Joanna Blendulf has performed and recorded with leading early music ensembles throughout the United States. As a native of Sweden, she grew up listening to traditional folk music and was drawn to the sound of early instruments. Joanna now performs on viols and Baroque cello with the Nota Bene Viol Consort, Wildcat Viols, the Catacoustic Consort, Parthenia, the Portland Baroque Orchestra and Pacific MusicWorks. Ms. Blendulf holds performance degrees with honors from the Cleveland Institute of Music and the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University where she was awarded the prestigious Performer's Certificate for her accomplishments in early music performance.
Joanna’s summer engagements have included performances at Tage Alter Musik Regenburg, Musica Antigua en Villa de Lleyva in Colombia, the Bloomington, Boston and Berkeley Early Music Festivals, the Ojai Music Festivals as well as the Carmel and Oregon Bach Festivals. Ms. Blendulf has been on the faculties of the University of Oregon and the Berwick Academy as well as viol workshops across the country. She currently resides in Bloomington, Indiana, where she teaches Baroque cello and Viola da gamba as Associate Professor of Music at the Jacobs School of Music’s Historical Performance Department.