WEKA-Related Documents
- The Harpsichord: A Research and Information Guide – Dissertation by Sonia Lee
- Introduction to the Harpsichord – suitable for beginners
- Welcome to the World of Early Keyboard Instruments – an overview of the harpsichord, clavichord, and fortepiano
Directory
This directory lists professionals working with early keyboards in the western states. You need not be a WEKA member to be listed (this is not a list of WEKA members). Please send inquiries or updates related to this page to weka@wekaweb.org.
Early Keyboard Performers/Teachers in the West
Instrument Builders/Technicians/Collections in the West
Other Early Keyboard Groups of Interest
Online Resources
Early Keyboard Performers/Teachers in the West
- Oregon/Vancouver, WA
- Barbara Baird – University of Oregon – Eugene
- Joan Benson – Eugene – (Deceased 1/1/2020)
- Carol lei Breckenridge – Vancouver, WA
- Hannah Brewer – University of Portland
- Angeline Case-Stott – Retired from University of Memphis – Camas, WA
- Joyce Chen – University of Oregon – Eugene
- Bonnie Garrett – Retired from Reed College (see p16) – Portland
- Margret Gries – University of Oregon – Eugene
- Craig Hanson – Corvallis
- Susan Jensen – Retired from Portland Baroque Orchestra – Portland
- Jane Mendenhall – Portland
- Washington/BC
- George Bozarth – Skagit Early Keyboard Museum – La Conner
- Martha Brickman – Vancouver Academy of Music
- Mark Brombaugh – Northwest Repertory Singers – Tacoma
- David Buice – Faith Lutheran Church – Seattle
- Jillon Stoppels Dupree – Gallery Concerts – Seattle
- Tamara Friedman – Musique du Jour Presents! – Seattle
- Kathryn Habedank – Retired from Pacific Lutheran University – Tacoma
- Christina Hutten – University of British Columbia – Vancouver
- Michael Jarvis – Victoria (Deceased 12/25/2020)
- Barbara King – Anacortes Arts Foundation
- Henry Lebedinsky – Pacific Music Works – Seattle
- Les Martin – Seattle Pacific University
- David Morgan – Seattle
- Doreen Oke – Retired from University of British Columbia – Vancouver
- Lark Powers – Pullman
- Byron Schenkman – Seattle
- Wyatt Smith – Seattle
- Paul Tegels – Pacific Lutheran University – Tacoma
- Carol Terry – Retired from University of Washington – Seattle
- Valerie Weeks – Vancouver
- Alexander Weimann – Pacific Baroque Orchestra – Vancouver
- Northern California
- Robert E. Bowman – Sacramento
- Charlene Brendler – University of California – Berkeley
- Maria Brodsky – Mountain View
- Belle Bulwinkle – Oakland
- Linda Burman-Hall – University of California – Santa Cruz (deceased Aug 21, 2023)
- Janice Clark – San Anselmo
- Phebe Craig – University of California – Davis
- Jonathan Davis – Passamezzo Moderno – Martinez
- Margaret Fabrizio – Palo Alto
- Susie Fong – San Francisco
- Katherine Heater – University of California – Berkeley
- Scott Horton – Fresno Pacific University
- Corey Jamason – San Francisco Conservatory of Music
- Janine Johnson – Berkeley
- JungHae Kim – Artistic Director of MusicSources – Berkeley
- Jin Kyung Lim – Bay Area
- Gilbert Martinez – Music Sources – San Francisco – Also Det Danske Cembalo Menageri
- Nancy Metzger – Sacramento
- Davitt Moroney – Retired from University of California – now in Paris
- Kathy Roberts Perl – San Francisco
- Lorna Peters – Sinfonia Spirituosa – Sacramento
- Michael Peterson – Laudami Ensemble – San Francisco
- Eugene Petrushansky – Fremont
- Hanneke van Proosdij – Voices of Music – San Francisco
- Jonathan Salzedo – Albany Consort – Sunnyvale
- Charles Sherman – Musica Pacifica – San Francisco
- Sandra Soderlund – Oakland
- Derek Tam – Berkeley Festival & Exhibition – San Francisco Early Music Society – Early Music America – San Francisco
- Yuko Tanaka – San Francisco
- Elaine Thornburgh – Stanford University
- Faythe Vollrath – Sacramento
- Katherine Westine – Oakland
- Southern California
- Ruta Bloomfield – Santa Clarita
- Preethi de Silva – Con Gioia – Pasadena
- James Dorsa – California State University – Northridge
- Timothy Howard – California State University – Northridge
- Margaret Irwin Brandon – Desert Baroque – Palm Springs
- Masako Okamura Klassen – California State University – Fullerton
- Sonia Lee – Pasadena
- Patrick Wells Lindley – University of California – Santa Barbara
- Tisha Mabee-Goldstein – California Institute of the Arts – Los Angeles
- Margot Martin – Mount San Antonio College – Walnut
- Charles Metz – Palm Springs
- Takae Ohnishi – University of California – San Diego
- Ian Pritchard – Colburn School – Los Angeles
- Ruben Valenzuela – Bach Collegium San Diego
- Robert Zapulla – Claremont Graduate University
- Mountain
- Loren Carle – Great Basin Baroque – Salt Lake City, Utah
- Elizabeth Farr – Retired from University of Colorado – Boulder
- Robert Hill – University of Colorado – Boulder
- Jonathan Lee – University of Nevada – Las Vegas
- Susan Patrick – University of New Mexico – Albuquerque
Instrument Builders/Technicians/Collections in the West
- Curtis Berak – Los Angeles email: curtisberak @ yahoo.com
- Gary Blaise Early Keyboard Instruments – San Francisco
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Steve Brady – Seattle
- David Calhoun – Agent for Zuckermann Harpsichords – Seattle email: antemusica6220 @ gmail.com
- Tim Cole – Technician – Boulder, CO – email: alantuneit @ gmail.com
- Owen Daly Early Keyboard Instruments – Salem, OR
- Kevin Fryer Harpsichords – San Francisco
- Paul Y Irvin Instrument Maker – Portland
- Janine Johnson – Berkeley
- Andrew Lagerquist – Hubbard Technician – Emeryville, CA
- Henry Lebedinsky – The Harpsichord Shop – Everett, WA
- Todd Loomis – Technician – Seattle
- Kathy Roberts Perl – Technician – San Francisco
- Jack Peters – Seattle
- Mij Ploger – Spokane
- John Phillips Harpsichords – Berkeley
- Norman Purdy – Springfield, OR
- Mike Reiter – University of Oregon, Eugene
- Nathaniel Riggle – Portland – email: nathaniel.riggle @ gmail.com
- Bill Shull – Period Piano Center – Redlands, CA
- SKAGIT EARLY KEYBOARD MUSEUM – La Conner, WA
- Craig C. Tomlinson – Vancouver, BC
- Byron John Will–Harpsichord and Clavichord Maker – Portland
Other Early Keyboard Groups of Interest
Berkeley Early Music Festival
Boston Clavichord Society
Boston Early Music Festival
Harpsichord Clearing House
Historical Keyboard Society of North America
MusicSources (Berkeley)
Westfield Center for Historical Keyboard Studies
International
Aliénor Harpsichord Composition Competition
Les Amis de Clavecin (Belgium)
British Clavichord Society
British Harpsichord Society
Associazione Clavicembalistica Bolognese (Italy)
German Clavichord Society
Harpsichord Clearing House (USA)
International Chopin Competition on Period Instruments (Warsaw)
International Competition Musica Antiqua (Bruges)
International Harpsichord Competition Milan (Italy)
The Jurow International Harpsichord Competition (USA)
Piccola Accademia di Montisi (Italy)
Stichting Clavecimbel Genootschap Nederland (Netherlands)
Worldwide Keyboard Bank (Instruments for Sale)
Online Resources
- Academia.edu provides free access to many scholarly articles, including those on early keyboard topics.
- Boalch-Mould Online is a current research database of harpsichords and clavichords and their makers, 1440-1925, named in honor of Donald H. Boalch and Charles M. Mould whose groundbreaking work, Makers of the Harpsichord and Clavichord 1440-1840, was first published in a print edition of 1956 and updated by Oxford University Press in 1974 and 1995.
- Alice Chuaqui Baldwin creates videos about harpsichord and early music topics for her YouTube channel, Exploring Early Music With Alice M. Chuagui Baldwin. She also offers a free online course on Baroque style.
- Early Music Sources organizes and makes available primary sources on early music, including those on keyboard playing and performance practice, along with informative and engaging videos on early music topics; there are many relevant to keyboardists on basso continuo and improvisation. The author, Elam Rotem, has received the Early Music America 2021 Laurette Goldberg Award for early music outreach for this project.
- HPSCHD-L Listserv – This list is an open forum for all topics related to early keyboard instruments.
- The Gustav Leonhardt Pedagogy Archive solicits and makes available “…personal reminiscences, scanned documents, audio or video recordings and photographs provided by Leonhardt’s students. Its aim is to create a new, enriched perspective on this uniquely inspiring performer whose teaching career spanned more than forty years.”
- La Sala del Cembalo del caro Sassone (The Handel Harpsichord Room) is “A non-profit project devoted to the Baroque Age – Reviews, Articles, Historical Insights, Interviews and the greatest Harpsichord Musical Archive of the World!” Over 463 hours of free harpsichord performances are available here (not available elsewhere), especially useful as a source for music of lesser-known composers. Most are recorded by harpsichordist, Fernando de Luca.
- Society for Seventeenth-Century Music – Makes available valuable musicological resources on this website, including a scholarly journal, without cost or membership required. The journal includes many early-keyboard related articles.
- FACEBOOK GROUPS
Updated 9/28/2023