Lisette Kielson (Founder & Artistic Director) - Flute & Recorder
L'Ensemble Portique's programs currently comprise 2-7 musicians. The instrumentation and featured performers are selected based upon the thematic programming of each concert.
John Babbitt - Double Bass
Jennifer Barron - Viola da Gamba, Baroque & Modern Cello
Andrew Paul Fredel - Harpsichord & Organ
Kangwon Lee Kim - Baroque & Modern Violin
Pablo Mahave-Veglia - Baroque & Modern Cello
Fumi Nishikiori - Piano
Patrick O’Malley - Recorder
May Phang - Piano
Paul Rowe - Baritone Voice
John Chappell Stowe - Harpsichord & Organ
Nathan Wysock - Guitar
Lisette Kielson - Flute & Recorder
Founder & Artistic Director of L’Ensemble Portique |
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 An active recitalist, Lisette Kielson has performed to acclaim on both recorder and flute in the United States and Europe. Enthralling audiences with her innovative programming and distinctive musicianship, she has been described by the media as "sparkling with life" (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) and with "dazzling natural technique and brilliant interpretation... performing with true character and style." (Les Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace)
Lisette founded L'Ensemble Portique in 2002 as a means of expressing her passion for playing both early and contemporary chamber music, with a vision of creatively integrating the two. The ensemble has been invited to perform at such venues, including the North River Music Series in New York City, The Grand Montgomery Chamber Music Series in Montgomery, NY, the Norton Building Concert Series and Mostly Music at NEIU in Chicago, Sunday Afternoon Live in Madison, Wisconsin and the University of Wisconsin-Platteville.
Independently, Lisette's guest appearances have included the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, the Jubilate Deo Orchestra in Alsace-France, Ars Antigua in partnership with The Chicago Humanities Festival, the University of Minnesota Bach Festival, the Midwestern Historical Keyboard Society, The American Bach Project, the Madison Early Music Festival, and the Ars Musica Contemporary Music Festival in Brussels, Belgium.
Lisette has been a frequent guest on classical music radio and television broadcasts. Her recordings Taste of Portique, Telemann: Canons and Duos and Trio Atlantica are played nationally from coast to coast and have received enthusiastic reviews from American Recorder.
Her love of teaching and expertise in directing chamber music ensembles attracts frequent invitations to lead workshops and master classes throughout the country. Teaching positions have included The American School of The Hague, The Netherlands; Wisconsin Conservatory of Music, Milwaukee, WI; and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Continuing Education. Currently, Lisette is on the faculty of the Whitewater Early Music Festival and serves as Vice President on the Board of Directors of the American Recorder Society.
She has gained much inspiration, guidance and strength from the teachers and mentors who have journeyed with her throughout her education. Recorder: Roberta Sweet, John Langfeld, Eva Legêne and Michael Barker. Flute: Nina Barwell, Mary-Louise Poor, Ernestine Whitman, Kate Lukas, James Pellerite and Peter Lloyd.
Lisette holds Bachelor and Master Degrees in flute performance from Indiana University. Her post-master's studies brought her to The Royal Conservatory of The Hague, the Netherlands where she received a Diploma in recorder performance. |
| John Babbitt - Double Bass |
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 John Babbitt is active as a professional bassist throughout the Midwest, performing with the Florentine Opera, Skylight Opera Theatre, the Milwaukee Ballet Orchestra, and numerous other ensembles and jazz groups. He has presented many workshops and double bass pedagogy clinics. Mr. Babbitt holds a Bachelor of Music Degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a Master of Music Degree from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His principal teachers include Roger Ruggieri, Richard Davis, Gary Karr, and Jeff Bardetich. He is a faculty member of the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music. |
| Jennifer Barron - Viola da Gamba, Baroque & Modern Cello |
Jennifer Barron began her musical life as a cellist, and attended the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music as a cello performance major. In 1996, after deciding to pursue musicology at the University of Kansas, she was introduced to early music, and quickly fell in love with the sound of the Baroque cello and the viola da gamba. Under the tutelage of Simon Carrington, formerly of the King's Singers, she became the continuo cellist for the KU Vocal Collegium and learned a style of continuo that has garnered an enthusiastic response from fellow musicians and audiences over the years.
She has enjoyed professional engagements in Kansas with the Lawrence Chamber Players and Spencer Consort, and since moving to Madison, Wisconsin, she has pursued many musical goals. Jennifer has performed with the Trevor Stephenson Baroque Ensemble and Madison Consort. She is co-founder of the Madison Viol Consort, a group that has partnered with the Madison Early Music Festival in outreach programs and performances, including Wisconsin Public Radio’s Live at the Elvehjem.
Other musical projects include recording in studio with Sara Pace, an award-winning singer-songwriter and improvising live and in studio on cello and viola da gamba with Jen Gloeckner and various other rock and alternative artists. She has appeared on Iowa Public Radio and performed live at various venues throughout the Midwest. |
| Andrew Paul Fredel - Harpsichord & Organ |
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 Andrew Paul Fredel, ChM, is the organist and choirmaster of St. Peter's Church-in-the-Loop, Chicago. After graduating from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music (MusB, 1992) where he studied keyboard continuo with Lisa Goode Crawford and organ with Haskell Thomson, Andrew went on to Valparaiso University (MM, 1995), studying repertoire with Martin Jean and improvisation with Philip Gehring. Post graduate work included organ studies with David Schrader at the former Chicago Musical College of Roosevelt University.
Andrew is a regular member of the Chicago-based, period instrument ensemble, Ars Antigua. He has performed with The Ken Pierce Dance Ensemble, Second City Musick, and the Chicago Baroque Ensemble. When not playing keyboard, he sings professionally with the Schola Cantorum of Saint Peter the Apostle and Chicago Choral Artists. He is the founder and director of the Saint Cecilia Consort, a recorder ensemble-in-residence at Saint Peter's Church. |
| Kangwon Lee Kim - Baroque & Modern Violin |
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 A native of Seoul, Korea, Kangwon Lee Kim is an accomplished performer on both modern and baroque violins. In 1996, Ms. Kim was featured in the Rising Young Artist Series at the Seoul Arts Center, and her recital was televised nationwide on Korean Cable Network. The following year, Ms. Kim was invited to perform at the St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City and at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. Ms. Kim has given solo and chamber recitals throughout the U.S. and in Korea, Canada, Puerto Rico, Switzerland, and Norway. She has recorded for the Deutsche Harmonia Mundi and CRI labels, and live recordings of her performances have been heard on National Public Radio, WFLN in Philadelphia, and Wisconsin Public Radio.
Since moving to Madison in 2001, Ms. Kim has been an active performer in the area. She was the first violinist of the Galena String Quartet, the resident quartet of Madison Symphony and the UW graduate school for two years. She has also performed as the principal player at numerous venues with the Madison Bach Musicians, Wisconsin Baroque Ensemble, and Token Creek Festival. Ms. Kim has performed with the Smithsonian Chamber Players, Concerto Soloists Chamber Orchestra, the Philadelphia Opera Company, Brandywine Baroque and Delaware Symphony.
Ms. Kim earned her Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She also holds degrees from the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, the Manhattan School of Music, and Temple University. A former instructor at the University of Pennsylvania and the Wilmington Music School, she currently teaches at Ripon College. |
| Pablo Mahave-Veglia - Baroque & Modern Cello |
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 Cellist Pablo Mahave-Veglia counts among his musical influences his mother, the noted piano pedagogue Mercedes Veglia, as well as such cellists as Arnaldo Fuentes, Steven Doane, Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, Janos Starker and Uri Vardi.
Mr. Mahave-Veglia has appeared as soloist with orchestras in his native Chile, as well as with the Medellín Philharmonic (Colombia), Kuala Lumpur Symphony (Malaysia), and in the United States with the Evansville Philharmonic (Indiana), Southern Illinois University Symphony, Central Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra, and Wood County Symphony (Wisconsin) among others. Recent chamber music appearances include concerts in Santiago, Chile; Bogotá, Colombia; San José, Costa Rica; at Northern Illinois University; Texas Tech University; the Mammoth Lakes Chamber Music Festival, California; as well as guest recitals at Western Illinois University, Oklahoma State University and the Dame Myra Hess Recital Series in Chicago. Additional venues include the Renee Weiler Hall in New York City, the American Church in Paris, the Elvehjem Museum in Madison, WI, and the Quigley Chapel in Chicago, IL, among others. As baroque cellist, he often performs with Chicago's Ars Antigua and has also appeared with the Kingsbury Ensemble, the St. Louis Early Music Festival, and the Ars Femina Ensemble.
An alumnus of the Interlochen Arts Academy, Dr. Mahave-Veglia holds degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (DMA), Indiana University (MM) and the Eastman School of Music (BM). In addition, he also attended such music festivals as Banff (Canada), NOI (Maryland), Pacific Music Festival (Japan), the Jerusalem International Festival (Israel), and the Schleswig-Holstein and Heidelberg Music Festivals (Germany). Dr. Mahave-Veglia is currently a professor at Grand Valley State University in Michigan, and during the summers teaches at the Brevard Music Center in North Carolina.
His CD of solo cello music by Chilean composers "Dualidad" is released on the Eroica Classical label. http://eroica.com/pmv-music.html |
| Fumi Nishikiori - Piano |
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Fumi Nishikiori earned her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in piano and harpsichord from the Chicago Musical College of Roosevelt University and from Indiana University, where she was the recipient of numerous awards including the prestigious Rudolph Ganz Memorial Award, and Willi Apel Scholarship. She studied piano with Ludmila Lazar and Shigeo Neriki, harpsichord with David Schrader and Elisabeth Wright, and fortepiano with Elizabeth Wright and Kenneth Drake. While attending Indiana University, she studied chamber music with Rostislav Dubinsky, and baroque chamber music with Stanley Ritchie. As conductor, Fumi has worked with the Indiana University Symphony Orchestra, as well as various children's choirs and adult vocal and instrumentals ensembles. Ms. Nishikiori teaches on the faculty of the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music in Milwaukee, focusing on teaching basic piano skills as well as solfege, eurhythmics and improvisation to young children.
In addition to her work at the Conservatory, Ms. Nishikiori free-lances as a piano-harpsichord soloist and accompanist in Milwaukee and the greater Chicago area. An active member of the Mid West Historical Keyboard Society, she presents lecture recitals under the title "Keyboards Across the Centuries" presenting performances on harpsichord, fortepiano, and modern piano. Currently, she is taking courses from the Dalcroze Institute in New York, working towards a certificate to teach the Dalcroze Methode, which emphasizes Eurhythmics study. |
| Patrick O’Malley - Recorder |
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 Labeled “distinguished” by the Chicago Tribune, Patrick O'Malley has performed from California to New York, as well as in the Netherlands and the Czech Republic. Recently, he has appeared with the Bach Week Festival Chamber Orchestra, Chicago Opera Theater, Ars Antigua, the Scholars of Cambrai, the North American Choral Company, harpist Stephen Hartman, the Lincolnwood Chamber Orchestra, Ars Musica Chicago, and “Live from Studio One” on WFMT. Patrick is a founding member of the trio sonata group Sweet Fretting. He has presented the world premiere of “Passacaille” by Isaac Watras and the American premiere of Christopher Ball’s Concerto for Recorder and String Orchestra.
As Chicago’s only Suzuki Method recorder teacher, Mr. O’Malley runs a private studio in Andersonville and is on the faculty of the Music Institute of Chicago and the Suzuki Music School of Lincoln Park. In addition to teaching at workshops nationally and making frequent recorder outreach presentations at elementary schools, he has given master classes at Northwestern University and the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.
Patrick earned a Master of Music degree from Indiana University’s Early Music Institute, where he studied with Eva Legêne and served as Associate Instructor. As the recipient of a Netherlands Fulbright Fellowship, he pursued further studies with Han Tol at the Rotterdam Conservatory. He serves as a board member of the American Recorder Teachers Association. His article, “Applying Rhetoric and Preluding to Recorder Education,” was published in The Recorder Education Journal. |
| May Phang - Piano |
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 May Phang began piano studies in her native Singapore and obtained her Associate and Licentiate diplomas from the Trinity College of Music (London) by the age of twelve. She graduated from McGill University in Canada and earned her DMA from Temple University in Philadelphia. Dr. Phang is Assistant Professor of Piano at Depauw University in Indiana.
The youngest recitalist to perform at the 1986 Singapore Festival of Arts, Dr. Phang has given numerous solo recitals and concerts throughout Canada, Europe and the United States. Performing venues include the Goethe Institute in Singapore, Victoria Concert Hall, Singapore Conference Hall, Chapelle Historique du Bon Pasteur and Place-des-Arts in Montreal, the Concertgebouw, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Kennedy Center for the Arts and National Gallery in Washington DC, and the Chicago Cultural Center. She is active as chamber musician and accompanist, collaborating with various instrumentalists and singers.
Dr. Phang is a prizewinner of several competitions including the Chopin Young Pianists’ Competition in Buffalo NY, Canadian Music Competition, Concours d’Orchestre Symphonique de Montral, and Pontoise International Young Artists Competition in France. She has performed with orchestras such as the Banff Chamber Players, Singapore Symphony, Montreal Symphony, and the Philadelphia Orchestra. Radio and television appearances include profiles on Singapore Broadcasting Corporation’s "Life and Times" and "Arts Around" and broadcasts on Radio-Canada, Vermont Public Radio, WFLN-Philadelphia and WFMT-Chicago. |
| Paul Rowe - Baritone Voice |
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 Baritone Paul Rowe has maintained a wide ranging performing career throughout the United States for the past 20 years. He has performed with many of the leading American musical organizations, including the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Seiji Ozawa, the American Ballet Theater at the Metropolitan Opera and Kennedy Center, and Musica Sacra at Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall. Mr. Rowe has appeared as well with the Baltimore Choral Arts Society, Smithsonian Chamber Players, the Alabama and Arkansas Symphony Orchestras, the Folger Consort, and the Ensemble for Early Music, among many other groups. As a member of the Waverly Consort, he has toured the United States, the Far East and South America and participated in the Consort’s regular series at Alice Tully Hall and the Cloisters in New York. In addition, Mr. Rowe performed for two years as a member of the New York Vocal Arts Ensemble, touring the U.S. and Yugoslavia. He recorded two discs: the Quartets of Haydn and Trios of Mozart, and Listen to the Mockingbird, featuring songs of Stephen Foster and other American music.
Paul Rowe has sung at various summer festivals including Marlboro, Aspen, Flagstaff Festival of the Arts, Hot Springs and Sewanee. He has served on the voice faculties of the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Vanderbilt University, State University of New York at Purchase, Lehigh University, Nazareth College of Rochester, the Tennessee State Governor’s School, and the Berkshire Choral Festival. Mr. Rowe is Professor of Voice at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Artistic Director of the Madison Early Music Festival, an annual festival he helped found in 2000. |
| John Chappell Stowe - Harpsichord & Organ |
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 John Chappell Stowe (AAGO, ChM) is Professor of Organ and Harpsichord at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Music. During the 1993-94 academic year he was Visiting Associate Professor of Organ at the University of Iowa. Before moving to Wisconsin he was Professor of Organ and Church Music at Houghton College, Houghton, NY. He graduated from Southern Methodist University and Eastman School of Music, studying organ with Robert Anderson and Russell Saunders. Dr. Stowe holds the Doctor of Musical Arts degree and Performer's Certificate from the Eastman School and was the first-place winner in 1978 of the National Open Organ Playing Competition of the American Guild of Organists.
Performances have included appearances throughout the United States as solo organist. Recital repertoire includes a wide variety of literature extending from 1550 to 2002. His programming reflects both strong commitment to contemporary music and dedication to great repertoire of past generations.
Since joining the faculty at UW-Madison Dr. Stowe has held the posts of Associate Director of the School of Music (1990-1993) and Director of Graduate Studies (1996-1999). From 1998 until 2004 he served the American Guild of Organists as National Vice President. In addition to organ and harpsichord his instructional activities currently include improvisation, continuo playing, organ design and literature, and coaching the UW-Madison Early Music Ensemble.
Dr. Stowe has pursued study of Italian organ repertoire with Stefano Innocenti, Umberto Pineschi, and Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini, focusing in particular on music of Merulo, Andrea Gabrieli, Frescobaldi and Michelangelo Rossi. He is active throughout the United States in presenting workshops and master classes on topics such as performance practice, church music and organ literature. His interests include performance techniques of keyboard music of all periods, with emphasis on early Italian and 20th-century music. With John Aley, trumpet, he has recorded Windows of Petr Eben on the T.O.G. label. His solo recording on the 1863 Wadsworth organ at St. James Church in Madison, Wisconsin has been released by Ethereal Recordings. |
| Nathan Wysock - Guitar |
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 Nathan Wysock is an avid performer. Chamber music is his specialty. Competing throughout the United States and abroad, he has performed lecture recitals on tango composer Astor Piazzolla and 19th century guitarist Victor Magnien. Mr. Wysock earned his Master and Doctor of Music degrees in guitar performance with a minor in early music from the Eastman School of Music. He is a faculty member of the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music. |
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