A “transfixing” (New Yorker) soprano of “fearlessness and consummate artistry” (Opera News), Ah Young Hong has interpreted a vast array of repertoire, ranging from the music of Hildegard to Georg Friedrich Haas. The past decade has seen her work closely with composer Michael Hersch, premiering major works including his monodrama On the Threshold of Winter, the title role in the opera Poppaea, and currently on tour for his world premiere of opera and we, each. The Chicago Tribune has called her “absolutely riveting,” and Kronen Zeitung wrote “her stage presence, her soprano voice … Breathtaking.” Performances include solo appearances with violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Talea, FLUX Quartet, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Camerata Bern, Ensemble Klang, and Mahler Chamber Orchestra to name a few. She has recorded under the New Focus Recordings and Innova Records. Ms. Hong serves as Associate Professor in the Vocal Studies Department at the Peabody Conservatory of The Johns Hopkins University.

Daniel Swenberg plays a wide variety of lutes and guitars: baroque, renaissance, classical/romantic–small, medium, and large. Chief among these is the theorbo– the long lute that you are either wondering about or overhearing your neighbor discuss. He plays with myriad groups, mostly in the EZ-Pass territories, California, and Toronto. He is on faculty at Juilliard’s Historical Performance program. His programing integrates and emphasizes music with the history, sciences, economics, politics, and broader culture of the time, from Weiss to Vice.

Violinist Elizabeth Field, distinguished for her passionate and stylistic playing on both period and modern instruments, is the founder of The Vivaldi Project. Field is concertmaster of The Bach Choir of Bethlehem and has performed with a wide variety of ensembles throughout the US: from Washington DC’s acclaimed Opera Lafayette to the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, with whom she recorded regularly for Deutsche Grammophon. On period instruments she has recorded for Hungaroton, Naxos, and Dorian. She has held professorships at Sacramento State University and the University of California at Davis and has given master classes at universities across the country, including regular visits to The Curtis Institute. Field holds a DMA from Cornell University in 18th-century performance practice and is an adjunct professor at George Washington University. Her DVD with fortepianist Malcolm Bilson, Performing the Score, explores 18th-century violin/piano repertoire and has been hailed by Emanuel Ax as both “truly inspiring” and “authoritative.”

Violist Suzanne Rousso serves as the artistic director of the Mallarmé Music, an ensemble known for its eclectic programming and as one of the region’s most diverse collectives of musicians. She previously served as Director of Operations and Education of the Portland (Maine) Symphony and Director of Education for the North Carolina Symphony. Ms. Rousso was educated at the Curtis Institute of Music, the Eastman School of Music, and at New England Conservatory. She has more recently pursued Baroque viola playing and historically informed performance. She has participated in both Boston and Berkeley Early Music Festivals, is a member of the North Carolina Baroque Orchestra and a regular player with Duke Chapel’s Bach Cantata Series in which Mallarmé is a musical partner. She has served on the boards of the American Federation of Musicians Local #500 and Arts North Carolina, an advocacy organization for arts and arts education in NC.

ROBBIE LINK is a performer and teacher on the double bass, cello, electric bass, viola da gamba, and violone. Link performs and records with many period instrument, chamber, jazz, and folk music ensembles and enjoys performing everything from Renaissance to Jazz. He maintains a private teaching studio near Chapel Hill, NC.