TINA CHANCEY directs HESPERUS (celebrating its 40 th  season), currently known for its live, semi-improvised early music scores for such silent film masterpieces as Mark of Zorro, Robin Hood and Hunchback of Notre Dame. She plays early and traditional fiddles on roots music from Sephardic to contra. Her particular interest is the pardessus de viole; she has toured the US, received solo recitalist grants from the NEA that supported her Carnegie Recital Hall debut, directed a Pardessus Conference at the 2017 Boston Early Music Festival, and recorded five pardessus CDs. Ms. Chancey has developed her own blend of early music and improvisation. Recent artist residencies have taken her to Geneva, Hawaii, Berlin, Oberlin and Hong Kong. She produces recordings, composes and arranges, writes popular and scholarly articles and directs workshops in improvisation, playing by ear, and how to practice. www.tinachancey.com.

CLEA GALHANO Brazilian recorder player Cléa Galhano is an internationally renowned performer of early, contemporary and Brazilian music. Galhano has performed in the United States, Canada, South America and Europe as a chamber musician, collaborating with recorder player Marion Verbruggen, Jacques Ogg, Belladonna Baroque Quartet and Kingsbury Ensemble.

As a featured soloist, Galhano has worked with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, New World Symphony, Musical Offering and Lyra Baroque Orchestra. Among other important music festivals, Ms. Galhano has performed at the Boston Early Music Festival, the Tage Alter Music Festival in Germany and at Wigmore Hall in London, Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall and Merkin Hall in New York and Palazzo Santa Croce in Rome, always receiving acclaimed reviews. Ms. Galhano was featured in the Second International Recorder Congress in Leiden, Holland, at the International Recorder Conference in Montréal and twice in the ARS International Conference. She gave her Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall debut in May 2010 and her second Weil Hall recital in December 2013 with the international Cuban guitarist Rene Izquierdo. Galhano studied in Brazil at Faculdade Santa Marcelina, the Royal Conservatory (The Hague), and the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, earning a LASPAU, Fulbright Scholarship and support from the Dutch government. As an advocate of recorder music and educational initiatives, she served for six years on the national board of the American Recorder Society, and is the Music Director of the Recorder Orchestra of the Midwest. Ms. Galhano recently received the prestigious McKnight fellowship award, MSAB Cultural collaborative and MSAB Arts Initiative.

Currently, she is a faculty member at Macalester College and Adjunct Lecturer in Music, Recorder at HPI, Jacobs School of Music, IU. Ms. Galhano has recordings available on Dorian, Ten Thousand Lakes and Eldorado label and she is the recipient of the National Arts Associate of Sigma Alpha Iota. Ms. Galhano serves as Board of Director at the Schubert Club, Minnesota Bach Society, Twin Cities Early Music Festival, Forgotten Clefs and Saint-Savin Early Music Festival, France.

RONN MCFARLANE, GRAMMY-nominated lutenist, is a founding member of the Baltimore Consort and has been a guest artist with Apollo’s Fire, The Bach Sinfonia, The Catacoustic Consort, The Folger Consort, Houston Grand Opera, The Oregon Symphony, The Portland Baroque Orchestra, and The Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra. Mr. McFarlane taught himself to play blues and rock music on the electric guitar while studying classical guitar. He turned his full attention and energy to the lute in 1978. McFarlane was a faculty member of the Peabody Conservatory from 1984 to 1995, teaching lute and lute-related subjects. In 1996, Mr. McFarlane was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Music from Shenandoah Conservatory for his achievements in bringing the lute and its music to the world. He has over 40 recordings on the Dorian/Sono Luminus label, including solo albums, lute duets, flute & lute duets, lute songs, the complete lute music of Vivaldi, a collection of Elizabethan lute music and poetry, and recordings with the Baltimore Consort. His original compositions are the focus of his solo CD, Indigo Road, which received a GRAMMY Award Nomination for Best Classical Crossover Album of 2009. In 2010 he founded Ayreheart, an ensemble performing new compositions as well as early music.

RACHEL BARTON PINE Violinist Rachel Barton Pine has an extraordinary ability to connect with people. A leading interpreter of classic and contemporary works, her performances combine her gift for emotional communication and her fascination with research. She plays with passion and conviction, thrilling audiences with her dazzling technique, lustrous tone, and infectious joy in music-making.

This season Pine will offer the world premiere of “Violin Concerto No. 2,” written for her by Billy Childs and co-commissioned by the Grant Park Music Festival, the Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra, the Anchorage Symphony Orchestra, and the Interlochen Orchestra. She’ll solo with the Chicago Symphony, the Mississippi Symphony, Orchestre Symphonique Quebec, the Tel Aviv Soloists, the Pacific Symphony, and Vancouver (WA) Symphony. She’ll perform with Lara

Downes at Ravinia, with pianist Matthew Hagle, and harpsichordist Jory Vinikour.

She has appeared with prestigious ensembles including the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Camerata Salzburg, and the Vienna and Detroit Symphony Orchestras.

Her past chart-topping albums include Dvořák and Khachaturian Violin Concertos (Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Teddy Abrams); Mozart: Complete Violin Concertos, Sinfonia Concertante (Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner), and Bel Canto Paganini.

Pine has led the Rachel Barton Pine (RBP) Foundation which assists young artists since 2001. Over the last 20 years, the RBP Foundation’s Music by Black Composers (MBC) project has collected more than 900 works by 450+ Black composers from the 18th–21st centuries, curated free repertoire directories, and published print resources.

She performs on the 1742 “ex-Bazzini ex-Soldat” Guarnerius del Gesu. rachelbartonpine.com

RICHARD PRICE, President, Candlewood Digital LLC, is a Grammy award winning recording producer, engineer, and editor with over 1000 commercial CDs to his credit. An Alumnus of The University of Michigan, The Juilliard School, and the Pierre Monteux Domaine School for Advanced Conducting Study, he is a voting member of NARAS. Prior to entering the recording field, he had a 15-year career as a professional horn player (including extensive natural horn work) with Borealis Wind Quintet, Galliard Brass Ensemble, Broadway shows, and other performances in New York. He is an internationally known arranger, with performances of his work by the Toronto, Dallas, Seattle, and Detroit Symphonies; Westminster Choir College, Pro Arte Singers, Canadian Brass, Philadelphia Orchestra Brass, New York Philharmonic Brass, Wind Quintets of the Berlin Philharmonic and the Amsterdam Concertgebouw and many others. His works have been featured on TV (Inspector Lynley Mysteries), film (Being Julia). He was Music Director and Conductor of the Danbury Concert Chorus, 2002-2010 and is Music Director Emeritus.