at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Photo by Matt Hintza for the Cornell Sun















Lecture Presentations:

International Language and Cultural Festival,
Eastern Oregon University, La Grande, Oregon
Petrarch's 'Canzoniere' and 16th century French lyric verse

Cornell University, Ithaca, New York (series of lecture/recitals & seminars)
Notation to Performance: The musician's role in interpreting historical music

Shakespeare Authorship Conference, Ashland, Oregon
co-sponsored by The Shakespeare-Oxford Society and the Shakespeare Fellowship
2010: My Lord of Oxenford’s Maske: Poetry and music associated with Edward de Vere
2005: Music in Shakespeare

Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,
Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York
2010: Negotiating trade: Commercial Institutions & Cross-Cultural Exchange in the Medieval & Early Modern World
2008: Venus and the Venereal: Interpretations and Representations from Late Antiquity through the Eighteenth Century

John Carroll University, University Heights, Ohio
Art & Music in the Stuart Age as seen through Six Portraits: Constantijn Huygens, Lady Mary Killigrew, John Donne, Jacques Gaultier, and Nicholas Lanier

Cleveland Institute of Music, Cleveland, Ohio
Polyphonic music for voice & lute

Boise State University, Boise, Idaho
Mi Fa Morire: English and Italian Renaissance lute songs

Hastings College, Hastings, Nebraska
Music in Shakespeare

Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
Rise of the Reformation through music

Lyceum School, Cleveland, Ohio
Psalms & Measured Verse: 16th century psalm and song settings of the poetry of Marot and Ronsard


Concert Appearances:

Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Ashland, Oregon
My Lord of Oxenford's Maske

Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
An Evening at the French Renaissance Court

National Music Museum concert series, Vermillion, South Dakota
Shakespeare’s Lute Book

Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens concert series, Akron, Ohio
Italia Mia: Italian music of the 16th century

Music at Grace Concert Series, Elmira, NY
The Tudors:Music for Voice & Lute from the Tudor Courts

Tregoning & Company
78th Street Studios, Cleveland, Ohio
An evening of Elizabethan lute song & poetry in tribute to Edward Doughtie

St. Paul's Episcopal Parish, Point of Rocks, Point of Rocks, Maryland
The Tudors:Music for Voice & Lute from the Tudor Courts

Bratenahl Chamber Music Series at the Corning Mansion, Bratenahl, Ohio
Au Pres de Vous

Sunday Afternoon at the Greenough House Parlor Concert Series, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts
Various programs

First Friday Chamber Music Series,
Ithaca Community School of Music & the Arts, Ithaca, NY
In Darkness Let Mee Dwell (inaugural concert)

Jefferson Classical Guitar Society, Ashland, Oregon
Goe, Nightly Cares (benefit concert)

Old Havana Courthouse Theater, First Friday Music Series, Montour Falls, New York
A New Year's Gift

Sacred Concert Appearances:

Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart, Chapel of our Lady of Grace, Newark, New Jersey
Cathedral Concert Series

Church of the Epiphany, Washington, D.C.
Harmonia Caelestis

Anabel Taylor Chapel at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Cornell Catholic Community Lenten Arts Series

The Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist, Cleveland, Ohio
Harmonia Caelestis

The Shrine Church of St. Stanislaus, Cleveland, Ohio
Music for the Feast of St. Lucy

St. Luke Lutheran Church, Ithaca, New York
Byrd Songes: Devotional Songs & Masses

Tony and Nina Gentile Gallery at Franciscan University, Steubenville, Ohio
Ave Regina Caelorum

Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish, South Euclid, Ohio
Harmonia Caelestis

Mignarda, based in Cleveland Heights & rural upstate New York, is available for concerts, house concerts, lecture-recitals, or in a format tailored to meet your needs. Please contact us for details & terms.