Kenyon College's Taylor Concert Series presents the John Holloway Trio

GAMBIER, Ohio (March 17, 2005) The Kenyon College Taylor Concert Series presents the John Holloway Trio at 8:00 p.m. on Tuesday, April 5, in the College's Rosse Hall Auditorium. The public is invited to this concert at no charge.

The Trio, which features Holloway on violin, Jaap ter Linden on cello, and Lars Ulrik Mortensen on harpsichord, is an international ensemble noted for its performance of early music. They made the first complete recording of Buxtehude's chamber music, winning a Danish Grammy in 1995 for the first of three CDs.

Holloway is a pioneer of the modern early music movement in England. He founded his first Baroque ensemble in 1975, and made the first complete recording of the chamber music of Handel. From 1977 to 1991, he was concertmaster of Andrew Parrott's Taverner Players and from 1978 to 1992, concertmaster of Roger Norrington's London Classical Players. In addition to his concert schedule, Holloway has an extensive and award-winning discography. This year, he recorded a double CD of the complete sonatas and partitas for solo violin by Johann Sebastian Bach. He is professor of violin and string chamber music at the Hochschule für Musik in Dresden, Germany, where he also directs the chamber orchestra program.

One of Europe's best known baroque musicians, ter Linden founded the ensemble Musica da Camera with fellow Dutchman Ton Koopman, and was a member of Musica Antiqua Köln, the English Concert, and Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, where he was principal cello. Among his recent CDs is a recording of the suites for solo cello by Johann Sebastian Bach. A professor in the early music department in The Hague, ter Linden also teaches baroque cello at the Hochschule für Music in Würzburg, Germany.

Mortensen is musical director of the baroque orchestra Concerto Copenhagen and artistic director of the European Union Baroque Orchestra. He has performed a s a soloist in chamber music concerts throughout Europe and in the United States, Mexico, South America, and Japan. His numerous recordings have won prestigious prizes, including the Diapason d'Or in France, two Danish Grammys, and the Cannes Classical Award 2000. Mortensen has traveled worldwide in concert partnership with Emma Kirkby. His recent work includes directing a series of eighteenth-century operas at the Royal Danish Opera in Copenhagen.