• IndyBaroque Music, Inc. is an umbrella non-profit organization that consists of two member organizations, Ensemble Voltaire and the Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra.

    We enrich, educate and inspire the Central Indiana community through performance of 17th and 18th century music. We believe in the importance of fostering connections between the past and present; building a sense of community and mutual understanding; and encouraging the process of self discovery though music.

    Artistic Director

    Barthold Kuijken has become one of the foremost performers on the baroque flute and regularly appears with such early music specialists as his brothers, Sigiswald (violin) and Wieland (viola da gamba and cello), as well as with Paul Dombrecht (oboe), Robert Kohnen, Bob van Asperen and Gustav Leonhardt (harpsichord).

    Born in Belgium in 1949, Kuijken began his conservatory studies on the modern flute in Bruges and Brussels, where he played with the Brussels-based contemporary ensemble Musiques Nouvelles. He discovered the baroque flute on his own while in conservatory in Brussels, using the numerous eighteenth-century treatises about the instrument as his guides and drawing inspiration from more general studies in the art, history, and literature of the period. He soon turned to the investigation of the instrument, examining such baroque flutes as could be found in museums and working closely with several instrument makers to create playable copies for performance.

    Kuijken has made further contributions to the advancement of the baroque flute by rediscovering and editing original seventeenth- and eighteenth-century repertoire for the instrument, including a newly annotated Urtext edition of J.S. Bach’s flute compositions for the music publishers Breitkopf and Härtel. He is professor of baroque flute at the Royal Conservatories of Brussels and the Hague.

    In addition to playing in the baroque orchestra La Petite bande, Kuijken has an active touring schedule as both soloist and recitalist, with concerts taking him throughout Europe, North and South America, Japan, Australia and New Zealand, Israel, and Russia. He has recorded extensively, and since 1986, he has also pursued his interests in conducting, with special emphasis on the vocal works of Johann Sebastian Bach.

    Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra

    Principals:

    • Allison Edberg, Violin, Concertmaster
    • Joanna Blendulf, Cello, Co-Principal
    • Christine Kyprianides, Cello, Co-Principal

    Violins:

    • Janelle Davis
    • Andrew Fouts
    • James Johnston
    • Martha Perry

    Violas:

    • Rachel Gries
    • Alisa Rata

    Cello:

    • Kurt Fowler

    Violone:

    • Philip Spray

    Harpsichord:

    • Thomas Gerber

  • Board of Directors:

    President:
    Stephen Strugnell, BM
    Midwest School of Music

    Vice President:
    Susan Pratt, MST
    Retired Teacher, Brebeuf Prep

    Treasurer:
    Richard K. Strouse, CPA
    IU School of Medicine

    Secretary:
    Debbie Wright-Thomason, MD
    Cardiologist, Sigma Group

    Members:

    Suzanne Blakeman, BA
    Arts Patron

    Jo Ann Domb, DME
    Retired, University of Indianapolis

    George Evans, BA
    Brandwidth Marketing

    Rise Friedman, MA, JD
    Counsel, Simon Property Group

    Philip Spray, MS
    Music Director, Advent Lutheran Church

    Marianne W. Tobias
    Indianapolis Symphony Program Annotator

    Robin Zimmerman, BA
    Arts Patron

    Founding Member:

    Barbara Kallaur, MA
    IU Jacobs School of Music

    Emeritus:

    Paul Kennedy, MFA
    Harpsichord Craftsman

    Staff:

    CEO-IndyBaroque, Inc.
    Thomas Gerber, MM
    University of Indianapolis, Butler and Marian

    Ensemble Manager-EV:
    Christine Kyprianides, DMA
    IU Jacobs School of Music

    Ensemble Manager-IBO:
    Martha Perry, MM
    Violin/Viola-Musician

    Barthold Kuijken, PhD
    Royal Conservatory, Belgium
    Artistic Director

    Martinlow Spaulding, MAA
    Executive Director
    Lauren Laski
    Administrative Assistant