Photo by Arne Glassbourg DAVID GREENBERG's double career as both a baroque violinist and traditional fiddler began at an early age. During his schooling in classical violin playing (beginning at age 4), he also picked up traditional fiddling by ear from recordings. Originally from Maryland, David studied baroque violin with Stanley Ritchie at Indiana University's Early Music Institute, and moved to Canada in 1988 to join the Toronto-based baroque orchestra Tafelmusik. With Tafelmusik for 10 years, David performed orchestral, chamber, and solo roles in North America, Europe, and the Far East, and on more than forty recordings. David also plays the vielle (medieval fiddle). He won first prize at the Erwin Bodky International Early Music Competition in 1988 with the Medieval Quintet, and he recorded vielle soundtracks for Atom Egoyan's film The Sweet Hereafter. David has gained the reputation in Cape Breton music circles as being one of the few people from outside the Nova Scotia island to have achieved a fluent command of the Cape Breton music idiom. With his wife, Kate Dunlay, he published a book called Traditional Celtic Violin Music of Cape Breton, The DunGreen Collection (1996) He also recorded the solo celtic-violin music for Pit Pony, a movie about turn-of-the-century Cape Breton. David's long-time collaboration with Cape Breton pianist Doug MacPhee has recently resulted in the recording Tunes Until Dawn (Marquis, 2000). Over the last few summers David has performed and taught at numerous fiddle camps and festivals around North America and Scotland. In 1994, David founded Puirt a Baroque (pronounced poorsht-a-ba-roke), a group that connects traditional Cape Breton music with its roots in the Baroque era. Puirt a Baroque's best-selling debut recording Bach Meets Cape Breton (Marquis Classics), won the 1997 East Coast Music Award for Best Classical Album. Kinloch's Fantasy: A Curious Collection of Scottish Sonatas and Reels was released later in 1997. Return of the Wanderer followed in 1998 and received a Juno Awards nomination (1999) for Best Roots and Traditional Album (Group). David's Scottish-baroque crossover fiddling can be heard currently in the trio Ferintosh, with cellist Abby Newton and celtic harpist Kim Robertson. David plays a more eclectic mix of music with Scottish keyboard player extraordinaire, David McGuinness. With Lion, an offshoot of David McGuinness' group Concerto Caledonia, David G recorded Spring Any Day Now - Music of 18th century Scotland and elsewhere, Marquis 81325, 2003. The two Davids have also worked, along with flautist Chris Norman and others, on two Acadian recordings for soprano Suzie LeBlanc: La mer jolie, chants d'Acadie and a forthcoming CD. David performs regularly with Apollo's Fire (Cleveland's baroque orchestra), the Seattle Baroque Orchestra, BaroQuébec, and the Toronto Consort. Since moving to Halifax in 2000, David has helped to found Tempest baroque ensemble which he directs, and has collaborated with Maritime-Canadian artists including highland piper Ian McKinnon, guitarist/arranger/conductor Scott Macmillan, Symphony Nova Scotia, and harpsichordist Gordon Murray. News A new website design by Owen Greenberg is in progress. Released February 10th 2010, Chris Norman and David's Duo CD, Let Me In This Ae Night.