Recorder, Sackbut

Professor of Music, Director of Collegium Musicum, Wake Forest University; executive editor Historic Brass Society Journal; editor, A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth Century Music; member Carolina Waits, Wake Forest Consort.

Baroque Flute, Recorder

Performs with Ensemble Zimmermann, groups in US, Denmark, and Sweden; soloist, Odense Symphony Orchestra; teaches at Sonderso Community School (Odense, Denmark). 

 Recorder & Voice

Teaching: Music Academy of Borgerhout (Antwerp, Belgium), workshops in Europe and US. Performs with: Quadrivium and Sospiri Ardenti. Recordings: for Kattenberg (voice & recorder; active organizing English Country Dance groups (Belgium). 

Flute, Recorder, All Workshop Ensemble

Has taught at New England Conservatory, Tufts University, Brandeis University and Wheaton College; workshops include numerous early music workshops (Amherst Early Music, Pinewoods, and the Mideast Workshop); a founding member of the baroque ensemble La Sonnerie and Renaissance flute consort Travessada; currently performs as Pentimento wit   h lutenist Olav Chris Henriksen; known for his many transcriptions and editions for recorders; Music Director of the Boston Recorder Society for many years; manage of the retail division of the von Huene Workshop, Inc. 

Viola da Gamba, Recorders

Patricia Halverson, (viola da gamba, violone, recorders) A native of Duluth, Minnesota, Patty is a founding member of Chatham Baroque. She holds a doctoral degree in Early Music Performance Practice from Stanford University and while at Stanford, studied viol with Martha McGaughey and performed frequently with the Renaissance wind band under Dr. Herbert Myers. Following the completion of her D.M.A., she continued studies on the viol at the Koninklijk Conservatorium in The Hague. A frequent faculty member at summer workshops for recorders and viols including the Madison Early Music Festival, Viol Sphere 2, the Mideast Early Music Workshop, and the Viola da Gamba Society of America’s annual Conclave, Patty has coached mixed chamber ensembles and taught recorder and viol privately. Her playing can be heard on numerous Chatham Baroque recordings. 

Percussion

Danny Mallon holds Bachelor and Master of Music degrees in classical orchestral percussion from the Mannes College of Music in NYC, where he has been a faculty member since 1991. He can be heard on recordings with Chatham Baroque,   Piffaro, the Baltimore Consort, Brio and  Ronn McFarlane and on L’Harmonie des Saison’s Juno award winning recording, Las Ciudades de Oro. Danny has been a guest performer with period instrument ensembles such as; Jordi Saval’s Le Concert Des Nations; The Newberry Consort; The Venice Baroque orchestra; The Trinity Wall st. Baroque Orchestra; The Baltimore Consort; Ensemble Galilie; BEMF chamber players; Rebel; Apollo’s Fire; The NY Collegium; NY Baroque Inc.; The Rose Ensemble; Artek; AmorArtis Chorus and Baroque Orchestra; Chatham Baroque; Voyces; Master Singers; Musica Pacifica; Ron McFarlane; L’Harmonie Des Saisons; Ensemble Caprice; Trio Brio; Piffaro; The Bishop’s Band; Trinity Baroque, Atlanta Baroque Orchestra; Teatro Neuvo opera orchestra; and Crescendo.

Recorder, Krummhorn 

In 2016 Christina completed a 10 year world tour with Cirque du Soleil's show Varekai having performed over 3000 shows all over the World in 25 countries, from Sydney to Seoul, Rio to Russia as well as the Royal Albert Hall in London playing a wide range of instruments including recorders, flutes, oboe, clarinet, shawms, bombards, bagpipes, percussion and as a vocalist. She has also performed and/or recorded with such ensembles as Piffaro, Ex Umbris, Early Music New York, The Quadrivium, Libana, The Christmas Revels in Cambridge, Washington, Philadelphia and Hanover. She currently performs with her own Baroque Ensemble Jubal’s Lyre and regularly plays for English Country Dancing. Chris has taught at ARS workshops, the Westminster Choir School, at World Fellowship Early Music Week and at Pinewoods Early Music Week of which she was the director for three years. 

Harpsichord

Alastair Thompson (they/them, he/him) has newly returned to Pittsburgh after years in the Boston early music scene. Alastair was a founding member of the Cavalier Consort, devoted to 17th-century English music for viols and organ or harpsichord. Other ensembles in which Alastair was a regular keyboard continuo player include Fourscore, Heliotrope Consort, and Patalena. As a guest artist, Alastair has played with Half Moon Ensemble, Ensemble Musica Humana, Les Enfants Terribles, the Zelenka Project, and the Weckmann Project. They have a long and fruitful history of collaboration with the renaissance-and-baroque band Seven Times Salt, having performed with them as a country dancer, a Christmas Donkey, and Sam Pepys. Two pet projects that Alastair co-programmed with the members of Salt include the Scottish concert, Rantin’ Pipe and Tremblin’ String and the Halloween extravaganza Corners of the Moon. Alastair also is part of a historically-informed country dance band called Blue Pearmain (after an 18th-century New England variety of apple). As a staff accompanist, Alastair has performed for Amherst Early Music, Longy School of Music, and Boston University. As for theatrical projects, Alastair co-directed an independent production of the masque Cupid and Death, and over the years has danced in a variety of baroque operas at Amherst Early Music Festival and Tufts University. For fun, Alastair does crewelwork and cryptic crosswords.

Recorder

Organist, Danish State church; Royal Danish Theater ballet pianist; recipient, American-Scandinavian Foundation grant; Member Patchworks.dk Trio; performances include Ensemble Zimmermann and other orchestras.