Biography

Kiri Tollaksen

BIOGRAPHY

EDUCATION

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

CURRENT PERFORMING EXPERIENCE

PERFORMANCE HIGHLIGHTS

HONORS, DISTINCTIONS

SUMMER MUSIC FESTIVALS

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

DISCOGRAPHY

BIOGRAPHY

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, The Folger Consort, Piffaro, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, New York Collegium, Concerto Palatino, La Fenice, the Huelgas Ensemble, the Catacoustic Consort and Seattle Baroque Orchestra. She has performed both at the Boston Early Music Festival, and at the Bloomington Early Music Festival, and she is a regular member of the quartets La Gente d'Orfeo and Anaphantasia, both based in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

As a professional trumpet player, Kiri performs with the River Raisin Ragtime Revue in Tecumseh, Michigan, and freelances throughout Michigan. Since 2000, she has been trumpet soloist at Historic Mariner's Church in Detroit, Michigan (this church has reached national recognition for its annual memorial for the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Mariner's is referred to in Gordon Lightfoot's ballad). From 1996-2005, she played the Eb soprano saxhorn with the Dodworth Saxhorn Band (a re-creation of a 19th century community brass band, based in Ann Arbor). Kiri is featured on the Dodworth's latest CD, "Home Sweet Home." From 1995-2004, Kiri was a member of the Greater Lansing Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Maestro Gustav Meier.

Kiri is currently Adjunct Lecturer in Music at the Early Music Institute at Indiana University. She also maintains a teaching studio in Ann Arbor, and has taught cornetto at the Amherst Early Music Festival. Kiri holds performing degrees in trumpet from Eastman, Yale, and a Doctorate in Musical Arts from the University of Michigan. Her discography includes recordings with the Huelgas Ensemble, Apollo's Fire, Piffaro, The New York Collegium, La Gente d'Orfeo, the River Raisin Ragtime Revue and the Dodworth Saxhorn Band. For upcoming concerts, please visit http://www.KiriTollaksen.com.

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EDUCATION

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

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Adjunct Lecturer in Music	Indiana University Cornetto	2006-present
Private Studio Teaching	Trumpet and Cornetto 3rd grade - adult	1995-present
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
Lecture/Recital at Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI		February 28, 2006
Lecture/Recital at Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, Cincinnati, Ohio		November 19, 2005
Lecture/Recital at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN		April 18, 2005
Lecture/Recital at the University of Auckland, New Zealand		July 27, 2004
Cornetto Instructor at the Amherst Early Music Festival Storrs, Connecticut		August, 2001 & 2002
Led Masterclass at the Maryland Early Brass Festival Towson MD		2001
University of Michigan, Teaching Assistant: Studio teaching (trumpet) of non-music majors Trumpet Techniques Class		1995-1998
Yale School of Music Studio teaching (trumpet) of non-music majors		1994

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PERFORMING EXPERIENCE

Greater Lansing Symphony Orchestra, 2nd trumpet	Lansing, MI	1995-2004
Anaphantasia, cornetto	Ann Arbor, MI	2004-present
Dodworth Saxhorn Band, Eb soprano saxhorn	Ann Arbor, MI	1996-present
La Gente D’Orfeo	Ann Arbor, MI	2001-present
River Raisen Ragtime Revue	Tecumseh, MI	2001-present
Ensemble Seventeenth Century, cornetto	Ann Arbor, MI	1996-present

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PERFORMANCE HIGHLIGHTS

Please see "Upcoming Performances" for most recent Archived Performances

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

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HONORS, DISTINCTIONS

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

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SUMMER MUSIC FESTIVALS

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

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PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Academy of Early Music	Ann Arbor, MI	1997-present
Early Music America	Cleveland, OH	1997-present
Historic Brass Society	New York, NY	1989-present

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DISCOGRAPHY

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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