Marilyn Boenau, Baroque bassoon, has performed and recorded with most of the leading Baroque orchestras in North America, including Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, the Handel & Haydn Society, Portland Baroque Orchestra, Apollo's Fire, Tafelmusik, and Opera Lafayette. In Europe she has worked with The Harp Consort, Collegium Vocale, and Freiburg Baroque. In May 2005 she performed at the Handel Festspiele in Göttingen, Germany. She is the bassoon soloist with Music Pacifica on the Dorian CD La Notte, which includes several Vivaldi chamber concertos. Her playing has been called "breathtaking" by the Portland Oregonian. Marilyn holds a Soloist's Diploma from the Schola Cantorum in Basel, Switzerland, where she studied recorder, shawm, curtal, and bassoon with Michel Piguet and Walter Stiftner. She has performed Renaissance music with the Boston Shawm and Sackbut Ensemble, Blue Heron Renaissance Choir, and the Folger Consort. In addition to her performing career, Marilyn is the executive director of Amherst Early Music, Inc.

Saskia Coolen studied recorder at the Amsterdam conservatoire with Kees Boeke and Walter van Hauwe. After this study she followed her inetersts in the Viol (Viola da Gamba) and musicology. Saskia Coolen was for many years a member of La Fontegara Amsterdam and gave regular concerts with ensembles such as the Freiburger Barockorchester, The Kings Consort and Tragicomedia. She recorded a number of CDs on the Globe label. For some time, Saskia Coolen has been a member of the recorder ensemble Brisk and Camerata Trajectina. In 1994 she established the ensemble Senario, which specializes in baroque chamber music in which the recorder takes a leading role. She was a teacher at the Hilversume Conservatoire and gives countless masterclasses throughout the world, particularly in the USA.

Christine Gevert's early studies were at the Deutsche Schule in Santiago, Chile. She later studied Organ, Basso-continuo, Choir conducting, and Music Theory at the Conservatorio Nacional de Chile, and continued her study of Organ and Early Music Performance at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater, Hamburg, Germany, Choir conducting at the Berliner Kirchenmusikschule, and in Harpsichord with Nicholas Parle in London.

Her teaching experience includes Basso-continuo at the Kirchenmusikschule, Berlin (Germany), and several master classes at Universidad Catolica de Chile and at Festival Villarica in Chile and the Early-Music Festivals in Europe including Thüringen and Schwedt. She has taught baroque tuning methods in Würzburg, Germany and early vocal techniques and baroque ensemble in Santiago de Chile, and has led a harpsichord class at the Remscheider Cembalotage, Germany.

She has recorded for Carpe Diem records, Berlin, since 1995, and can be heard on the early German Baroque CD "Dulcis Memoriae" before joining Les Inégales, with whom she has been on several European and South-American Tours, as well as performing at the East coast (Boston Early Music Festival 2001). With Les Inégales she has recorded "Ordinaire de la chambre du roi" for Carpe Diem in 1998 and “A la Bach” in 2004.

Since 2001 she is the organist and choir director at Trinity Episcopal Church, Lime Rock and the artistic director of Crescendo!

Eric Haas received a M.M. degree in early music performance from the New England Conservatory of Music, where he studied recorder with John Tyson and baroque flute with Sandra Miller. He has taught at New England Conservatory, Tufts University and Wheaton College, as well as numerous early music workshops. Eric has performed with La Sonnerie and Duo Pentimento, and has appeared with the Ocean State Chamber Orchestra and Emmanuel Music. He has served as music director of the Boston Recorder Society for more than 15 years and is currently on the staff of the von Huene Workshop, Inc. (the Early Music Shop of New England).

Valerie Horst, is Director Emerita of the Amherst Early Music Festival, a former vice president of the American Recorder Society, and former President of Early Music America. Holder of an MFA in Historical Performance from Sarah Lawrence College, she is a long-time member of the faculty of Mannes College of Music, as well as Music Director of the Miami Chapter of the American Recorder Society. Since retiring from the Amherst Early Music directorship, Ms. Horst divides her time between buffing her nails, reading whodunits, and throwing bonbons to the poodle.

Patricia Ann Neely is a vielle, viola da gamba, violone, and Baroque double bass specialist and holds a BA in music from Vassar College and an MFA in early music from Sarah Lawrence College. She has performed with ARTEK, Bach Vespers at Holy Trinity, Boston Camerata, Early Music New York, the Amercian Classical Symphony, the Folger Consort, the Four Nations Ensemble, the Newberry Consort, the Rheinischen Kantorei, Köln, the Philadelphia Classical Symphony, the Smithsonian Chamber Players and its Chamber Orchestra, The Waverly Consort, Gimmerglass Opera and The New York City Opera, and with the Washington Cathedral Choir. For three years she was a member of the Cologne based-ensemble Sequentia and was a founding member of Parthenia. Ms. Neely has recorded for Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, Erato, Lyrichord, Music Masters, and Arabesque and appears on the soundtrack to the 2005 movie Casanova. She teaches medieval music in the extension division at the Mannes College, the New School for Music and double bass at The Brearley School.

Patricia Petersen holds an MFA in Early Music Performance from Sarah Lawrence College. A Director Emerita of Amherst Early Music, she is a regular faculty member at Amherst's and many other workshops. She performs on recorder and other early winds, and has appeared with the Charleston Symphony Orchestra. She has coached early music ensembles at Wake Forest University and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She founded and directed the small vocal ensemble Fortuna, recorded on the Titanic label, and conducted the Amherst Festival Choir on a CD of the music of Heinrich Isaac. An ARS certified teacher, she teaches recorder, early music, and English country dance in North Carolina and at workshops around the country. She currently serves on the board of the Country Dance and Song Society. Her passions range from playing from facsimiles of early 15th-century music to English country dancing to playing old-timey music on banjo-uke.

Flutist, recorder player and Artistic Director and founder of Tempesta di Mare Gwyn Roberts has been a featured soloist with the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, the Portland Baroque Orchestra, Recitar Cantando of Tokyo, and at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC. American Record Guide has called her "a world-class virtuoso", and the Washington Post remarked, "with her sparkling technique and sensitive attention to musicality, she infused the music with operatic drama." Her recording of Veracini Recorder Sonatas earned a five star rating from BBC Music Magazine. As co-director of Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra Tempesta di Mare, she leads the ensemble in frequent performances from Oregon to Prague, records for Chandos (UK), and appears frequently on NPR's Performance Today. Recordings include, Deutsche Grammaphon, Dorian, Sony Classics, Vox, PolyGram, PGM, Newport Classics, and Radio France. Ms. Roberts is Director of Early Music at the University of Pennsylvania and is on faculty at Peabody Conservatory. She studied recorder with Marion Verbruggen and Leo Meilink and baroque flute with Marten Root at Utrecht Conservatory in the Netherlands.

John Mark Rozendaal specializes in teaching and performing stringed instrument music from the Baroque and Renaissance eras. As founding Artistic Director of Chicago Baroque Ensemble, JMR performed and led seven seasons of subscription concerts, educational programs, radio broadcasts, and recordings for the Cedille and Centaur labels. Rozendaal served as principal 'cellist of The City Musick, and Basically Bach, and has performed both solo and continuo roles with many period instrument ensembles, including the Newberry Consort, Orpheus Band, and the King's Noyse. Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, the Catacoustic Consort, Philomel, Parthenia, The New York Consort of Viols, and Empire Viols. JMR performs as a member of Trio Settecento with violinist Rachel Barton Pine and harpsichordist David Schrader. Rozendaal's viola da gamba playing has been praised as "splendid" (Chicago Tribune), and "breathtaking" (Sun-Times). Recordings are available on the Cedille and Centaur labels.

A dedicated teacher, Rozendaal is in demand as a workshop teacher and often joins the faculties of the Viola da Gamba Society of America Conclave, Viols West’s annual workshop, Amherst Early Music, Madison Early Music Festival, and the Music Institute of Chicago’s annual Baroque Festival. As Artist -in-Residence at The Harvey School, a coeducational college preparatory school locatied in Katonah, New York, Rozendaal led the Harvey Early Music Ensemble's tours to England in 2006 and to Italy in 2007. JMR teaches private lessons and viola da gamba Dojo classes at his studio in Manhattan.

Website: http://www.jmrozendaal.com

Tricia van Oers was born in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. In 1998 she graduated from the Rotterdam Conservatory (teacher and soloist degrees), where she studied recorder with Thera de Clerck and Han Tol. Upon recommendation of the conservatory she was awarded a scholarship, enabling her to do graduate study at Indiana University's Early Music Institute, where she received a Performer Diploma with high achievement in Early Music-Instrumental performance, while being an Associate Instructor. Until the summer of 2000 Ms. van Oers was employed by the Von Huene Workshop, Inc. in Boston, making, repairing and testing recorders. She regularly lends her skills to the Workshop still, and has represented the shop at Early Music Festivals in the United States and Europe. She was Director of the '99 North American Recorder Teacher's Conference at Indiana University's School of Music, and was on the faculty of the Amherst Early Music Festival, I.U.'s Summer Academy, and the '00 North American Recorder Teacher's Seminar. Ms. van Oers taught for the Boston Recorder Society and teaches frequently as a guest coach for Recorder Societies. She has performed in solo and ensemble recitals in the Netherlands, Portugal and the United States. As a founding member of the Rotterdam (NL) based ensemble Scarabee she recorded at the Great Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles (France). She now lives in New York. Her activities include performances with the New York Ensemble for Early Music, Long Island Baroque Ensemble, Concert Royal (NYC), a cantata and oratorio performance with Bard College, the Saratoga Chamber Singers, Vernon Chorale, The Cantata Singers (Boston), and The Choral Festival Orchestra, Musica Sacra, and the Philadelphia-based baroque orchestra Tempesta di Mare. She frequently serves on the faculties of Early Music workshops and is a founding member of the New Amsterdam Recorder Trio (NewART), which has performed concerts in collaboration with the Flanders Recorder Quartet and the viol consort Parthenia.