Monica Huggett

Guest Artist

Monica Huggett was born in London and entered the Royal Academy of Music at age sixteen as a student of Manoug Parikian. Although she won several prizes, she was not entirely comfortable with her instrument until she was given a baroque violin to try. She was immediately won over by the mellow quality of gut strings and became a fervent champion of the baroque violin. She currently serves as artistic director of the Portland Baroque Ensemble and Irish Baroque Orchestra and is the first artistic director of the Juilliard School's Historical Performance Program. In the four decades of her career thus far, she has co-founded the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra with Ton Koopman, founded her own ensemble, Sonnerie, worked with Christopher Hogwood at the Academy of Ancient Music and with Trevor Pinnock and The English Concert, and toured with flutist James Galway. Under her direction for fifteen years now, Portland Baroque Orchestra has achieved an ever-higher level of artistic excellence and expanded its historically informed repertoire through the classical period to the early romantic. Monica's discography numbers in the hundreds. Among her prizes are the 1997 Editor's Choice Award from Gramophone magazine for J.S. Bach's Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin, Gramophone's Best Instrumental Recording Award in 2002 for Heinrich Biber's violin sonatas, the Vantaa Baroque Energy Prize (Finland) in 2005, and a 2009 Grammy nomination for Best Small Ensemble Recording for Sonnerie's J.S. Bach: Orchestral Suites for a Young Prince.

At the 2010 OBF

Bach's Suites Rediscovered-Bend
Bach's Suites Rediscovered-Eugene
Discovery Series: Orchestral Suite No.1

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