| Music Director
& Musician:
Sue Carney
Alto
Guitaria
Recorders
Tenor dulcien
Capped reeds
Percussion
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Sue Carney is Co-founder and Co-Artistic
Director of The Terra Nova Consort. She has also been a Greenshow
Music Director at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for 15 seasons
producing 26 Greenshows and directing, composing, adapting, singing
and performing on a variety of instruments; both historical and
modern, including recorder, krummhorn, clarinet, early bassoon,
16th century Spanish guitar, alto sax, bodhran, pipe and tabor and
a wide range of historic percussion. She has appared onstage performing
in musical styles ranging from European historical music of the
11th through 16th centuries to 20th century sounds of 40's swing,
Flamenco and rock and roll classics.
As a composer of new works for dance, Sue Carney
wrote music for, All the World's a Bazaar vocals and percussion;
First Light, based on themes of Hildegard von Bingen, and
The Shakespeare Project, sonnet settings for archaic and
modem instruments. She also lectures extensively on music and instruments
of the Renaissance through a variety of educational programs including
Elderhostel, Senior Ventures and the Oregon State "Arts in Education."
Sue Carney has also produced 6 albums, 3 of them
for the Musicians of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival: Somewhat
Musing (1992), In the Midst of Woods (1990) and Renaissance
Instruments of the Old and New Worlds (1988). In addition, she
is co-author of a book, in collaboration with Patricia O'Scannell,
entitled -The Complete Scottish and English Dance Book for Recorder
which will be published by Mel Bay, Inc.
She attended California State University, Northridge,
and University of Southern California. She lives and works in Ashland,
Oregon. |
