– Fanfare
After spending many years as a San Francisco Bay Area performer, teacher, and recording artist, John Dornenburg now resides in the Cotswold region of the United Kingdom. He has made over thirty CDs of both solo and chamber music on all sizes of viola da gamba and violone, three of which feature the complex and sonorous music for unaccompanied bass viol. As viola da gamba soloist he has performed in the British Isles, the Netherlands, Turkey, Lebanon, Australia, and New Zealand, including appearances at the Istanbul International Festival, Krakow Festival, York Early Music Festival, Kilkenny Festival, Melbourne International Festival, Monadnock Festival, and the Berkeley Early Music Festival. From 1988-2018 he held the position of Lecturer in Viola da gamba at Stanford University, and in recent years was also appointed Instructor of Violone at the University of California, Berkeley, where he co-directed the University Baroque Ensemble for one year. He is Emeritus Faculty at the State University of California, Sacramento, where he taught music history.