Elizabeth Blumenstock, Violin

Elizabeth Blumenstock is widely admired as a Baroque violinist of interpretive eloquence and technical sparkle. In August 2004, she was appointed Resident Artistic Director of Musica Angelica, which includes the responsibilities of programming the ensemble’s Chamber Music Series.

Blumenstock has performed frequently as soloist and concertmaster not only with Musica Angelica but also with the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, American Bach Soloists, Chicago Opera Theater, the Italian ensemble Il Complesso Barocco and, most recently, the Goettingen Handel Festival with Nicholas McGegan. She is also a member of several of California's finest period instrument ensembles, including Musica Pacifica, Trio Galanterie, and the Arcadian Academy. Blumenstock has appeared with period orchestras and chamber ensembles throughout the United States and abroad and has performed at the Boston and Berkeley Early Music Festivals, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, the Carmel Bach Festival, the Oulunsalo Soi festival in Finland, the San Luis Obispo Mozart Festival, and with Los Angeles Opera, among many others. With over 90 recordings to her credit, she has recorded for Dorian, harmonia mundi, Virgin Classics, BMG, Reference Recordings, Koch International, Sony, New Albion, and others.

She is instructor of baroque violin at the University of Southern California, teaches at the International Baroque Institute at Longy, and has coached university Baroque ensembles at Roosevelt University and the University of Virginia. Blumenstock is also organist/choir director at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in Richmond, CA, and is an avid Scrabble and pinball player.

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