Catherine Slowik is a versatile multi-instrumentalist specializing in historical performance, performing regularly on viola da gamba, cello, baryton, and violone. A core member of the Smithsonian Chamber Players, Elm City Consort, Yale Baroque Opera Project, and Yale Collegium Musicum—whose viol consort she directs—Slowik also serves on the faculty of Oberlin’s Baroque Performance Institute. Her recent projects include performances with The Thirteen, Cathedra, and the New Muses Project, as well as producing and music-directing an outdoor, COVID-safe production of Dido and Aeneas in the summer of 2020. In the same year, she was named a Smithsonian Haydn Fellow.