Biography: Mr. Burkhalter

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John Burkhalter studied the Performance of Early Music at The New England Conservatory of Music in Boston with Daniel Pinkham & the performance of Baroque music at Harvard University with noted Dutch recorder virtuoso Frans Bruggen. Mr. Burkhalter also performs with other early music ensembles, including Brandywine Baroque, Le Triomphe de l’amour, and the Princeton University early music group, Musica Alta. He has composed & prepared music for documentary film; video and audio projects produced by PBS - WNET 13; NJN; Concord Films, Mexico City; the Newark Museum; The Walters Art Museum; the Princeton University Art Museum; Encyclopedia Britannica; The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology; and Antenna Audio amongst others.

He has lectured extensively on the ancient musical cultures of the Americas, most notably at Rutgers University, the Chrysler Museum of Art, The Worcester Art Museum; the Mint Museum; Yale; Princeton; The Mexican Society of Philadelphia; the Pre-Columbian Society of the University of Pennsylvania Museum; the Cultural Center of the Permanent Mission to the United Nations of the Republic of Colombia; and Dumbarton Oaks.

Mr. Burkhalter has served as a musical consultant for the National Geographic Society in Washington, D.C.

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