Alex Opsahl studied recorder with Peter Holtslag and Daniel Bruggen at the Royal Academy of Music, graduating in 2004 with First Class Honors. She went on to study cornetto privately in Italy with Bruce Dickey, continuing these studies at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. She was the winner of the 2003 Moeck Solo Recorder competition, the 2001 and 2003 RAM Early Music Prize and 2003 Hilda Anderson Dean Award.
For most of her adult life, Mary Springfels had devoted herself to the performance and teaching of early music repertoires.
Four time Grammy Award winner, Glen Velez is the founding Father of the modern Frame Drum movement and is regarded a
Geoffrey Williams (Countertenor) hails from the Midwest and began his musical life as a treble in the American Boychoir.
Michael Barrett is active in the Boston area as a professional musician and teacher. As a singer Mr.
Tom Zajac performs on the sackbut, recorder, bagpipes, and other instruments with the Renaissance wind band, Piffaro; occasionally performs with his own group, Ex Umbris.
Nina Stern is one of North America’s leading performers of the recorder and classical clarinet. In recent years she is also hailed as an innovator in teaching school-age children to be fine young musicians. A native New Yorker, Ms.
Nigel North was initially inspired into music, at age 7, by the early 60's instrumental pop group "The Shadows". Nigel studied classical music through the violin and guitar, eventually discovering his real path in life, the lute, when he was 15.