Ann-Marie Barker Schwartz received a Bachelor's degree in Music Performance from Boston University, where she studied with Roger Shermont. A member of the first violin section of the Albany Symphony Orchestra from 1982 to1997, she currently performs with the Glimmerglass Opera Orchestra, and is the director and violinist of the chamber group Musicians of Ma'alwyck. In May of 2007 she received a Master of Arts in American History from the University at Albany, specializing in musical research of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century America. In 2007 she was a Cunningham Research Resident at the New York State Library, where she investigated early nineteenth-century musical activities in Albany. She has published articles in the New York State Archives Magazine, and has also presented papers at several conferences for Researching New York and Society for American Music. In June of 2006 she gave a paper and performance as part of the keynote presentation at the Conference on New York State History at Columbia University. Schwartz has taught music history at the University at Albany and Siena College, and is Adjunct Professor of Violin and Viola at Schenectady County Community College.
As impresario, Ms. Schwartz has organized several musical festivals, including the 1992 international Shostakovich Festival, featuring Maxim Shostakovich and poet Yvgeny Yevtushenko. In 2003 she partially reconstructed and then produced the 1750's opera Alfred of Sir Thomas Arne. January of 2009 saw her production of the 1783 opera The Poor Soldier of William Shield, featuring some of Glimmerglass' Young American Artists. Ms. Schwartz was also a producer for Dorian Recordings, and continues in that capacity for the award-winning baroque ensemble, Rebel.

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