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CURRICULUM VITAE

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CHARLES KEITH COLLINS

1074 Tuckaway Ridge Lane
Nashville, IN 47448
ckeithcollins-at-yahoo.com

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EDUCATION
D.M., Early Music (historical bassoon), 2008, Indiana University
M.M., Bassoon, 1999, Indiana University
B.M., Music Education, 1996, cum laude, Berry College (Rome, GA)
B.A., German, 1996, cum laude, Berry College

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of North Texas (Denton), January 2006-present, Adjunct Instructor,
historical bassoons, chamber music.

Indiana University, January 2011-May 2011, Visiting Instructor (sabbatical replacement),
historical bassoons, chamber music.

Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Institute, June 2009 (Toronto), bassoon faculty.

University of North Texas, January-May 2008, Sabbatical Replacement,
Baroque Performance Practice class (graduate level); recorder; historical bassoons;
chamber music.

Indiana University Recorder Academy, 2000-2002, music theory, ensemble coach.



PERFORMANCE ON HISTORICAL BASSOONS, HARP, RECORDER
Ensembles
(italics indicate founding member)


ARION (Montréal)
Atlanta Baroque Orchestra- concerto soloist November 2008
Apollo’s Fire (Cleveland, OH)
Bach Ensemble
Bach Sinfonia (DC)
Baroque Chamber Orchestra of Colorado (Denver) - concerto soloist January 2009
Bourbon Baroque (Louisville, KY) – concerto soloist January 2009
Chatham Baroque (PA)
Chicago Opera Theater
Dayton Bach Society (OH)
Denton Bach Society (TX)

Echoing Air (IN)
Ensemble Lipzodes (Bloomington, IN) finalist 2006 Early Music America Medieval
  and Renaissance Performance Competition
Fenix de los Ingenios (Bloomington, IN)
Folger Consort (DC)

Fort Wayne Bach Society (IN)
Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra
Isshallyn, Ensemble for early Celtic Music and Verse
Madison Bach Players (WI)
Milwaukee Baroque Orchestra (formerly Ensemble Musical Offering)
Music City Baroque (formerly Belle Meade Baroque) (Nashville, TN)
National Cathedral Baroque Orchestra (DC)
Orchestra of New Spain (Dallas, TX)
Publick Musick (Rochester NY)
Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra (Toronto)
Trinity Consort (Portland, OR)
Washington Bach Consort (DC)



Performances as Guest Artist with University Ensembles
Northwestern University (2006)
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill (2007)
Eastern Carolina University (2007)
College of William and Mary (2008)
University of North Texas (multiple)
Harvard University (2010)

Grand Valley State University (2011)

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Performances with Festival Orchestras
Bloomington Early Music Festival (multiple)
Magnolia Baroque Music Festival (Winston-Salem, NC, 2006)
Festival International de Musique Baroque de Lamèque (New Brunswick, Canada,
  2000)
St Cecilia Festival Orchestra (Austin TX, December 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013)

 

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INSTRUMENTS
Bass dulcian (a=440) after anon. Linz 31 by Graham Lyndon-Jones 1999
Baroque bassoon (a=415)after HKICW  by Guntram Wolf 2006
Classical bassoon (a=430) after Grenser by Wolf

Gaelic wire-strung harp after 'Queen Mary', Collins/Speer 2003

Bray harp after anon 'Nuremberg harp', Collins/Speer 2011

Various recorders, shawms, etc.

 

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DISCOGRAPHY
-J.S. Bach Cantatas 62, 45, 192, & 140, Publick Musick, Musica Omnia 0204
-St. John Passion, Apollo’s Fire, Eclectra 2044
-Brandenburg Concertos, Apollo’s Fire, Eclectra 2047
-‘Bass’ ically French, Centaur 2704
-Divas of Mozart’s Day, Classical Arts Orchestra, Cedille 90000 064
-Ensemble Lipzodes, Music of Colonial Guatemala, Focus Records.

-Musik Ekklesia, The Vanishing Nordic Chorale, Sono Luminus, DSL 92128

                       *finalist for 2011 Grammy Producer of the Year, Classical (Peter Rutenberg)*

                       *named 'Editor's Choice'  (Geoffery Norris) in Nov 2011 issue of Gramophone*
-(forthcoming: music of Heinrich Isaac, TBA)



MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
American Federation of Musicians, Local 3
Early Music America



SELECTED PROJECTS 2013
Concerts with Folger Consort, Washington, DC
Tour to Ecuador and Colombia with Ensemble Lipzodes
Handel's L'Allegro with Tafelmusik and the Mark Morris Dance Group
Guest artist with Albuquerque Baroque Players

Tour to Florida with Echoing Air

BIO

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Multi-instrumentalist C. Keith Collins holds degrees in music education, German, and bassoon performance, and also holds the first doctorate awarded in historical bassoon. His graduate work was done at Indiana University's Early Music Institute, where he studied with Michael McCraw. While at IU, he also studied recorder with Eva Legêne.  He regularly performs on historical bassoons, shawm, recorder, and early harps.  Keith has played with many of the leading period ensembles in North America. He is a founding member of the award-winning shawm and dulcian band Ensemble Lipzodes, which specializes in the music of colonial Latin America. He is a writer for the NPR early music radio show "Harmonia", produced by affiliate WFIU in Bloomington, IN.

Keith is adjunct instructor of early winds at the University of North Texas in Denton. He has also taught at Indiana University's summer Recorder Academy for young people, and at the Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Institute in Toronto.



In addition to his career as an early wind specialist, Keith also plays early harp. He built a Gaelic harp with brass and silver strings and a gut-strung bray harp through working with Dan Speer of Argent Fox Harps. He is particularly interested in the ceòl mór tradition of Scotland and Ireland, and the medieval Welsh cerdd dant music preserved in the retrospective harp tablature contained in the ca. 1613 Robert ap Huw manuscript. With his group Isshalyn Ensemble for Early Celtic Music and Verse he explores the ancient interplay of voice and instrument and their roles in the performance of poetry and liturgy from early Wales, Ireland, and Scotland.

 



Keith's Appalachian roots led him to clawhammer banjo (especially fretless gourd banjo), Appalachian dulcimer, the singing of unaccompanied ballads, and the fasola shape note tradition. He particularly enjoys singing from Missouri Harmony, the shape-note book used in early 19th century Indiana. He is the former music specialist at Conner Prairie Interactive History Park in Fishers, Indiana. While there, he coached a group of 25 employees and volunteers in the shape-note tradition using modern reprints of the 1821 edition of Missouri Harmony.



When not making reeds or music, Dr Collins is an enthusiastic volunteer at The Indiana Raptor Center (indianaraptorcenter.org), near his residence in Brown County, Indiana. The facility rescues, rehabilitates, and releases injured or orphaned birds of prey. He presents educational programs with live birds of prey to schools, civic groups, group homes, scouts and the general public. The facility houses about 25 permanent resident birds who are unreleasable due to various physical impairments. Keith is particularly fond of screech owls.