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Boston Museum Trio Laura Jeppesen, viola da gamba Daniel Stepner, violin Sunday, November 13, 2011, at 3:00 p.m. The Boston Museum Trio (John Gibbons, harpsichord; Laura Jeppesen, viola da gamba; Daniel Stepner, baroque violin) has toured internationally and has been central to the concerts given at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts since 1975, where the ensemble performs an endowed annual series of concerts featuring music from the early baroque through the late classical era. Guest vocalists and instrumentalists have included Frans Brüggen, Anner Bylsma, Dominique Labelle, Frank Kelley, Sanford Sylvan, and many others. The Trio performs on instruments from the Museum’s unique Collection of Musical Instruments, as well as on their own period instruments. They have recorded music of Bach, Rameau, Marais, Clerambault, Telemann and Vivaldi. A distinguished keyboard artist, John Gibbons has appeared throughout North America, Europe and Australia as a soloist and chamber musician. He has performed with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Boston Chamber Music Society, the Da Camera Society of Houston, Chamber Music Northwest, the Festival dei Due Mondi of Spoleto Italy, the Boston Symphony, the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, Apollo's Fire, and many others. He has recorded for Arabesque, Centaur, Delos, Harmonia Mundi, Nonesuch, Philips, and RCA Victor. Mr. Gibbons teaches harpsichord and fortepiano, lectures, and directs the Bach Ensemble at the New England Conservatory in Boston. Laura Jeppesen is a graduate of the Yale School of Music and the Royal Conservatory in Brussels. She is the principal violist of Boston Baroque, and plays in many early music groups, including the Handel and Haydn Society, The Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, Aston Magna and the Carthage Consort. She has been a Woodrow Wilson Designate, a Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute, and a Fulbright Scholar. In 2006, the Independent Critics of New England nominated her for an IRNE award for the score she produced as music director of the American Repertory Theater's staging of Christopher Marlowe's Dido, Queen of Carthage. She has performed as soloist under conductors Christopher Hogwood, Edo de Waart, Seiji Ozawa, Martin Pearlman, Grant Llewellyn and Bernard Haitink. Her extensive discography includes music for solo viola da gamba, the gamba sonatas of J.S.Bach, Buxtehude's Trio Sonatas opus 1 and 2, Telemann's Paris Quartets, and music of Marin Marais. She teaches at Boston University and Wellesley College. Daniel Stepner is also first violinist of the Lydian String Quartet (in residence at Brandeis University), and Artistic Director of the Aston Magna Festival. He was a founding member of Boston Baroque and the Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, and for six years assistant concertmaster of the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century under Frans Brüggen, and for twenty-four years concertmaster of the Handel and Haydn Society. Presently on the faculties of Brandeis and Harvard Universities, he has also taught at the Eastman School, the New England Conservatory, Boston University, and the Longy School. He has performed and recorded a wide repertoire of solo and chamber music, including the Charles Ives Sonatas with pianist John Kirkpatrick, and music of the baroque and classic era on various period instruments. His major teachers were Steven Staryk in Chicago, Nadia Boulanger in France and Broadus Erle at Yale, where he earned a Doctor of Musical Arts degree.
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