Cynthia Miller Freivogel
Violinist-Leader
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“She draws a rich range of tonal colors from her violin and brings freshness, verve and a wonderfully natural sense of phrasing to her playing. It also helps that she seems so at home in this music.” —Denver Post
“Cynthia Miller Freivogel, a stellar Baroque violinist, energizes the Baroque Chamber Orchestra as its concertmaster. Her gripping, fiery playing as soloist in a Vivaldi concerto was a high point of the group’s season finale in April.” —Denver Post
Cynthia Miller Freivogel, currently living in Oakland, California, performs regularly on both Baroque and modern violin. She received a BA in musicology at Yale University and an MM in violin performance at the San Francisco Conservatory.
In addition to leading the Baroque Chamber Orchestra of Colorado, Ms. Freivogel is the second violinist of the Novello Quartet, which is dedicated to the performance of the string quartets of Haydn and his contemporaries on period instruments.
Ms. Freivogel frequently performs at early music venues in the San Francisco Bay Area with ensembles such as Magnificat, Mirabile, and Philharmonia Baroque, and on concert series at Old First, San Francisco Early Music Society, and MusicSources. She has played with the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra in Boulder, Tanglewood Music Center Fellowship Orchestra, San Luis Obispo Mozart Festival, the State Orchestra of Sao Paulo, Brazil, Apollo's Fire, Portland Baroque, American Russian Young Artist's Orchestra and Amerus chamber players.
Ms. Freivogel studied principally with Camilla Wicks and Marylou Speaker Churchill. She is a dedicated teacher and is certified to teach Suzuki Book 1.
Frank Nowell, Harpsichordist
Artistic Director
“Throughout
the program, Frank Nowell — the orchestra’s brilliant harpsichordist
and artistic director — provided the all-important musical scaffolding
from which the other instrumentalists took flight.” —Denver Post
“Nowell ... put together an appealing, skillfully ordered program with lots of variety and a few surprises.” —Denver Post
Frank Nowell is an active performer as a harpsichordist, organist, and specialist in music of the 17th and 18th centuries. He is founder and artistic director of the Baroque Chamber Orchestra of Colorado, and was previously a co-founder and keyboardist in the early-music ensemble Diverse Passions and director of the Denver Handel Festival.
Mr. Nowell is a frequent guest artist as soloist and chamber musician, including recent appearances with the Colorado Music Festival, St. Martin’s Chamber Choir, Boston Early Music Festival Fringe, Boulder Bach Festival, Up Close and Musical, and Englewood Arts. As an organist, he has recorded on the Cygnus label and performs with the Fittz-Nowell Duo, exploring original and newly composed music for cello and organ.
Mr. Nowell received the Master of Music degree in choral conducting with a minor in music history from University of Colorado, and the Bachelor of Arts degree with honors from Princeton University. He recently received Associate certification (AAGO) from the American Guild of Organists.
