Anton Armstrong
Elizabeth Baker
Roxana Constantinescu
Monica Huggett
Craig Hella Johnson
Jeffrey Kahane
OBF Chorus
OBF Orchestra
Portland Baroque Orchestra
Rahel Rilling
Gernot Süssmuth
James Taylor
Stangeland Family
Youth Choral Academy
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Monica Huggett
Portland, OR
MONICA HUGGETT was born in London and entered the Royal Academy of Music at age 16 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. From age seventeen, Monica has earned her living solely as a violinist and artistic director, beginning in London as a freelance violinist, and currently serves as the first artistic director of the Juilliard School's Historical Performance Program. In the intervening four decades, she co-founded the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra with Ton Koopman, founded her own ensemble Sonnerie, worked with Christopher Hogwood at the Academy of Ancient Music, worked with Trevor Pinnock and the English Concert, and toured in concert with James Galway. Under her direction for 15 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 recent prizes are the 1997 Editor's Choice Award from Gramophone magazine for J.S. Bach's Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin, the Vantaa Baroque Energy Prize (Finland) in 2005, and Gramophone's Best Instrumental Recording Award in 2002 for Heinrich Biber's Violin Sonatas. Alongside her work at Juilliard and Portland Baroque Orchestra, Monica is artistic director of the Irish Baroque Orchestra and guest director of the Seville Baroque Orchestra.
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