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Three Notch’d Road Artistic Director Fiona Hughes holds degrees from Oberlin Conservatory and Cleveland Institute of Music. She is a versatile performer of both modern and baroque violin, appearing with Apollo’s Fire, Washington Bach Consort, Bach Akademie Charlotte, Boston Baroque, and the Richmond Symphony. Fiona has performed in numerous music festivals, including Kinhaven, Encore, Brevard Music Center, National Repertory Orchestra, Banff (Canada), Staunton Music Festival, and Pacific Music Festival (Japan). With Boston’s GRAMMY-winning Handel + Haydn Society she has recorded 10 CDs for release on the Coro label and worked with conductors Harry Christophers, Masaaki Suzuki, Richard Egarr, Jonathan Cohen, and Scott Allen Jarrett. She looks to Stephen Rose, Adam DeGraff, and Marilyn McDonald as mentors. Fiona’s period bows are by David Hawthorne and Richard Riggall. Her primary violin is the ex-Vieuxtemps Claude Pierray (1720 Paris).
Historical clarinetist Dominic Giardino was introduced to historically informed performance through the lens of 19th-century band music with Newberry’s Victorian Cornet Band in 2013. Since then, he has performed with ensembles in the U.S. and Europe, including the Arcadia Players, Grand Harmonie, Musica Coeli, the Raleigh Camerata, Capricornus Consort Basel, and the Kingsbury Ensemble. He worked as a military interpreter and musician with the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation and as the operations manager of Three Notch’d Road: The Virginia Baroque Ensemble. He is currently executive director of Arizona Early Music. Dominic earned his B.M. in clarinet performance at the Eastman School of Music where he studied with Ken Grant and Jon Manasse, and his M.M. in early music as a U.S. Fulbright Scholar in The Hague, studying with Eric Hoeprich.
Welsh cellist Ryan Lowe recently moved to America from London, after graduating from the Trinity Conservatoire of Music. Ryan studied under Naomi Butterworth and is part of a pedagogical line that includes Pablo Casals. Ryan has performed extensively in the U.K., Europe, Asia, and the U.S. and was recently selected to perform for Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II. Ryan has performed at America’s Kennedy Center and Carnegie Hall; Royal Albert Hall, Wigmore Hall, and the Royal Festival Hall (U.K.), St. Mary’s Basilica (Poland); and the Hangzhou Grand Theatre (China). Ensembles include the American Baroque Orchestra, Orion Orchestra, the London Arte Chamber Orchestra, and the Washington Sinfonietta. Ryan has collaborated with art galleries, dancers, and pop artists; recorded new works by contemporary composers; and served as a chamber music coach at premier U.S. concert halls.
Described as a “commanding” singer by the Boston Globe, Peter Walker performs with the GRAMMY-nominated Skylark Ensemble, Handel + Haydn Society, Three Notch’d Road, Chapter House, GRAMMY-nominated Clarion Society Choir, Kuhmo Kamarimusiiki, Staunton Music Festival, Early Music New York, Blue Heron, and Pomerium. He is a member of the Schola Cantorum at the Oratory of Saints Cyril and Methodius. Peter is active as a researcher of early music and has presented lectures at Vassar College and Case Western. Peter holds degrees from Vassar College and McGill University, where he studied with Drew Minter and Sanford Sylvan. He won the Overseas Class in the Lowland and Border Pipers’ Society Competition in 2016, and his article on tablature for the sordellina appeared in the journal of the Bagpipe Society in 2019.
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