INSTRUMENTALIST

RECORDER

New Yorker Carolyn Jean Smith has had a life long love for the recorder, beginning studies when she was nine. While working on her Master of Music degree in Early Music at the Longy School of Music, she joined Stämbandet in 1993 and was a founding member of the recorder-voice-harpsichord ensemble, Cantata à Trois.

Cina Wertheim, a native of Massachusetts, began studying woodwinds at the age of five. She has played flute and recorder for a variety of ensembles including the New England Conservatory Chamber Ensemble and the Longy Recorder Ensemble. Cina began playing with Stämbandet in 1994.

GUITAR

An extraordinary guitarist, Tom Young is equally at ease in the folk rhythms of Scandinavian music as he is in his own jazz duo, Acousticity. From southern California, where he remembers his grandfather playing guitar at barnyard dances, Tom hasperformed for rock, jazz, and theater bands and as a solo guitarist. He joined Stämbandet in 1991 and has written a number of guitar arrangements of Scandinavian songs.

STRING BASS

Suzanne Clark has played string bass with Stämbandet since 1991. A New Englander, she has a strong professional background with array of show band, theater, music revue and jazz credits. She counts among her principal influences the Beatles, Oscar Pettiford and Neils Pedersen. Through playing with Stämbandet, Suzanne has developed a keen stylistic awareness of the range of Scandinavian folk music.