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Debra Lonergan
was a long-standing member of the Michigan Opera Theatre Orchestra in Detroit at the time she discovered and began to specialize in early music during the mid-nineteen eighties. Institutes from the University of Michigan, Oberlin Conservatory and Toronto’s Tafelmusik supplemented her study over many years with teacher and colleague Enid Sutherland. She worked extensively with Ann Arbor’s American Baroque Ensemble, as well as Ars Musica, during the time of its 1989 Michigan MozartFest as well as its twenty-city national tour celebrating the 1985 Bach anniversary year. Debra also served as an academic program administrator for Detroit’s Center for Creative Studies-Institute of Music and Dance, and as an artist representative for Donna Zajonc Management in Ann Arbor. She has made an extensive study of string pedagogy, and with nearly 30 years of experience, maintains an active Ann Arbor studio and offers fun and innovative music theory training for classes of children as a Music Mind Games instructor. Currently a member of La Gente D’Orfeo, and founding member of Anaphantasia, as well as the period string quartet Mirabel, and the viola da gamba duo, Valencia, Ms. Lonergan has played continuo in concert for several of today’s leading soloists, among them, Jaap Schroeder, Stanley Ritchie, Marilyn McDonald and John Holloway. She plays a Wolfgang Uebel bass viol and an English cello in its original condition from the Walmsley School. For upcoming concerts, please visit http://www.debralonergan.com |