Hans-Jürgen Schnoor 
- fortepiano
- harpsichord

- organ
Ingrid Matthews
- baroque violin
Susie Napper   
- viola da gamba
- baroque cello

Bruce Haynes   
- baroque oboe
Jeffrey Cohan
- baroque flute
- renaissance flute
Anna Mansbridge
- baroque dance

2005
CASCADE
~ EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL ~

Artists/Faculty

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HANS-JÜRGEN SCHNOOR (Lübeck)

Formerly cantor and organist at the St. Jakobi Church in Lübeck, harpsichordist, fortepianist and organist Hans-Jürgen Schnoor is one of Europe's leading performers of early keyboard music and conductors of period instrument performances of early orchestral and choral works. Currently music director at the Vicelinkirche in Neumünster and faculty member at the Lübeck Conservatory of Music, he directs various ensembles in Eastern and Western Europe, including the Bach Choir of Neumünster and the Ensemble Enrico Leone which he founded, and with which he has performed throughout Europe. Mr. Schnoor has won numerous awards, and has taught also at the Church Music College of Westfalia. He has recorded the music of Weckmann, Bruhns, and much of the organ and harpsichord repertoire of J.S. Bach.
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SUSIE NAPPER (Montreal)               

A co-founder and director of the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra in San Francisco, Susie Napper performs widely as a baroque cellist and gambist in the US, Canada, Mexico, Europe and the far East with the baroque ensembles Les Voix Humaines and Les Boréades (Montreal) and with Rebel (New York). She is principal cellist of the Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal and Ensemble Stradivaria (France) and has appeared as viola da gamba soloist with the San Francisco and Vancouver symphony orchestras. Susie Napper has played with Il Complesso Barocco at La Scala in Milan, La Petite

Bande in Belgium, Les Arts Florissants in Paris, and has taught and performed in Australia, New Zealand, Israel, India and Japan. She has performed for the Société Radio-Canada, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, KPFA (Berkeley), Radio-France, Radio Télévision Belge and the BBC. She can be heard on the Harmonia Mundi, ADDA, NAXOS, Erato, CBC Records, SRC, ATMA, UMMUS and EMI record labels. Susie Napper studied at the Guildhall School of Music in England, at Juilliard in New York and at the Conservatoire National Suprieur de Musique in Paris, and presently teaches at Concordia University in Montreal. Her cello was made by Matteo Goffrillerri, Venise 1696; it was restored by H. Lindemann (Amsterdam) in 1989, and her viola da gamba is a rare original made by Barak Norman, London 1703 and restored by William Monical in New York in 1995.

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