Tim Lane, baroque flute
Ivar Lunde, Jr., baroque oboe
Lucinda Marvin, baroque violin
Bradley Johnson, baroque violin
Laura Handler, baroque cello
Nanette Lunde, harpsichord

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Les Favorites is a period instrument ensemble specializing in the music of the middle and late baroque. The members of the ensemble are highly skilled on their instruments and soloists in their own right. The ensemble was formed in 1984 and presently is composed of six musicians; Tim Lane and Bradley Johnson are members of the music faculty at UW-Eau Claire, and Ivar Lunde, Jr. and Nanette Lunde are emeritus music faculty.

Les Favorites has performed on festivals and artist series in Iowa, Wisconsin, and Minnesota as well as in a concurrent event of the Boston Early Music Festival. The ensemble also has performed on Wisconsin Public Radio's "Live from the Elvehjem," broadcast live from the Elvehjem Museum of Art in Madison.

Les Favorites is available for formal concerts, Workshops, and School presentations. The literature is carefully chosen to present a varied and interesting program which may include solo performances, duets, and trio sonatas, as well as music orchestrated for the full ensemble. Les Favorites may also include guest performers to expand the literature to include trio sonatas using like instruments.

For more information about the ensemble and its availability and fee, please contact Tim Lane, Department of Music and Theatre Arts, UW-Eau Claire, Eau Claire, WI 54702-4004; phone (715) 836-2284; e-mail: lanet@uwec.edu.

Tim Lane has played with the Cleveland Orchestra, the Orquestra Sinfonica de Veracruz, and the Ohio Chamber Orchestra. He has been a soloist and chamber music participant with the Roundtop Music Festival (Roundtop, Texas), the Arcady Music Festival (Bar Harbor, Maine), and with the San Antonio Chamber Players. He is currently a member of the Wisconsin Woodwind Quintet and Les Favorites, a period instrument ensemble. Dr. Lane is an active recitalist and has recorded a solo CD for Zuma Records Inc., "Shards of Glass, Romantic Twentieth Century Flute Music". He has also recorded music for Centaur and Tel Arc. His teachers have included Maurice Sharp, Alexander Murray, and William Bennett. He holds a doctoral degree from the University of Illinois - Champaign/Urbana and wrote his dissertation on "The Relation Between Analysis and Performance of W.A. Mozart’s D Major Flute Concerto in Accordance with Conterporaneous Writings". Dr. Lane was a National Flute Association Convention performer competition winner in 1996.

 

Ivar Lunde, Jr. is the former principal oboist of the Norwegian National Opera. He was educated at the Conservatory of Music, Oslo, Norway, and the Mozarteum, Salzburg, Austria. His teachers of oboe include Kees Lahnstein and André Lardrot; of baroque oboe, Grant Moore and James Caldwell. He has taught and performed in Europe and the United States, and appeared as oboe soloist with the Bergen Philharmonic and the Oslo Philharmonic, and many other orchestras in Norway, Sweden, Austria, and the United States. He has also performed on baroque oboe with the Smithsonian Concerto Grosso, the Minneapolis Bach Society, Lyra Concert (Minneapolis/Saint Paul), and Basically Bach in Chicago. Mr. Lunde is an emeritus professor of the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.

 

 

 

Bradley Johnson joined the UW-Eau Claire faculty as lecturer in strings in 2002 and teaches applied viola, applied violin, and string techniques. Mr. Johnson studied with Professor Korey Konkol at the University of Minnesota School of Music and holds a Masters of Music in Viola Performance from the University of Minnesota. He also received long-term Suzuki Teacher Training at the University of Minnesota School of Music. Mr. Johnson studied with Professor Richard Fuchs at the University of Northern Colorado and received a Bachelors of Music in Violin Performance from there. Mr. Johnson also teaches at the MacPhail Center for Music in downtown Minneapolis.

An active violist and violinist, Mr. Johnson has performed extensively in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area. Johnson is dedicated to authentic performance practice and performs with such reputable groups as the Lyra Concert Baroque Orchestra, Les Favorites, and the Minnesota Bach Society. He has also performed in Ensemble Polaris; with the Minnesota Sinfonia; and the former Plymouth Series, now VocalEssence, conducted by Philip Brunelle; in Broadway's Miss Saigon Touring Company; and in the Ted Mann String Quartet.

Cellist Laura Handler studied baroque cello with Catharina Meints and Ken Slowik and has participated in master classes with Max van Egmond, Marilyn McDonald, Jacques Ogg, and Wilbert Hazelzet. She received her Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Oregon and her Master of Music degree from The Ohio State University. She has performed in orchestras and chamber ensembles throughout the United States and in Latin America and Austria. Ms. Handler is principal cellist with the Lyra Baroque Orchestra and as part of that ensemble has been heard on St. Paul Sunday on public radio. Ms. Handler also performs with Circle of Sound Baroque Ensemble, Les Favorites Baroque Ensemble, and WolfGang, which specializes in late 18th century music on period instruments.

As a harpsichord recitalist, Nanette G. Lunde has performed in the United States and Europe. She holds the Bachelor of Music Degree from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, the Master of Music Degree from Northwestern University School of Music, and two Diplomas from the Akadamie Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria. Ms. Lunde has performed on harpsichord in European museums, appeared as soloist with orchestras in the United States, and in live broadcast performances over Minnesota and Wisconsin Public Radio. Publications include The Continuo Companion, an anthology in facsimile for basso continuo instruction, transcriptions for harpsichord of unaccompanied violin and flute Partitas by J.S. Bach, and a text for class piano instruction. Nanette Lunde is the past president and founder of the Midwestern Historical Keyboard Society. Ms. Lunde is an emerita professor of the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.