Ensemble De Organographia, Philip and Gayle Neuman, specializes in the music of four distinct periods; Antiquity, Medieval, Renaissance, and the 19th century, performed on period instruments or faithful reproductions.  Their concerts are entertaining and informative, combining text and song to bring to life the musical art of the distant past.

De Organographia has presented numerous concerts, lectures and demonstrations in the US, Germany, Norway, Japan, Turkey, Greece, Israel, and Jordan since 1978. They have performed at the Getty Center, the Getty Villa Museum, the Smithsonian Institution, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Florida State University, Oberlin Conservatory, Case Western Reserve University, the Bodrum Museum, the Amman Music Conservatory, and the Regensburg Old Town Hall.  The Neumans are also instrument builders whose early woodwinds are played by Piffaro, Ciaramella, and other ensembles worldwide.  Excerpts from their recordings appear in the Norton Scores Recorded Anthology of Western Music, and the New Oxford History of Music.

The repertoire of Ensemble De Organographia is performed in a lively style based on precepts preserved in period treatises.  They perform ancient music of the Greeks, Egyptians and Sumerians on lyre, kithara, pandoura, salpinx, trichordon, aulos, psithyra, sistrum, syrinx monokalamos and tympanon.  Their medieval repertoire is played on recorders, shawm, vielle, citole, bagpipe, douçaines, and slide trumpet. Instruments used in their renaissance repertoire include recorders, cittern, bandora, violin, viols, sackbutts, carnival whistles, curtal, racketts, tartold, krummhorns, schreierpfeif, serpent, and pipe & tabor.  Their 19th century performances are played on violin, viola, flageolets, cetra (english guitar), spanish guitar, banjo, czakan (walking stick recorder), ophicleide, and serpent.

De Organographia has released seven CDs on the Pandourion label: 
 - "Music of the Ancient Greeks"
 - "Music of the Ancient Sumerians, Egyptians and Greeks"
 - "French Music of the 14th Century: Machaut and the Following Generation"
 - "Carnevale!  Music of 16th c. Italy"
 - "L'autre jour, Harp Music of the 18th & 19th centuries" 
 - "The One Horse Open Sleigh, 19th c. Christmas Music on Original Instruments"
 - "Everything is Ragtime Now".

Ensemble De Organographia and Oregon Renaissance Band CDs are available at their concerts and at www.northpacificmusic.com.

 

Gayle Stuwe Neuman, voice, strings, and winds, co-directs the Oregon Renaissance Band and is a member of the Trail Band and performs on occasion with Capella Romana and Third Angle. She teaches Music History at Marylhurst University and Renaissance Song, Recorder, and Collegium Musicum classes at the Community Music Center.  Her vocal rendition of the chorus from Euripides' "Orestes" appears on the Norton Recorded Anthology of Western Music. 

Philip Neuman, winds and strings, co-directs the Oregon Renaissance Band, is a member of The Trail Band, and has performed with the Handel & Haydn Orchestra, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, The Chicago Chorale, the American Bach Soloists, and Spiritus Collective. He teaches Music History at Marylhurst University, and Recorder and Renaissance Winds classes at the Community Music Center.