G. Victor Penniman (Viola da Gamba, Ruby Gamba, Guitar, Bass, Keyboards, Banjo, Mandolin, Recorder, Renaissance Double Reeds, Vielle, Director, Composer, Arranger, Engineer, Producer):
Violist da gamba, guitarist, award-winning
music director and co-founder of discontinuo, G. Victor Penniman holds a Doctor of Musical Arts in Operation of Early Music Programs, with minors
in music history and conducting, at the Indiana University School of Music’s
Early Music Institute. He also holds a Masters of Music degree in historical musicology from Florida State
University, where he taught viol for three years and co-directed the Early Music
Ensembles under Dr. Jeffrey Kite-Powel, and a Bachelor of Arts in Music degree from Marylhurst University near Portland,
Oregon. He has studied viola da gamba with Wendy Gillespie, Tim
Scott, Martha Bishop, Alison Crum, Margriet Tindemans, Yukimi Kambe, Toshinari
Ohashi, and Paolo Pandolfo, and Erin Headley.
He was music director for the Tygre's Heart Shakespeare Company in
Portland, OR in 1992, and has performed with The Oregon Renaissance Band (Phil
and Gayle Neumann, dir.), the Oregon Bach Festival Orchestra (Helmuth Rilling,
cond.), the Waverly Baroque Ensemble, the Tallahassee Bach Parley, and countless
other individual projects and performances. While doing his undergraduate work,
he was primarily a double bassist, studying with Glenn Moore (of the jazz group
“Oregon”), Rob Thomas, and Herman Jobelmann. He has also been a student of
Indian classical music in the Hindustani tradition.
Victor is an Assistant Professor of Music at Wells College, where he teaches Western music history, the History of Rock n’ Roll, Music Technology, directs the Wells College Early Music Ensemble, and gives private instruction in viola da gamba, guitar, violin, viola, cello, bass (upright and electric), mandolin, banjo, and recorder. He is also a Lecturer in Music History at Ithaca College, in Ithaca, NY, and choir director at the United Ministries Church in Aurora, NY.
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| Doctoral Solo Recital, Indiana University, January, 2002 | discontinuo in concert April, 2003 |
At home with the synths |
Playing guitar for Opera Cowpokes, CRS Barn
Studios, Ithaca July, 2003 |
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