Tahanee Aluwihare made her debut with the Symphony Orchestra of Sri Lanka at the age of seventeen and has since performed in Asia, Europe, and North America. In previous seasons, Ms. Aluwihare has performed with Tri-Cities Opera, Opera Memphis, Opera Idaho, Charlottesville Opera, City Lyric Opera, and Opera del West. She earned her B.A. from Mount Holyoke College and her M.M. in Vocal Performance from the Longy School of Music.

French-born vocalist, scholar and stage director Anne Azéma has directed The Boston Camerata since 2008 and the French ensemble Aziman, which she founded, since 2005. Intensely engaged since her student days with the song repertoire of the Middle Ages, she is esteemed as a charismatic solo performer. But she is also widely admired for her creative skill in building and directing complete musical productions of varied styles and periods, both for her recital programs and for larger ensemble forces (concert and stage) in Europe and the United States. Full Bio Here

Centering on the Baroque period, Canadian-born singer Colin Balzer’s repertoire ranges from the Medieval to the Modern: from the likes of Machaut and Monteverdi to Mozart and Mendelssohn. Colin has performed with period ensembles such as Les Musiciens du Louvre, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Freiburger Barockorchester, Bach Collegium Japan, Tafelmusik, and the Boston Early Music Festival.

Michael Barrett is a Boston-based conductor, singer, multi-instrumentalist, and teacher. He serves as music director of The Boston Cecilia and Convivium Musicum. Michael also teaches conducting and European music history at the Berklee College of Music, and was recently appointed as Interim Director of the Five College Early Music Program, where he directs the Five College Collegium. Michael has performed with Blue Heron, The Boston Camerata, the Huelgas Ensemble, Vox Luminis, the Handel & Haydn Society, Netherlands Bach Society, Seven Times Salt, Schola Cantorum of Boston, and Nota Bene, and can be heard on the harmonia mundi, Blue Heron, Coro, and Toccata Classics record labels.

Since 1995, Boston City Singers’ mission has been to provide the highest level of creative youth development opportunities to underserved young people, ages 4 – 18, in the very communities in which they live. Our programs inspire personal journeys, bridge opportunity gaps, celebrate diversity, and foster goodwill. Our strengths lie in an unwavering commitment to social justice and acceptance of differences across socioeconomic status, race, ethnicity, and gender identity.

Through outstanding music education and vocal instruction, excellence in performance, and serving the community through song, members experience the joy of singing, teamwork and leadership, musical skills and artistic expression – skills that last a lifetime! Boston City Singers and the Camerata have collaborated since 2014 (Daniel: A Masterpiece Revisited) and in following seasons.

Phillip Bullock has been featured in operas and concerts throughout the United States and Europe. His recent engagements include the role of Theoliver “Jake” Jeter in Loving vs. Virginia, a world premiere of the new opera by Damien Geter with Virginia Opera, and debut appearances with two of New York City’s most renowned arts organizations: the Metropolitan Opera, in George Gershwin’s Porgy & Bess, and Jazz @ Lincoln Center, in the poignant contemporary opera Blind Injustice.

Past highlights include: Zodzetrick in Damien Sneed’s reimagining of Scott Joplin’s Treemonisha with Opera Theatre of St. Louis; the role of Cato in the critically acclaimed opera, Castor & Patience with Cincinnati Opera – voted the Best New Opera of 2022 by The New York Times. Phillip also reprised the role of the God of Love in the studio recording of The Romance of the Rose, an avant-garde opera from Pulitzer nominee Kate Soper with Long Beach Opera and the Wet Ink Ensemble.

Dave Cabral is a versatile musician who performs throughout New England as a chamber, orchestral, and pit musician. He studied viola performance at the Boston Conservatory but is equally comfortable on cello and fiddle. His passion for chamber music takes many forms. As a founding member of the Dashing Rock Celtic Trio, Dave sings and plays guitar, fiddle, and Scottish smallpipes. He is also a founding member and cellist of the Essex Piano Trio and performs professionally with that group as well.

Dave has performed as cellist and harpist with Fellswater and has appeared as a soloist with the Melrose Symphony, Salem Philharmonic, and Arlington Symphony. He has performed as a fifer with the Middlesex County Volunteers Fifes & Drums, Boston Camerata, the Boston Pops Orchestra, and as a fiddler with Hjaltibonhoga at the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo in Scotland. Outside music, he serves as chief echocardiographer at Boston Medical Center’s Department of Pediatric Cardiology.

Mr. Collver is a founding member of Project Ars Nova (P.A.N.), with which he has concertized. His performances have also included solo work with Ensemble Sequentia of Cologne, the Empire Brass Quintet, Tafelmusik, Boston Baroque and the Boston Camerata. Many of these concerts have been augmented by recordings with Telarc International, Erato, Deutsche EMI and Harmonia Mundi.

William Drancsak, known by his friends and colleagues as Jimmy, is a violinist and violist living in the New York City area. He has performed internationally with ensembles such as The English Concert, Les Arts Florissants, Juilliard415, and New York Baroque Incorporated. Growing up as a fiddler in the Finger Lakes region of New York State, Jimmy draws much of his musical inspiration from various fiddle styles and improvisation.

Regular Camerata collaborator Libor Dudas began his piano studies at the age of 8. A native of Croatia, his professional career began at age 14 when he gave his first organ recital. He studied organ and liturgical music at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna and holds an MM from the University of Notre Dame and a DMA in organ performance from New England Conservatory. He has served as Organist and Choir Director at Old North Church since 1998.

Dr. Kyle Forsthoff is the Artist/Teacher in Classical Percussion at the University of Rhode Island and is the percussionist for the Island Time Steel Band. Kyle is also the President of the Rhode Island Percussive Arts Society and is an Associate Editor for Percussive Notes. Kyle performs with and teaches multiple Fife & Drum corps, is the Archivist/Curator of the Museum of Fife and Drum, and is the First Vice-President of the Company of Fifers and Drummers. Kyle has previously held positions at Rhode Island College, the University of Kentucky, Morehead State University, and Capital University, and is a performing and instructional alumnus of the Bluecoats Drum and Bugle Corps. He holds degrees from the University of Kentucky and Arizona State University, is a member of ASCAP, and is a proud endorser of Innovative Percussion sticks and mallets, Cooperman frame drums and drumsticks, and Yamaha percussion instruments.

Joel Frederiksen is an American bass and lutenist living in Munich, Germany, internationally recognized as a performer and artistic director in the field of early music. A longtime collaborator with the Boston Camerata, he has devoted many years to his specialty, self-accompanied lute song. He has worked with leading figures in early music including Dame Emma Kirkby, Andrew Parrott, Rubén Dubrovsky, and Jordi Savall, and with ensembles such as Vox Luminis, the Netherlands Bach Society, the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, and the Huelgas Ensemble. Since 2002 he has been artistic director of Ensemble Phoenix Munich, with which he has released ten recordings on harmonia mundi and SONY/Deutsche Harmonia Mundi and curated the Munich concert series Between Mars and Venus since 2007.

Corey Dalton Hart, tenor is an active performer of opera, oratorio, and song repertoire as well as an eager chamber musician. With a passion for American song, he is a regular recitalist along the east coast, having premiered new works in both New York City and Boston. He performs with the Boston Camerata, Boston Baroque Ensemble, Renaissance Men, The Ashmont Bach Project, the VOCES8 Scholars Program, and the renowned choir at the Church of the Advent. Corey holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in vocal performance and pedagogy from the New England Conservatory of Music as well as degrees from Furman University and the Bard College Conservatory of Music.

Daniel Hershey received his Master’s degree from New England Conservatory and has performed with Opera Boston, The Boston Camerata, Emmanuel Music, Handel + Haydn Society, New England Light Opera, Cambridge Opera, Brahms Society Orchestra, Masterworks Chorale, and others. He made his European debut with the Boston Camerata (Octobre en Normandie) and has toured the globe in Borrowed Light since its inception. Dan is currently the Vice President of the Wilkinson Young Singer’s Fund, a nonprofit dedicated to helping young singers. A frequent performer with the Camerata, Mr. Hershey can be heard on the Camerata CD Treasures of Devotion.

Tenor William Hite’s reputation as an expressive and engaging artist has led to appearances with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, Odyssey Opera, and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project. He has performed and recorded with many leading early music ensembles including the Boston Camerata and Ensemble Sequentia. He is Professor of Voice at UMass Amherst and coproducer of the UMass Bach Festival and Symposium.

Boston-based baritone Craig Juricka’s versatile performance career has brought him to concert, opera and musical theatre stages around the nation. He has been featured as an Apprentice Artist with Des Moines Metro Opera and sings regularly with The Boston Camerata and the choruses of Handel & Haydn Society, Odyssey Opera, Boston Baroque, and Emmanuel Music.

Multi-instrumentalist, occasional vocalist, composer and arranger Shira Kammen has spent well over half her life exploring the worlds of early and traditional music. A frequent collaborator with Anne Azéma and The Boston Camerata, Ms. Kammen was a member for many years of the early music Ensembles Alcatraz, Project Ars Nova, and Medieval Strings, and has also worked with Sequentia, Hesperion XX, Anonymous IV, among many others. She has performed and taught in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Europe, Israel, Morocco, Latvia, Russia and Japan.

Trombonist Brian Kay has performed with Boston Camerata, Boston Baroque, Handel and Haydn Society, New York Collegium, Aston Magna, Renaissonics, and the New England Waites. On modern trombone, he has performed with the Rhode Island Philharmonic and Boston Philharmonic. Brian maintains a teaching studio in Weston, Massachusetts, and is a former faculty member at the Longy School and the New England Conservatory Preparatory Division.

Jesse Lepkoff, baroque flute and recorder, holds a degree in early music performance from New England Conservatory. He received his graduate education at the Royal Conservatory in Holland. His many performances include appearances with the Smithsonian Chambers Players and as a soloist with the National Symphony. He is a current member of the Arcadia Players and performs and records regularly with The Boston Camerata.

Carol Lewis has frequently demonstrated her musical virtuosity and versatility as a soloist in recitals in the United States and abroad. A former student of Jordi Savall, she has toured and recorded with Hespèrion, The Boston Camerata, Ensemble Chaconne and Capriccio Stravagante. Ms. Lewis has taught at Festival dei Saraceni, Milano Civica Scuola di Musica, NEC, and the annual summer conclave of the Viola da Gamba Society of America.

Steven Lundahl specializes in early low brass and recorders. He has performed throughout North and South America, Europe, and Hong Kong with such groups as the Boston Camerata, Boston Baroque, the Handel and Haydn Society, Tafelmusik, Smithsonian Chamber Orchestra, Ensemble Project Ars Nova, Waverly Consort, Calliope, and more. He has participated on over 35 recordings and teaches at the Concord Community Music School.

Ryan Lustgarten is a tenor from the Seattle area currently based in Manhattan, NY. He recently concluded a performance of Die Entführung aus dem Serail singing Pedrillo with Festival Napa Valley and was previously with Opera Theatre of Saint Louis as a Gerdine Young Artist. Ryan is a versatile performer of classic and contemporary opera, musical theatre, choral music, and concert repertoire. He holds a Master of Music in Voice and Opera from Northwestern University.

Sarah MacConduibh is a multi-instrumentalist specializing in Celtic and traditional American music. She is a founding member of Dashing Rock Celtic Trio and previously performed for nearly two decades with the acclaimed Celtic ensemble Fellswater. Sarah also directed the Middlesex County Volunteers Fifes & Drums, including performances with the Boston Pops Orchestra and at international military tattoos in North America and Europe. A longtime collaborator with the Boston Camerata, she is passionate about connecting audiences with music, history, and storytelling. Beyond music, Sarah develops leadership programs and coaches emerging leaders through reacHIRE, volunteers as a veterinary assistant with the MSPCA, and enjoys mountain adventures, including climbing Mount Kilimanjaro and preparing for future high-altitude treks.

Composer Tod Machover has been called “a musical visionary” by The New York Times. Muriel R. Cooper Professor of Music and Media at the MIT Media Lab, he is known for his boundary-breaking music and for inventing new music technologies for expanding performance virtuosity, inspiring creativity in young people, and promoting well-being and combating disease. He has collaborated numerous times with the Boston Camerata, including with Anne Azéma for his AI-enhanced opera VALIS, and with Joel Cohen on the Angels CD.

Soumaya MaRose is an award-winning international performer, teacher, and cultural ambassador based in New York and Boston. A member of the International Dance Council of UNESCO, she has been honored to collaborate with Atlas Soul, Club Mediteranee, Salma Dance Company, and The Boston Camerata. She combines her academic training in geography with her personal heritage to deepen her students’ understanding of dances from the Arabic-speaking world and the Amazigh heritage.

Equally at home in classical and traditional music, violinist and violist Eric Martin brings joy, whimsy, and passion to every genre of music he encounters. As a classical violist, Eric has performed regularly with The Boston Camerata and numerous other chamber and symphonic ensembles across the northeast. As a traditional dance musician, Eric can be found playing for festivals, concerts, camps, balls and other dance events across the United States, Canada, and Europe.

American contralto Emily Marvosh has established a reputation as a singing actress with excellent musicianship on national and international stages. Recent solo appearances include the Handel + Haydn Society, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Rhode Island Philharmonic, Charlotte Symphony, and the Henry Purcell Society of Boston. She belongs to Beyond Artists and supports Rosie’s Place and the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music through her performances.

Soprano MaKayla McDonald is an active performer of opera, art song, and new works who recently made her Camerata debut in We’ll Be There! She has worked with the American Opera Project + NYU/Tisch for their Opera Lab, joined ChamberQUEER’s Pride Festival at National Sawdust, and joined Cedar Rapids Opera Theatre as a guest artist. MaKayla currently resides in Brooklyn, NY.

Jason McStoots has performed around the world and the US. Recent appearances include opera and solo performances at the Boston Early Music Festival, Connecticut Early Music Festival, Green Mountain Project, and Emmanuel Music. He has appeared with Boston Lyric Opera, Pacific MusicWorks, The Boston Camerata, TENET, and the Tanglewood Music Center. He is a core member of Blue Heron and currently teaches at Brandeis University.

A native of Washington state, Dan Meyers graduated from Whitman College with BA degrees in Music and English Literature, later obtaining an MM in Historical Performance from the Longy School of Music. Beginning as a trombonist with an interest in jazz, he discovered Renaissance and Baroque music during his undergraduate years. Meyers regularly performs with his own group Seven Times Salt, as well as being a frequent guest with noted early music ensembles.

Allison Monroe performs on vielle, rebec, medieval harp, violin, viola, and sings with such ensembles as the Newberry Consort, Les Délices, Alkemie, Apollo’s Fire, Atlanta Baroque Orchestra, and the Washington Bach Consort. She directs the Collegium Musicum at Case Western Reserve University and won Early Music America’s 2017 Barbara Thornton Memorial Scholarship.

A long time collaborator with The Boston Camerata, Karim Nagi is a native Egyptian immigrant to the USA, and a true crossover artist uniting the Arab tradition with the global contemporary world. He has released fourteen CDs, ranging from traditional Arab music to fusion and electronica. He has taught in dozens of festivals in the United States, Asia, Europe, and Cairo, and has lectured at Harvard, MIT, Yale, and Princeton, among many others.

Born in London, England, Nigel North has been Professor of Lute at the Historical Performance Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington since 1999. Basically self-taught on the lute, he has been playing and teaching for nearly 50 years. Recordings include a four CD boxed set “Bach on the Lute” (Linn Records) and four CDs of the lute music of John Dowland (Naxos). He often collaborates with Anne Azéma in recitals.

Bass-baritone Andrew Padgett, praised for his “powerful baritone and impressive vocal range” and “splendidly declamatory” performances, is an accomplished interpreter of early music from medieval to baroque repertoire. Featured in venues like New York’s Lincoln Center and the Kennedy Center, he collaborates frequently with ensembles such as Piffaro, TENET, and Bach Collegium San Diego.

Colombian soprano Camila Parias brings a versatile and unique voice to a broad range of musical styles, with a repertoire spanning Medieval works to New Music. She has performed with ensembles including The Boston Camerata, Handel & Haydn Society, La Donna Musicale, Musica Ficta, Newberry Consort, and Dünya, gracing stages such as Boston Symphony Hall, Jordan Hall, the Palais de Chaillot, Dance House Helsinki, La Filature, Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango, Ludwigsburg Schlossfestspiele, Musikverein and Bregenz Festspiele.

Parias toured Finland, Germany, Austria, and France as part of Borrowed Light, a collaboration between the Tero Saarinen Dance Company and The Boston Camerata. She has also toured nationally with the Camerata and as an independent soloist, earning praise for her “intimately crystalline, shiver-inducing” performances.

Her recordings appear on Harmonia Mundi (France), Coro Records (UK), and Lindoro (Spain).

Camerata regular Christa Patton, historical harpist and early wind specialist, has performed throughout the Americas, Europe, and Japan with many of today’s premier early music ensembles including Piffaro the Renaissance Band, The King’s Noyse, Folger Consort, Newberry Consort, Apollo’s Fire, Parthenia and ARTEK. As a baroque harpist specializing in 17th century opera, Christa has performed with New York City Opera, Wolf Trap Opera, and Tafelmusik. She is presently on the faculty of Rutgers University.

Tenor Jordan Weatherston Pitts made his principal artist debut as the queen Renata in Iain Bell and Mark Campbell’s world premiere of Stonewall with New York City Opera. He assumed prominent roles in The Boston Camerata’s Play of Daniel (2014–2020) and The Night’s Tale (2016–2020). Recent roles include Roméo in Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette with the Hawaii Opera Theatre and Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni.

Mack Ramsey is a specialist in performance of Renaissance and baroque music on instruments of the periods, playing sackbut, Renaissance flute, recorder and lute. He makes his home in the Boston area and is a member of Dark Horse Consort. In recent seasons he has appeared with the Staunton Music Festival, Tafelmusik, Apollo’s Fire, The Thirteen, Piffaro Renaissance Band, Philharmonia Baroque, and Boston’s Handel and Haydn Society.

Specializing in vocal works of the Baroque and earlier, Deborah Rentz-Moore’s vocal pursuits are nonetheless expansive, with many notable premieres of new music, highlighting repertoires of under-represented composers, and including popular genres in diverse vocal ranges.

She enjoys frequent solo collaborations with The Boston Camerata, Emmanuel Music and Aston Magna. Her multifaceted solo work has brought her to Lincoln Center, the Paris Philharmonie, Utrecht Early Music Festival, Prague Spring Festival, Boston’s Symphony Hall, Jordan Hall, and Tanglewood.

As well as appearing with The Camerata, Ms. Rentz-Moore’s 2026-2027 season includes Beyond Boundaries (Tapestry), Bach’s Saint Matthew Passion (Emmanuel Music) and a recital of contemporary art song commissioned by The University of New Hampshire, where she is Resident Artist in Voice.

Ms. Rentz-Moore’s recordings on Musica Omnia, Centaur, Meridian and Harmonia Mundi span genres and eras, and she is featured on The Camerata’s acclaimed recordings, Free America! and Hodie Christus Natus Est.

Multifaceted artist Salomé Sandoval, now going by SaSa, sings and accompanies herself with lutes, early and classical guitars, in multilingual, creative programs ranging from Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque to 20th century repertoires. Originally from Venezuela, SaSa resides in Boston, MA where she is completing a MM in Historical Performance at Longy School of Music at Bard College.

Virginia native Ian Saunders enjoys an exciting career as a sought-after bassist who has performed with major ensembles, including The Boston Camerata, Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra, and The Sphinx Symphony. In 2017, Dr. Saunders won a prestigious diversity fellowship position with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.

Described by the New York Times as “the robust-voiced baritone”, Luke Scott appeared in New York’s Broadway district in the critically acclaimed Figaro 90210 followed by Don Giovanni with Salt Marsh Opera, the Grammy-nominated Trial at Rouen with Odyssey Opera, and Daniel with The Boston Camerata. He has received awards from the Martina Arroyo Foundation, Bel Canto Scholarship Foundation, and Shreveport Opera.

As a media experience artist and founder of The nth Art and director of Live and Immersive Arts at the University of Arizona, he collaborates with theater-makers, orchestras, museums, festivals, educational institutions, and other artists to create experiences that connect audiences and participants with stories and each other. By incorporating new technologies and techniques as part of his artistic palette, he explores novel modes of representing expression (Death and the Powers, 2010; Lilith, 2015; Fensadense, 2015) and presence in live performance (Remote Theatrical Immersion: Sleep No More, 2012; Powers Live, 2014; Ipomoea, 2017). Recent works include projection design for the world premiere opera productions Schoenberg in Hollywood (Boston Lyric Opera, 2018), If I Were You (Merola Opera, 2019), Overstory Overture (Sejong Soloists, 2023), and The Andrée Expedition (virtual reality, 2021). Torpey’s media, lighting, and interactive works have also appeared worldwide, including Chicago Opera Theater, Dallas Opera, Virginia Opera, Opéra de Monte-Carlo, Lincoln Center, 7 Stages Theater, FLUX Projects, Google, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Lucerne Festival, MIT Media Lab, and CalIT2 IDEAS San Diego.

John Taylor Ward grew up in a musical family in North Carolina. Before pursuing opera and early music studies at the Eastman and Yale Schools of Music, he spent his early years as both a sought-after musical theater actor and an Anglican boy treble. Ward has yielded acclaimed debuts at Spoleto USA, Mexico’s Compañía Nacional de Teatro, and Vienna’s Musikverein as Jesus in Bach’s St. Matthew Passion. He is a laureate of the Jardin des voix and a member of the two-time Grammy winning ensemble, Roomful of Teeth.

Mara Winter is a performer, composer, and photographer who spends her time exploring the infinite braid of the past and present. Her musical journey blends a profound personal artistic ethos with a deep commitment to technical fluency in historical flutes, spanning from the Middle Ages and Renaissance through the Classical and early-Romantic eras. Winter directs her Renaissance traverso consort, Phaedrus, based in Basel, Switzerland.

Milton Wright is a retired Judge of the Boston Municipal Court. He is a graduate of Morehouse College, where he was a member of the famed Morehouse College Glee Club, and of Boston University Law School. He also studied voice at Longy School of Music. He was a member of the New England Spiritual Ensemble and has served as Musical Director of Boston’s Black Nativity for over thirty-six years.