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.

Matt Smith is a Los Angeles–based composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist whose music blends lush harmonies, lyricism, and imaginative soundscapes inspired by literature, philosophy, and nature. His work has been featured at festivals including the Aspen Music Festival, Atlantic Music Festival, Accademia Chigiana in Siena, and the Mizzou International Composers Festival, and performed by ensembles such as Alarm Will Sound, the Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini, and the Diotima String Quartet. He has collaborated with artists including GRAMMY-winning soprano Hilá Plitmann, harpist Alexander Boldachev, and violinist Elizabeth Phelps. A two-time Donald Erb Prize recipient and ASCAP Morton Gould Award honoree, Matt holds degrees from the Cleveland Institute of Music and is pursuing a PhD in composition at UCLA. Upcoming projects include new works for the Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles and Brightwork Ensemble.

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.

Teresa Tam, a Taiwan-born musician, began playing violin in childhood and fell in love with singing while performing with the Taipei Philharmonic Chorus. She made her professional debut as a soprano soloist with the American Bach Soloists during her undergraduate studies. Though classically trained, Teresa now sings a wide range of styles—including jazz, classical, tango, folk, and pop—and performs with ensembles of all sizes across the country. She holds a Master of Music from Boston University and continues to teach, perform, and collaborate across genres, most recently with bandoneonist Obadiah Wrynla and violinist Basma Edrees.

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.

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.

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.

Stephen Schermer, double bass, received his Bachelor of Arts with honors from Eastern Washington University, and his Master of Music with honors from the New England Conservatory. He also studied at the Tanglewood Music Center where he was the recipient of the Koussevitsky Fellowship. Mr. Schermer is currently assistant principal of the Pacific Northwest Ballet orchestra.

In addition, Mr. Schermer performs frequently with the Seattle Symphony and Seattle Opera. He is also active in the recording industry and as a chamber musician with organizations such as the Olympic Music Festival, Simple Measures, and the Hammond Ashley Double Bass workshop. Mr. Schermer has been an affiliate artist at the University of Puget Sound since 1996.

Soprano Natalie Ingrisano enjoys performing as a soloist, chamber singer, and professional chorister in the Pacific Northwest, Midwest, and abroad. She has sung for audiences ranging from intimate community concerts to large venues with 25,000 attendees. Recent highlights as a soloist with orchestra include Mozart's Requiem, Haydn’s oratorios The Seasons and The Creation, Buxtehude’s Membra Jesu Nostri, and Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater. She is delighted to be returning to early Italian baroque repertoire with the The Filo Rosso Society for this concert!  Fun fact: as a chorister In 2013 she sang 3 times with The Rolling Stones.

Eric Likkel is an active woodwind player in the Seattle area, featured locally on the radio and on stage with Origin Records jazz recording artists, the Earshot Jazz Festival, and in chamber music concerts with the Haberton String Quartet and the Chamber Dance company at the University of Washington. Before relocating to Seattle in 1996, Eric worked regionally in the midwest, a graduate of the Cincinnati Conservatory, performing with Cedar Point Live Shows, the Toledo Jazz Orchestra, Ernie Krivda's Fat Tuesday Big Band in Cleveland, and as a member of the the American/European Rome Festival Orchestra in Italy.

Born and raised in Toronto, Canada, Josie Zocco is a multi-genre pianist and teacher. She received her BFA from York University in Toronto in Piano Performance and Ethnomusicology, and her Associates Diploma from the Royal Conservatory of Music in Piano Performance and Theory. She has been working as a collaborative pianist and educator since 2001. Currently, she serves as President of the Seattle Music Teachers Association and maintains a full, vibrant, and diverse teaching studio. She is passionate about classical, jazz, and tango piano styles, teaching adults, and is learning the upright bass.