Violinist Johanna Novom appears with ensembles internationally as a soloist, principal, chamber, and orchestral musician. She is a member of Diderot String Quartet and of ACRONYM, and has been Associate Concertmaster of Apollo’s Fire and Principal at Washington National Cathedral Baroque Orchestra. Johanna also performs with the Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, Trinity Wall Street Baroque Orchestra, Tafelmusik, Handel and Haydn Society, and New York Baroque Incorporated, among others.
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Edson Scheid has been praised for his “polished playing” (The Strad), and for being a “virtuoso violinist” (The Boston Globe). His performance of Strauss’s song Morgen alongside Joyce DiDonato and Il Pomo d’Oro at Carnegie Hall was described as follows: “The concertmaster, Edson Scheid, proved a worthy foil as violin soloist” (The New York Times). He is a two-time winner of the Historical Performance Concerto Competition at Juilliard. He performs on both modern and period instruments worldwide.
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Violist Kyle Miller is a member of ACRONYM and Diderot String Quartet. He has appeared onstage with A Far Cry, the American Classical Orchestra, New York Baroque Incorporated, Opera Lafayette, and many more. With the Diderot Quartet, he has served as a guest artist and coach at Oberlin College’s Baroque Performance Institute. In 2017 and 2018, Kyle performed in a run of Claire van Kampen’s play Farinelli and the King on Broadway.
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Nathan Whittaker, violoncello, is a concert soloist, chamber musician, recitalist, teacher, and historical cello specialist. He is the Artistic Director of Gallery Concerts (Seattle), and regularly performs with ensembles like the Trinity Baroque Orchestra, New York Baroque Incorporated, and the Pacific Northwest Ballet. He has served on the faculty of Cornish College of the Arts, and holds a Doctorate of Musical Arts from the University of Washington and Bachelors and Masters degrees from Indiana University.
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Double Bass and Violone player Nathaniel Chase performs a wide range of music, from period performance with the Sebastians, Tafelmusik, and the Trinity Baroque Orchestra, to new music with NOVUS NY, and orchestral repertoire with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s and Allentown Symphony. He performed on Broadway in Farinelli and the King. He’s a graduate of New England Conservatory and Yale School of Music, and was a winner of the 2010 Woolsey Hall Concerto Competition.
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Kathryn Montoya appears with a variety of music ensembles, including the Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, Tafelmusik, and Apollo’s Fire. She teaches historical oboes at Oberlin Conservatory and has been on the faculty of Longy’s International Baroque Institute, the Baroque Performance Institute at Oberlin, SFEMS workshops, and has given masterclasses in the US and China. Highlights of her career include performing on the Grammy-winning recording of La Couronne de Fleurs and Broadway’s Tony-winning Twelfth Night.
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Historical oboist Margaret Owens appears with many of North America’s period-instrument ensembles, including American Bach Soloists, Apollo’s Fire, Ars Lyrica, the Baroque Chamber Orchestra of Colorado, Mercury Baroque, North Carolina Baroque Orchestra, Tafelmusik, and Tempesta di Mare. At home in the Washington, D.C. area, Owens plays with Opera Lafayette, the Folger Consort, the National Cathedral Baroque Orchestra, the Washington Bach Consort, the Friends of Fasch, and Modern Musick. She has recorded for the Naxos, Koch International Classics, and Eclectra labels.
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Stephanie Corwin enjoys performing music of the past four centuries on modern and historical bassoons. Highlights include solo appearances at Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall and concerts with North America’s preeminent ensembles, including Tafelmusik, Piffaro, and Handel and Haydn Society. Stephanie earned degrees from Davidson College, Yale University, Stony Brook University, and Indiana University, and has taught at the University of Virginia, the Chamber Music Conference, Amherst Early Music Festival, and Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Institute.
