Violinist Elizabeth “Libby” Phelps, whose playing has been described as “vigorous and vivacious” with “impressive technique and interpretive sensibility” (CVNC) leads a diverse career that spans across centuries and genres. Currently based in Seattle, she is sought after as a baroque and chamber musician in the greater Pacific Northwest and plays regularly with the Seattle Symphony and leads the North Corner Chamber Orchestra. Previously, Libby served as principal second violin of the North Carolina Symphony from 2013 to 2018, where she was frequently featured as a soloist. She has performed across the country with numerous baroque ensembles including Apollo’s Fire, the Vivaldi Project, the Seattle Baroque Orchestra, the Salish Sea Early Music Festival, and the Portland Baroque Orchestra. She can also be seen performing with the Ben Thomas Tango Project which has a new album being released this September. On baroque violin, she has studied with Enrico Onofri, Marc Destrubé, Elizabeth Field, Elizabeth Blumenstock, and David Wilson. She lives in the Capitol Hill neighborhood and loves exploring food, art, body awareness, and espresso.

Ross Gilliland performs regularly on modern and baroque bass throughout the pacific northwest with numerous ensembles including the North Corner Chamber Orchestra (NOCCO), Seattle Modern Orchestra, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Auburn Symphony, Seattle Chamber Orchestra, Emerald City Music, and the Seattle ‘Candlelight Concert’ series. A lover of baroque/early music, he performs baroque bass and violone (a precursor to the modern bass) with period ensembles including the Seattle Bach Festival, Seattle Baroque Orchestra, Portland Baroque Orchestra, Sound Salon (formerly Byron Schenkman & Friends), the Whidbey Island Music Festival, Epiphany Parish, Tacoma Bach Festival, and Seattle Bach Choir. A Madison, WI native, he was a tenured member of the Madison Symphony Orchestra and Madison Opera and performed with the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, the Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society, Madison Bach Musicians, and the Token Creek Chamber Music Festival, collaborating closely with famed composer and Bach interpreter John Harbison for 20 years. He has been a featured soloist with Seattle's Mostly Nordic concert series and live on Wisconsin Public Radio, and spent about a year of his life touring the nation in a ska band. Mr. Gilliland holds degrees in music performance, physics, and environmental policy.

Daniel Frizzell is a lutenist based in the Pacific Northwest, regularly performing chamber, orchestral, and operatic repertoire. His passion for Early Music, ignited during his undergraduate studies, led him to London's Royal College of Music where he studied with world-renowned lutenist Jakob Lindberg. Daniel has since performed extensively across three continents, including appearances at prestigious venues such as the Queen's Gallery at Buckingham Palace, the Blackheath Music Festival, and the Handel & Hendrix House Museum. He regularly performs with ensembles including the Seattle Baroque Orchestra, Harmonia Orchestra, Musica Antica Rotherhithe, and as part of the duo (F)lute.

Anna Marsh is a Baroque wind specialist, who is also fluent in Renaissance, Classical and Modern instruments. Her interests lie principally in the double‐reed family, though she also performs on the Renaissance and Baroque recorder. Originally from Tacoma, WA, Anna appears regularly with Opera Lafayette (Washington, DC), Tempesta di Mare (Philadelphia), Ensemble Caprice (Montreal), Tafelmusik (Toronto), Opera Atelier (Toronto), Seattle Baroque Orchestra, Washington Bach Consort (DC), among others.  She has been the featured soloist with the Foundling Orchestra with Marion Verbruggen, Arion Orchestre Baroque with Jaap Ter Linden (Montreal), The Buxtehude Consort (Philadelphia), The Dryden Ensemble (Princeton), the Boulder Bach Festival, New York State Baroque, Indiana University Baroque Orchestra and others.  She co‐directs Ensemble Lipzodes and has taught both privately and at festivals and master classes at the Eastman School of Music, Los Angeles Music and Art School, the Amherst Early Music, Hawaii Performing Arts Festival, and the Albuquerque, San Francisco Early Music Society, Rocky Ridge Music Center and Western Double Reed Early Music Workshops.  She has also been heard on Performance Today, Harmonia and CBC radio and recorded for Chandos, Analekta, Centaur, Naxos, the Super Bowl, Avie, and on Trinity Wall Street’s grammy nominated album on Musica Omnia.  Marsh has studied music and German studies at Mt. Holyoke College, the University of Southern California and at Indiana University. She holds a Doctorate from Indiana University.

Vibist/bandoneonist/composer Ben Thomas is one of the most in-demand musicians in the Pacific Northwest. Known for combining virtuosic technique with flowing lyricism, Thomas’s music spans from pyrotechnic improvisations to delicate soundscapes. 

In addition to leading jazz and tango ensembles, Thomas performs as a sideman on mallets, percussion, and bandoneon with a wide variety of groups throughout the United States, including the Jovino Santos Neto Quinteto and the Atlas Tango Project. He currently has six albums of original compositions available on Origin Records: "Triskaidekaphobia", "The Mystagogue”, “The Madman's Difference”, “Yet What Is Any Ocean…”, “Eternal Aporia”, and “The Hat with the Grin and the Chuckle”. 

Violinist Courtney Kuroda is an active performer of early music in Southern California with period ensembles Musica Angelica, Bach Collegium San Diego, Opera Neo and San Diego Baroque.  She has also performed throughout the U.S. and Canada with ensembles including Portland Baroque Orchestra, Seattle Baroque, Pacific Baroque in Vancouver, B.C., Ensemble Mirable, Indianapolis Baroque and has recorded with Opera Lafayette in Washington D.C under the Naxos label. She has participated in both the Bloomington and Boston Early Music festivals as well as the Pacific Baroque Festival in British Columbia and the Oregon Bach Festival.  She received her Master’s degree in Historical Performance from Indiana University Jacobs School of Music where she studied Baroque violin with Stanley Ritchie.

Dawn Posey maintains an active and varied performing, teaching, and coaching career. She is currently Concertmaster of the Bellingham Symphony Orchestra in Bellingham, WA and Assistant Concertmaster of the Northwest Sinfonietta in Tacoma, WA. She also teaches violin and coaches musicians of all instruments.

A devotee of baroque performance practice, Dawn has been a frequent guest artist with Chatham Baroque, including tours to Ecuador and Los Angeles. In 2015, she participated in the world-renowned training program, Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Institute.

Dawn is a founding member of Kassia Ensemble, a chamber ensemble made up entirely of female performers and seeks to empower women through quality performance, collaboration, diverse programming, and outreach. Dawn currently lives in Seattle, WA where she is a frequent substitute with the Seattle Symphony. She also continues to perform with Kassia Ensemble and other chamber ensembles. For more information please visit www.poseyviolin.com.