L.A. Camerata is directed by Marylin Winkle, a performer, teacher, and advocate for the arts. In October 2023, she and L.A. Camerata released a reference recording of Camilla de Rossi’s Fra Dori, e Fileno, to accompany an edition she published with Dulcamara Press. In addition to ongoing L.A. Camerata events, Marylin has performed historical works with the Desert Baroque Festival, Boston Camerata, and Musica Angelica. She performed in Monteverdi’s Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, a fully-staged performance by Tick-Tock Productions in Cambridge, UK. Other period theatrical performances include: Fairy Queen (Purcell), Don Giovanni and Le Nozze di Figaro (Mozart), L’Ormindo (Cavalli), Il Primo Omicidio (Scarlatti), Haydn’s Creation, and L’Incoronazione di Poppea (Monteverdi). As director, Marylin staged a world-premiere reading of Isabella Andreini’s La Mirtilla and Francesca Caccini’s La liberazione di Ruggiero. She serves as a Musicology faculty member at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, where she directs the Early Music Ensemble. She holds a DMA in Early Music from USC Thornton School of Music, where she studied baroque cello and viola da gamba with Bill Skeen; her academic fields included a major emphasis in Musicology with minor emphases in Opera Directing and Teaching & Learning. In 2018, Dr. Winkle received the Early Music America Summer Workshop Scholarship to study vielle with Shira Kammen, Mary Springfels, and Benjamin Bagby at the Amherst Early Music Festival Roman de Fauvel Project. She has spent many summers coaching and performing for the SFEMS Summer Workshops, and she attended the 2012 Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Institute. Her modern cello studies include a Master’s of Arts Degree from San Jose State University, where she studied with David Golblatt, and a Bachelor’s of Music Performance from Stetson University, where she studied with David Bjella.

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