Program and Artist Biography

ARCO VOCE

Soprano Rosa Lamoreaux has been hailed for her versatile musicianship; her radiant, engaging, and effortless singing; and her many fine recordings. Since winning the Handel Aria Competition at the Aspen Music Festival and honor as a finalist in the Oratorio Society Competition of New York, she has sung at Carnegie Hall, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, and the Kennedy Center. In Europe she appeared at the Proms at Royal Albert Hall, Reingau Music Festival, La Fenice Chamber Music Festival, Scandinavian Music Festival, the Louvre, and Belvedere Schloss, among other distinguished venues. A popular chamber music performer, she sings with the Folger Consort, Vocal Arts Quartet, and Hesperus, and she has toured with Musicians from Marlboro.

The Washington Post called violinist Nina Falk "one of Washington's finest musicians," praising her "warmth of tone and expressive phrasing." Ms. Falk attended the Juilliard Preparatory Division, where she studied with Christine Dethier. She holds bachelor's and master's degrees from the Oberlin Conservatory and the University of Iowa. Ms. Falk performs, tours, and records on modern and baroque violin and viola with Boston's Handel and Haydn Society, the National Symphony Orchestra, Smithsonian Chamber Orchestra, Smithsonian Chamber Players, Brandywine Baroque, Violins of Lafayette, Carmel Bach Festival, New England Bach Festival, Washington Bach Consort, Bethlehem Bach Festival, Apollo's Fire, Folger Consort, Four Nations Ensemble, and Apollo Ensemble.

Violinist Elizabeth Field holds a doctorate from Cornell University in historical performance practice and is currently a member of the Washington String Quartet in residence at George Washington University, as well as Brandywine Baroque and ArcoVoce. She is concertmaster of the Bethlehem Bach Choir and artistic director of the acclaimed baroque ensemble the Vivaldi Project. Ms. Field has performed and recorded extensively for Deutsche Grammophon with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and for Sony Classical, ESS.A.Y, and Vox Cum Laude with the Classical Band, Philharmonia Virtuosi, and the Chamber Orchestra of New York. She has also performed with several East Coast orchestras including the St. Luke's Chamber Orchestra, Brooklyn Philharmonic, American Ballet Theater, American Composers Orchestra, the Handel & Haydn Society of Boston, and the City Opera of New York.

Cellist Douglas McNames has become a favorite of audiences with a varied repertoire spanning three centuries. Mr. McNames toured in the United States and abroad as a member of the award-winning Delos Quartet, and he is a regular substitute player with the Philadelphia Orchestra. Mr. McNames is principal cellist of the Carmel Bach Festival and enjoys a busy schedule of performing with such ensembles as Brandywine Baroque, Melanomie, Concerto Soloists of Philadelphia, and the Opera Company of Philadelphia. He appears with many chamber groups including the Mid-Atlantic Chamber Music Society, Pro Musica Rara, and the Rider String Quartet. Mr. McNames has been a member of the Santa Fe Opera Orchestra and the Cassela Quartet, winner of the 1983 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. Awarded the 1995 Delaware State Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship, Mr. McNames can be heard on the Spectrum, Etcetera, Centaur, and Epiphany labels, playing both modern and period instruments.

Steven Silverman has performed extensively in solo, chamber, and concerto appearances throughout the United States on both piano and harpsichord; he has appeared at the Amherst Baroque Academy, Boston Early Music Festival, and in Washington, D.C., at the The Phillips Collection, the Corcoran Gallery of Art , and Grace Church Bach Festival. In addition to the standard repertory, he has given acclaimed performances of rarely heard works such as both of Charles Ives' piano sonatas, the complete Goyescas of Granados, Elliott Carter's piano sonata, and Manuel de Falla's harpsichord concerto. Mr. Silverman holds bachelor and master of music degrees from the University of Michigan. His teachers include Eugene Bossart, Charles Crowder, Arthur Haas, Ann Schein, and Andrejz Wasowski. Mr. Silverman, along with Mr. McNames, is a member of the ArcoVoce Chamber Ensemble, unique in performing on both period and modern instruments and including vocal music as an integral part of its chamber music performances.