "stunning technique, and extreme musicality," (Journal of the International Trumpet Guild). She has performed extensively throughout North America and Europe with numerous groups such as Apollo's Fire, Concerto Palatino, La Fenice, Folger Consort, Tenet, Green Mountain Project, Piffaro, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, New York Collegium, Huelgas Ensemble, Catacoustic Consort and Pacific Music Works. She has performed both at the Boston Early Music Festival, and at the Bloomington Early Music Festival, and she is a founding member of the ensemble Dark Horse Consort (http://darkhorseconsort.org/welcome/) |
University of Michigan Ann Arbor |
D.M.A. | 1995-1999 | Principal Professor; Charles Daval |
Yale University New Haven, CT |
M.M. Performance | 1992-1994 |
Principal Professor; Allan Dean |
Eastman School of Music Rochester, NY |
B.M.Performance with distinction |
1988-1992 | Principal Professor; Barbara Butler |
Other teachers and coaches: Bruce
Dickey, Edward Parmentier, Jean Tubery, William Dongois,
Christel Thielmann, Jaap Schroeder, Craig Heitger
Private Studio Teaching |
Trumpet and Cornetto |
1995-present |
Amherst Early Music Festival, Connecticut | Cornetto Instructor |
2001, 2002, 2007, 2008 and 2018 |
Madison Early Music Festival | Cornetto Instructor |
2013 and 2018 |
Adjunct Lecturer in Music Early Music Institute, Indiana University |
Instructor of Cornetto | 2006-2010 |
Visiting Artist, Early Music Institute Indiana University, Bloomington, IN |
Instructor of Cornetto, Ensemble Coach |
2005-2006 |
Ann Arbor School for the Performing Arts | Trumpet Instructor |
2001-2004 |
University of Michigan Studio teaching (trumpet) of non-music majors Trumpet Techniques Class |
Teaching Assistant | 1995-1998 |
Yale School of Music Studio teaching (trumpet) of non-music majors |
1994 | |
Lecture-Recitals given at: Indiana University, Bloomington, IN University of Michigan Northwestern University Eastman School of Music Yale School of Music Michigan State University University of North Texas Cincinnati Conservatory of Music Northern Illinois University, Dekalb University of Auckland, New Zealand University of British Columbia, Vancouver Eastern Michigan University |
I am currently or have been a long term member of the following ensembles (please scroll down):
Dark Horse Consort, cornetto | San Francisco, CA | 2011-present | River Raisin Ragtime Revue, cornet | Tecumseh, MI | 2001-2014 | Anaphantasia, cornetto | Ann Arbor, MI | 2004-2011 |
Greater Lansing Symphony Orchestra, 2nd trumpet | Lansing, MI | 1995-2004 |
Dodworth Saxhorn Band, Eb soprano saxhorn | Ann Arbor, MI | 1996-2003 |
La Gente D’Orfeo | Ann Arbor, MI | 2001-2008 |
Ensemble Seventeenth Century, cornetto | Ann Arbor, MI | 1996-2005 |
Collegium Vocale Lausanne | France | 2002 |
Accadamia Bizantina | Venice, Italy | 2002 |
La Gente D’Orfeo at the Detroit Institute of Art | Detroit, MI | 2002 |
Directed “Echoes of San Marco” | Ann Arbor, MI | 2002 |
Apollo’s Fire, “A Mozart Celebration” at Severance Hall | Cleveland, OH | 2002 |
Trinity Consort | Portland, OR | 2002 |
Piffaro | Philadelphia | 2002 |
Folger Consort | Washington D.C. | 2001 |
Concerto Palatino (at the Library of Congress) | Washington D.C. | 2001 |
Pro Coro Canada | Edmonton, Alberta | 2001 |
Violins of Lafayette | Washington D.C. | 2001 |
Washington Bach Consort | Washington D.C. | 2001 |
Michigan Chamber Brass | Tecumseh, MI | 2001 |
Huelgas Ensemble | Salzburg, Austria | 2000 |
Oltremontano | St. Petersburg, Russia | 2000 |
Cappella Artemisia | Quinto, Switzerland | 2000 |
La Fenice | VÈzelay, France | 2000 |
Magnificat | Sonoma County, CA | 2001 |
Concerto Palatino | Modena, Italy | 1999 |
Houston Grand Opera | Houston, TX | 1999 |
New York Cornet and Sacbut Ensemble | New York, NY | 1994, 1999, 2001 |
Eugene and Sadye Power Grant | Univ. of Michigan | 1996 |
School of Music Fellowship | Univ. of Michigan | 1995-1999 |
Recipient of the Alumni Association Prize | Yale School of Music | 1994 |
Assistant to Jaap Schroeder, visiting Baroque violinist | Yale | 1993-1994 |
coordinated Yale Chamber Players | ||
Dorothy Green Osborn Ferguson Scholarship | Yale | 1992-1994 |
Chamber Music Society at Yale | Participant | 1994 |
International Women's Brass Conference | St. Louis, MO | 1993 |
semi-finalist, mock orchestral audition | ||
Kiwanis Club Scholarship | St. Joseph, MI | 1990 |
George Eastman Merit Scholarship | Eastman | 1988-1992 |
Casa Mateus, 22nd Early Music Festival | Vila Real, Portugal | 1999 |
Baroque Performance Institute | Oberlin, OH | 1998 |
Amherst Early Music Festival, Baroque Academy | Amherst, MA | 1995 |
Chautauqua Music Festival | Chautauqua, NY | 1992 |
Vincent Cichowicz Workshop | Evanston, IL | 1991 |
Aspen Music Festival | Aspen, CO | 1990 |
Academy of Early Music | Ann Arbor, MI | 1997-present |
Early Music America | Cleveland, OH | 1997-present |
Historic Brass Society | New York, NY | 1989-present |
Raggin' at Greenfield Village, River Raisin Ragtime Revue. Recorded in
Ann Arbor, Michigan 2011. produced by The Henry Ford. Cornet. Lambert de Sayve's Missa super Dominus Regnavit, Ensemble La Fenice. Recorded in Liege, Belgium, 2006. Ricercar. Cornetto. Ragtime Detroit!, River Raisin Ragtime Revue. Recorded in Ann Arbor, Michigan 2006. Stomp Off Records. Cornet. Praetorius' Polyhymnia Caduceatrix , Apollo's Fire. Recorded in Cleveland, Ohio, 2005. Cornetto. Passion and Repose: A 17th Century Italian Musical Extravaganza!, La Gente d'Orfeo. Recorded in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, 2004. Cornetto. Biber's Missa Christi resurgentis, New York Collegium. Recorded in NYC, NY, 2003. Cornetto. Home Sweet Home, Dodworth Saxhorn Band. Recorded in Ann Arbor, MI, 2002. Eb Soprano Saxhorn. Odhecaton, Piffaro, The Renaissance Wind Band. Recorded in Troy, NY, 2001. Dorian recordings. Cornetto. Mozart Celebration. Apollo’s Fire. Recorded in Cleveland, OH, 2001. Eclectra. Trumpet. Orfeo, Claudio Monteverdi. Apollo’s Fire. Recorded in Cleveland, OH, 2000. Eclectra. Cornetto and Trumpet. Missa a 24, Annabile Padovano. The Huelgas Ensemble. Recorded in Lissewege, Belgium, 2000. Harmonia Mundi. Cornetto. Poets, Bards and Singers of Song, New Renaissance Band. Recorded in Troy, MI, 1999. Nightwatch Recording. Cornetto. Vespro della Beate Virgine, 1610, Claudio Monteverdi. Apollo’s Fire. Recorded in Cleveland, OH, 1998. Eclectra. Cornetto. Grafulla’s Favorites, Dodworth Saxhorn Band. Recorded in Ann Arbor, MI, 1998. New World Records. Eb Soprano Saxhorn. Music of Chris Theofanidis, I Corinthians 13. Recorded in Rochester, NY, 1990. Albany Records. Trumpet. |
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