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Jody Miller, Director

Jody is director of Lauda Musicam of Atlanta and teaches private recorder lessons in the Atlanta area.  Previously, he has served on the faculty of the Atlanta Early Music Alliance Mid-Winter Workshop and has taught recorder workshops throughout the country.  Miller performs most frequently with Amethyst Baroque Ensemble, but  he is also a member of contemporary music duo Eighty-Eight & Eight with Lisle Kulbach and Ritornello Baroque Ensemble.  Miller often collaborates with modern instrumentalists when performing his favorite works—contemporary chamber music for recorder.  He works closely with composer Timothy Broege and has premiered several of his compositions.  More recently, Miller performed the premier of Martha Bishop’s Dark Moods–Breakaway for recorder and percussion and Gregory Hamilton’s Ave Maria Variations for unaccompanied recorder.   Jody has performed with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, New Trinity Baroque Orchestra, Atlanta Baroque Orchestra, Cincinnati Opera, and the Victoria Bach Festival. Jody has served as Director of Mountain Collegium since 2011.

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Will Peebles

Will Peebles has taught courses in bassoon, music theory, music history, and world music at Western Carolina University since 1992, and served as Director of the School of Music from 2005-2014. In 1999, he established Western’s Low Tech Ensemble, which now performs on Balinese, Javanese, and Sundanese gamelan.  Will’s musical interests include shape-note singing, historical bassoons, and performance on Renaissance instruments such as the krummhorn, kortholt, and rackett.

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