Tracy Jane Comer
(Artistic Director,
Classical & Steel String Guitars,
Cello, Hammered Dulcimer, Piano)

Tracy Jane Comer is a multi-instrumentalist and award-winning singer/songwriter with a thriving solo career, apart from her current involvement with Alchemy Ensemble and other groups including Elixir Chamber Trio & Sticky Fingers (folk trio). Tracy has had many years of study in various instruments, including study at undergraduate and graduate levels. She has also been a member of several ensembles including the JART String Quartet, TNT, A Piacere, and the Romanza Trio. Many of the works performed by these ensembles were arranged or adapted by Tracy. She has also taught privaely and has years of experience of piano accompanying in school and church settings. As a singer/songwriter, Tracy has released two full-length solo recordings of her original contemporary folk music, and has received four nominations by the Madison Area Music Awards, two each for BEST ACOUSTIC ARTIST and BEST ACOUSTIC ALBUM. Her music airs on radio on four continents. See www.tracyjanecomer.com.

Tracy is also available as solo pianist, accompanist, cellist, and/or singer for your wedding or wedding or special event; see www.tracyjanecomer.com/Demos_Wedding.htm for more.

Faye Bruggink
(Clarinet)

Faye Bruggink has been playing clarinet for almost 25 years. Maintaining first chair status in Madison middle and high school bands and orchestras by taking private lessons with Nancy Mackenzie, principal clarinetist with the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, she also played in the Wisconsin Youth Symphony Orchestras (WYSO) and attended the Wisconsin School of Music Association’s Honor Band music camp.

Faye traveled to England and Scotland as part of WYSO’s Youth Orchestra under the direction of UW-Madison School of Music Professor James Smith in 1989 for the International Youth Music Festival in Aberdeen, Scotland. Continuing with the clarinet and taking up the electric bass guitar in the last decade, Faye has been playing in several small ensembles with Tracy Jane Comer since the new millennium, including a trio with Theresa Eisenbraun (flute), Alchemy Trio with Mary Driscoll (flute), and currently, Elixir Chamber Trio with Diane Madsen (piano and flute).   

JoAnne Berg (Flute)

Music has always played an important part in Joanne’s life. While still in high school, she played flute in the Rochester, Minnesota Symphony. She subsequently played in the St. Paul Symphony, the Mitchell, S.D. and Minot, N.D. Symphonies, and the Madison Community Orchestra.

At Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Madison, Joanne developed the flute choir, Flutessence, in 1989. She sings in the church’s Chancel Choir, plays handbells, and has been a member of the Madison Symphony Chorus for 35 years.

Aside from music, Joanne is an active member of Patient Partners for Arthritis, a program that uses people with arthritis to teach medical students and other health care professionals about the disease from the patient’s perspective. She and her husband George also enjoy spending time with their two married daughters and six grandchildren.

Alchemy Ensemble
PO Box 930446  Verona, WI 53593

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