| BIOGRAPHY |
| REBECCA PECHEFSKY |
Well known in the New York area, Rebecca Pechefsky has performed in such
venues as Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, Merkin Hall, and the eighteenth-century
Morris-Jumel Mansion, where she is co-director of the early-music series Music at
Morris-Jumel. Outside New York she has been heard at the Boston Early Music
Festival and in the concert series of the San Diego Harpsichord Society; the
Harpsichord Center (Pasadena and Brentwood, California); the Miami Bach Society;
the Zoellner Arts Center at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; and the
Beeville Concert Association in Beeville, Texas.
A frequent performer at the American Festival of Microtonal Music, she can be heard
on its recent compact discs Early and Odysseus (by Johnny Reinhard). For Quill
Classics she has recorded a recital of works by Brunnemüller, Bach, and La Guerre
(QC 1001), the complete harpsichord music of François d’Agincour (QC 1002 and
1004), and Bach and His Circle (QC 1006). With Andrew Bolotowsky she has
recorded sonatas by Johann Ludwig Krebs for Baroque flute and harpsichord (QC
1003) and flute works by J. S. Bach (also with cellist David Bakamjian; QC 1008,
forthcoming). With Brooklyn Baroque, of which she is a founding member (with
Bolotowsky and Bakamjian), she can be heard on Northern Lights (QC 1005), a
program of German Baroque works, and The Pleasures of the French (QC 1007), a
recital of eighteenth-century French works. (For more information on Brooklyn
Baroque, click on the button to the left.) Her recording of Bach's Well-Tempered
Clavier, Book I, was released in May 2009. Her recordings have been played across
the United States on NPR stations, and Bach and His Circle won the 2009 Just Plain
Folks Music Award for best Classical Solo Album.
Also committed to new music, Ms. Pechefsky has premiered works by Mary Inwood,
Graham Lynch, Frank J. Oteri, Louis Pelosi, Johnny Reinhard, and Ben Yarmolinsky.
In March, she gave the world premiere of Graham Lynch’s prizewinning Petenera at
the Aliénor Competition in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Currently organist at
Redeemer Lutheran Church in Glendale, Queens, she lives in Brooklyn with her
husband, Erik Ryding, with whom she has coauthored Bruno Walter: A World
Elsewhere, winner of an ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award. (For more information on the
biography of Walter, click on the button to the left.)
WORLD PREMIERE PERFORMANCES
Mary Inwood
Chamber Symphony No. 2, Op. 59: Moderate
February 2003, Queens College, Flushing, New York
Graham Lynch
Petenera
March 2008, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Frank J. Oteri
The Other Side of the Window
March 1996, New York, New York
If by Yes
July 1996, New York, New York
Is 5
May 2002, Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall, New York, New York
Six of One
January 2004, Miami Bach Society, Coral Gables, Florida
Louis Pelosi
Enchaînements
November 1998, Croton-Harmon, New York
Five Meditations
November 2005, Croton-Harmon, New York
Johnny Reinhard
Odysseus
May 1997, Columbia University, New York, New York
Qoheleth
March 2003 New York, New York
NEW YORK PREMIERE PERFORMANCES
Graham Lynch
Petenera
October 2008, Brooklyn, New York
Ben Yarmolinsky
French Suite
June 2004, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, New York
WORLD PREMIERE RECORDINGS
Elias Brunnemüller
Suite in F Major
Quill Classics, QC 1001
François d'Agincour
Quatorzième Ordre (complete)
Quill Classics, QC 1004
Conrad Friedrich Hurlebusch
Suite in C Minor
Quill Classics, QC 1006
Johann Ludwig Krebs
Partita in A Minor
Quill Classics, QC 1006
Johnny Reinhard
Odysseus
Pitch P-200201
Larry Wallach
Partita on "Simple Gifts"
Quill Classics 2003-SE
venues as Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, Merkin Hall, and the eighteenth-century
Morris-Jumel Mansion, where she is co-director of the early-music series Music at
Morris-Jumel. Outside New York she has been heard at the Boston Early Music
Festival and in the concert series of the San Diego Harpsichord Society; the
Harpsichord Center (Pasadena and Brentwood, California); the Miami Bach Society;
the Zoellner Arts Center at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; and the
Beeville Concert Association in Beeville, Texas.
A frequent performer at the American Festival of Microtonal Music, she can be heard
on its recent compact discs Early and Odysseus (by Johnny Reinhard). For Quill
Classics she has recorded a recital of works by Brunnemüller, Bach, and La Guerre
(QC 1001), the complete harpsichord music of François d’Agincour (QC 1002 and
1004), and Bach and His Circle (QC 1006). With Andrew Bolotowsky she has
recorded sonatas by Johann Ludwig Krebs for Baroque flute and harpsichord (QC
1003) and flute works by J. S. Bach (also with cellist David Bakamjian; QC 1008,
forthcoming). With Brooklyn Baroque, of which she is a founding member (with
Bolotowsky and Bakamjian), she can be heard on Northern Lights (QC 1005), a
program of German Baroque works, and The Pleasures of the French (QC 1007), a
recital of eighteenth-century French works. (For more information on Brooklyn
Baroque, click on the button to the left.) Her recording of Bach's Well-Tempered
Clavier, Book I, was released in May 2009. Her recordings have been played across
the United States on NPR stations, and Bach and His Circle won the 2009 Just Plain
Folks Music Award for best Classical Solo Album.
Also committed to new music, Ms. Pechefsky has premiered works by Mary Inwood,
Graham Lynch, Frank J. Oteri, Louis Pelosi, Johnny Reinhard, and Ben Yarmolinsky.
In March, she gave the world premiere of Graham Lynch’s prizewinning Petenera at
the Aliénor Competition in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Currently organist at
Redeemer Lutheran Church in Glendale, Queens, she lives in Brooklyn with her
husband, Erik Ryding, with whom she has coauthored Bruno Walter: A World
Elsewhere, winner of an ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award. (For more information on the
biography of Walter, click on the button to the left.)
WORLD PREMIERE PERFORMANCES
Mary Inwood
Chamber Symphony No. 2, Op. 59: Moderate
February 2003, Queens College, Flushing, New York
Graham Lynch
Petenera
March 2008, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Frank J. Oteri
The Other Side of the Window
March 1996, New York, New York
If by Yes
July 1996, New York, New York
Is 5
May 2002, Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall, New York, New York
Six of One
January 2004, Miami Bach Society, Coral Gables, Florida
Louis Pelosi
Enchaînements
November 1998, Croton-Harmon, New York
Five Meditations
November 2005, Croton-Harmon, New York
Johnny Reinhard
Odysseus
May 1997, Columbia University, New York, New York
Qoheleth
March 2003 New York, New York
NEW YORK PREMIERE PERFORMANCES
Graham Lynch
Petenera
October 2008, Brooklyn, New York
Ben Yarmolinsky
French Suite
June 2004, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, New York
WORLD PREMIERE RECORDINGS
Elias Brunnemüller
Suite in F Major
Quill Classics, QC 1001
François d'Agincour
Quatorzième Ordre (complete)
Quill Classics, QC 1004
Conrad Friedrich Hurlebusch
Suite in C Minor
Quill Classics, QC 1006
Johann Ludwig Krebs
Partita in A Minor
Quill Classics, QC 1006
Johnny Reinhard
Odysseus
Pitch P-200201
Larry Wallach
Partita on "Simple Gifts"
Quill Classics 2003-SE
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