Ms. Jacqueline Schwab

Member

Contact Information

jaspianist@gmail.com

Location

Lexington, Massachusetts

Early Music Skills & Interests

Other Keyboard

Early Music Affiliations

Performer

Biography

Pianist Jacqueline Schwab (who also plays some harpsichord and virginals) performs a wide range of music, including her arrangements of vintage American music from the 18th century and on. She has been heard on over a dozen documentaries by Ken Burns, including his Civil War, Thomas Jefferson, Lewis and Clark and Benjamin Franklin. She plays for English country dancing with Bare Necessities and has performed (on virginals) with the Boston-area Renaissonics ensemble. She teaches piano improvisation. She is a graduate of New England Conservatory, where she majored in piano improvsation but also studied historical dance reconstruction with Julia Sutton. She has been on the faculty for the New London Assembly, sponsored by Amherst Early Music.

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