Emily Riesser, soprano
Emily Riesser's background encompasses opera, oratorio, Shakespeare, recitals, and new works.  She has presented solos in numerous Bach cantatas with St Stephen’s Strings and Choir, led by Leslie Martin, and in Handel’s Foundling Hospital Anthem and Haydn's Mariazellermesse with Philharmonia Northwest and St Stephen’s Choir.  She recently portrayed Iphigenie in scenes from Gluck’s Iphigenie en Tauride for Seattle Opera Guild.  Other recent roles are Tamiri in Mozart's Il re pastore with Off-Center Opera, Violetta in Verdi's La traviata with Kitsap Opera, and Sarah in the West Coast premier of John Duffy’s Black Water for Off-Center Opera.  She has collaborated with conductor/pianist Michael Kelly to perform a variety of works, including Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915. 

Ms. Riesser is soprano soloist and section leader at St Stephen’s Episcopal Church.  She sings frequently with Seattle Opera Chorus and has also enjoyed stints with Greenstage Shakespeare in the Park. She studied at Goshen College (Goshen, IN), Bel Canto Northwest, and the studio of Marianne Weltmann.  Ms. Riesser looks forward to an upcoming recital this summer with Beth Kirchhoff of Seattle Opera.

New to Seattle, soprano Barbara Lynne Jamison’s concert performances range from Renaissance song to Romantic Lieder, but she has particularly loved the music of the Baroque since her earliest memories. Her clear tone and sensitive interpretation has been heard with REBEL Baroque Orchestra, Early Music New York, Boston Early Music Festival, and under the batons of numerous distinguished conductors and continuo artists, including Martin Pearlman, Will Crutchfield, Kenneth Cooper and Michael Tilson-Thomas.

Barbara Lynne Jamison, soprano
New to Seattle, soprano Barbara Lynne Jamison’s concert performances range from Renaissance song to Romantic Lieder, but she has particularly loved the music of the Baroque since her earliest memories. Her clear tone and sensitive interpretation has been heard with REBEL Baroque Orchestra, Early Music New York, Boston Early Music Festival, and under the batons of numerous distinguished conductors and continuo artists, including Martin Pearlman, Will Crutchfield, Kenneth Cooper and Michael Tilson-Thomas.
When she is not performing music on the stage, she is sharing her passion for it off the stage. Ms Jamison is a notable music educator, clinician and consultant for arts education. In her recent post as Director of Curriculum and Artist Development at the Metropolitan Opera Guild in New York City, she trained the Guild’s teaching artists and guided thousands of educators and students in incorporating the art form of opera into their classroom studies.

Diane Radabaugh, alto
Diane Radabaugh is known to Seattle audiences as a concert soloist and performer in opera and oratorio productions and has been a regular member of the Seattle Opera Chorus since 1993. She will be performing Marthe in Tacoma Opera’s March 2009 production of Gounod’s Faust. She has appeared as a soloist with the Northwest Mahler Festival Orchestra, the Northwest Symphony Orchestra, the Cascade Symphony, Philharmonia Northwest, the Bainbridge Chorale, the Everett Chorale, the Northwest Chorale and on the Hartley Mansion Concert Series. Her Gilbert and Sullivan roles include Katisha (The Mikado), Ruth (Pirates of Penzance) and Buttercup (H.M.S. Pinafore) with Skagit Opera, The Peccadillo Players, The Northwest Savoyards and the New Savoy Opera. Ms. Radabaugh is the alto soloist and section leader at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church. 

Kathryn Weld, alto
Mezzo-soprano / alto Kathryn Weld comes to the Northwest, having performed extensively throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, and Japan. Her credits include two solo appearances with the New York Philharmonic, one with Charles Dutoit conducting and the other under the direction of Kurt Masur. She made her Carnegie Hall debut to critical acclaim in a performance of Bach's Mass in B Minor with Musica Sacra. While living in Germany, Ms. Weld was a featured soloist with such prominent ensembles as the Bavarian Radio Choir, the Consortium Musicum of Munich, and the Prague Philharmonic. Other international performances include those with the Sapporo Symphony and the Osaka Chamber Orchestras in Japan, the Mark Morris Dance Company, and the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra.

Within the Northwest, Weld has appeared with dozens of ensembles, including the Seattle Symphony, the Oregon Symphony, the Helena Symphony, the Wyoming Symphony, and the Portland Baroque Orchestra. With the latter she was heard in a live broadcast of Messiah on Nation Public Radio. Her 2008 appearances with the Seattle Symphony in Alexander Nevsky elicited strong praise for “her beauty of tone, a long line and a handsome shaping of Prokofiev's phrases”. Seattle PI RM Campbell

On the stage, Ms. Weld has appeared with the Seattle Opera, the Regensburg Opera Theater in Germany, Opera Carolina, Tacoma Opera, and the State Repertory Opera of New Jersey, among others. A recent opera review had this to say; “Weld has a remarkable voice, an expressive mezzo with an unusual timbre: full and warm with depth and a light vibrato shaping it”

Acclaimed for her interpretations of lieder and contemporary art song, Ms. Weld is a favorite guest artist in chamber music concerts and in recital. Recent recital tours have included guest appearances in Paris, Moscow, and St. Petersburg. She has premiered the works of prominent composers such as John Adams, Hans Gefors, and Bern Herbolsheimer. Weld serves as an Affiliate Artist Voice Faculty at Western Washington University and at Cornish College of the Arts.

Ross Hauck, tenor
Tenor Ross Hauck is a resident of Issaquah, WA where he lives with his wife, Laura, and twin boys, Daniel and Benjamin. Mr. Hauck has appeared with the National Symphony, Tanglewood Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, and others.  Regional work includes performances with the Seattle Symphony, Portland Chamber Orchestra, Bellevue Philharmonic, Helena Symphony, Walla Walla Symphony, and the Cascade Festival of Music.

He has been featured in early music with the Seattle Baroque, the Portland Baroque Orchestra, and the Seattle Early Music Guild.  Opera credits include Wolf Trap Opera, Sacramento Opera, Tacoma Opera, Aspen Opera Center, and Indianapolis Opera. He has premiered new roles in operas by American composers Libby Larsen and John Musto, and was recently featured on the Naxos label recording of the opera Brundibar. Recital highlights include the Ravinia Festival, the New York Festival of Song, the Southeastern Festival of Song, and the Wolf Trap Discovery Series. Mr. Hauck will be heard this March in Seattle, singing the title role of Monteverdi's "Il Ritorno di Ulisse", the debut production of Pacific Operaworks and artistic director Stephen Stubbs. 

Mr. Hauck holds degrees from the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. Mr. Hauck enjoys programming and performing innovative song programs, often for various sacred concert series. He is also a cellist, a voice teacher, and is active in music ministry.

Thomas Thompson

Thomas has been singing in Seattle for the last 16 years with various local groups including the Northwest Boychoir, Vocalpoint! Seattle, the Renaissance Singers, the Compline Choir at St. Mark’s cathedral, Capella Romana, and the Tudor Choir. He has also appeared as soloist for the Christmas Revels in both Tacoma and Portland, and in the Seattle Symphony’s educational concert series. In the upcoming year he has been cast in his first professional opera role – as Tancredi in Stephen Stubbs’ production of Monteverdi’s Tancredi e Clorinda. In his spare time he practices martial arts, something he has been doing since the age of 8, and works in his garden. Mr. Thompson is bass soloist and section leader at St Stephen’s Episcopal Church.

Janet See, flute
One of today's leading performers on Baroque and early Classical flutes, Seattle native Janet See, who trained at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, has been principal flautist with the English Baroque Soloists. She has also been co-principal flautist with the Orchestre Revolutionaire et Romantique under John Eliot Gardiner and the Philharmonia Baroque- Orchestra under Nicholas McGegan, with whom she made a highly acclaimed recording of Vivaldi concertos for Harmonia mundi. As a soloist and with chamber ensembles, she- has performed throughout Europe and North America and recorded for Archive, EMI, Erato, Hyperion, and Titanic. Her interpretations of the complete flute sonatas by Bach can be heard on the Harmonia mundi USA label.

Courtney Westcott, baroque flute
Courtney Westcott has performed as a soloist or been principal flute with many of North America’s baroque orchestras, including Seattle Baroque, NYS Baroque (Ithaca) and Tafelmusik (Toronto.) She has recorded for CBC, NPR and the Wildboar, Focus, Atma and Loft labels. Her playing has been described as “a conversation, with each phrase and detail shaped” (Seattle Post-Intelligencer.)  She is a graduate of Oberlin Conservatory and the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, where she a Soloist Diploma on Baroque Flute and studied with Barthold Kuijken and Frans Vester.  With flutemaker Peter Noy she collaborates on the research and development of flutes based on 18th & 19th century originals.

Vicki Boeckman
Vicki Boeckman has performed as soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States, Scandinavia, England, Scotland and Germany, and has been on countless productions for Danish and Norwegian radio and television.

Vicki resided in Denmark from 1981-2004. While there she taught at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen, and at the Ishøj Municipal School of Music. Since relocating to the United States and settling in Seattle in 2004, she has been a featured soloist with the Seattle Baroque Orchestra, the Philharmonia Northwest Orchestra and is a returning guest with the Gallery Concerts Series, The Northwest Girl Choir, and the Medieval Women’s Choir.  She is a sought- after teacher of recorder and related performance practices in workshops around the country, actively involved in the Seattle Recorder Society, and is the Music Director for the newly formed Portland Recorder Society. Vicki teaches children and adults of all ages and abilities both in her private studio and at the Music Center of the Northwest in Seattle. Her recordings can be heard on the Kontra Punkt, Classico, Da Capo, Horizon, Musical Heritage America, Paula, Kadanza, and Primavera labels.

David Ohannesian, recorder
David Ohannesian has received international recognition as a maker of fine recorders. He has performed with The Oregon Baroque Orchestra, Northwest Baroque Soloists, Fiori Musicalli, The Boston Shawm and Sackbutt Ensemble, The Spokane Bach Festival Orchestra, The Seattle Pro Musica, The Oregon Bach Festival Orchestra, and The Seattle Recorder Quartet.

Jeffrey Snedeker, horn & natural horn
Jeffrey Snedeker has taught in the Music Department of Central Washington University in Ellensburg, Washington, since 1991.  His duties include teaching horn, music history, and brass literature and pedagogy, performing with the CWU Faculty Wind Quintet, and directing the CWU Brass Choir and CWU Horn Ensemble.  The CWUHE maintains an active outreach program for public schools, and has been an invited performing ensemble at numerous horn and music educator conferences, including the 28th, 30th, 33rd and 40th international workshops of the International Horn Society. He has served as Associate Chair of the Music Department and Chair of CWU’s Faculty Senate, and was named CWU’s Faculty Member of the Year in 2006 and Phi Kappa Phi Scholar of the Year for 2008. Jeff is active in several national and international organizations, serving on the Board of Directors of the Historic Brass Society, and the Advisory Council of the International Horn Society. He was elected President of IHS in 2006, re-elected in 2008, and has served the society in many other capacities, including as Publications Editor (1998-2003) and Book and Music Reviews Editor (2003-present). As a performer, Jeff has received a number of honors, most notably First Place in the Natural Horn Division of the 1991 American Horn Competition. Jeff currently serves as Principal Horn with the Yakima Symphony.  Jeff has been a featured artist, clinician, lecturer, conductor, and host of regional, national, and international conferences for the International Horn Society, Historic Brass Society, Northwest Horn Society, Washington Music Educators Association, among others, and given concerto appearances, traditional recitals, natural horn performances, and jazz gigs all over the US, and in Canada, Germany, France, Switzerland, Finland, Taiwan, and South Africa. He has also organized and hosted a wide range of events, including early music, brass, and horn workshops. He has held positions and played extra horn with regional, metropolitan, and festival orchestras in Wisconsin, Ohio, New Mexico, Washington, Oregon, Utah (including the Utah Symphony Orchestra), Virginia, and Michigan. He has also performed with Early Music Vancouver and the Pacific Baroque Orchestra of Vancouver, BC, and the Seattle Classical Players.
Jeff has published over 50 articles on a variety of musical topics in scholarly and popular journals, including seven entries in the second edition of The New Grove Dictionary.  With pianist Marilyn Wilbanks, Jeff released his first solo recording in 1996, Musique de Salon: 19th-Century French Music for horn and piano, which includes music for natural and early valved horns with fortepiano, and has received much critical acclaim. A second successful recording devoted to jazz, First Times, was released in 1998, and features the horn in settings ranging from horn/bass duo to fronting a big band.  Jeff has also been featured on recordings of the works of Douglas Hill and Lowell Shaw.  Jeff completed a BA in music and mathematics at Heidelberg College (1980), a Master of Music in horn performance at the University of Michigan (1981), a Master of Arts in music history at The Ohio State University (1985), and a Doctor of Musical Arts in horn performance and historical musicology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1991).  He lives in Ellensburg, Washington, with his extremely patient wife and two talented sons.

Burke Anderson, horn & natural horn
Burke holds a degree in Music Performance from Central Washington University. Currently, he plays horn with the Yakima Symphony Orchestra, Mid-Columbia Symphony Orchestra, and Walla Walla Symphony Orchestra. He is also active as a natural horn player. 

Brian Chin, trumpet
Brian Chin is the Principal Trumpet of the Tacoma Symphony Orchestra and an Assistant Professor of Music at Seattle Pacific University. He performs and records frequently with many orchestras in the Northwest including the Seattle Symphony, Seattle Opera and the Pacific Northwest Ballet and has appeared as a soloist and guest clinician both domestically and abroad.  Most recently, Brian is returning to the United States after working as Principal Trumpet for Teatro Munincipal in Santiago, Chile.
 
Brian has studied under the tutelage of many world-class musicians including Soloist Allen Vizzutti, Peter Bond of the New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, and James Thompson of the Montreal and Atlanta Symphony Orchestras.  He has earned a Doctorate of Musical Arts in Trumpet from the University of Washington and holds a Masters Degree in Orchestral Trumpet from the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University.
 
Mr. Chin has appeared as a soloist throughout Asia, Europe and the United States.  In addition to an active orchestral and solo trumpet career, Brian is a founding member of the Seattle Trumpet Consort (period instruments) and has initiated the composition of many new works for trumpet.

Kris Kwapis, baroque trumpet and cornetto
Acclaimed for her ‘sterling tone’ in the New York Times, Kris Kwapis plays baroque trumpet and cornetto with several period instrument ensembles including New York Collegium, Tempesta di Mare, Foundling Baroque Orchestra, NY State Baroque, Vancouver Early Music, Clarion Music Society, Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Orchestra, Ensemble Rebel, Piffaro, Early Music NY and Tafelmusik and can be heard on the Kleos, Naxos, ReZound and Dorian labels.  Kris is the Artistic Director of the 17th century ensemble, Spiritus Collective. She holds degrees in trumpet performance from the University of Michigan and a doctorate in early music performance from Stony Brook University. When not performing, Kris enjoys teaching dedicated students as professor of trumpet at Hofstra University on Long Island and has recently been appointed as marketing and development coordinator for Seattle’s Early Music Guild.

Judson Scott, trumpet
Judson Scott holds degrees from Baldwin-Wallace College (BM '82, cum laude), New England Conservatory (MM '85) and the University of Washington (DMA '03). Formerly a member of L’Orchesta Filharmonica de la Ciudad de Mexico he currently holds positions in the Northwest Sinfonietta, the Tacoma Symphony Orchestra, the Bellevue Philharmonic Orchestra and as trumpet instructor at the University of Puget Sound.  Of his performance with the Northwest Sinfonietta, Jen Graves of the News Tribune wrote simply, "Judson Scott, trumpet, performed brilliantly throughout."

At home in a wide variety of styles Dr. Scott’s experience ranges from playing lead in “West Side Story” to performing Bach’s Magnificat on a valveless natural trumpet based on an instrument made by the Ehe family in approximately 1700.  He has performed with numerous ensembles including the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, the Seattle Opera Company, the 5th Avenue Theater, the Opera Company of Boston, and the symphony orchestras of Spokane, Springfield (MA), New Hampshire, Portland (ME), Rhode Island and Virginia, and has backed artists as diverse as Lynn Harell, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Richard Stolzman, Ray Charles, Doc Severenson and the rock group the Moody Blues. 

Svend Rønning, violin
Violinist Svend Rønning is Chair of the String Division at Pacific Lutheran University where he is Associate Professor of Music. He is also one of the most active performers in the Puget Sound, serving as Concertmaster of the Tacoma Symphony Orchestra and Artistic Director of the Second City Chamber Series, and violinist with the Regency String Quartet and the Puget Sound Consort.

Svend Rønning has appeared in venues around the world and has served as Concertmaster of various orchestras throughout the United States.  As soloist, he has appeared with numerous orchestras, including the Charlottesville Symphony, the Prague Radio Symphony, Orchestra Seattle, and the Tacoma Symphony.  Recent solo engagements include concerts in Ithaca, New York, Berkeley and Los Angeles, California, Norway, Hungary, and Australia.

Dr. Rønning is a native of the Pacific Northwest and holds an undergraduate degree in violin performance from Pacific Lutheran University.  He subsequently earned a Master of Music and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Yale University.  His teachers include Syoko Aki, Sidney Harth, Jaap Schröder, and Ann Tremaine.

Laura Martin, violin
Laura Martin has always had a tender place in her heart for the music of the Baroque; she owns a period instrument and bows and was a member of two professional Baroque orchestras in New England and an early music consort in Texas. In Seattle, Laura is a professional private studio teacher and maintains a strong studio of violin and viola students from 4 to adult. Her educational experience includes a Masters Degree in violin performance from the University of Oregon, many classes and private study with internationally known Suzuki Method teachers, and summer sessions at Indiana University with Mimi Zweig. Mrs. Martin loves playing Bach’s music!

Kim Zabelle, violin
Violinist Kim Zabelle brings to her performances both a solid background in medieval and renaissance improvisation and a command of repertoire from Biber to Boulez. Currently a member of the Pacific Northwest Ballet Orchestra and the Iris Quartet (a period instrument flute quartet), Ms.  Zabelle has performed internationally at festivals such as Tanglewood, Salzburg, Victoria and Vancouver and has been featured in broadcasts on NPR, Performance Today, and CBC Radio. She received her musical training at the Universities of Michigan & Washington and at Indiana University. Her teachers have included Camilla Wicks, Steven Staryk and Stanley Ritchie. Joining the faculty at Seattle Pacific University in the fall of 2000, she also maintains an active teaching studio in Seattle and has also taught at Marrowstone-in-the-City, the Music Center of the Northwest, the Northwest Center for Early Music Studies, as Artist-in-Residence at Bowling Green State University in Ohio and as a coach for the Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestras. She has recorded for Centaur, CBC Radio, Geffen, Focus & Wildboar records. In her spare time she works in her garden with her cat and chickens.

Andrea Schuler, viola
Andrea Schuler holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY, where she was a student of James Dunham.  She attended summer programs at Tanglewood, the Waterloo and Sarasota Music Festivals, and the National Repertory Orchestra, and studied chamber music with the Cleveland Quartet.  As a freelance musician she has performed with a wide variety of Seattle-area arts organizations, including the Seattle Symphony, Seattle Opera, Pacific Northwest Ballet and Auburn Symphony orchestras.  She has also played with the Rochester (NY) and Boise Philharmonics, the Charleston (SC) Symphony, and the Britt Festival Orchestra in Jacksonville, OR.  Andrea can be heard on many commercial recording projects for film scores and television, and she especially enjoys playing musicals at Village Theatre.  She will happily dance swing and Lindy hop any night of the week, putting those years of conservatory rhythm training to further good use.

Jason Fisher, viola
Although he rarely eats granola, and is seldom seen wearing a pair of Birkenstocks, violist Jason Fisher, a hardened native of Seattle, holds deeply rooted in his soul the magnificent evergreen forests of the Olympics and the crystal clear, brisk water of the Puget Sound. Shortly after first picking up the viola in his 5th grade orchestra program, Jason’s passion for music rapidly took shape and he began to realize music’s power to transcend the mundane. A former student of Helen Callus, Jason received his Bachelor of Music degree from the Peabody Conservatory studying with Victoria Chiang, spent a year in New York as a student of Katherine Murdock, and recently concluded his Master of Music studies at the Longy School of Music as a student of Roger Tapping. As founding violist of the Rivendell Quartet, Jason was both a Carnegie Hall Fellow, taking him on a tour of concerts, outreach, and cultural exchange in Kazakhstan and the Kyrgyz Republic, as well as a Peabody Singapore Fellow, spending a month in Southeast Asia assisting with inaugural ceremonies for the new Yong Siew Toh Conservatory and performing as guest with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra. Performing on both modern and baroque instruments, Jason has appeared as guest violist with leading chamber ensembles across the USA and Europe. In a recent appearance with the Peabody Trio,
Jason was hailed as a “fine guest artist”, his performance described as “first-rate” (The Baltimore Sun). Jason is a founding member of Boston's critically-acclaimed, self-directed chamber orchestra, A Far Cry. 

Mark Goodenberger, Percussion
Mark Goodenberger, percussionist and composer, is the Director of Percussion Studies at Central Washington University in Ellensburg, WA. As Principal Percussionist with the Yakima Symphony Orchestra, Principal Percussionist with the Third Angle New Music Ensemble and Principal Timpanist with the Portland Baroque Orchestra and Trinity Consort, he is a specialist in Symphonic and Chamber music.  He has worked with composers such as Steve Reich, Libby Larsen, Chen Yi, Zhou Long, Tomas Svoboda, George Crumb, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Elliott Carter, Lou Harrison, Mark Polishook, and Chinary Ung. As a concert recitalist, he has premiered many pieces of his own, written for a wide variety of instruments. His compositions bring together elements of theater, dance and vaudeville into the unrestricted world of percussion.

Leslie Martin, Director
A native of the Pacific Northwest, Leslie Martin is organist and choirmaster at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in Seattle, and teaches organ, harpsichord, and keyboard harmony at Seattle Pacific University.

One of his great loves is performing the cantata literature of the baroque period. Having done extensive study in the instrumental and vocal performance practices of the baroque era, he takes great pleasure in bringing this magnificent music to life with his musical colleagues.

Les holds masters degrees in organ performance and in choral conducting from the University of Oregon, where he graduated as a Pi Kappa Lambda scholar. He has appeared as guest conductor, organist and harpsichordist with many local orchestras including Philharmonia Northwest, Thalia Symphony Orchestra, and the Seattle Philharmonic Orchestra. He was for several years principal harpsichordist with the Northwest Chamber Orchestra. In demand as a continuo player, his recent appearances include performances with Choral Arts (St. John Passion; Jeptha), and the Seattle Symphony Orchestra (Bach Cantatas).

As a solo performer, he has performed organ recitals in many European cities including Geneva, Uppsala, Monopoli, Martignano, Sirolo, and Rome. He has also appeared as featured recitalist at European music festivals such as the Stagione Concertistica Internazionale d'Organo (Associazione ARS ORGANI “Girolamo Frescobaldi”) in Lecce; the Accademia Organistica Elpidiense in Sant’ Elpidio a Mare, and the prestigious Festival International de l’Orgue Ancien, in Sion, Switzerland, at which he made his second appearance in 2007, performing there on the world’s oldest playable organ, dating from 1435.

During his career he has been organist and choirmaster for Episcopal churches in Oregon, Washington, Texas, and Connecticut, and previously served on the keyboard faculty of the University of Washington.

He enjoys balancing his musical activities with fly-fishing, hiking, and canoeing with his wife.