Richard
Spece
Clarinet and Basset Horn
Richard
Spece regularly performs as a soloist and chamber musician on modern and
period clarinets. He holds a Master of Music degree from the University of Washington
and a Doctor of Music degree from
Indiana University. He has taught clarinet
at universities in
Oregon,
Washington,
Indiana, and
Texas and has played clarinet with orchestras and chamber ensembles throughout the
United States, Mexico, and
Europe. His fervor for period instrument performance has led him to perform with such
ensembles as the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra under the direction of Nicholas
McGegan (San Francisco), Portland Baroque Orchestra under the direction of
Monica Huggett, Ama Deus Ensemble (Philadelphia), California Bach Society, (San
Francisco), Magnificat (San Francisco), Classical Consort (Seattle), Concert
Spirituel (Seattle), the Mozart Society of
California Chamber Music Series in Carmel, California, and in New York City for
the Summer Festival of Sacred Music.
William
McColl
Clarinet and Basset Horn
William McColl
is Professor Emeritus of Clarinet at the University of 
Washington
and a founding member of the Soni Ventorum Wind Quintet. A graduate of the
Vienna Academy of Music, he has performed with many string quartets and has been
a member of the Philharmonia Hungarica in Vienna, the Orquesta Filarmónica de
las Americas in Mexico City, the Puerto Rico Symphony, and the Casals Festival
Orchestra under Pablo Casals. On period clarinet he performs with the Classical
Consort in Seattle Washington, Portland Baroque Orchestra, the Handel and Haydn
Society in Boston and the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra in San Francisco. He
has built several replicas of early clarinets and basset horns. Mr. McColl has
an extensive recording history on both modern and historical instruments and as
a member of the New World Basset Horn Trio, has recorded the music of Mozart and
Stadler for Harmonia Mundi.
Jeffrey
Cohan
Flute
Jeffrey Cohan performs on transverse flutes from the
renaissance
through the early 19th century in addition to the modern flute. He won the Erwin
Bodky International Early music Competition in Boston, as well as the highest
prize awarded in the Flanders Festival International Concours Musica Antiqua in
Brugge, Belgium with lutenist Stephen Stubbs. First Prize winner of the Olga
Koussevitzky young Artist Competition and recipient of grants from the Martha
Baird Rockefeller Fund for Music and the French Government, he has performed
throughout Europe, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, and for the USIA
Arts America Program in the South Pacific, South America, Turkey, Portugal and
Spain. Jeffrey resides in Seattle, where directs the period instrument concert
series Concert Spirituel.
Bonnie
Garrett
Keyboard
Bonnie Garrett has been active as pianist, harpsichordist, and
fortepianist throughout the Northwest, Ohio, and Colorado. A co-founder of
Portland Pro Musica, known for its 
Saturday Baroque Series in the 1980s, she has
produced the series "Papa Haydn and Friends" and "Vienna circa
1830." Chosen to participate as fortepianist in the 1993 Aston Magna
Academy "Schubert's World: Viennese Culture in the Reign of Francis
I," she has also toured with the acclaimed Dutch baritone Max van Egmond
and has performed on the Liederabend series at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral. As
fortepianist and harpsichordist, she has appeared with Portland Baroque
Orchestra, Oregon Symphony, Oregon Repertory Singers, and at numerous colleges
and music festivals in Oregon and Washington, including the Governor's Artist
Series in Olympia and the Water Music Festival, Long Beach Peninsula. Garrett
teaches piano and harpsichord and directs the private instruction program at
Reed.
