Featuring
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Daniel Swenberg
Theorbo/Archlute
Daniel plays a wide variety of lutes and guitars: baroque, renaissance, classical/romantic – small, medium, and large. Chief among these is the theorbo – the long lute that you are either wondering about or overhearing your neighbor discuss. While based in New York, Daniel schleps instruments throughout North America and Europe to play with a wide range of ensembles: ARTEK, REBEL, The Metropolitan Opera, Mr. Jones & the Engines of Destruction, Ensemble Viscera, New York City Opera, Opera Atelier/Tafelmusik, The New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, Catacoustic Ensemble, the Four Nations Ensemble, Apollo’s Fire, Handel & Hayden, The Green Mountain Project, Tenet, Skid Rococo, the Newberry Consort, with soprano Nell Snaidas, Lizzy & the Theorboys, Music of the Baroque, the Aspen Music festival opera, Staatstheatre Stuttgart, the Orchestra of St Lukes, and more. He has accompanied Renee Fleming and Kathleen Battle at Carnegie Hall. He is on faculty at Juilliard’s Historical Performance program. Daniel received awards from the Belgian American Educational Foundation (2000) for a study of 18th century chamber music for the lute, and a Fulbright Scholarship (1997) to study in Bremen, Germany at the Hochschule für Künste (studying with Stephen Stubbs and Andrew Lawrence King). He studied previously with Pat O’Brien at Mannes College of Music, receiving a Masters degree in Historical Performance (Lute). Prior to this life’s incarnation as a Lutenist, he studied classical guitar at the North Carolina School of the Arts, and musicology at Washington University (St. Louis). His programing integrates and emphasizes music with the history, sciences, economics, politics, and broader culture of its time.
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Keiran Campbell
Cello
Keiran Campbell was drawn to the cello after he stumbled across one in his grandmother’s basement and was baffled by its size. Once he turned 8, he began taking lessons—on a much smaller cello—in his native Greensboro, North Carolina. After studying extensively with Leonid Zilper, former solo cellist of the Bolshoi Ballet, he received his Bachelors and Masters at the Juilliard School, working with Darrett Adkins, Timothy Eddy, and Phoebe Carrai. Keiran also spent several springs in Cornwall, England, studying with Steven Isserlis and Ralph Kirshbaum at Prussia Cove. He is now based in Toronto, Ontario, and is principal cello in Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra.
Keiran has performed with orchestras including The English Concert, NYBI, Philharmonia Baroque, The Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, Mercury Baroque, and Le Concert des Nations. During the summer, Keiran plays in NYC with Teatro Nuovo, an opera company dedicated to performing bel canto opera on period instruments, and he also performs at Lakes Area Music Festival in Minnesota. Keiran has given lectures and masterclasses at UNC Chapel Hill, RNCM Manchester, Western University, and the National Academy Orchestra of Canada. Performances this season include concerto appearances with Tafelmusik and Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, a concert of Monteverdi Madrigals with Jordi Savall and Le Concert des Nations in Carnegie Hall, and performances at the BBC Proms and Edinburgh Festival with The English Concert. He can be heard on the newly released recording of Beethoven Symphonies by Le Concert des Nations and Jordi Savall.
Keiran is also fascinated by instrument making, which he studies with the maker of his cello, Timothy Johnson.
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Chloe Fedor
Violin
Lauded for her “lovely, plush, seductive tone” and described as “clearly gifted” by the New York Times, violinist Chloe Fedor is sought after throughout the country as a concertmaster, soloist and chamber musician. She appears regularly with The American Classical Orchestra, Apollo’s Fire, Early Music New York, New York Baroque Incorporated, The Sebastians, and Trinity Wall-Street Baroque Orchestra, among others.
In 2018, Chloe joined the cast of Shakespeare’s Globe on Broadway as the onstage Baroque violinist in Farinelli and the King, starring Sir Mark Rylance and Iestyn Davies. Chloe spends her summers at the Carmel Bach Festival, Oregon Bach Festival and Lakes Area Music Festival, where she leads the Baroque program.
Chloe was a concerto competition winner at both of her Alma Maters, The Eastman School of Music and The Juilliard School, and was one of 15 Juilliard 2015 graduates to receive the Career Advancement Fellowship.
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Derek Weller
Associate Principal Bass
Derek received degrees (MM,BM) from the University of Michigan and is a graduate of the Interlochen Arts Academy. He was a lecturer at the University of Michigan and the University of Toledo, and is currently on the faculty of Eastern Michigan University and Interlochen Arts Academy. In addition to playing in the Michigan Opera Theatre Orchestra, Derek is a member of the Toledo Symphony Orchestra and substitutes frequently with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.
Derek was also a member of a select international committee organized to rewrite the Suzuki bass method and is an active clinician at Suzuki Institutes nationwide. He owns four basses: a 300-year-old Italian bass, a 200-year-old French bass, and two modern instruments. He frequently plays recitals with his wife, Anna Bittar Weller, a violinist, both in Italy and the U.S.
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Evan Few
Violin
Atlanta native Evan Few is a freelancer living in Philadelphia. An assertive, collaborative instrumentalist, he is equally adept as music director, orchestral musician, and chamber soloist and has performed on stages across the globe with some of its most esteemed early music ensembles, including Anima Eterna Brugge, Bach Collegium Japan, and the Taverner Consort.
Evan is a core member of Apollo’s Fire; Artistic Administrator and co-concertmaster of the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra; frequent guest artist with Chatham Baroque and Four Nations Ensemble; and, most recently, co-founder of Filament.
He holds Master’s degrees from Oberlin and Koninklijk Conservatorium Den Haag, and is a devoted cook and yogi.
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Joseph Tan
Violin
Based since 1997 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Joseph maintains an active performing and recording schedule as a member of ensembles such as the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Anima Eterna Brugge, Les Musiciens du Prince-Monaco, Holland Baroque, and the Australian Classical and Romantic Orchestra (ARCO), working regularly with pioneers in the field of historical performance such as Ton Koopman, Jos van Immerseel, and Reinhard Goebel.
After receiving a Bachelor of Music degree in modern violin from the University of Texas at Austin, Joseph studied Baroque violin with Marilyn McDonald at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, where he earned a M.M. degree in 1997. From 1997-2001, he studied with Monica Huggett and Elizabeth Wallfisch at the Royal Conservatory, The Hague.
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Andrew Arthur
Principal Keyboard
A native of the UK, Andrew Arthur enjoys a fine reputation as a conductor, keyboard soloist, ensemble player, and teacher of exceptional versatility. He combines these disciplines within his principal position as Fellow and Director of Music at Trinity Hall, Cambridge where he is also an Affiliated Lecturer in the University’s world-renowned Faculty of Music.
An acknowledged specialist in the music of the Baroque and Classical periods, Andrew is in great demand as a conductor, keyboard soloist, and consort player and has appeared at many prestigious international festivals. He currently holds the positions of Associate Director of The Hanover Band and Musical Director of his own period-instrument ensemble and vocal consort, Orpheus Britannicus. Andrew’s solo and directorial recordings encompass repertory spanning over 400 years.
Alongside his busy concert schedule, he works throughout the year training the Organ Scholars and conducting the Chapel Choir at Trinity Hall with whom, in addition to their regular schedule of services in the College Chapel, he undertakes a number of concerts, recordings, and international tours.
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Alissa Smith
Viola
Alissa Smith, violist, holds music degrees from the Australian National University and the Juilliard School, where she was a Teaching Fellow. Her chamber music experience has included recitals at Carnegie Hall; performances at the Park City, Aspen, Bravo! Colorado, Lincoln Center, and Verbier music festivals; and a residency with the Emerson String Quartet.
A versatile performer on modern and baroque violas, Alissa has appeared with The Knights at the Tanglewood and Ravinia Festivals, and toured Australia and North America with The Australian Chamber Orchestra. She has performed with the Orchestra of St. Lukes, New York City Ballet, American Composers Orchestra, Klangforum Wien and the Houston Symphony Orchestra. International festival appearances include the Sydney Festival alongside Lou Reed and at the Istanbul International Jazz Festival.
As a baroque violist Alissa has performed with New York Baroque Incorporated, The Sebastians, Opera Lafayette, NY Collegium, Tempesta di Mare, the American Classical Orchestra ; recorded with Clarion, the Trinity Baroque Orchestra, Apollos Fire ; and appeared at the Staunton, Magnolia, Teatro Nuovo and Carmel Bach Festivals.
Alissa can be heard on numerous movie soundtracks including “Casanova”, “Julie and Julia”, “True Grit” and “Joker”; on period instrument recordings of Bach Motets (The Trinity Choir) and Mozart Symphonies (Apollos Fire); and on Maria Schneider’s multi Grammy award winning album “Winter Morning Walks”.
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Aaron Westman
Viola
GRAMMY®-nominated violinist and violist Aaron Westman was a “metal-head” growing up in Santa Rosa. He now plays the electric guitar of the 17th-century. Described as “expressive and virtuosic” (—San Francisco Classical Voice) and a “brilliant virtuoso violinist” (—EMAg), he has performed since 2005 as a chamber, principal player, or soloist with all of the major gut string ensembles on the West Coast, and toured extensively throughout the world.
As a principal or chamber player, Aaron works with Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra (since 2006), American Bach Soloists, Ars Minerva, Bach Collegium San Diego, El Mundo, New Hampshire and Hawaii Performing Arts Festivals, Harmonia Stellarum Houston, Long Beach Opera, Los Angeles Master Chorale, Musica Angelica, Opera Neo, Portland Baroque Orchestra, and Tesserae, and he has toured extensively with Orchester Wiener Akademie, including for four seasons with the actor John Malkovich. He also plays with both the Oregon and Carmel Bach Festival Orchestras, and has worked with Vox Luminis (Belgium) choir, and the Mark Morris and Martha Graham Dance Companies.
Aaron is a founding member and co-director of AGAVE, with whom he has recorded eight albums, edited most of them, and engineered four of them, including the GRAMMY®-nominated American Originals. Agave regularly records and tours with star countertenor Reginald Mobley, with whom they just toured the US in February. They also have projects with acclaimed singers Cecilia Duarte, Michele Kennedy, and Jennifer Paulino. Agave has ongoing relationships with the Acis record label and Schwalbe & Partners management.
Aaron holds degrees from Indiana University Jacobs School of Music and Wesleyan University.
His principal teachers were Stanley Ritchie, Elizabeth Blumenstock, Geraldine Walther, Alan de Veritch, and Theodore Arm. Aaron is on the faculty of Sonoma State University, and previously taught at Mills College and CalArts. He directs the Santa Rosa Symphony’s Young People’s Chamber Orchestra and teaches in Italy each summer. In his spare time, he is an audio engineer and producer. Aaron and his wife, violinist Anna Washburn, reside in Santa Rosa, California, and have a four year old daughter.
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