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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 via our Contact form. 

Early Keyboard Performers/Teachers in the West

• Oregon/Vancouver, WA

  • Barbara Baird – Retired from University of Oregon – Eugene

  • Joan Benson – Eugene – (Deceased 1/1/2020)

  • Carol lei Breckenridge – Milwaukie, OR

  • Hannah Brewer – St Michael & All Angels - Portland

  • Joyce Chen – University of Oregon – Eugene

  • Bonnie Garrett – Retired from Reed College – Portland – (Deceased 10/13/2025) 

  • Margret Gries – Retired from University of Oregon – Eugene

  • Craig Hanson – Corvallis

  • Susan Jensen – Retired from Portland Baroque Orchestra – Portland

  • Abigail Mace – Jefferson Baroque Orchestra – Medford, Grants Pass, Ashland

  • Jane Mendenhall – Portland

  • Lindsey Rodgers – University of Oregon – Eugene

• Washington/BC

  • George Bozarth (Deceased 10/29/2025)- Skagit Early Keyboard Museum – La Conner

  • Martha Brickman – Vancouver Academy of Music

  • David Buice – Faith Lutheran Church – Seattle

  • Jillon Stoppels Dupree – 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 – 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

  • Charlene Brendler – Berkeley

  • Maria Brodsky – Mountain View

  • Belle Bulwinkle – Oakland

  • Linda Burman-Hall – University of California – Santa Cruz (Deceased 8/21/2023)

  • 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

  • Yunyi Ji - Bay Area

  • Janine Johnson – Berkeley

  • JungHae Kim – Artistic Director of MusicSources – Berkeley

  • Jin Kyung Lim – Bay Area

  • Gilbert Martinez – retired from 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 – 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 – San Francisco

  • Yuko Tanaka – San Francisco

  • Elaine Thornburgh -  San Francisco

  • Faythe Vollrath – Sacramento

  • Katherine Westine – Oakland

  • Eric Zivian – Berkeley

• Southern California

  • Ruta Bloomfield – Santa Clarita

  • Preethi de Silva – Con Gioia – Pasadena

  • James Dorsa – California State University – Northridge

  • Margaret Irwin Brandon – Palm Springs

  • Masako Okamura Klassen – California State University – Fullerton

  • Sonia Lee – Pasadena

    • The Harpsichord: A Research and Information Guide

  • Patrick Wells Lindley – Santa Barbara

  • Tish Mabee-Goldstein – California Institute of the Arts – Los Angeles

  • 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

  • Lillian Gordis – University of Colorado – Boulder

  • Robert Hill – Retired from University of Colorado – Boulder

  • Wesley Leffingwell – 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

• 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

  • Article: Historical Evidence for Historical Damper Qualities

  • Article: Where the Sound Begins

• Janine Johnson – Berkeley

• Henry Lebedinsky – The Harpsichord Shop – Everett, WA

• Todd Loomis – Technician – Seattle

• Kathy Roberts Perl – Technician – San Francisco

• Jack Peters – Seattle (deceased 1/17/2025)

• Mij Ploger – Spokane

• John Phillips Harpsichords – Berkeley

• Norman Purdy – Springfield, OR

• Mike Reiter – University of Oregon, Eugene

• 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

• North America

  • Berkeley Early Music Festival

  • Boston Clavichord Society

  • Boston Early Music Festival

  • Capriccio Baroque (Washington DC)

  • Cornell Center for Historical Keyboards (Ithaca, NY)

  • Harpsichord Clearing House (Massachusetts)

  • Harpsichord Heaven (Delaware)

  • Historical Keyboard Society of North America

  • MusicSources (Berkeley)

  • Ravensong Historic Keyboard Series (Philadelphia)

  • Westfield Center for Historical Keyboard Studies (Ithaca, NY) 

• 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)

  • 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.

• BACH Research Portal, located at the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig, makes available archival sources on the entire Bach family of musicians in digital format. 

• Alice Chuaqui Baldwin creates videos about harpsichord and early music topics for her YouTube channel, Exploring Early Music With Alice M. Chuagui Baldwin.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.”

• Historical Ornamentation Sources Catalog – a catalog accessible to everyone, featuring sources for ornamentation, linked to musical scores, and additional information, created by violinist, Javier Lupiáñez.

• 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!” Hundreds of 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.

• EVENT CALENDARS

  • All Classical Radio Portland Cultural Events Calendar 

  • Continuo Connect - covering early music events in the UK

  • Early Music America Member Concerts & Events Calendar

  • Early Music Concerts - located in Amsterdam covering worldwide events

  • Live Music Project - located in Seattle covering worldwide events

  • Oregon Arts Watch ArtsLink Events - located in Portland covering state events

  • San Francisco Early Music Society Bay Area Early Music Community Calendar

  • Southern California Early Music Society Calendar

• FACEBOOK GROUPS

  • The Classical Fortepiano

  • Clavichord

  • Contemporary Harpsichord Music

  • Fortepiano

  • Friends of the English Harpsichord

  • Harpsichord Addicts

  • Harpsichord – Cembalo – Clavecin – Klavecymbel