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

Michael Barrett is a Boston-based conductor, singer, multi-instrumentalist, and teacher. He serves as music director of The Boston Cecilia, a Brookline-based chorus, and is Associate Professor at the Berklee College of Music, where he teaches courses in conducting and European music history. From 2021 until 2023, Michael served as Interim Director of the Five College Early Music Program in western Massachusetts. A long time collaborator with The Boston Camerata, Michael has also performed with many professional early music ensembles including Blue Heron, the Huelgas Ensemble, Vox Luminis, Handel + Haydn Society, Nederlandse Bachvereniging (Netherlands Bach Society), Seven Times Salt, Schola Cantorum of Boston, and Nota Bene. He can be heard on the harmonia mundi, Music and Arts, Blue Heron, Coro, and Toccata Classics record labels. Michael holds degrees in music (AB, Harvard University), voice (First Phase Diploma, Royal Conservatory in The Hague, The Netherlands), and choral conducting (MM, Indiana University; DMA, Boston University).

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.

Long time Camerata collaborator bass and lutenist Joel Frederiksen is based in Munich, Germany. Over the course of his career, he has developed a distinctive artistic profile, particularly through his long-standing dedication to self-accompanied lute song. His work also spans solo appearances with leading early-music ensembles. In demand internationally as a bass soloist, he has performed and recorded with many prominent ensembles including Vox Luminis, the Netherlands Bach Society, the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, Ensemble Gilles Binchois, Huelgas Ensemble, and The Boston Camerata. As a singer and lutenist, he is Artistic Director of Ensemble Phoenix Munich (founded in 2002) with whom he tours internationally, records extensively for major labels, and curates the long-running Munich concert series “Between Mars and Venus” at the Bavarian National Museum. Frederiksen has recorded extensively for harmonia mundi France and SONY/Deutsche Harmonia Mundi. His recordings have received numerous distinctions, including the German Record Critics’ Award, the Orphée d’Or – Martti Talvela Prize, and the ECHO Klassik Prize.

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.

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.