TIMOTHY TIKKER was born in San Francisco , California in 1958. He obtained his Bachelor of Music degree, magna cum laude, in Organ Performance at San Francisco State University , and his Master of Music degree in Organ from the University of Oregon at Eugene , where he studied repertoire and improvisation with Guy Bovet. Through a Ruth Lorraine Close Award from the University of Oregon , he studied in Paris , France with famed organist-composer Jean Langlais, who called Mr. Tikker “one of the most gifted temperaments I have ever encountered.”
His active concert career has included performances throughout the United States, as well as concert tours in Germany and France. He has performed as featured soloist with the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra and the Charleston Symphony Orchestra. He has recorded for Arkay, OHS and Raven Records, and his improvised accompaniment for Cecil B. DeMille’s silent film King of Kings has been released on DVD by the Criterion Collection.
Also active as composer and improviser, Mr. Tikker won First Prize in the National Improvisation Competition in the San Anselmo Organ Festival in 1987 (USA), the Holtkamp-AGO Award in Organ Composition in 1993, First Prize in the UNESP Organ Composition Competition (Brazil) in 1997, and won a Finalist award in the Aliénor Harpsichord Composition Competition in 2000 (USA).
From 1996-2000 he was Organist at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Charleston, South Carolina. He is currently College Organist at Kalamazoo College, Organist and Director of the Schola Gregoriana at St. Thomas the Apostle Church, Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Adjunct Professor of Organ at Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti.
Deborah Friauff, soprano
A versatile musician, Dr. Deborah Friauff performs professionally as a soprano, organist, and conductor. As Director of Music and Organist at St. Andrew’s Episcopal
Church in Ann Arbor, she oversees four parish choirs, organizes an annual concert series, chants and directs a weekly Compline service as well as other weekly and special liturgical events. A native of Traverse City, she began studying the organ at the age of eight with Betty Kurtz. She graduated with honors from Interlochen Arts Academy as an organ major under Robert Murphy, and also studied viola with David Holland and voice with Kenneth Jewell and Carolyn Grimes. After completing Bachelor and Master of Music degrees in organ at the University of Michigan under Marilyn Mason, Dr. Friauff was awarded the Georges Lurcy Fellowship for study in France. There she studied with renowned recitalist Marie-Claire Alain at the Conservatoire National de Région, concentrating on the works of Jehan Alain, and was unanimously awarded the Premier Prix d’Orgue with the felicitations of the jury. She was also a prize winner in the Chicago Club of Women Organists Gruenstein competition, and the International Undergraduate Organ competition in Ottumwa, Iowa. Dr. Friauff completed her DMA degree in organ at the University of Michigan under Robert Glasgow. She has performed across the country in venues such as the San Anselmo Organ Festival in California and the Piccolo Spoleto Arts Festival in Charleston, South Carolina, as well as for Conventions of the American Guild of Organists and the Organ Historical Society. Her performance at the 1995 National Convention of the Organ Historical Society has been issued on the OHS label. She has also served as Adjunct Professor of Organ at Eastern Michigan University.
As a singer, she has studied with Frances Brockington at Wayne State University and coached with Jane Heirich and Wendy Bloom, and has sung soprano in the professional early music vocal ensemble VOX. She has studied Gregorian chant at St. Meinrad Seminary in Indiana with Columba Kelly, OSB, and at St. John’s University in Collegeville, Minnesota with Anthony Ruff, OSB. Further studies have recently been undertaken over two summers at the University of British Columbia’s Early Music Vancouver festival. There she has studied Medieval vocal music with members of Sequentia in the Medieval Music Programme, and Baroque vocal music and movement in the Baroque Vocal Programme with Ellen Hargis and Steven Adby. She founded the St. Thomas Chant Schola in Ann Arbor, and has directed three local early music ensembles: Sine Nomine of East Lansing, Michigan, the Ann Arbor Grail Singers, and Eastern Michigan University’s Collegium Musicum. Currently, she sings soprano in the Baroque Ensemble Voci dell’Anima, working with co-founders Pamela Ruiter-Feenstra (organ/harpsichord),and Debra Lonergan (gamba).
Michael Lynn, traverso
Michael Lynn performed recently at the Inaugural Luncheon for President Obama and has performed throughout the United States, Canada, Taiwan and Japan with Apollo’s Fire, Mercury Baroque, ARTEK, the Oberlin Baroque Ensemble, Smithsonian Chamber Players, Tafelmusik, the American Baroque Ensemble, Handel & Haydn, the Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Houston Symphony, the Cleveland Opera, Santa Fe Pro Musica, and many other ensembles. He serves on the faculty of Oberlin Conservatory as Professor of Recorder and Baroque Flute, Associate Dean, and Curator of Musical Instruments. He teaches each year at the Oberlin Baroque Performance Institute and has taught other workshops throughout the country. Michael produces a monthly column for Flute Talk Magazine. He is the founder of Early Music Facsimiles, and a founding member of the Board of Apollo’s Fire. Michael can be heard on Wildboar, Gasparo, Eclectra, and Koch International recordings.
Paula Kibildis, violin
Paula Kibildis is a specialist in the early violin since 1980. A high level of professional competence, in particular with music of the 16th and 17th centuries, allows her to perform regularly with leading ensembles. Paula has appeared in practically all European countries, North, South and Central America, in the Near and Far East. Paula currently leads the early music ensembles METAMORPHOSIS and no strings attached. In addition, Paula is involved in projects with (a.o.) DGG, EMI, MDG, Thorofon, Capriccio, WDR, NDR, SFB, SWF, Radio France, Radio Hilversum, Radio Bremen, Minnesota Public Radio, Radio Dhaka, TV Kultura, TV Campina, TV Banderantes.
 Fiona Hughes, violin
Fiona Hughes is a student of Marilyn McDonald from Charlottesville, Virginia. She received her undergraduate degree in violin performance from the Cleveland Institute of Music, where she studied with Steven Rose. During her high school years she studied with Adam DeGraff and served as concertmistress of the Richmond Symphony Youth Orchestra. Fiona has been involved in music festivals across the country, including ENCORE School for Strings, Kinhaven Music School, the MasterWorks Festival, Japan’s Pacific Music Festival, and Banff Music Centre in Canada. In Japan Fiona worked with maestro Riccardo Muti and concertized in Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya. The Banff Centre’s Masterclass Program gave her the opportunity to work with violinists Ian Swensen and Monica Huggett. As a baroque violinist, Fiona has given concerts in Ohio and Pennsylvania, and worked closely with members of Apollo’s Fire, Cleveland’s baroque orchestra. In spring of 2009 Fiona was given the opportunity to represent the Oberlin Conservatory in performances at both the Kennedy Center and the Boston Early Music Festival.
William Bauer, viola
William Bauer, viola & viola d'amore, is the artistic director of the (Dallas area) McKinney Kammergild and the St. Louis Baroque Festival and Academy. He is an active member of Atlanta’s New Trinity Baroque, Chicago’s The Comic Intermezzo and Ars Antigua, Milwaukee’s Ensemble Musical Offering. He is a recent member of the Chicago Baroque Band, Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra, and the New York State Baroque. As a soloist he has appeared at the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, S.C.; in Mexico at the Journadas de Musica Antigua in Gunanajuato, and the Festival de Musica Barocca in San Miguel De Allende; the Iraklion International Festival (Crete); and the Lisbon and Vancouver Early Music festivals. He has programmed and led concerts for special exhibits at The Art Institute of Chicago, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, The Saint Louis Art Museum and the Detroit Institute of Arts. His recordings can be found on the Deutsche Grammophon, Polydor, Naxos, First Edition, Nannerl and Studio 115 labels.
Debra Lonergan, violoncello
Debra Lonergan was a long-standing member of the Michigan Opera Theatre Orchestra in Detroit at the time she began to specialize in early music. She worked extensively with Ann Arbor’s American Baroque Ensemble, as well as Ars Musica during its 1989 Michigan MozartFest with Roger Norrington, and its twenty-city national tour celebrating the 1985 Bach anniversary year. She is currently a member of Milwaukee Baroque, La Gente d’Orfeo, Anaphantasia and Voci dell’Anima. She plays an English cello in its original condition from the Walmsley School, and a copy of a transitional bow in a private collection by Stephen Marvin.
Ms. Lonergan served as an academic program administrator for Detroit’s Center for Creative Studies-Institute of Music and Dance, and as a representative for an artist management company in Ann Arbor. Having made an extensive study of string pedagogy, and collecting many years of teaching experience, she still enjoys a busy studio in Ann Arbor today. |
