Ensemble Chanterelle has captivated audiences at festivals, museums, historic sites and college campuses across the United States since making its acclaimed New York recital debut in 1984 as winner of the Concert Artists Guild International Award. The members of Ensemble Chanterelle are all distinguished artists in the field of early music performance today. They have recorded CDs and broadcasts for radio and television in Europe, North America and Australia with many of the world's pre–eminent ensembles. On Sunday, March 29, at UNC–Chapel Hill, the trio will present the world premere of “O komm und geh,”, a new work by James Blachly written for Sally Sanford and Ensemble Chanterelle set to a text by Rainer Marie Rilke from his Orpheus Sonnets. For more information, please visit www.chanterelle.org.

Sally Sanford is internationally recognized as one of the leading authorities in the history of vocal style and technique. She has performed as a soloist with many distinguished ensembles including Ensemble for Early Music, Aston Magna, Sequentia, and the Folger Consort, among others. As a choral clinician, she has worked with many amateur and professional choirs, including the New York Collegium and Zephyrus, a Renaissance vocal ensemble based in Charlottesville, Virginia. She currently maintains private teaching studios in Concord, Massachusetts, and Charlottesville. For more information, please visit www.sallysanfordsoprano.com.

Catherine Liddell is in high demand for her skill, sensitivity and experience as a continuo player, performing with many of America's leading period instrument ensembles, including Boston [Mass.] Baroque, Apollo’s Fire (Cleveland), the New York Collegium, and in the Aston Magna and the Boston Early Music Festivals. A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, Ms. Liddell earned the Soloist Diploma from the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel, Switzerland. She is a Teaching Associate at Boston University.

Brent Wissick is the Zachary Taylor Smith Distingushed Professor of Music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he teaches cello, viola da gamba and early music ensembles. A former student of John Hsu at Cornell University, he has performed and taught at many of the important schools, workshops and festivals in North America, Australia, Europe and Asia. His recording of Sonatas and Cantatas by Bononcini was released by Centaur and his online video article about them has been published by the Journal of Seventeenth–Century Music. Currently, he is Past President of the Viola Gamba Society of America, having served as President from 2000 through 2004, chair of the 2007 Pan–Pacific Gamba Gathering, and a board member since 1986.

Soprano Megan Sharp has sung in operas with the Boston Early Music Festival and Longwood Opera and performed with Ensemble Chanterelle, the Schola Cantorum and the Connecticut Early Music Festival. She has given recitals with her husband, Jonathan Schakel, on organ and fortepiano, in both the United States and Germany. Together they direct the music program at Westminster Presbyterian Church.

Jonathan Schakel is a native of Holland, Michigan, where he graduated from Hope College with degrees in history and music. He earned a master’s degree with distinction in organ from the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he studied organ, harpsichord and clavicord with Peter Sykes and continuo with Frances Conover Fitch. His early training in piano was under the guidance of Thomas Gouwens, and his other organ other teachers include James David Christie and Peter Kranefoed. In addition, he has pursued further studies with Olivier Latry, William Porter, Lorenzo Ghielmi, Luigi Ferndiando Tagliavini and James Higdon. He has also studied at the organ academies of McGill University and Haarlem, Netherlands. He has given recitals on organ and harpsichord throughout the United States and in Germany, frequently performng with his wife, soprano Megan Sharp.