Jeannette Sorrell

Jeannette Sorrell is the conductor of the Cleveland, Ohio-based historical instrument ensemble Apollo's Fire. A major figure in the U.S. early music scene, she has also been a pioneer in programming that explores the relationship between early music and American folk music. Sorrell was born in San Francisco in 1965. Her father was a critic and linguist, her mother a nurse, and both were educators. As a child, she took lessons in piano, violin, dance, and acting, practicing at first on a paper piano until the family could afford an actual instrument. The family moved when Sorr...