Musicians

John Thiessen appears as soloist and principal trumpet with early music ensembles throughout the US and Canada, and has performed with the Academy of Ancient Music, Taverner Players, English Baroque Soloists and the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra. Highlights this season include J.S. Bach’s B Minor Mass with Tafelmusik, Santa Fe Promusica and Washington Bach Consort, Jauchzet Gott in allen Länden with American Bach Soloists, as well as Handel’s Messiah with the National Cathedral Chorus, Atalanta with Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and Water Music with Aulos Ensemble. Thiessen is a graduate of Eastman School of Music and King’s College, University of London, and the recipient of grants from the Canada Council and Ontario Arts Council for studies in the UK. He serves on the faculty of the Baroque Performance Institute at Oberlin College and has recorded extensively for Sony Classical Vivarte, Telarc, EMI, BMG, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, London Decca, Analekta, CBC, and Denon.

We are grateful to Early Music America and Judith Malafronte for permission to reprint this interview with Mr. Thiessen from EMA’s Spring 2003 issue.