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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 Tulio Rondón 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 Eau Claire Chamber Orchestra (ECCO), 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.
Lucinda Marvin is a well-respected freelance violinist and teacher in the Twin Cities area who performs both on baroque and modern violin. She is the String Leader (Concertmaster in a modern ensemble) of the Lyra Baroque Orchestra and is a founding member and Vice-President of Music St. Croix. She has also performed, toured and recorded with Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, the Minnesota Orchestra, and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, and was Principal Second Violin of the Indianapolis Symphony. For five summers she was a fellow at the Aspen Institute, performing with the Aspen Festival Orchestra, the Aspen Chamber Orchestra, and the Contemporary Music Series.
Her love of chamber music began in 7th grade with Dvorak’s E-flat quartet and has continued through stints with the America String Trio, the Omega Quartet, Circle of Sound, and Bel Suono. She has been on the adjunct faculty of both St Olaf’s College and Hamline University, and has taught and coached chamber music at St. Olaf’s summer camp, the Madeline Island Quartet Program and Lutheran Summer Music. Some of her students have gone on to join major orchestras both in the United States and abroad and others have carried their love of music with them into such diverse venues as MIT and the Miss America contest (she won).
Cindy received her BFA summa cum laude from the University of Minnesota where she studied with Ruben Gonzalez, Lea Foli and John Tartaglia. She received her Master’s Degree in violin performance at Indiana University where she studied with Franco Gulli and Serban Rusu. Her most important teacher was Mary West, with whom she began her studies at the age of nine and who has been both her mentor and colleague throughout her performing and teaching career. She began her competitive career in junior high, winning the Thursday Musical at the Schubert Club, a competition which she won in the senior high division a couple of years later. She went on to compete in the Concorso Wieniawski in Poland, the Alberto Curci competition in Naples and performed the Sibelius concerto as one of two winners of the International Competition of Midland-Odessa, Texas. She currently lives on a farm in Wisconsin with her show collies.
Tulio Rondón, cellist, was born in Venezuela. He obtained his Bachelor's Degree at the Simón Bolivar Conservatory, where at the age of seventeen he was appointed cello teacher. As one of the founding members of the Aragua Symphony Orchestra in Venezuela, Tulio served as a principal cellist for six years.
In 1997 Tulio was invited to join the Cuarteto de Cuerdas América, and was chamber music assistant at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio (USA). In May 1999 Tulio Rondón received his Master's Degree in cello performance from Miami University. Tulio Rondón then moved to Tucson Arizona, and completed a Doctoral Degree in performance at the University of Arizona, in the year 2005. In the same year he moved to the Netherlands, in order to pursue studies on baroque cello and viola da gamaba with Jaap ter Linden and Rainer Zipperling at The Royal Conservatory in The Hague.
Tulio Rondón's chamber music experiences have taken him all over the world, participating in concerts in North and South America and throughout Europe, and sharing stage with world celebrated artists, to mention a few; Gil Shaham, Paul Katz, James Tocco, Hagen String Quartet, Pacifica String Quartet, Miro String Quartet. Mr. Rondón has participated in renowned festivals including, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Great Lakes Music Festival, Audubon String Quartet Seminar, Domaine Forget festival de Musique, and Amherst Early Music Festival. In these festivals he had the pleasure of working with well known pedagogues such as Jaap Ter Linden, Anner Bylsma, Rainer Zipperling, Phillip Muller, among others, and members of the Tokyo, Cleveland, Penderecky, Colorado, Franz Shubert, St. Lawrence, Audubon, Vermeer, Orford, and Oxford String Quartets.
Rondón's teaching experience has undergone continuous growth since the age of seventeen. He has worked in schools, colleges, and conservatories, such as, Simón Bolivar conservatory (Maracay-Venezuela), Earlham College at Richmond, IN (USA), and Catalina Foothills School District at Tucson, AZ (USA), Prime School of Music in Tucson, AZ, and a continuing private teaching experience. Dr. Rondón joins the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Music & Theatre Arts Department as Assistant Professor of Music in the fall of 2008 teaching applied cello, string techniques, and music appreciation courses.
Tulio Rondón is the artistic director of the European based baroque ensemble L'incontro Antico, and founding member of the Sephardic music emsemble Me la Amargates Tú. Tulio Rondón performs on a 1783 Ioannes Michael Willer violoncello, and a Copy of Michael Colichon c. 1687 viola da gamba.
For more information about Tulio including his performance schedule, see his personal web site at: http://www.tuliorondon.com
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.
