Medieval Womens Choir Lead Artists

Margriet Tindemans | Nancy Zylstra | Peggy Monroe
Vicki Boeckman | Shira Kammen | Bill McJohn | Marian Seibert | Linda Strandberg | Stacey Sunde

Margriet Tindemans, Artistic Director Margriet Tindemans has performed and taught medieval music on four continents. She has been called a rare combination of charismatic performing and inspiring teaching, a scholar with a profound knowledge of music, poetry and art of the Middle Ages - a national treasure. Tindemans was a founding member of the German ensemble Sequentia and the Huelgas Ensemble of Belgium. As a player of early stringed instruments, such as medieval fiddle, rebec, and harp, she performs and records with Medieval Strings and is a frequently invited guest with the Folger Consort, the Newberry Consort, and other leading early music ensembles. For the Seattle Early Music Guild she has directed biannual medieval workshops since 1990, including the 1998 Hildegard von Bingen Festival, which attracted students from all over North America and Europe.
Nancy Zylstra, Vocal Coach Since 1979 Nancy Zylstra has been on the faculty of Oberlin Conservatory's Baroque Performance Institute. She also taught at the Kitchener-Waterloo Baroque and Classical Workshop, Vancouver Early Music Workshop and Cornish College's “Baroque Voice”. She has taught studio voice at the University of Washington, Pacific Lutheran University, and Cornish College. Her 20-year career as a soloist included performances with the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Tafelmusik, and American Bach Soloists. Zylstra is a board member of Early Music America.
Peggy Monroe, Percussion Peggy Monroe specializes in historical percussion instruments. She has taught and performed across the USA, and in Canada, England, Spain, and Germany. She has written scripts for musical dramas performed by the Medieval Women's Choir and the Early Music Guild, and her many school appearances earned her Early Music America's Bringing History Alive award in 2004.
Vicki Boeckman, Recorder Vicki Boeckman has performed as soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States and Europe. From 1981 to 2004 Vicki lived in Denmark, where she taught at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen. Since settling in Seattle in 2004, she has been a featured soloist with the Seattle Baroque Orchestra, the Philharmonia Northwest Orchestra and is a returning guest with the Gallery Concerts Series, The Northwest Girl Choir, and the Medieval Women's Choir. She is actively involved in the Seattle Recorder Society and is the Music Director for the newly formed Portland Recorder Society.
Shira Kammen, Strings Multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Shira Kammen has been a member for many years of the early music ensembles Alcatraz and Project Ars Nova, and Medieval Strings; she has also worked with Sequentia, Hesperion XX, the Boston Camerata, the Balkan group Kitka, the Oregon, California and San Francisco Shakespeare Festivals, and is the founder of Class V Music, an ensemble dedicated to performance on river rafting trips. She has played on several television and movie soundtracks: some of her original music can be heard in an independent film about fans of the work of JRR Tolkien.
Bill McJohn, Harp Bill McJohn studied early harps with Cheryl Ann Fulton and medieval music with Margriet Tindemans. He is co-director of the chant ensemble Peregrine, the medieval ensemble Contrafacta, and the Seattle Continuo Ensemble, and performs with the Angelorum Harp Choir and the Medieval Women's Choir.
Marian Seibert, Soloist Marian Seibert is a lifelong musician and devoted ensemble singer. A Seattle native, she sang in the Northwest Girlchoir for nine years and was a member of the children's chorus at Seattle Opera in Turandot and Carmen. More recently, she appeared in Les Arts Florissants with the Benevolent Order for Music of the Baroque (now Baroque Northwest) and in Il Ballo delle Ingrate with the Early Music Guild. Her medieval drama credits include Humilitas in Hildegard von Bingen's Ordo Virtutum and First Angel in The Play of Daniel. She has also sung more recent music, including Poulenc with the Esoterics, Messiaen with St. James Cathedral, and John Tavener with the Tudor Choir.
Linda Strandberg, Soloist Linda Strandberg has appeared as soloist with the Pacific Northwest Chamber Chorus, the Seattle Choral Company and Choral Arts Northwest. As an early music performer, she is a member of the Tudor Choir and has performed on the Gallery Concerts series. Her opera credits include the West Coast premiere of Philip Glass's A Madrigal Opera at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles as well as leading roles in Hildegard of Bingen's Ordo Virtutum and Menotti's The Old Maid and the Thief, Amahl and the Night Visitors and The Medium. She currently teaches voice at Seattle Community College and directs the children's chorus at Plymouth Congregational Church.
Stacey Sunde, Soloist Mezzo soprano Stacey Sunde has appeared as a soloist with the Seattle Symphony, Seattle Pro Musica, The Medieval Women's Choir, Choral Arts, and Choir of the Sound. A cantor at St. James Cathedral, she is also a member of the Cathedral's professional ensemble, Cathedral Cantorei. She works frequently as a recording artist for movie soundtracks, video games and commercials. Stacey is also a music educator, teaching at St. Catherine School and conducting two choirs in the St. James Cathedral's renowned Youth Music Program.