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.

Praised in the New York Times for her "impeccable, thoughtfully shaped, dramatically taut" playing, violinist Claire Jolivet has rapidly established herself as one of this country’s leading interpreters of baroque and early classical repertoire. She maintains a busy career appearing regularly with ensembles throughout the Northeast, including Sinfonia New York, Sarasa, Concert Royal, Repast, Clarion, and the Four Nations Ensemble. She is a founding member of the Dodd String Quartet and concertmaster of Opera Lafayette in Washington DC, and The Grand Tour Orchestra in New York.  She has played as a guest with Musica Pacifica, Piffaro and Tafelmusic and frequently performs in France with the Paris-based Opera Fuoco. 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, ASV - Gaudeamus and Naxos labels.

Nell Snaidas has been praised by the New York Times for her “beautiful soprano voice, superb sense of line” and “vocally ravishing” performances. Her voice has also been described as “remarkably pure with glints of rich sensuality” (Vancouver Sun); and she has been called “a model of luminous timbre and emotional intensity” (Cleveland Plain Dealer).  Nell began her career singing leading roles in zarzuelas at New York City's Repertorio Español. Specialization in Italian and Spanish Baroque music has since taken her all over Europe, North and Latin America. Operatic performances include her European debut in Alessandro Scarlatti’s Gli Equivoci nel Sembiante at the Teatro Garibaldi in Palermo, Sicily, as well as creating the role "Princess Olga" in the world-premiere of the Boston Early Music Festival’s production of Boris Goudenow in Boston and Tanglewood. She has been a featured soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Apollo’s Fire, The Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, Tragicomedia, Seattle Baroque, Concert Royal, Sinfonia NY and Tempesta di Mare. In addition to her performances in the classical arena, Nell starred internationally as "Christine" in The Phantom of the Opera, is heard in Mel Brooks’ movie-musical The Producers, and was a soloist in the Grammy-nominated Broadway cast album Hair. She also collaborated with Alicia Keys in the musical arrangement and Italian translation of her song “Superwoman” for Kathleen Battle for the grand finale of the 2008 America Music Awards. Nell has recorded for Sony Classical, Dorian, Koch International and Naxos and was featured on CBC radio as one of the leading interpreters of Spanish Renaissance and Sephardic song.

Debra Nagy, baroque oboe, has been called “a baroque oboist of consummate taste and expressivity” (Cleveland Plain Dealer). One of the nation’s most sought after early double reed specialists, Debra performs frequently with baroque ensembles and orchestras in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle, Cleveland, Denver, Philadelphia, and New York, and has been heard at the international Early Music Festivals of Boston, Berkeley, Regensburg, and Antwerp (Laus Polyphoniae). She also directs the ensemble Les Délices, and is a member of the shawm band, Ciaramella. A graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory and Case Western Reserve University, Debra was the first-prize winner in the 2002 American Bach Soloists Young Artist Competition, spent 2002-2003 in Brussels and Amsterdam as the recipient of a Belgian American Educational Foundation Grant, and currently teaches as a Lecturer in Early Music Performance Practice at Case Western Reserve University.  Debra can be heard on the Capstone, Bright Angel, Naxos, Hänssler Classics, and ATMA labels. Please visit www.debranagy.com for more information.