Mary Anne Ballard researches many of the Consort’s programs. She also plays with Galileo’s Daughters, Mr. Jefferson’s Musicians, the Oberlin Consort of Viols, and Fleur de Lys. Formerly, she directed or coached early music at the Peabody Conservatory, Princeton University, and the University of Pennsylvania, where she founded the Collegium Musicum and produced medieval music drama. She is now on the faculty of Oberlin’s summer Baroque Performance Institute. A resident of Indiana and New York City, she music-directed the Play of Daniel for 75th Anniversary of the opening of The Cloisters Museum in New York and at Trinity Wall Street Church in New York. 

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Mark Cudek is the former Chair of the Historical Performance Department at the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University, and also Artistic Director of the Indianapolis Early Music Festival. In recognition of his work as Founder/Director of the Peabody Renaissance Ensemble and also the High School Early Music Program at the Interlochen Arts Camp, Mark received from Early Music America the 2001 Thomas Binkley Award and the 2005 Award for Outstanding Contribution to Early Music Education. He has toured and recorded with Apollo’s Fire and Hesperus, and, in his youth, worked as a café guitarist in the Virgin Islands. Mark is the 2014 recipient of the Johns Hopkins University Alumni Association’s Global Achievement Award and in 2018 was promoted to full Professor.

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Larry Lipkis is Composer-in-Residence and Director of Early Music at Moravian University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He has served as Director of Early Music Week at Pinewoods and is a longtime music director for the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival. He has taught at the Amherst Early Music Festival, the VdGSA Conclave, and many other early music workshops and festivals. His cello concerto, Scaramouche, appears on the Koch label, and his bass trombone concerto, Harlequin, was premiered by the Los Angeles Philharmonic to rave reviews. The trilogy was completed when his bassoon concerto, Pierrot, was performed by the Houston Symphony.  Larry’s chamber opera Simonetta was premiered in September 2022 in New York City by the American Chamber Opera Co.  Larry is on the Board of Managers of the Bach Choir of Bethlehem, and often lectures on the topic of Bach and Rhetoric. He has twice served as a faculty member at the NEH Bach Summer Scholar Institute in Leipzig.

 

Ronn McFarlane has released over 40 CDs on Dorian and Sono Luminus, including lute solo collections, lute songs, lute duets, music for flute & lute, viola da gamba & lute, the complete lute music of Vivaldi, and Baltimore Consort albums. In the tradition of the lutenist/composers of past centuries, Ronn has composed new music for the lute. These original compositions are the focus of his solo CD, Indigo Road, which received a Grammy Award Nomination. Other CD releases, One Morning, and Barley Moon, feature "Ayreheart," an ensemble brought together to perform Ronn's original music.  Ronn's most recent solo album, The Celtic Lute, features his arrangements of traditional Scottish and Irish music from the 17th and 18th centuries. Visit www.ronnmcfarlane.com

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Mindy Rosenfeld plays historic and modern flutes; recorders, whistles, crumhorns, bagpipe and early harp. A member of San Francisco's Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, as a guest artist Mindy has performed with American Bach Soloists, Musica Angelica, San Diego Bach Collegium, Catacoustic Consort, Apollo's Fire, Portland Baroque Orchestra, Oregon and Carmel Bach Festivals and Opera Lafayette, among others. With an MM from San Francisco Conservatory and a BM from the Peabody Conservatory, Mindy divides her time between performing, teaching, and a crazy amount of driving to and from her coastal Northern California home.

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Danielle Svonavec, soprano, holds degrees in Mathematics and voice from the University of Notre Dame.  While still a student, she stepped in on short notice as soloist for the Baltimore Consort's nine-concert 1999 Christmas tour. Since then she has toured with the Consort and appeared with the Smithsonian Chamber Players, Pomerium, the South Bend Chamber Orchestra, and the South Bend Symphony. She currently serves as a Cantor at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart at Notre Dame, and teaches choral music at the Bethany Christian School in Goshen, Indiana.