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Artist Biography

Leah Gale Nelson

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Leah Gale Nelson
Leah Gale Nelson specializes in music from the 17th-, 18th– and early-19th-centuries. She has served as concertmaster for Chicago’s Music of the Baroque, Gotham Chamber Opera, Aspen Festival Opera Theater, and Chicago Opera Theater, and the Church of St. Luke in the Fields, NYC, where she is an Artist in Residence. Leah has performed with Concert Royal, Clarion Music Society, Boston Camerata, the Smithsonian Chamber Orchestra, Dublin’s Opera Theatre Company, Musica Angelica (Los Angeles, CA), and for the Scarlatti Festival in Palermo, Sicily. Her pre-Covid project, Jefferson Carriage (www.jeffersoncarriage.com), in collaboration with refined baroque dancers, celebrates the performing arts in the context of early American history. Leah is a Visiting Scholar at Rutgers University, coaches for the New York Continuo Collective and the Illinois Bach Academy, and has taught at the Aspen Music Festival. Her recording, Biber: The Sacred Mysteries, was released to critical acclaim in 2011, with the Oxford University Press, Early Music hailing it “an elegant and beautiful recording.”    www.leahgalenelson.com
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