Faculty & Staff
Wendy Markosky
Office location: West Hall
wmarkosk@burmanu.ca
Education
Areas of Expertise
Biography
Wendy Markosky is Professor of Music and music department co-chair at Burman University and she also serves as organist of the university church. Prior to coming to Burman, as a graduate student she was an associate instructor in of music theory department, music director/organist at two Presbyterian and Lutheran churches, studied harpsichord and carillon, and served as organist of Indiana University’s Beck Chapel.
Dr. Markosky is active in concerts, adjudications, masterclasses and workshops. She has participated in the national Royal Canadian College of Organists (RCCO) as a clinician, performer, and has been a jury member for several national RCCO organ competitions. She has presented workshops and recitals for the “Travelling Clinician” program of the RCCO, been a teaching faculty of the American “Pipe Organ Encounters” program, and done organ and harpsichord workshops for both adults and youth, as well as lecturing on various topics including baroque performance practice and ornamentation. During several summers she engaged in research, study, and performance on a number of important Baroque organs in north Germany and France. She has also done summer harpsichord studies in Austria and England. In addition to solo engagements as an organist and harpsichordist, Dr. Markosky regularly performs collaboratively with several early music groups in Alberta, and is organist/harpsichordist for the Red Deer Symphony Orchestra and for Rosa Barocca Ensemble.
Current Research or Professional Activities
- Collaborative performances in early music with Early Music Alberta series, Rosa Barocca ensemble, and Early Music Voices/Calgary series (harpsichord, organ)
- Solo performances of Baroque through modern repertoire in Canada and the US (organ, harpsichord)
- Research on seventeenth-century north German organist/composer Matthias Weckmann: stylistic and structural analysis of the free organ/harpsichord works
- Adjudication (local, provincial, national festivals and RCCO certificates/diplomas)
- Masterclasses (organ, harpsichord, Baroque keyboard fingering and technique, Baroque repertoire, hymn playing, church/concert repertoire, et al.)
Selected Performances and Professional Activities
21 November 2020
Harpsichordist; German Baroque Arias & Cantatas
With Dawn Bailey (soprano), Roderick Bryce (baritone), Naomi Delafield (baroque violin), Josephine Van Lier (baroque cello); Early Music Alberta series
Edmonton, AB
Arias Flammende Rose…; Süsse Stille…; Meine Seele hört im Sehen, G. F. Handel
Cantata Der Friede sei mit Dir, BWV 158, J. S. Bach
Cantata Jesu führe meine Seele, J. C. Graupner
Duets Tacete, ohimè, tacete; Che vai pensando, G. F. Handel
11 May 2019
Harpsichordist
Rosa Barocca Ensemble with guest artist Elinor Frey, cello;
Red Deer Symphony Orchestra main series concert
Red Deer, AB
Music of the Italian Baroque
4 May 2019
Organist
Early Music Voices & Rosa Barocca Ensemble
With guest artists from Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver
Calgary, AB
Vespers of 1610, Monteverdi
19 April 2019
Organist/harpsichordist
Luminous Voices Ensemble & Rosa Barocca Ensemble
Bella Performing Arts Centre, Mount Royal University
Calgary, AB
The Passion According to St. John, J. S. Bach
24 February 2019
Harpsichordist
String Theory Ensemble & Alberta Ballet
“Music of the French Baroque”
Calgary, AB
Terpsichore Dances (1612): Gavotte, Courante, Spagnoletta, Volte, M. Praetorius
Armonico Tributo: Sonata da Camera No. 5 (1682), G. Muffat
Suite No. 2 in G Minor: Fantaisie, Gavotte, M. Marais
Concerto Comique No. 25, “La Furstemberg” Variations, M. Corrette
“Les Saisons”: Air pour Mme. La Dauphine, J-B. Lully
Floriligium Primum: Impatentia Sarabande, G. Muffat
Ballet des Muses: Chaconne, J-B. Lully
Deuxième Air: Giourdina, J-B. Lully
Les Petits Concerts de Paris: Villagoise, Romance, Anonymous (Anthology of Antoine Bailleux)
Les Concerts Royaux, Deuxième: Prélude Gracieusement, Echos Tendrement, F. Couperin
10 November 2018
Organist
Red Deer Symphony Orchestra main series concert
Red Deer, AB
Requiem, Fauré
28 October 2018
Harpsichordist
Early Music Voices and String Theory ensemble; with Kathryn Hill, soprano (Toronto); Julie Harris, soprano (Calgary); Paul Grindlay, bass (Calgary)
Calgary, AB
Sonata “Cupid & Psyche”, Mascitti
T’amo mia vita, Luzzaschi
Concertato A Dio Florida bello (Monteverdi); Dominus illuminatio, Merula
Al lume delle stele, Monteverdi
Aura soave, Luzzaschi
Wir gläuben alle Gott, Schütz
Iss dein Brot mit Frueden, Schütz
Exaudiat te Dominus, Schein
La Caravaggia – Canzone a 2 violini, Merula
De la Ballezzo, Monteverdi
Chiome d’oro, Monteverdi
Euridice (excerpt from Act I), Peri
4 July 2018
Organ (solo)
National Convention of Royal Canadian College of Organists
Ahrend Organ, Rozca Centre, University of Calgary
Calgary, AB
Praeludium in G Minor (No. 3), Franz Tunder
Tabulatura nova, Part III (1624): Modus Ludendi Pleno Organo Pedaliter A 6. Voc., Samuel Scheidt
Hymnus De Adventu A 4. Voc: Veni redemptor gentium (verses 2-5), Samuel Scheidt
Aria (with variations), BuxWV 246, Dieterich Buxtehude
Sonata No. 5 in C Major, BWV 529: Largo, J. S. Bach
Concerto in G Major: Minuetto Allegro, William Hayes
Praeludium in D Minor, Vincent Lübeck
Partita Jesus Christus, unser Heiland…, Op. 8/3 (1938), Hugo Distler
5 May 2018
Harpsichordist
Early Music Alberta concert, with guest artists from Alberta and the Netherlands
“The Stylus Phantasticus”
Edmonton, AB
Passacaglia in D minor, BuxWV 161, D. Buxtehude
Aus der Tieffen (Geistlicher Harmonien, 1665), C. Bernhard
Sonata IV a cinque, H. Biber
Sonata V (Hortus Musicus), J. A. Reincken
Ach, dass ich hören sollte, J. Thiele
Ciacona, BuxWV 160, D. Buxtehude
Es ist genug, Cantata Liebster Gott vergisstu mich!, C. Graupner
Sonata VI (“trio”), VII Sunoate à doi, op. 1, D. Buxtehude
Sonate für Violine, Fagott und Basso continuo, J. Schmelzer
Ach Herr, lass deine lieben Engelein, F. Tunder
O felicissimus paradysi aspectus, Geistliches Konzert, J. Rosenmüller
15 April 2018
Harpsichordist; Early Music Voices concert series
Voicescapes ensemble and Rosa Barocca ensemble
Calgary, AB
Cantata BWV 106 “Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit”, J. S. Bach
Magnificat in D Major, J. S. Bach
15 March 2018
Harpsichordist ; Choral main series concert
Luminous Voices ensemble and Rosa Barocca ensemble
Calgary, AB
Alexander’s Feast, G. F. Handel
6 June 2017
Examiner
Calgary, AB
- Fellowship diploma examination, Royal Canadian College of Organists
- Service Playing certificate examination, Royal Canadian College of Organists
11 March 2017
Harpsichordist; main series concert
Red Deer Symphony Orchestra
Red Deer
Antiche danze et arie per liuto, Suite No. 2, O. Respighi
13 November 2016
Organ (solo)
Andrews University
Berrien Springs, MI USA
Variations sur “In dulci jubilo” (1992), Denis Bédard
Prélude de chorale sur “Valet will ich dir geben” (1994), Gilles Maurice LeClerc
Pièce héroïque (1878), César Franck
Noel VII, “Chrétiens, qui suivez l’église”, Louis-Claude D’Aquin
Rubrics (1988), Dan Locklair
Chorale partita, Sei gegrüsset, Jesu gütig, BWV 768, J. S. Bach
Le banquet céleste (1928), Olivier Messiae
A Festive Voluntary: Variations on Good King Wenceslas (1987), Petr Eben
6 November 2016
Organist/harpsichordist; early music series
Red Deer Symphony Orchestra & and Early Music Voices, Calgary
Calgary, AB
Orchestral Ouverture, BWV 1067, J.S. Bach
Ode to St. Cecilia, H. Purcell
9 July 2016
Examiner
Fellowship certificate examination (FRCCO), Royal Canadian College of Organists
Calgary, AB
7 February 2016
Organist/harpsichordist; early music series
Red Deer Symphony Orchestra & Voicescapes
Calgary, AB
Dixit Dominus; Nisi Dominus; Concerto Grosso Op. 6 No. 2, G. F. Handel
A Musicke Strange, M. Locke
O Lord, I Have Sinned, J. Blow
May 2015
Lecture: “Ornamentation”
Red Deer Music Teachers’ Association
Burman University campus
Lacombe, AB
25 April 2015
Harpsichordist (collaborative and solo); main stage series
Red Deer Symphony Orchestra
Red Deer, AB
Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 1-6, J. S. Bach
Other
Italian Influence in the Free Organ Works of Matthias Weckmann: Environmental Contexts and Analyses. Doctoral Dissertation. (Indiana University-Bloomington, School of Music, 1998)