DANA MAIBEN
VIOLINIST, CONDUCTOR, COMPOSER
14 Amherst Road
Watertown, MA 02472
danamaiben@earthlink.net
617-744-5319
EDUCATION
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
MM, Music Composition
Final Project:
Gone So Far, a Song Cycle for Soprano and String Quartet,
Settings of poems by Martha Collins
Smith College
BA cum laude, Music
Smith Scholar (interdisciplinary honors) Project:
Look and Long: composition, dramaturgy, and staged workshop production of an
original chamber opera, based on the play by Gertrude Stein
2008
1998
Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, Musik-Akademie Stadt Basel
1975-1978
Graduate-level Studies in Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque and Classical European Music and
Performance Practices
Oberlin College Conservatory
Undergraduate Studies (Violin/Baroque Performance Practice)
1972-1974
HONORS, AWARDS, AND GRANTS
Carter Family Trust
2008
For Foundling Baroque Orchestra and Women’s Advocacy Project (www.foundling.org)
General Operating and Season Support
Woman of Excellence Award, Women’s Center of Rhode Island
2004
Presented to Foundling Baroque Orchestra and Women’s Advocacy Project for our work
to raise community awareness about domestic violence
Rhode Island Legislative Grants
For Foundling Operations Support
2005-present
Rhode Island Council of the Arts Grants
For Foundling Concert Season
2004-present
Carnegie Hall “Making Music” Composers’ Conference
with composer-in-residence Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
1999
Settie Lehmann Fatman Prize for Music Composition, Smith College
1998
Kulas Artist in Residence, Case Western Reserve University
1988
Mellon Foundation
Grant for Genesee Baroque Players Programming
1987
Fellow, Atlantic Center for the Arts, music composition studio of Lou Harrison
1986
New York State Council on the Arts
1985-1995
Grants for Genesee Baroque Players and Genesee Early Music Guild Concert Series
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Concerto Incognito, ensemble for 17th century music
Founder and Artistic Director, violin soloist
Debut 2002
Arcadia Players Baroque Orchestra and Chorus, Interim Artistic Co-Director
2003-2004
Modern Times Orchestra, ensemble for music from the film era
Debut 1998
Florentine Camerata Chamber Music Festival, Florence, MA
Co-director with pianist Monica Jakuc
Summer concert series in Western Massachusetts
Music of 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries
1997-2000
Longy Historical Performance Series, Cambridge, MA
1989-1993
musica mundana, ensemble for medieval music and theater
Founder and Artistic Director
U. S. premiere of the Play of Lazarus from the Fleury Playbook
Debut 1988
Genesee Early Music Guild, Rochester, NY
1985-1988
Outlined mission, planned programs, launched concert series, wrote grants for this community
music organization/concert series.
MUSIC DIRECTOR
Foundling Baroque Orchestra and Women’s Advocacy Project, Providence, RI.
Debut 2003
Founding Music Director (www.foundling.org)
Annual concert series in Providence, working in affiliation with the Rhode Island Coalition
Against Domestic Violence to raise awareness and material support for Rhode Island’s women’s
shelters.
Woman of Excellence Award from Women’s Center of Rhode Island, 2005
Genesee Baroque Players, Rochester and Ithaca, NY
Music Director, Principal Violin and Soloist
Designed and directed more than 30 touring concert programs
Grants from NYSCA and Mellon Foundation
GUEST DIRECTOR
Atlanta Baroque Orchestra (GA)
NY State Baroque (NY)
Longy Chamber Orchestra
Arcadia Players (MA)
Ars Musica (MI)
Lyra Concert (MN)
Tafelmusik (Toronto)
1985-1995
2004, 2006, 2009, 2010
2007, 2008
2006, 2010
1997, 2000-2001, 2002
1987, 1988
1987
1980, 1981
SOLO RECITALS
Eastman School of Music, Longy School of Music, Boston College Jesuit Center, Smith College, Case
Western Reserve University (as Kulas Artist in Residence) and other series in NY & New England.
Duo recitals with Paul O’Dette, Arthur Haas, Monica Jakuc, Webb Wiggins, John Finney.
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VIOLINIST AND CONCERTMASTER, PERIOD INSTRUMENT ORCHESTRAS
Foundling Baroque Orchestra and Women’s Advocacy Project, Providence, RI
Founding Music Director and Principal Violinist
since 2003
New York Collegium, New York, NY, Andrew Parrot, Music Director
1999-2007
Member, violin and viola sections
Appointed co-concertmaster, 2001; Concertmaster under the direction of Christophe Rousset,
Martin Gester, Andrew Parrott, and Paul Goodwin, including for a staged Jonathan Miller production
of J. S. Bach’s Saint Matthew Passion at Brooklyn Academy of Music (2001)
American Opera Theatre, Baltimore, MD, Tim Nelson, Director
Concertmaster for productions in Washington, D. C., and at B.A.M. (Brooklyn)
2008
Arcadia Players Baroque Orchestra, Northampton, MA
Founding concertmaster, frequent soloist, guest music director/conductor
Artistic Co-Director, 2003-2004.
1989-2006
Ensemble Abendmusik, Boston, MA, James David Christie, director
Principal violin (see Discography)
Since 1991
Apollo Ensemble, Ithaca, NY, John Hsu, director
1991-2001
Concertmaster
NYC Debut, Merkin Hall (1991); European tour (1997) including Regensburg, Prague, Eisenstadt
Recordings of Haydn’s “Esterhazy” Symphonies (see Discography)
Ensemble for Early Music Grande Bande, New York, NY, Fred Renz, director
Concertmaster
Principal second violin
Recording of Monteverdi Vespers for Lyrichord (see Discography)
1990-1993
1978-1980
MUSIC FESTIVAL PERFORMANCES
Hong Kong
Amsterdam; Utrecht (Holland)
Early Music Network (London’s Wigmore Hall and throughout Great Britain)
Saintes; Aix en Provence (France)
Regensburg (Germany)
Budapest (Hungary)
Spoleto (Italy)
Spoleto USA (Charleston, SC)
Amherst Early Music Festival (VT, CT)
Arcady (ME)
Berkeley Early Music Festival (CA)
Bloomingtom Early Music Festival (IN)
Boston Early Music Festival, Aston Magna, Amherst Early Music Festival, Florentine Camerata,
Pinewoods (MA)
Rochester Bach Festival, Rochester Baroque Festival (Western NY)
Ravinia (IL)
GUEST ARTIST
Boston Camerata, Brooklyn Bound String Quartet, Chatham Baroque, Les Coucous Bénévoles, Hesperus,
Musick for the Generall Peace, Oberlin Baroque Ensemble, Opera Lafayette, Pegasus, Repast,
Smithsonian Chamber Players, Ensemble Très, Tapestry, Sequentia, Studio der Frühen Musik.
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CHAMBER ENSEMBLES, FOUNDING MEMBER
Concerto Incognito, ensemble for 17th century music
Founder and Artistic Director
Debut 2002
Quince, 5-part string band
since 2007
Acme Baroque, Providence, RI
since 2005
Duo Francesca, Florence, MA
since 1996
Premiere recording of Francesca LeBrun Sonatas, Opus 1 (1998). (See Discography)
New Quartet, Cambridge, MA
Premiere performances of new works for baroque instruments
Arcadia Players Trio, Arcadia Chamber Players, Northampton, MA
Concert tours in U. S. and Italy
Frequent collaborations with Dutch violinist Jaap Scroeder (See Discography)
musica mundana, ensemble for medieval music and theater
Founder and Artistic Director
U. S. premiere of the Play of Lazarus from the Fleury Playbook
Eastman Baroque Ensemble, Rochester, NY
Eastman’s resident faculty baroque ensemble
Music from Eastman radio and television broadcasts, Kilbourn Hall concert series
1991-1997
1989-present
Debut 1988
1981-1987
Concerto Castello, ensemble for 17th century music
1980-1985
Designed and co-directed 1985 Schütz Anniversary Concert for Boston Early Music Festival
Concert tours in England, throughout Europe and in U.S. and Canada
Debut recording Affetti Musicali nominated for the Deutsche Schallplatten Preis
(See Discography)
Sequentia, ensemble for medieval music
Debut concerts in Europe (See Discography)
1977-1979
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Foundling Board of Directors, Providence, RI
New York Collegium Union Representative, NYC
Arcadia Players Advisory Board, Amherst, MA
2003-present
2001-2004
2005-present
Arcadia Players Board of Directors, Northampton, MA
1996-2004
Genesee Early Music Guild Board of Directors, Rochester, NY
1986-1988
Genesee Co-op Board of Directors, Rochester, NY
1985-1987
After-school journalism program advisor, Rochester City Schools
1980-1981
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TEACHING
Longy School of Music, Conservatory Faculty Cambridge, MA
1989-present
Private baroque violin instruction, chamber music and performance practice classes for undergraduate and
graduate instrumentalists and singers
Designed and implemented new curriculum for historically-grounded Ornamentation and Improvisation
Topics classes:
Words and Music, 1000-2000
Italian Recitative
Mozart’s Operas
Baroque Orchestral Studies
Medieval music performance classes in Machaut, Landini, Ciconia, Dufay
Baroque performance classes include
Circa 1600: Feminine and Masculine in Music and Poetry of the Early Seicento
Concerto Grosso, Corelli and Beyond
Trio Sonata before Corelli
Seicento String Band
Vivaldi’s L’Estro Armonico
Solo Bach for Strings
Bach Arias
17th Century Concerted Vocal & Chamber Music Sequence: Monteverdi; Music of 17thCentury Nuns; Musica Poetica; Purcell; Italy Goes to France; Italy Goes to England
Music director, Longy Early Opera Project, 2001, 2002, 2006, 2011
International Baroque Institute, and Early Music Institutes at Longy.
2006, 2007, 2008
Indiana University, Jacobs School of Music
Fall 2008
Sabbatical replacement for violinist Professor Stanley Ritchie
Masterclass & studio violin instruction; coached chamber music, advised conducting project
Amherst Early Music Festival Baroque Academy
Violin Master Class and Ensembles
2004-2008, 2011
Music Institute at Rhode Island College
2006
Coached chamber music, led orchestra, taught string masterclasses and music history classes for
summer weeklong institute for high school string players
Northfield-Mount Herman School, Violin teacher, ensemble coach
1998-2003
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
Teaching Assistant for Ear-training and Sight-singing curriculum
Ran four year-long ear-training labs for music education and performance majors
1998-1999
Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY
1981-1987
Instructor, Conducting and Ensembles Department
Coached chamber music, taught performance practice; coached opera; assisted with Collegium
Guest lecturer in music history and string pedagogy classes. Organized and taught baroque
chamber music course
Oberlin Conservatory Baroque Performance Institute
Faculty Associate. Coached chamber music
1978
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SELECTED DISCOGRAPHY
• Affetti Musicali
**Concerto Castello, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, 1981
Nominated for the Deutsche Schallplatten Preis
• Music for Leopold I
**Concerto Castello, EMI, 1982
• Messiah
Smithsonian Chamber Players, 1980 and 1986
• Baroque Recorder Concerti
**Hesperus, Golden Apple Records, 1988
• Gilles Requiem
Boston Camerata, Erato, 1990
• Gilles Lamentations
Boston Camerata, Erato, 1995
• Live from Aston Magna
**Aston Magna Festival, Titanic, 1990
• Monteverdi Vespers
**Ensemble for Early Music, Lyrichord, 1994
• Haydn: Esterhazy Symphonies, I
**Apollo Ensemble, Dorian, 1994
• The Hidden Haydn
**Apollo Ensemble, Dorian, 1995
• Haydn Symphonies 28, 18, & 52
**Apollo Ensemble, Centaur, 1999
• Michael Haydn Sacred Music
**American Boy Choir & Members of NY Collegium
Linn Records, 2002
• Music of the French Baroque
Oberlin Baroque Ensemble, VOX, 1975
• Three Saint Nicholas Plays
Studio der Frühen Musik, EMI, 1977
• Lux Refulget/ Shining Light
Sequentia, ensemble for medieval music, BMG, 1996
• Sonatas of Francesca LeBrun
**Premiere recording, with fortepianist Monica Jakuc,
Researched and wrote program notes. Dorian, 1998
• Jesuit Operas of Kapsberger and Zipoli
**Ensemble Abendmusik, Dorian, 2002
• Biber: Missa Christi Resurgentis
New York Collegium, Kleos, 2005
• Protegée of the Sun King: Music of
Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre
**Frances Conover Fitch and Friends, Centaur, 2006
• Purcell and Bononcini
2006 Sonnatas of III Parts, Sonate a tre
Arcadia Players Trio with Jaap Schroeder, fuga libera,
**principal violin for these recordings
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SELECTED COMPOSITIONS
• Look and Long, a chamber opera based on the play by Gertrude Stein, completed January 1998.
Performed in staged workshop, Smith College, 1998
• Midnight in Barcelona, a cabaret song, text by the composer.
per a la familia Bonner (for the Bonner family) SS, cello, piano four-hands, Opus 1, 1984
• Why Here and Not Other Places? a musical postcard from Florida
A capella voices STTTBBB and small percussion instruments, 1986
• Four Emily Dickonson Songs, for low voice and piano, 1987
• For Solo Flute, for solo flute, 1995
• Four Edna Saint Vincent Millay Songs, for high voice and piano, 1997
• A Brush with Chekhov, for solo violin, September 22, 1998
• Lullaby for oboe, bsn, vln, vla, cello, December 1998
• Magnificat à 6 SSATTB, November 2002
• Magnificat à 3 SAT, January 2003. For Liber unUsualis.
• “To make a Prairie…” text by Emily Dickinson, for SS, vln, bass, piano February 2003
To Lou Harrison, in memory. Premier performance by Orfeo Duo & friends, NYC, February 2004
Included on Orfeo Duo’s CD: A Stroll Through Our Neighborhood, 2006
• Set for Two, four pieces for violin and piano, January 2004
For Vita and Ishmael Wallace. Premiere performance by Orfeo Duo, NYC, February 2004
• Gone So Far, texts by Martha Collins. A Song Cycle for Soprano and String Quartet, August 2007
Partial demo recording with Pamela Murray, soprano, and members of A Far Cry, September 2008
• Prayer for a Child, text by Rachel Field, SSA unaccompanied. For Tapestry, August 2008
• The Way Out Is Found, Four songs for voice and viola, January 2010. Texts by Christina Rosetti,
Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dana Maiben, and Muriel Rukeyser. Premiere performance by
Laurie Monhan and Dana Maiben, Longy Composers Concert, Cambridge, MA, Feb 3, 2010.
Selected Orchestrations, Arrangements and Historical Reconstructions
•Chaconne for Orchestra, October 2009
Adapted and orchestrated from two versions of a keyboard Chaconne HWV 435 by G. F. Handel
2 fl, 2 ob, bsn, strings, b.c. Performed by Atlanta Baroque Orchestra, October 2009
•Three Gershwin Songs, for Baritone and Piano Right Hand. For Richard Lalli, June 2009
•Selected Instrumental Music from Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre’s opera Cephale et Procris,
Reconstruction of three inner voices, Spring 2003. Performed to date by Longy Early Opera Project,
Foundling Baroque Orchestra, New York Collegium, University of North Carolina/Chapel Hill Collegium.
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