Jack Ashworth, Director of the University of Louisville Early Music Ensemble since 1977, has been guest continuo player with groups including Trio Settecento, Fretwork, the Folger Consort, and the King's Noyse, as well as for solo artists including Wieland Kuijken, Margriet Tindemans, Marion Verbruggen, and Aldo Abreu. He has taught for the VdGSA and Amherst Early Music, among many others, as well as serving on workshop faculties in England and Australia. Jack received the Binkley Award for Outstanding Achievement by a Collegium Director from Early Music America in 1999, and is Past President of the VdGSA.

Martha Bishop is Conclave Music Director; she performs with Atlanta Baroque Orchestra and New Trinity Baroque. Her didactic publications for gamba are used internationally, and her compositions are available through PRB Publications and Fountain Park Publications. She is a fellow in composition of Hambidge Center for the Arts.

Marie Dalby recently returned to the west coast after over a decade in New York and Connecticut where she regularly performed on the viola da gamba with numerous ensembles. She is a member of the New York Consort of Viols and the acclaimed Baroque ensemble Flying Forms. While finishing a master's degree in medieval church history at Yale University, she was on the faculty of the Neighborhood Music School in New Haven, CT, and also founded and directed the Yale Temperament Consort. She has taught at the Amherst Early Music Memorial Day Weekend workshop and has led ensemble workshops in Connecticut, New York, Massachusetts and California. She is currently the Vice President of the Viola da Gamba Society of America.

Julie Elhard, viola da gamba and Baroque 'cello, appears regularly as a soloist and chamber musician and has made several appearances with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, including performing Bach's St. Matthew Passion under the direction of Nicholas McGegan. She has been a guest artist with Apollo's Fire (Clevelend's Baroque orchestra) and performs regularly with The Lyra Baroque Orchestra. She was awarded a Jerome Foundation grant to study vielle and early string playing with Margriet Tindemans and received a Performing Artist Certificate from the Royal Conservatory of Music in The Hague, Netherlands. Elhard has taught at workshops in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and at the Viola da Gamba Society of America's national Conclaves. She currently teaches viola da gamba at Carleton College in Northfield, MN and at the St. Paul Conservatory of Music where she has created a Suzuki-style program for children to play the viola da gamba.

Grace Feldman is the Chair of the String Department at the Neighborhood Music School in New Haven, CT where she is Ensemble Coordinator, heads the Early Music Department and teaches gamba, recorder, violin and viola. She has performed with the New York Pro Musica Viol Consort, New York Trio Da Camera, the New England Consort of Viols and is a member of The Playford Consort. She is the author of The Golden Viol, Method for Bass Viola da Gamba, and has recently released two solo recordings on the treble viol: The Golden Viol and The Treble Sings.

Wendy Gillespie, a performer of medieval, Renaissance, Baroque and contemporary music, teaches early bowed strings, performance studies, and reading from early notation at the Early Music Institute of the Jacobs School of Music, Bloomington, IN. She has played with ensembles ranging from the English Concert to Ensemble Sequentia and has participated in more than 80 recordings for hmUSA, EMI, Virgin Classics, BIS, Channel Classics, Avie, and other labels.
As a member of the viol consorts Fretwork and Phantasm, Gillespie has toured the globe performing concerts and appearing on radio and television. She has shared two Gramophone awards, several Gramophone and Grammy nominations, many "Recordings of the Month",and a French Grand Prix du Disque with her colleagues.
Gillespie is much in demand for workshops and seminars in early music performance in the United States and Europe. She is a member of the Medieval Studies Institute at Indiana University and President of the Viola da Gamba Society of America.

During her 33-year love affair with the viol, Julie Jeffrey has developed a career on the instrument that has taken her all over the world, performing, recording and teaching. At home in the San Francisco Bay Area Ms. Jeffrey plays with Sex Chordae Consort of Viols, is the creative mastermind of the acclaimed trio Wildcat Viols, embodies half of the viol duo Hallifax & Jeffrey, and co-directs Barefoot Chamber Concerts. A devoted proponent of all things viol, Ms. Jeffrey is a co-founder and active member of the Viola da Gamba Society-Pacifica Chapter, and currently serves on the VdGSA's board of directors.

Yukimi Kambe, special guest, studied with Wieland Kuijken in The Hague after graduation from the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis studying with Hannelore Mueller. In Japan, she began her career with recitals, concerts, recordings and appearances on TV and radio. She is the founder of the Yukimi Kambe Viol Consort. Through her friendship with composers, excellent modern viol music has been created. She is a lecturer at Kunitachi College of Music, Tokyo, and Ferris University College of Music, Yokohama, and was President of the Viola da Gamba Society of Japan (1983-84).

Larry Lipkis is Professor of Music and Composer-in-Residence at Moravian College, where he directs the early music ensembles and teaches composition. Since 1986, he has been a member of the Baltimore Consort, an internationally acclaimed early music ensemble which in the spring of 2009 released its fourteenth CD, entitled Adio España.
Larry has composed over eighty works, and his bassoon concerto Pierrot, premiered by the Houston Symphony in 2002, marked the completion of a trilogy of concerti based on characters from the Commedia dell'Arte. Scaramouche for cello and orchestra was recorded by Carter Brey, and Harlequin for bass trombone and orchestra was premiered by Jeffrey Reynolds and the LA Philharmonic.
Larry is a Music Director for the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival and serves on the Board of the Bach Choir of Bethlehem. He is a former director of Early Music Week at Pinewoods, where he is a frequent faculty member. He lectures on such diverse topics as musical rhetoric and composition in the schools, and often leads workshops in both recorder and viola da gamba.

Lawrence Lipnik has performed with many chamber and early music ensembles including the Waverly Consort and Anonymous 4, and is a founding member of the vocal Ensemble Lionheart and the viol consort Parthenia. He is currently a member of the NY Consort of Viols, and is a frequent musical collaborator with artist William Wegman. In addition to performing, his busy teaching schedule spans national and international workshops from the Benslow Music Trust, UK, Port Townsend, and the San Diego Music Festival to Pinewoods and Amherst Early Music, and he is currently Viol instructor at Wesleyan University. He has recorded for numerous labels including EMI, Angel, Nimbus, Virgin, Sony, Koch International and Cantaloupe.

Sarah Mead, who lives and works in the Boston area, is the 2007 winner of Early Music America's Binkley Award for Outstanding Achievement by a Collegium Director. She is Associate Professor at Brandeis University, where she directs the Early Music Ensemble and is a frequent guest choral conductor. She is the author of the Renaissance Theory chapter in A Performer's Guide to the Renaissance, recently re-issued by Indiana University Press. She has taught at Tufts and Northeastern as well as at Trinity College of Music in London and is a regular guest lecturer at Longy School of Music in Cambridge. She serves on the Boards of the VdGSA and EMA, and is former Program Director for Early Music Week at Pinewoods Camp.

Rosamund Morley has performed on all the viols and their medieval ancestors with early music ensembles as diverse as Piffaro, Lionheart, ARTEK, The Boston Camerata, Sequentia, Les Arts Florissants and Aston Magna; she has toured worldwide with the Waverly Consort. As a member of Parthenia, she is responsible for developing creative programs incorporating both early and new music. Her teaching schedule includes workshops such as the Benslow Music Trust, UK, the Cammac Music Center in Quebec, Summerkeys in Maine and Amherst Early Music. She is the director of Viols West and teaches viol at Columbia University.

David Morris is a member of the Sex Chordae Consort of Viols, Musica Pacifica, The King's Noyse and the New York State Early Music Ensemble. He has performed with Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Tafelmusik, American Bach Soloists, the Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra and the Mark Morris Dance Company, and has recorded for Dorian, New World, New Albion, WGBH, St. Paul Sunday (with the King's Noyse) and New Line Cinema.

John Mark Rozendaal lives, works, and plays in New York City. He teaches the Viola da Gamba Dojo, a weekly class for viola da gamba players of all conditions, and performs with Trio Settecento and with the baroque ensemble Repast. In 2008 Centaur Records released Breaking the Ground, Rozendaal's recording of music from Christopher Simpson's The Division Viol and pieces from the Manchester Tablature.

Elin Soderstrom is a graduate of McGill University in Montreal and of the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. Elin has been a core member of the Montreal-based ensembles Masques and Constantinople, with which she has performed numerous concerts, toured and recorded. Additional experience playing with the Voix Humaines Consort and the Dutch viol consort The Spirit of Gambo has allowed her to develop her interest in the repertoire for viol consort. A dedicated teacher, Elin communicates her passion through private instruction as well as at various workshops. Currently, Elin is devoting more and more of her time to improvised music, a life-long interest that has become the subject of a doctorate which she is pursuing at the Université de Montréal, thanks to a generous grant from the Fonds québécois de recherche sur la société et la culture.

Craig Trompeter, gambist and cellist, performs and teaches throughout the United States. He appears in concert and over the airwaves with Musica Maris, the Second City Musick, the Newberry Consort, Music of the Baroque, Chicago Opera Theater, and the Smithsonian Chamber Music Society. He has recorded on the Harmonia Mundi, Cedille, and Centaur labels. He holds Bachelor and Master degrees in cello performance from the Cleveland Institute of Music and is a Guild Certified Feldenkrais ® Practitioner. He has presented Feldenkrais workshops for musicians and the general public at several universities and at nationwide workshops.

Brent Wissick is Professor of Viola da Gamba and Cello at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is a member of Ensemble Chanterelle and the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra as well as a frequent guest with American Bach Soloists, BEMF, the Folger Consort, Concert Royal, Dallas Bach Society, and Collegio di Musica Sacra (in Poland). An active teacher/performer in the US and abroad, he is Past President of the VdGSA.