SUSAN FELDMAN (baroque violin) is an active teacher in Los Angeles and performer throughout the United States. Susan holds a bachelor's degree from Illinois Wesleyan University, a master's degree from the University of Southern California, where she studied with Robert Lipsett, and a doctorate from USC in early music performance, where she studied with James Tyler, Ingrid Matthews, and Elizabeth Blumenstock. She has devoted much of her professional career to the study of historically informed performance on period instruments from the Middle Ages through the Baroque. In 1999, Susan co-founded La Monica, a period instrument chamber ensemble dedicated to performing music of the Baroque period. Susan is currently on the faculty at the Stephen S. Wise Music Academy and Ocean Charter School in Los Angeles and maintains a private studio of 20 students.

ALEXANDRA OPSAHL (cornetto and recorder) studied recorder with Svein Egil Skotte at the Barratt Due Institute, Oslo, before coming to London in 2000 to study at the Royal Academy of Music with Peter Holtslag and Daniel Bruggen. While at the Academy, she won a number of competitions, most notably the Moeck/SRP Solo Recorder Competition in 2003, as well as the Friends of the RAM Early Music Prize in 2001 and 2003. She was also a semi-finalist and received Honourable Mention at the 2005 Brugge Early Music Soloists Competition. At the Academy she co-founded the ensemble Lupo with Ian Pritchard, which specializes in 17th-century Italian instrumental music. Graduating with first class honours, she went on to receive a Norwegian Performing Arts Scholarship to study 17th-century repertoire in Bologna, also taking private cornetto lessons with Bruce Dickey. She performs frequently across Europe and the U.S., and has, within in the UK, appeared in the Globe, and at the Aldeburgh Festival, Glyndebourne, the Spitalfields Festival, the Chester Festival, and the Tilford Bach Festival. She has also performed with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, under the direction of Ton Koopman. She has recently recorded with the Italian early music ensemble Cappella Artemisia (Tactus), and the Vivaldi C-Minor recorder concerto with the Norwegian ensemble the Barokkanerne. From 2006 - 2008 she was a student at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, where she pursued historical brass studies with Bruce Dickey and Charles Toet. She is currently pursuing her Master's in Early Music at USC.

LEIF WOODWARD (baroque cello) is currently attending the USC Thornton School of Music D.M.A program, where he has been awarded the Colburn Foundation Scholarship for studies in Early Music. A graduate of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, he received his M.M. in 2004 and B.M. in 2002. Leif has studied cello with renowned teachers Ronald Leonard, Clive Greensmith, and Jean-Michel Fonteneau, and has studied historical performance under the direction of Laurette Goldberg, James Tyler, William Skeen, Corey Jamason, Adam Gilbert, and Anthony Martin. He attended the Orange County High School of the Arts, where he was awarded the Sunny Brown Foundation Scholarship in 1998, and in 2004 was the first alumnus ever to be appointed to the school's faculty. A native of Long Beach, Leif has worked with such groups as Musica Angelica, the Angeles Consort, the Los Angeles Master Chorale, and the Santa Barbara Symphony, as well as appearing on the chamber music series at All Saints Episcopal and the Norton Simon Museum. He also returns as an alumnus guest performer at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and participates at music festivals such as the San Luis Obispo Mozart Festival and the Corona Del Mar Early Music Festival.

IAN PRITCHARD (organ) has been playing the harpsichord since the age of 13, beginning studies with Susanne Shapiro in his native Los Angeles. He earned his BMus in harpsichord performance at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Ohio, where he studied with Lisa Crawford. In 2000 he moved to London to study with the late John Toll at the Royal Academy of Music, graduating with distinction and earning the DipRAM for an exceptional final recital. He later continued studies on organ and harpsichord with James Johnstone. Being a dual-national citizen between the USA and Britain, he had the opportunity to live in Europe until 2007, performing with groups such as Florilegium, the Academy of Ancient Music, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the Orquesta Nacional de España, and the Irish Baroque Orchestra, and as a chamber musician with Monica Huggett, Rachel Podger, and Peter Holtslag, among others. With Florilegium he has toured in Cyprus, South America, and throughout Europe. He has appeared frequently on BBC Radio 3 and on the BBC 2 production Vivaldi Unmasked. Ian won First Prize in the 2001 Broadwood Harpsichord Competition and was a prizewinner in the 2003 1^st International Harpsichord Competition P. Bernardi in Bologna, Italy. In the same year, he was awarded a U.S. Fulbright Scholarship to Italy to research early Italian keyboard music and to study organ and harpsichord with Andrea Marcon and organ with Liuwe Tamminga. He is currently a PhD candidate in Historical Musicology at USC, where he plans to write his dissertation on Italian keyboard music, notation, and performance practice in the 16th century.