Cléa Galhano, recorder & Rosana Lanzelotte, harpsichord
Peter Maund, percussion

Brazilian recorder player Cléa Galhano is an internationally renowned performer of early, contemporary and Brazilian music. She has performed in the United States, Canada, South America and Europe as a chamber musician, collaborating with recorder player Marion Verbruggen and Jacques Ogg, and as part of Belladonna, Lanzelotte/Galhano Duo, Galhano/Montgomery Duo, and Blue Baroque Band. As a featured soloist, she has worked with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, World Symphony, Milwaukee Baroque and Lyra Baroque Orchestra.  Among other important music festivals, Ms. Galhano has performed at the Boston Early Music Festival, the Tage Alter Music Festival in Germany and at Wigmore Hall in London, Merkin Hall in New York and Palazzo Santa Croce in Rome, to acclaimed reviews. Ms. Galhano was featured in 2006 in the Second International Recorder Congress in Leiden, Holland and in 2007 at the International Recorder Conference in Montréal.

Galhano studied in Brazil, at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, and the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, earning a Fulbright Scholarship and support from the Dutch government. As an advocate of recorder music and educational initiatives, she served for six years on the national board of the American Recorder Society and was featured for many years as teacher and soloist at Suzuki and AOSA conferences. 

Cléa Galhano is currently Executive Artistic Director of the St. Paul Conservatory of Music, and is on the faculty of Macalester College. In addition, she is the Music Director of the Recorder Orchestra of the Midwest.   For ten years she was artist-in-residence at the prestigious Schubert Club in St. Paul, Minnesota. Her recordings are available on Dorian, Ten Thousand Lakes and Eldorado labels.

“There are not many professional recorder players who could sustain a full programme of music drawn from the early to the high Baroque periods, but the Brazilian-born Cléa Galhano, now a United States resident, is certainly one of them, demonstrating the quality of her musicianship throughout at Wigmore Hall on 11 September…  It was both instructive and musically worthwhile to hear … … brilliantly expressive …  gifted player’s performances of genuine eloquence and virtuosity.“  —Musical Opinion, London

Considered one of today’s best Brazilian harpsichordists, Rosana Lanzelotte has played in the finest halls throughout America as well as at Wigmore Hall in London, Salle Gaveau in Paris, Otto Braun Saal in Berlin and Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon.  She has released five solo CDs dedicated to rare works by Bach and Haydn, and spanning Brazilian music of the 20th century.  Her recordings also include music of Portuguese composer Pedro Antonio Avondano performed on a rare 18th-century harpsichord belonging to the National Music Museum, for which she received the Golden Diapason. She has recently released a CD with the first recordings of works written by Sigismund Neukomm in Brazil, which she discovered while doing research in European libraries. Her CD, Neukomm no Brasil, has been nominated for the Latin Grammy and has been chosen as the best classical recording of 2008 by Bravo Magazine.  Ms. Lanzelotte has been awarded the Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government.

"Accuracy, precise way of playing and graciousness dominated the performance of a very attractive program." — Georges Gallician, Le Méridional, Marseille