Praised by The New York Times for her “splendid playing,” Natalie Rose Kress is a New York-based baroque and modern violinist. A core member of Repast Baroque, she also performs with her touring ensembles Relic Ensemble and Quartet Salonnières, and has appeared with the Handel and Haydn Society, Nosky Baroque Band, The Thirteen, Opera Lafayette, the Smithsonian Chamber Music Society, Washington Bach Consort, The English Consort, Les Arts Florissants, Charlotte Bach Festival, Staunton Music Festival, and the Carmel Bach Festival. A recipient of the Jules C. Reiner Violin Prize from the Tanglewood Music Center and the English Concert in America Fellowship through the Juilliard School, she performed with Yo-Yo Ma at the Kennedy Center Honors celebrating Seiji Ozawa and gave the world premiere of Leonard Bernstein’s Music for String Quartet at the Linde Center at Tanglewood with members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. She can also be heard on the first commercial recording of Bernstein’s Music for String Quartet, released by Parma Recordings in 2023. An alumna of the Juilliard School’s Historical Performance program (Graduate Diploma) and Stony Brook University (B.A., M.M.), she is currently pursuing a doctorate at the University of Maryland with a focus on historical performance pedagogy. In addition to her performing career, Kress serves as Administrative Director of Pegasus Early Music and NYS Baroque, supporting early music performance and education throughout the Finger Lakes, Central New York, and Western New York.

Sarah Stone is drawn to cello and viola da gamba through a curiosity in the cultural history of the music she plays and how it intersects with the stories we tell today. She performs with Apollo’s Fire, Tafelmusik, the Sebastians, Gallery Concerts, True Concord, the Staunton Music Festival, Bach Charlotte, and the Trinity Baroque Orchestra. At home in New York City, Sarah is Executive Director of Repast Baroque, an ensemble that finds new contexts for early music through storytelling and multimedia, including silent film and visual art. Sarah is also the Artistic Director of Bitterroot Baroque, a community baroque orchestra in Hamilton, Montana, which helps bring in period ensembles and musicians to perform, coach, and lead workshops with local musicians. Through a Circuit Rider Grant from the Viola da Gamba Society of America, she started viol playdates in Western Montana, helping local musicians get started on viol and hosting regular consort reading sessions. Sarah holds Master's degrees from the Juilliard School and San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and a Bachelor's from Rice University. She loves gardening, animation, long walks, deep-dives into digitized collections, and her cats Nyx and Erebus.

Harpsichordist Gabe Shuford’s musical fluency spans historically inspired performance, jazz, and pop. He is a core member of the Repast Baroque Ensemble and has performed at Staunton Music Festival, Nebraska Crossroads Music Festival, Bach Virtuosi Festival, and with acclaimed groups such as Clarion Choir and Orchestra, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, A Far Cry, and Ensemble Altera. 

Gabe’s playing has earned praise from The New York Times, which described his performance of Elliott Carter’s Sonata as “assured, polished and beautifully nuanced.” His achievements include the 2011 Baron Prize from Stony Brook University and second prize at the 2007 Mae and Irving Jurow International Harpsichord Competition. 

A versatile artist, he performs regularly with his wife, singer and songwriter Erin Hall, and as a keyboardist with the Lars Jacobsen Trio. 

Gabe earned his DMA from Stony Brook University, where he studied with harpsichordist Arthur Haas.

Early music artist Adam Cockerham specializes in theorbo, lute and baroque guitar. Beginning his performance career as a classical guitarist, he then gravitated toward historical plucked strings, preferring the collaborative opportunities of chamber music from the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. As an accompanist and continuo player, Cockerham has performed with numerous ensembles in North America. He founded voice and plucked string duo Jarring Sounds with mezzo-soprano Danielle Reutter-Harrah.

Beyond chamber music, Cockerham concentrates on 17th-century Italian vocal music. He is the Associate Music Director of the Academy of Sacred Drama and has been involved in numerous modern world premiere performances with companies such as Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik and Ars Minerva. Cockerham received his doctorate from the Juilliard School where he was awarded the Richard F. French Prize for best dissertation.

Rebecca Nelson is a songwriter from Germany. After earning two degrees as a violinist, Rebecca diverged from her classical training, diving head first into Historical Performance and through her new love of baroque music and old love of folk and bluegrass, Rebecca found her voice as a composer. Since graduating from The Juilliard School’s Historical Performance program, she has joined and co-founded ensembles including Relic and Nuova Pratica and released an album called Do Not Lament.

Violinist Shelby Yamin is a sought after chamber musician, recitalist, and soloist. Recent season highlights include appearances as soloist with the Albany Symphony, Oregon Bach Festival, Philharmonia Baroque Chamber Players, New York Baroque Incorporated, House of Time, and Voices of Music. Her passion for bringing historical music into historic spaces has led to concerts at the Hammond-Harwood House and George Washington's Mount Vernon. Based in New York, Shelby can be regularly heard with the city's premier period-instrument ensembles, including Trinity Baroque Orchestra and The Sebastians, and she has been a core member of Les Délices (Cleveland, OH) since 2022. In addition to her active performing and teaching career, Shelby is the associate producer of Les Délices's award-winning early music webseries and podcast, SalonEra. Shelby holds degrees from the Manhattan School of Music, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and The Juilliard School, where she won the historical-performance concerto competition.