Mary Oleskiewicz specializes in historical flutes and flute playing. She and her duo partner, harpsichordist Dr. David Schulenberg, are available for concerts, masterclasses, lessons, and general or scholarly lectures on a wide variety of subjects, including tuning and temperament, playing pitch, pedagogy, and performing practice. In 2001 she was the first-prize winner of the National Flute Association's triennial Baroque Flute Artist competition.

Mary Oleskiewicz has appeared worldwide as a flutist and lecturer. An associate professor of music at the University of Massachusetts Boston, where she has taught since 2001, during 2006-8 she carried out research as a Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the University of the Arts in Berlin (Germany). Previously she held a joint curatorial and faculty appointment at the National Music Museum and the University of South Dakota. She received the Ph.D. in 1998 in Performance Practice from Duke University. For more about her, see her vita.

For further information about the following events, please contact her at mary.oleskiewicz AT hotmail.com.

Friday, June 12, 2009, at 10 a.m.
Music for the Palace of Sanssouci
Baroque flute sonatas by Quantz and King Frederick II ("the Great") of Prussia
With Balázs Máté, cello and David Schulenberg, harpsichord and
A full-length "fringe" event of the Boston Early Music Festival
First Church in Boston, 66 Marlborough St. (at Berkeley St.)
$12 admission ($8 students, seniors, EMA members, and BEMF pass or ticket holders)

Thursday, June 11, 2009, at 10:30 a.m.
Music From Eighteenth-Century Berlin
Baroque flute sonatas by Quantz and King Frederick II ("the Great") of Prussia
With Balázs Máté, cello and David Schulenberg, harpsichord
One of a series of half-hour concerts sponsored by Harpsichord Clearing House
Sixth Floor, Radisson Hotel, 200 Stuart Street, Boston

Saturday, May 9, 2009, at 7:30 p.m.
Music From the Court of Frederick the Great
Baroque flute sonatas by Quantz and King Frederick II ("the Great") of Prussia.
With David Schulenberg, harpsichord, and Stephanie Vial, baroque cello
House concert sponsored by TEMPO (click here for tickets and information) (on period instruments)
Durham, N.C.

Friday, April 24, 2009, at 8 p.m.
Sunday, Apr. 26, 2009, at 3 p.m.
Flute in Haydn in London
Symphonies nos. 92 ("Oxford") and 99
Scena di Berenice
Handel and Haydn Society (on period instruments)
Symphony Hall, Boston, Mass.

Sunday, April 19, 2009, at 7 p.m.
Recital: Music for Flute and Clavichord
First Church in Cambridge, Cambridge, Mass.
With David Schulenberg, clavichord
Sponsored by the Boston Clavichord Society

Friday, February 27, 2009, at 8 p.m.
Music for a Royal Flute:
Sonatas by Quantz and C. P. E. Bach From the Court of Frederick the Great
Ryan Concert Hall, Providence College, Providence, R.I.

Sunday, Apr. 22, 2007, at 3 p.m.
First flute in J. S. Bach's B-Minor Mass
Newport Baroque Orchestra, Tufts University Chamber Singers
Granoff Music Center, Medford, Mass.

Saturday, Oct. 28, 2006, at 8 p.m.
First flute in J. S. Bach's B-Minor Mass
Newport Baroque Orchestra, Providence Singers
Veterans' Memorial Arts and Cultural Center, Providence, R.I.

Friday, Oct. 6, 2006, at 10 a.m.
“Flötenmusik aus Dresden und Sachsen-Anhalt”: Sonatas by Handel, W. F. Bach, Quantz, and J.G. and C.H. Graun
Opening solo recital, baroque flute, 27th Symposium on Musical Instrument Building
Kloster Michaelstein, Germany

Sunday, May 21, 2006, at 11:30 a.m., and Monday, May 22, 2006, at 4:30 p.m.
Music of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries for flute and keyboard, in demonstrations of historical instruments during the annual meeting of the American Musical Instrument Society, in conjunction with the Galpin Society and the International Committee of Musical Instrument Museums and Collections, at the National Music Museum on the campus of the University of South Dakota in Vermillion, S.D.
Visit the website of the American Musical Instrument Society for more information.

Friday - Sunday, Jan. 13 - 15, 2006
Piccolo in Beethoven's Fifth Symphony
Handel and Haydn Society (on period instruments)
Symphony Hall, Boston, Mass.

Friday, June 17, 2005, at 10:30 a.m.
Works by C. P. E. Bach for flute and clavichord
Sponsored by the Boston Clavichord Society in conjunction with the Boston Early Music Festival
With David Schulenberg, clavichord
Goethe Institute, 170 Beacon Street, Boston, Mass.

Tuesday, May 31, 2005, 3 to 4 p.m.
Works of the Bach Family on flute and clavichord
Performed live on WGBH radio, Boston (FM 89.7), on "Classical Performances."
With David Schulenberg, clavichord
Listen anytime to the webcast at WGBH's Command Performances

Sunday, Oct. 24, 2004, at 8 p.m.
Boston Clavichord Society Concert Series
Works for flute and clavichord, including sonatas by C. P. E. Bach and
the Boston-area premier of a recently identified sonata attributed to W. F. Bach

Saturday, May 1, 2004, at 7:30 p.m.
Inaugural Meeting of the Society for Eighteenth Century Music
Cantatas and sonatas by Handel, Telemann, Quantz, W. F. Bach, and Domenico Scarlatti.
With Jeanne Fischer, soprano, and Steven Zohn, baroque flute
Keir Auditorium, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.

Saturday, Nov. 15, 2003, 12:30 p.m.
National Convention of the American Musicological Society, Hyatt Regency Hotel, Houston, Tx.
and Friday, Nov. 7, 2003, 2:40 p.m.
International Symposium: The Composers and Compositions of the Berlin Sing-Akademie
Payne Recital Hall, Rhodes College, Memphis, Tenn.
Concert: "Compositions for Flute and Keyboard from Eighteenth-Century Berlin," including the modern world premiere of the Sonata in F minor by Carl Wilhelm Glösch

Thursday, Nov. 13, 2003, 8 p.m.
Society for Eighteenth-Century Music, Hyatt Regency Hotel, Houston, Tx.
Concert: "The Newly Discovered Flute Quartets of Johann Joachim Quantz"

Sunday, Aug. 3, 2003, 5 p.m.
Unitarian Universalist Association, Provincetown, Mass.
and Sunday, July 20, 2003, 8 p.m.
Sunday Concert Series, First Congregational Church, Wellfleet, Mass.
Renaissance and Baroque flute soloist with Ensemble Suave: works by Quantz, Locatelli, and Van Eyck

Thursday, June 12, 2003, 3 p.m.
Boston Early Music Festival Concurrent Event
First and Second Church, 66 Marlborough Street, Boston, Mass.
Works for baroque flute and ensemble, including the newly discovered flute quartets of Quantz in their first modern performances (click here for more information)

Sunday, May 18, 2003, 2 p.m.
Duo recital, baroque flute and harpsichord, at the historic Shirley-Eustis House (the former colonial Massachusetts governor's mansion in Boston)
33 Shirley Street, Roxbury, Mass.
Works by Quantz, Handel, Kleinknecht, and J.S. and C.P.E. Bach

Sunday, April 13, 2003, 3 p.m.
"Serenade" Concert Series, Christ Episcopal Church, New Brighton, Staten Island, N.Y.
Duo recital, baroque flute and harpsichord
Flute works by Quantz, Kleinknecht, and J.S. Bach

Sunday, March 15, 2003, 7 p.m.
Duo recital for baroque flute and clavichord
Benefit performance for the Boston Clavichord Society

Saturday, February 15, 2003, 3 p.m.
Villa Hotel, San Mateo, Calif.
California Association of Professional Music Teachers 2003 Conference
Lecture-demonstration: "Approaching the Baroque Ensemble Repertoire"

Friday, November 1, 2002, 12:30-1:30 p.m.
Harbor Art Gallery, MacCormack Building, University of Massachusetts Boston, Dorchester, Mass.
Baroque Flute Recital: works of Quantz (Sonata in B minor, QV 1:168; and Trio Sonata in G minor, QV 2:34, with Susanna Cortesio, baroque violin) and C.P.E. Bach (Sonata in A minor for Unaccompanied Flute, W. 132, and "Hamburger" Sonata in G, W. 133)

Thursday, August 15, 2002, 11:30 a.m.
Washington Hilton (Cabinet Room), Washington, D.C.
Exhibitor's Showcase: C. P. E. Bach, Sonata in A minor for unaccompanied flute; Quantz, Caprices (baroque flutes by Simon Polak)

March 15, 2002
New School of Music, Cambridge, Mass.
Flute soloist with University of Massachusetts Boston Orchestra: Quantz, Concerto in D major, 6: Anh.1

January 16, 2002
Keio University, Hiyoshi, Japan
Lecture-concert: sonatas for Baroque flute and harpsichord by J. S. Bach (from the Musical Offering), Müthel, and Quantz; pièces by La Barre.

November 15, 2001
American Musicological Society, national convention, Hyatt Regency Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia.
Paper, 2 p.m.: "Transformative Reception: Lully and Handel at the Dresden Court"

August 18, 2001
National Flute Association, annual convention, Hyatt Regency Hotel, Dallas, Tex.
Finalists' round, Baroque Flute Artist competition (first-place winning program): sonatas for Baroque flute and harpsichord by Müthel, Quantz, and Leclair; Telemann, Fantasia II

August 16, 2001
National Flute Association annual convention, Dallas, Tex.
Semi-finalists' round, Baroque Flute Artist competition--works by La Barre, Locatelli, and J. S. Bach
Dissertation presentation, 4 p.m.--"Quantz and the Flute at Dresden: His Instruments, His Repertory, and Their Significance for the Versuch and the Bach Circle" (abstract and UMI ordering information)

April 20, 2001
America's Shrine to Music Museum, Arne B. Larson Concert Hall, 12 noon
French Love Songs of the 16th Century, with Ensemble Rafi (Renaissance flute consort)
Free admission

March 15, 2001
Colton Recital Hall, College of Fine Arts, University of South Dakota, 8 p.m.
Works for modern flute by Sancan, Dahl, and others
Free admission

February 23, 2001
America's Shrine to Music Museum, Arne B. Larson Concert Hall, 12 noon
Flute Flights of Fantasy, Brown Bag recital with David Schulenberg, harpsichord
Free admission

November 12, 2000
Senate Chamber, Old State Capitol Museum, Iowa City, Iowa, 1:30 p.m.
Early Music Iowa Concert Series
Bach at Berlin, duo-recital with David Schulenberg, harpsichord (the Trio Sonata from J.S. Bach's Musical Offering and sonatas by Quantz and C.P.E. Bach). Hear the live broadcast from the KSUI archive, July 8, 2001.

November 5, 2000
Nielsen Concert Series, Grand View College, Des Moines, Iowa
Concert with Dakota Baroque and Classic Company

October 29, 2000
Annenberg Auditorium, Snite Art Museum, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Ind., 1:30 p.m.
Bach at Berlin, duo-recital with David Schulenberg, harpsichord (program as above)

July 19, 2000
America's Shrine to Music Museum, Arne B. Larson Concert Hall, 12 noon
Governor's School Concert, works of Quantz and Bach

May 6, 2000
America's Shrine to Music Museum, Arne B. Larson Concert Hall, 8:00 p.m.
Baroque flute soloist, trio-sonatas by J S. Bach, C.P.E. Bach, and Quantz, with David Schulenberg, fortepiano

April 27, 2000
America's Shrine to Music Museum, Arne B. Larson Concert Hall, 8:00 p.m.
Virtuoso Seventeenth-Century Music from Italy, Germany, and Iberia :
Renaissance and baroque flute soloist, works of Frescobaldi, Van Eyck, and Corelli, with David Schulenberg, harpsichord

February 12, 2000
Volstroff Ballroom, South Dakota State University, Brookings South Dakota
In-Service Music Conference Flute soloist in Cécile Chaminade, Concertino, op. 107 (1910), with University of South Dakota Symphonic Band, Gary Reeves, guest conductor

February 5, 2000
Kaplan Penthouse, Lincoln Center, New York
Great Performers At Lincoln Center in conjunction with the American Bach  Society presents:
The World and Music of Johann Sebastian Bach
J.S. Bach: Partita in A minor, BWV 1013, and Sonata in E minor, BWV 1034

January 28, 2000
America's Shrine to Music Museum, Arne B. Larson Concert Hall
Virtuoso Italian Music for Harpsichord and Baroque Flute, ca.1700
Mary Oleskiewicz, traverso David Schulenberg

October 31, 1999 (Halloween Special)
America's Shrine to Music Museum, Arne B. Larson Concert Hall
Bewitching, Lamenting, and Furious music of Bach, Handel, and Quantz by Candlelight
Faculty Recital with David Schulenberg, harpsichord and Stephanie Vial, Baroque 'cello

September 9, 1999
The Northern Illinois University at Dekalb, Department of Music
Duo Recital with David Schulenberg, harpsichord

July 11, 1999
Galpin Society meeting, Reid Concert Hall, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Lecture-Demonstration: "The Quantz Flute"

June 9, 1999
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Bach and the Dresden Virtuosos (Boston Early Music Festival, concurrent event)
Concert with David Schulenberg, Harpsichord Lucy Yates, Soprano Stephanie Vial, Baroque Cello

May 13-14, 1999
Midwestern Historical Keyboard Society meeting, Dayton,OH
Concert, Oleskiewicz-Schulenberg Duo and Friends: Johann Sebastian Bach, Musical Offering; Johann Joachim Quantz, Sonata in C minor, QV 1:14; Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Trio in C major, W.149

April 6, 1999
University of South Dakota
Baroque flute soloist with USD Chamber Orchestra on period instruments: Johann Sebastian Bach, Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D, Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor