2026-2027 Artists
Elena Mullins Bailey
Praised for her “alluring” performances and “easy virtuosity,” soprano Elena Mullins Bailey has wide-ranging interests in the field of early music. As a performer of period chamber music she has appeared with The Newberry Consort, Three Notch’d Road, Les Délices, and Apollo’s Fire. She takes a scholarly interest in the performance practices of early repertoires, and co-founded the medieval music ensembles Alkemie and Trobár. She holds a DMA in Historical Performance Practice and a BA in Musical Arts from The Eastman School of Music. She returned to CWRU in 2016, where she directs the Early Music Singers and the Baroque Dance Ensemble, and teaches medieval music history and notation.
Nathaniel Chase
Double bassist and violone player Nathaniel Chase performs a wide range of music, from early music performances with the Sebastians, Boston Early Music Festival, and Tafelmusik, to orchestral repertoire as a member of the Orchestra of St. Luke's, and new music with NOVUS NY. He performed on Broadway in the critically acclaimed production of Farinelli and the King with countertenor Iestyn Davies. He is a graduate of the New England Conservatory and the Yale School of Music, where he was a winner of the 2010 Woolsey Hall Concerto Competition.
Adam Cockherham
Early music artist Adam Cockerham specializes in theorbo, lute and baroque guitar. Beginning his performance career as a classical guitarist, he then gravitated toward historical plucked strings, preferring the collaborative opportunities of chamber music from the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. As an accompanist and continuo player, Cockerham has performed with numerous ensembles in North America. He founded voice and plucked string duo Jarring Sounds with mezzo-soprano Danielle Reutter-Harrah. Beyond chamber music, Cockerham concentrates on 17th-century Italian vocal music. He is the Associate Music Director of the Academy of Sacred Drama and has been involved in numerous modern world premiere performances with companies such as Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik and Ars Minerva. Cockerham received his doctorate from the Juilliard School where he was awarded the Richard F. French Prize for best dissertation.
Stephanie Corwin
Praised for her “warmth and composure” (Wichita Eagle), Stephanie Corwin enjoys playing music of the past five centuries on modern and historical bassoons. Her vocation has taken her throughout the US and abroad, appearing as a soloist at Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall and performing with renowned ensembles, including Tafelmusik, Piffaro, Apollo’s Fire, and the Handel and Haydn Society. The inaugural winner of the Meg Quigley Vivaldi Competition, Stephanie has received prizes at the Fischoff, Coleman, and Yellow Springs chamber music competitions. After graduating from Davidson College, Stephanie earned her MM from Yale and DMA from Stony Brook, studying with Frank Morelli at both institutions. Intrigued by performance practice, she completed a Performer Diploma at Indiana University with Michael McCraw. Stephanie has served on faculty at the University of Virginia, the Chamber Music Conference, Amherst Early Music Festival, and the Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Institute. She lives in New York City.
Seán Dagher
Seán Dagher is an active performer, arranger, and composer of music from various folk and classical music traditions: Celtic, Baroque, Medieval, Arabic, French-Canadian, and Maritime. He is a founding member of Skye Consort, co-artistic director of La Nef, and a member of Montréal-based Celtic-music trio Gairloch. He has composed and arranged music for chamber ensembles, choirs, and symphony orchestras. His voice is well-known for having appeared in the Assassins Creed video game series. He has sung and written songs for other video game franchises including Windrose and Skull and Bones. Seán has arranged, composed, and done sound design for audio books and theatre. His video series, the Shanty of the Week, garnered thousands of viewers and remains an important archive of maritime music.
Morgan Davison
Bassoonist Morgan Davison is bridging the gap between centuries-old traditions and modern audiences. A Juilliard Historical Performance graduate, she has performed with the Boston Symphony, Tafelmusik, Handel & Haydn Society, and held the position of Acting 2nd/Assistant Principal Bassoon with the Colorado Symphony. In addition, Morgan was a semifinalist for the 2019 Meg Quigley Vivaldi Competition, a two-time National YoungArts Foundation winner, and a three-time winner of Colorado’s Young Musician’s Foundation. Dubbed the first “Bassoonfluencer” by The New Yorker, Morgan connects a global community through her viral Instagram page. Beyond the stage, she finds her greatest joy bringing music to underserved NYC children as a Teaching Artist with S’Cool Sounds—using her craft to inspire the next generation and prove the transformative power of music education.
Mark Edwards
First prize winner in the Bruges International Harpsichord Competition, Canadian harpsichordist and organist Mark Edwards is recognized for his captivating performances, bringing the listener “to new and unpredictable regions, using all of the resources of his instrument, […] of his virtuosity, and of his imagination” (La Libre Belgique). He is Associate Professor of Harpsichord at Oberlin Conservatory. He has given solo recitals and concerto performances at the Utrecht Early Music Festival, Bozar (Brussels), and the Montreal Baroque Festival, and with Il Gardellino (Belgium), and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra. His début solo CD, Orpheus Descending, was released in 2017 and was reviewed warmly. In 2021, Edwards received a PhD from Leiden University after successfully defending his dissertation titled “Moving Early Music: Improvisation and the Work-Concept in Seventeenth-Century French Keyboard Performance.” His former teachers include Robert Hill, William Porter, Hank Knox, and David Higgs.
Emi Ferguson
A recipient of the Avery Fisher Career Grant, Emi Ferguson is the founder of interdisciplinary ensemble Exquisite Corpse and can be heard live with groups including the Handel and Haydn Society, AMOC*, the New York New Music Ensemble, Manhattan Chamber Players, and as the music director of Camerata Pacifica Baroque. Her recordings By George!, Amour Cruel, and Fly the Coop: Bach Sonatas and Preludes, have been called “blindingly impressive ... a fizzing, daring display of personality and imagination” by The New York Times. Emi has spoken and performed at TEDx events, the Discovery Channel, Amazon Prime, WQXR, and Vox talking about how music relates to our world today. With WQXR, she hosts the Young Artists Showcase and Once Upon A Composer, and created the series This Composer Is SICK!. Her book Iconic Composers was released in 2023. Born in Japan and raised in London and Boston, she resides in New York.
Damien Geter
Damien Geter is an acclaimed American composer whose rapidly growing body of work includes chamber, vocal, orchestral, and full operatic works. Praised by The New Yorker for writing “beautifully for voices and elegantly for orchestra,” his “emotionally driven” (Opera) compositions are widely hailed for their “skillful vocal writing” (Wall Street Journal). Geter is Richmond Symphony’s Composer-in-Residence through 2026, and Composer-in-Residence for Fall 2025 at both Indiana State University’s Contemporary Music Festival and Ear Taxi Festival. He serves as Music Director for Portland Opera. Geter has been recognized by the Library of Virginia with its honorary Patron of Letters degree, was honored at the 2025 Strong Men & Women in Virginia History awards and was selected as a 2025 BRAVO! honoree by the Chesterfield Education Foundation.
Sadie Glass
Sadie Glass is a hornist and educator in the San Francisco Bay Area specializing in modern and historical horn performance. She is Assistant Professor of Horn and Brass–Percussion Program Director at the University of the Pacific Conservatory of Music in Stockton, California. An active performer on both modern and period instruments, Sadie is a member of Portland Baroque Orchestra, Philharmonie Austin, American Bach Soloists and the Monterey Symphony. She is also a sought-after clinician, presenting at regional and national conferences of the International Horn Society, the California All-State Music Education Conference, and universities throughout the United States.
Orí Harmelin
The Lute player Orí Harmelin was born in 1981. The fascination with early music led him to his studies at the Early Music Institute in Trossingen, Germany under Rolf Lislevand and Kees Boeke’s tutelage, followed by studies in the Zurich Art academy under the tutelage of Eduardo Eguez. Orí is a co-founder of ensemble Santenay (2004-2017). He is the house lutenist of ensembles Profeti della Quinta and Voces Suaves. After having released numerous Albums with various ensembles, Orí released his debut solo album NESHIMA (2021), and his second solo album VISÉE KAPSBERGER BACH (2026). Orí performs regularly in Europe, North America, and Asia. In addition to his passion for music, Orí is a Gestalt therapist and hosts the podcast “The Curious Case Of Freedom”. He lives in Basel, Switzerland.
Rebecca Landell
Violist da gamba, cellist, and self-described “powerful witch who plays trees for a living” Rebecca Landell’s “luminous” (Cleveland.com) and “notable” (The New York Times) sound elicits a range of expression, “from classically evocative to Hitchcock horrifying” (Washingtonian). Rebecca studied cello with Darrett Adkins and baroque cello and viola da gamba with Catharina Meints at Oberlin Conservatory, and modern cello with Norman Fischer at Rice University, before studying in Holland with Steuart Pincombe. Today, Rebecca pursues a varied professional career, performing as a core member of Les Délices, teaching at Oberlin Conservatory, and creating multimedia collaborations with visual artists, actors and poets. Solo appearances include performances with Apollo’s Fire, Atlanta Baroque Orchestra, Vermont Symphony Orchestra, Three Notch’d Road, Columbus Symphony, and Batzdorfer Hofkapelle. She can be heard on recordings with Les Délices, Three Notch’d Road, and Apollo’s Fire, including the GRAMMY® Award-winning Songs of Orpheus. Rebecca resides in Ohio, where she plays in the garden, bakes bread, and flies kites with her daughter.
Maryse Legault
Celebrated for her "transcendent playing" (Wall Street Journal), Maryse Legault is a clarinettist and musicologist whose work sits at the intersection of performance practice and philosophy. A graduate of the Koninklijk Conservatorium Den Haag, where she earned her master's degree studying with Eric Hoeprich, she holds a Ph.D. in musicology from McGill University. Her research explores the impact of Idealist philosophy on solo concerto performance in the nineteenth century. She has lectured at Oxford University, the Conservatoire national supérieur in Paris, and the Hochschule der Künste Bern. Legault performs regularly with ensembles such as Teatro Nuovo, Arion Orchestre Baroque, Boston Baroque, The Handel & Haydn Society, and Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, and has collaborated with European orchestras including MusicAeterna and Les Siècles. In 2023, she was named an Emerging Artist by Early Music America, and her debut solo album, Around Baermann (Leaf Music), received critical acclaim.
Reginald Mobley
Reginald Mobley is a GRAMMY®-nominated American countertenor renowned for his interpretations of baroque, classical, and modern repertoire. A prominent advocate for diversity, he is the first Programming Consultant for the Handel & Haydn Society, Artistic Advisor at the Portland Baroque Orchestra, and Visiting Artist for Diversity Outreach with Apollo’s Fire. He also leads a UK-based research project uncovering music by composers from diverse backgrounds. Mobley has performed with major orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, and Philadelphia Orchestra. His European engagements feature the Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, and the Budapest Festival Orchestra, where he appeared as Ottone in L’incoronazione di Poppea. Notable appearances include the BBC Proms, Wigmore Hall, and Carnegie Hall. His debut solo CD with ALPHA Classics won an Opus Klassik Award in 2023. Recent highlights include a tour of Australia and a performance of Bach’s St. John Passion with Orchestre de Chambre de Paris. Mobley’s recording career also includes collaborations with Agave Baroque and the Stuttgart Bach Society.
Allison Monroe
Allison Monroe plays violin, viola, rebec, vielle, medieval harp and psaltery, and sings. Her performing credits include the Boston Camerata, Blue Heron, Alkemie, Piffaro, Newberry Consort, Folger Consort, Washington Bach Consort, Seattle Baroque Orchestra, and Apollo’s Fire. She is the co-founder and Artistic Director of medieval band Trobár, a touring ensemble that has performed on concert series from Arizona to New York City, held residencies at major research institutions, and will release its second album, to seek & to find, in 2027. Allison served as Artistic Director for the album Fair and Princely Branches with The Queen’s Rebels, and can be heard on recordings with Les Délices and Apollo’s Fire. She is also the Director of the Five College Early Music Program in western MA (2023-present).
Kathryn Montoya
Kathryn appears with a variety of orchestral and chamber music ensembles, including the Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, Tafelmusik, and Apollo’s Fire. Ms. Montoya teaches historical oboes at Oberlin Conservatory and has been on the faculty of Longy's International Baroque Institute, the Baroque Performance Institute at Oberlin, SFEMS workshops, and has given masterclasses in the US, Latin America, and China. She enjoys a varied musical career performing for two Grammy award-winning recordings with the Boston Early Music Festival and the Tony award-winning production of Twelfth Night on Broadway with Shakespeare’s Globe of London. Kathryn can regularly be found in Hereford, England converting an 18thth century barn into a home with her husband, James.
Yaël Senamaud
Yaël Senamaud is recognized for her versatility in a wide variety of musical styles. She plays modern and baroque viola, as well as baroque violin and viola d’amore. Yael was recently appointed Principal Viola of the South Carolina Philharmonic Orchestra and of the Jackson Symphony Orchestra. She has been a member of Apollo’s Fire, Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra, and CityMusic Cleveland, and regularly collaborates with ProMusica Chamber Orchestra and Les Siècles, a period orchestra based in France. While living in her native France, Yaël was a member of the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris and the Opera in Valencia, Spain. She is a graduate of the Conservatoire National de Paris and Peabody Institute.
Debra Nagy
“A baroque oboist of consummate taste and expressivity” (Cleveland Plain Dealer) with a musical approach that’s “distinctly sensual…pliant, warm, and sweet,” (New York Times), Debra Nagy, director, is one of North America’s leading performers on the baroque oboe. Debra was recognized with a 2022 Cleveland Arts Prize (Mid-Career Artist) and received the 2022 Laurette Goldberg Prize from Early Music America for her work with Les Délices. Debra also plays principal oboe with Boston’s Handel & Haydn Society, Apollo’s Fire, the Boston Early Music Festival, and many other ensembles. When not rehearsing, performing, or dreaming up new projects, Debra can be found cooking in her kitchen or biking around her home in Cleveland's historic Ohio City neighborhood.
Katherine Spencer
Katherine ‘Waffy’ Spencer is the principal clarinet of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Academy of Ancient Music, the Irish Chamber Orchestra, the City of London Sinfonia, the Handel and Haydn Society of Boston, USA, as well guesting with Europe’s leading period and modern orchestras. Katherine has played for Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace and at a private performance for the Emperor of Japan. She has played as a soloist in all of the UK’s major concert venues with orchestras including the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields. She has made numerous BBC Radio 3 solo broadcasts, performs at the BBC Proms, and has presented BBC radio programmes. A believer that music is for everyone, Katherine leads in education and outreach in all of her orchestras.
Anthony Taddeo
Anthony Taddeo is a percussionist, composer, and performer whose music has taken him across North America and Europe and onto over 40 album credits. Based in Cleveland, Ohio, he has sharpened his craft alongside jazz legends Jamey Haddad, Jimmy Cobb, and Kendrick Scott, and holds an MFA in composition from Youngstown State University. Praised for the joyful, electrifying energy he brings to every bandstand, Taddeo actively tours with GRAMMY-winning Apollo's Fire and leads and composes for Alla Boara — a critically acclaimed ensemble that has captured audiences across the country. Alla Boara is the creative heart of Work and Song Productions, his nonprofit dedicated to fostering cultural connection and togetherness through the lens of Italian folk music.
Shelby Yamin
Violinist Shelby Yamin brings signature vivacity to performances across the globe, from the historic state rooms of George Washington's Mount Vernon to the storied chapel at Versailles. Shelby has appeared as a soloist with Philharmonia Baroque Chamber Players, Voices of Music, New York Baroque Incorporated and The Oregon Bach Festival orchestra. Dedicated to diversifying the canon, Shelby regularly researches, performs, and records lesser known works, including 18th-century repertoire from the music library of Nelly Custis and, more recently, the violin duets of Maddalena Lombardini Sirmen (1745-1818). Shelby's discography includes the first ever recording of Sirmen's entire opus of violin duets on period instruments (Orpheus Classical Label, 2021). Shelby has earned degrees from the Manhattan School of Music, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and The Juilliard School, where she won the Historical Performance Concerto Competition. In addition to performing regularly with Les Délices in concert, Shelby is the Associate Producer of SalonEra. She currently resides in New York City.
Sue Yelanjian
Sue Yelanjian is the Principal Bassist for Apollo's Fire Baroque Orchestra and performs with many other early music groups including Relic, The Handel and Haydn Society, Philharmonie Austin and the Carmel Bach Festival. She has appeared at many music festivals including Ravinia, Tanglewood, Caramoor and the Klang Und Raum Festival in Germany. She attended Oberlin Conservatory and received degrees from the Cleveland Institute of Music and Boston University.