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Clea Galhano
Internationally renowned Brazilian recorder player Clea Galhano is an accomplished performer of early, contemporary and Latin music. Galhano has performed in the United  States, Canada, South America and Europe as a chamber musician, collaborating with recorder player Marion Verbruggen, Belladonna, Jacques Ogg, Blue Baroque Band, Galhano Montgomery, and the Lanzelotte Galhano/ Duo. As a featured soloist, Galhano has worked with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, World Symphony and Lyra Baroque Orchestra . Among other important music festivals, Ms. Galhano has performed at the Boston Early Music Festival, and the Tage Alter Music Festival in Germany and at Wigmore Hall in London, Carnegie/Weill Hall in New York and Palazzo Santa Croce in Rome, always receiving acclaimed reviews.
Galhano studied in Brazil, the Royal Conservatory (The Hague), and the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, earning a Fulbright scholarship and support from the Dutch government. As an advocate of recorder music and educational initiatives, she served for six years on the national board of the American Recorder Society.
A popular teacher and ensemble director, Galhano regularly conducts workshops across the United States and Brazil. Currently, Galhano is the Executive Artistic Director of the St. Paul Conservatory of Music in St. Paul, MN, is on the faculty of Macalester College, St. Paul and is the Music Director of the Recorder Orchestra of the Midwest in Bloomington, Indiana.
Ms. Galhano has several recordings available on Dorian, Ten Thousand Lakes and Eldorado labels.
“There are not many professional recorder players who could sustain a full programme of music drawn from the early to the high Baroque periods, but the Brazilian-born Clea Galhano, now a United States resident, is certainly one of them, demonstrating the quality of her musicianship throughout at the Wigmore Hall on 11 September… It was both instructive and musically worthwhile to hear … admirably accompanied by the Dutch-born harpsichordist Jacques Ogg.… there was not one piece in the entire recital that was not musically valuable… brilliantly expressive … gifted player’s performances of genuine eloquence and virtuosity. “
Robert Matthew-Walker, London
"The highlight of the program... filling the hall with haunting tone of the recorder, Galhano proved that sometimes simple beauty can be more moving than 100-piece orchestra..."
Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Pittsburgh, USA
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