Barbara Blaker Krumdieck baroque cellist, a native of the San Francisco Bay Area, studied with Phoebe Carrai at the Hilversum Conservatory of Music in The Netherlands. While in Europe, she participated in several performance and CD recording projects with Concerto Köln, including performances at the Paris Opera House and The Palace of Versailles. A specialist in the continuo of 17th and 18th century music, Ms Krumdieck performs in many baroque chamber ensembles and along with her sister Frances Blaker is a founding member of Ensemble Vermillian which has recorded 3 CDs of 17th century German chamber music. She is also cellist with Heartland Baroque whose first CD titled “The Benevolent Monarch” will be released in August of 2018. Barbara may also be heard on a CD of Music by sons of Bach, where she plays cello in all 3 of the piano quartets of CPE Bach with renowned forte pianist Andrew Willis and period flute player Rebecca Troxler.
Ms Krumdieck is the co-founder and personnel director of the North Carolina Baroque Orchestra https://www.ncbaroqueorchestra.org , a period instrument orchestra which performs instrumental concerts under the conductor Frances Blaker, as well as concerts with various choirs throughout the southeastern United States, including Bach Akademie of Charlotte, S.C. Bach, and Raleigh Bach Soloists. She is the artistic director of Music at St. Alban’s concert series http://www.musicatstalbansdavidson.org
in Davidson, NC and former artistic director of Center City Concerts in Charlotte, NC. In 2015 she founded Early Music for Grace, a 5 day concert festival in Berkeley, CA in memory of her daughter.
Ms Krumdieck is the co-founder and personnel director of the North Carolina Baroque Orchestra https://www.ncbaroqueorchestra.org , a period instrument orchestra which performs instrumental concerts under the conductor Frances Blaker, as well as concerts with various choirs throughout the southeastern United States, including Bach Akademie of Charlotte, S.C. Bach, and Raleigh Bach Soloists. She is the artistic director of Music at St. Alban’s concert series http://www.musicatstalbansdavidson.org
in Davidson, NC and former artistic director of Center City Concerts in Charlotte, NC. In 2015 she founded Early Music for Grace, a 5 day concert festival in Berkeley, CA in memory of her daughter.