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 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.