Singers
Lindsey Warren, soprano
Lindsey Warren enjoys a career of live performance and studio work. She specializes in Early Music, though enjoys singing music of all styles and genres. Lindsey also enjoys teaching private voice and piano lessons to students of all ages. She received a M.M. from McGill University in Montreal and a B.M. from Furman University in Greenville, S.C., both in vocal performance. She has also attended Oberlin Conservatory’s Baroque Performance Institute. She has taught for McGill University's Music Theory department as well as voice lessons at Johnson State college. When not teaching or performing, Lindsey enjoys giving workshops on chant, meditation, and Hildegard of Bingen.=
Molly Clark, Soprano
Molly Clark is the choral teacher at Harwood Union High School. She is also the music director for the Chandler Music Hall Annual Youth Musical and has performed in and music directed local adult theater productions. As a soloist, conductor, and choir member, Molly has performed with the VSOC, the Gettysburg College Choir and Camerata, the Randolph Singers, and other community choirs in VT and PA. Molly received her Bachelors of Music Education from the Sunderman Conservatory of Music at Gettysburg College. After taking some time away from performing to focus on her teaching career, Molly is thrilled to be singing with the Green Mountain Monteverdi Ensemble of Vermont!
Carolyn Dickinson, Alto
Carolyn Dickinson is a versatile contralto known for her rich, expressive voice and dedication to choral and early music. She studied music education at Roberts Wesleyan University under teachers Robert Shewan and Judith Coen. Carolyn is a member of Counterpoint, Vermont’s acclaimed vocal ensemble, and has appeared as a soloist with the Vermont Choral Union, bringing her warm and resonant sound to a diverse range of choral works. She has also performed with the Burlington Baroque Festival Chorus and the Green Mountain Monteverdi Ensemble of Vermont, where she specializes in historically informed performances of Renaissance and Baroque music. In addition to her ensemble and solo work, Carolyn serves as the alto section leader at St. Paul’s Cathedral Church of Burlington, contributing her musicianship and leadership to the cathedral’s rich liturgical music tradition.
Erik Nielsen, Tenor
Composer Erik Nielsen has created works for chorus, orchestra, wind ensemble, solo instruments, chamber music, works for dance, film and electronic music. His pieces have been performed all over the world by many ensembles. In September 2015, his first opera, A Fleeting Animal, was performed in a newly revised edition to great acclaim. Recent commissions include The Meadowlark performed by the Vermont Symphony strings in November, 2023; a set of student piano pieces based on nature themes (2023); a film score for the Green Mountain Film Festival; All This Night Shrill Chanticleer, a commission from the Vermont professional chorus Counterpoint; Fanfare in B Flat, commissioned by the Vermont Symphony for their 80th anniversary; and Glimpses of Azure, commissioned by A Far Cry. Erik’s second opera, Aliceheimer’s, written in collaboration with artist and writer Dana Walrath, has already had two preview performances. Erik is a Fellow of the Vermont Academy of Arts and Sciences. Erik is thrilled to be singing in the Monteverdi Vespers for the first time. He has known and loved the work for over 60 years.
Ryan Matos, Tenor
Tenor Ryan Matos sings to connect deeply with the text, pluck audiences’ heartstrings, and have fun. He is a passionate interpreter of baroque music on both concert and operatic stages. Recent seasons have included performances with Ensemble L’Harmonie des Saisons, Bach Collegium San Diego, Philharmonia Baroque, Oregon Bach Festival, and Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart. Ryan resides in Burlington, VT. See more at https://ryanmatos.com
Adam Hall, Tenor
Tenor Adam Hall studied voice at George Washington University and opera at University of Maryland College Park. He has performed with the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, and St. Petersburg Opera, among others. As recipient of an Encouragement Award from the Marilyn Horne Foundation, Mr. Hall studied and worked with Marilyn Horne and Warren Jones at Music Academy of the West. Mr. Hall resides in Burlington where he sings locally and abroad, heads the music program at Williston Federated Church, and maintains a private voice studio.
Nathaniel Lew, Tenor and co-director
Raised in Larchmont, New York, Nathaniel G. Lew has been singing seriously since the age of twelve, when he sang the treble solos in Leonard Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms and Benjamin Britten’s Ceremony of Carols with the Juilliard Pre-College Chorus. His voice then changed, but, undaunted, he went on to sing tenor with the Yale University Glee Club, the Choir of Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge, and the Chamber Chorus of the University of California, Berkeley, incidentally picking up degrees from the same institutions. This inordinately long education culminated with a Ph.D. in Historical Musicology from UC Berkeley, after which he had to seek gainful employment. In the decade he spent in the San Francisco Bay Area, Nathaniel sang with the Philharmonia Chorale and Volti and served as director of Ars Subtilior Medieval Vocal Ensemble, Vox Populi Renaissance Vocal Ensemble, the UC Berkeley Chorus, the Chorus of Festival Opera of Walnut Creek, and the Choir of Montclair Presbyterian Church. Nathaniel is currently Artistic Director of the Vermont-based vocal ensemble Counterpoint, Chorus Master of Opera Company of Middlebury, and Choral Director at the University of Vermont.
Tevan Goldberg, Baritone
Tevan is a versatile singer, keyboardist, and composer at home in many genres of music, from free jazz to plainchant. He has been singing early music in Vermont since 2014 when he enrolled at Middlebury College, appearing frequently in the Middlebury Bach Festival, including a 2016 performance of Monteverdi’s Lamento d’Arianna for 5 voices. In 2017 he studied abroad at Oxford University and was a member of their Schola Cantorum ensemble. In Boston he was a regular soloist with the Cantata Singers and the Choir of King’s Chapel. Recently he has performed several concerts as part of the Burlington Baroque Festival with the Canadian ensemble L’Harmonie Des Saisons. You can catch his band Red Heron at venues around New England.
Jeffrey Buettner, Bass
Jeffrey Buettner, DMA is Director of Choral Activities and Christian A. Johnson Professor of Music at Middlebury College, where he conducts the Middlebury College Choir and teaches conducting, vocal ensemble performance, and the first-year seminar “Singing Communities.” Jeff’s teaching explores music engagement as pedagogy, and students in his ensembles and courses perform and engage in local community and school settings. He co-founded the Middlebury Bach Concerts, directs the annual Lessons and Carols for Advent and Christmas at Middlebury, and collaborates on programs including music for college services, vocal music and dance, Middlebury Celtic Concerts, and United for Ukraine. Jeff is organist and Acting Director of Music at the Congregational Church of Middlebury. Jeff promotes folk and traditional music as a singer and instrumentalist, and plays bodhrán, trichordo bouzouki, accordion and guitar. Jeff’s arrangements and compositions include American folk, neo-traditional and popular styles, and music for organ.
Stephen Falbel, Bass, Director
Stephen Falbel has been active as a singer since high school and has performed with a wide range of choruses, from the 120-voice Tanglewood Festival Chorus to the Alba Quintet. He studied voice for many years in the Boston area and performed and recorded with professional ensembles such as the Boston Camerata and the Handel & Haydn Society. His solo work includes opera and oratorio, with recent performances in the Middlebury Bach Festival, numerous roles in Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, and the roles of Sarastro in The Magic Flute and Count Almaviva in The Marriage of Figaro with Echo Valley Community Arts. Stephen has been a member of Counterpoint since moving to Vermont in 2005.
For bios of singers in Counterpoint, please visit https://www.counterpointchorus.org/artists-2/
Instrumentalists
Sallynee Amawat, Violin
Montreal-based violinist Sallynee Amawat is an active chamber and orchestral musician throughout North America and Asia. She performs regularly with period ensembles such as Ensemble Caprice, Arion Baroque Orchestra, the Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal (SMAM), Clavecin en concert, and Ars Musica Chicago. A dedicated educator as well as a performer, she has given several workshops and clinics on historical performance practice at universities, schools, and conservatories both in North America and in Bangkok, Thailand. She is the co-Artistic Director and Executive Director of Juno-nominated ensemble Infusion Baroque, and also has the honour of serving on the Board of Early Music America.
Dorian Bandy, Violin
A dynamic multi-instrumentalist, Dorian Komanoff Bandy performs across the US, Canada, and Europe as a conductor, baroque violinist, and historical keyboardist. His repertoire extends from the Renaissance through the nineteenth century, and his performances have been praised for their “impressive emotional scope” and a “virtuosity [that is] relentless, precise, and, above all, dazzling” (The Whole Note). He has released five solo CDs, the most recent of which features Mozart’s Duos for Violin and Viola. In addition to his activities as a performer, Dorian is the author of the book Mozart the Performer: Variations on the Showman’s Art (University of Chicago Press, 2023) as well as numerous academic articles on Mozart, Beethoven, and other topics, and is the most recent recipient of the Marjorie Weston Emerson Award from the Mozart Society of America. He is associate professor of musicology and baroque violin at McGill University’s Schulich School of Music.
Catherine Cosbey, Viola
Violinist Catherine Cosbey leads a varied career as a chamber musician and educator. She has been a member of the Cavani String Quartet since 2019, and has performed with the Cecilia String Quartet and the Linden String Quartet, in which she was a founding member. Her performances, described by the Strad Magazine as “polished, radiant, and incisive,” have taken her to venues and festivals across the US, Canada, and Europe, including the Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, Ottawa Chamber Fest, Detroit Chamber Music Society, Esterhazy String Quartet Festival, and Festpiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Catherine has been awarded the Gold Medal and Grand Prize at the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition and the ProQuartet Prize at the 9th Borciani String Quartet Competition. She was the founder and co-artistic director of the Regina Chamber Music Festival from 2014-2023, and she currently serves on the violin and chamber music faculty of McGill University’s Schulich School of Music.
Matthew Jennejohn, Cornetto
Matthew Jennejohn leads a very active career as a soloist, orchestral and chamber musician on historical oboes and cornetto, performing and recording with many of the leading early music ensembles in North America including Harmonie des Saisons, Les Boréades, Orchestre Baroque Arion, Sacabuche, Pacific Baroque Orchestra, Tafelmusik, La Bande Montréal Baroque, Trinity Baroque Orchestra NY, Ensemble Caprice and the Boston Early Music Festival. He studied early music at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, McGill University and the University of British Columbia. He has recorded on the ATMA, CBC, Early- Music.com, CPO, Analekta and Naxos labels. He teaches historical oboes, cornetto and early music chamber ensembles at McGill University in Montreal and is also a world renowned cornetto builder.
Étienne Asselin, Cornetto
At the beginning of his musical career, Étienne Asselin dedicated most of his time to the trumpet. Having graduated from the Conservatoire de Musique de Montréal under the tutelage of Manon Lafrance, Étienne was making a place for himself on the local scene. However, he found a new passion for early music that led him to Study cornett performance with Matthew Jennejohn at McGill University. Between 2015 and 2019, Étienne has performed with multiple Canadian and American ensembles such as the Toronto Consort, Trinity Baroque Orchestra, ¡Sacabuche!, Ensemble Caprice, le Studio de Musique Ancienne de Montréal. Pursuing his new path, Étienne then moved to Switzerland where he studied cornetto with Frithjof Smith at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. After successfully completing a master’s degree, he remained in Europe while performing for many renowned ensembles. Among the most notable are Concentus Musicus, La Cetra, the Netherlands Bach Society and the Bayerische Staatsoper.
Marie-Ange Boislard, Sackbut
Marie-Ange Boislard is a trombonist and sackbut player based in Montreal. During her studies at McGill University’s Schulich School of Music, she took part in early music workshops in Europe and Canada and briefly studied sackbut with Catherine Motuz and Matthew Jennejohn, sparking a deep interest in historical performance. She holds a DEC in classical trombone from Cégep de Saint-Laurent and a bachelor’s degree in Orchestral Performance from McGill, where she received several awards, including the Dean’s Entrance Scholarship and the David D. Cohen Prize in brass. She has performed in over 20 countries across Europe, North America, and Latin America, with a wide range of artists and ensembles. In the classical scene, Marie-Ange performs regularly with leading ensembles such as Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, Arion Orchestre Baroque, l'Harmonie des Saisons, Orchestre Symphonique de la Côte-Nord, Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Symphonique de Sherbrooke and Ensemble Obiora.
Peter Christensen, Sackbut
Peter Christensen holds a master’s degree in trombone performance from McGill University. A former member of the Winnipeg and Thunder Bay symphony orchestras, he is currently an Early Music specialist performing exclusively on period trombones. He was a long-time member of the Montreal-based ensemble Les Sonneurs and has performed, recorded and/or toured with such renowned groups as Apollo’s Fire, Studio de Musique Ancienne de Montréal, Toronto Consort, Ensemble Caprice, Les Voix Baroques, Blue Heron, Les voix humaines, Opera Atelier, L’ensemble Claude Gervais, L’harmonie des saisons, Boston Shawm and Sackbut Ensemble, Pacific Baroque Orchestra, Pacific Musicworks, ¡Sacabuche!, and La Rose des Vents. Over the years, Peter has performed widely in Canada, the United States, and South America, and at festivals such as the Festival international de musique baroque de Lameque, Festival Montréal Baroque, the Ottawa Chamber Music Festival, and the Vancouver Early Music Festival.
Adam Dillon, Sackbut
Adam Dillon is a spirited performer, administrator, and researcher. He has performed on historical trombones of all shapes and sizes across the United States and Canada. Adam has studied at McGill University, Indiana University, the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, and the University of North Texas. He has presented original research at the International Medieval Renaissance Conference in Uppsala, Sweden, and Munich, Germany.
Thomas Jocks, Cello
Thomas Jocks is a violin maker, cellist, and viol player from Montreal. He studied music at Oberlin and McGill, and violin making at Newark in the UK. After working in various violin shops, he now makes and restores instruments privately.
Matthew Wright, Theorbo
Matthew spent the years 1987-2000 impersonating a classical guitarist while playing bass guitar in an original rock band in the state of Maryland. He attended the Peabody Conservatory as an undergraduate and studied classical guitar. Upon moving to Boston in 2000, he took up the lute seriously and studied at The Longy School of Music under Doug Freundlich, earning a Master of Music degree. He is an active performer and arranger of music ranging from Renaissance to rock. Matthew founded and plays lute and bandora for folk/early music group Seven Times Salt. He teaches guitar at Brimmer & May and Belmont Hill Schools and piano at the Mary E. Burbank School.
Lynnette Combs, Organ
Lynnette Combs is Organist and Choirmaster at Christ Episcopal Church in Montpelier, Vermont. She studied organ with Robert Smart and Nancy Shearer Ludwig. Her special interest is early music; she has played harpsichord and organ with many ensembles in Vermont, including Consort Courante, Eleva, the Onion River Chorus, the Burlington Choral Society, the Vermont Symphony, and the Vermont Philharmonic. She is also active as a recitalist on the pipe organ, and has organized the annual Bach organ marathon at Christ Church for several years.
Lindsey Warren enjoys a career of live performance and studio work. She specializes in Early Music, though enjoys singing music of all styles and genres. Lindsey also enjoys teaching private voice and piano lessons to students of all ages. She received a M.M. from McGill University in Montreal and a B.M. from Furman University in Greenville, S.C., both in vocal performance. She has also attended Oberlin Conservatory’s Baroque Performance Institute. She has taught for McGill University's Music Theory department as well as voice lessons at Johnson State college. When not teaching or performing, Lindsey enjoys giving workshops on chant, meditation, and Hildegard of Bingen.=
Molly Clark, Soprano
Molly Clark is the choral teacher at Harwood Union High School. She is also the music director for the Chandler Music Hall Annual Youth Musical and has performed in and music directed local adult theater productions. As a soloist, conductor, and choir member, Molly has performed with the VSOC, the Gettysburg College Choir and Camerata, the Randolph Singers, and other community choirs in VT and PA. Molly received her Bachelors of Music Education from the Sunderman Conservatory of Music at Gettysburg College. After taking some time away from performing to focus on her teaching career, Molly is thrilled to be singing with the Green Mountain Monteverdi Ensemble of Vermont!
Carolyn Dickinson, Alto
Carolyn Dickinson is a versatile contralto known for her rich, expressive voice and dedication to choral and early music. She studied music education at Roberts Wesleyan University under teachers Robert Shewan and Judith Coen. Carolyn is a member of Counterpoint, Vermont’s acclaimed vocal ensemble, and has appeared as a soloist with the Vermont Choral Union, bringing her warm and resonant sound to a diverse range of choral works. She has also performed with the Burlington Baroque Festival Chorus and the Green Mountain Monteverdi Ensemble of Vermont, where she specializes in historically informed performances of Renaissance and Baroque music. In addition to her ensemble and solo work, Carolyn serves as the alto section leader at St. Paul’s Cathedral Church of Burlington, contributing her musicianship and leadership to the cathedral’s rich liturgical music tradition.
Erik Nielsen, Tenor
Composer Erik Nielsen has created works for chorus, orchestra, wind ensemble, solo instruments, chamber music, works for dance, film and electronic music. His pieces have been performed all over the world by many ensembles. In September 2015, his first opera, A Fleeting Animal, was performed in a newly revised edition to great acclaim. Recent commissions include The Meadowlark performed by the Vermont Symphony strings in November, 2023; a set of student piano pieces based on nature themes (2023); a film score for the Green Mountain Film Festival; All This Night Shrill Chanticleer, a commission from the Vermont professional chorus Counterpoint; Fanfare in B Flat, commissioned by the Vermont Symphony for their 80th anniversary; and Glimpses of Azure, commissioned by A Far Cry. Erik’s second opera, Aliceheimer’s, written in collaboration with artist and writer Dana Walrath, has already had two preview performances. Erik is a Fellow of the Vermont Academy of Arts and Sciences. Erik is thrilled to be singing in the Monteverdi Vespers for the first time. He has known and loved the work for over 60 years.
Ryan Matos, Tenor
Tenor Ryan Matos sings to connect deeply with the text, pluck audiences’ heartstrings, and have fun. He is a passionate interpreter of baroque music on both concert and operatic stages. Recent seasons have included performances with Ensemble L’Harmonie des Saisons, Bach Collegium San Diego, Philharmonia Baroque, Oregon Bach Festival, and Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart. Ryan resides in Burlington, VT. See more at https://ryanmatos.com
Adam Hall, Tenor
Tenor Adam Hall studied voice at George Washington University and opera at University of Maryland College Park. He has performed with the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, and St. Petersburg Opera, among others. As recipient of an Encouragement Award from the Marilyn Horne Foundation, Mr. Hall studied and worked with Marilyn Horne and Warren Jones at Music Academy of the West. Mr. Hall resides in Burlington where he sings locally and abroad, heads the music program at Williston Federated Church, and maintains a private voice studio.
Nathaniel Lew, Tenor and co-director
Raised in Larchmont, New York, Nathaniel G. Lew has been singing seriously since the age of twelve, when he sang the treble solos in Leonard Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms and Benjamin Britten’s Ceremony of Carols with the Juilliard Pre-College Chorus. His voice then changed, but, undaunted, he went on to sing tenor with the Yale University Glee Club, the Choir of Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge, and the Chamber Chorus of the University of California, Berkeley, incidentally picking up degrees from the same institutions. This inordinately long education culminated with a Ph.D. in Historical Musicology from UC Berkeley, after which he had to seek gainful employment. In the decade he spent in the San Francisco Bay Area, Nathaniel sang with the Philharmonia Chorale and Volti and served as director of Ars Subtilior Medieval Vocal Ensemble, Vox Populi Renaissance Vocal Ensemble, the UC Berkeley Chorus, the Chorus of Festival Opera of Walnut Creek, and the Choir of Montclair Presbyterian Church. Nathaniel is currently Artistic Director of the Vermont-based vocal ensemble Counterpoint, Chorus Master of Opera Company of Middlebury, and Choral Director at the University of Vermont.
Tevan Goldberg, Baritone
Tevan is a versatile singer, keyboardist, and composer at home in many genres of music, from free jazz to plainchant. He has been singing early music in Vermont since 2014 when he enrolled at Middlebury College, appearing frequently in the Middlebury Bach Festival, including a 2016 performance of Monteverdi’s Lamento d’Arianna for 5 voices. In 2017 he studied abroad at Oxford University and was a member of their Schola Cantorum ensemble. In Boston he was a regular soloist with the Cantata Singers and the Choir of King’s Chapel. Recently he has performed several concerts as part of the Burlington Baroque Festival with the Canadian ensemble L’Harmonie Des Saisons. You can catch his band Red Heron at venues around New England.
Jeffrey Buettner, Bass
Jeffrey Buettner, DMA is Director of Choral Activities and Christian A. Johnson Professor of Music at Middlebury College, where he conducts the Middlebury College Choir and teaches conducting, vocal ensemble performance, and the first-year seminar “Singing Communities.” Jeff’s teaching explores music engagement as pedagogy, and students in his ensembles and courses perform and engage in local community and school settings. He co-founded the Middlebury Bach Concerts, directs the annual Lessons and Carols for Advent and Christmas at Middlebury, and collaborates on programs including music for college services, vocal music and dance, Middlebury Celtic Concerts, and United for Ukraine. Jeff is organist and Acting Director of Music at the Congregational Church of Middlebury. Jeff promotes folk and traditional music as a singer and instrumentalist, and plays bodhrán, trichordo bouzouki, accordion and guitar. Jeff’s arrangements and compositions include American folk, neo-traditional and popular styles, and music for organ.
Stephen Falbel, Bass, Director
Stephen Falbel has been active as a singer since high school and has performed with a wide range of choruses, from the 120-voice Tanglewood Festival Chorus to the Alba Quintet. He studied voice for many years in the Boston area and performed and recorded with professional ensembles such as the Boston Camerata and the Handel & Haydn Society. His solo work includes opera and oratorio, with recent performances in the Middlebury Bach Festival, numerous roles in Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, and the roles of Sarastro in The Magic Flute and Count Almaviva in The Marriage of Figaro with Echo Valley Community Arts. Stephen has been a member of Counterpoint since moving to Vermont in 2005.
For bios of singers in Counterpoint, please visit https://www.counterpointchorus.org/artists-2/
Instrumentalists
Sallynee Amawat, Violin
Montreal-based violinist Sallynee Amawat is an active chamber and orchestral musician throughout North America and Asia. She performs regularly with period ensembles such as Ensemble Caprice, Arion Baroque Orchestra, the Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal (SMAM), Clavecin en concert, and Ars Musica Chicago. A dedicated educator as well as a performer, she has given several workshops and clinics on historical performance practice at universities, schools, and conservatories both in North America and in Bangkok, Thailand. She is the co-Artistic Director and Executive Director of Juno-nominated ensemble Infusion Baroque, and also has the honour of serving on the Board of Early Music America.
Dorian Bandy, Violin
A dynamic multi-instrumentalist, Dorian Komanoff Bandy performs across the US, Canada, and Europe as a conductor, baroque violinist, and historical keyboardist. His repertoire extends from the Renaissance through the nineteenth century, and his performances have been praised for their “impressive emotional scope” and a “virtuosity [that is] relentless, precise, and, above all, dazzling” (The Whole Note). He has released five solo CDs, the most recent of which features Mozart’s Duos for Violin and Viola. In addition to his activities as a performer, Dorian is the author of the book Mozart the Performer: Variations on the Showman’s Art (University of Chicago Press, 2023) as well as numerous academic articles on Mozart, Beethoven, and other topics, and is the most recent recipient of the Marjorie Weston Emerson Award from the Mozart Society of America. He is associate professor of musicology and baroque violin at McGill University’s Schulich School of Music.
Catherine Cosbey, Viola
Violinist Catherine Cosbey leads a varied career as a chamber musician and educator. She has been a member of the Cavani String Quartet since 2019, and has performed with the Cecilia String Quartet and the Linden String Quartet, in which she was a founding member. Her performances, described by the Strad Magazine as “polished, radiant, and incisive,” have taken her to venues and festivals across the US, Canada, and Europe, including the Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, Ottawa Chamber Fest, Detroit Chamber Music Society, Esterhazy String Quartet Festival, and Festpiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Catherine has been awarded the Gold Medal and Grand Prize at the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition and the ProQuartet Prize at the 9th Borciani String Quartet Competition. She was the founder and co-artistic director of the Regina Chamber Music Festival from 2014-2023, and she currently serves on the violin and chamber music faculty of McGill University’s Schulich School of Music.
Matthew Jennejohn, Cornetto
Matthew Jennejohn leads a very active career as a soloist, orchestral and chamber musician on historical oboes and cornetto, performing and recording with many of the leading early music ensembles in North America including Harmonie des Saisons, Les Boréades, Orchestre Baroque Arion, Sacabuche, Pacific Baroque Orchestra, Tafelmusik, La Bande Montréal Baroque, Trinity Baroque Orchestra NY, Ensemble Caprice and the Boston Early Music Festival. He studied early music at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, McGill University and the University of British Columbia. He has recorded on the ATMA, CBC, Early- Music.com, CPO, Analekta and Naxos labels. He teaches historical oboes, cornetto and early music chamber ensembles at McGill University in Montreal and is also a world renowned cornetto builder.
Étienne Asselin, Cornetto
At the beginning of his musical career, Étienne Asselin dedicated most of his time to the trumpet. Having graduated from the Conservatoire de Musique de Montréal under the tutelage of Manon Lafrance, Étienne was making a place for himself on the local scene. However, he found a new passion for early music that led him to Study cornett performance with Matthew Jennejohn at McGill University. Between 2015 and 2019, Étienne has performed with multiple Canadian and American ensembles such as the Toronto Consort, Trinity Baroque Orchestra, ¡Sacabuche!, Ensemble Caprice, le Studio de Musique Ancienne de Montréal. Pursuing his new path, Étienne then moved to Switzerland where he studied cornetto with Frithjof Smith at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. After successfully completing a master’s degree, he remained in Europe while performing for many renowned ensembles. Among the most notable are Concentus Musicus, La Cetra, the Netherlands Bach Society and the Bayerische Staatsoper.
Marie-Ange Boislard, Sackbut
Marie-Ange Boislard is a trombonist and sackbut player based in Montreal. During her studies at McGill University’s Schulich School of Music, she took part in early music workshops in Europe and Canada and briefly studied sackbut with Catherine Motuz and Matthew Jennejohn, sparking a deep interest in historical performance. She holds a DEC in classical trombone from Cégep de Saint-Laurent and a bachelor’s degree in Orchestral Performance from McGill, where she received several awards, including the Dean’s Entrance Scholarship and the David D. Cohen Prize in brass. She has performed in over 20 countries across Europe, North America, and Latin America, with a wide range of artists and ensembles. In the classical scene, Marie-Ange performs regularly with leading ensembles such as Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, Arion Orchestre Baroque, l'Harmonie des Saisons, Orchestre Symphonique de la Côte-Nord, Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Symphonique de Sherbrooke and Ensemble Obiora.
Peter Christensen, Sackbut
Peter Christensen holds a master’s degree in trombone performance from McGill University. A former member of the Winnipeg and Thunder Bay symphony orchestras, he is currently an Early Music specialist performing exclusively on period trombones. He was a long-time member of the Montreal-based ensemble Les Sonneurs and has performed, recorded and/or toured with such renowned groups as Apollo’s Fire, Studio de Musique Ancienne de Montréal, Toronto Consort, Ensemble Caprice, Les Voix Baroques, Blue Heron, Les voix humaines, Opera Atelier, L’ensemble Claude Gervais, L’harmonie des saisons, Boston Shawm and Sackbut Ensemble, Pacific Baroque Orchestra, Pacific Musicworks, ¡Sacabuche!, and La Rose des Vents. Over the years, Peter has performed widely in Canada, the United States, and South America, and at festivals such as the Festival international de musique baroque de Lameque, Festival Montréal Baroque, the Ottawa Chamber Music Festival, and the Vancouver Early Music Festival.
Adam Dillon, Sackbut
Adam Dillon is a spirited performer, administrator, and researcher. He has performed on historical trombones of all shapes and sizes across the United States and Canada. Adam has studied at McGill University, Indiana University, the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, and the University of North Texas. He has presented original research at the International Medieval Renaissance Conference in Uppsala, Sweden, and Munich, Germany.
Thomas Jocks, Cello
Thomas Jocks is a violin maker, cellist, and viol player from Montreal. He studied music at Oberlin and McGill, and violin making at Newark in the UK. After working in various violin shops, he now makes and restores instruments privately.
Matthew Wright, Theorbo
Matthew spent the years 1987-2000 impersonating a classical guitarist while playing bass guitar in an original rock band in the state of Maryland. He attended the Peabody Conservatory as an undergraduate and studied classical guitar. Upon moving to Boston in 2000, he took up the lute seriously and studied at The Longy School of Music under Doug Freundlich, earning a Master of Music degree. He is an active performer and arranger of music ranging from Renaissance to rock. Matthew founded and plays lute and bandora for folk/early music group Seven Times Salt. He teaches guitar at Brimmer & May and Belmont Hill Schools and piano at the Mary E. Burbank School.
Lynnette Combs, Organ
Lynnette Combs is Organist and Choirmaster at Christ Episcopal Church in Montpelier, Vermont. She studied organ with Robert Smart and Nancy Shearer Ludwig. Her special interest is early music; she has played harpsichord and organ with many ensembles in Vermont, including Consort Courante, Eleva, the Onion River Chorus, the Burlington Choral Society, the Vermont Symphony, and the Vermont Philharmonic. She is also active as a recitalist on the pipe organ, and has organized the annual Bach organ marathon at Christ Church for several years.