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.
Julie Andrijeski, full-time Lecturer at Case Western Reserve University, is among the leading baroque violinists and early music pedagogues in the U.S. She holds principal positions with diverse Baroque and Renaissance groups including Cleveland’s Apollo’s Fire, New York State Baroque (Concertmaster), the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra (Music Director), Quicksilver, Cecilia’s Circle, and The King’s Noyse. Her unique performance style is greatly influenced by her knowledge and skilled performance of early dance. Ms. Andrijeski teaches both violin and dance during the year at Case and at summer festivals in Oberlin (BPI), Madison (MEMF), and Vancouver, BC (VEMF).
John Andrew Bailey is Organist at the Philadelphia Episcopal Cathedral. He performs actively as an accompanist and continuo player in the Philadelphia area, and has also appeared as a concerto soloist with baroque orchestra Tempesta di Mare and on the Philadelphia Bach Festival series. He holds degrees in harpsichord from the Eastman School of Music, where his principal teachers were David Craighead and Arthur Haas. He also trained as a musicologist, and has taught music and humanities courses at Temple University, the University of Pennsylvania, Swarthmore College, Bryn Mawr College, and Montclair State University. He has presented his research on the music of Guillaume de Machaut at international conferences, and his co-authored essay on the performance practice of fifteenth-century chansons appears in Binchois Studies from Oxford University Press. 2011 marks his thirteenth year on the staff of the Amherst Festival.
Julianne Baird, soprano, has been hailed a "national artistic treasure" (New York Times) and as a "well-nigh peerless performer in the repertory of the baroque." It was also stated about her that "she possesses a natural musicianship which engenders singing of supreme expressive beauty."
Eric Haas received a M.M. degree in early music performance from the 
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.
Kaspar D. Mainz has appeared in more than 250 theatrical performances in Germany, Austria, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. He is the Artistic Director of Deliciae Theatrales, a group that specializes in theater, dance and music performances for children. He has taught at Salzburg University, University of Leipzig, Salzburg Mozarteum, and University of Graz. Mr. Mainz has offered workshops in historical dance in Europe and the United States.
Sandra Miller, a native of Philadelphia and a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, has been the recipient of a Solo Recitalist's Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, First Prize in the Bodky Competition for Early Music, and a New York recital debut sponsored by the Concert Artists Guild. She has performed extensively throughout the United States and abroad, with Concert Royal, the Smithsonian Chamber Players, American Bach Soloists, Sinfonia New York, Toronto’s Tafelmusik and Boston’s Handel and Haydn Society, among others. Ms. Miller was for many years Professor of Music at Purchase College’s Conservatory of Music (SUNY), and instructor of baroque flute at the Mannes College of Music and the New England Conservatory of Music, in the City University of New York’s doctoral program and as Kulas Visiting Artist at Case Western Reserve University. In 2009, she joined the faculty of Juilliard’s new historical performance program. Her solo recordings include the complete Bach flute sonatas and, on six- and eight-keyed classical flutes, the three Mozart concertos.
Dorothy Olsson has had training in both music and dance; she received her Masters of Music of Musicology from Manhattan School of Music and her Ph.D. in Performance Studies at New York University, with a dissertation on early 20th-century dance. She has presented numerous workshops, choreographies and performances of historical dance, and written books and articles about historical dance. Dr. Olsson was an Assistant Professor of Dance Education at New York University for ten years. She is the director of