Me Jung Ahn (recorder) was born in Seoul, South Korea. She started to play the recorder at the age of nine and afterwards gave many solo recitals and won numerous 1st prizes in the national competition for solo recorder.  In 2004 and 2007, she had her solo recitals in a Kumho Young Artist Concert as a gifted recorder player. In 2009 she graduated (summa cum laude) from Seoul National University, where she earned a bachelor of music in music theory.  
        
Prior to that, in fall 2006, she completed a year in the Historical Performance program at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where she studied the recorder with Daniel Brüggen and Peter Holtslag.  She has attended many intensive master classes with such artists as Dan Laurin, Matthias Maute, Kees Boeke, Saskia Coolen, and Carin van Heerden, in Korea, Austria, England, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and the U.S.A. At the Amherst Early Music Festival 2008, she received a Scholarship Award and gave a solo performance. She also participated in the International Summer Academy Mozarteum in Salzburg in summer 2010, performing actively among world-wide recorder players. She has earned a Master of Music in recorder in the Early Music Institute at Indiana University, studying with Han Tol and Michael McCraw, where she has performed often as soloist with the IU Baroque Orchestra and in Concentus, and given recitals and chamber music concerts.  Having been recognized as a deserving student, she received the Willi Apel Early Music Scholarship Award from IU in 2010. She was selected to participate in Early Music America’s 2011 Festival Ensemble in Boston Early Music Festival, representing IU.

She has become an associate instructor in the Pre-college Recorder Program. In addition to teaching recorder, Mee Jung is currently pursuing a Master of Arts in musicology at IU.

Jeffrey Collier (recorder) received his Bachelor’s degree in music from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, where he performed with the Emory Early Music Consort. Now a resident of Indianapolis, he has performed on baroque flute and recorder with the Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra and Ensemble Voltaire.

He studied baroque flute with Barbara Kallaur and has participated in many intensive workshops and masterclasses with such artists as Christopher Krueger, Michael Lynn, Eva Legene, Janet See, and Stephen Preston. Collier has performed with ensembles throughout the Midwest and Southern United States, including the Tallahassee Bach Parley, the Miami Bach Society, the Baroque Artists of Champaign-Urbana (BACH), Nashville's Belle Meade Baroque, Winston-Salem's Piedmont Chamber Singers, and Ensemble Capriole in Williamsburg. Reviews have praised his "pure and focused playing". Collier can be heard on the Four Winds label.

He sings regularly with The Choir of Men and Boys at Christ Church Cathedral, Indianapolis.

Kurt Fowler (baroque cello) has performed throughout the United States, as well as in Europe, as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral musician. He has served as principal cellist of the Bear Valley Music Festival, the Greenville Symphony Orchestra, and the Binghamton Philharmonic Orchestra, has been a section cellist for the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and the Syracuse Symphony, and has performed at numerous summer festivals including the Aspen Music Festival, Sarasota Music Festival, and the Heidelberg Castle Festival in Heidelberg, Germany.

Recent engagements have included performances of the Dvorak Cello Concerto with the Tambov Symphony Orchestra in Tambov, Russia, Bach’s Suite No. 4 at the Bear Valley Music Festival in California, and Libby Larsen’s Bid Call at the Composer’s Concordance at New York University in New York City. An advocate of contemporary classical music, Dr. Fowler is the cellist for the Chicago 21st Century Music Ensemble and is particularly active in commissioning new works. He commissioned Contrapuntal Variations III for Solo Cello by C.P. First, Air Over Ground for ZETA Cello by Dan Powers, and co-commissioned several new works for chamber ensembles including three new works for cello and alto saxophone by composers Dorothy Chang, Libby Larsen, and Zhou Long. Also an advocate of early music, he is a member of the Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra and has performed with numerous early music chamber ensembles. Dr. Fowler received his Doctor of Musical Arts and Master of Music degrees from the Eastman School of Music and his Bachelor of Music degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music. His teachers have included Steven Doane, Pamela Frame, and Alan Harris and he has coached extensively with members of the Cleveland, Cavani, and Lydian String Quartets.

He is currently Associate Professor of Music at Indiana State University and principal cellist of the Terre Haute Symphony Orchestra.

Thomas Gerber (harpsichord) is a founding member of—and harpsichordist in—two period instruments Baroque groups: the Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra, in residence at the Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center at the University of Indianapolis, and the chamber music group Ensemble Voltaire, which is ensemble-in-residence at Trinity Episcopal Church, Indianapolis. Both organizations present annual local concert series. The Baroque Orchestra plays throughout Indiana, and Ensemble Voltaire has toured the United States and Canada since 1988.

Mr. Gerber is assistant professor of music and humanities at Marian College, Indianapolis, and also serves on the faculties of the University of Indianapolis, where he teaches music history and coaches the student baroque ensemble, and Butler University, where he teaches music history. Mr. Gerber is harpsichordist of the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra as well as of the liturgical early music ensemble Musik Ekklesia. He has appeared at the Early Music Festival of St. Louis and the Bloomington Early Music Festival, as well as with other period-instrument early-music groups, such as Catacoustic Consort, the Callipygian Players, Pills to Purge Melancholy, Ars Antigua Chicago, and Haydn-by-the-Lake. He can be heard on the Dorian, Concordia, and Catalpa Classics labels. After receiving music degrees from Hillsdale College and Ball State University, Mr. Gerber went on to earn a Master of Music degree in harpsichord and early music performance practice from Indiana University.

His harpsichord teachers have included Fernando Valenti, Anthony Newman, and Elisabeth Wright.

Christine Kyprianides (viola da gamba) was for many years a leading Baroque cellist and gambist in Germany, performing internationally with Huelgas Ensemble, Musica Antiqua Köln, Das Kleine Konzert, Diapente Consort, Collegium Carthusianum, Accademia Filarmonica Köln, Les Arts Florissants, Ganassi-Consort, Les Adieux, and the La Roche and Finchcocks String Quartets.

Kyprianides has also been a long-time collaborator of fortepianist Richard Burnett in England. Her recording credits include over 70 albums for Deutsche Grammophon, EMI, Sony, Harmonia mundi, RCA, Capriccio, Virgin Classics, Globe, etc.; as well as radio and television productions for the major German radios, Deutsche Welle, Radio Netherlands, Radio France, and many more. Kyprianides holds degrees in performance from the Peabody and New England Conservatories, and the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, and was awarded the Gregor Piatigorsky Cello Prize at Tanglewood.

More recently, she received the Doctor of Music degree from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where she teaches Baroque cello. She has also held faculty positions at the Lemmens Institute (University of Louvain), the Musikhochschule of Cologne, and the Dresden Academy of Early Music; and has given seminars in historical performance practice at the Catholic University of Santiago de Chile, the Conservatory of Music in Buenos Aires, the Conservatory of Church Music in Halle/Saale, the Early Music Summer Seminar in Wallonia, among others.

Kyprianides is a member of the Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra and Ensemble Voltaire. She continues to perform in Europe and is active as a scholar.

Ruth Marshall (cello) is active as both a performer and a teacher around the country. Recent performances include string quartet concerts inside the Grand Canyon in Arizona, appearances on the Music Northwest Chamber Music Series in Seattle WA, and two seasons of concerts with the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, where she held the title of Assistant Principal Cello. She was also involved with MusiCorps, the music educational arm of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, and has performed and participated in pre-concert activities for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. She has participated in the New York University String Quartet Seminar, The Banff Centre Summer Master Classes, the Aspen Music Festival, and the Festival-Institute at Round Top. Ruth holds Bachelor of Arts degrees from the University of Washington in Comparative History of Ideas and Music Theory, and a Master of Music and Certificate in Performance in Cello from DePaul University.

She is currently on faculty at the Butler University Community Arts School in Indianapolis IN, and the DePaul University School of Music in Chicago IL.

Nathan Medley (countertenor) has enjoyed a plethora of exciting performance opportunities. His opera credits include the roles of Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Dema in Cavalli's L'Egisto, and Ottone in Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea. As Ottone, Medley won praise from Clevelend critics for an interpretation "sung with baroque perfection." Mr. Medley has worked under the direction of Stephen Stubbs, La Scala's Umberto Finazzi, Sally Stunkel, Jonathon Field, Webb Wiggins, and Danielle Patelli.

In addition to the standard baroque concert repertoire, Mr. Medley frequently commissions and performs modern works in an effort to broaden public awareness of the countertenor voice type. In 2008, Medley became a Presser Scholar and began a study of pedagogical approaches to the countertenor voice type and 20th-century countertenor repertoire. He has appeared in master classes with Marilyn Horne, Emma Kirkby, and Ellen Hargis, and in 2009 received a Bachelor of Music degree from Oberlin College Conservatory of Music in voice and historical performance.

He currently resides in Indianapolis where he teaches singing at Marian University. He sings regularly with The Choir of Men and Boys at Christ Church Cathedral, Indianapolis.

Steven Rickards (countertenor and founder) has received international acclaim as one of America's finest countertenors. He recently took part in the premiere of John Adams's oratorio El Niño at the Châtelet Opera in Paris. Subsequent performances of the work have featured the Adelaide Symphony, the BBC Philharmonic, the Deutsches Symphonie Orchester, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, the Tokyo Symphony, and the Malmo Opera (Sweden).

Rickards has appeared internationally with Joshua Rifkin and the Bach Ensemble, as well as with The American Bach Soloists, Chanticleer, Ensemble Voltaire, the Gabrieli Consort, Chicago?s Music of the Baroque, the New London Consort, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Seattle Baroque Orchestra, the Opera Company of Philadelphia, the Santa Fe Opera, and the symphony orchestras of Indianapolis, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, and St. Louis, and Tokyo. He has sung at Carnegie Hall with the Oratorio Society of New York, in France as a soloist with The Festival Singers under the direction of Robert Shaw, and with Paul Hillier and the Theatre of Voices.

Rickards was the was the soloist in the American premiere performance of Michael Nyman's Self-Laudatory Hymn of Inanna and Her Omnipotence at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall. He has recorded for Chanticleer, Decca, Dorian, Four Winds, Gothic, Harmonia Mundi, Koch, Newport Classics, Smithsonian, and Teldec. Rickards can also be heard on the Naxos label where, with lutenist Dorothy Linell, he recorded two solo albums of the songs of John Dowland and Thomas Campion. Rickards currently lives in Indianapolis where he teaches singing at Butler University, Marian University, and the University of Indianapolis.

He sings regularly with The Choir of Men and Boys at Christ Church Cathedral, Indianapolis. He received his doctorate from Florida State University.

Baritone, violinist and musicologist David Rugger is quickly developing a reputation as a versatile performer and scholar. David holds a B.A. in Music and an M.M. in Music History from Butler University, and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Musicology at Indiana University. David has performed with the Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra, Mon Choeur, Indianapolis Pro Musica, recorded with Aire Born Studios and can be heard regularly with the Christ Church Cathedral Choir of Men and Boys.

He has studied voice with Steven Rickards and Patricia Stiles, and has studied violin with Dean Franke and Larry Shapiro. David currently resides in Bloomington with his lovely wife and cat.

David Sinden (harpsichord, organ) a critically acclaimed organist and church musician noted for his “masterful” choral accompanying, is Organist and Minister of Music at historic St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Richmond, Virginia. He directs three choirs and plays the three-manual organ built by Manuel Rosales, the largest instrument by the noted organ builder in the Eastern United States . Prior to this appointment, Mr. Sinden was the Assistant Organist and Choirmaster of Christ Church Cathedral, Indianapolis, where he accompanied four choral ensembles and directed the Christ Church Singers, the cathedral's voluntary choir.

At the 2007 national convention of the Organ Historical Society he "provided masterful accompaniment for the choir -- shading the crevices, plumbing the depths, and exalting the peaks," according to the international organ journal The Diapason. Sinden holds a Master of Music degree he studied organ with Larry Smith, and a Bachelor of Music degree from Oberlin College, where he studied organ with David Boe and harpsichord with Lisa Crawford. While a student at Oberlin, Sinden was the organist and choirmaster for college Vespers and hosted the Friday Night Organ Pump, a midnight organ recital held monthly.

Sinden has performed in master classes throughout North America for such noted musicians as Gerre Hancock, Paul Manz, Mitzi Meyerson, Bruce Neswick, William Porter, and Giles Swayne.

Anne Timberlake (recorder) holds degrees in recorder performance from Oberlin Conservatory, where she studied with Alison Melville, and Indiana University, where she studied with Eva Legene and won the 2007 Early Music Institute Concerto Competition.

She has received awards from Oberlin Conservatory, the American Recorder Society, and the National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts. Recently, she was awarded a Fulbright Grant to study consort music and contemporary recorder repertoire in Belgium.

Ms. Timberlake is active as a player and teacher, and has appeared across the United States performing repertoire from Bach to 21st-century to Celtic tunes.

Mitzi Westra, mezzo-soprano, received her B.A. degree in music and religion from Augustana College in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Her graduate work was done at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, where she received her M.M. and D.M.A. in vocal performance, working with such nationally renowned artists as coach/accompanist Margo Garrett and opera directors James Robinson and Vern Sutton. She was frequently seen on stage in roles such as Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus, Zita in Gianni Schicchi, Florence Pike in Albert Herring, Amastre in Xerxes, and Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro. In 1993 she portrayed Ma Moss in the touring production of The Tender Land. While in Minneapolis, she spent 4 years performing, touring, and recording with a professional choral group, the Dale Warland Singers, and was alto section leader for the DWS Chamber Singers. She then moved to Beaumont, Texas, and taught private voice, diction, and music theory at Lamar University. While there, she played the roles of Lalume in Kismet and Lady Larkin in Once Upon a Mattress, as well as performing frequently with the Symphony of Southeast Texas. Since moving to Indianapolis, she has appeared as soloist with Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra, and New Century String Quartet, as well as performing frequently on the University of Indianapolis Faculty Artist Series. Recent opera performances include Katisha in The Mikado and the mother in Amahl and the Night Visitors.

As an avid choral musician, she has also sung with Indianapolis Symphonic Choir and Chamber Singers, Meridian Vocal Consort, Beecher Singers at Second Presbyterian Church, and Mon Choeur, the resident vocal chamber ensemble at University of Indianapolis. Summers are spent in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she sings with The Santa Fe Desert Chorale, a professional choral ensemble. She currently teaches in the vocal department at University of Indianapolis, as well as being an alto section leader at Second Presbyterian Church, recording for Aireborn Studios in Zionsville, and maintaining her own private studio. She is pleased to be married to Frank Felice, composer and professor at Butler University in Indianapolis (www.frank-felice.com).

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