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Early Music America scholarship recipient Jessica Korotkin has been featured at the Montréal Baroque Festival, Vancouver Bach Festival, Bloomington Early Music Festival, Portland Bach Festival, Cleveland Bach Festival and with the American Bach Soloists Academy. She specializes in the baroque cello, and also plays a number of historical bowed bass instruments including the viola da gamba, violone, and bass violin. Based in Montreal, Ms. Korotkin has performed with ensembles such as the Broken Consort, Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal, Les Boréades de Montréal and L’Harmonie des saisons. She has been featured as a soloist on a number of albums including Mark Maarder’s Contemplation for Strings, and the Broken Consort’s Isle of Majesty. Ms. Korotkin served as a summer faculty member at the Cornish College of the Arts where she taught a baroque improvisation workshop. Before moving to Montréal to pursue a DMus at McGill in historical performance, she held a position as section cellist with the Firelands Symphony Orchestra, led by Carl Topilow. Ms. Korotkin earned her BM at the Peabody Institute and MM from Oberlin’s Historical Performance Masters Program. In addition to performing, Ms. Korotkin is an active composer who specializes in arranging historical music, and writing “new Bach”. In her spare time, she runs a Youtube channel called BeastsAndBangers which is dedicated to sharing original music videos featuring her diverse family of pets, as well as those of her friends.