Presenting District: Umpqua Valley-South Coast
Presenter: Dr. Barbara Baird,[expand title=”Read Presenter Bio” swaptitle=” “]has been a member of the University of Oregon music faculty since
1989, teaching organ, harpsichord, and piano, organ pedagogy, and harpsichord pedagogy. An active recitalist since 1971, Dr. Baird has performed throughout the United States as well as Argentina, Brazil, Europe and Australia. A frequent adjudicator and clinician, she regularly conducts workshops and master classes for keyboardists particularly on Baroque and Classic Period Performance Practice. Dr. Baird has been a presenter and recitalist at both national and regional conventions of the American Guild of Organists, for the Organ Historical Society, and for piano teachers’ guilds in the United States and Australia.[/expand]

Program Description: This workshop explores some basic considerations of performing Baroque keyboard music,[expand title=”Read More” swaptitle=”] including the articulation used during the Baroque era—staccato, non-legato, legato and over-legato—and how to determine when to use each of these; the interpretation of ornament signs and their execution, as well as the practice of adding ornamentation; understanding tempo markings, as well as implied dynamics, when no markings are present.[/expand]