Lydia Saylor is a soprano born and raised in NYC with a love for early and contemporary music, and standard repertoire. Operatic roles include Gretel (Humperdinck Hänsel und Gretel), Morgana (Handel Alcina), Hypsipyle (Cavalli Il Giasone), and Spring and Fairy (Purcell Fairy Queen). As a soloist with orchestra she has performed Bach St. John Passion, Bach Cantata 51 (Jauchzet Gott), Copland Eight Poems of Emily Dickinson, Fauré Requiem, Mendelssohn Elijah, Vaughan Williams Magnificat, and A Festival of Psalms by Kerensa and David Briggs (world premiere). Lydia also loves working with living composers and has workshopped and premiered works by Evelyn Saylor, Bruce Saylor, Luna Composition Lab alumni, and the student composers at the Copland School of Music, where she completed her Master’s Degree.
LYDIA SAYLORSoprano
Julie-Michelle Manohar (soprano) is a classical and jazz vocalist. She completed her undergraduate studies and Graduate Diploma at the Cleveland Institute of Music, studying with Tyler Duncan and Dina Kuznetsova. She is embarking on her Master’s journey at Mannes with Laquita Mitchell. Manohar was the soprano fellow for the 2024 Emmanuel Music Bach Institute. She recently sang in \"Orpheus before Gluck\" and in Michel de La Barre’s newly discovered “La Sculpture” from Le Triomphe des arts with CWRU HPP. Manohar has performed in masterclasses led by Dame Emma Kirkby, Michael Chance, Nicholas Phan, James Taylor, and Daniel Taylor. She loves to blend activism into her concert programming to raise consciousness of issues that plague society, hoping audiences will leave ruminating on how to combat them.
JULIE-MICHELLE MANOHARSoprano
Matthew Houston is a baritone and music educator from Sadieville, Kentucky. A summa cum laude graduate of the University of Louisville, he holds bachelor’s degrees in Music Education and Vocal Performance. As a performer, Matthew has sung with esteemed ensembles like the Spoleto Festival Chorus, Ex Cathedra, Epiphoni Consort, and the University of Louisville Cardinal Singers, with whom he toured internationally across Asia, Europe, and Africa. In 2023–2024, he was selected as a U.S. Scholar with the internationally renowned ensemble Voces8, performing and recording with them. His vocal contributions have been featured in various recording projects, including North Star Music’s New Music for New Singers anthology. He currently sings with the Louisville Chamber Choir, Kentucky Bach Choir, and serves as cantor at St. Martin of Tours Catholic Church.
MATTHEW HOUSTONBaritone
Tito Jose Gutierrez is a classically trained tenor praised for his robust tenor sound, rich middle and lower registers, and efficiency in florid melismatic movement. His versatility on the operatic stage shines in both comic and dramatic roles, and in the Baroque and Classical styles. Notable roles include Alfred in Die Fledermaus, Monostatos in Die Zauberflöte, Goro in Madama Butterfly, and Orimeno in Cavalli's L’Erismena. Tito holds both a Bachelors of Music in Voice and a Master’s in Musicology from the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College. A strong advocate for early music, Gutierrez frequently performs with the New York Continuo Collective and has participated in the Baroque Opera Project at the Amherst Early Music Festival. He will also be taking part in this year's Queens College Baroque Opera Workshop. Beyond the classical stage, Gutierrez is a seasoned performer and teacher of traditional Dominican Merengue Tipico music, a passion he has cultivated for two decades
TITO JOSE GUTIERREZTenor
Baltimore based soprano Caitlin Glastonbury is an active solo performer, ensemble collaborator, and arts administrator. As a recitalist, Caitlin is passionate about featuring new music, especially by Nonbinary and Transgender composers. They frequently collaborate with current composers to commission, workshop, and premier new works, and value opportunities to contribute to this creative process. They explore the intersection between early and contemporary styles, pushing musical boundaries with storytelling. Beyond performance, Caitlin is passionate about increasing access and equity in the arts through work in education and administration. Caitlin is currently attending the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University in pursuit of a Master’s degree in Vocal Performance and Pedagogy, studying with Tony Arnold, and works for the Aspen Opera Theater and VocalARTS program in the summers.
CAITLIN GLASTONBURYSoprano
Cameron Falby (tenor) is an artist and vocalist based in Baltimore. Raised by two choir directors in central Maryland, they went on to study at Manhattan School of Music and then the Peabody Conservatory where they earned a BM in Composition. Cameron works as a freelance ensemble singer and soloist in the Baltimore-DC area, performing everything from early music to new music to folk and indie. They regularly appear with local ensembles, including the Emmanuel Choir, Mind on Fire, the National Cathedral Choir, and Baltimore Choral Arts Society; as well as ensembles abroad, including the Santa Fe Desert Chorale, Elevation, and Apollo's Fire. Former teachers include Phyllis Bryn-Julson, Michael Hersch, and Felipe Lara. Cameron is the recipient of a 2025 Workshop Scholarship from Early Music America.
CAMERON FALBYTenor
Swedish-American mezzo-soprano Olivia Ericsson is praised for her rich, full, and captivating voice. In 2025, she covered Sesto in La clemenza di Tito with dell’Arte Opera Ensemble and was a featured soloist in their German lieder concerts. She also performed with VOICES Boston for its 35th Anniversary Concert at Jordan Hall and will appear with Viva Bach Peterborough this fall. A two-time artist at Wintergreen Music Festival, she sang the alto solo in Martines’ Dixit Dominus and premiered new works for mezzo and orchestra. Olivia also made her Swedish debut as Dido in Dido and Aeneas at Drottningholms Slottsteater. Honors include first prize in the Great Composers Competition, finalist in the Audrey Rooney Vocal Competition, Boston University’s Opera Departmental Award, and the University of Michigan Merit Scholarship for musical talent and potential.
OLIVIA ERICSSONMezzo-Soprano
Baritone Brian L. Fenderson has distinguished himself with diverse roles across opera and concert stages. Recent highlights include title roles in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi and Milhaud’s Les Malheurs d’Orphée with Opera at USC, performances with The Palmetto Opera, and soloist appearances in benefit concerts and new music series. Other recent productions include Scott Davenport Richards’ \"Blind Injustice,\" Mazzoli’s \"Proving Up,\" and Humperdinck’s \"Hänsel und Gretel.\" Brian appeared in the Metropolitan Opera’s Grammy-winning production of \"Porgy and Bess\" and will return for the 2025-2026 season. He recently earned a Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of South Carolina and is excited to join the Tenet Trailblazers this season. Brian has performed at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, and internationally.
BRIAN L. FENDERSONBaritone
Morgan Morse is a writer, actor, multi-instrumentalist and Muppet impressionist (not professionally - yet). He’s worked in regional theatre everywhere from Houston to Vienna, Austria. Selected credits: Hank Williams: Lost Highway at the Ivoryton Playhouse (Hank Williams), Hester Street at Theater J (Joe Peltner), Once at the Cape Playhouse (Andrej), Southern Comfort at the Public Theater (Storyteller). The Porch on Windy Hill, a play with music that he co-wrote, premiered in 2021 and has now been produced by five theaters across the country. He’s released two singles as a singer-songwriter, makes musical comedy videos online, and is currently working on several musicals (hopefully he’ll finish one before he dies). He’s very excited to perform with TENET for the very first time!
Mentorship Program Manager Danielle Buonaiuto (she/they) has a multifaceted background as a singer, community-builder, and organizational leader. Passionate about advancing equity and diversity in the arts, and widening access to opportunities in classical music to members of marginalized groups, such as LGBTQ+ artists and artists of color, she works in the fields of choral/vocal music and new music to build organizations and programs with mission-driven policy and programs, equitable structure, and long-term sustainability.
She has been a founding member of multiple ensembles, including ChamberQUEER, a Brooklyn-based organization that exists to promote LGBTQ+ composers and performers and build inclusive spaces in classical music. In the realm of education, she founded the Encore Young Artists program at Ars Musica Chorale, led the development of community engagement programming at Musica Viva NY, and is a Met Guild Teaching Artist.
Danielle is a doctoral candidate at the Graduate Center at CUNY, and received her masters degrees in voice and musicology from Peabody Conservatory.
DANIELLE BUONAIUTOProgram Director
“A shining tenor,” (New York Classical Review) James Reese delivers dynamic performances that facilitate intimate connections between audiences and the art, with a voice the Washington Post calls “bright, agile, and full of heart.” James maintains close relationships with many of the finest period ensembles in North America, including Philharmonia Baroque, Tafelmusik, the American Bach Soloists, The Sebastians, the Washington Bach Consort and the Boston Early Music Festival. In 2023 James won a GRAMMY award as a soloist on Born, released by The Crossing, singing the music of Edie Hill. Praise for James' singing have called his performances \"captivating\" (Broad Street Review) and \"splendid.\" (San Francisco Chronicle) An active recitalist, Reese collaborates with pianist Daniel Overly in song programs, particularly lieder of Franz Schubert and Hugo Wolf. He also performs regularly with lutenist and theorbist Brandon Acker, presenting programs of French air de cour and other early song. He lives with his wife Natalie in Philadelphia.James is also Tenet’s webmaster. For feedback on this site, visit pigsalley.co
JAMES REESE
Howell Petty (they/them) is a historically trained soprano who specializes in the Italian Baroque and the vocal works of Agostino Steffani. Originally from Eugene, OR, Howell earned their B.A. at the University of Oregon and sang with the Oregon Bach Festival from 2013-2018. Howell earned their M.A. from Indiana University Bloomington, where they made frequent appearances at the Bloomington Bach Cantata Project and starred in the Unsung Opera Company’s revival of Un mariage par quiproquo (1861) by Maria Sabatier-Blot and Cathérine, ou la belle fermière (1793) by Julie Candeille. Howell is also half of NYC-based Duo Tarasque, which specializes in medieval repertoire such as trecento music and troubadour song. Howell is a student of Judith Malafronte.
HOWELL PETTYSoprano
Alyssa Weathersby is a director-choreographer and vocal performance artist. Her “compelling” and “cleverly designed” staging and choreography was most recently seen in her new production of Iolanthe at Houston’s Hobby Center, and last season in TENET’s Ariadne Unbound and Opera in the Heights’ Lucia di Lammermoor. Highlights include directing the sell-out productions of Hildegard, Reborn (Lincoln Center), Rigoletto (OH!), and L’elisir d’amore (BOC), choreographing Anything Goes (UFOMT), directing and choreographing Venus & Adonis and the regional premiere of Cupid & Death (EMAP), devising and directing an updated Così fan tutt[i] (CMU), and directing Hansel & Gretel (NEC). Alyssa has also served as staff at the international festival Prague Summer Nights (director, choreographer, fight choreographer). Alyssa is a core member and vocalist of the early music ensemble Ars Poetica. She has performed with Alkemie, Trinity Church Boston, and St. Mary’s Grand St NYC.
ALYSSA WEATHERSBYStage Director
Baritone Matthew Marinelli graduated in 2019 from Westminster Choir College with a Bachelor’s degree in Voice Performance. Matthew is equally at home in both choral and opera singing and regularly makes appearances performing in Philadelphia, New York, and New Jersey. Born in Santa Barbara, CA, Matthew grew up in San Antonio, TX and currently resides in Langhorne, PA. He can be seen regularly singing with the Lotus Project, the Princeton Singers, the Philadelphia Symphonic Choir, and directing the Hunterdon Harmonizers. Highlights of past seasons include premiering Kevin Puts’ The Hours alongside Renée Fleming and Kelli O’Hara, appearing as a chorus member in the Bradley Cooper Film Maestro, and most recently, premiering Layale Chaker’s Ruinous Gods at the Spoleto Festival.
MATTHEW MARINELLIBaritone
Avery Richards is a Brooklyn based soprano from Tampa, FL. She recently graduated from the Boston Conservatory at Berklee studying with Monique Phinney. Richards has a passion for performing works by queer and underrepresented composers and has had the honor to work closely with composers such as Spencer Winell and Murphy Severtson. Career highlights include, TERCE: A Practical Breviary, Recording The Sun Is A Star That Keeps Me Warm with The Stop Shopping Choir. Richards is an avid gardner, cooks weekly meals with their home, Swampdog Hobble, to feed the hungry in Tompkins Square Park on Saturdays and currently sings with The Stop Shopping Choir.
AVERY RICHARDSSoprano
Lauded by the Boston Musical Intelligencer for her “warm mezzo tone”, Hong Kong mezzo-soprano Jeannette Lee is a sought-after versatile performer who has been recognized at Concurso Internacional de Canto Linus Lerner, the William C. Byrd Young Artist Competition, and the George Shirley Vocal Competition.
She has appeared as a soloist in Bach’s Mass in B minor and BWV70 &130, Beethoven’s Chorale Fantasy, Britten’s Cantata Academica, Osvaldo Golijov’s Oceana, Handel’s Dixit Dominus and Messiah, and Monteverdi’s Marienvespers. She also collaborated with TwoSet Violin on their first crowdfunded classical world tour in 2017.
This season, she joins the roster of Music of the Baroque and looks forward to making her debut as the title character in Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges with Opera Box Hong Kong.
JEANNETTE LEEMezzo-Soprano
Baritone Ben Ross (they/them) is most happy when collaborating with other artists to create innovative work that inspires action in audiences. They are a member of the Contemporary Music Ensemble at Washington National Cathedral, and have sung with the choirs of the Baltimore Basilica and Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Baltimore. They have also appeared on stage with Baltimore Opera Company, Opera Company of Middlebury, Thompson Street Opera, St Pete Opera, Annapolis Opera, and Opera Delaware,.Ben was recently a Brown Loranger Fellow at SongFest and has held apprenticeships with St Pete Opera, Bach in Baltimore, Brevard Music Center, the Opera Company of Middlebury, and Cedar Rapids Opera. They hold degrees from the Peabody Institute and the University of Iowa.
BEN ROSSBaritone
NYC-based soprano Elizaveta Kozlova has performed the roles of Doralice (Il trionfo dell’onore) with Amherst Early Music Festival, Anna I (Die sieben Todsünden) with Dell’Arte Opera, Susanna (Le Nozze di Figaro) with New York Lyric Opera, Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel) with Chicago Summer Opera, Pamina (Die Zauberflöte) with Manhattan Opera Studio and Amore (L’incoronazione di Poppea) with Berlin Opera Studio. She has also appeared as a soloist in Bach’s Magnificat at the Moscow International House of Music.
Elizaveta is an avid interpreter of new music. She commissions and premieres works as part of The Chagall Project which she founded in 2020. Elizaveta Kozlova received the Marin Alsop Entrepreneurship Award at Mannes School of Music where she obtained her BM and MM Degrees.
ELIZAVETA KOZLOVASoprano
Ifeanyi Epum is noted for his warm voice, polished musicianship and versatility. Born in Lagos, Nigeria, he delved into classical music by chance; after he was mandated to join the church choir as part of requirements for confirmation. He regularly attended music workshops and had his first lesson from the church's choir master.
Owing to his passion for music, he was admitted to Delta state university, Abraka, Nigeria where he obtained a degree in music and was awarded the best undergraduate student in the faculty of arts.
As a soloist, he performed with the music society of Nigeria and Laz Ekwueme Chorale, exploring the works of Handel, Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Mendelssohn and works of Nigerian composers like Laz Ekwueme, Ayo Bankole, Sam Ojukwu. He also won the first prize for the Kingsley Inupe Idegun Award for Countertenors.
Ifeanyi finished his master's degree program in voice and opera at Longy School of Music of Bard College and regularly sing with the Cantata Singers and Boston Camerata. He is also a staff singer at Trinity Church, Boston and he was one of the selected mentees for the TENET 2021-2022 mentorship program.
IFEANYI EPUMCountertenor
Opal Clyburn-Miller enjoys both solo and ensemble singing in the Washington D.C. area. Notable engagements include: Vocal Fellow with The Thirteen, and opera chorus in a baroque double bill of Rameau’s Io and Pierre de la Garde’s Leandre et Hero (Opera Lafayette). Comfortable with solo operatic literature, Opal has played Damon in Acis and Galatea (Opera Henriette), Cornelia in Scarlatti’s Il Trionfo dell’Onore (Amherst Early Opera), and is looking forward to Linfea in Cavalli’s La Calisto with the Peabody Opera Theatre. They were also a finalist in the CS Magazine competition, performing Mozart arias. Mx. Clyburn-Miller has attended Bach Akademie Charlotte, the American Bach Soloists Academy, the Amherst Early Music Festival and the Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Institute, in addition to their studies at Peabody.
OPAL CLYBURN-MILLERTenor
Soprano Kayleigh Sprouse (she/her) finds artistic expression and liberty in both solo and ensemble performance. She received her Bachelor of Music at Christopher Newport University under Dr. Rachel Holland. She performed at the historic Bruton Parish Episcopal Church under the direction of Rebecca Davy as a featured soloist in Charpentier’s Magnificat in G and Purcell’s O sing unto the Lord a new song. She is currently pursuing a Masters of Music degree in Vocal Performance and Pedagogy at Peabody Conservatory under Ah Young Hong. Kayleigh actively performs with Peabody’s NEXT Ensemble under the direction of Dr. Beth Willer, where she has been a featured soloist for Saariaho’s Nuits, adieux, Ives’ Psalm 90, and has performed in various chamber ensemble groups. She is currently a core choral member in the Emmanuel Church Choir under the direction of Chris Lane.
KAYLEIGH SPROUSESoprano
Kev Schneider is a New Jersey-based tenor specializing in early music and small ensemble singing. Most recently, they have sung throughout the United States with the VOCES8 Scholars, premiered Layale Chaker’s opera “Ruinous Gods” at the Spoleto Festival USA, and they appeared in Netflix’s biopic, Maestro, both on screen and in the choir. They are on the roster of the Philadelphia Symphonic Choir, through which they have sung with The Philadelphia Orchestra for six seasons. An experienced church musician, Kev is in the professional choir at St. James’ Madison Avenue and at The Episcopal Church at Princeton, and they regularly sing with The St. Thomas Choir of Men and Boys and with Downtown Voices at Trinity Wall Street. Kev has performed throughout the United States and Europe, and in China and Japan. Kev studied at Westminster Choir College, where their teachers included Thomas Faracco, Margaret Cusack, and Jay Carter.
KEV SCHNEIDERTenor
With “a voice of rare beauty” (Seen and Heard International, 2022), American countertenor Cody Bowers has received national awards The Sullivan Foundation, The Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition, and The George London Foundation for Singers. In the 23-24 performance season, Mr. Bowers will make concert debuts the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, The Houston Symphony Orchestra, Apollo’s Fire Baroque Orchestra, and The Metropolitan Opera. In previous seasons, Mr. Bowers has performed at San Francisco Opera War Memorial Opera House, the Stern auditorium at Carnegie Hall, San Diego Opera, Minnesota Opera, Utah Opera, The Atlanta Opera, and is a 2019 Boston Early Music Festival YATP alumnus.
Operatic credits include, Tolomeo in Giulio Cesare in Egitto, Refugee in Dove’s Flight Federico Garcia Lorca in Ainadamar, Leonardo in El último sueño de Frida y Diego; L’Enfant in Ravel’s L’enfant et Les Sortilèges, Orlando in Handel’s Orlando, and a 2023 debut as Ruggiero in Handel’s Alcina.
CODY BOWERSCountertenor
Hailed as “a particularly fine tenor” (BBC Music Magazine), and whose voice is known for its “shining, clear, elegance” (New York Classical Review), John Ramseyer is a highly sought after soloist and chamber musician. As a soloist, John has performed with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the Cathedral Choral Society, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, the American Classical, Orchestra, New York Baroque Incorporated, The New Consort, and the four-time Grammy-nominated Clarion Choir. With Clarion Choir, John provided tenor solos for their Grammy-nominated album, Rachmaninoff: All-Night Vigil, to great acclaim. Other recent solo recording credits include the Benedict Sixteen Choir’s Frank La Rocca: Requiem for the Forgotten and the Saint Thomas Choir of Men and Boys’ No Small Wonder: Music for the Christmas Season.
JOHN RAMSEYERTenor
Chloe’s strong musicianship, vocal flexibility and range have allowed her to enjoy an exciting and varied career.
Her recent solo engagements include Couperin’s Leçons de Ténèbrae with the Saint Andrew Music Society, and a solo recital at Lehman College Art Gallery with Concerts in the Heights. She made her Alice Tully Hall debut with the American Classical Orchestra under the direction of Thomas Crawford. “Holgate wielded a clear straight tone that flexed and tapered beautifully” (New York Classical Review).
In recent seasons Chloe has been a featured soloist with the American Soloists Ensemble, Ensemble Échappé, Melius Consort, Chatham Baroque, Folger Consort, and Prototype Festival. Chloe performs regularly with Musica Sacra, Voices of Ascension, Trinity Wall Street, Virtuoso Singers and Artefact Ensemble.
A member of vocal trio ModernMedieval Voices, Chloe has performed at the Met Museum, the Cloisters, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington National Gallery, for Princeton Chamber Music Society and at Saint Thomas Church. In addition to performing, MMV give vocal masterclasses and composition workshops at universities around the country. Their debut album, The Living Word, featuring chants by Hildegard von Bingen and contemporary commissions, is now available on all streaming platforms.
In addition to her solo and choral engagements around NYC, Chloe writes and performs original music under the name Sibyl with her sister, violinist Lily Holgate. They look forward to writing new music as part of a residency at Avaloch Farm Music Institute this summer.
CHLOE HOLGATESoprano
A “crystalline tenor” (Backstage) who was praised by the New York Times as “a tenor with a focused, powerful tone” who sings with “subtlety”, Stephen is highly sought after as a soloist, ensemble member and conductor. He is a founding member and executive director of the internationally acclaimed Antioch Chamber Ensemble. Stephen is the director of Downtown Voices, a high-level choral group that is part of the Trinity Wall Street music program, focused on bringing the best amateur and professional singers in the NYC metro area together. Stephen is also the founder and artistic director of Music in the Somerset Hills, a fast-growing community music organization dedicated to providing musical experiences of the highest quality to those who live and work in New Jersey's Somerset Hills.
STEPHEN SANDSTenor
Julian Baldwin is a Hungarian-American tenor based in Silver Spring, MD. They have a unique, sensitive, and thoughtful quality to their vocal performance, and excels in bringing out the poetry and language of music in expressive ways. Their primary focuses are new music in operatic, choral, and art song repertoire. They sing with the Empire City Men’s Chorus in New York and the National United Methodist Church in Washington, DC. They also teach at the Garrett Music Academy in Dunkirk, MD and sport a wide range of expertise in acting for both classical and musical theater repertoire. On the side, Julian enjoys writing original satirical opera librettos and gives talks about writing for the voice to up and coming composers and librettists.
JULIAN BALDWINTenor
A South Florida native, soprano Jessica Montgomery recently completed her dual Masters degree at in Vocal Performance and in Voice Pedagogy at Syracuse University. Jessica received her PDPL certificate in Voice Performance in Spring 2023 at the Mannes School of Music. Her operatic credits include Fiordiligi in Cosi fan tutte, Magda in The Consul with Syracuse University opera department, and performed sceneworks as Elvira in Don Giovanni with Mannes School of Music Opera Department this past spring school year. Jessica is looking forward to working under the tutelage of the amazing artists and mentors with TENET!
JESSICA MONTGOMERYSoprano
Leah Wenger is a vocalist, musicologist, and writer based in Baltimore, Maryland. Passionate about integrating old and new, she has a vocal repertoire that spans from antiquity to the 21st century and vast musical experience in classical, church, jazz, and bluegrass traditions. She is a versatile and creative solo and ensemble performer in choral, chamber and staged settings. Recent work includes playing the role of Gloria in Handel’s Oh! Come chiare e belle, chorus roles in Blow’s Venus and Adonis, and solo excerpts of David Lang’s Love Fail. Leah’s research combines her love of arts, aesthetics, social work, and cognitive science, and she has been invited to present at Academic and Creative Arts Festivals, and the Global Arts and Psychology Seminar. Leah is pursuing her Master’s Degree at Peabody Institute in Historical Performance Voice and Musicology, where she performs with vocal ensembles under the direction of Beth Willer, and Renaissance Ensembles under Mark Cudek. Originally from Harrisonburg, Virginia, she earned her BS in Vocal Performance and Psychology from Eastern Mennonite University.
LEAH WENGERSoprano
Jonathan Lawlor is a baritone whose love of all genres of vocal music from Baroque chamber music to contemporary experimental music informs his every performance. He has experience both in early music, including well-known Baroque groups like Boston Baroque, Emmanuel Music, and Marsh Chapel, and in opera, including the young artist programs at Opera Maine and Music Academy of the West. Jonathan received his bachelor of music from the New England Conservatory and received his master’s degree from Bard Conservatory’s Vocal Artist Program. Upcoming performances include a recital of German and English song repertoire as a part of White Plains’ Downtown Music concert series on February 21st, 2024.
JONATHAN LAWLORBaritone
Mezzo-soprano Marcella Astore is currently pursuing a Professional Study Diploma in Voice from Mannes School of Music, where she studies with Amy Burton and Joshua Greene. She also holds an MM in Voice from Mannes, where she performed as Ruth in Nico Muhly's Dark Sisters and participated in the choral workshop of David T. Little's Agamemnon. Previously, she received her BM in Vocal Performance from Peabody Conservatory, where she received the George Woodhead Prize in Voice. Highlights from her time at Peabody include performing as Bianca in Puccini's La Rondine and a soloist in Schubert's Mass No. 2 in G Major, along with being a founding member of Baltimore-based vocal ensemble Ember Vocals. Aside from music, Marcella is a published author in the field of lettering and is passionate about teaching hand lettering and modern calligraphy.
MARCELLA ASTOREMezzo-Soprano
Bass-Baritone Joe Damon Chappel holds degrees from the Eastman School of Music and Brooklyn College. Based in New York City, he has been a longtime member of many of the city’s preeminent choral and liturgical ensembles, including Bach Vespers at Holy Trinity, Bach at One, and as a founding member of the Grammy-nominated Tiffany Consort, Tenet’s predecessor. Recent credits include solo appearances at Opera Omaha (Flight - Officer), Tulsa Opera (Salome - Fifth Jew), the Miami Music Festival (Das Rheingold - Fafner, Die Zauberflöte - Sprecher), Bach at One’s Montreal tour, and Trinity Wall Street’s annual Messiah performances. A strong advocate for social justice, Mr. Chappel has also produced various fundraising concerts, including for the New York Civil Liberties Union, and was the co-creator and co-producer of The Open Gates Project, a concert series sponsored by GEMS, dedicated to elevating artists of color in early music as well as bringing early music to more diverse audiences.
JOE CHAPPEL
Nell Snaidas is an American-Uruguayan Grammy-nominated soprano, whose specialization in the Early Music of Latin America/Spain, and Historical Gesture, has led her to perform, curate and direct throughout the Americas and Europe. Favorite projects include playing Carnegie Hall with El Mundo, (Archivo de Guatemala) performing several roles with the Boston Early Music Festival and starring internationally as Christine in The Phantom of the Opera, Nell’s work has been seen at NYU, Queens College, Indiana University, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Baroque Chamber Orchestra of Colorado. Nell’s award-winning curations have been called “revelatory” (BBC Music Magazine) “innovative and brilliant” Cool Cleveland. Nell is also the co-Artistic Director of the NYC series GEMAS: Early Music of the Americas is a project of the Americas Society and GEMS.
NELL SNAIDASGuest Mentor
Atlanta countertenor, Bryce Elliot is known for his unbridled passion and curiosity. In terms of Bryce’s voice, he has been told it is striking in its bright clear vibrancy and ethereal quality as well as having an impressive lower register. He is currently pursuing his senior year at Peabody Institute at the Johns Hopkins University under the direction of Ah Young Hong. In 2020, Bryce performed as Prince Athamus in Handel's Semele. This opera was performed virtually during his freshman year at the Peabody Institute of Music. The year after, he took part in the Baltimore Concert Opera playing the role of Tobey The Mute Boy in Carlo Mennotti’s The Medium. In 2021, Bryce Elliot performed the alto solo in Bach’s cantata No. 12 with the Baltimore Baroque Band. He also has performed countless solos for various churches in Georgia and North Carolina.He has performed, with Metropolitan Opera star soprano Indra Thomas twice as an artist in residence with the Atlanta Boy Choir. Bryce, in 2022, was a part of A Celebration For Women in the Bible featuring composer Tristan Latchford. In 2023 he both Performed as Cupid in Venus and Adonis by John Blow as well as the alto soloist in Welcome all Pleasures by Henry Purcell.
BRYCE ZIMMERMANCountertenor
Tetra Ronsdotter (she/her), a bass-baritone from Atlanta, Georgia, is proud to be starting her operatic and ensemble singing career with a focus in early music. She graduated from Yale University in 2019 with a degree in Music Composition, but having performed with the Yale Baroque Opera Project, Amherst Early Music Festival, and Baroque Opera Workshop at Queens College over the past two years, Tetra has discovered her deep love for early music performance. She strongly believes that her low voice does not contradict her gender expression, but rather expands it. When she's not on stage, Tetra can be found snuggling her cat, Cow, playing guitar and singing with friends, or making new connections.
TETRA RONSDOTTERBass-Baritone
Anna Willson is a singer from Yakima Washington specializing in early music and ensemble singing. She has lived in New York City since 2017, and is an alumnus of Whitworth University and The Boston Conservatory. Most recent musical engagements include singing with The St. Bartholomew’s Choir, Marble Collegiate Church Choir, Polyhymnia Early Music, The New York Continuo Collective, and Canterbury Choral Society. She also sings in an English renaissance duo with her lute teacher, Garald Farnham. In addition to performing, Anna has taught piano and voice lessons for 12 years. She is also a bookkeeper for The Lute Society of America. She is also director of operations for PROJECT: ENCORE, a project aimed at promoting new choral works.
ANNA WILLSONMezzo-Soprano
Katherine Doe Morse completed her M.M in Classical Performance at the Aaron Copland School of Music in 2019, under the tutelage of Sherry Overholt. She recently made debuts as Dame Carruthers in Yeomen of the Guard and Angelina in Rossini’s La Cenerentola. Prior to the pandemic, Katy made several role debuts including Mercedes in Bizet’s Carmen with Regina Opera, the Secretary in Menotti’s The Consul with Encompass New Opera Theater, and Sesto in Mozart's La clemenza di Tito with New York Opera Forum. As a concert singer she has performed as the mezzo/alto soloist in Bernstein's Symphony No. 1 \"Jeremiah\", alto soloist in Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, Bernstein’s Songfest, Morton Feldman’s Rothko Chapel, Bach's St. John's Passion, and Mozart’s Requiem. She has received additional training at Lyric Opera Studio Weimar, Baroque Opera Workshop at Queens College, Cindy Sadler’s DIY Summer Program, Westchester Summer Vocal Institute, and the Rethinking Bach International Performer’s Workshop in Kanagawa, Japan. She is a member of the award-winning vocal ensemble C4 and a teaching artist with the Metropolitan Opera Guild and Opera on Tap.
KATHERINE DOE MORSEMezzo-Soprano
Garrett Medlock is a tenor and composer with a passion for opera, choral music, and early music. They have been featured at opera venues across the country, including Santa Fe Opera, the Ohio Light Opera, and Utah Opera. Favorite roles include Tamino in Die Zauberflöte, Albert in Albert Herring, Nemorino in L’Elisir d’amore, and Fenton in Falstaff. In the choral sphere, Garrett has performed with Albuquerque’s Quintessence, Salt Lake City’s Cathedral of the Madeleine, and the Utah Symphony Chorus. Garrett obtained their Bachelor’s degree from the University of Utah and recently completed their Master’s studies at the University of New Mexico. Garrett lives in Miami with their husband, Dylan, and cat, Alanis, and finds joy in cooking, baking, and exploring the outdoors.
GARETT MEDLOCKTenor/Composer
Genevieve McGahey is a versatile performer, concert producer and scholar. Passionate about community building, Genevieve writes and organizes around issues affecting musicians and is the founder of the DC Singer Collective, a group dedicated to producing high quality music in a collaborative and supportive environment. Genevieve enjoys performing a wide range of repertoire, and has appeared with groups including Post-Classical Ensemble and the Washington Bach Consort. Genevieve earned her M.M in Vocal Performance and Pedagogy from Westminster Choir College and her B.A with highest honors in History from Swarthmore College where she completed award-winning research on French composer Germaine Tailleferre. She has spent over twenty years performing as a choral musician, including early education at the Washington National Cathedral.
GENEVIEVE MCGAHEYSoprano
NYC-based soprano Elizaveta Kozlova has performed the roles of Susanna (Le Nozze di Figaro) with New York Lyric Opera, Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel) with Chicago Summer Opera, Pamina (Die Zauberflöte) with the Manhattan Opera Studio and Amore (L’incoronazione di Poppea) with the Berlin Opera Studio. She has also appeared as a soloist at the Moscow International House of Music.
Elizaveta is an avid interpreter of new music. She commissions and premieres works as part of The Chagall Project which she founded in 2020. Elizaveta has also performed several works by Valentin Silvestrov at concerts dedicated to fundraising for Ukraine in 2022 and 2023. Elizaveta Kozlova received the Marin Alsop Entrepreneurship Award at Mannes School of Music where she obtained her BM and MM Degrees.
Soprano Rachel Doehring Jackson has been praised for her “absolutely loveable, endearing...remarkable” performances (Seen and Heard Intl.). She opens the 2023-24 season with a concert of American song entitled Love After 1950 at Chamberfest Brown County. In recent seasons, Jackson has appeared as a soloist with the Albany Symphony and has premiered new works with Experiments in Opera and at the Morgan Library in NYC. Excerpts from her latest self-produced recital, Songs of Devotion: Music for the New Year, aired on WCNY Radio’s Fresh Ink. Jackson holds degrees from Carnegie Mellon University (BFA 16’) and the Bard College Conservatory (MM 18’), where she was mentored by the famed soprano Dawn Upshaw.
RACHEL DOEHRING JACKSONSoprano
Praised as \"An operatic showman ...with an amazing bright sound -- the voice of a star in the making.\" Iván Maria Feliciano Jr. is a countertenor of Afro-Puerto Rican descent, and an anticipated graduate of the Aaron Copland School of Music. Feliciano recently appeared, directed, and revived the opera La Gara Della Quattro Stagione by the late composer Giovanni Bononcini. Feliciano has also appeared as a featured artist in a concert entitled C3: Countertenors, Continuo, and a Consort of Viols. presented as part of the Gotham Early Music Scene's Open Gates Project. Feliciano was also the recent countertenor soloist in Leonard Bernstein's Chichester Psalms with the Queens College Choral Society and a soprano soloist for Handel's seasonal oratorio Messiah. Feliciano placed as a finalist of the annual Bach competition with Queens College spring 2023. Iván Maria has a profound adoration for eary music and aspires to be a Baroque vocal specialist and historian. One of his avid pursuits is transcribing obscure Baroque repertoire suitable for the wide range of his full, rich, dramatic voice.
IVÁN MARIA FELICIANO JR.Countertenor
Soprano Ciera Cope is a chamber musician passionate about early and new music. She holds an MM in Vocal Performance from Longy School of Music and a BM in Vocal Performance from Middle Tennessee State University. She has performed the roles of Filia in Carissimi’s Jephte, Euridice and La Tragedia in Caccini’s Euridice, and Zweite Dame in Die Zauberflöte, Zweite Zofe in Zemlinsky’s rarely performed opera Der Zwerg, Peitho in Kate Soper’s Here Be Sirens Suite, and Amor in L’incoronazione di Poppea. She has sung with Boston-based Caardus and Peridot Duo and has performed and premiered several chamber works. She currently sings with Downtown Voices at Trinity Wall Street. In January 2024, she will perform in the premiere Heather Christian’s work Terce at Prototype Festival.
CIERA COPESoprano
Evan Blaché is a non-binary choral composer and choral singer based out of San Marcos, Texas. Never known to mince words, Evan has composed a lot of work combining the classical style with topics of social justice. They are currently in their undergraduate program at Texas State University for their B.M in Music Studies and Composition while singing in the Texas State University Chorale under the direction of Joey Martin and studying composition with Dr. Jack Wilds. While at Texas State, Evan has been commissioned by various groups, including Conspirare, led by Craig Hella Johnson and Vocem Cordis, led by Texas State Graduates, Nathan Thompson & Christian Clow. Evan currently sings in the groups, Tinsel Singers, Inversion Ensemble, and is an Insight Fellow in Conspirare.
EVAN BLACHÉComposer/Bass
Anna Aistova embarked on her musical journey at the age of six, focusing on piano studies, and quickly rose to become a soloist in the prestigious children's choir of Radio&TV in Saint Petersburg, Russia. She holds degrees in Voice from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and a Master's in Opera from the Mannes School of Music. Her previous projects encompassed choir collaborations with the Mariinsky and Mikhailovsky theaters, solo performances with the Folk Orchestra of Saint Petersburg, as well as leading roles in opera productions at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Opera, including memorable portrayals of Josephine in The Comedy on The Bridge, La Feè in Cendrillon, and Norina in Don Pasquale, among others. Recent highlights of 2022 include Soprano Solo in Mahler’s 4th symphony with the Mannes Orchestra and the leading part of Calisto in La Calisto with the Mannes Opera. She eagerly anticipates her debut with the New Rochelle Opera in June 2023, where she will play Adele in Die Fledermaus. Anna was a recipient of the Director’s Award of the James Toland Vocal Competition in 2021 and a full ride scholarship from The Mannes School of Music in the same year. in March 2023, she had the honor of performing the national anthem at the Naturalization Ceremony held at the Southern District of NY court.
ANNA AISTOVASoprano
Bass-baritone Dashon Burton is an internationally established classical singer and educator. As an artist of unparalleled compassion, he hopes to bring the love of music to future generations, by any means necessary. A multiple award-winning singer, Burton won his second Grammy Award for Best Classical Solo Vocal Album in March 2021 for his performance in Dame Ethyl Smyth’s The Prison with The Experiential Orchestra (Chandos). As an original member of the groundbreaking vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth, he won his first Grammy Award for their inaugural recording comprising new commissions.Dashon Burton received a bachelor of music degree from Oberlin College, and a master of music degree from Yale University. He is an assistant professor of voice at Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music.
DASHON BURTON
Paul Chwe MinChul An is a Korean muti-disciplinary bass singer. He has originated over 20 operatic, theatrical, film and concert roles, in addition to performing over 60 roles in the canon in a career spanning two decades. As an operatic basso cantante, he has performed works from Monteverdi, Mozart, Verdi and Puccini to Meredith Monk with local, regional, and national companies such as LA Opera, San Diego Opera, Chicago Opera Theater, Nashville Opera, Opera Santa Barbara, Orlando Opera, PROTOTYPE Festival, and Long Beach Opera. As an oratorio soloist and chamber musician, he has performed the works of early to contemporary masters with such groups as the NY Philharmonic, LA Philharmonic, the Choir of Trinity Wall Street, Ensemble VIII, and Tenet in venues ranging from school gyms to Carnegie Hall. Adjacent to the stage, Paul Chwe MinChul An is working to carve out space for underrepresented artists. As a consultant to performing arts organizations, member of the Queens Voice Lab, and board member of Overtone Industries, he is joining other beautiful and powerful voices to deconstruct/build, and raise up institutions and communities.
PAUL AN
Camilla Tassi is a NYC-based projection designer & musician from Florence, Italy. Design credits include Falling Out of Time (Carnegie Hall), King Arthur (Lincoln Center, Juilliard415), SEACHANGE (Miami City Ballet), The Extinctionist (Heartbeat Opera), Adoration (BMP & LA Opera), SANDRA (TheaterWorks Hartford), Elijah Reimagined (Kennedy Center, Washington Chorus), Alcina (Yale Opera), Iphigénie en Tauride (Boston Baroque), Lehman Trilogy (Capital Rep), Trionfi (TENET & Piffaro), and Malhaar (Walt Disney Concert Hall, LA Master Chorale). Broadway: Illinoise, Associate. She has sung in the NY Phil chorus and with the Yale Schola. Tassi holds degrees in computer science, music, and projection design. Burry Fredrik design award and Robert L. Tobin Director-Designer opera prize recipient. Yale, MFA.
CAMILLA TASSIProjections
Recognized for her “velvety legato and embracing warmth of sound” (Washington Classical Review) and “lyric-mezzo of uncommon beauty” (The Washington Post, Christmas) mezzo-soprano Kristen Dubenion-Smith enjoys an active performing career in oratorio and sacred vocal chamber music, specializing in music of the medieval, renaissance and baroque eras. Ms. Dubenion-Smith performs works by Bach regularly with the Washington Bach Consort, the Washington National Cathedral Baroque Orchestra, The Clarion Choir, and the Dryden Ensemble as well as being a past American Bach Soloists Academy participant and Virginia Best Adams Fellow at the Carmel Bach Festival. In the spring of 2023, she joined The English Concert and The Clarion Choir for an International tour (UK, Spain, L.A., Berkeley) of Handel’s Solomon with The English Concert which ended at Carnegie Hall in New York City. She also sings on the 2021 Grammy winning recording of The Prison by Ethel Smyth with The Experiential Choir and Orchestra. She can be heard on commercial recordings with The Folger Consort, Apollo’s Fire, Cathedra, and Via Veritate. Originally from Michigan, Ms. Dubenion-Smith attended Alma College (Bachelor of Music) before moving to Maryland to complete her studies at The Peabody Conservatory of Music (Master of Music) in Baltimore.
KRISTEN DUBENION-SMITHMezzo-soprano
Praised by The New York Times for its “incisive, agile strength,” Downtown Voices is a semiprofessional choir conducted by Stephen Sands. Downtown Voices has performed works by Beethoven, Brahms, Rachmaninoff, Pärt, Webern, Ginastera, Janáček, James MacMillan, and Philip Glass, in addition to premiering Spire and Shadow by Zachary Wadsworth, a commission for the 250th anniversary of St. Paul’s Chapel. The choir made their Carnegie Hall debut in 2022 with the Buffalo Philharmonic conducted by JoAnn Falleta for the Lukas Foss Centennial Celebration. Other recent performances include Orff's Carmina Burana at The Ross Farm, Beethoven’s 9th Symphony at the Church of St. Paul & St. Andrew, and at Trinity the choir has performed Compline By Candlelight as well concerts titled Anthems, Last Words, and the Lux Aeterna. Downtown Voices has been featured with Andrea Bocelli and can be heard on the epic recording Philip Glass: Symphony No. 5 released by Orange Mountain Music.
DOWNTOWN VOICES
Soprano Sherezade Panthaki has developed ongoing collaborations with many of the world’s leading interpreters including Nicholas McGegan, Mark Morris, and Masaaki Suzuki. Celebrated particularly for her early music expertise, recent seasons have included returns and debuts with Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Bach Collegium Japan, the Boston Early Music Festival, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, Houston Symphony, Mark Morris Dance Group, and NDR Hannover Radiophilharmonie, Germany. She tours frequently with New York City's Parthenia Viol Consort, and is a founding member/ artistic advisor of the Kaleidoscope Vocal Ensemble celebrating racial diversity in early and new music. She is equally at home in the oratorios of Brahms, Mendelssohn, Poulenc, Carl Orff, and more. Born and raised in India, she holds a Masters degree in Voice Performance from the University of Illinois, and an Artist Diploma from the Yale School of Music. Ms. Panthaki presents vocal masterclasses across the United States, and currently teaches voice lessons at Yale University.
SHEREZADE PANTHAKISoprano
Phoebe Jevtović Rosquist has appeared with early music ensembles Waverly Consort, Voices of Music, American Bach Soloists, and Cappella Artemisia. She has sung as Despina in Mozart’s Così fan tutte, Filia in Carissimi’s Jephte, several Virtues in Hildegard’s Ordo Virtutum, and Josephine in H.M.S. Pinafore. Among her varied collaborations are medieval groups Vajra Voices and Cançonièr and art song with celebrated pianists Robert Thies and Aquiles Morales. Phoebe has also sung Balkan and folk music with Kitka and VOCO. Her critical edition of 17th-century solo songs by Tarquinio Merula was published by A&R Editions, and she has been recorded on the Naxos, Nonesuch, Delos, Dorian, Decca and Sony record labels. She is currently pursuing an M.M. in Choral Conducting at U.S.C.
PHOEBE JEVTOVIĆ ROSQUISTSoprano
Grammy® and Latin Grammy® nominee, mezzo-soprano Laura Mercado-Wright, has been lauded by The New York Times as “superb”, “dramatically astute” and “stunningly agile”. She performs and records regularly with Conspirare, and has appeared with other acclaimed ensembles including The Crossing, Seraphic Fire, Vocal Arts Ensemble, and Artefact Ensemble. Notable appearances include Charles Wuorinen’s cantata It Happens Like This with The MET Chamber Ensemble at Carnegie Hall, and the west coast premiere of Toshio Hosokawa’s one-woman opera, The Raven at the Los Angeles International New Music Festival. Ms. Mercado-Wright has appeared as a soloist with the symphony orchestras of Austin, Fort Worth, Dallas, the Boston Pops with Keith Lockhart, and the New York Philharmonic. In addition to performing, Laura has been composing since 2020, and has premiered several of her pieces with VAMP, a female vocal quintet based in Austin, Texas.
LAURA MERCADO-WRIGHTMezzo-soprano
Elena is a Connecticut girl who grew up in the RSCM girls choir of Christ Church Greenwich. She also started cello in elementary school. After finishing Westminster Choir College she left for California for a masters in Choral and Orchestral conducting. Hating the weather and the lack of choral opportunities, she packed up her unused wool sweaters and came back to New England where she started her pro career at Saint Barnabas and with the New York Choral Artists. It was then onto Musica Sacra, Pro Arte, Virtuoso Singers, American Classical Orchestra, Skylark, Artefact and many others. Elena is a member of The Choir of Trinity Wall Street, leads the Park Slope Singers and is the rad mother of 2 amazing children.
ELENA WILLIAMSONSoprano
Mezzo-soprano Clara Osowski, who sings “from inside the music with unaffected purity and sincerity” (UK Telegraph), is an active soloist and chamber musician. Known for her particular excellence in Lieder, she was awarded the Schubert Prize at the Wigmore Hall Song Competition in 2017 and will be releasing an album of Schubert Lieder this year. Concert highlights include Mendelssohn's Elias with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde for chamber orchestra with Salastina Los Angeles, debuts with Minnesota Opera (Albert Herring), Music of the Baroque, Kansas City Symphony, Delaware Symphony Orchestra, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, and the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. In addition to performing, Clara serves as the Artistic Director of Source Song Festival.
CLARA OSOWSKIMezzo-Soprano
Soprano Margot Rood performs a wide range of repertoire. Recent and upcoming appearances include those with Cleveland Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, New World Symphony, Seraphic Fire, A Far Cry, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Rhode Island Philharmonic, Blue Heron, Lorelei Ensemble, Tenet, Cape Symphony, Bach Collegium San Diego, Grand Harmonie, as well as onstage with Boston Early Music Festival, Monadnock Music, and St. Petersburg Opera. Ms. Rood is the recipient of prestigious awards including the St. Botolph Emerging Artist Award (2015), the Lorraine Hunt Lieberson Fellowship at Emmanuel Music (2015), and The American Prize (3rd place, 2016). Her debut solo recording with composer Heather Gilligan, Living in Light, is now available from Albany Records.
MARGOT ROODSoprano
Matthew Newhouse, tenor, brings power, tenderness, and evocative story-telling to his performances. He was recently named a Fellow for the Virginia Best Adam’s Masterclass at the Carmel Bach Festival. Recent soloist engagements include Evangelist and Tenor Soloist in J.S. Bach’s Weihnachtsoratorium (Yale Schola Cantorum), Mozart’s Requiem (Ars Nova Chorale), Haydn’s Schöpfungsmesse (Juilliard 415), and Emmanuel Music’s cantata series. A frequent professional chorister, Matthew has collaborated with The Thirteen, Apollo’s Fire, and Voces8. Matthew is the winner of the Semper Pro Musica competition where he gave his Carnegie Hall premiere. In academia, Matthew’s work includes researching and promoting African-American and Nordic vocal repertoire. Matthew holds a Bachelor of Music from Baylor University and is completing his Master of Music degree at Yale’s Institute of Sacred Music.
MATTHEW NEWHOUSETenor
Sarah Shapiro is currently in her first year at Yale, pursuing a Master of Music in Choral Conducting. Originally from New York City and the Chicago suburbs, she was brought up in an Episcopal church choir through the Royal School of Church Music before attending St. Olaf College, where she holds a Bachelor of Music Education and K-12 teaching licensure. Sarah has attended a variety of summer music programs, including Aspen Music Festival, Interlochen Arts Camp, the Conductors Retreat at Medomak, and Amherst Early Music Festival. She has also been composing choral music for a decade and was recently named a National Finalist for the American Prize in Choral Composition for four of her pieces.
SARAH SHAPIROVocalist
Mr. Andrew Chukwuka Egbuchiem came into limelight as an artist in residence for the Singers of United Land Project between December 2013 and June 2014 touring through the east half of the United States, Kenya, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Poland, and Latvia. Andrew made his opera debut with the Brooklyn Opera Works in 2016 under the tutelage of Lina Tetriani performing as the Sorceress in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas and participated in the Amherst Early Music Festival’s Erismena by Cavalli in 2017. Andrew has been a regular soloist with the Brooklyn Philharmonia Chorus in New York City. Amongst Andrew awards is a third prize at the New York Classical Music Artists International Voice Competition 2019. Andrew was in the Chicago Summer Opera’s production of Handel’s opera Silla (as Silla) August 2021 and most recent performance was as a soloist in The Constitution (Orchestra performance), a secular oratorio by Benjamin Yarmolinksy in May 2022 in New York.
ANDREW EGBUCHIEMCounter-tenor
Described by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution as a dignified and beautiful singer, bass-baritone Paul Max Tipton performs and records in opera, concert, and chamber music throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. In 2023-2024 he debuted at Seattle Symphony in Bach’s St. John Passion as Christus, returned to Tokyo for Handel’s Messiah with Bach Collegium Japan, and sang the role of Jupiter in John Eccles’ Semele with American Baroque Opera, being called “gloriously godly” by Scott Cantrell at the Dallas Morning News.
Recent seasons include Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 with Bach Collegium Japan and Masato Suzuki for a debut in Tokyo, covering the title role in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro at Handel and Haydn Society under Raphaël Pichon, Haydn’s Creation with Pacific Symphony and Robert Istad, Christus in Bach’s St. Matthew Passion for a debut at Spoleto Festival USA, the role of Street Singer in Bernstein’s Mass in a collaboration between Austin Opera & Austin Symphony Orchestra under Peter Bay, the role of Archibald Grosvenor in Gilbert & Sullivan’s Patience with Odyssey Opera & Gil Rose, and Plutone in Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo with Göteborg Baroque, in addition to regular collaborations with Conspirare, Washington Bach Consort, True Concord, Kinnara, and Tenet Vocal Artists. Recent recordings include the role of Christus in Bach’s St. John Passion and the Mass in B Minor with Cantata Collective and Nic McGegan for Avie Records, the role of Phoebus in Bach’s Cantata No. 201, Geschwinde, ihr wirbelnden Winde with Dana Marsh & the Washington Bach Consort for the Acis label, and solo bass cantatas by Nicolaus Bruhns with Masaki Suzuki at Yale Institute of Sacred Music for BIS Records, along with several releases with Cut Circle & Jesse Rodin for Musique en Wallonie.
Mr. Tipton trained on full fellowship at the University of Michigan School of Music in Ann Arbor, being mentored by mezzo-soprano Luretta Bybee, tenor George Shirley, and collaborative pianist Martin Katz. He is a 2010 graduate of the Yale University Institute of Sacred Music in Oratorio & Early Music, studying with tenor James Taylor. In 2012 he was made a Lorraine Hunt Lieberson Fellow at Emmanuel Music in Boston. Mr. Tipton resides in New York City.
PAUL MAX TIPTONBass-baritone
Grammy-nominated mezzo-soprano Laura Pudwell has established a superb reputation through her performances in London, Paris, Salzburg, Houston, Vienna, and Boston. Ms. Pudwell sings a vast repertoire ranging from early music to contemporary works, and has received international acclaim for her recordings. She is best known in Boston for her appearances in operas presented by the Boston Early Music Festival. A frequent guest of many national and international presenters, she has had the privilege of working with many outstanding conductors, including Hans Graf, Hervé Niquet, Andrew Parrott, Ivars Taurins, David Fallis, Brian Jackson, John Sinclair, Bernard Labadie, Lydia Adams, Howard Dyck and Robert Cooper. On the opera stage, Ms. Pudwell has performed across Canada with such companies as Opera Atelier, the Calgary Opera, Vancouver Early Music, and Festival Vancouver, as well as with the Houston Grand Opera and the Cleveland Opera. Her many roles include Cornelia (Giulio Cesare), Marcelina (Le Nozze di Figaro), Nerone and Arnalta (L’Incoronazione di Poppea), Mrs. Quickly (Falstaff), and Dido/Sorceress (Dido and Aeneas), which also was an award-winning recording performed by Ms. Pudwell in Paris. She is a regular participant in many festivals, including Festival Vancouver, the Ottawa Chamber Music Festival, the Banff Summer Festival, the Elora Festival, the Boston Early Music Festival, the Grand River Baroque Festival, and the WinterPark Bach Festival in Orlando. Ms. Pudwell appears regularly with the Toronto Consort, and is a frequent guest soloist with Tafelmusik, the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, the Toronto Chamber Choir, Symphony Nova Scotia, the St. Lawrence Choir, Le Concert Spirituel, Chorus Niagara, and the Menno Singers. Ms. Pudwell lives in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario with her husband and two children.
LAURA PUDWELLMezzo-soprano
Countertenor Christopher Lowrey has now established himself in the top flight of young countertenors on both the opera stage and concert platform. In the American school, with a British accent, he balances the best elements of these diverse traditions, merging directness of expression and beauty of tone with precision and agility. Now regularly working alongside many of the world’s leading opera houses, orchestras, and festivals, his career takes him throughout Europe, the USA, and Australasia.
Christopher sings with a wide range of distinguished companies around the world, including The Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera House, Carnegie Hall, Glyndebourne Festival, BBC Proms, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Wigmore Hall, Philharmonie de Paris, Barbican Centre, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Teatro Real, La Fenice, Aix-en-Provence Festival, Academy of Ancient Music, Boston Early Music Festival, Opéra Royal de Versailles, Pinchgut Opera, English National Opera, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, English Concert, Bach Collegium Japan, Ensemble Pygmalion, Boston Baroque, Göttingen Handel Festival, and Voices of Music.
This season, alongside solo recital appearances in New York and Madrid, he makes his debuts at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, reprising his role as Guildenstern in Brett Dean's Hamlet, and at Oper Frankfurt, singing Medoro in Handel's Orlando. He will also help create the modern-era debut of an ancient work by Antonio Draghi, Il dono della vita eterna, which will tour extensively throughout Europe. Additionally, he makes his debuts with Tafelmusik singing Handel's Messiah, and with Il Groviglio singing the title role of Handel's Poro.
Recent performances include the title role of Handel's Solomon with Millennium Orchestra, the title role of Giulio Cesare with Forma Antiqva, Pergolesi Stabat Mater with B'Rock Orchestra, and Bach's Trauerode with the Gulbenkian Orchestra. His growing catalogue of recordings includes Handel's Rodelinda (Bertarido) from the Göttingen Handel Festival, Pergolesi's Stabat Mater with Les Talens Lyriques, and a disc of Monteverdi arias and madrigals with Cappella Mediterranea.
Christopher is also active as a conductor of choral music. He is the founder and director of Ensemble Altera, a leading American chamber choir based in Rhode Island. Upcoming plans for the group include a boldly reimagined chamber version of Handel's Messiah, and a program celebrating illumination in the natural and metaphysical world, Dazzling Light. Altera's debut album, The Lamb's Journey, is due out in 2023.
CHRISTOPHER LOWREYCountertenor
Rebecca Grabarchuk is Russian-American soprano born and based in Brooklyn, NY. She recently completed her Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance at Binghamton University. While an undergraduate, she performed such varied roles as Papagena in Die Zauberflöte and Lord Tiger in the contemporary children’s opera Monkey and Francine, as well as collaborated with composers and frequently premiered new works, including the title role in a new opera alongside the Momenta Quartet. She is also passionate about early music, having participated in the Chorworks Young Artist Program at Duke University Chapel last summer. An avid ensemble singer, she was most recently seen in the world premiere of Zanaida Robles’s Mass in E Minor with the Southern Tier Singers Collective, with Music at Co-Cath in their performance of Rachmaninoff’s All-Night Vigil, and she regularly sings with the Marble Choir.
REBECCA GRABARCHUKSoprano
Daniel Haakenson is a promising young countertenor from Minneapolis, Minnesota. He recently graduated from St. Olaf College with a Bachelor’s of Music cum laude in Vocal Performance where he studied with Tammy Hensrud and Dr. Tracey Engleman. At St. Olaf, Daniel sang in the Viking Chorus and Chapel Choir under Tesfa Wondemagegnehu, and in the Chamber Singers under Dr. Therees Hibbard, and participated in the Collegium Musicum Baroque Ensemble. Daniel is fortunate enough to have sung for audiences in several countries, including Austria and Italy, and perform in master classes with Jake Heggie, Martin Katz, and Deborah York. Beyond singing, Daniel loves to cook and play with his poodle puppy Bibi.
DANIEL HAAKENSONCountertenor
Based in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, soprano Sarah Richards has performed a diverse array of repertoire, which has most recently included a program of Monteverdi as a ChorWorks Young Artist under the direction of Dr. Philip Cave, as well as the soprano soloist in Fauré’s Requiem in D Minor. She has studied with Steven Rickards and Dana Marsh at IU’s Jacobs School of Music where she earned her masters in Early Music Voice in 2019. Ms. Richards is a founding member of Halcyon Voices, a treble-voice ensemble devoted to Baroque and renaissance sacred music and has premiered several newly- composed works including Glenn Rudolph’s Children of the Seraphim and Sam Kubina’s edgy naMoWoman as part of zFestival Arts .
SARAH RICHARDSSoprano
Mezzo-soprano Sam Rauch is a versatile artist whose musical explorations center on creating meaningfully connective performances. Sam is a strong advocate for contemporary and under-performed repertoire, as well as the re-examination of narratives found within the traditional canon. Most recently, Sam performed in Toronto Summer Music Festival’s ReGeneration concert series under an Art of Song fellowship; other recent projects include co-creation a digital-release concert “I Bear Your Colors” - a program of chamber music celebrating queer women, as well as performance of excerpts from György Kurtág’s Kafka Fragmente, and Handel’s Messiah with The Orchestra Now. A native of southeastern Ohio, Sam recently completed their Master’s degree at Bard Conservatory’s Graduate Vocal Arts Program.
SAM RAUCHMezzo-soprano
Atlanta-based musician, Sandy Sharis, is delighted to participate in Talks with TENET and especially enjoys performing in the early music and choral genres. Her summer training includes the Festival Lyrique de Belle-Ile-en-Mer, Norfolk Chamber Choir Institute, International Baroque Institute at Longy, Aquilon Music Festival, and Duke Chapel ChorWorks. In 2019, she was named first place winner in the Great Lakes region of the NATS Artist Awards competition and was a finalist in the Kentucky Bach Competition. Sandy earned her BM degree in vocal performance from Furman University and her master’s in voice performance and pedagogy from The Ohio State University. In the fall of 2022, Sandy will begin her MMA degree in early music at Yale’s Institute of Sacred Music.
SANDRA SHARISVocalist
Sam Denler is a tenor based in Hamilton, NJ. Sam is a singer in the Philadelphia Symphonic Choir, and regularly performs with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Yannick Nézet-Séguin. He also sings with Princeton Pro Musica and Amor Artis, and occasionally with the Cecilia Chorus in NYC. He recently finished his fourth residency with the Spoleto Festival USA Chorus and is currently a finalist for Chanticleer. He recently finished his Bachelor’s in Music Education at Westminster Choir College, where he was a member of the Westminster Choir for three years, touring across the US, Spain, and China, Kantorei, an elite ensemble specializing in early performance practice, and Symphonic choir, with whom he performed several works in premiere venues such as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and the Kimmel Center.
SAM DENLERTenor
Taiwanese-American soprano Mira Fu-En Huang uses her voice to veer off the beaten path and bring underrepresented music to the forefront. She has had the pleasure of singing not just in the languages of the western classical canon, but in Korean, Bulgarian, Nisenan, and more. Her repertory sprawls across cultures, eras, and genres, including but not limited to folk, chamber music, and new music. An early music specialist by training, Mira obtained an M.M. in Historical Performance Voice from the Peabody Institute at the Johns Hopkins University. She also holds undergraduate degrees in Vocal Performance and Psychology, as well as a minor in English, from the University of California, Davis. Beyond performance, Mira is passionate about writing, research, and arts administration.
MIRA FU-EN HUANGSoprano
Morgan Mastrangelo is a solo and ensemble vocalist who enjoys singing music both early and modern. after completing an undergraduate degree in Opera at Northwestern University, they began singing with ensembles in New York City, and have since sung with the choirs of Bard Music Festival, the Church of St. Vincent Ferrer, and Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, where they currently sing regularly. Recent solo credits include the tenor solos in Rossini’s Petit Messe Solennelle with Opera Saratoga, Bach’s Cantata 182 with Bach in Baltimore, and Verdi’s Requiem at Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church. Morgan is interested in groove, vocal rituals both ancient and modern, and folk traditions outside the western canon.
MORGAN MASTRANGELOTenor
Mara Yaffee, soprano/multi-instrumentalist, is a Baltimore based artist exploring the space between simple song and high art. From ballads to Bach, storytelling is the centerpiece of Mara’s interpretations. This September Mara will be singing Euridice in The Nightsong of Orpheus (music from Monteverdi’s Vespers and L'Orfeo) with INseries Opera in DC. Mara was a 2022 Fellow for NYC Early Music Ensemble ARTEK's Madrigal Madness, and is currently a Vocal Fellow for the Baltimore Choral Arts Society’s 2022-2023 season. She is also a songwriter, and singer of traditional folk music of the English language, using guitar, autoharp, mountain dulcimer, and other instruments to accompany herself. Mara holds her BFA in Vocal Performance from Carnegie Mellon University and her MM in Historical Performance Voice from Peabody Conservatory.
MARA YAFFEESoprano
A passionate ensemble singer and soloist, soprano Lauren Breden is inspired by performances that push the boundaries of choral music and cast new light on early music. Originally from New Mexico, she has performed in ensembles throughout the state including Polyphony: Voices of New Mexico, Chatter & New Music New Mexico. Currently based in Philadelphia, she works as a staff singer at Christ Church Christiana Hundred and recently joined the roster of C4, a unique ensemble of singers, composers and conductors in NYC committed to premiering and commissioning new choral works. Lauren holds a BM in Vocal Performance from the University of New Mexico and a MM in Vocal Chamber Music from the University of Redlands where she studied with former King’s Singer, Christopher Gabbitas.
LAUREN BREDENSoprano
Chinese-American Mezzo Soprano, Eliana Barwinski, is currently pursuing her Doctorate in Voice with a concentration of early music at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music. She also holds three degrees from The University of Michigan. Currently, under the tutelage of Professors Julia Bentley and Judith Malafronte, she works to define her artistry through vocal pedagogy, historically informed performance, and research of art songs from Central and Eastern Europe. This summer, Barwinski was invited to be one of eight selected singers to attend the Ukrainian Art Song Project at the Toronto Royal Conservatory, in addition to receiving the Georgina Joshi International Fellowship for the Baroque festival, Aria Borealis, in Bodø, Norway. In addition to her engagements, Barwinski continually seeks to broaden her knowledge of sacred works by J.S. Bach, art songs of the underrepresented, and musical outreach and engagement. She currently serves as road manager and production manager for Indiana University's African American Dance Company and Re-Imagining Opera for Kids (ROK). Barwinski also works as a professional soloist and choral singer for established Episcopal churches such as Christ Church Grosse Pointe, Christ Church Cathedral Indianapolis, St. John’s Church Detroit, and many other groups in the Metro-Detroit area.
ELIANA BARWINSKIMezzo-soprano
Mezzo-soprano Eleanor Bennett-White has performed with the Carmel Bach Festival Chorus, the University of Hawaii Chamber Singers, Hawaii Symphony Orchestra, University of Northern Colorado Chamber Singers and Concert Choir, and the URSA Early Music Consort. She performed in the Hawaii premiere of Craig Hella Johnson’s Considering Matthew Shepard, has performed in opera scenes by Mozart, Gluck, and Adamo, appeared as the alto soloist in the Messiah, and recently participated in the Aspen Music Festival Professional Choral Institute with Seraphic Fire. She received her undergraduate degree in music from the University of Hawaii and her Master's degree in vocal performance from the University of Northern Colorado, where she studied under Melissa Malde and Derek Chester. Eleanor is passionate about performing, but also enjoys composing, cooking, gardening, and listening to film scores in her down time.
ELEANOR BENNETT-WHITEMezzo-soprano
Dominic Aragon (he/him) is a vocalist based in Cleveland, Ohio where he is a chorister with BWV: Cleveland's Bach Choir and at the historic Old Stone Church. In 2020, Mr. Aragon completed an Artist Diploma in Voice Performance at the University of Colorado – Boulder. While living in the Front Range, he enjoyed singing with Colorado Bach Ensemble and Boulder Bach Festival. In addition to his passion for early music and ensemble singing, Mr. Aragon feels equally at home with contemporary operatic repertoire. Exploring and delivering fresh musical styles, performing in more intimate venues, and communicating more immediate stories to the audience are what draws him to this genre. Most recently, Mr. Aragon completed a Vocal Fellowship at the Tanglewood Music Festival in Lenox, Massachusetts.
DOMINIC ARAGONBaritone
Christopher Short, bass-baritone, is from Raleigh, North Carolina. He hopes to use music as a bridge to connect people with their surrounding community through artful storytelling in performance, localized philanthropic efforts, arts administration, and educational outreach work. Christopher graduated in 2019 from the East Carolina University School of Music as a double major in Vocal Performance and Music Theory/Composition. He is a member of the US VOCES8 Scholars program, travels the country as a teaching artist with the VOCES8 Foundation, serves as the Executive Director of the professional vocal ensemble, Servire, and is an award-winning composer. In his free time, Christopher has a passion for cooking extravagant meals, traveling, spending time with his fiancé and dog, as well as watching his favorite sports teams.
CHRISTOPHER SHORTBass-Baritone
Baritone Ben Ross is most happy when collaborating with other artists to create meaningful work that inspires action in audiences. Focusing on issues in gender, queer representation, and amplifying the voices of the unheard and underperformed, their work uses the world of contemporary classical music tell new stories. Comfortable in opera, choral music, art song, concert repertoire, early music, and musical theatre, they have been an active performer in the Chicago area appearing in roles with Thompson Street Opera, Transgressive Opera Theatre, KJR Studio Productions, Janus Concert Series, and The Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company of Chicago. Ben is currently an MM candidate at the Peabody Institute where they are a student of William Sharp. They received their undergraduate degree from the University of Iowa with Stephen Swanson.
Ashlee Foreman is a native of Akron, Ohio and received her High School diploma from Cleveland School of the Arts in 2014. She has studied voice with the late Dr. A. Grace Lee Mims of the Cleveland Music Settlement, Amanda Powell of Apollo’s Fire, and Noriko Paukert of Cleveland, Ohio. Ashlee has been a guest soloist at various churches such as Antioch Baptist Church, First Apostolic Faith Church, and Mt. Pleasant United Methodist Church. She also joined the Akron Symphony Orchestra in Porgy and Bess (2011), and Titanic: The Musical (2012), and The Cleveland Opera, as her debut of Clara in Porgy and Bess (2019). She also was the guest soloist at the Cleveland NAACP Recognition Dinner (2011). Ashlee has since then been the recipient of the Key Bank Music Scholarship (2014), the Excellence for the Arts Scholarship (2014-2017), her Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from the Cleveland State University (May 2019), and her Master of Music from the University of Akron (May 2021). Ms. Foreman has also received African American Spiritual performance scholarships named for the late A. Grace Lee Mims, with whom she studied voice. While an undergraduate student, she served as AF’s first Artistic Outreach Intern, singing the role of Princess Pamina in AF’s in-school workshops and performances. She has performed with the Akron Symphony Orchestra and Cleveland Opera. In 2020 she joined AF’s professional chorus, Apollo’s Singers, with whom she has performed in Cleveland and New York City.
ASHLEE FOREMANSoprano
Los Angeles based tenor David Morales is an active vocalist performing music across a variety of genres and styles. Past engagements include tenor soloist in Whittier’s 81st Bach Festival as well as soloist for Haydn’s Missa in tempore belli with the Long Beach Chorale and Chamber Orchestra. He also has experience singing background vocals for folk-artist and composer Moira Smiley’s 2018 EP release and recording for his first major movie soundtrack in 2021, Space Jam. As an ensemble performer throughout Southern California, he currently performs with groups such as Tonality, Pacific Chorale, and L.A. Camerata Baroque. He holds a B.M. in Vocal Performance and Music Education from Bob Cole Conservatory of Music at Cal State Long Beach and a Master of Arts in Early Music Performance from Thornton School of Music.
DAVID MORALESTenor
Charles Weaver is on the faculty of the Juilliard School, where he teaches performance practice and historical music theory. He has been assistant conductor for Juilliard Opera and has participated in opera productions at the University of Maryland, the Cleveland Institute of Music, Princeton University, Yale University, and the Boston Early Music Festival. As a collaborative musician, he has performed with the Orchestra of St. Luke's, the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Minnesota Orchestra, and the Virginia Symphony. In addition to being a regular member of the ensemble Quicksilver, his chamber-music projects have included engagements with Piffaro, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Folger Consort, Apollo's Fire, Blue Heron, the Newberry Consort, and Musica Pacifica. He is organist and choirmaster at St. Mary's Church in Norwalk, Connecticut, where he specializes in the liturgical performance of medieval and renaissance music. He holds a PhD in music theory from the City University of New York. His research interests are in the rhythm of Gregorian chant and the history of the theory of harmony.
CHARLES WEAVERTheorbo
Corey Shotwell is a tenor specializing in the performance of music spanning the 14th through 18th centuries, as both soloist and ensemble member. Recent concert engagements include the world premiere of David Lang’s the writings at Carnegie Hall in collaboration with Paul Hillier and Theatre of Voices as part of the Yale Voxtet, and Telemann’s Der Tag des Gerichts with Masaaki Suzuki at Lincoln Center. He has also sung with the San Diego Bach Collegium, Bach Akademie Charlotte, Oregon Bach Festival, Apollo’s Fire, Boston Early Music Festival, Carmel Bach Festival, and The Newberry Consort. He most recently received his M.M.A. in Early Music, Oratorio, and Chamber Ensemble from the Institute of Sacred Music at Yale University. He has also earned degrees from Western Michigan University and the Cleveland Institute of Music. Having grown up in West Michigan, he now resides in New Haven, CT.
COREY SHOTWELLTenor
Tenor Garrett Eucker is a versatile performer of old and new music, currently residing in Brooklyn, NY. Having first sung on the Metropolitan Opera stage from ages 4 to 12, he has dedicated his entire life to creative and expressive musical performances of many languages and styles. Over the past six years, Garrett has performed a diverse array of historical and contemporary music with world-class chamber ensembles. Most recently, he appeared in concert at National Sawdust with ChamberQueer and at Madison Early Music Festival with violin & sackbut ensemble, Incantare.
GARRETT EUCKERTenor
Gregório Taniguchi crafts compelling performances that move audiences. His dedication to rhetoric in music draws listeners to hear historical works as a dynamic and living part of our musical culture, illuminating classics for a modern audience.
Gregório has empowered narratives with an intuitive sense for storytelling as the Evangelist in Bach's St. John Passion with John Butt, Æneas in Cavalli’s La Didone, and Miles Zegner in Missy Mazzoli's Proving Up. As one of the nation’s finest choral artists, he has appeared with Cantus, The Thirteen, Santa Fe Desert Chorale, and the Oregon Bach Festival.
Gregório is passionate about being an active part of the community of artists, supporting composers in recording new works as a studio singer and faith communities as a choral scholar.
GREGÓRIO TANIGUCHITenor
Tenor Andrew Fuchs’s wide-ranging repertoire includes an abundance of early music, performing with some of the U.S.’s finest historical performance ensembles (Trinity Choir, TENET, Pegasus Early Music, ARTEK, Clarion Choir), and as a member of the GRAMMY-nominated quartet New York Polyphony, whose extensive touring takes the acclaimed ensemble to major concert series and festivals around the world. Also passionate about contemporary music, he has premiered works by Daniel Thomas Davis (American Opera Projects), Alexander Goehr (Juilliard’s Focus Festival), and Juliana Hall (Lyric Fest), and has sung substantial works by Harrison Birtwistle and Kurt Rohde (Brooklyn Art Song Society), and Steve Reich (Ensemble Signal).
ANDREW FUCHSTenor
Born in amiskwaciwâskahikan (Edmonton, Canada), Jonathon Adams is an Indigenous (Cree-Métis) Two-Spirit baritone. They have appeared as a soloist with Masaaki Suzuki, Philippe Herreweghe, Vox Luminis, the Ricercar Consort, Servir Antico, Tafelmusik, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and B’Rock Orchestra at Opera-Ballet Flanders. In 2021 Jonathon was named the first ever artist-in-residence at Early Music Vancouver. Future solo engagements include Handel’s Messiah with the New York Philharmonic and the San Francisco Symphony, concerts with TENET Vocal Artists, Toronto Consort, il Gardellino, Ensemble Arion, Washington Bach Consort, and recitals with lutenist Lucas Harris. Jonathon has led workshops at UBC, LAMP, and Festival Montréal Baroque. In 2022/2023 they will curate dialogues between students and Indigenous artists while artist-in-residence at the University of Toronto’s Early Music Department.
JONATHON ADAMSBaritone
Haitham Haidar is a Lebanese-Palestinian Canadian tenor based in Montreal. A proud graduate of Yale's Institute of Sacred Music, McGill University, and the University of British Columbia, Haitham is praised for his 'musical and linguistic versatility’ and his 'bright’ and ‘innately lyrical voice’ and enjoys performing oratorio, opera, and chamber music across North America, Europe, and Asia.
Haitham has recently been seen as the tenor soloist for Ensemble Arion’s Messiah and as soloist and ensemble member with Early Music Vancouver, Passion Consort, Skylark Ensemble, and Seraphic Fire. Haitham is also a featured soloist on Conspirare’s Grammy nominated album: House of Belonging. Recent highlights include Pilatus in Pärt’s Passio with Experiential Orchestra at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, and the Evangelist in Schütz’s Weinachtshistorie with Folger Consort as well as the Haute-contre/Tenor soloist for Gossec’s Messe des Morts with ensemble Arion.
Haitham’s approach to performance has always been humanity first. Being an Arab immigrant in North America comes with its unique set of oppressive challenges and it is because of that and what he sees around him in the field, that he aims to touch people’s hearts with music and compassion and make change in the world the best way he knows how.
HAITHAM HAIDARTenor
Praised for her “plangent mezzo-soprano” (Washington Classical Review), Sylvia Leith is a soloist and consort singer whose repertoire spans the medieval to the contemporary. Her recent solo appearances include Messiah with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Duruflé’s Requiem and Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen with Emmanuel Music in Baltimore, Helena in A Fairy Queen with the IN Series, and Elgar’s Sea Pictures with Washington Young Sinfonia. Her operatic roles run the gamut from Nerone in Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea to Nancy in Britten’s Albert Herring. Sylvia is a founding member of the Polyphonists and the Uncommon Music Festival, and her ensemble credits include Washington Bach Consort, Bach Akademie Charlotte, the Oregon Bach Festival Chorus, True Concord, the Thirteen, Ensemble Altera, Cathedra, and Bridge.
SYLVIA LEITHMezzo-soprano
Tenor Nick Karageorgiou has established himself as a formidable chamber musician and soloist. A resident of NY, Nick is a member of the Trinity Wall Street Chorus, performing a wide array of choral repertoire, from baroque gems, to new commissions, including Huang Ruo’s Book of Mountains and Seas, staged by Basil Twist. He can also be heard singing in ensembles like Seraphic Fire, Variant Six, and Clarion Music Society. Previous engagements have also included ensembles like Pegasus Early Music Society, True Concord, The Crossing, Spire, The Thirteen, and The Rose Ensemble. Outside of a busy performance season, Nick is frequently seen with needles and yarn, biking through the park, or going on a hike. This is Nick’s first season with TENET.
NICK KARAGEORGIOUTenor
Edmund Milly brings “perfect diction” (Los Angeles Times) and “mellifluous” tone (San Francisco Chronicle) to every performance. Increasingly in demand as a soloist, he has recently shared the stage with Bach Akademie Charlotte, the Oregon Bach Festival, the Thirteen, BaRock Band, the Folger Consort, and the Baltimore Choral Arts Society, and has also been heard internationally on BBC and CBC. Equally well adapted to working within an ensemble, he enjoys contributing his voice to the Polyphonists, the Choir of Trinity Wall Street, Washington Bach Consort, the U.S. Army Chorus, Mark Morris Dance Group, Clarion Choir, and many others. Mr. Milly is a graduate of the American Boychoir School, McGill University, and the Yale Institute of Sacred Music.
EDMUND MILLYBass-baritone
After spending three years as Organ Scholar at Carlisle Cathedral, Jordan was a prize-winning undergraduate student at the Royal Northern College of Music where his tutors included Jeffrey Makinson and Thomas Trotter.
In 2018 Jordan obtained a Masters degree from the Royal College of Music in London, studying with Sophie-Véronique Cauchefer-Choplin and David Graham, specialising in the music of Marcel Dupré and Jehan Alain.
Jordan is currently Assistant Organist at St Giles’ Cathedral, Edinburgh, accompanying the cathedral choir for all services, civic and royal occasions. He has recently appeared on the cathedral choir’s latest recordings, BBC broadcasts and their recent tour to the Channel Islands and northern France.
He currently studies improvisation privately with Sophie-Véronique Cauchefer-Choplin in Paris, and is an Associate of the Royal College of Organists.
JORDAN ENGLISHOrganist
Michael studied at the Birmingham Conservatoire, the Royal Academy of Music and Newcastle University, and holds an MMus degree and the FRCO(CHM) diploma.
He held Organ Scholarships in St Alban’s Cathedral and Winchester College, and various teaching posts including Clifton College and Roedean School.
Michael is Director of Music at Hexham Abbey, having previously held similar positions at The University Church in Cambridge and St Chad’s College, Durham. He has conducted many choral CDs and recorded two solo organ CDs.
He also works as a freelance recitalist, accompanist, examiner and teacher. Music has given Michael opportunities to travel around Europe, South East Asia and the USA.
MICHAEL HAYNESOrganist
Benjamin Sheen, Sub-Organist at Christ Church Cathedral in Oxford, is one of the UK’s brightest young organists and has established himself as one of the finest liturgical and concert organists on both sides of the Atlantic. Hailed as ‘brilliant’ by the New York Times, he was the 2013 winner of the Pierre S. du Pont First Prize in the inaugural Longwood Gardens Organ Competition and received Second Prize and the Jon Laukvik prize at the St. Alban’s International Organ Competition of the same year. Before moving back to Oxford in 2020, he spent seven years in New York City working as Associate Organist and Acting Director of Music at the world-famous Saint Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue. As a concert organist, he has toured across the world, most recently in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa and has collaborated with numerous orchestras including the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the City of London Sinfonia and the Auckland Philharmonic. Mr. Sheen is exclusively represented in North America and Canada by Philip Truckenbrod Concert Artists.
BENJAMIN SHEENOrganist
Douglas Keilitz is Director of Music at Stratford’s Holy Trinity Church and a teacher of organ and piano at Stratford’s King Edward VI School. Prior to moving to Stratford in February 2020, he served as Canon for Music at St Michael’s Episcopal Cathedral, Boise, Idaho. Former posts have included St Mary’s Episcopal Church on Cape Cod, and St Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church, Manhattan, New York City. He has performed concerts in many of New York’s landmark churches, including St. Patrick's Cathedral, Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, St. Mary the Virgin - Times Square, the Church of the Transfiguration (\"The Little Church Around the Corner\"), and St. Paul’s Chapel in Lower Manhattan.
DOUGLAS KEILITZOrganist
Hailed as an “impressive tenor” (New York Times) who sings with “sweet vibrancy” (Cleveland Plain Dealer), Gene Stenger is one of the country’s most called upon Bach specialists who is also heralded for his performances of oratorios by Handel, Haydn, Mendelssohn, and Mozart. Mr. Stenger has been a featured soloist with the Virginia, Portland, Helena, New Haven, Eastern Connecticut, and Pioneer Valley Symphonies, Buffalo Philharmonic, American Classical Orchestra, Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, Colorado Bach Ensemble, Bach Society of St. Louis, Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra, Bach Akademie Charlotte, Emmanuel Music, Odyssey Opera, Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart, and the Baldwin Wallace, Carmel, Oregon, and Northeast Pennsylvania Bach Festivals. Originally from Pittsburgh, Gene holds degrees from Yale’s School of Music, Colorado State University, and Baldwin Wallace University Conservatory of Music.
GENE STENGERTenor
Tim Keeler is Music Director of the San Francisco-based, GRAMMY® award-winning vocal ensemble Chanticleer. Prior to moving to San Francisco, he forged a career as an active conductor, singer, and educator in New York City. He has sung with New York Polyphony, The Clarion Choir, the Choir of Trinity Wall Street, the Saint Thomas Choir of Men and Boys, TENET, and Ekmeles. As an educator, he has directed the University of Maryland Men’s Chorus, served as director of choirs at the Special Music School High School in Manhattan, and was also the choral conductor for Juilliard's new Summer Performing Arts program. Dr. Keeler holds a BA in Music from Princeton University, an MPhil in Music and Science from Cambridge University, an MM in Choral Conducting from the University of Michigan, and a DMA in Choral Conducting from the University of Maryland.
TIM KEELERAlto
Consistently recognized for her rich sound and musical sensitivity, Boston-based soprano Sarah Yanovitch is in demand as a concert soloist and ensemble musician. Ms. Yanovitch is a frequent soloist with Boston’s Handel and Haydn Society under the artistic direction of Harry Christophers, singing the role of Belinda in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, and soprano solos in Bach’s B minor and G major masses, as well as in cantatas 10, 36, 61, 140, and 179. She made her solo debut at Tanglewood in the summer of 2017 with H+H in Purcell’s Fairy Queen. During the 2016-2017 season, Ms. Yanovitch was the Lorraine Hunt Lieberson Fellow with Emmanuel Music, appearing as a featured soloist in Bach’s Weinachtsoratorium, cantata 51 (Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen), cantatas 89, 100, and 179, and as Melia in their staged production of Mozart’s Apollo et Hyacinthus. Outside of Boston, Sarah has sung with such leading choral ensembles as Bach Collegium San Diego, The Thirteen, Yale Choral Artists, and GRAMMY® nominated Seraphic Fire.
SARAH YANOVITCHSoprano
“An elegant, mellifluous and expressive baritone” (New York Times), Charles Wesley Evans has been lauded by The Miami Herald as “the peak of the night’s solo work” and “a warm, strong baritone,” (The Washington Post). Charles began singing professionally as a chorister at The American Boychoir School in Princeton, New Jersey where he toured nationally and internationally, performing with notable conductors and orchestras around the globe. He enjoys a varied career performing works from the Baroque to gospel and musical theater. Recent concert work include performances with the Cleveland Orchestra, Austin Symphony, Fort Worth Symphony, Sinfonia de Camera, Bach Akademie Charlotte and Sonare Baroque Ensemble, Düsseldorf, Germany. A strong supporter of professional choral practice, Charles performs regularly with Seraphic Fire, Conspirare, and the Carmel Bach Festival Chorale. He has served on the voice faculties of the University of South Florida, University of Tampa and is currently Artist Faculty for the Professional Choral Institute at Aspen Music Festival and School. Charles holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music from Brewton-Parker College in Mt. Vernon, GA with further study at Boston Conservatory of Music and Westminster Choir College of Rider University.
CHARLES WESLEY EVANSBass-Baritone
Known for her “soul-infused expressiveness and unselfconscious joie de vivre” (New York Music Daily), Elisa Sutherland is a mezzo-soprano dedicated to detailed, stylistic performances of early and new music. Highlights from this upcoming season include a performance of Jacquet de la Guerre’s Judith with TENET Vocal Artists, a European tour with Ekmeles, and three collaborations with Alkemie medieval ensemble. Elisa was a core member of Ekmeles, a sextet dedicated to exploring microtonal tuning and extended vocal techniques. She has appeared in art song recitals with the Brooklyn Art Song Society (BASS) and Philadelphia’s Lyricfest. Elisa is also one of the co-founders of the Philadelphia-based vocal sextet, Variant 6. In addition to chamber music, Elisa frequently appears with the top vocal ensembles in the United States including The Crossing, TENET Vocal Artists, Roomful of Teeth, Lorelei, and Seraphic Fire.
ELISA SUTHERLAND
Recognized for “vibrant and colorful” singing (The New York Times) mezzo-soprano Kate Maroney’s recent appearances include with the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphonic Choir, New York City Ballet, Santa Fe Desert Chorale and Symphony, Seraphic Fire, Berkshire Choral Festival, TENET, Carmel Bach Festival, Opera Grand Rapids, New York Baroque Incorporated at Trinity Wall Street, LA Opera, Lincoln Center Festival, Oregon Bach Festival, Musica Sacra, Bach Collegium San Diego, Princeton Pro Musica, Bach Vespers Holy Trinity, Mark Morris Dance Group, Yale Choral Artists, American Opera Projects, Berkshire Bach Society, and Clarion. Kate has premiered works and collaborated closely with Philip Glass, John Corigliano, David Lang, Martin Bresnick, Julia Wolfe, Missy Mazzoli, Hannah Lash, Nina Young, Dominick Argento, Christopher Cerrone, Ted Hearne, and Scott Wheeler. She holds a D.M.A. from Eastman, degrees SUNY Purchase and Yale, teaches voice pedagogy at Mannes, and resides in Brooklyn with musician-husband Red Wierenga and new son, Ossian.
KATE MARONEY
Jonathan Woody is a versatile musician maintaining an active schedule as a bass-baritone soloist, chamber musician and composer across North America. Jonathan appears regularly with historically-informed ensembles including Apollo's Fire, Pacific MusicWorks, the Choir of Trinity Wall Street, Seraphic Fire, Kaleidoscope Ensemble, and Les Délices. Festival appearances include the Boston Early Music Festival, Staunton Music Festival, Five Boroughs Music Festival, Portland Bach Festival, Carmel Bach Festival, and the Aldeburgh Festival at Snape Maltings. Recent and upcoming opera roles include Pandolfe in La Servante Maîtresse with Opera Lafayette, Le Grand Prêtre in Circé with Boston Early Music Festival and Elymas/Sorceress in Dido’s Ghost with Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra. Recording credits include the Choir of Trinity Wall Street's Grammy®-nominated Israel in Egypt (Musica Omnia), ACRONYM’s Cantica Obsoleta (Olde Focus Recordings), Boston Early Music Festival’s Circé (CPO), New York Polyphony’s Roma Æterna (BIS Records), and Skylark Ensemble’s it’s a long way.
JONATHAN WOODYBass-baritone
“With a silken voice capable of extraordinary power” (San Diego Union-Tribune), soprano Clara Rottsolk’s solo appearances have taken her across the US, the Middle East, Japan, and South America. She has appeared as a soloist with Baltimore Symphony, American Bach Soloists, Santa Fe Pro Musica, the American Classical Orchestra, Richmond Symphony, Bach Collegium San Diego, Virginia Symphony, New Mexico Philharmonic, Pacific Symphony, Atlanta Baroque Orchestra, and Trinity Wall Street. Also dedicated to chamber and recital repertoire, she performs with ensembles including Les Délices, TENET, Piffaro the Renaissance Wind Band, Colorado Bach Ensemble, House of Time, and Pegasus Baroque. Frequently in demand as a festival soloist, her credits include Carmel Bach, Berkeley Early Music, Montréal Baroque, Spoleto USA, Winter Park Bach, Seattle Bach, St. Louis Bach, Indianapolis Early Music, Whidbey Island Music, and Boston Early Music Fringe. Her solo recordings can be found on Chandos, Analekta, MSR Classics, and independent labels.
CLARA ROTTSOLKSoprano
Soprano Jolle Greenleaf is one of today’s foremost figures in early music. Hailed by The New York Times as a “golden soprano” and “a major force in the New York early music-scene,” Greenleaf was named artistic director of TENET in 2009. She sings and directs the ensemble in repertoire spanning the Middle Ages to the present day. Her flair for imaginative programming has been lauded as “adventurous and expressive,” and “smart, varied and not entirely early” (The New York Times). She is a celebrated interpreter of the music of Bach, Buxtehude, Handel, Purcell, and, most notably, Claudio Monteverdi. Ms. Greenleaf has performed as a soloist in venues throughout the US, Scandinavia, Europe, and Central America for presenters including Cambridge and Vancouver Early Music Festivals, Denmark’s Vendsyssel Festival, Costa Rica International Music Festival, Puerto Rico’s Festival Casals, Utrecht Festival, at Panama’s National Theater, and in Havana, Cuba.
JOLLE GREENLEAFSoprano
Arianne Abela is Director of the Choral Program at Amherst College and Artistic Director and Founder of Kaleidoscope Vocal Ensemble, a chamber group focused primarily on presenting early and new music with special attention to racial diversity and the intersection of arts and social justice. Focusing her efforts on community building through song, Abela founded The House of Clouds and has worked closely with Musicians Take a Stand to organize over a dozen benefit concerts for charities across the country. In 2012, Abela was featured conducting on NBC's Today Show and was a semi-finalist in Season 8 of America's Got Talent as director of Connecticut-based 3 Penny Chorus and Orchestra. Abela sings professionally in ensembles across the United States and Canada and holds degrees from the University of Michigan, Yale University and Smith College.
ARIANNE ABELA
Since moving to Baltimore in 2016 from his hometown in Herndon, Virginia, Ross Tamaccio has enjoyed an emerging career as a solo and ensemble singer in the Maryland/DC area and throughout the country. He is a well-known soloist with Baltimore Choral Arts Society, Central Maryland Chorale, Bach in Baltimore, and Maryland Choral Society. As a highly sought-after professional chorister, Ross performs with Oregon Bach Festival’s Berwick Chorus, the Thirteen Choir, the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Washington National Cathedral, Baltimore Concert Opera, and has performed with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, Handel and Haydn Society, and Tafelmusik Baroque Chorus and Orchestra. Highlights from recent seasons include the world premiere of Peter Latona’s The Saint’s Triumphant with the National Shrine Choir, the east coast premiere of Jake Heggie’s Out of Darkness, Mahler’s Symphony Number Eight, with City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Durufle’s Requiem with The Thirteen Choir, Brahms’ Requiem with Maryland Choral Society, and Handel’s Messiah with the Central Maryland Chorale. Upcoming projects include performances with the Grammy-nominated True Concord Voices and Orchestra, Kinnara Ensemble, and Santa Fe Desert Chorale. Ross Tamaccio received his Master of Music in Voice from the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University where he studied with Stanley Cornett. He currently studies with Liz Daniels.
ROSS TAMACCIOVocalist
Chicago-based tenor Filip Duda graduated from Illinois Wesleyan University in 2019 with a B.A. in Political Science. His studies were followed by a year in Graz, where he taught English with a program partially administered by Fulbright Austria. At IWU, he studied voice with William Hudson, from whom he gained a lasting appreciation for music pre-1750. Choral activities with the university's Collegiate Choir led to performances across the US, Canada, and Poland. His operatic experiences include Edwin in Gilbert & Sullivan's Trial by Jury, Toby in Menotti's The Medium, as well as Tommy Tenderheart in Nancy Steele Brokaw's children's opera There's a Martian in the Opera House. Filip also served on the executive board of the university's student-run early music ensemble, Wesleyan Consort. He is currently a student of Chuck Chandler at DePaul University, where he is pursuing a M.Mus. in Voice & Opera.
FILIP DUDATenor
Praised for their enviable resonance, crystalline diction, and stylistic prowess, vocalist Michael Manganiello focuses their solo and ensemble work on breaking down and analysing established preconceptions of identity and artistic expression. Michael is currently a doctoral candidate at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, where they study Vocal Performance with Bill Sharp. In addition to their coursework, they also maintain a studio of vocal students, and work as a Peer Career Coach and Student Engagement Intern at Peabody’s LAUNCHPad, working collaboratively with students and alumni to reach their professional and artistic goals. Michael graduated from Peabody in 2021 with a Master’s degree in Vocal Performance and Pedagogy, and from SUNY Fredonia in 2012, where they earned concurrent Bachelor's degrees cum laude in Vocal Performance and Dance, with a minor in Visual Art/New Media.
MICHAEL MANGANIELLOVocalist
Austin Cody is a New York City based tenor and conductor. He grew up in Ithaca, NY and studied physics and music at Kenyon College. Recently he completed the Master’s in Choral Conducting at the University of Illinois where he studied with Andrew Megill. As a conductor Austin has worked with the choirs at Cornell University and the New York State Summer School of the Arts and served as Assistant Director of the two glee clubs at the University of Illinois. Currently he sings in the Bach Vespers series at Holy Trinity Lutheran in NYC.
AUSTIN CODYTenor
Daniel Swenberg plays a wide variety of lutes and guitars: baroque, renaissance, classical/romantic--small, medium, and large. Chief among these is the theorbo-- the long lute that you are either wondering about or overhearing your neighbor discuss. In the before-times, Daniel schlepped instruments throughout North America and Europe to play with myriad ensembles. These days, he attempts maintain a reserve of sanity with quarantine projects which delve into rarely performed repertoires such Les Accords Nouveaux and other commercially dubious areas. He is on faculty at Juilliard’s Historical Performance program. Daniel received awards from the Belgian American Educational Foundation (2000) for a study of 18th century chamber music for the lute, and a Fulbright Scholarship (1997) to study in Bremen, Germany. His programing integrates and emphasizes music with the history, sciences, economics, politics, and broader culture of its time.
DANIEL SWENBERGTheorbo
Tenor Timothy Hodges, whose singing has been described as having “both purity and depth,” has an active career performing throughout the United States and abroad. Recent highlights include the Evangelist in the St. John Passion with New York Baroque Incorporated and The Choir of Trinity Wall Street, appearances as the Evangelist in the Christmas Oratorio and St. John Passion at The University of Illinois, the premiere and recording of Ralf Yusulf Gawlick's Missa Gentis Humanae, as well as performances with Carmel Bach Festival, Clarion Music Society, Fuma Sacra, and Antioch Chamber Ensemble. He has also made appearances with the Connecticut Early Music Festival, Spoleto Festival USA, the Stavanger Kammermusikkfestival, and the Golden Mask Festival in Moscow, Russia. As a soloist, Mr. Hodges has performed with the Trinity Baroque Orchestra, Washington Chorus, Rebel Baroque Orchestra, Garden State Philharmonic, Masterwork Chorus, and Princeton University Glee Club.
TIMOTHY HODGESTenor
Cuban-American soprano Amaranta Viera’s singing has been called “excellent” (Greenwich Sentinel) and “graceful” (Boston Musical Intelligencer), and has been featured in the US and abroad with ensembles ranging from the Choir of Trinity Wall Street to the NY Philharmonic in repertoire spanning a millennium. Recent solo credits include The Divine Feminine with the Open Gates Project; excerpts from Korine Fujiwara’s opera The Flood at Weill Recital Hall; the New Year’s Eve Concert for Peace at The Cathedral of St. John the Divine; and as a Satrap in the recent New York revival of The Play of Daniel. Ensemble highlights include the Psalms Project at the Utrecht Early Music Festival, Händel Messiah, and Julia Wolfe’s Anthracite Fields with the Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Duruflé Requiem with Voices of Ascension; and Honegger’s Jeanne d’Arc au Bûcher with the New York Philharmonic. Amaranta holds a degree in English literature from Williams College and studied Historical Performance at the Mannes College of Music. She lives in Queens, NY with her husband, son, and a garden full of weeds that won’t quit.
AMARANTA VIERASoprano
A \"shining tenor\" (New York Classical Review), James Reese is a frequently sought tenor soloist with leading orchestras and ensembles throughout North America. James is a leading interpreter of Baroque music, and maintains close relationships with Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, the American Bach Soloists, The Sebastians, Portland Baroque Orchestra, the Washington Bach Consort and the Boston Early Music Festival. In the 2024-25 season, he will make his debut with Early Music Vancouver, the Victoria Symphony (CA), and Opera Lafayette. An active recitalist, James presents song recitals with his friend and collaborator, pianist Daniel Overly. Together they debuted at the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society in 2022. He won a GRAMMY Award in 2023 as a soloist on The Crossing’s release Born. Praise for James' singing have called his performances \"captivating\" (The Broad Street Review) and \"splendid\" (San Francisco Chronicle.) A graduate of Northwestern and Yale Universities, he is currently based in Philadelphia.
JAMES REESETenor
Mezzo-soprano Elisa Sutherland gives detailed, stylistic performances of early and new music with “soul-infused expressiveness and unselfconscious joie de vivre” (New York Music Daily). Ellie is a core member of Ekmeles, a sextet dedicated to exploring microtonal tuning and extended vocal techniques, as well as Alkemie, a group made up of medieval specialists that celebrates the vibrant and timeless sounds of the past and present. She sings with the Choir of Trinity Wall Street, and frequently appears with Tenet Vocal Artists, with which she has performed everything from Dowland lute songs to semi-staged pastiches of her own devising. Ellie's 2025-26 Season includes an astonishing range of high-level music-making in all genres with collaborators across the country including ACRONYM, Quince, The Crossing, Lorelei, Ampersand, Variant 6, Seraphic Fire, and Blue Heron.
ELISA SUTHERLANDMezzo-soprano
STEPHEN SANDS
Acclaimed to have “a beautiful sound” (The New York Times), bass-baritone Enrico Lagasca is enjoying a career as a soloist and chorister across America with repertoire from Early to Contemporary Music. He is regularly seen with the Choir of Trinity Wall Street and frequently sings with the Metropolitan Opera Chorus, Choir of St. Ignatius Loyola, Bach Choir of Holy Trinity Lutheran, Musica Sacra NY, Tenet Vocal Artists, Clarion Music Society, Santa Fe Desert Chorale, Bach Collegium San Diego, Conspirare, Spire, Skylark Vocal Ensemble, Seraphic Fire. Performances with the New York Philharmonic, Orchestra of St. Luke's, American Classical Orchestra, Pacific Symphony, to name a few. Recent solo performances include Mendelssohn Die erste Walpurgisnacht, US premiere of Jonathan Dove’s Monster in the Maze, Beethoven 9, Haydn Creation, Bach Mass in B Minor, Mozart Requiem, Rossini Petite Messe Solennelle and Stabat Mater. Festival appearances include the Salzburg Festival, Oregon Bach Festival, Virginia Arts Festival, Mostly Mozart Festival, and Bard Summerscape Festival. Recording credits include with the Philippine Madrigal Singers, ACRONYM, Bach Choir of Holy Trinity, Skylark Vocal Ensemble, Choir of Trinity Wall Street, American Symphony Orchestra, Conspirare, and the Santa Fe Desert Chorale. Enrico studied at the University of the Philippines and at Mannes College of Music. He currently resides in New York City.
ENRICO LAGASCA
Bass-baritone Jonathan Woody is a sought-after performer of early and new music in New York and across North America. Praised as “charismatic” and “riveting” by The New York Times, Jonathan has appeared with Apollo’s Fire, Boston Early Music Festival, Pacific MusicWorks, Bach Collegium San Diego, Portland Baroque Orchestra and New York Baroque Incorporated in recent seasons, and is a member of the Grammy®-nominated Choir of Trinity Wall Street. Upcoming engagements include appearances with the Washington Bach Consort, Cathedral Choral Society, Opera Lafayette and the Choir of St. Thomas Fifth Avenue as soloist. Recording credits include Israel in Egypt with the Choir of Trinity Wall Street (Musica Omnia), Boston Early Music Festival’s St. Matthew Passion of J. Sebastiani (RadioBremen), New York Polyphony’s Roma Æterna (BIS Records), and the Choir of Trinity Wall Street’s Missa Gentis Humanae (Musica Omnia).
JONATHAN WOODY
Hailed as a “golden soprano” and “a major force in the New York early music-scene” (The New York Times), soprano Jolle Greenleaf is one of today’s foremost figures in the field of early music. Balancing a career as a leading soloist and an innovative impresario, she is in great demand both as a guest artist and as the artistic director of TENET Vocal Artists, a premier New York-based ensemble specializing in early music. She is a celebrated interpreter of the music of Bach Buxtehude, Handel, Purcell, and most notably, Monteverdi. She has performed as a soloist in venues throughout the U.S., Scandinavia, Europe, and Central America for important presenters including Vancouver Early Music Festival, Denmark’s Vendsyssel Festival, Costa Rica International Music Festival, Puerto Rico’s Festival Casals, Utrecht Festival, at Panama’s National Theater, and San Cristobal, the Cathedral in Havana, Cuba.
JOLLE GREENLEAF
Keyboardist and conductor Jeffrey Grossman specializes in vital, engaging performances of music of the past, through processes that are intensely collaborative and historically informed. As the artistic director of the acclaimed baroque ensemble the Sebastians, Jeffrey has directed from the keyboard Bach’s St. John and St. Matthew Passions and Handel’s Messiah in collaboration with TENET Vocal Artists. Last season, he led Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610 with the Green Mountain Project in New York and Venice. For over a decade, he also toured portions of the United States with artists of the Piatigorsky Foundation, performing outreach concerts to underserved communities. A native of Detroit, Michigan, he holds degrees from Harvard, Juilliard, and Carnegie Mellon University; he teaches performance practice at Yale University.
JEFFREY GROSSMAN
Born and raised in Manila, Filipino mezzo-soprano Renee Fajardo has performed on the opera stage and as a solo recitalist in the Philippines, UK, Europe, and Canada. Her operatic roles include Popova in The Bear (U of T Opera), Donna Anna in Don Jo (Grimeborn Opera Festival), Public Opinion in Orpheus in the Underworld (Guildhall School of Music and Drama), and Fanny Price in the Canadian premiere of Jonathan Dove’s Mansfield Park (U of T Opera). Winner of the Metcalf Performing Arts Grant, Renee is the current Producing Intern at Against the Grain Theatre. She also sings with the Nathaniel Dett Chorale, and mentors for outreach collective, Opera InReach. Renee holds a Master’s degree in Opera Performance from University of Toronto, and a first-class Bachelor of Music degree from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
RENEE FAJARDOMezzo-soprano
My name is Ari Carrillo and I currently live in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. I am a recent graduate of Westminster Choir College with a Bachelors of Music in Choral Music Education. I am currently starting my second year of teaching high school choir in Southern New Jersey, where I direct 8 extra curricular ensembles. I also am newly a conducting associate of the New Jersey Chamber Singers where I co-direct alongside a team of artistic staff. I am looking forward to getting started with the TENET Mentorship program!
ARI CARRILLOVocalist
Born in Lagos, Nigeria, Ifeanyi delved into classical music by chance; after he was mandated to join the church choir as part of requirements for confirmation. He regularly attended music workshop and had his first lesson from the church's choir master. Owing to his passion for music, he was admitted to Delta State University, Abraka, Nigeria where he obtained a degree in music and was awarded the best undergraduate student in the faculty of arts. As a soloist, he performed with the music society of Nigeria and Laz Ekwueme Chorale, exploring the works of Handel, Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Mendelssohn and works of Nigerian composers like Laz Ekwueme, Ayo Bankole, Sam Ojukwu, S.K Oretimehin. Ifeanyi has worked with renowned Nigerian composers like Laz Ekwueme, Emaka Nwokedi, Ayo Bankole(jnr) and German cellist and composer Michael Volhardt. He also won the first prize for the Kingsley Inupe Idegun Award for Countertenors. Ifeanyi is currently pursuing a master's degree in voice and opera at Longy School of Music of Bard College.
Krishna Raman started his musical journey at age 5 when he began singing Carnatic music, a style of Indian classical music. Since then, he has shifted his focus onto Western classical music. Recently, Krishna earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Vocal Performance from Carnegie Mellon University where he studied under Daniel Teadt. During his time at CMU, he premiered several student composed works such as Suburban Mompera by Russell Henry Holbert. He also portrayed the role of Ali André Grétry's opera Zemire et Azor, Fabrizio in Adam Guettel's musical The Light in the Piazza, and sang the featured tenor solo in Carl Orff's Carmina Burana. Krishna is currently pursuing a Master of Music in Vocal Arts at the University of Southern California where he studies under Thomas Michael Allen.
KRISHNA RAMANTenor
Maya Goell began her classical training at the Ruth Asawa School of the Arts where she studied voice with Rhoslyn Jones. She eagerly sang whatever she could from Mozart’s Great Mass in C Minor to Pink Floyd’s The Wall, performing with the school’s concert choir, chamber choir, jazz choir, and women’s choir. Some highlights include her performance of Atalanta in Handel’s Serse, premiering Karl Jenkin’s Bards of Wales at Carnegie Hall, and singing solos in Brahms’ Requiem and Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms, as well as becoming a California State Art Scholar and a National Youngarts Winner. During her undergraduate studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, she enjoyed roles such as Papagena in Mozart’s The Magic Flute, Maria Bertram in Jonathan Dove’s Mansfield Park, Yvette in Weinberg’s The Passenger, and the Contessa di Folleville in Rossini’s Il Viaggio a Reims. Maya is Thrilled to be back in the Bay Area to pursue her master's degree at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
MAYA GOELLSoprano
Noted for his “shimmering voice” (Bachtrack), countertenor Reginald Mobley is highly sought after for baroque, classical, and modern repertoire. Reginal leads a prolific career in the US. He recently became the first ever programming consultant for the Handel and Haydn Society and is a guest of Opera Lafayette, Early Music Festival Boston, Chatham Baroque, Washington Bach Consort, as well as his regular appearances with Apollo’s Fire, Bach Collegium San Diego, and Pacific Music Works to name but a few. He regularly tours with The Monteverdi Choir and in Europe has been invited to perform with the Scottish Royal National Orchestra, Academy of Ancient Music, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Orkiestra Historycsna, Wiener Akademie, Paris Musé d’Orsay, Balthasar Neuman Choir, Stuttgart Bach Society, and the freiburger Barokorchester. Highlights of the 2021/22 Season include the role of Ottone in L’Incoronazione di Poppea with the Budapest Festival Orchestra, Stabat Mater with Seraphic Fire, a Bach programme with Orchester Wiener Akademie, Handel’s Messiah with both the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, and a tour of Australia with Bach Akademie Australia.
REGINALD MOBLEY
Praised for his “natural, sensitive feel with embedded lyrical nuance,” (The Millbrook Independent), Chinese countertenor Chuanyuan Liu is recently named a semi-finalist of the 2020-2021 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. He has been seen performing operatic and concert works ranging from the Baroque to world premieres, and strives to be an open-hearted performer through honesty and reflection. Chuanyuan recently graduated from Bard College-Conservatory of Music, and is pursuing his Artist Diploma in Opera Performance at University of Cincinnati-College Conservatory of Music. Upcoming performances include his debut with Pittsburgh Opera of the world premiere of In a Grove, a new opera by Christopher Cerrone and Stephanie Fleischmann, and the role of Cardinal 1/Oracle 1 in Philip Glass’s Galileo Galilei at CCM.
CHUANYUAN LIUCountertenor
Paulina Francisco is a versatile and engaging interpreter of Baroque and early Classical music. Recent reviews have celebrated her vivacious soprano as “a ray of sunshine” (The Guardian), and hailed her “agility, impact, and vibrant projection” (ClassyKey). Paulina enjoys an international career of solo singing, opera, and chamber music. She is a winner of the 11th edition of Le Jardin des Voix with Les Arts Florissants, and a soloist in their international tour of Purcell’s The Fairy Queen, staged by Mourad Merzouki. In 2025, Paulina made her London Handel Festival debut singing the role of L’Allegro in L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato with Jonathan Cohen and Arcangelo. In North America, Paulina is a frequent collaborator with TENET Vocal Artists, the Washington Bach Consort, Opera Lafayette, and La Chapelle de Québec.
PAULINA FRANCISCOSoprano
I just turned 25 and I am slowly figuring out what I want my life to look like. I love singing, obviously, and I work construction currently. I went to Westminster Choir College for Music Education and played soccer and lacrosse. I’m not good at biographies, which in a sense is part of the biography. I hope one day to live at the beach where I can rest easy and do nothing but soak up sun rays.
JONATHAN HARTWELLVocalist
Hailed for her “extraordinary virtuosity and elegance” (New York Times), soprano Marie Marquis is a sought after soloist and recitalist. A Joy in Singing Award winner, 2019 NATSAA Finalist, and 2020 Camille Coloratura Awards Encouragement Award winner, Marie is a gifted singing actor and an avid performer of new and traditional music spanning five centuries. She has won residencies at the Tanglewood Music Center, Aspen Music Festival, Ars Musica Chorale, and Songfest at Colburn. Credits include performances with Bel Cantanti, Brooklyn Art Song Society, Bourbon Baroque, North Mississippi Symphony, Cornell Baroque Orchestra, dell’Arte Opera Ensemble, Cincinnati Song Initiative, Metropolis Ensemble, and Heartbeat Opera. Marie holds bachelor's degrees in Music and French from Peabody Conservatory and Johns Hopkins, and a master's in vocal arts from Bard College. When not singing, Marie enjoys knitting, baking, and practicing yoga.
MARIE MARQUISSoprano
C Han is a Korean-American soprano, keyboardist, and researcher specializing in early Western art music and the music of living, \"global\" composers. Born and raised in Queens, NY, they attended Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music&Art and Performing Arts in Manhattan and Westminster Choir College, for a Bachelor's of Music in Vocal Performance (studying with Margaret Cusack). A chorister and a creative recitalist, Han is currently at Yale for the Master's in Early Music Voice to actively shift the classical music scene away from white supremacy (and its derivatives) towards a safer space for queer, non-Christian, poor people of color.
C HAN Soprano
Elijah McCormack, male soprano, has most recently performed as a soloist with the Washington Bach Consort, Dallas Bach Society, and IlluminArts Miami, garnering critical praise for his solo work in Bach's Christmas Oratorio and St. John Passion. He has appeared as a young artist at the American Bach Soloists Academy, as well as at the Boston Early Music Festival. He completed his Master's degree in historical performance at Indiana University, studying under Steven Rickards, where he sang opera roles in Giulio Cesare (Tolomeo) and Hansel and Gretel (Dewman), and also appeared as a soprano soloist in the Historical Performance Institute's performance of Bach's St. John Passion.
ELIJAH MCCORMACKSoprano
NYC-based, Southern California-bred soprano Ruston Ropac brings her artistry to contemporary chamber music, early music, and beyond. An alumna of the Contemporary Performance Program at the Manhattan School of Music, she has sung the world premieres of eighteen new pieces of chamber music. She performs regularly with the BlackBox Ensemble and Ember Choral Ensemble, and has appeared with the New York Continuo Collective, Saint Peter’s Bach Collegium, chamber ensembles Amalgama and Ekmeles, and in duo recitals with guitarist/lutenist Peter Argondizza. Notable performances include singing as soloist on Juhi Bansal’s The Lost Country of Sight and Jessica Mays’ Elegy on the BlackBox Ensemble’s 2020 album Elegy, and soloist work in sacred repertoire by Bach, Telemann, Charpentier, and Cavalieri with Saint Peter’s Bach Collegium.
RUSTON ROPACSoprano
Based in Brooklyn, NY, soprano Erinn Sensenig has performed across the country as choir member and soloist. She has performed with Victoria Bach Festival, Denton Bach Society, Incarnatus, Incarnation Choir, Vox Humana, Orpheus Chamber Singers, Dallas Chamber Choir, Highland Park Chorale, and was a founding member of Verdigris Ensemble, a Dallas choir focused on unconventional, multidisciplinary performance. She graduated from Westminster Choir College where she sang with the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and Berlin Philharmonic, and toured nationally with Westminster Choir and performed at Spoleto Festival USA. She studied as vocal fellow at Yale’s Norfolk Chamber Music Festival. At Westminster, Erinn received a degree in Music Education and remains passionate about teaching. She owns Noisemaker Studios LLC, where she teaches private voice students ages 12 and up. Erinn is a staff singer at Unitarian Church of All Souls in Manhattan.
ERINN SENSENIGSoprano
Since moving to the U.S. from China for high school, Fengyue Zhang pursued outstanding choral opportunities such as 2016 NAfME All-American Honors Choir, World Youth Honors Choir (Interlochen Arts Camp), as well as the Concert Choir and Chamber Chorus at Gonzaga University, from which he recently received his B.A. in Music (Vocal Performance Concentration). His solo experiences include WMEA Solo & Ensemble Competition state Third Place, working with professionals such as Nathan Gunn and Thomas Hampson in masterclasses, Registrar & Chorus (Madame Butterfly) with Inland Northwest Opera, Antonio (Le nozze di Figaro) & Chorus (Don Giovanni) with Prague Summer Nights Young Artists Music Festival; The Fence (Considering Matthew Shepherd) with Gonzaga University. Fengyue is seeking a career in professional choral performance and opera.
FENGYUE ZHANGBaritone
Recognized for her “intimacy and effortless power belt,” soprano Brigid Mary Lucey is comfortable exploring all aspects of the human voice, from jazz to sacred music, pop to opera, and contemporary styles to early chamber music. She has always been attracted to the communicative and collaborative nature of music-making. In 2021, Brigid completed a Master of Music degree in Opera and Voice at McGill University’s Schulich School of Music, performing with the Baroque Orchestra, Opera McGill, and Cappella Antica; she also served as Opera McGill’s Administrative Manager. Brigid is a graduate of Cornell University, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Spanish and concentrations in Latin American Studies and Music. She is now based in Philadelphia, where she works for the Marlboro Chamber Music Festival.
BRIGID MARY LUCEYSoprano
GRAMMY Award-winning soprano Sarah Brailey enjoys a versatile career that defies categorization. Praised by The New York Times for her “radiant, liquid tone,” and by Opera UK for “a sound of remarkable purity,” she is a prolific vocalist, cellist, recording artist, and educator. Sarah’s numerous career highlights include performing with Kanye West and alternative-classical vocal band Roomful of Teeth at the Hollywood Bowl, serenading the Mona Lisa with John Zorn’s Madrigals at the Louvre in Paris, and performing the role of The Soul in the world premiere recording of Dame Ethel Smyth’s The Prison, for which she received the 2020 GRAMMY Award for Best Classical Solo Vocal Album. Other notable recent and upcoming projects include Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 with the Colorado Symphony; Julia Wolfe’s Her Story with the Lorelei Ensemble and the Boston, Chicago, Nashville, National, and San Francisco Symphony Orchestras; and John Zorn works with Barbara Hannigan at the Elbphilharmonie. Sarah is a co-founder of Just Bach, a monthly concert series in Madison, Wisconsin, the Artistic Director of the Handel Aria Competition, and the Director of Vocal Studies at the University of Chicago.
SARAH BRAILEY
Early music artist Adam Cockerham specializes in theorbo, lute and baroque guitar. Beginning his performance career as a classical guitarist, he then gravitated toward historical plucked strings, preferring the collaborative opportunities of chamber music from the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. As an accompanist and continuo player, Cockerham has performed with numerous ensembles in New York and San Francisco. He founded voice and plucked string duo Jarring Sounds with mezzo-soprano Danielle Sampson, and helped form chamber ensemble Voyage Sonique. Beyond chamber music, Cockerham concentrates on 17th-century Italian opera and has been involved in numerous modern world premiere performances with companies such as Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik and Ars Minerva. Cockerham is a doctoral candidate at the Juilliard School.
ADAM COCKERHAMTheorbo
Jacob Perry is lauded for his stylish interpretations of early music. He can be heard as a featured soloist with Apollo's Fire, Bach Collegium San Diego, Philharmonia Baroque, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Tempesta di Mare, Washington Bach Consort, and the Washington National Cathedral. In 2024, he was nominated for a GRAMMY award as a soloist on a recording of Handel’s “Israel in Egypt” with Apollo’s Fire. Deeply immersed in vocal chamber music, Jacob engages with ensembles such as Ampersand, Blue Heron, The Leonids, New Consort, and Res Facta. Career highlights include his recent solo debut in Handel’s Israel in Egypt with the New York Philharmonic, headlining the inaugural festival of Western Early Music at the Beijing Central Conservatory of Music with Les Canards Chantants, and “English Orpheus”—a tour de force exploration of love songs and poems from the Elizabethan, Restoration, and early 18th-century periods with Tempesta di Mare.
JACOB PERRYTenor
With a voice hailed as “vivid” (Wall Street Journal) and “unusually sparkling” (Kansas City Star), Doug Dodson is making his mark on opera and concert stages throughout the United States in repertoire ranging from the Baroque to the contemporary. Notable recent engagements include the role of The United Way in the American premiere of Tod Machover’s Death and the Powers with American Repertory Theater, Nireno in Handel’s Giulio Cesare with Boston Baroque, Cupid in Blow’s Venus and Adonis with the Oregon Bach Festival, Speranza in Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo with Pacific MusicWorks, and Ottone in Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea at the Aldeburgh Music Festival as a member of the prestigious Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme. A native of Spearfish, SD, Mr. Dodson earned a degree in anthropology from the University of South Dakota and a master's in vocal performance from the University of Missouri - Kansas City.
DOUG DODSONCountertenor
Andrew Leslie Cooper is a British-American conductor and countertenor. 2021–22 marks his first year as Director of Music at St Matthew’s Episcopal Church in Wilton, CT, where he directs four choirs and serves as organist for the parish. Before this appointment, Andrew was in demand as a freelance countertenor and music educator in his native UK, having been a permanent member of The Gesualdo Six and the Choir of Her Majesty’s Chapel Royal, Hampton Court Palace, and a deputy singer with Tenebrae, Magnificat, Ensemble Odhecaton, Voces8 Foundation Choir and others. In the States, he has sung for Bach Vespers at Holy Trinity, TENET, Academy of Sacred Drama and BWV: Cleveland’s Bach Ensemble, to name a few. A passionate music educator, Andrew has taught music at the King’s School Rochester—the world’s second oldest school—and The Frances Bardsley Academy for Girls in East London.
ANDREW LESLIE COOPERCountertenor
Emerson Sieverts is devoted to the ethos of music making. A versatile choral musician, he has performed as both a tenor and countertenor with some of New York’s finest ensembles, including Musica Sacra, Clarion Music Society, American Classical Orchestra, Pomerium, and The Bach Vespers Series at Trinity Lutheran Church. He is a regular member of The Choir of Men & Boys at St. Thomas Fifth Avenue, as well as The Choir at Temple Emanu-El. His original musical Me Prometheus (co-written with Simon Riker) enjoyed a sold-out run at the New York Theatre Festival in 2017. He also enjoys choral arranging, and his arrangement of “Good King Wenceslas” was published under the Jeffrey Benson Choral Series by Gentry Publications. He has appeared frequently with the Brooklyn-based musicians’ collective Apartment Sessions, and is the bassist for New York’s preeminent underwater punk-pop trio, Imitation Crab.
EMERSON SIEVERTSTenor
JEFFREY GROSSMANHarpsichord/Organ
Hailed for her “sparkling voice” (Opera News) and “full-toned soprano” (New York Classical Review), Meg Dudley has established herself as a versatile vocal artist in a variety of genres. Recently, Ms. Dudley has been a featured soloist in Carnegie Hall (Dan Forrest’s Lux, Vivaldi’s Gloria, Haydn’s Mass in the Time of War and Lord Nelson Mass); in Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall (Vaughan William’s Mass in G Minor and Leonardo Leo’s Magnificat); with the Boston Symphony Orchestra (Puccini’s Suor Angelica, and Debussy’s Nocturnes); A Far Cry Chamber Orchestra (Kareem Roustom’s Hurry to the Light); and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s (Poulenc’s Gloria). A highly sought-after ensemble singer, Ms. Dudley works regularly with the Lorelei Ensemble (core member since 2017), Conspirare, the Santa Fe Desert Chorale, the Choir of Trinity Wall Street, the New York Philharmonic, the American Classical Orchestra, Oregon Bach Festival’s Berwick Chorus, and the Bard Festival Singers. Ms. Dudley holds a BM from the University of Denver, and a MM from Mannes School of Music.
MEG DUDLEYSoprano
SHEREZADE PANTHAKI
Timothy Parsons, countertenor, has been hailed as a \"most dazzling contributor”, a “heldencountertenor, ready to sing Wagnerian roles in his powerful falsetto\" (San Francisco Chronicle). International appearances include the Montreal Bach Festival, the Festival Internacional de Música Sacra de Quito, the Stavanger Kammermusikkfestival, St John’s Smith Square, and the Utrecht Early Music Festival. A frequent performer of new music, Timothy has been part of the premieres of two Pulitzer Prize-winning operas, Du Yun’s Angel’s Bone and Ellen Reid’s p r i s m. He is a member of the Grammy-nominated Choir of Trinity Wall Street and previously served as Alto Lay Clerk with the Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford. Season highlights include performances in TENET’s Keeping Time series and two premiere recordings of music by Benedict Sheehan. He spent his formative years in New England, holds a B.M and M.M from the Manhattan School of Music and now resides in Vermont.
TIMOTHY PARSONSCountertenor
Described as singing with “calm fluidity” by The Washington Post, baritone Thomas McCargar’s recent engagements include the role of Evangelist in Ginastera’s Turbae ad Passionem Gregorianam (Carnegie Hall); Jacob Cooper’s Ripple the Sky (Kennedy Center); Steve Reich’s Three Tales (Walt Disney Concert Hall); the role of Bucinsky in Dvořák’s Dimitrij (Bard Summerscape Festival); Reich Richter Pärt (The Shed); Bryce Dessner’s international tour of Triptych: Eyes of One on Another with Roomful of Teeth; and Du Yun’s Angel’s Bone (2017 Pulitzer Prize), Missy Mazzoli’s Breaking the Waves and Ellen Reid’s Prism (2019 Pulitzer Prize) with the Prototype Festival. Thomas is a 14-year member of the acclaimed Choir of Trinity Wall Street, and performs regularly with Grammy Award-winning Roomful of Teeth. He also has performed with TENET, Pomerium, Seraphic Fire, Spire, Musica Sacra, Antioch, Voices of Ascension, Yale Choral Artists, and Meridionalis. Other highlights include touring the world with Chanticleer; performing with Kanye West at the Hollywood Bowl for his two 808’s and Heartbreak concerts; appearing with Andrea Bocelli during NBC’s 2015 broadcast of Christmas in Rockefeller Center; and singing “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” with The Rolling Stones at the Barclay’s Center during their “50 and Counting” tour.
THOMAS MCCARGARBass
Nathan Hodgson is a New York based tenor specializing in early music, chamber music, and choral singing. He is on the permanent roster in the Schola Cantorum at The Church of Saint Vincent Ferrer in New York City and performs with ensembles across the nation. Past performances include appearances with Ensemble VIII in Austin, TX; Skylark Vocal Ensemble in the Greater Boston area, and in Cleveland with Apollo’s Fire. A native of DFW, Nathan studied at the University of North Texas where he was immediately drawn to renaissance and baroque music and sang in the Collegium Musicum program. After receiving a Bachelor of Music in Music Education, Nathan sang regularly in the Dallas area with ensembles including the Orpheus Chamber Singers, Dallas Bach Society, and Denton Bach Society before moving to New York City in 2015. Nathan’s extramusical pursuits include baking, hiking, and kickboxing.
NATHAN HODGSONTenor
Praised by the Albuquerque Journal for his “heartfelt intensity of smooth, effortless, bittersweet tones,” countertenor, Patrick Fennig is sought after as both a soloist and choral singer. He has appeared with Fretwork Viol Consort, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Concert Royal, The American Classical Orchestra, and The Brooklyn Conservatory Orchestra. A choral singer since his days a choirboy at Christ Church Cathedral, Indianapolis, Patrick is a member of The Saint Thomas Choir of Men and Boys Fifth Avenue, and has appeared regularly with Early Music New York, Musica Sacra, Collectio Musicorum, SEM Ensemble and Ekmeles Vocal Ensemble.
PATRICK FENNIGCountertenor
In France and over Europe, Anicet Castel has performed regularly on stage and in concert, as a choir member and a soloist, with famous baroque ensembles such as les Arts Florissants, le Concert d'Astrée, le Poème Harmonique, Accentus, Namur chamber choir, Sagittarius, and les Cris de Paris. His collaboration with recognized conductors (William Christie, Emmanuelle Haïm, Vincent Dumestre, Rinaldo Alessandrini, Laurence Equilbey, Christophe Rousset, Leonardo Garcia Alarcon, Jérôme Corréas, Emmanuel Krivine, Peter Phillips) has let him perform in various renowned halls (opéra Garnier, Théâtre des Champs Elysées, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, Royal Albert Hall, Barbican Center, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Palau de la Musica Catalana), including Wigmore Hall in London, performing Bach motets with les Arts Florissants conducted by Paul Agnew.
ANICET CASTELBass
Possessed of a rare high-tenor voice and a winning stage persona that comfortably embraces both comedic and dramatic roles, Marc Molomot enjoys an international career in opera and on the concert stage. He is known for his heartfelt portrayal of the Evangelist in Bach’s Passions in the United States and abroad. Molomot’s recent and upcoming appearances include Purcell’s The Fairy Queen with Chicago Opera Theater and Long Beach Opera, Bach’s Magnificat with Israel Camerata Jerusalem, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with Mobile Symphony Orchestra, and Britten’s Serenade with Omaha Symphony. His recordings include the January 2017 release of Berg’s Wozzeck with the Houston Symphony, winner of Germany's 2017 Echo Klassik Award for Best Opera Recording (20th/21st century opera), and the Grammy Award–nominated Lully’s Thésée with the Boston Early Music Festival.
MARC MOLOMOTTenor
Born and raised in Hamburg, Germany, tenor Nils Neubert maintains active careers as a performer, educator, and scholar in the United States and abroad. He is a sought-after interpreter of song, oratorio, opera, and chamber music, and has appeared as a soloist and ensemble singer throughout North America and Europe. He teaches German diction at The Juilliard School, the Manhattan School of Music, and the Mannes School of Music, and has coached at summer festivals including the Music Academy of the West (annually since 2016), and the Glimmerglass Festival. A graduate of The Juilliard School (BM), Teachers College, Columbia University (MA), and the CUNY Graduate Center (DMA), he haspublished original research and translations in the fields of musicology, music history, exile studies, music education, language diction, and musical interpretation/analysis. He is a student of Dr. Robert C. White, Jr., and is married to concert pianist and pedagogue Yuri Kim.
NILS NEUBERTTenor
Brooklyn based countertenor Clifton Massey was raised with a love of country & western, bluegrass, and other close-harmony singing in Dallas, TX. Frequently sought as a soloist and collaborative musician, he has participated in the Ojai Festival, Tanglewood Music Festival, Oregon Bach Festival, and Early Music Festivals of Berkeley, Boston, Utrecht, and Leipzig. A noted specialist in music of the Baroque period, he has appeared in concert with early-music luminaries including the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, American Bach Soloists, Trinity Baroque Orchestra, and the American Classical Orchestra. He is an alumnus of the Grammy-award-winning group Chanticleer with whom he performed hundreds of concerts worldwide. Clifton is grateful to have made live music during the Covid era with True Concord in Tucson, AZ, performing safely distanced concerts for in-person audiences last Fall. He holds a MM degree from the Indiana University Historical Performance Institute, where he studied with Paul Hillier and Paul Elliott.
CLIFTON MASSEYCountertenor
Soprano Madeline Apple Healey has been lauded for her “gorgeous singing” (Washington Post) and “fetching combination of vocal radiance and dramatic awareness” (Cleveland Plain Dealer). Specializing in early and contemporary repertoire, Madeline is passionate about polyphony and loves working on music that challenges the construct of beautiful sound. Recent engagements include appearances at Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht, Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, LA Opera, premieres at Lincoln Center’s White Light, Spoleto USA, and PROTOTYPE Festivals, and collaborations with Alkemie, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Death of Classical, New Chamber Ballet, and Res Facta. She is a member of the GRAMMY-Nominated Trinity Choir, co-founder of the virtuosic vocal chamber ensemble AMPERSAND, and performs internationally as a soloist and chamber musician. Beyond performing, Madeline is an outdoorswoman and environmental advocate. She resides in New York, where she can often be found rock climbing and exploring with her husband Teddy and their dog Bodhi.
MADELINE HEALEYSoprano
Soprano Sonya Headlam enjoys a vibrant career performing music that spans from the Baroque period to the 21st century. She made several notable solo debuts in the 2022–23 season, including Handel's Messiah with the Philadelphia Orchestra; Mozart and Bologne with Apollo's Fire at Severance Hall; Beethoven's Symphony no. 9 with the North Carolina Symphony; Bach's Mass in B Minor with the Grand Rapids Symphony; and Mozart's Exsultate Jubilate with the New World Symphony. Highlights for the 2023–24 season include solo debuts with the New York Philharmonic, the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, and the National Arts Centre Symphony in Ottawa.
Sonya holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Rutgers University. There she has also held a visiting scholar appointment, doing research on the life and music of the 18th-century writer, composer, and abolitionist Ignatius Sancho.
SONYA HEADLAMSoprano
Jonathan May, countertenor performs regularly with ensembles such as Ensemble VIII, Early Music New York, Mark Morris Dance Group, and The Saint Thomas Choir of Men and Boys. He most recently performed as an alto soloist in Bach’s Saint Matthew Passion with the Saint Thomas Choir and the Choir of Trinity Wall Street. He also appeared as soloist in cantatas BWV 70, 147 and Bach’s Magnificat with Bach Vespers at Holy Trinity, and was one of the countertenor soloists featured in GEMS’s Open Gates Project: Countertenors, a Consort, and Continuo. He holds a degree in music and economics from Dartmouth College.
JONATHAN MAY
ENRICO LAGASCABass-Baritone
Baritone Tyler Duncan has performed for the Metropolitan Opera, the Seiji Ozawa Academy, the Spoleto Festival USA, the Boston Early Music Festival, Tafelmusik, the Munich Bach Choir, the New York Philharmonic, the Orchestra of St Luke’s and the San Francisco Symphony. Tyler’s great love of art song has been showcased with Brahms’ Die Schöne Magelone with Erika Switzer for Collaborative Arts Chicago, Schubert Lieder at the Wigmore Hall with pianist Graham Johnson, Mahler’s Des Knaben Wunderhorn with Lviv Philharmonic, Shostakovich’s Michelangelo with The Orchestra Now at the Met Museum and has premiered many new works by composers including Jocelyn Morlock, Jeffrey Ryan, and Andrew Staniland. Tyler’s recordings include English Songs à la française with Erika Switzer, Earthquakes and Islands by Andrew Staniland with texts by Robin Richardson, John Blow’s Venus and Adonis with BEMF, Bach’s St. John Passion with the PBO, and Handel’s Messiah with the Montreal Symphony. Originally from Canada, Tyler now resides in NY’s Hudson Valley, and is currently on the voice faculty of the Longy School of Music in Boston.
TYLER DUNCANBaritone
Vocalist and Roomful of Teeth member Martha Cluver has been praised by The New York Times for her \"fluid, dark-hued\", and \"soulful\" soprano voice. As a soloist, she has performed and recorded with ensembles such as Trinity Baroque Orchestra, Janáček Philharmonic, Remix Ensemble, Prague Modern, Rebel Baroque, ICE, ACME, Fifth House Ensemble, and Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. Chamber music collaborations include groups such as Alarm Will Sound, Ensemble Signal, So Percussion, NEXUS, Axiom, Trio Mediaeval, Novus New York, Dogs of Desire, Wordless Music Orchestra, and TENET. Cluver currently lives in Brooklyn with her husband, Caleb Burhans, and daughter, Fiona.
MARTHA CLUVERSoprano
Hailed as “the real thing” (Cleveland Plain Dealer) and praised for his “elegant style” (Boston Globe), Sumner Thompson is one of the most sought-after young baritones singing today. His appearances on the operatic stage include the title role in Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo (Contemporary Opera Denmark in Copenhagen), Uberto in La Serva Padrona (Apollo’s Fire), the Traveller in Britten’s Curlew River (Britten-Pears School and Aldeburgh Festival, UK), Schaunard in La Bohème (Granite State Opera), and the Count in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro (Commonwealth Opera). Mr. Thompson’s appearances in Chicago Opera Theatre’s productions of Britten’s Death in Venice and Rossini’s Il Viaggio a Reims were also highly praised. A favorite in top-tier early music circles, he has appeared at the Boston Early Music Festival as the Satir in its recent production of Conradi’s Ariadne.
SUMNER THOMPSONBass
Michael Maliakel recently made his Off-Broadway debut in Anything Can Happen: The Songs of Maury Yeston alongside Broadway veterans Robert Cuccioli and Jill Paice. The review was produced by the multiple Tony Award-winning composer himself at the Triad Theatre. Michael also recently played the groom, Hemant, in the world premier of Mira Nair's musical stage adaptation of Monsoon Wedding in a box office record-breaking production at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre. A native of New Jersey, Michael received his earliest vocal training as a treble in the American Boychoir and did his undergraduate studies at Georgetown University and the Peabody Institute of Music of Johns Hopkins University. Michael is the 2016 Gold Medalist in the American Traditions Competition. He also won Third Prize at the International Lotte Lenya Competition and First Prize in the 2014 NATS National Musical Theater Competition.
MICHAEL MALIAKELBaritone
Steven Hrycelak, a Ukrainian-American bass from Rochester, NY, has crafted a career focused on both new and early repertoires. As a new music singer, he is a founding member of the vocal ensemble Ekmeles, which was recently awarded the 2023 Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation Ensemble Prize. He has also performed with Roomful of Teeth and Toby Twining Music, and at festivals including Ostrava Days in the Czech Republic, New Music New College, Prototype, and the Bang on a Can Marathon. He is a longtime member of the Grammy-nominated Choir of Trinity Wall Street, where he has been a frequent soloist on works from Schütz, Bach, and Handel to Stravinsky, George Crumb, and Terry Riley. He has worked on over a dozen recordings with this ensemble, both as a vocalist and as a diction coach. As an early musician, he has toured Handel’s Theodora with The English Concert, performed with the Mark Morris Dance Group in Purcell and Handel operas, performed Monteverdi with Opera Omnia, and works with Pegasus, NYS Baroque, ARTEK, the Portland Bach Experience, and TENET Vocal Artists/The Green Mountain Project. He also performs regularly with Blue Heron, and is proud to have sung on their “Music from the Peterhouse Partbooks, Vol. 5” album, which earned a Gramophone Award in 2018. In the spring of 2022, he toured the UK with TENET to celebrate the 450th birth anniversary of Thomas Tomkins, and in August of 2022 had the pleasure of finally doing a twice-delayed run of Monteverdi’s Orfeo with Pegasus. He studied at Indiana University and Yale University, where he sang with the Yale Whiffenpoofs. He is also a vocal coach and accompanist.
STEVEN HRYCELAKBass
Alabama-born baritone Mischa Bouvier is widely regarded as a singer of keen musicality and unique beauty of tone. Praised by Opera News for a “soothing, cavernous baritone that can soar to heights of lyric beauty,” and by San Francisco Classical Voice for an “immensely sympathetic, soulful voice” and “rare vocal and interpretive gifts,” Mischa continues to garner critical acclaim for a diverse career that includes concerts, recitals, staged works and recordings. He has performed with Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Boston Pops, The Knights, Musica Sacra, American Bach Soloists, Princeton Glee Club, Mirror Visions Ensemble, New York Festival of Song, Saint Thomas Choir of Men and Boys, Alabama Symphony, Haymarket Opera Company, and others. Mischa holds degrees from Boston University and the University of Cincinnati (CCM). He lives on Long Island.
MISCHA BOUVIERBass
Hailed as a “fresh voice on New York’s musical scene” (The New Yorker), Donald Meineke is an organist, conductor, tenor specializing in historical performance practice. He has served as Organist and Director of Music of The Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity in New York City where he led the renowned and twice Grammy®-nominated Bach Choir and Players in the internationally renowned Bach Vespers at Holy Trinity series. His Bach Choir’s recording of Samuel Capricornus’ Jubilus Bernhardi, in collaboration with string ensemble ACRONYM, received international critical acclaim and was on Colorado Public Radio’s “Top 5 Must Have New Recordings” list. His recordings and performances have been featured on KMFA’s Ancient Voices (Austin, TX) and WXXI’s With Heart and Voice (Rochester, NY) and he has appeared as a guest artist and commentator on Columbia University-WKCR’s Bachfest.
DONALD MEINEKETenor
Rebecca Myers is a soloist, vocal chamber singer, collaborator, recording artist, and creator in high demand. Rebecca has gained a reputation for her “timbral clarity and flawless pitch”, “nimble coloratura” and “vulnerability and grace”. She has appeared on three GRAMMY winning albums, most notably as a soloist on The Crossing’s “Born”, winner of the 2023 GRAMMY for Best Choral performance. In recent seasons Rebecca has appeared as a soloist with The New World Symphony, Apollo’s Fire Baroque Orchestra, Seraphic Fire, The Bach Choir of Bethlehem, and Lorelei Ensemble. Her 2023/2024 season includes two international tours with The Crossing, and performances with Lyric Fest, Tempesta di Mare, and the annual CalPoly Bach week. She is proud to be the artistic director, and a founding soprano for the cutting edge vocal chamber music ensemble, Variant 6.
REBECCA MYERSSoprano
Praised as \"splendidly declamatory\" (Opera Today) and for his \"powerful baritone and impressive vocal range\" (Boston Music Intelligencer), baritone Andrew Padgett is an accomplished interpreter of both baroque and medieval vocal music. He has collaborated with early music luminaries including Masaaki Suzuki, Nicholas McGegan, and Paul O’Dette, and has appeared as a soloist with Bach Collegium San Diego, Apollo's Fire, and Piffaro, among many other leading ensembles. Andrew holds a B.S. in physics and an M.M. in voice from U.C. Santa Barbara, and an M.M. in early music, oratorio, and chamber ensemble from Yale University's Institute of Sacred Music. He is based in Boston, where he regularly sings under the direction of Ryan Turner on Emmanuel Music's pioneering and long-running Bach Cantata Series.
ANDREW PADGETTBaritone
Mezzo-soprano Helen Karloski has been praised for her “genuine mezzo timbre” (Opera News) and a voice “beautifully suited for oratorio” (Santa Fe New Mexican). Ms. Karloski made her Lincoln Center debut in Mozart’s Solemn Vespers with the Mostly Mozart Festival and her Carnegie Hall debut performing Mozart’s Mass in C Minor with the Oratorio Society of New York. Recent appearances include Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, (Harry Bicket), Dvořák’s Stabat Mater (Omaha Symphony), Der Tag des Gerichts and Beethoven's Ninth Symphony (American Classical Orchestra), Bach’s St. Matthew Passion (St. Andrew Music Society), and Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (New York City Ballet). Ms. Karloski was featured on the 2014 GRAMMY-winning recording The Sacred Spirit of Russia. In 2015, she was the First-Place recipient in the Lyndon Woodside Oratorio Solo Competition.
HELEN KARLOSKIAlto
KATE MARONEYMezzo-soprano
Reviewers describe Jason McStoots as having an “alluring tenor voice” (ArtsFuse) and as “the consummate artist, wielding not just a sweet tone but also incredible technique and impeccable pronunciation”. (Cleveland Plain Dealer) In 2015 he won a GRAMMY with the Boston Early Music Festival (BEMF) for the music of Charpentier. Solo appearances include Les plaisirs de Versailles (Charpentier), Orfeo, Il ritorno d’Ulisse, 1610 Vespers (Monteverdi), Abduction from the Seraglio (Mozart), Christmas Oratorio, St. Mark Passion (Bach), Dido and Aeneas (Purcell) and Messiah (Handel) with groups such as Boston Lyric Opera, Emmanuel Music, Pacific MusicWorks, San Juan Symphony, Bach Ensemble, Seattle Early Music Guild, Tragicomedia, Tanglewood Music Center, and Blue Heron. Recording credits include Lully's Pysché, Handel’s Acis and Galatea, Blow’s Venus and Adonis and Charpentier’s Acteon with BEMF (CPO), Fischer Vespers (Toccata Classics), and Awakenings with Coro Allegro (Navona).
JASON MCSTOOTS Tenor
Hailed for her “radiant sweetness” by The New York Times, Molly Quinn has garnered praise for her thought provoking and delightful interpretation of music from the medieval to the modern. She has collaborated with notable arts organizations around the globe including the Knights NYC, TENET Vocal Artists, Portland Baroque Orchestra, Apollo’s Fire, Folger Consort, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Trinity Wall Street, Ascension Music, Clarion Music Society, Saint Thomas Fifth Avenue, Pacific Baroque Orchestra, North Carolina Baroque Orchestra, Seraphic Fire, Ensemble VIII, Bach Collegium San Diego, Quicksilver Ensemble, and Acronym. Molly has also garnered acclaim for her work crossing genres in classical, folk, and contemporary music. She was dubbed \"pure radiance\" by The Los Angeles Times for her work with Bang on a Can All-Stars in Steel Hammer. She is a festival soloist at the Staunton Music Festival, and appears as a featured soloist at the Carmel Bach Festival. She was a featured soloist on Trinity wall Street’s Grammy Nominated recording of Handel’s Israel in Egypt. She has performed as a soloist in international venues Shostakovich Hall in St Petersburg, Teatro National de Costa Rica, the Arts Center of NYU Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, Vancouver’s Chan Centre, San Cristobal Cathedral in Havana, Cuba and the Carmen Alto Convent in Quito, Ecuador.
MOLLY QUINNSoprano
Aaron Sheehan regularly performs in the United States, South America, and Europe. He sang the title role in Boston Early Music Festival’s Grammy Award winning recording of Charpentier’s opera La déscente d'Orphée aux enfers. On the concert stage, he enjoys a reputation as a first rate interpreter of the works of Bach, Handel and Mozart. He has performed at Tanglewood, Lincoln Center, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Washington National Cathedral, the Early Music Festivals of Boston (BEMF), San Francisco, Vancouver, Washington DC, Carmel, Regensburg Tage Alter Musik, and with Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, American Bach Soloists, Handel and Haydn Society, Boston Baroque, Tafelmusik, North Carolina Symphony, New York Collegium, Charlotte Symphony and Pacific Music Works. His roles with BEMF include L’Amour and Apollon in Lully’s Psyché, Actéon in Charpentier’s Actéon, Orfeo in Monteverdi’s Orfeo, Eurimaco in Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria, Acis in Handel’s Acis and Galatea and Liberto/Soldato in L’incoronazione di Poppea. He has also performed leading roles in operas by Cavalli, Handel, Weill, and Satie.
AARON SHEEHANTenor
Wouter Verschuren is a celebrated historical bassoonist who regularly performs across Europe and the United States. He is comfortable with repertoire spanning from the Renaissance to the Romantic period. Principal bassoonist of The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra for the past twenty-five years, Wouter frequently collaborates with other esteemed period ensembles. In addition to his positions at the Royal College of Music, London, and the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague, Wouter conducts master classes in Europe, the USA, and the Middle East. He holds a PhD from the Royal College of Music, London.
NYC-based violinist Isabelle Seula Lee performs extensively throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. A leading member of Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, she has appeared as a soloist with Voices of Music, New York Baroque Incorporated, the Sebastians, Philharmonia Chamber Players, and Juilliard415. She also performs regularly with ensembles such as the Trinity Baroque Orchestra and Bach Collegium Japan. Born in South Korea, Isabelle began playing the violin at age four and later studied in Russia for a decade. She made her solo debut at age eleven with the Tele-Radio Symphony Orchestra in Saint Petersburg and has since appeared with orchestras throughout Russia, Estonia, and the U.S. She holds degrees from Lynn University, the Juilliard School, and the Yale School of Music.
Noted for her “eloquent artistry and rich, vibrant sound” (Gainesville Times), Caroline Nicolas has been praised as “one of the finest gambists working today” (Gotham Early Music Scene). Ensembles she has worked with include the English Concert, Trinity Baroque Orchestra, Mercury Orchestra, Ars Lyrica Houston, Juilliard Baroque, Philharmonia Baroque, Pacific MusicWorks, Kammerorchester Basel, New World Symphony, and Sinfonieorchester Liechtenstein. Notable venues include the KKL Luzern, Berliner Philharmonie, Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Hall, and Benaroya Hall.
Alissa Smith, violist, holds music degrees from the Australian National University and the Juilliard School, where she was a Teaching Fellow. A versatile performer on modern and baroque violas, Alissa has appeared at the Tanglewood, Ravinia and Verbier music Festivals; toured with the Houston Symphony; performed with NOVUS and the New York City Ballet, and previously held a residency with the Emerson String Quartet. As a baroque violist, Alissa has performed extensively with Trinity Baroque Orchestra, NYBI, Clarion, the Sebastians, and at the Staunton and Carmel Bach Festivals. Previous engagements include Apollos Fire, Seraphic Fire, Upper Valley Baroque, and with Teatro Nuovo. Alissa can be heard on many period instrument recordings, including the Bach Motets (Trinity Choir) and Mozart Symphonies (Apollos Fire).
Amanda Beranek is a Baroque and modern harpist based in New York City. Maintaining a particular passion for early music, Amanda performs on various types of harps, including pedal, lever, Italian triple, and German double harps. In July 2023, Amanda participated in The Helicona Project, a Baroque improvisation festival in Verona, Italy, where she performed on both the Spanish harp and Baroque triple harp. Amanda has also presented solo music at the World Harp Congress in Wales. She regularly performs early and contemporary folk music with her trio on modern and historical instruments. Amanda has recently performed with Juilliard 415, the Silentwoods Collective, and TENET Vocal Artists. She holds two degrees from The Juilliard School.
Hailed for his “scampering virtuosity” (American Record Guide) and “superb” playing (The New York Times), cellist Ezra Seltzer is the principal cellist of the Trinity Baroque Orchestra, New York Baroque Incorporated, and Early Music New York and a founding member of the Sebastians. He has frequently appeared as guest principal cellist of Musica Angelica and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, where he earned praise for his “delicate elegance and rambunctious spirit” (Twin Cities Pioneer Press). He attended Yale University, where he received his Bachelor of Arts in history and Master of Music in cello, and graduated from the inaugural class of Juilliard’s historical performance program.
EZRA SELTZERCello
Flutist Sang Joon Park was the recipient of Samuel Baron Prize awarded at the SUNY Stony Brook University where he received his Doctor of Musical Arts Degree under Carol Wincenc. He studied with Wilbert Hazelzet, Sandra Miller, Janet See, Jed Wentz, Linda Chesis, Judith Mendenhall and Thomas Nyfenger, and participated in Amherst Early Music Festival, International Baroque Institute at Longy, Vancouver Early Music Programme, and Bunnik Traverso Workshop. He is a member of Glitter & Gold, Bach Vespers at Holy Trinity, The Soul’s Delight, and performs with New York Baroque Incorporated. Sang Joon is a researcher of Spanish baroque music at the Patrimonio Nacional Archivo y Biblioteca de Palacio Real de Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional de España, Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid, Biblioteca Histórica Municipal de Madrid, Biblioteca Musical Municipal de Madrid, Real Biblioteca del Monasterio San Lorenzo de El Escorial, and the Royal Library (Koninklijke Bibliotheek) at the Hague, Netherlands.
SANG JOON PARKFlute
“Mili Chang, whose traverso playing in the Credo’s Benedictus was fluid, elegant, and well, just lovely” (Boston Musical Intelligencer) in her performance with Ton Koopman, the director of the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra. She has performed with many baroque music ensembles and with Grammy Award recipient and nominee Monica Huggett, tenor Aaron Sheehan, and keyboardist Richard Egarr. She plays with the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Chorale Taipei, the Sebastians, Crescendo, Sheboygan Symphony Orchestra, and St. Peter’s Lutheran Church Baroque Orchestra. She has been featured on WQXR and West Side Radio. She has performed at Lincoln Center, Yale University, Columbia University, the National Center for Performing Arts in India, the Banff Center in Canada, and the National Concert Hall in Taiwan. Currently, she performs in the New York Metropolitan area and teaches music at the New Jersey schools.
MILI CHANGFlute
Originally from Tokyo, Japan and now based in New York, NY, Kako Boga is a violinist who performs on historical and modern instruments. Kako has appeared internationally as a soloist, performing alongside orchestras in Asia, Australia, and the United States, and her solo and chamber music performances have taken her to such distinguished venues as Alice Tully Hall of Lincoln Center, Weill and Zankel Halls at Carnegie Hall, and the Sydney Opera House. As an ensemble musician, Kako has performed with many renowned musical groups around the United States and abroad, including Handel and Haydn Society, Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra, New York Baroque Incorporated, New York Classical Players, and Tafelmusik. She is a co-founder and co-leader of Relic, a chamber orchestra founded in 2022 which has quickly garnered acclaim across the country for its compelling and innovative performances of Baroque music. In addition to music, Kako loves food, tea, and naps.
KAKO BOGAViolin
Héloïse Degrugillier has worked extensively as both a recorder and traverso performer, and teacher throughout Europe and the United States. She has performed with leading period ensembles, including Handel and Haydn, the Boston Camerata, Boston Early Music Festival, Aston Magna and Tempesta di Mare. Heloise also enjoys an active teaching career. She teaches at Tufts university and Rhode Island College. She is the president and music director of the Boston Recorder Society. She has completed her studies in the Alexander Technique and has a Master’s in Music from the Utrecht Conservatory in the Netherlands.
HÉLOISE DEGRUGILLIERWinds
Lutenist Kevin Payne is active as a recitalist, accompanist, and continuo player. Recent ensemble work includes performances with Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Seattle Symphony, Blue Heron, Handel and Haydn Society, and Bach Collegium San Diego. Festival appearances include Caramoor, Tanglewood, Spoleto, and Newport Classical. Performance venues include Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., the National Concert Hall in Taipei, Taiwan, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and the Festspielhaus in Baden-Baden, Germany. His playing has been broadcast on a number of nationally syndicated radio programs including Sunday Baroque and Performance Today.
When not performing, Kevin enjoys cooking, reading, watching Star Trek (P’Tach!) and attempting to delay the inevitable (and often imminent) demise of the houseplants he shares with his wife, cellist Caroline Nicolas.
KEVIN PAYNE Lute
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“Widely regarded as North America's masters of music for Renaissance wind band” (St Paul Pioneer Press), Piffaro has delighted audiences throughout the United States, Europe, Canada and South America since its founding by Joan Kimball and Bob Wiemken in 1980. Now under the direction of Priscilla Herreid, Piffaro recreates the rustic music of the peasantry and the elegant sounds of the official wind bands of the late Medieval and Renaissance periods. Its ever-expanding instrumentarium includes over 40 shawms, dulcians, sackbuts, recorders, krumhorns, bagpipes, lutes, guitars, harps, and a variety of percussion — all careful reconstructions of instruments from the period.
Through touring,recordings on Newport Classics, Deutsche Grammophon Arkiv Produktion, Dorian Recordings, PARMA/Navona, and its own house label, and through radio and internet broadcasts, Piffaro’s music reaches listeners worldwide.
Piffaro has been honored with the American Recorder Society’s “Distinguished Artist Award,” Early Music America’s “Early Music Brings History Alive” and Laurette Goldberg “Lifetime Achievement in Early Music Outreach” awards, and its founders received Howard Mayer Brown “Lifetime Achievement in the Field of Early Music” for their work with Piffaro in 2021.
PIFFARO
The Sebastians are a dynamic and vital musical ensemble specializing in music of the baroque and classical eras. Lauded as “everywhere sharp-edged and engaging” (The New York Times), the Sebastians have also been praised for their “well-thought-out articulation and phrasing” (Early Music Review) and “elegant string playing… immaculate in tuning and balance” (Early Music Today). Their 2018 unconducted St. Matthew Passion with TENET Vocal Arts was called “shattering” and “a performance of uncommon naturalness and transparency.” The Sebastians’ recent seasons have included dozens of originally conceived programs, including collaborations with poets, choreographers, dancers, and actors; a musical installation in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine; programs dealing with musical “immigration” and nationalism; and major works of J.S. Bach led from the keyboard. The Sebastians are currently in residence at the Yale Collection of Musical Instruments.
THE SEBASTIANS
Sian Ricketts, enjoys a multi-faceted career as a period woodwinds specialist, singer, and medieval pedagogue. She is a core member of Piffaro and Alkemie, and she also performs and records medieval, Renaissance, and baroque chamber music with ensembles including Trobár, Makaris, Theotokos, Science Ficta, and Apollo’s Fire. As a co-managing director and performer with Alkemie, she has appeared on series including the Berkeley Early Music Festival, Arizona Early Music, the Five Boroughs Music Festival, Music Before 1800, and the San Francisco Early Music Series. With Alkemie she co-produced and performed on the soundtrack for the BAFTA award-winning videogame Pentiment by Obsidian Entertainment (pub. Xbox), as well as A Fine Companion and Love to My Liking. Sian also co-leads the experimental ensemble Freelance Nun, creating music that transcends boundaries of time, genre, and dimension. Sian has served on the faculties of Fordham University and the Amherst Early Music Festival.
SIAN RICKETTSRecorder
Milwaukee native and Grammy award-winning violinist, Ravenna Lipchik, thrives in a musical life shared between the worlds of modern and historical performance practices. Ravenna received her training at the San Francisco Conservatory and the Juilliard School, where she is a graduate of both their modern and Historical Performance programs. Her upcoming season includes performances with ensembles such as Les Arts Florissants, The English Concert, Ensemble Pygmalion, and the Trinity Baroque Orchestra, as well as an album release of Schumann Piano trios with Trio Ilona, a group dedicated to the exploration of 18th/19th c performance practice.
RAVENNA LIPCHIKViolin
Violinist Carmen Lavada Johnson-Pájaro, native of Birmingham, Alabama, is a community-based artist living in New York City. Raised in a family of music lovers, Carmen began her musical studies with jam sessions in the living room and eventually found her way to the world of historical performance. She’s had the opportunity to work with renowned early music figures such as Masaaki Suzuki, William Christie, Reggie Mobley, Jonathan Cohen, Rachel Podger, Richard Egarr, Lionel Meunier, among many others. Recent highlights include performances with Les Arts Florissants, Valley of the Moon Music Festival, Early Music Access Project, and a residency at The Mount Sinai Hospital with a group she co-founded, Open Source Baroque. Carmen’s 2023/24 season includes performances with Twelfth Night, Repast Baroque, the Handel & Haydn Society, Washington Bach Consort, Staunton Music Festival, and more. She is one of the fellows for the inaugural cohort of the Handel & Haydn Stone Fellowship for the next two years. Beyond performing, Carmen’s commitment to community engagement has led to years of nonprofit work and work in schools, shelters, hospitals, and detention centers across the world. Carmen holds degrees from The Juilliard School, New England Conservatory, and the Eastman School of Music, where she was a Lois Rogers and Links Scholar. Carmen is also a serious popcorn addict, podcast junkie, dog lover, and gym rat!
CARMEN JOHNSON-PÁJAROViolin
Ben Matus enjoys a varied career in music: bringing to life music regardless of whether it was written in the Middle Ages or yesterday. Ben performs with early music groups on various bassoons, dulcians, shawms, recorders, bagpipes, and whatever instruments he can get his hands on all along the East Coast—including Alkemie Medieval Music Ensemble, New York Baroque Incorporated, Trinity Baroque Orchestra, The Clarion Society, Opera Lafayette, The Washington Bach Consort, The Handel and Haydn Society, Mountainside Baroque, and more. In addition to his performances in concert halls, Ben plays and sings for the Chivalrous Crickets, a band focused on the folk traditions of the British Isles, America, Canada, and their early music roots. With Alkemie, Ben recently prepared and recorded the music for the video game Pentiment. In his spare time Ben can be found attending his friends’ concerts (pandemic permitting), learning new instruments, developing new hobbies, or recording birds deep in the woods.
BEN MATUSRecorder
Isabelle Douailly-Backman is a Montreal-based historical string player. Originally from Chicago, she moved to Montreal to pursue a degree in modern viola at McGill University. There she discovered a love for early music and has since completed a B.Mus in Baroque Viola and a M.Mus in Baroque Violin from McGill University under the tutelage of Hélène Plouffe and Olivier Brault.
Today, Isabelle frequently performs on baroque violin and viola with ensembles and festivals in Canada, including Ensemble Caprice, Arion Baroque Orchestra, Musique Royale, and Montreal Baroque Festival. She is also a specialist in the medieval fiddle and the co-artistic director of COMTESSA, an historically-informed ensemble who performs 11th to 14th century music on medieval period instruments. Isabelle is also the 2023 recipient of the Barbara Thorton Memorial Scholarship, a biennial scholarship awarded by Early Music America and members of Sequentia to “an outstanding and highly motivated young performer of medieval music.” Isabelle also collaborates outside the early music scene with groups like the queer arts collective Sapphonix.
ISABELLE DOUAILLY-BACKMANVielle
Joelle Monroe has been a baroque trumpeter and bugler with The United States Army Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps since 2003. From 2011-2019 Joelle was the founder and principal trumpeter of The United States Army Historical Trumpets, a specialized baroque trumpet ensemble within the Corps and the only period instrument ensemble in the U.S. military. Focusing on the intersection of military, civic, and art music of the 17th - 18th centuries, the ensemble performed and educated across the country, including venues such as The White House, the Pentagon, and the U.S. Department of State. After 20 years of service, Joelle retired from the Army in December of 2023. She continues being an active freelance baroque trumpeter and educator across the country. She performs period music with many of the country’s leading early music ensembles, including the Washington National Cathedral baroque ensemble, The Washington Bach Consort, The Folger Consort, Tempesta Di Mare, Opera Lafayette, and Apollo’s Fire. In 2020 she appeared on the CD recording Altissima. Joelle resides in Falls Church, VA with her husband and 3 children.
JOELLE MONROETrumpet
Grant Herreid performs frequently on early reeds, brass, strings and voice with Piffaro, Hesperus, ARTEK, and many other early music ensembles. A noted teacher and educator, he is the recipient of Early Music America’s Laurette Goldberg award for excellence in early music outreach and education. On the faculty at Yale University, he leads the Yale Collegium Musicum and the Yale Baroque Opera Project (YBOP). Grant also directs the New York Continuo Collective, and often sings gregorian chant for the Tridentine mass. He has created and directed several theatrical early music shows, and devotes much of his time to exploring the esoteric unwritten traditions of early music with the ensembles Ex Umbris and Ensemble Viscera.
GRANT HERREIDLute
Early string specialist Dongmyung Ahn is a performer, educator, and scholar whose interests span from the twelfth to eighteenth centuries. She is co-founder of Guido’s Ear and has performed with the Sebastians, TENET Vocal Artists, Green Mountain Vespers, Raritan Players, Pegasus, and Marginalia. She has played rebec in the critically acclaimed production of The Play of Daniel at the Cloisters. A dedicated educator, Dongmyung is the director of the Queens College Baroque Ensemble and has taught music history at Vassar College and Queens College. She received her PhD in musicology at the Graduate Center, CUNY and has published an article on medieval liturgy in the Rodopi series Faux Titre.
DONGMYUNG AHNVielle
Praised for his versatility and soulful expressive style, Serafim Smigelskiy actively performs on both baroque and modern cellos.Serafim has toured internationally, performing a wide-ranging repertoire from early to contemporary music. Between 2014 and 2021, while a member of the Tesla Quartet, he toured worldwide appearing on some of the world’s most prestigious stages, including The Wigmore Hall, Lincoln Center and Esterhazy Palace. His love of early music led him to study baroque cello at the Juilliard School. A passionate advocate of new music, Serafim has given numerous world premiere performances guided by composers such as Arvo Pärt, Chaya Czernowin, Georg Friedrich Haas, Mathias Pintscher and others. Serafim also composes electronic music as Faremis Sound and produces audiobooks with his wife, Sierra Prasada, as HiSierrafim Audio
SERAFIM SMIGELSKIYCello
A winner of Astral Artists’ 2016 National Auditions, violinist Katie Hyun has been described as “a virtuoso by any measure” (The Berkshire Review). Festival appearances include Chamber Music Northwest in Portland, Bravo! Vail in Colorado, Tippet Rise Arts Center in Montana, Mostly Mozart in New York, OBX Chamber Music Series in North Carolina, Crescent City Chamber Music Festival in New Orleans, and New York in Chuncheon in South Korea. Katie currently serves as the concertmaster of NOVUS Trinity Wall Street. She has appeared as a soloist recently with the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra, NOVUS Trinity Wall Street, and the Busan Sinfonietta and Incheon Philharmonic in South Korea, among others On the Baroque violin, she frequently appears with the Trinity Baroque Orchestra and Seraphic Fire.
KATIE HYUNViolin
Trinity’s new music orchestra, NOVUS NY, is a key collaborator in the contemporary music scene and has forged strong links with many of today’s leading composers and conductors. Its “expert and versatile musicians” (New Yorker) perform music from all corners of the repertoire, meeting “every challenge with an impressive combination of discipline and imagination” (New York Classical Review). In its annual appearances at the Prototype Festival, NOVUS NY has helped pioneer several major new works including the Pulitzer Prize-winning operas Ellen Reid’s p r i s m (2019) and Angel’s Bone by Du Yun (2017) as well as Emma O’Halloran’s Trade and Mary Motorhead and Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek’s Breaking the Waves, named “Best New Opera for 2016” by the Music Critics Association. NOVUS NY’s recordings include Luna Pearl Woolf’s Grammy-nominated Fire and Flood, Ellen Reid’s p r i s m, Paola Prestini’s The Hubble Cantata, Du Yun’s Angel’s Bone, Trevor Weston’s Choral Works, Philip Glass’s Symphony No. 5, Edward Thomas’s opera Anna Christie and Am I Born by David T. Little.
NOVUS NY
Caitlyn Koester is a harpsichordist and music director active in the early music communities of the Bay Area and NYC. Her international duo, AKOYA, has concertised throughout North America, and released its debut album of Graupner’s complete sonatas for violin and harpsichord under ATMA Classique. Caitlyn holds degrees from the University of Michigan, San Francisco Conservatory and The Juilliard School, and is pursuing a DMA at SUNY Stony Brook. She has been on collegiate and pre-college faculty at SF Conservatory. Recent engagements include concerts for two harpsichords with Elliot Figg through GEMS and The Berkshire Bach Society, and a recital with AKOYA for the Montreal Bach Festival. When not playing the harpsichord, Caitlyn enjoys going on adventures with her dog, a Great Pyrenees mix named Polyphony.
CAITLYN KOESTERKeyboards
Gaia Saetermoe-Howard, praised for her “poignant, pliant sound” (New York Classical Review), performs modern and historical oboes and recorders throughout North America. Her recent engagements include performances with Tempesta di Mare, the Handel and Haydn Society, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Musica Angelica, and the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra. As an artist-scholar, she focuses on contextualizing global perspectives of Baroque music by tracing the background of historical musical styles around the world. Gaia also teaches in her private music studio, and has taught for renowned programs like S’Cool Sounds, the Wildwood Institute of Music, and the Juilliard Music Advancement Program. A student of Gonzalo Ruiz, Geoffrey Burgess, and Richard Killmer, she holds degrees from the Juilliard School, the Eastman School of Music, and the University of Rochester.
GAIA SAETERMOE-HOWARDOboe
A preeminent exponent of the Natural Horn in America, Todd Williams is an active performer and educator based in Philadelphia. In high demand, he currently serves as Principal Horn of numerous ensembles across the country including Philharmonia Baroque, the Handel & Haydn Society, Boston Baroque, Trinity Baroque, Apollo’s Fire, Mercury, Opera Lafayette, Tempesta di Mare, and more. On the topic of the Natural Horn, he has conducted lectures and master classes at the music schools of Curtis, Eastman, and Oberlin and in 2018, joined the faculty of The Juilliard School. Equally comfortable on the modern valve horn, he is a staple of the Philadelphia music scene regularly performing with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Chamber and Opera Orchestras, the Philly Pops, and the Philadelphia Ballet where he is currently Acting Principal. He’s recorded for Deutsche Grammophon, RCA/Sony Records, CPO, Atlantic Records, CORO, Naxos, Musica Omnia, Chaconne/Chandos, NASCAR/Paramount, Warner Brothers, and Apple TV. Todd is a graduate of Indiana University.
TODD WILLIAMSNatural Horn
Patricia Ann Neely, (vielle, viola da gamba, violone, and baroque bass), has performed and recorded with many early music ensembles here and abroad, including Sequentia, Smithsonian Chamber Orchestra and Viol Consort, Tempesta di Mare, Washington Bach Consort, Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, Rheinische Kantorei Köln, among others. She currently directs Abendmusik – New York’s Early Music String Band which has released its first recording, Whyte Noyse – The Complete Consorts of William Whyte. She is a member of the Board of Early Music America (EMA) and has been chair of its IDEA (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access )Taskforce. She is currently on the Board of the Viola da Gamba Society of America and Chair of the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee. Ms. Neely has been on the faculty of many early music workshops including the Amherst Early Music Workshop and the Viola da Gamba Society Conclave, and has been on the faculty of Wagner College, Vassar College, Mannes College of Music, and The Brearley School. She holds a BA in music from Vassar College and an MFA in Historical Performance from Sarah Lawrence College.
PATRICIA ANN NEELYVielle
Indian-American composer Reena Esmail works between the worlds of Indian and Western classical music, and brings communities together through the creation of equitable musical spaces. Esmail’s life and music was profiled on Season 3 of PBS Great Performances series Now Hear This, as well as Frame of Mind, a podcast from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Esmail divides her attention evenly between orchestral, chamber and choral work. She has written commissions for ensembles including the Los Angeles Master Chorale, Seattle Symphony, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and Kronos Quartet, and her music has featured on multiple Grammy-nominated albums, including The Singing Guitar by Conspirare, BRUITS by Imani Winds, and Healing Modes by Brooklyn Rider. Many of her choral works are published by Oxford University Press.Esmail is the Los Angeles Master Chorale’s 2020-2025 Swan Family Artist in Residence, and was Seattle Symphony’s 2020-21 Composer-in-Residence. She also holds awards/fellowships from United States Artists, the S&R Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Kennedy Center.
Esmail holds degrees in composition from The Juilliard School (BM’05) and the Yale School of Music (MM’11, MMA’14, DMA’18). Her primary teachers have included Susan Botti, Aaron Jay Kernis, Christopher Theofanidis, Christopher Rouse and Samuel Adler. She received a Fulbright-Nehru grant to study Hindustani music in India. Her Hindustani music teachers include Srimati Lakshmi Shankar and Gaurav Mazumdar, and she currently studies and collaborates with Saili Oak. Her doctoral thesis, entitled Finding Common Ground: Uniting Practices in Hindustani and Western Art Musicians explores the methods and challenges of the collaborative process between Hindustani musicians and Western composers. Esmail was Composer-in-Residence for Street Symphony (2016-18) and is currently an Artistic Director of Shastra, a non-profit organization that promotes cross-cultural music connecting music traditions of India and the West. She currently resides in her hometown of Los Angeles, California.
REENA ESMAILComposer
A native of New York City, Roxan Jurkevich studied with members of the New York Philharmonic and the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and holds Bachelors and Masters degrees in percussion performance from The Juilliard School, where she also attended the Pre-college division. She was Principal Percussion/ Assistant Principal Timpani with the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra (OBC) for 30 years since the 1991-92 season (where she performed live at the 1992 Barcelona Summer Olympics), has performed frequently with many prestigious ensembles including the Metropolitan (MET) Opera Orchestra in New York, the Philharmonia Orchestra in London, and the Israel Philharmonic (both in Israel and on tour). Roxan has performed with prominent directors such as Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta, Pierre Boulez, André Prévin, Esa-Pekka Salonen and many others, frequently appearing on TV and online channels such as BBC 4, medici.tv and YouTube, and in the U.S. on programs such as 60 Minutes, Live with Regis and Kelly, and Days of Our Lives, among others. She continues to play percussion for various Broadway shows and has premiered solo and chamber works for percussion, including Gene Pritsker’s Pandemic Dance #18 for electric guitar and marimba. She has performed with ICE Ensemble, Bang On A Can, Drumfire Quartet and many other contemporary music groups. She has recorded for prominent labels such as RCA Victor/BMG, EMI, Decca, Telarc, Koch, Harmonia Mundi and Naxos, with two of these albums winning Latin Grammy awards.
ROXAN JURKEVICHPercussion
DONGMYUNG AHNViollin
Daphna Mor, known for her “astonishing virtuosity” (Chicago Tribune), has performed throughout Europe and the United States as a soloist and ensemble player. As soloist, she performed at Tanglewood and the Met Museum with Apollo’s Fire Orchestra, Little Orchestra Society at Carnegie Hall and more. As member of the orchestra, Mor performed with the New York Philharmonic, New York City Opera and Orchestra of St. Luke's. She has appeared in a duo with Joyce DiDonato on the singer’s album tour for In War and Peace and can be heard on Sting’s album If On A Winter’s Night for Deutsche Grammophon. Mor co leads the Ensemble East of the River together with Nina Stern. Mor is excited to return for her second appearance with TENET.
DAPHNA MORWinds / Voice
Melissa Rodgers Woodrow has performed with early music and contemporary music ensembles in the United States and abroad and has recorded for film and television on modern and baroque trumpets. This season’s highlights include performances with Ars Minerva, Bach Collegium San Diego, Live Oak Baroque Orchestra, Musica Povera, Opera Neo, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Portland Baroque Orchestra, and Tessere. Repertoire highlights include Bach’s Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben and Oster-Oratorium, Handel’s Zadok the Priest, Haydn’s Missa in Angustiis, and Mozart’s Mitridate. Melissa holds a DMA in Historic Performance Practices from Claremont Graduate University and an MM in Baroque Trumpet Performance from the Bob Cole Conservatory of Music. She enjoys cooking, gardening, traveling, hiking, cycling, and just about any outdoor activity, with her husband, James.
MELISSA RODGERS WOODROWTrumpet
Anna Marsh, baroque bassoon and third oboe is a multi-instrumentalist fluent in Renaissance, Baroque, Classical and Modern styles. Anna holds a doctorate of music in historical performance from Indiana University & has appeared worldwide with Opera Lafayette, Tempesta di Mare, Folger Consort, Musica Angelica, Tafelmusik, Washington Bach Consort and Atlanta Baroque among others. She has taught privately & at festivals at the Eastman School of Music, Los Angeles Music and Art School, Amherst Early Music, San Francisco Early Music Society, Hawaii Performing Arts Festival & Western Double Reed Workshops. She also has been heard on dozens of recordings & on Performance Today, Harmonia, CBC radio & recorded for Chandos, Analekta, Centaur, Naxos, the Super Bowl, Avie, and Musica Omnia's Grammy nominated album, Handel's Israel in Egypt.
ANNA MARSHBassoon
Cellist Hannah Collins is a dynamic performer devoted to building community through musical expression. Resonance Lines, her debut album on Sono Luminus, is an “adventurous, impressive collection of contemporary solo cello music,” negotiated “with panache” (The Strad), pairing music by Britten and Saariaho with commissions by Caroline Shaw and Thomas Kotcheff. New Morse Code, her “remarkably inventive and resourceful duo” (Gramophone) with percussionist Michael Compitello, has developed projects responding to society’s most pressing issues and were awarded the 2020 Ariel Avant Impact Performance Prize. Hannah has recently performed with A Far Cry, Bach Aria Soloists, and The Knights. She holds degrees in biomedical engineering and music from Yale, Royal Conservatory of The Hague, and CUNY Grad Center. She teaches at the University of Kansas.
HANNAH COLLINSCello
Internationally-renowned musician, Maria Christina Cleary has been described as “a true virtuoso”, a “brilliant player” and “a pioneer of period harp practice” and is noted for her solo improvisatory skills and ingenious basso continuo playing, combined with a particular care to create a beautiful sound on a perilous instrument. Native of Ireland, Maria grew up with both Irish music and Classical music. She was part of the interdisciplinary Renaissance ensemble The Capriol Consort Dublin, directed by Doris Keogh. She performs and teaches every European historical harp (Verona Conservatory, HEM Genève). Her eclectic career includes studying Psychology at Trinity College Dublin, performing at Knappogue Castle, the Playboy Mansion in LA and the Eurovision Song Contest. She loves to play electronic and experimental music with atonal and microtonal tuning systems. Partners for 20 years, Maria performs regularly with Davide Monti (violin) under the name Arparla.
MARIA CLEARYHarp
Kathryn Cok pursues a varied career as a harpsichordist, fortepianist and academic on both sides of the Atlantic. A soloist and continuo player with the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra since 2001, Kathryn also appears with other important early music ensembles in Europe such as Het Nederlands Kamerkoor, Het Tulipa Consort, Musica Temprana, and Harmonie Universelle. In addition, Kathryn works with top symphonic orchestras such as Het Concertgebouw Orkest, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and The Berliner Philharmoniker. Kathryn teaches at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague where she is also Head of Master Research. An ambassador for historical keyboard performance and research in Europe and North America, Kathryn is a board member of The Dutch Harpsichord Society and Vice-President of the Historical Keyboard Society of North America.
KATHRYN COKKeyboards
Kathryn appears with a variety of orchestral and chamber music ensembles, including the Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, Tafelmusik, and Apollo’s Fire. She received her degrees at Oberlin Conservatory and Indiana University School of Music, Bloomington.
Kathryn teaches historical oboes at Oberlin Conservatory and has been on the faculty of Longy's International Baroque Institute, the Baroque Performance Institute at Oberlin, SFEMS workshops, and has given masterclasses in the US, Latin America, and China.
She enjoys a varied musical career performing for the Grammy award-winning recording of Charpentier's La Couronne de Fleurs with BEMF and the Tony award-winning production of Twelfth Night on Broadway with Shakespeare’s Globe of London.
Kathryn can regularly be found in Hereford, England converting an 18th century barn into a home with her husband, James.
Kathryn MontoyaOboe
Known for her intensity, clarity, and versatility in her performances and repertoire, bi-coastal flutist Bethanne Walker (she/her) is dedicated to modern, orchestral, and historical performance practice. She is the principal flutist of the Stockton Symphony, and performs with the San Francisco Symphony, among several orchestras and ensembles in the Bay Area, New England, and the Tri-State area. She has had the pleasure of performing under the leadership of Esa-Pekka Salonen, Alan Gilbert, Michael Tilson Thomas, Herbert Blomstedt, Osmo Vanska, Ludovic Morlot, Masaaki Suzuki, Richard Egarr, Nicholas McGegan, Christoph von Dohnányi, and William Christie. As a baroque flutist, she has performed with several ensembles including the American Bach Soloists, Boston Baroque, Mercury Chamber Orchestra, New York Baroque Incorporated, TENET, Sonnambula, Ars Antiqua, Cal Performances, and Les Arts Florissants.
BETHANNE WALKERFlute
Praised for her “colorful tone and artistic depth,” (The New York Times), flutist Melissa Baker is active as a soloist, chamber and orchestral musician, with appearances throughout the United States, Europe, and Russia. Versatile in modern and historical instruments, she has been principal flute and concerto soloist with NOVUS NY, Trinity Baroque Orchestra, and Artemis Chamber Ensemble and has performed with groups such as Stereo Hideout, the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, Manhattan Chamber Players, the American Bach Soloists, at the Prototype Festival, Terrance Blanchard, and Jay Z. Melissa is currently the Director of Artistic Planning at Trinity Church Wall Street where she has produced hundreds of events and curated concert series that amplify marginalized voices and raise awareness on social justice issues in what The New York Times deemed “the most interesting programming in New York City.”
MELISSA BAKERFlute
Lisa Terry is an avid chamber music performer and soloist on viola da gamba and violoncello. A member of Parthenia Viol Consort, she also performs Dryden Ensemble, Pegasus Early Music and TENET. She is principal cellist and viol soloist with Tempesta di Mare, Philadelphia’s baroque orchestra. Lisa was a founding member of ARTEK, and has performed with the New York Philharmonic, New York City Opera, Juilliard Opera Orchestra, Orchestra of St. Luke’s and Concert Royal. She has appeared to great acclaim as soloist in the Passions of J.S. Bach throughout her career, and she tours in recital with harpsichordists Joanne Kong and Webb Wiggins. Lisa serves the Viola da Gamba Society of America as Past-President. She greatly enjoys performing in English Country Dance bands.
LISA TERRYGamba
Multi-instrumentalist Shira Kammen has spent much of her life exploring the world of early music. A member for many years of the early music Ensembles Alcatraz and Project Ars Nova, and Medieval Strings, she has also worked with Sequentia, Hesperion XX, the Boston Camerata, the Balkan group Kitka, the King’s Noyse, the Newberry and Folger Consorts, Parthenia, Anonymous IV, Rose of the Compass, the Oregon, California and San Francisco Shakespeare Festivals, singer Anne Azema, storyteller Patrick Ball, clown Jeff Raz, among many other fine performers, and is the founder of Class V Music, an ensemble dedicated to providing music on river rafting trips. She has performed and taught in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Europe, Israel, Morocco, Latvia, Russia, Abu Dhabi and Japan.
SHIRA KAMMENVielle / Voice / Harp
Bassoonist Georgeanne Banker grew up in New York and enjoys an active musical career on both coasts. She is a co-founder of the democratic orchestra One Found Sound and her recent engagements include performances with Tafelmusik, Piffaro–The Renaissance Band, Portland Baroque Orchestra, and the Carmel Bach Festival. She has performed with groups including Les Arts Florissants, Mercury, and La Speranza, and she can be heard on the soundtrack of the Oscar-nominated animated short The Dam Keeper. Georgeanne has written for Playbill and is a regular contributor of program notes for The Juilliard School. When she’s not making reeds, she can be found running, cooking, or playing video games. Georgeanne holds degrees from The Juilliard School, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and McGill University
GEORGEANNE BANKERBassoon
Violinist Shelby Yamin brings signature vivacity to performances across the globe. Equally adept on modern and baroque violin, Shelby has appeared as a soloist with Philharmonia Baroque Chamber Players, New York Baroque Incorporated, the San Francisco Academy Orchestra, Tafelmusik Winter Institute, and as guest concertmaster of the 2019 Berwick Academy of the Oregon Bach Festival. Also an active chamber musician, she regularly collaborates with a wide range of New York based ensembles and Cleveland's Les Délices. Dedicated to diversifying the canon, Shelby regularly researches, performs, and records lesser known works, including 18th-century repertoire from the music library of Nelly Custis and, more recently, the violin duets of Maddalena Lombardini Sirmen (1745-1818). Shelby's discography includes the first ever recording of Sirmen's entire opus of violin duets on period instruments (Orpheus Classical Label, 2021) and a forthcoming album on Paladino Records of contemporary music for harpsichord, violin, and flute.
SHELBY YAMINViolin
Bulgarian violinist Toma Iliev began his musical studies at the age of four when, inspired by his older sister’s example, he started taking piano lessons. But at the age of six sibling rivalry led him to another instrument - the violin. Growing up Toma was fascinated by Antonio Vivaldi’s music - specifically the violin and bassoon concerti - which he listened to on vinyl before it was cool. His passion for early music led Toma to Indiana University where he was introduced to the baroque violin by Stanley Ritchie, and later to the Juilliard School’s Historical Performance program. Toma enjoys a vibrant career as a soloist, chamber, and orchestral musician. Holder of The Charles and Ruth Poindexter Chair with the Portland Baroque Orchestra, he regularly performs with leading early music ensembles including Handel and Haydn Society, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, and American Bach Soloists. Toma is a core member of Sonnambula who served as the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 2018-19 Ensemble in Residence, and he recently appeared with Joyce DiDonato and Il Pomo d’Oro for performances across the United States and Canada. Toma holds several honors and awards, most notably the Leipzig International Bach Competition’s 2014 Christa Bach-Marschall Foundation Prize. When not performing Toma can be found hiking, trail running, and mushroom hunting in the verdant forests of the Pacific Northwest.
TOMA ILIEVViolin
A native of Oregon, Julie Brye is at home with modern and baroque oboes. After playing English horn full time in La Orquesta Filarmónica de Santiago (Chile), her oboes have led her around the world, including performing Mozart in Toronto and Tokyo, Purcell in Singapore, Rameau in Montreal, Fasch in Philadelphia, Berio and Respighi in Seattle, Stravinsky with the Kansas City Symphony, and Stockhausen in The Hague. She enjoys playing early oboes with many ensembles, including regular work with Trinity Wall Street Baroque Orchestra, Holy Trinity Bach Vespers (30+ years), Tempesta di Mare, Rebel, Dryden, and the Sebastians. She can be heard on SONY, Naxos, Newport Classics, CBC Records, Chandos, and Chaconne labels.
JULIE BRYEOboe
Isabelle Seula Lee is a NYC-based baroque and modern violinist. Her recent and upcoming engagements include a tour to Europe with the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and Bach Collegium Japan, and performances with the New York Baroque Incorporated, Bach Collegium at Saint Peter’s, among others.Lee has appeared soloist with the New York Baroque Incorporated, Juilliard415, Tele-Radio Symphony Orchestra in Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra, Lynn Philharmonia, and the Chamber Orchestra of Estonia. She has toured throughout Europe, New Zealand, China, India and Bolivia, and has performed at venues including Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Germany’s Gewandhaus and Köln Philharmonie,and New Zealand’s Fowler Center. Her performances have been broadcast on live radio and tv by WQXR, MediciTV, Estonian Cultural TV, WPBI, and Radio New Zealand. Lee holds degrees from the Yale School of Music (Artist Diploma), the Juilliard School (M.M. in baroque and modern violins) and Lynn University (B.M.)
ISABELLE SEULA LEEViolin
Kris Kwapis regularly collaborates as soloist and principal trumpet with period-instrument ensembles across North America, including Portland Baroque Orchestra, Early Music Vancouver, Toronto Bach Festival, and Staunton Music Festival. Since 2010, Kris enjoys sharing her passion of exploring historical performance with the next generation of performers and teachers as a faculty member at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music Historical Performance Institute in addition to teaching at her home in Seattle and online. When not playing, writing, speaking or thinking about music, she is active as a visual artist in the encaustic medium, an avid cook, home remodeler, aspiring gardener, and co-parent of two adorable cats with her equally adorable partner, Mark.
KRIS KWAPISTrumpet
David Dickey is a New York City based historical wind player and vocalist. He can be heard playing oboe around the country and internationally with the world’s most acclaimed baroque ensembles, including Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, The Handel and Haydn Society, The English Concert, and Trinity Baroque Orchestra at Wall Street. Dickey, a countertenor, has recently sung with ARTEK, St. Thomas Church Fifth Avenue Choir of Men and Boys, and Concordia Dawn, a NYC-based medieval ensemble who just released their first studio album Fortuna Antiqua et Ultra on MSR Classics. A graduate of The Juilliard Historical Performance Program, he is a recipient of the Norman Benzaquen Career Advancement Grant and a fellowship from The English Concert in America.
DAVID DICKEYOboe
Praised for her “sweet” and “sparkling” sound (ClevelandClassical), violinist Chiara Fasani Stauffer is a member of the Cramer Quartet and the artistic director and co-founder of Time Canvas. This season she is performing with groups such as the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Apollo’s Fire, the Washington Bach Consort, Teatro Nuovo, and Trinity Wall Street. Chiara holds degrees from the Juilliard School and the Basel Hochschule für Musik, and she is an American Fellow of the English Concert.
CHIARA STAUFFERViolin
In demand throughout North America as a performer and teacher on historical oboes, Margaret Owens is a founding member of the chamber music group Kleine Kammermusik, whose 2017 album Fanfare and Filigree (Acis) has received critical acclaim. She is on faculty in the historical performance institutes of Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music, and the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University; at both institutions, her work centers around broadening the study of historical oboes, from playing the instruments to exploring the performance practices specific to the 18th century. Ms. Owens earned degrees in oboe performance at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, the Manhattan School of Music, and the City University of New York, where her doctoral work focused on the oboe bands and their role in the entertainments at Louis XIV’s court, and led to further exploration and expertise in the French baroque theatrical forms. An eastern North Carolina native, living with her music historian husband and computer enthusiast son in Northern Virginia, Ms. Owens is an active participant in the musical life of the Washington, DC area, working with the area’s period instrument orchestras. She has seen much of the United States in her travels to play with groups spanning from San Francisco to Boston. Summers see her onstage at the Charlotte Bach Festival, the Staunton Music Festival, and teaching at early music workshops such as the Oberlin Baroque Performance Institute and Amherst Early Music Festival.
MARGARET OWENSOboe
Dr. Thomas Muehlenbeck-Pfotenhauer is Associate Professor of Trumpet at the University of Minnesota Duluth, where he also teaches courses in pedagogy, American music, and coaches small ensembles. Dr. Muehlenbeck-Pfotenhauer studied trumpet with Armando Ghitalla at the University of Michigan, completing a Master of Music degree in 1993. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in music from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in trumpet performance from the University of Kansas. He has studied Baroque trumpet with Kris Kwapis and Susan Williams and has performed with professional early music ensembles throughout the United States and Canada. In addition, Dr. Muehlenbeck-Pfotenhauer’s scholarly interests include the promotion and performance of music for modern trumpet written by women composers.
THOMAS MUEHLENBECK-PFOTENHAUERTrumpet
Indiana-native Ana Kim is a cellist based in New York, who performs on modern and historical instruments. She plays with various ensembles, including Philharmonia Baroque, American Classical, and Boston Baroque Orchestras. Ana also performs in festivals such as Oregon Bach, Yellow Barn, Verbier Academy, Music@ Menlo, and International Musicians Seminar at Prussia Cove. She has received a Doctorate at the University of Southern California and has studied Historical Performance at Juilliard. Her teachers include János Starker, Ralph Kirshbaum, and Laurence Lesser. Ana has taught in Music Festival of Santa Catarina in Brazil and has participated in outreach residencies with the American Classical Orchestra’s Classical Music for Kids. She taught at Pacific Union College and teaches at the Browning School in New York City.
ANA KIMCello
Perry Sutton leads a musically diverse life, performing in baroque, orchestral, chamber, Broadway and commercial music settings with equal dexterity. His early music credits include performances with Apollo's Fire, Washington Bach Consort, Trinity Baroque, La Fiocco, The Bach Collegium of Philadelphia, and the North Carolina Baroque Orchestra, and Tempesta di Mare: The Baroque Orchestra of Philadelphia. Perry has degrees from Mason Gross School of the Arts of Rutgers University, and Rowan University College of Fine and Performing Arts. During the times he leaves the trumpet in the case, he enjoys seeking out local craft beer, coffee, and tinkering with his golf game.
PERRY SUTTONTrumpet
Immanuel Davis is one of the most versatile flutists of his generation. Equally at home on the modern and baroque flutes, Immanuel has performed as a soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States and abroad. In 2005 he received a Fulbright Fellowship to study baroque flute with Wilbert Hazelzet at the Koninklijk Conservatorium in The Hague. Since then he has performed as soloist and chamber player with such early music ensembles as Early Music New York, ARTEK, Lyra Baroque, REBEL and the Bach Society of Minnesota and Mercury Orchestra of Houston. He recently released a duo CD on the Naxos label, with Barthold Kuijken, La Magnifique: Flute Music for the Court of Louis XIV. Immanuel is the flute professor at the University of Minnesota.
IMMANUEL DAVISFlute
David Ross is a historical flutist based in New York City. Since 2009 his training and career have focused exclusively in historical performance ranging from one-keyed baroque flutes to many-keyed flutes and piccolos from the Classical and Romantic periods. David concertizes regularly with ensembles including New York Baroque Incorporated, the Sebastians, Trinity Wall Street, Bach Vespers at Holy Trinity, Early Music New York, and Mercury Chamber Orchestra. David was among the last generation to study baroque flute with Wilbert Hazelzet at the Koninklijk Conservatorium in The Hague, Netherlands where he earned a Bachelor’s degree in Early Music. He also received a Master’s degree from the Juilliard School’s Historical Performance Program. David teaches privately at his home in Roosevelt Island NYC.
DAVID ROSSFlute
Erik Schmalz received degrees in trombone performance from Oberlin Conservatory of Music and the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, but discovered early music and period instruments shortly thereafter and was hooked. With a current instrumentarium of around 50 pieces, ranging from a 14th century straight trumpet copy to original romantic era and important early modern trombones, he has been a historic trombone specialist and performer for more than twenty years. As a member of Piffaro The Renaissance Band, Dark Horse Consort, and Sol Divino; a regular performer with large ensembles such as Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Handel and Haydn Society, Tafelmusik, Trinity Baroque Orchestra; and an active freelancer, Erik can be heard on many stages and on numerous recordings. His musical and instrumental versatility also led him to be cast as one of the seven instrumentalists in the Globe Theatre’s Tony nominated production of Shakespeare on Broadway. Erik currently resides in Collinsville, CT.
ERIK SCHMALZSackbut
Greg Ingles attended high school at the Interlochen Arts Academy and went on to graduate from the Oberlin Conservatory and SUNY Stony Brook. Before his career in early music, Greg was the Solo Trombone in the Hofer Symphoniker. He enjoys unearthing rarely heard gems as the music director of the early brass ensemble Dark Horse Consort. Greg is a member of Piffaro and and made his Carnegie Hall debut with Quicksilver. He has played with such ensembles as the American Bach Soloists, Chatham Baroque, Concerto Palatino, The Handel & Haydn Society of Boston, Boston Baroque, Philharmonia Baroque, Portland Baroque and Tafelmusik. He played with the Globe Theater in their Tony nominated Broadway debut of Twelfth Night and Richard III. Greg is currently the Lecturer in Sackbut at Boston University.
GREG INGLESSackbut
Alex Opsahl studied recorder with Peter Holtslag and Daniel Bruggen at the Royal Academy of Music, and cornetto with Bruce Dickey at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. While still a student, she received 1st Prize in the 2003 Moeck Solo Recorder competition, the 2001 and 2003 RAM Early Music Prize, and the 2003 Hilda Anderson Dean Award. Alex has performed with the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra under Ton Koopman, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment under Emmanuele Haim, Boston Early Music Festival, I Fagiolini, Capella Barocca di Mexico, Carmel Bach Festival, Piffaro, Apollo's Fire, Portland Baroque Orchestra, and the Green Mountain Project. She performed in Il Ritorno d’Ulisse at the Innsbrucker Festwochen der Altenmusik in 2017, and filmed L’Incoronazione di Poppea with both Oslo Opera and Glyndebourne Opera. She recorded Vivaldi’s Concerto in C Minor, RV 441, with the Norwegian period orchestra Barokkanerne, and recently recorded the JD Berlin cornetto concerto with the Norwegian Baroque Orchestra. Alex is a founding member of both Tesserae and Dark Horse Consort.
ALEXANDRA OPSAHLCornetto
Praised for her “warmth and composure” (Wichita Eagle), Stephanie Corwin enjoys performing and teaching music of the past four centuries on modern and historical bassoons. Her vocation has taken her throughout the US and abroad, simultaneously satisfying her love for travel and her desire for connecting with people on and off the stage. Highlights include solo appearances at Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall, performances at the Yellow Barn and Staunton music festivals, and concerts with Philharmonia, Tafelmusik, Trinity Wall Street, and Handel and Haydn Society. Enjoying intimate collaboration through chamber music, she is a core member of Kleine Kammermusik and Repast. When not making music, Stephanie can be found out on a run, lost in a book, or working on her next knitting or sewing project.
STEPHANIE CORWINWinds
Rebecca (she/her/hers) is a songwriter from Gera, Germany. Born into a family of classical musicians, she began practicing violin at age four and absorbed a healthy diet of Bach, Phil Collins, and Gillian Welch. After earning her Bachelor’s at Rice University and a Master’s at the University of Oklahoma, Rebecca diverged from her classical violin training, diving head first into the enchanting world of Historical Performance. Through her new love of baroque music and old love of folk and bluegrass, Rebecca found her voice as a composer. Since graduating from The Juilliard School’s Historical Performance program, she has joined and founded exciting new ensembles including Nuova Pratica and Digital Camerata. Her debut album Do Not Lament will be released later this year. Aside from writing and performing music, Rebecca enjoys taking long naps with her cat, Momo, and salsa dancing.
REBECCA NELSONViolin
Daniel S. Lee thrives in the intersection of the arts and spirituality. His work involves redefining the roles of sacred and secular music with regards to their intention, function, and venue. Praised by The New York Times as “soulful” and “ravishing,” he performs as a period violinist and leader with various ensembles throughout the United States and Europe, including his own, the Sebastians. He currently serves as the concertmaster for the Providence Baroque Orchestra (RI) and the resident baroque orchestra at the Washington National Cathedral (DC). He performs on various historical instruments and fosters ongoing collaborative research with luthier Karl Dennis (Warren, RI) and bowmaker David Hawthorne (Waltham, MA). When not traveling and performing, he splits his time between Willard, MO, where he pastors a Presbyterian Church (USA) congregation, and New Haven, CT, where he teaches early music at the Yale School of Music. Born in Chicago and raised in Seoul (South Korea) and in New York City, Daniel is equally (un)fluent in Korean and in English. He identifies himself as ethnically a New Yorker. He enjoys learning different languages and cultures, and is a student of various ancient languages.
DANIEL S. LEEViolin
BENJAMIN SHEENOrgan
Violonist Lucie Ringuette studied at the Montreal Conservatory of Music with Johanne Arel and Raymond Dessaints. Since 1990, she has performed as soloist, instrumentalist, concert master and chamber musician on the best Quebec stages. Her discography includes more than a dozen recordings, some of which were acclaimed with Opus and Juno Prizes. She has played with the Ensemble Amati, the Orchestre baroque de Montréal, the Ensemble Arion, Le Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal, Les Violons du Roy, the Opéra de Québec, the Opéra de Montréal, the Bernard Primeau Montreal Jazz Ensemble, the Ensemble La Cigale and notably, is a regular member of the Ensemble Caprice since 2007. She travels for numerous North American and European tours and has also performed in Israel, Turkey, China and Ecuador. In addition to her career as a musician, Lucie Ringuette is the Education Development Coordinator for the Université de Montréal, as well as having a Masters Degree in Geology from University of Leicester, in England.
LUCIE RINGUETTEViolin
Recognized for the elegance and passion of her interpretations, Tanya LaPerrière is a graduated violin master of the Royal Conservatory of Brussels under the direction of Mira Glodeanu, as well as McGill University under the guidance of Chantal Rémillard. Madame LaPerrière performs on Canadian and international stages with the celebrated ensembles Caprice, Constantinople, Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal, Clavecin en concert and Les Idées Heureuses. She is currently coaching the baroque orchestra at Université de Montréal (OBUM) alongside Luc Beauséjour.
She also leads as solo violin and founding member her quartet, Pallade Musica, winner of prestigious awards in Utrecht (Holland) and New York (United States), also nominated for two Opus Awards for their recordings on the Atma label. Ms. LaPerrière regularly performs as Concertmaster in Canadian ensembles and is building a solid reputation as a leader in early music throughout the country.
TANYA LAPERRIÈREViolin
Born in Saint-Georges de Beauce (Québec), David Jacques holds a Doctor’s degree in early music performance from the Université de Montréal. He began his classical guitar studies at the Cégep de Sainte-Foy, and continued at the Université Laval and the Conservatoire de musique de Québec. He has recorded more than 50 CDs on the XXI-21, ATMA, d’Oz and Analekta labels. His Pièces de guitarre de Mr Rémy Médard (Productions XX-21), Tango Boreal and Pampa Blues won the Conseil Québécois de la Musique’s 2008, 2012 and 2014 Prix Opus Disc of the Year award,. David has also published several arrangements for guitar for Les Productions d'OZ. Active in Canada as well as abroad, he has given more than 3500 concerts in 35 countries on five continents. David Jacques is currently professor of classical Guitar at the Université Laval and Cégep de Sainte-Foy. He also completed a bachelor in Business Management (B.A.A.), a bachelor in music teaching (B.A.) and a bachelor in law at Laval University (LL.B.).
DAVID JACQUESTheorbo
Canadian cellist Jean-Christophe Lizotte is an eclectic musician, sought after for his command of multiple styles spanning from baroque and contemporary to improvisation and rock. He is a founding member of the chamber music collective Warhol Dervish and is regularly invited to collaborate with dozens of Québec ensembles, most notably, I Musici de Montréal, Ensemble Caprice, Bradyworks, SMCQ (Société de musique contemporaine du Québec), and Ensemble SuperMusique. His extensive career as a touring musician extends beyond Canada and the United States, to Europe, Africa and Asia, with diverse artists including La La La Human Steps, the Ottawa Bach Choir, Ensemble Caprice, Chris de Burgh, and Corneille. Jean-Christophe is active as a studio musician for film and television, and has participated in over sixty albums, notably as solo continuo player on the Juno-winning Handel: Dixit Dominus ; Bach & Schütz : Motets with the Ottawa Bach Choir and Ensemble Caprice. His playing has been featured live on BBC Radio, Radio Campus Paris, and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
JEAN-CHRISTOPHE LIZOTTECello
John Moran, cello & viola da gamba, enjoys a broad-ranging musical career. He holds performance degrees from Oberlin and the Schola Cantorum in Basel as well as a Ph.D. in musicology from King’s College London. At Peabody Conservatory he teaches viol, baroque cello, and musicology, and co-directs the school’s critically acclaimed Baltimore Baroque Band. He is the co-creator of the Washington Bach Consort’s Wunderkind Projekt, an outreach program introducing DC Public School students to Bach cantatas. He is a core member of REBEL and is artistic director of Modern Musick, in residence at Georgetown University. He has performed and recorded with many of Europe and North America’s leading period-instrument ensembles and can be heard frequently with the Washington Bach Consort. The Washington Post has called his Bach “eloquent”, and praised the “bravado” of his Boccherini and the “nimble fluency” of his Vivaldi, while the LA Times has written, “Cellist Moran projected vigorous and expressive bass lines.” He is currently president of the Viola da Gamba Society of America. He is married to the violinist Risa Browder.
JOHN MORANViola da gamba
Two times JUNO Award winning conductor, composer, recorder and flute soloist Matthias Maute has achieved an international reputation. In 2016 he was named artistic director of the Bach Society of Minnesota and in 2019 of the professional choir Ensemble vocal Arts-Québec. Impressed by his artistic approach, The New York Times described the orchestra he conducts in Montreal, Ensemble Caprice, as being “an ensemble that encourages the listener to rehear the world.”
Maute’s recording of Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos juxtaposed with Maute’s own arrangements of Preludes from Shostakovich's Op. 87 was hailed by The New Yorker’s Alex Ross as standing out “for its fleet, characterful approach” and “its fresh, vibrant colors”.
Matthias Maute’s compositions are published by Breitkopf & Härtel, Amadeus, Moeck and Carus. In 2014 and 2015, Maute’s 1st violin concerto was performed by soloist Mark Fewer with the St. John’s Symphony and with I Musici de Montréal. Forty-nine movements of Matthias Maute’s compositions are featured in 49 videos on noncerto.com.
Matthias Maute has made some twenty recordings on the Analekta, Vanguard Classics, Bella Musica, Dorian, Bridge and ATMA Classique labels. He is regularly invited to perform at major international festivals. Matthias Maute is co-artistic director of the Montreal Baroque Festival and artistic director of the Méénat Musica Concerts noncerto concert series. He currently teaches at l’Université de Montréal and McGill University.
Matthias Maute created Mini-Concerts Santé during the pandemic in 2020, delivering 9,000 Mini-Concerts Santé to 70,000 people in Montreal, Quebec and Canada while providing 3,000 hires of professional singers and musicians during difficult times.
MATTHIAS MAUTEFlute
CHARLES WEAVERLute
Aniela Eddy appears regularly as soloist, chamber musician and orchestral player throughout North America and Europe. Her broad and varied interest in music of all eras has led to projects spanning the baroque through contemporary time periods. Recent and upcoming collaborations include performances with Trinity Baroque Orchestra, Seraphic Fire, Voices of Music, Apollo’s Fire, NOVUS, New York Classical Players, as well as festival appearances at the Göttingen International Handel Festival, Carmel Bach Festival, and the Lucerne Festival. Aniela has appeared live on NPR with A Prairie Home Companion and Garrison Keillor. She is a founding member of Quartet Salonnières and Relic Ensemble and a graduate of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Cleveland Institute of Music and The Juilliard School.
ANIELA EDDYViolin
Peruvian-American lutenist Dušan Balarin is a spirited soloist and accompanist on various lutes and early guitars. His background as an improvising guitarist in South American music and his keen interest in humanism have guided his imaginative performances of 16th-, 17th- and 18th-century works. Dušan’s passion for inventive collaboration has led him to work with performing artists and ensembles such as Masaaki Suzuki, Ingrid Matthews, Paul Watikins, Phil Setzer, Tessa Lark, Nicholas Phan, Alchymy Viols, Classical Uprising, and Voyage Sonique. Dušan is attending the Juilliard School as a recipient of the Historical Performance Scholarship where he performs with Juilliard 415. Dušan apprenticed with British lute virtuoso Nigel North and received his M.M. in Historical Performance on lute and theorbo from the Jacobs School of Music.
DUŠAN BALARINLute
Trumpeter Paul Murphy works frequently as a musician and educator at The Juilliard School, Carnegie Hall, the New York Philharmonic, and on Broadway. He has performed with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, the Knights, the International Contemporary Ensemble, and currently serves as Artistic Director for the chamber music collective Decoda—the only independent ensemble to be recognized as an affiliate ensemble of Carnegie Hall. Passionate about drawing others deeply into the art of music, he has served for over a decade on the teaching artist faculty of the New York Philharmonic, and was recently recognized as one of the inaugural recipients of the Yale Distinguished Teaching Artist Award. He teaches in the summer at the Kinhaven Music School in Vermont.
PAUL MURPHYTrumpet
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Violinist Johanna Novom appears with ensembles internationally as a soloist, principal, chamber and orchestral musician. A first prize winner of the American Bach Soloists' International Young Artists Competition, Johanna holds a Master's degree in Historical Performance from Oberlin Conservatory. She is a member of Diderot String Quartet and ACRONYM, and has been concertmaster of Apollo’s Fire and principal at Washington National Cathedral Baroque Orchestra. Johanna also performs with ensembles such as Trinity Wall Street Baroque Orchestra, Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, Tafelmusik, American Bach Soloists, The Clarion Orchestra, Opera Lafayette, and New York Baroque Incorporated. Recent and upcoming festival engagements include the Carmel Bach Festival, Tanglewood, and the BBC Proms Festival. Johanna was a 2010-11 fellowship member of the Yale Baroque Ensemble.
JOHANNA NOVOMViolin
Edson Scheid has been praised for his “polished playing” (The Strad), for being a \"virtuoso violinist\" (The Boston Globe) and a “violin virtuoso extraordinaire” (Fanfare Magazine). His performance of Strauss’s song Morgen at Carnegie Hall alongside Joyce DiDonato and Il Pomo d'Oro was described as follows: “The concertmaster, Edson Scheid, proved a worthy foil as violin soloist” (The New York Times). He has been featured live in-studio on In Tune from BBC Radio 3, and his recording of Paganini’s 24 Caprices on the baroque violin for the Naxos label has been critically acclaimed: “Far from being mere virtuoso stunts, Scheid’s Caprices abound in the beauty and revolutionary spirit of these works” (Fanfare Magazine). Edson Scheid is a two-time winner of the Historical Performance Concerto Competition at The Juilliard School, a recipient of the Broadus Erle Prize at the Yale School of Music, and holds a BA degree from the Universität Mozarteum Salzburg.
EDSON SCHEIDViolin
Praised by The New York Times for her “splendid playing,” Natalie Rose Kress is a modern and Baroque violinist based in Washington, D.C. Following three summers as a Tanglewood Fellow, she was awarded the Jules C. Reiner Violin Prize from the Tanglewood Music Center and performed with Yo-Yo Ma at the 2015 Kennedy Center Honors. This past spring she graduated from The Juilliard School’s Historical Performance Program where she attended on a full-scholarship. Her primary teachers throughout her studies at Stony Brook University and The Juilliard School were Soovin Kim, Philip Setzer, The Emerson String Quartet, Jennifer Frautschi, Elizabeth Blumenstock and Cynthia Roberts. Natalie frequently performs with The Handel and Haydn Society and is a founding member of period ensembles Quartet Salonnières and Musicivic Baroque. As a member of Juilliard415 she performed with William Christie’s Les Arts Florissants and Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and performed in masterclasses for Aisslinn Nosky, William Christie, and Masaaki Suzuki.
NATALIE KRESSViolin
Joseph Jones began studying the bassoon at age 12 when his piano teacher suggested: \"Joey, you might be good at the bassoon.\" Some years and many concerts later, Joe works as a bassoonist performing throughout the country and occasionally around the world. His playing has been praised for its \"warm singing tone,\" and once while performing a Vivaldi concerto he \"proved he could easily break the four-minute mile without missing a note\" (Star Tribune). Ensembles he has worked with include The English Concert, ACRONYM, Boston Early Music Festival, Early Music New York, American Bach Soloists, the Bermuda Philharmonic, Lyra Baroque Orchestra, and Les Arts Florissants at the festival Dans les Jardins de William Christie in Thiré, France. Joe is a graduate of The Juilliard School’s historical performance program, as well as the University of Minnesota and Utah State University.
JOSEPH JONESBassoon
Steven Marquardt is a Baroque trumpet and natural horn specialist based in New York, New York. Steven performs regularly with Trinity Wall Street, Apollo's Fire, Bach Vespers at Holy Trinity, the Sebastians, New York Baroque Incorporated, and American Classical Orchestra, and has made appearances with Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, Portland Baroque Orchestra, and The English Concert. Steven is also an arts administrator, currently serving as the Director of Concert Services at Gotham Early Music Scene (GEMS). Originally hailing from Burnsville, Minnesota, Steven is a graduate of Indiana University (M.M.) and Concordia College-Moorhead (B.M.). He resides in Manhattan with his wife, Marissa.
STEVEN MARQUARDTTrumpet
Active across the United States, Ben David Aronson is based in Rochester, New York. A founding member of Incantare, his engagements as a historical trombonist include collaborations with the Dark Horse Consort, Piffaro, Pegasus Early Music, Publick Musick, Trinity Wall Street, New York Baroque Incorporated, Opera Lafayette, Apollo’s Fire, Mercury! The Orchestra Redefined, and the Washington National Cathedral Baroque Orchestra. As a modern trombonist, he has performed across New York State with Symphoria, the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Buffalo Philharmonic and Erie Philharmonic orchestras, the Plymouth Brass Quintet, Symphoria Brass Quintet and as a founding member of the Hohenfels Trombone Quartet. Ben David holds a DMA from the Eastman School of Music, and serves on the faculties of the Eastman Community Music School, the Hochstein School of Music and Dance, Hobart & William Smith Colleges, and SUNY Geneseo.
BEN DAVID ARONSONTrombone
Caroline Giassi, (she/her), a native New Yorker, began her musical studies on a Cracker Jack box violin at the age of three. She soon switched to the oboe and later found her musical home in the world of performance practice and historical oboes. She performs with many top early music ensembles such as The Sebastians, The American Classical Orchestra, Handel & Haydn Society, Opera Lafayette, Chatham Baroque, Pegasus Early Music, and is an American Fellow of the English Concert. In addition to performing, Caroline is a dedicated educator and has worked with students ranging from second graders in New York City public schools to undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Michigan where she is a continuing guest artist teaching baroque oboe and coaching performance practice.
CAROLINE GIASSIOboe
Violinist Nicholas DiEugenio has been heralded for his “excellent...evocative” playing (The New York Times), full of “rapturous poetry” (American Record Guide). Nicholas is in-demand as a soloist, chamber musician, and ensemble leader, creating powerful shared experiences in music ranging from early baroque to contemporary commissions. His award-winning album “Unraveling Beethoven” with pianist and wife Mimi Solomon was released in 2018 by New Focus Recordings, and other recordings include the complete Violin Sonatas of Robert Schumann (Musica Omnia) as well as a tribute to Pulitzer prizewinner Steven Stucky (New Focus). Nicholas is a core member of the Sebastians as well as Associate Professor of Music at UNC Chapel Hill. Nicholas plays a J.B. Vuillaume violin (1835) as well as a Karl Dennis baroque violin (2011).
NICHOLAS DIEUGENIOViolin
Violinist Beth Wenstrom’s chamber playing has been praised as “elegant and sensual, stylishly wild” (The New Yorker) and is an original member of the “eclectic and electrifying early-music ensemble,\" ACRONYM (Boston Globe.) As a soloist and concertmaster, she has performed with Trinity Wall Street Baroque Orchestra, New York Baroque Incorporated, Sebastian Chamber Players, TENET as well as the Washington Cathedral Baroque Orchestra. She has also performed in Apollo’s Fire, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra and other ensembles throughout the country and abroad. Beth serves as string coach for the baroque ensemble at SUNY Stony Brook and has taught violin and baroque orchestra as a recurring guest teacher at Oberlin Conservatory. She has also coached at Cornell University, Rutgers University, Vassar College, as well as summer institutes such as the Baroque Performance Institute at Oberlin and the Amherst Early Music Festival.
BETH WENSTROMViolin
Jessica Troy wears a variety of freelance hats. The array of ensembles with which she performs includes: Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra (San Francisco), Trinity Baroque Orchestra, the Sebastians, Helicon, Clarion, New York Baroque Inc., Orchestra of St. Luke's, New York City Opera, NOVUS NY, Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, Westchester Philharmonic, Mark Morris Dance Group Chamber Ensemble, & Dance Heginbotham. She can be heard on the storied Marlboro Festival's 50th anniversary CD in György Kurtág's Microludes for string quartet, which she prepared with the composer. She has subbed and had her own chair on numerous Broadway shows (ranging from Porgy & Bess to Tootsie) and played on many film scores (most recently Joker and Little Women). She has recorded quartet tracks for Lou Reed and Ani DiFranco, performed on tv with Renée Fleming and Whitney Houston, and on film with David Byrne.
JESSICA TROYViola
Kiri Tollaksen enjoys a varied career as a performer and teacher. Praised for her \"stunning technique, and extreme musicality,\" (Journal of the International Trumpet Guild), and called an “excellent cornetto player” (The New York Times), Kiri has performed extensively throughout North America and Europe with such groups as Concerto Palatino, La Fenice, Toronto Consort, Tenet, Piffaro, Pacific MusicWorks, Tesserae, Apollo’s Fire, and is a member of the highly regarded early brass ensemble Dark Horse Consort. With degrees from Eastman, Yale and University of Michigan, Kiri had served on the faculty of Indiana University (Bloomington), Brass Antiqua (VA), and the Amherst and Madison Early Music Festivals. She happily lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan with her husband and cat.
KIRI TOLLAKSENCornetto
Daniel Swenberg plays a wide variety of lutes and guitars: baroque, renaissance, classical/romantic--small, medium, and large. Chief among these is the theorbo-- the long lute that you are either wondering about or overhearing your neighbor discuss. He plays with myriad groups, mostly in the EZ-Pass territories, California, and Toronto. He is on faculty at Juilliard’s Historical Performance program. His programing integrates and emphasizes music with the history, sciences, economics, politics, and broader culture of the time, from Weiss to Vice.
DANIEL SWENBERGLute
Mack Ramsey has been a longtime specialist in performance on a number of early instruments, including sackbut, recorder, Renaissance flute, lute and classical era trombones. He is a member of the early brass ensemble, Dark Horse Consort and is in regular demand performing and recording with many baroque orchestras. Mack lives in Natick, Massachusetts.
MACK RAMSEYSackbut
Liza Malamut, trombone, is active as a performer, researcher, and educator throughout the United States and abroad. She has performed with Boston Baroque, Tafelmusik, the Handel & Haydn Society, Trinity Wall Street Choir and Orchestra, Boston Camerata, Apollo’s Fire, Dark Horse Consort, and many other ensembles. Her playing can be heard on the Musica Omnia, Naxos, Hyperion, and George Blood Audio labels. She is a founder and Co-Artistic Director of Incantare, an ensemble of violins and sackbuts specializing in music of lesser-known and marginalized populations in early modern Europe, and she is thrilled to succeed Ellen Hargis and David Douglass as Artistic Director of The Newberry Consort in Fall 2022.
LIZA MALAMUTTrombone
Shirley Hunt (viola da gamba) brings fierce imagination and integrity to the music of the Renaissance and Baroque eras. In high demand as viola da gamba soloist and continuo cellist, Ms. Hunt performs extensively with the nation's leading period instrument ensembles including Boston Baroque, Handel and Haydn Society, Trinity Baroque Orchestra, The Sebastians, TENET, Sonnambula, and RUCKUS. As a soloist, she has performed as a at DePaul University, the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), the Boston Public Library, WGBH Pindrop Sessions, and Ashmont Hill Chamber Music in Dorchester. As a chamber musician, she has performed at the Morgan Library & Museum, the Library of Congress, the Strathmore Mansion, Caramoor, La Jolla Music Society, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
SHIRLEY HUNTViola da gamba
Hailing from Osaka, Japan, Sae Hashimoto is an exhilarating percussionist in New York City. Her unique performances have been described as “seductive yet sharp” by The New York Times, and “remarkably dynamic” in New York Classical Review. She has served as guest timpanist with the New York Philharmonic and New York City Ballet. She currently serves as the principal timpanist of New Jersey-based orchestra Symphony in C. From 2018 to 2020, she served as the percussionist of Ensemble Connect, a fellowship program of Carnegie Hall for extraordinary young professional classical musicians. As a passionate advocate for contemporary music, she has worked with leading composers of today. She has premiered over ten works by avant-garde composer John Zorn, some of which have been recorded and released on albums under the Tzadik label. She was a recipient of the Kovner Fellowship at the Juilliard School where she received her BM and MM degrees.
SAE HASHIMOTOPercussion
Bassist Nathaniel Chase performs a wide range of music, from orchestral repertoire with the Allentown Symphony, to new music with Ensemble LPR and Ensemble Échappé, and period performance with the Sebastians and the Trinity Baroque Orchestra. He recently performed on Broadway in the critically acclaimed production of Farinelli and the King with countertenor Iestyn Davies. He is a graduate of the New England Conservatory and the Yale School of Music, where he was a winner of the 2010 Woolsey Hall Concerto Competition.
NATHANIEL CHASE Bass
Violist Kyle Miller made his concerto debut in 2005 with the Reading (Pennsylvania) Symphony Orchestra as ‘the dog’ in P.D.Q. Bach’s Canine Cantata, Wachet Arf! After that watershed performance, Kyle went on to study at the New England Conservatory, the Eastman School of Music, and The Juilliard School, where he received Master of Music degrees in both viola performance and historical performance. A member of ACRONYM and Diderot String Quartet, Kyle also has appeared onstage with A Far Cry, the American Classical Orchestra, Apollo's Fire, the English Concert, Handel and Haydn Society, the Knights, New York Baroque Incorporated, Opera Lafayette, the Sebastians, Seraphic Fire, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Teatro Nuovo, TENET, The Thirteen, Trinity Baroque Orchestra, Upper Valley Baroque Orchestra, and the Washington National Cathedral Baroque Orchestra. Kyle performs regularly at the Carmel Bach Festival and the Staunton Music Festival; and as a member of Diderot String Quartet, he has served as a guest artist and coach at Oberlin College's Baroque Performance Institute. In 2017 and 2018, Kyle wore a wig and frock coat on Broadway, where he performed in a run of Claire van Kampen's play Farinelli and the King. In his spare time, Kyle enjoys playing card and board games and eating pizza by the slice.
KYLE MILLERViola
Hailed as a \"fireworks soloist,\" (ConcertoNet) New York City area based violinist and historical performance specialist Sarah Jane Kenner is a multifaceted artist who performs throughout the U.S. and internationally. Her regular engagements include performances with groups such as The English Concert, Trinity Wall Street, TENET Vocal Artists, Tempesta di Mare - Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra, New York Baroque Incorporated, and The Sebastians, amongst others. She has enjoyed giving recent solo recitals with the Gotham Early Music Scene and Ars Musica Chicago, and made her Lincoln Center solo debut in 2018 with Juilliard415. She can also be heard playing period and modern violins on the Academy Award-winning score of the film Joker. When she isn’t performing, Sarah enjoys posting recipes and teaching cooking classes on her popular food blog, The Hungry Musician.
SARAH JANE KENNERViolin
A native of New Jersey, award-winning violinist Alana Youssefian has quickly forged a reputation as a sought-after soloist known for her passionate interpretations of works spanning the baroque era to the music of today. Alana has enjoyed an active solo and collaborative career with the world’s leading period instrument orchestras, in addition to holding engagements at venues such as the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Kimmel Center, Carnegie Hall, and Alice Tully Hall. In April 2020 her debut album Brillance Indéniable was released on the Avie label to rave reviews. Her video recordings on the Voices of Music YouTube channel have garnered over five million views. An avid pedagogue, she teaches violin privately and at the Music Conservatory of Westchester. She has served as a guest lecturer at NYU Steinhardt School and San Francisco Community College, and as a guest instructor for Ars Lyrica Houston and Oberlin Baroque Performance Institute. In her free time, Alana enjoys spending time with her husband and son.
ALANA YOUSSEFIANViolin
Described as “mesmerizing” (Seen and Heard International), Matt Zucker appears internationally as a collaborator and soloist specializing in historical cellos and viols. His orchestral career has taken him around the world with ensembles such as Boston Baroque, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Les Arts Florissants, the Washington National Cathedral Baroque Orchestra, the Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, and Teatro Nuovo. His 2023 performances as viola da gamba soloist in J.S. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with the New York Philharmonic were lauded as “stellar” and “a delight” (Financial Times). He has also recently been featured in solos with Trinity Baroque Orchestra and New York Baroque Incorporated. Equally at home as a chamber musician, he performs with House of Time, the Boston Baroque X-tet, the Sebastians, and Sonnambula. He can be heard on Brillance Indéniable: The Virtuoso Violin in the Court of Louis XV with Alana Youssefian and Le Bien-Aimé on Avie Records.
MATT ZUCKERGamba/Cello
Early music artist Adam Cockerham specializes in theorbo, lute and baroque guitar. Beginning his performance career as a classical guitarist, he then gravitated toward historical plucked strings, preferring the collaborative opportunities of chamber music from the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. As an accompanist and continuo player, Cockerham has performed with numerous ensembles in North America. He founded the voice and plucked string duo Jarring Sounds with mezzo-soprano Danielle Reutter-Harrah. Beyond chamber music, Cockerham concentrates on 17th-century Italian vocal music. He is the Associate Music Director of the Academy of Sacred Drama and has been involved in numerous modern world premiere performances with companies such as Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik and Ars Minerva. Cockerham received his doctorate from the Juilliard School where he was awarded the Richard F. French Prize for best dissertation.
ADAM COCKERHAM Lute
Keyboardist and conductor Jeffrey Grossman specializes in vital, engaging performances of music of the past, through processes that are intensely collaborative and historically informed. As the artistic director of the acclaimed baroque ensemble the Sebastians, Jeffrey has directed Bach’s Passions and Handel’s Messiah in collaboration with TENET Vocal Artists. Recent seasons include his leading Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 with the Green Mountain Project in New York and Venice, conducting a workshop of a new Vivaldi pastiche opera for the Metropolitan Opera, and serving as musical director for three iterations of the Boston Early Music Festival Young Artists Training Program. A native of Detroit, Michigan, he holds degrees from Harvard, Juilliard, and Carnegie Mellon University, and currently teaches performance practice at Yale University.
JEFFREY GROSSMANKeyboards
Hank Heijink has played all over the world with leading ensembles such as the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra with Ton Koopman, Orchestre d’Auvergne, Mark Morris Dance Group, and the Wooster Group. As a member of the European Union Baroque Orchestra, he toured extensively throughout Europe, Asia, Scandinavia. Hank can be heard on TENET Vocal Artists’ entire discography and as a soloist on UNO + ONE: Italia Nostra and The Secret Lover. A native of Eindhoven in the Netherlands, he holds a performance degree from the Royal Conservatory of the Hague, a master of arts degree in computer science, and a Ph.D. in social sciences. In addition to providing Renaissance and Baroque bass lines, Hank also plays electric bass with Soul City Groove in Ulster County, New York.
HANK HEIJINKTheorbo
Priscilla Herreid plays period wind instruments with some of the finest ensembles in the US and abroad. In 2022, she became Artistic Director of Piffaro the Renaissance Band, after many years as a member of the preeminent ensemble. Recent appearances include The Handel + Haydn Society, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, TENET Vocal Artists, The Metropolitan Opera, The Newberry Consort, The Sebastians, The Gabrieli Consort, and The Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra. Priscilla also accompanies silent films with Hesperus, sings the Latin Mass in New York City, and was part of the onstage band for Twelfth Night and Richard III on Broadway. Priscilla’s playing has been called “downright amazing” by The Philadelphia Inquirer, and The New York Times has praised her “soaring recorder, gorgeously played…”
PRISCILLA HERREIDWinds
Anna Grau Schmidt is a musicologist specializing in the music of medieval France, in particular in the musical expression of female voices. She completed a PhD dissertation on the representation of women in medieval French song and motets at the University of Pennsylvania, and taught music history courses for several years before beginning her current role as music librarian for the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. In 2022, she published a collection, co-edited with Dr. Lisa Colton, entitled Female Voice Song and Women’s Musical Agency in the Middle Ages. She continues to pursue research on medieval French song and polyphony, as well as on library instruction in the performing arts.
ANNA GRAU SCHMIDTMusicologist
Early string specialist Dongmyung Ahn is a performer, educator, and scholar whose interests span from the twelfth to eighteenth centuries. Dongmyung is co-founder of Duo Custos, a medieval duo that specializes in music of the fourteenth century. She regularly performs with Green Mountain Vespers, Pegasus, Raritan Players, The Sebastians, and TENET Vocal Artists. She has played rebec in the critically acclaimed production of The Play of Daniel at the Cloisters. A dedicated educator, Dongmyung has taught music history at New York University, Queens College, Rutgers University, and Vassar College. She received her PhD in musicology at the Graduate Center, CUNY and has published an article on medieval liturgy in the Rodopi series Faux Titre and an article on Jewish-Christians relations in Henry VIII’s court (IU Press).
DONGMYUNG AHNMusicologist
Medievalist Susan Boynton is Professor of Music at Columbia University. She writes on medieval monastic liturgy and music, well as music and childhood, musical iconography, troubadour song, and sacred drama. Boynton has degrees from Yale University in music and in medieval studies, and a Ph.D. in musicology from Brandeis University. Her award-winning monographs are Silent Music: Medieval Song and the Construction of History in Eighteenth-Century Spain (2011) and Shaping a Monastic Identity: Liturgy and History at the Imperial Abbey of Farfa, 1000-1125 (2006). Boynton has coedited five books, most recently Resounding Images: Medieval Intersections of Art, Music, and Sound, with Diane J. Reilly (2015).
SUSAN BOYNTONMusicologist
Elizabeth Weinfield is a professor of Historical Musicology at The Juilliard School in New York whose research explores the relationships among gender, performance, and race in the early modern period. She holds a PhD in historical musicology from the Graduate Center, CUNY, and a Master’s in Music from Oxford. Artistic director of the ensemble, Sonnambula, recently ensemble-in-residence at NYC's Met Cloisters, she has designed site-specific concerts at museums around the country, including the Detroit Institute of Arts, the National Gallery of Art, the Hispanic Society of America, and others. Her recording of the music of 17th-century composer, Leonora Duarte (Centaur Records, 2019), won the American Musicological Society’s Jewish Studies award. She is working on her first book, a monograph on Duarte that investigates music’s role in the convergence of business and culture in the early modern domestic space.
ELIZABETH WEINFIELDMusicologist
Erika Supria Honisch is Associate Professor of Critical Music Studies and Graduate Program Director in the Stony Brook University Music Department of Music. She works on music, politics, and religious culture in early modern Europe, with a focus on historical sound studies and Habsburg Central Europe. Her research has been published in Journal of Musicology, Early Music History, Plainsong and Medieval Music, Organised Sound, Austrian History Yearbook, and Common Knowledge, and in various edited collections. Her article, On the Trail of a Knight of Santiago: Collecting Music and Mapping Knowledge in Renaissance Europe, co-authored with Tess Knighton and Ferran Escrivà-Llorca, was awarded the 2020 Westrup Prize from the Music & Letters Trust, and she was keynote speaker at the 2022 conference Sounding Habsburg: Sonic Circulations in Central Europe. Honisch has partnered with a number of early music groups, including Schola Antiqua, the Newberry Consort and, most recently, Cinquecento, for their album Regnart: Missa Christ ist erstanden and other works (Hyperion). A frequent collaborator on international research projects, she is co-editor, with Giovanni Zanovello (Indiana University) of the Inclusive Early Music project, a member of the Spanish working group CONFRASOUND, a founding member of the Musica Rudolphina scholarly collective, based in Prague, and a member of the editorial board of the Yale Journal of Music and Religion.
ERIKA HONISCHMusicologist
Dr. Ellen Exner is a specialist in music of the Bach family and serves as Vice President of the American Bach Society. After receiving her PhD from Harvard University, Exner worked as a professor of music history for over a decade, first at the University of South Carolina and then at the New England Conservatory of Music. She has numerous publications including critical editions, encyclopedia entries, articles, and book chapters on topics related to 18th century music and its reception. Exner left full-time academic life in 2023 to work for the Philadelphia Orchestra and Kimmel Center, Inc. She continues to research and publish on subjects that interest her.
ELLEN EXNERMusicologist
Lindsey Jones is pursuing a PhD in Musicology at Rutgers University. She graduated magna cum laude from the University of South Florida with a M.M. in Violin Performance with a concentration in Instrumental Conducting, and summa cum laude from Western Connecticut State University with a B.M in Violin Performance. Lindsey has broad experience in scholarship, archival work, education and music performance. She has participated in numerous international chamber music festivals and frequently organizes community recital projects.
LINDSEY JONESMusicologist
Candace Smith was born in Los Angeles but has lived in Europe since 1975 (in Italy since 1978). She received her Bachelor’s Degree in music in California (CSUN) and was particularly active in the field of contemporary music before going on to the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (Switzerland), where she specialized in medieval music under Andrea von Ramm. In 1994 she earned a diploma in vocal pedagogy from the Rabine- Institut für funktionale Stimmpädagogik (Germany). Candace is quite active as a teacher throughout Europe, working with singers of varying repertoires (both classical and non), as well as actors, music teachers, psychiatric patients and others. She was also the teaching assistant of Cathy Berberian, with whom she performed concerts of American music. Since 1995 she has taught singing at the Bernstein School of Musical Theatre in Bologna and has also been on the faculty of the Accademia Teatrale Veneta in Venice since 2012.
She has collaborated and recorded with numerous ensembles of early music including Studio der Frühen Musik (Basel), Sequentia (Cologne/Paris), P.A.N. (Boston) and The Newberry Consort (Chicago). In 1991 she founded Cappella Artemisia, an ensemble of women (primarily), dedicated to performing the music of Italian convents of the 16th and 17th centuries. In 1997, she began publishing the repertoire of early music from Italian convents, together with her husband, American cornettist Bruce Dickey, under the name of Artemisia Editions. There are currently twenty-eight titles available.
CANDACE SMITHMusicologist
Susan Hellauer, a native of the beautiful Bronx, New York, majored in trumpet as an undergrad, and earned Master’s Degrees in musicology from Queens College (City University of New York), and Columbia University. Susan is a founding member and performed for 29 years with the vocal quartet Anonymous 4. She is an adjunct Assistant Professor of Music at Queens College, CUNY, teaching courses in Medieval, Renaissance and American Popular Music, as well as writing, and is a regular Visiting Lecturer in plainchant at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music. Susan also serves on the Board of Directors of the legendary New York early-music concert presenting organization Music Before 1800.
SUSAN HELLAUERMusicologist