Debra Nagy, 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.
