Baroque Hits for Flute & Harpsichord: Music from the Royal Salons of 18th century Europe

Kathleen Kraft and Phebe Craig have been playing music together since the early 1980’s and, after a few years hiatus, are delighted to be performing together again. Enjoy an afternoon of Baroque hits performed by renowned musicians.

This event is a fundraiser for Occidental Center for the Arts. Tickets are $30 GA, $25 for OCA members. Doors open at 2:30 PM. Beer, wine and refreshments available. OCA is wheelchair accessible.

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Kathleen Kraft completed studies in flute at the Royal Conservatory of Music in the Hague, the Netherlands, where she began specializing in Baroque flute with Frans Bruggen. She has performed extensively as a soloist and chamber musician throughout the US and Europe. She taught privately for over 30 years in Sonoma County and Berkeley and is former co-director of the San Francisco Early Music Society’s Baroque Workshop at Sonoma State University. She currently lives & plays flute in a secluded paradise in the coastal hills outside of Occidental, California. An expert on California native grasslands, she is active in watershed restoration and native coastal prairie conservation projects.

Originally from Colorado, Phebe Craig spent her student years in Soviet-era Berlin, Brussels, and San Francisco. She has earned a reputation as a versatile chamber musician and recitalist and has performed and recorded with many early music ensembles. As a specialist in basso continuo realization, she has accompanied many prominent early music soloists, both in concerts and recordings. She recently retired from UC Davis, where she taught harpsichord along with co-directing the UCD Baroque Ensemble and teaching ear-training, sight-singing, keyboard proficiency and music theory.