Baroque flutist Louise Carslake has performed throughout her native country of Britain, as well as in Europe, China, New Zealand, and the U.S.A. In the Bay Area she is a member of Music's Re-creation, Magnificat, and Farallon Recorder Quartet, and can also be heard with the Jubilate Baroque Orchestra, Magnificat, American Bach Soloists, and many other groups. She holds music diplomas from Trinity College of Music in London and the Arnhem Conservatory in Holland, and also studied baroque performance practice with Nikolaus Harnoncourt at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria. After completing her formal diplomas she studied barqoue flute with Wilbert Hazelzet in Cologne and Amterdam. Louise has recorded for Meridian, Centaur, MHS, and New World Records. She is currently teaching ensemble music at Mills College.

John Dornenburg, viola da gamba, has performed across Europe, New Zealand, Australia, and the U.S.A. His solo appearances include the San Francisco Symphony, Oregon and Carmel Bach Festivals, Honolulu Symphony, and Aston Magna, and he can also be heard with Magnificat, American Bach Soloists, and Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra. He directs the Sex Chordæ Consort of Viols, and frequently performs on the violone. His teachers included Nikolaus Harnoncourt at the Salzburg Mozarteum and Wieland Kuijken in The Hague, Holland, where he received the Soloist's Diploma for viola da gamba. John has recorded over two dozen CDs of both solo and chamber music on the Centaur, Meridian, Koch, Music and Arts, and Dorian labels. He teaches the viola da gamba on the faculty at Stanford University, and lectures in music history at California State University, Sacramento.

Carla Moore, described by Strad magazine as possessing "unerring musicality," enjoys exploring and performing the repertoire for baroque and classical violin. Since winning First Prize in the 1989 Erwin Bodky Competition for Early Music, she has traveled extensively with orchestras and chamber groups throughout North America, Britain, Europe and Asia. Carla serves as one of the concertmasters for Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, is concertmaster for Portland Baroque Orchestra and performs and records with the chamber ensemble Music's Re-creation. Carla also performs in a duo with harpsichordist Jillon Stoppels Dupree. She can be heard on over 40 recordings, the latest being Chamber Sonatas by C.P.E. Bach on Centaur Records. Carla received a Master of Music Degree with Distinction from Indiana University’s Early Music Institute where she was a student of, and assistant to, Stanley Ritchie.

Lorna Peters is an active performer on harpsichord, fortepiano, and piano. In addition to Music's Re-creation, she is the keyboardist for Camerata Academica Salzburg, the New World Trio, Les Nations Salzburg, and has recently performed harpsichord concertos with the Portland Baroque Orchestra under Monica Huggett. She received her D.M.A from SUNY-Stony Brook, and in 1989 a Fulbright Scholarship took her to Salzburg, Austria, where she studied with Kenneth Gilbert, Gordon Murray, and Nikolaus Harnoncourt. She won the contemporary music prize at the 1989 Paris International Harpsichord Competition. Recordings for the Centaur and Cantilena labels include continuo and obbligato works by CPE Bach, Telemann, Lawes, and Alec Wilder. She is currently Assistant Professor of Music at California State University at Sacramento where she teaches harpsichord, piano, and theory.

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