 | Julianne Baird, soprano, has been hailed a “national artistic treasure” (New York Times) and a “peerless performer in the repertory of the baroque.” She maintains a busy concert and recording schedule. With more than 125 recordings to her credit on Decca, Deutsche Gramophone, Dorian and Newport Classics, Julianne Baird is widely acknowledged as one of leaders in music of the 17th and 18th centuries. In addition to her major roles in a series of acclaimed recordings of Handel and Gluck operas, recent projects include a Carnegie performance and recording of La Giuditta by Alessandro Scarlatti. Recordings of Handel Arias from Alcina and Rinaldo and a newly commissioned opera are planned for 2008-09. Dr. Baird holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University and is a distinguished professor at Rutgers University. | |
 | Tony Boutté, tenor, has appeared in a wide range of roles, including Orfeo in the groundbreaking Monteverdi Cycle with Skylight Opera, Ottavio in Don Giovanni, Acis in Handel’s Acis & Galatea, and Gandhi in the Philip Glass opera Satyagraha. Tony has performed with Les Arts Florissants, Tafelmusik, Les Talens Lyriques, Opera Lafayette, New York Collegium, Violons du Roy, Boston Baroque and Orchestra of St. Luke’s. He made his Carnegie Hall debut in 2006 singing Handel’s Messiah with Masterwork Chorus. Mr. Boutté has premiered Michael Gordon’s Chaos, Betsy Jolas’ Motet III, Bang on a Can’s Carbon Copy Building, In the Penal Colony by Philip Glass and Douglas Cuomo’s Arjuna’s Dilemma. Tony has recorded Bach’s St. John Passion (Smithsonian Chamber Orchestra), Lully’s Armide, Sacchini’s Oedipe à Colone and the world premiers of Carbon Copy Building and Arjuna’s Dilemma. His festival appearances include Salzburg, Aspen, Aldeburgh Festival, Versailles Autumn Festival and Tage Alte Muzik Regensburg. | |
 | Karen Flint, harpsichordist and artistic director of Brandywine Baroque since its founding, teaches harpsichord at the University of Delaware. She has degrees from Oberlin Conservatory of Music and The University of Michigan. Her recent recordings include: Joseph Bodin de Boismortier: Cello Sonatas Op. 26 & Op. 50 “Elegant and Delightful,” (Gramophone, June 2008); Oh! The Sweet Delights of Love (Music by Purcell); The Lass with the Delicate Air and C. P. E. Bach Trio Sonatas for Plectra Music. With Julianne Baird she recorded The Jane Austen Songbook on the Albany label. | |
 | Soprano Laura Heimes, praised for her “sparkle and humor, radiance and magnetism” and "a voice equally velvety up and down the registers", is regarded as an artist of great versatility. She has worked with Andrew Lawrence King, The King’s Noyse, Paul O’Dette, reconstruction, Apollo’s Fire and The New York Collegium. Ms. Heimes has performed at the Boston, Connecticut, and Indianapolis Early Music Festivals, and at the Oregon and Philadelphia Bach Festivals with Helmuth Rilling and the Carmel Bach Festival with Bruno Weil. Ms. Heimes’ most recent recordings include Oh! The Sweet Delights of Love (Music by Purcell), and The Lass with the Delicate Air: English Songs from the London Pleasure Gardens with Brandywine Baroque; The Jane Austen Songbook with Julianne Baird; and Caldara’s Il Giuoco del Quadriglio. A native of Rochester NY, Ms. Heimes holds Master of Music degrees from Temple University. | |
 | Eileen Grycky, flutist, is Assistant Professor of Flute at the University of Delaware and a resident member of the Del Arte Wind Quintet. She performs, records, and tours in the Taggart-Grycky Duo. In addition, Ms. Grycky is a member of the Opera Company of Philadelphia orchestra and the Delaware Symphony. Ms. Gryckys flutes are by Folkers and Powell and Roderick Cameron. | |
 | Douglas McNames, Principal cellist with the Delaware Symphony, OperaDelaware and the Reading Symphony, has been a member of Brandywine Baroque for nearly twenty years. With the award winning Delos Quartet he performed extensively in the United States and Europe. He was Principal Cellist with the Carmel Bach Festival for 15 years and is a regular substitute with the Philadelphia Orchestra. His recently released recording of Joseph Bodin de Boismortier Cello Sonatas Op. 26 & Op. 50 was hailed as “an aristocratic pleasure” (Gramophone, June 2008). Mr. McNames has also recorded for Spectrum, Etcetera, Epiphany, and Dorian labels. His cello was made by Barak Norman in London, 1708. | |
 | Praised for his “elegant style” (Boston Globe), Sumner Thompson is one of today’s most sought-after young baritones. His appearances on the operatic stage include roles in the Boston Early Music Festival’s productions of Conradi’s Ariadne (2005) and Lully’s Psyché (2007) and several European tours with Contemporary Opera Denmark as Orfeo in Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo. He has performed with Concerto Palatino, Tafelmusik, Apollo’s Fire, Les Boreades de Montréal, Les Voix Baroques, and many other ensembles and orchestras. Also a noted recitalist, Mr. Thompson has sung in Stuttgart, Amsterdam, Regensburg and at London’s famed Wigmore Hall. | |
 | Davitt Moroney was born in England in 1950. He studied organ, clavichord, and harpsichord with Susi Jeans, Kenneth Gilbert and Gustav Leonhardt. For over twenty years he was based in Paris, working primarily as a freelance recitalist in many countries. In 2001 he moved to California, as a faculty member at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is Professor of Music and University Organist. He has recently given organ and harpsichord masterclasses at the Paris Conservatoire, the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatoire, the Juilliard School in New York, and Oberlin Conservatory, as well as in South Korea, Finland, Belgium, and Switzerland. Other recent concerts have included recitals in Germany, Holland, Italy, England, and Scotland. He is regularly invited as a jury member for international organ and harpsichord competitions. His many scholarly editions of harpsichord music include Bach’s Art of Fugue with his own completion of the final unfinished fugue (Henle, 1989), the complete harpsichord works of Louis Couperin (1985) and of Louis Marchand (1987), as well as of Purcell’s recently discovered collection of pieces, now known as the “Purcell Manuscript” (1999). His monograph Bach, An Extraordinary Life — a short introduction to the composer’s life and works — was published by ABRSM Publishing in 2000 and has since been translated into French, Portuguese, Italian, Polish and Romanian. | |
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