recorder, double reeds, and voice, is in demand as a soloist
and collaborative musician on both coasts, performing with baroque ensembles
and orchestras in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle, Cleveland,
Philadelphia, and New York, and is the founder of Les Dlices, an ensemble
dedicated to chamber music of the French Baroque. Debra also maintains her
avid interest in fifteenth century music as a member of Ciaramella, and as
a guest artist with Piffaro, the Newberry Consort, and the Blue Heron
Renaissance Choir. She recently completed her doctorate in Early Music
at Case Western Reserve University, where she has directs the instrumental
Collegium in programs spanning the fourteenth through seventeenth centuries,
and has taught medieval and renaissance notation. A graduate of Oberlin,
Debra was the first-prize winner in the 2002 American Bach Soloists Young
Artist Competition, and spent 2002-2003 researching Renaissance double reed
instruments in Brussels and Amsterdam on a Belgian American Educational
Foundation Grant. Debra can be heard on the Capstone, Bright Angel, Naxos,
Hnssler Classics, and ATMA labels and has had live performances featured
on CBC Radio Canada, Klara (Belgium), NPRs Performance Today,
WQXR (New York City) and WGBH Boston.
