Aisslinn Nosky
Violinist Aisslinn Nosky captivates audiences around the world with her innovative interpretations and impeccable technique. Her fierce passion for early music and skill as a soloist, director, and conductor has generated robust appreciation by press and audiences alike. Hailed as “superb” by The New York Times and “a fearsomely powerful musician” by The Toronto Star, widespread demand for Aisslinn continues to grow.
As a soloist and director Aisslinn has collaborated with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Holland Baroque, the Victoria Symphony, the Hamilton Philharmonic, and the New World Symphony. She was a core member of Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra from 2005 to 2016. Aisslinn served as Principal Guest Conductor of the Niagara Symphony from 2016 to 2019 and was Guest Artist-in-Residence of the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra from 2019 to 2022.
In 2011 Aisslinn was appointed concertmaster of the Grammy-winning Handel and Haydn Society. Founded in 1815, the Handel and Haydn Society of Boston is one of the world’s longest continuously performing musical organizations. Aisslinn has recorded the complete Haydn and Mozart violin concerti with H&H on the CORO label.
A passionate educator, Aisslinn has been on faculty at Amherst Early Music Festival, the International Baroque Institute of Longy, Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Institute, Mount Holyoke College, and The Banff Centre. She has given masterclasses, workshops and performances at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama, the New England Conservatory of Music, Codarts Rotterdam and the Juilliard School.
Clara Rottsalk
Soprano Clara Rottsolk has been lauded by The New York Times for her “clear, appealing voice and expressive conviction” and by The Philadelphia Inquirer for the “opulent tone [with which] every phrase has such a communicative emotional presence.” A brilliant and accomplished concert artist, her solo appearances have taken her across the United States, the Middle East, Japan, and South America.
“With a silken voice capable of extraordinary power” (San Diego Union-Tribune), she has appeared as a soloist with orchestras including Baltimore Symphony, American Bach Soloists, Santa Fe Pro Musica, the American Classical Orchestra, Richmond Symphony, Bach Collegium San Diego, Virginia Symphony, New Mexico Philharmonic, Pacific Symphony, Atlanta Baroque Orchestra, Trinity Wall Street, and Seattle Baroque Orchestra, under the direction of conductors including Grete Pedersen, Nicholas McGeegan, Jeffrey Thomas, Dinis Sousa, Stephen Stubbs, David Danzmayr, Joshua Rifkin, Ruben Valenzuela, Chia-Hsuan Lin, Timothy Nelson, and Andrew Megill.
Also dedicated to chamber and recital repertoire, she performs with ensembles including Les Délices, TENET, Piffaro the Renaissance Wind Band, Colorado Bach Ensemble, House of Time, and Pegasus Baroque. Frequently in demand as a festival soloist, her credits include Carmel Bach, Berkeley Early Music, Montréal Baroque, Spoleto USA, Winter Park Bach, Seattle Bach, St. Louis Bach, Indianapolis Early Music, Whidbey Island Music, and Boston Early Music Fringe.
Her solo recordings can be found on Chandos, Analekta, MSR Classics, and independent labels. A native of Seattle, Ms. Rottsolk earned her music degrees at Rice University and Westminster Choir College, and taught voice and chamber music at Swarthmore College. Currently, she is Assistant Professor of the Practice of Music in Voice at Duke University.
Gail Schroeder
Gail Ann Schroeder studied viola da gamba at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels with Wieland Kuijken, obtaining her First Prize and Higher Diploma, with distinction. She subsequently taught viola da gamba, pedagogy and directed the viol consort at the Brussels Conservatory from 1988 to 2002.
Gail has had an extensive career as soloist and as chamber musician, concertizing and recording with various ensembles such as the Huelgas Ensemble, Combattimento Consort Amsterdam, Ricercar Consort, Currende Consort, Capilla Flamenca, and Catacoustic Consort. She has performed in many of the European Festivals including Holland Festival Oude Muziek in Utrecht, Resonanzen, Innsbrucker Festwochen, Les Académies Musicales de Saintes, Festival van Vlaanderen, Festival de Wallonie and Internationale Festtage Alter Music Stuttgart.
Since returning to the USA in 2006, Gail has been in demand as a teacher and ensemble coach at workshops for the Viola da Gamba Society of America, the Amherst Early Music Festival, Madison Early Music Festival, Music on the Mountain, Retreat to Advance and Mountain Collegium, where she is assistant director and head of the viol program. Currently living in North Carolina, she teaches privately and is artistic director of Asheville Baroque Concerts.
Gail Ann Schroeder’s website
The Vivaldi Project
Laura Heimes
Praised for her “sparkle and humor, radiance and magnetism” and hailed for “a voice equally velvety up and down the registers”, Laura Heimes is widely regarded as an artist of great versatility, with repertoire ranging from the Renaissance to the 21st century. She has collaborated with many of the leading figures in early music, including Andrew Lawrence King, Julianne Baird, Tempeste di Mare, The King’s Noyse, Paul O’Dette, Chatham Baroque, Apollo’s Fire, The New York Collegium, Voices of Music, Brandywine Baroque, Trinity Consort, and Piffaro – The Renaissance Band. She has been heard at the Boston, Connecticut, Berkeley and Indianapolis Early Music Festivals, at the Oregon and Philadelphia Bach Festivals under the baton of Helmuth Rilling, at the Carmel Bach Festival under Bruno Weil, and in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, Brazil in concerts of Bach and Handel. With the Philadelphia Orchestra she appeared as Mrs. Nordstrom in Stephen Sondheim’s A Little Night Music. December 2003 marked her Carnegie Hall debut in Handel’s Messiah with the Masterwork Chorus and in December 2011 appeared in the acclaimed staged production of the same work with the Pittsburgh Symphony under Maestro Honeck. A native of Rochester NY, she holds her Bachelors degree from SUNY Geneseo and Master of Music degrees in Choral Conducting and Voice Performance from Temple University.
2026-27 Season
Saturday, August 22nd @ 3:00pm
In collaboration with Asheville Baroque, Sunday, August 16th @ 3:00pm
Tutti Bassi
Celebrating Baroque bass instruments. Works by Bach, Abel, Frescobaldi, Corrette, and more for viola da gamba, cello, violone, and bassoon, and theorbo. With Gail Schroeder, Stephanie Vial, Peter Ferretti, David Wells, and Dan Swenberg. Learn more
Trinity Avenue Presbyterian Church, Durham
Saturday, October 31st @ 3:00
The Majestic Horn
Featuring North Carolina’s fabulous natural horn duo, Rachel Niketopoulos and Christopher Caudill, and joined by The Vivaldi Project for Mozart’s Horn quintet and Beethoven’s double horn sextet. Learn more
Binkley Baptist Church, Chapel Hill
Additional Performance
Friday, October 30, 2026 @ 6:30 PM
Lancaster Cultural Arts Center
307 W. Gay St., Lancaster, SC 29720
Tickets are $21 online and $25 at the door.
Tickets can be purchased at www.lcactickets.org
Saturday, January 23rd @ 3:00
Fierce and Tender
The exquisite voices of sopranos Clara Rottsolk and Laura Heimes, accompanied by lute and cello.
Binkley Baptist Church, Chapel Hill
Saturday, March 13 @ 3:00
Part of the 2027 NC HIP Festival
Les Maîtres du Violon
Welcoming acclaimed violinist Aisslinn Nosky to Baroque & Beyond in solo and ensemble works by Leclair, Guillemain, Aubert, and more.
Binkley Baptist Church, Chapel Hill