LEWIS R. BARATZ

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, RECORDER, & HARPSICHORD

Lewis founded La Fiocco in 2009. He has performed on recorder and/or harpsichord with the Academy of Sacred Drama, Bethlehem Baroque, Brandywine Baroque, The Queens Consort, MidAtlantic Opera Company, Voices Chorale, and Vox Ama Deus. He served on the boards of Early Music America, the Academy of Sacred Drama, and the Arts and Cultural Council of Bucks County.  Lewis was the first person to earn the Ph.D. in musicology with concentration in historical performance practice at Case Western Reserve University. As a music historian, he has authored critical editions and over 20 articles on a wide range of topics, including 15th-century dance music, 17th-century keyboard music, biographical, archival, and manuscript studies, basso continuo, the choirboys of the Brussels Collegiate Church c. 1550 to 1793, and numerous entries in The New Grove Dictionary of Music. He was a Fulbright Scholar and Fellow of the Belgian American Educational Foundation.  Lewis taught at Seton Hall University and Mercer County Community College, and currently teaches piano, harpsichord, recorder, and directs the chamber orchestra at Lafayette College.