John Dornenburg

John Dornenburg has performed as viola da gamba soloist in Europe, Turkey, Australia, New Zealand and across the U.S.A. His solo appearances include the Istanbul Festival, Krakow Festival (Poland), York Early Music Festival (U.K.), Kilkenny Festival (Ireland), Warwick Festival (U.K.), Melbourne Festival (Australia), Monadnock Festival, Oregon and Carmel Bach Festivals, San Francisco Symphony, and Aston Magna.He has made solo recordings of viola da gamba music by J.S. Bach, C.P.E. Bach, Marais, Telemann, Abel, Hume, Simpson, Sainte-Colombe, Khnel, and Handel, and can be heard on the Centaur, Meridian, Koch, Dorian, Musica Omnia, Music and Arts, and Musical Heritage Society record labels.He has directed performances of Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 and Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, and in 2005 he conducted four fully-staged productions of Monteverdi’s Lincoronazione di Poppea at CSU, Sacramento. He is the director of the Sex Chord Consort of Viols, and founder of the baroque ensemble Musics Recreation. In the San Francisco Bay Area he can also be heard with Magnificat, American Bach Soloists, and Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra.He was awarded the Soloist's Diploma for viola da gamba from the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, Holland, where his teacher was Wieland Kuijken. Before that, he studied baroque performance practice with Nikolaus Harnoncourt at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria. He has contributed reviews and articles to the Journal of Seventeenth Century Music and Early Music America. He has been Lecturer in Viola da gamba at Stanford University since 1988, and he teaches music history on the faculty at CSU, Sacramento.Selections from a concert performance at the Istanbul International Music Festival with guitarist Cem Duruoz and harpsichordist Yuko Tanaka have been posted on YouTube.