Join CCMS on Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 7:00 PM at Canterbury Community Church for a concert by CANTERBURY BAROQUE, which will be performing music by English and German composers for recorders, viola da gamba and keyboard in various combinations. A set of music by English composers that were inspired by birds will open the program followed by music by German composers Quantz and Telemann.
Performers include Jane Hershey, viola da gamba, Steven Lundahl, recorders, Christine Rua, recorders, and Kathryn Southworth Lundahl, keyboard.
This concert is part of Concord Community Music School’s Concord Classical Concerts series, made possible by the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation’s Ellen Downing Waite and Edward Osgood Waite Fund.
About the performers:
Jane Hershey began her musical studies at the Longy School of Music with Gian Silbiger, and continued at The Royal Conservatory in The Hague with Sigiswald and Wieland Kuijken. Upon her return to the Boston area, she performed, toured and recorded with the Boston Camerata, in addition to an active freelance career as a gambist and violone player with Boston area ensembles and the Smithsonian Chamber Orchestra. With regular performances at the Museum of Fine Arts with Charivary, concerts with Aston Magna, she continued to perform on violone with Arcadia Players of Western Mass. As a member of Arcadia Viols, she performs around New England and as a guest with the Folger Consort in Washington DC. In addition to her innovative work with the Viola da Gamba Society of America, Ms. Hershey teaches at the Longy School of Music of Bard College, the Powers Music School, and has directed the Early Music Ensemble at Tufts since 1995.
Christine Rua graduated magna cum laude with a B.M. from the Crane School of Music at Potsdam, NY with a teaching degree and a focus in oboe. She toured for 10 years with Cirque du Soleil’s show Varekai, having performed over 3000 shows all over the World in 25 countries, from Sydney to Seoul, Rio to Russia as well as the Royal Albert Hall in London. While with Cirque she played a wide range of instruments including recorders, flutes, oboe, clarinet, shawms, bombards, bagpipes, percussion and as a vocalist. Before Cirque she lived in the Boston area and was involved in the world of Early Music. She was inspired by the teachings and approach to sound of Marleen Montgomery, director of The Quadrivium, an ensemble who performed Early Music in innovative and creative ways and she also studied recorder with Marion Verbruggen and with Owen Watkins. Chris is a multi-instrumentalist, playing recorders, historical flutes, reeds, bagpipes and percussion as well as singing. She has performed, recorded and toured with such ensembles as The Quadrivium, Libana, The Christmas Revels in Cambridge, Washington, Philadelphia and Hanover, NH, Early Music New York, Piffaro, Ex Umbris and with Anne Azema of the Boston Camerata.
Kathryn Southworth is currently piano department co-chair at CCMS, where she teaches piano, facilitates performance workshops, and directs the Canterbury Singers, a group dedicated to Shaker music. She holds a B.M. in Piano Performance from Oberlin Conservatory where she also studied harpsichord, and an M.M. in Vocal Accompanying and Coaching from the University of Illinois. She held a graduate assistantship as staff accompanist under the tutelage of acclaimed accompanist John Wustman. She has been a collaborative pianist for Opera North, Dartmouth College, Plymouth State University, and Boston Ballet, and has also served as music director, accompanist, and organist for many theater and choral groups in New England. Kathy is currently music director and organist for the Canterbury United Community Church. Former faculty positions include St. Paul’s School and Plymouth State University.
Steven Lundahl specializes in early low brass and recorders. He has performed throughout North and South America, Europe, and Hong Kong with such groups as the Boston Camerata, Boston Baroque, the Handel and Haydn Society, Tafelmusik, Smithsonian Chamber Orchestra, Ensemble Project Ars Nova, Waverly Consort, Teatro Nuovo, Calliope, and more. He has participated on over 35 recordings on such labels as Telarc, Warner Classics, Angel/EMI, Harmonia Mundi (France and Germany), Erato (France), New Albion Records, and others. He teaches at the Concord Community Music School, and resides in Canterbury, NH.
