Jennifer Ellis’ international solo career has included appearances with the period instrument groups American Bach Soloists, New York Collegium, Magnificat, Portland Baroque Orchestra, Santa Fe Pro Musica, Seattle Baroque Orchestra, Opera Lafayette, El Mundo, Apollo’s Fire, Musica Angelica,Solamente (Budapest, Hungary), Ensemble Tourbillon (Prague, Czech Republic), and Musica Aeterna (Bratislava, Slovakia). Opera highlights include leading roles in Handel’s Acis and Galatea, Blow’s Venus and Adonis, Pergolesi’s La Serva Padrona, Duron’s zarzuela El Salir Amor del Mundo, and Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas. In addition, Jennifer has sung with the Mark Morris Dance Group, the Charlotte Symphony and the Berkeley Symphony. She has been heard in many concert series and at many festivals including Houston Early Music, Music before 1800, Carmel Bach, and the Boston and Berkeley Early Music Festivals. Ms. Ellis has recorded the works of Cozzolani with Magnificat for Musica Omnia, Carissimi motets for Hungaroton, and the Monteverdi Vespers for Eclectra. She was awarded first prize at the Berkeley Piano Club Voice Competition, first runner-up at the 2000 Bethlehem Bach Voice Competition, the Adams’ Fellowship at the Carmel Bach Festival and performed at the Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo, Japan with Nicholas McGegan. A graduate of the University of Michigan and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Jennifer recently moved to New York City.

Nicolas White’s all–Bach recording, The Amsterdam Bach , released on the Pro Organo label, was hailed by The American Organist magazine to offer “renditions distinguished by their musicality and polish...exhilarating performances.” The New York Times recently praised White and his forces for “a passionate rendering of Monteverdi’s Vespers of the Blessed Virgin (1610) ”. Nicholas White has been Organist and Choirmaster of St. Michael’s Church and Artistic Director of St. Michael’s Music and Arts since 1998. He oversees an active music department of five choirs, in addition to leading the music each week for liturgies, and planning the annual concert series for the church. White was born in London, England, and received his early musical training as a treble chorister. He held his first organist and choirmaster position at the age of fifteen, going on to become organ scholar of Clare College, Cambridge, from 1986 to 1989. There he was active as an organist, singer, conductor and accompanist, touring with various groups in all parts of Europe and the United States. Since coming to the United States in 1989, White has held various positions in church, college and school environments. From 1994 to 1998, he was Assistant Organist and Choirmaster of Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D. C., where in addition to playing for over 250 services a year, he worked with the choirs, assisting with the training of the young choristers on a daily basis. He toured the United States with the choir, and made frequent recordings and radio and television broadcasts. From 1995 to 1998, he was Keyboard Artist for the Cathedral Choral Society, and he held the position of Music Director and Conductor of the Woodley Ensemble, one of Washington’s premiere chamber choirs, from 1997 to 2000. White’s interest in ensemble singing prompted him to create the Tiffany Consort, a vocal ensemble which specializes in singing choral music “one-voice-to-a-part.” The ensemble has presented concerts of music by Bach, Brahms, Britten, Byrd, Monteverdi, Palestrina, Scarlatti, Schütz and others, and has just released its first CD entitled O Magnum Mysterium. White is also an active and critically acclaimed composer, with music published by Hinshaw , Trinitas, Augsburg Fortress and Oxford. His large-scale work for solo soprano, chorus, organ, brass and percussion – Magnificat – was premiered at the National Cathedral in 1997. Other recent commissions include a work written for the annual choral tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., which was premiered in January 2002 at The Kennedy Center in Washington D. C., an organ duet for the Chenault Organ Duo, and commissions by All Saints’ Episcopal Church, Atlanta, Ga., and St. Francis’ Church, Potomac, Md.

Soprano Dominique Surh frequently performs in New York City as a soloist and ensemble member. While pursuing a Ph.D. at the University of Virginia, Ms. Surh began to perform regularly as a singer and instrumentalist with UVa’s Collegium and has a number of solo credits with Zephyrus, Charlottesville’s early music ensemble. In recent years, she has appeared in Carissimi’s Jephte, Couperin’s Leçons de Tenebres, Purcell’s Ode for the Birthday of Queen Mary, and Bach’s Mass in B Minor Mass and Magnificat. In 1996, Ms. Surh was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to Rome, Italy, where she lived for three years and performed frequently with groups such as L’Homme Arméand Pro Musica Firenze in Florence, as well as with Roman groups such as Centro Italiano di Musica Antica, and Comoedia Harmonica. Ms. Surh earned a Ph.D. in 2000 in the History of Art, and specializes in early Italian Renaissance and Dutch Baroque painting. In 2001, Ms. Surh moved to New York City and has sung with various groups, including Vox Vocal Ensemble, Tiffany Consort, and Pomerium. Currently, Ms. Surh is a soloist with Bach Vespers at Holy Trinity Church.

Carlene Stober, a graduate of the Eastman School of Music, is continuo cellist for Bach Vespers at Holy Trinity (New York City), and is a member of Empire Viols. As a baroque cellist and gambist, she has performed as a guest with the Connecticut Early Music Festival, Early Music New York, Cecilia’s Circle, Concert Royal, Parthenia, Prairie Home Companion and was featured musician in Theatre for a New Audience’s production of Pericles at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. She was formerly with Musica Dolce (Arizona) and the Utah Shakespearean Festival. On modern cello, she served as principal cellist of the Tucson Symphony Orchestra and performed throughout the United States as a member of the Delphi String Quartet. In recent seasons, Ms. Stober performed in the orchestra of the Lake George Opera Festival.