Praised for her “natural warmth” (LA Times) and “clear, beautiful tone” (NY Times), Canadian-American soprano Molly Netter can be heard on six GRAMMY-nominated albums since 2017. Recent solo debuts include the New York Philharmonic and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Julia Wolfe’s “Steel Hammer” at Carnegie Hall, Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with the Kitchener-Waterloo symphony, and gallant music from “the New Spain” with Camerata Antonio Soler in Madrid. Netter has also performed as soloist with the Boston Early Music Festival, Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra, the New World Symphony, and on tour in Japan, Singapore, and Myanmar under Masaaki Suzuki. The 2025-26 season includes Bach’s B Minor Mass with the San Antonio Philharmonic, Mozart’s Requiem and Schubert's Mass in G with the Bach Society of St. Louis, “The Secret Garden” with Voices of Music, Praetorius’s Christmas Vespers with Apollo’s Fire, David Lang’s Oscar-nominated ‘simple song #3’ with Vicky Chow from Bang on a Can, solo programs with Parthenia Viols in NYC and Alychmy Viols in Indianapolis, and Bellezza in Handel’s Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno and Donna Anna in Mozart’s Don Giovanni at the Staunton Music Festival in VA. Molly holds a BM in music composition from Oberlin Conservatory and an MM in early music voice from the Yale Institute of Sacred Music. She currently teaches on the voice faculty at the Oberlin Baroque Performance Institute.

Hailed for her “floating, silky soprano” and deemed “a standout in acting and voice” as well as “luminous” and “hypnotic,” soprano Nathalie Colas has been a featured soloist with Haymarket Opera Company, Operetta Ardez, Chicago Choral Artists, Incantare, Alchymy Viols, Indianapolis Baroque, The Symphony of Oak Park and River Forest, Fonema Consort, Cappella Romana, Music of the Baroque, Chamber Music on the Fox, Newberry Consort, Madison Bach Players and more. An enthusiastic choral musician, Natalie participates regularly in Chicago’s rich choral culture, including with Grant Park Music Festival, Chicago Symphony Chorus, Bella Voce, Eco Voice Project, and the New Earth Ensemble. A dedicated educator, she teaches applied Voice and lyric diction at Concordia University Chicago as well as at Triton College. She is a regular guest artist at colleges across the Midwest to coach voice students on French Mélodie, and she maintains an active French lyric diction coaching studio. Nathalie was born and raised in Strasbourg, France. She enjoys sewing, cooking and gardening with her husband, composer David Grant, as well as building Lego sets with her son, Leonard.

Sophia Duray is equally dedicated to teaching and performing. An active soloist and ensemble musician from Indianapolis, Indiana, Sophia performs with such organizations as Apollo’s Fire, Leipzig Baroque Orchestra, Valparaiso University Bach Institute, and the Indianapolis Early Music Festival. Sophia holds a Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance from Valparaiso University and is currently completing a Master of Arts in Historical Performance Practice and Voice at Case Western Reserve University. She plans to move to Chicago to pursue performance and teaching full time, in collaborations with Bella Voce ensemble, the William Ferris Chorale, Sphere Born, and Cut Circle. Sophia also specializes in performing Baroque dance choreographies written in Feuillet-Beauchamp notation, and plans on incorporating more dances in future programs throughout the United States.

Thomas Gerber is a founding member of the Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra, ensemble-in-residence at the Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center at the University of Indianapolis. In 1987, he was a founder of the early music chamber group Ensemble Ouabache, which in 2004 morphed into Ensemble Voltaire. Gerber is Keyboardist of the period-instrument ensembles Alchymy Viols and Echoing Air, Gerber also appears with Catacoustic Consort, Callipygian Players, Ars Antiqua Chicago, Musik Ekklesia, Pills to Purge Melancholy, Haydn by the Lake, Bourbon Baroque, and Anaphantasia, among other bands. He is the harpsichordist of the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, and has participated for the past 15 years as continuo player in the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra’s annual Messiah. Gerber serves as harpsichord teacher at Butler University’s Jordan College of Fine Arts, where he formerly served as a collaborative keyboard player and teacher of music history and graduate review. He was professor of music history and humanities at Marian University, as well as of music history and early music at the University of Indianapolis. Gerber holds degrees from Indiana University, Ball State University, and Hillsdale College, where his teachers included Fernando Valenti, Anthony Newman, and Elisabeth Wright.  Summers have found him studying and performing at such places as the Aspen Music Festival, the Oberlin Baroque Performance Institute, the Chautauqua Institution, the Ardingly International Music School (UK), and the Accademia Internacional del Verano (Mallorca). Gerber is currently vice president of the Board of Directors of IndyBaroque Music, Inc. He can be heard on the Naxos, Dorian, Concordia, Indy Barock, Catalpa Classics, and Navona records labels.

Brian Kay is a modern-day troubadour. He is the Artistic Director of the early music meets early theater group THEATRO, overseeing their international recording of music from the plays of William Shakespeare, and he won a GRAMMY® Award for his work on Apollo's Fire's Songs of Orpheus album. A recording artist for the Netflix music lab, Kay is a featured soloist on the soundtrack of their original series The Witcher and The Decameron. He also created arrangements of Russian folk songs for Guillermo del Toro’s 2025 film Frankenstein. He has performed throughout the world at venues such as the National Concert Hall of Dublin, Belfast Castle (Ireland), Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, and the Folger Theater. His live radio appearances include NPR, Baltimore's WYPR, Baltimore's 98ROCK, Boston's WGBH, and Cleveland's WCLV. A multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, arranger, and a traditional and historical music specialist, Kay has recorded with labels Avie and Sono Luminus and has appeared on releases which include original, early music, folk, traditional Sephardic, chamber and orchestral music.

Joanna Blendulf is professor of music in baroque cello/viola da gamba at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Currently co-principal cellist and principal viola da gamba player of the Portland Baroque Orchestra, she has also performed as principal cellist of Pacific MusicWorks, Pacific Baroque Orchestra, American Bach Soloists, Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra, Apollo’s Fire Baroque Orchestra, and the New York Collegium. She was a principal cellist of the New World Symphony under Michael Tilson Thomas and has performed with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and the Nashville Chamber Orchestra. Blendulf appears regularly on major concert series and numerous recordings with her chamber groups, the Ensemble Electra, Ensemble Mirable, Music of the Spheres, Nota Bene Viol Consort, and Wildcat Viols. She is a frequent guest viol player with the Catacoustic Consort and Parthenia, and has collaborated with acclaimed artists Monica Huggett, Stephen Stubbs, Matthias Maute, Bruce Dickey, and Joan Jeanrenaud. Blendulf’s world-premiere recording of the complete cello sonatas of Jean Zewalt Triemer with Ensemble Mirable was released in 2004. Her festival engagements have included Tage Alter Musik Regenburg, Musica Antigua en Villa de Leyva in Colombia, the Bloomington, Boston, and Berkeley early music festivals, the Ojai Music Festival, and the Carmel and Oregon Bach Festivals. Sought after as a teacher and chamber music coach, Blendulf has served as a classroom and private instructor at the University of Oregon and the Berwick Academy. An active member of the Viola da gamba Society of America, she teaches regularly at the annual Conclave, Viols West, and Young Players Weekend, and has served as a national Circuit Rider teacher. She holds performance degrees with honors from the Cleveland Institute of Music and the Jacobs School of Music.

Ingrid Matthews is professor of practice in historical performance, baroque violin at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. A graduate of IU, where she studied with Josef Gingold and Stanley Ritchie, Matthews is one of today’s most respected baroque violinists. Since winning first prize in the Erwin Bodky International Competition for Early Music in 1989, Matthews has appeared as soloist, guest director, chamber musician, and concertmaster with leading early music ensembles including the New York Collegium, Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, Ars Lyrica (Houston), Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra (Toronto), Musica Pacifica (San Francisco), and many others. Matthews cofounded the Seattle Baroque Orchestra in 1994 and served as its music director until 2013. She has earned high critical acclaim for her extensive discography, including her recording J. S. Bach: Complete Sonatas and Partitas for Violin, which was named “top recommendation for this music ... on either period or modern instruments” by American Record Guide.

Leighann Daihl Ragusa, historical flutist, has concertized throughout central Europe as well as the United States both as a soloist and as a collaborator of chamber and orchestral music. Her playing has been regarded as “invigoratingly fresh and perky” (Backtrack) as well as “some of the most spirited, stylish, and nuanced playing” (Chicago Classical Review). Leighann regularly performs with numerous period instrument ensembles throughout the United States and since Spring 2023, she has been the Managing Director of the Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra. A passionate teacher, Leighann has presented masterclasses and workshops throughout the country including her acclaimed “Bach to the Future: bringing music to life through ornamentation,” an interactive class which allows students to learn about ornamentation and how to develop an ornamental language. Leighann holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Flute Performance from DePauw University, where she studied flute with Anne Reynolds, and a Bachelor of Music degree in Historical Flute Performance from the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, where she studied with Wilbert Hazelzet. Additionally, she holds Master of Music degrees in Flute and Historical Flute Performance from Indiana University. Leighann was also the recipient of the prestigious Netherland-American Fulbright grant.

 Philip Spray, artistic director and founder of Alchymy Viols, performs, records and consults with period instrument ensembles and publishers across the country. He co-founded the Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra under Barthold Kuijken and later Musik Ekklesia whose first recording, The Vanishing Nordic Chorale, was part of a 2011 Grammy nomination for Best Classical Producer. He has long maintained interest in writing, composing, teaching, and arranging. His discography includes recordings on Dorian, Naxos, SFM, Concordia, and most recently with Michael Walker on Navona/PARMA mixing traditional spirituals with period instruments.