Josephine Gaeffke

 

 Harpsichordist Josephine Gaeffke directs the Summer Baroque Ensemble, and she collaborates with psychologist Grace Harlow Klein to direct the workshop entitled Beyond Performance Anxiety. Her performances of Bach’s Goldberg from memory were central to her own struggle to overcome performance anxiety.  This story, which she entitled, “Overcoming Terror by Being Terrified” appeared in The Person Centered Journal, vol.23, No.1, 2016.  In 2017, she founded the Rochester Baroque Dancers.  She has danced in Purcell’s King Arthur, Lully’s Cadmus and Hermione and the Passepied d’Espagne, which aired on Spectrum News.  She has performed on the harpsichord on stages in Germany, France, Mexico, and the United States, and she has shared her vast knowledge of the art of harpsichord playing on TV and radio broadcasts.  She was born in Utrecht, Holland to German parents.  Her interest in the harpsichord was born when her father build a Zuckerman harpsichord kit.  This harpsichord inspired her to learn to want to learn everything about the art of harpsichord playing and accompanying at the Conservatoire National d’Aix en Provence, at the University of Pennsylvania, at the Conservatoire National de Region de Lille, at the Juilliard School, and in master’s classes from Gustav Leonhardt, Kenneth Gilbert, and Arthur Haas.

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