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Baroque violinist Amelia Roosevelt has performed throughout Europe and the Americas with leading period-instrument ensembles such as Musica Antiqua Köln, Concerto Köln, La Stagione Frankfurt, La Cappella de’ Turchini, and Musica Ad Rhenum. European festival appearances include those in Utrecht, Bruges, Graz, Lisbon, Istanbul, Piteå (Sweden), and Bergen (Norway). She has also performed at Monte Music in Goa, India and Festival Cervantino in Mexico, and was a member of the Lisbon-based Ensemble Barroco do Chiado as well as the contemporary music group Acidophilus (Live Culture). Praised by the New York Times for her “consistently fine form,” Amelia works frequently with Ensemble Rebel, the Four Nations Ensemble, and the New York Collegium, and during the summer at the Carmel Bach Festival in California. She has recorded for MDG, New Classical Adventure, Linn Records, Hänssler Classic, Electra, and Capriccio. A New York City native, Amelia holds degrees in violin performance from Stony Brook University, where she studied with Joyce Robbins and Mitchell Stern; the Manhattan School of Music; and the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam. She graduated with honors from Swarthmore College. 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. www.jmrozendaal.com Avi Stein teaches harpsichord and coaches vocal repertoire and chamber music at Yale University. He is the music director at St. Matthew & St. Timothy Episcopal Church in New York and an active continuo accompanist who has played with many ensembles such as the Clarion Music Society, the Baroque Orchestras of Los Angeles, Seattle and Indianapolis and the Warsaw, Toulouse and Indianapolis Symphony Orchestras as well as his own chamber groups La Monica and X579. Avi is currently finishing his doctoral studies in organ and harpsichord at Indiana University. He holds degrees from the Eastman School of Music and the University of Southern California and was a recipient of a Fulbright scholarship for study in Toulouse. The New York Times described him as "a brilliant organ soloist" in his Carnegie Hall debut. Avi was previously the assistant organist and choirmaster at St. Paul's Cathedral in Buffalo, New York. He has performed throughout the United States,in Europe, Canada, and Central America. He has also conducted a variety of ensembles including a the recent debut of the OperaOmnia company in a production of Monteverdi’s Poppea and a series called the 4x4 festival that put together four programs in four days of 17th century music from four countries, using many of New York’s best baroque musicians.http://www.jmrozendaal.comshapeimage_2_link_0
Violinist Claire Jolivet has rapidly established herself as one of the country’s leading interpreters of baroque and early classical repertoire, maintaining a busy career appearing regularly with ensembles throughout the Northeast, including The New York Collegium, Sarasa, Concert Royal, Repast, Clarion, Ars Antiqua, the Four Nations Ensemble, and the newly-formed Maddalena String Quartet. She is the concertmaster of Opera Lafayette in Washington DC, and The Grand Tour Orchestra in New York. She has also played as a guest with Musica Pacifica, Tafelmusic, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, and the Paris-based Opera Fuoco. On modern violin, Ms. Jolivet freelances with many orchestras in the New York area including the Stamford Symphony and the Orchestra of St. Lukes. She was the founder and Artistic Director of the Crested Butte Chamber Music Festival in Colorado, an organization she steered for over 10 years.Ms. Jolivet began her violin studies in England with Pamela Spofforth and is a graduate of the Juilliard School where she studied with Dorothy DeLay. She has recorded on the Deutsche Harmonia Mundi and ASV - Gaudeamus labels Charles Weaver plays lute, theorbo, and baroque guitar with ARTEK and Repast. He has also appeared with the Orchestra of St Luke’s at Carnegie Hall, and as a soloist with the Richmond Symphony in Bach’s St John Passion.  He was recently heard on NPR’s “Performance Today.” He has accompanied baroque operas with Ignoti Dei Opera, Peabody Chamber Opera, Maryland Opera Studio, and the Juilliard Opera Center. With his duo partner, soprano Elizabeth Baber, he has created programs exploring art song of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and performed around the country. The Washington Post has called his continuo playing “fine,” his accompaniment “adept,” and his solo playing “splendid.” He lives in Queens, New York. Daphna Mor has performed throughout Europe and the United States as a soloist and ensemble player. Her appearances include solo recitals in Croatia, Germany and Switzerland; recitals at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Trinity Church, New York; Soloist with The New York Collegium (Andrew Parrot, conductor) and the New York Early Music Ensemble (Fred Renz, conductor); Orchestra member with the New York Philharmonic (Allen Gilbert, conductor); City Opera, Lincoln Center; Piffaro- The Renaissance Band and Repast; Awards include First Prize in Settimane Musicali di Lugano Solo Competition, and two times winner of The Boston Conservatory Concerto Competition. 
 Ms. Mor received her Bachelor of Music degree from The Boston Conservatory with highest honors, as Valedictorian of the class of 2000. She was awarded the prestigious status of “Privileged Musician” for her mandatory army service in Israel. Her teaching includes positions at The Education Department of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and teaching for the New York Collegium outreach program. She is a frequent teacher in early music workshops around the US.

Ms. Mor is an active World Music musician as well. In World Music Ms. Mor has appeared on such prestigious stages as “Summer Stage”, Central Park, NY, and in festivals all over the Unites States, Canada, Poland, Italy, Spain, Germany, Slovenia, Austria, Greece and Israel. She is a musician at residence at Bnai Jeshurun Synagogue in New York City. www.daphnamor.com Praised for her “sumptuous tone and shimmering clarity” and hailed for “a voice equally velvety up and down the registers”, soprano Laura Heimes is widely regarded as an artist of great versatility, with repertoire ranging from the Renaissance to the 21st century. She has collaborated with many of the leading figures in early music, including Andrew Lawrence King, Julianne Baird, Tempeste di Mare, The King’s Noyse, Paul O’Dette, Chatham Baroque, Apollo’s Fire, The New York Collegium, The Publick Musick, Brandywine Baroque, Trinity Consort, and Piffaro – The Renaissance Band, a group with whom she has toured the United States. Additionally, Ms. Heimes is a member of Fuma Sacra, the early music vocal ensemble-in-residence at Westminster Choir College of Rider University. She has been heard at the Boston, Connecticut and Indianapolis Early Music Festivals, at the Oregon and Philadelphia Bach Festivals under the baton of Helmuth Rilling, and in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, Brazil in concerts of Bach and Handel. With the Philadelphia Orchestra she appeared as Mrs. Nordstrom in Stephen Sondheim’s A Little Night Music. December 2003 marked her Carnegie Hall debut in Handel's Messiah with the Masterwork Chorus. Ms. Heimes’ most recent recordings include the songs of Purcell with Brandywine Baroque; The Lass with the Delicate Air: English Songs from the London Pleasure Gardens; Handel Duets and Trios (not yet released); The Jane Austen Songbook with Julianne Baird; and Caldara's Il Giuoco del Quadriglio with Julianne Baird and the Queen's Chamber Band conducted by Stephen Altop. A native of Rochester NY, she holds Master of Music degrees in Choral Conducting and Voice Performance from Temple University. Ms. Heimes has recorded for Dorian, Pro Gloria Musicae, Plectra Music, Sonabilis, and Albany records. Additionally, she has worked with students in the form of clinics and master classes and coachings at Mannes School of Music, Dickenson College, Wesley College, Swarthmore College and Temple University. She currently teaches voice at Westminster Choir College.http://www.daphnamor.comshapeimage_3_link_0