Member
Patterson, New York
Website:
http://www.ars-antiqua.org
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Early Music Skills & Interests
Cello, Viola Da Gamba
Early Music Affiliations
Administrator, Concert Producer, Editor, Music/Artistic Director, Musicologist, Performer, Publisher
Biography
Mark Kramer, Artistic Director, Viola da gamba and Baroque ‘Cello studied the violoncello and early music at Northwestern University where he received a Master of Music Degree. While pursuing a doctorate degree in Music History, he specialized in the symbolism of music in Dutch paintings of the seventeenth century, and also served as the Assistant Director of the Northwestern Collegium Musicum.
He has lectured and performed on viols and Medieval string instruments with the Chicago Early Music Consort, and is a founding member of the Telemann Consort, a Chicago-based ensemble which was dedicated to the performance of 18th-century music on original instruments. Mr. Kramer is the founder of Ars Antiqua and has served as artistic director for the past thirty-two concert seasons. He is an active period instrument chamber musician and orchestral player having appeared with some of America’s finest early music ensembles.
Among his solo performances has been a recital of works by Tobias Hume for unaccompanied viola da gamba presented at Lincoln Center. He is also the founder of Antiquaire, a viol consort devoted to late baroque repertory and performances utilizing original antique violas da gamba. Mr. Kramer plays a viola da gamba made in 1713 by Johann Gottfried Schmid of Leipzig, a treble viol by Joannes Schorn, Salzburg 1702, a five-string baroque violoncello by Barak Norman, London 1718 and a baroque violoncello, School of Fendt (Stradivari Forma B) Fussen, ca. 1790. Mr. Kramer’s CD recording of Six Parisian Quartets: L’art de modulation by François-André Danican Philidor with violinist Elizabeth Wallfisch, released by Nimbus records and available worldwide, has received critical acclaim.
