Praised as “a first-rate instrumentalist” (Boston Globe), the Venezuelan viola da gamba player Laury Gutierrez specializes in music by women composers and in early music from Ibero-America. She has performed under the direction of Thomas Binkley, Monica Huggett, John Holloway, and Wendy Gillespie, among others, and has been a featured guest artist-lecturer at Northeastern University, Harvard University, Brandeis University, and the University of Rhode Island. She holds degrees in solo performance and historical performance practice from Indiana University, Longy School of Music, and the College of Saint Scholastica.

She also received fellowships and a scholarship from Boston University, where she did doctoral work in historical performance. Ms. Gutiérrez is the founding director of La Donna Musicale, a non-profit organization that promotes, performs, and preserves the music of women composers. Their four groundbreaking CDs, Antonia Bembo’s The Seven Psalms of David Vols. I and II, The Pleasures of Love and Libation: Airs by Julie Pinel and other Parisian Women, and Anna Bon: La virtuosa di Venezia, have received national and international critical acclaim.

 

(Evan Few joined New Trinity Baroque for the first time in December of 2008, in the program "Christmas in Italy.")