Mary Frances Boyce, baroque viola, earned the Ph. D. in musicology at UNC-Chapel Hill. She studied baroque violin with Eduard Melkus, Richard Luby and Marilyn McDonald, and has performed on baroque violin and viola with Musica della Collina in Chapel Hill and with many other groups in North Carolina and Nebraska.  She teaches violin and viola privately in Chapel Hill and also at Methodist College in Fayetteville.

Stewart Carter, recorder, is executive editor of the Historic Brass Society Journal and former editor of Historical Performance, the journal of Early Music America.  He is also general editor of Bucina: The Historic Brass Society Series.  He has edited two collections of essays, A Performer's Guide to Seventeeth-Century Music (New York: Schirmer Books, 1997) and Perspectives in Brass Scholarship: Proceedings of the International Early Brass Symposium, Amherst 1995 (Stuyvesant, NY: Pendragon, 1997).  He has contributed articles to Early Music, Performance Practice Review, Historical Performance, Historic Brass Society Journal, Early Brass Journal, A Performer's Guide to Renaissance Music, and Women Composers throughout the Ages (vol. 2).  He has edited two volumes of the music of Isabella Leonarda for the series Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque Era (Madison, WI: A-R Editions). In 2001 he received the Christopher Monk Award from the Historic Brass Society, for outstanding service to the early brass field.  In 2004, the American Musical Instrument Society awarded him the Frances Densmore Prize for his article on the Guetter family of musical instrument makers.  Carter is an active performer on recorder and sackbut. He has performed throughout the United States as well as in Europe and Taiwan. In the spring of 2000 he was guest lecturer and early music ensemble director at National Sun-Yat Sen Unversity in Taiwan.  Carter has taught early wind instruments at early music workshops throughout the United States, including the Amherst Early Music Festival/Workshop and the Mideast Recorder Workshop.  He received the PhD degree in musicology from Stanford University. Carter teaches music theory, music history, and trombone at Wake Forest University, and also directs the school's Collegium Musicum.

Richard Earl Cook, tenor, has appeared as a tenor soloist in opera and oratorio performances in the United States and Europe.  Dr. Cook began his musical training with piano studies at an early age. He pursued conducting while in high school. During his college years, he studied privately with Leo Driehuys of the Charlotte Symphony. He later studied conducting at the North Carolina School of the Arts, and was awarded a grant to attend the Chigiana Music Academy in Siena, Italy, where he studied under the legendary Franco Ferrara. Most recently, he attended the International Conducting Institute in Catania, Sicily.

Dr. Cook is among the most active conductors in the area. He has been the assistant conductor for both Piedmont Opera Theater in Winston-Salem, and the Greensboro Opera Company. He has conducted the Saint Louis Symphony Chorus, the Winston-Salem/Piedmont Triad Symphony, the Winston-Salem Youth Symphony, the Greensboro Youth Symphony, and the Charlotte Youth Symphony. Dr. Cook has served on the faculties of Elon University, High Point University, and the North Carolina School of the Arts, where he conducted the NCSA Cantata Singers and worked with the Summer Session. In addition to directing the North State Chorale, he is Director of Church Music at Mt. Tabor United Methodist Church in Winston-Salem.

A native of Hallsboro, North Carolina, Dr. Cook holds a Bachelor of Arts with honors from Pfeiffer University, a Master of Music from the North Carolina School of the Arts, and the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where he has taught music theory and conducting. He is an advocate of contemporary music, and has conducted works by such composers as Stacy Garrop and Bernard Rands.

Doug Crawley, bass-baritone, graduated from Indiana University and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, and earned the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, where he was given a Performance Certificate and Award for Outstanding Performer. He has also studied at the University of North Texas, Cambridge University, and Oxford University. He has been a featured soloist in concert, opera, and oratorio, including appearances with the Louisville Orchestra, Lexington Philharmonic, Palm Beach Symphony, Dallas Symphony, Forth Worth Symphony, Charlotte Philharmonic, Dayton Opera, National Opera Association, and the Dome Theatre in Brighton, England. His credits include a Public Radio broadcast of Vaughan Williams’ Hodie, a national tour and televised production, cast recording, and video of The Telephone by Menotti, and a nationally televised production, cast recording, and video of the world premiere performance of Beloved Thief by Levit. Other performances include Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder, Bach’s St. Matthew Passion and Christmas Oratorio, Orff’s Carmina Burana, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Mozart’s Requiem, and WHAS TV’s Crusade for Children Telethon.  He has performed in concerts and seminars in England, Israel, Portugal, Brazil, Ukraine and Russia. Currently he is Minister of Music and Worship at Hickory Grove Baptist Church in Charlotte.

Barbara Blaker Krumdieck, baroque cello, studied in The Netherlands with Phoebe Carrai of Musica Antiqua Köln.  She is a native of Berkeley, California, but currently resides in Davidson, NC. While living in Europe she performed, toured and recorded with the German early music orchestra Concerto Köln. Several of their concerts were conducted by René Jacobs and performed in such places as The Paris Opera and The Palace of Versailles. Barbara and her sister, Frances Blaker, a well-known recorder virtuoso and teacher, are members of Ensemble Vermillian, which has recorded two CDs of 17^th century German music.  She also performs with Wild Rose, featuring Shira Kammen, and Ensemble Vita Nova. In the Charlotte area Barbara is active teaching and playing chamber music with members of the Charlotte Symphony.

GREG PANNELL, baroque violin, graduated from the Shenandoah Conservatory of Music, performed with the Greensboro Symphony for twelve years, and was principal second violin in the Charlotte Philharmonic for four years. He is principal second violin in the Salisbury Symphony Orchestra and has played with the SSO since 1978. He is also a member of the Classic Arts Duo and frequently plays chamber music with other SSO musicians.

MARY LOUISE KAPP PEEPLES, harpsichord, received her BM degree cum laude from Salem College, where she studied organ with Margaret and John Mueller.  She then studied with Russell Saunders at Eastman, where she was awarded an MM degree in organ performance, after which she studied for two years in Paris with Marie-Claire Alain. During that time she served as assistant organist-choirmaster to Susan Landale at St. George’s Anglican Church in Paris, as organist at St. Mary’s Catholic Church, as harpsichord accompanist for flute students of Jean-Pierre Rampal, and was nominated for the finals in the Chartres International Organ Competition. On Easter Sunday 1976, before a standing-room audience, she became the first American organist to present a recital at Eglise St. Louis des Invalides in Paris. Mrs. Peeples has performed in master classes for Arthur Poister, Catherine Crozier, Vernon de Tar, and Heinz Wunderlich, and participated in workshops with Gillian Weir, Harald Vogel, Anton Heiller, and Luigi Tagliavini. For twenty-two years she was Chairman of Organ Studies, Chapel Organist, and Associate Professor of Music at Judson College, Marion, Alabama, during which time she performed as harpsichord soloist with the Montgomery Symphony Orchestra and the Alabama Symphony Orchestra, and was featured as organist and harpsichordist on Alabama Public Radio and National Public Radio. From 1983 to 1997 she was Organist/Choirmaster at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Selma, Alabama, and then served as Interim Assistant Organist at the Cathedral of the Advent in Birmingham, Alabama. Currently she is Director of Music Ministries at First Christian Church in Winston-Salem, NC, and is Organ Chair for the N. C. Music Teachers Association. Mrs. Peeples has been organist and accompanist for several Moravian Music Festivals, and at the 1984 International Moravian Music Festival she was organ clinician. In 1998 she was organist for the Royal School of Church Music Training Course and Service at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Winston-Salem, NC, and in 1999 she was organ recitalist at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in New York City.

JOHN PRUETT, baroque violin and baroque viola, is a graduate of the NC School of the Arts and The Curtis Institute. He has played viola in many orchestras, including the Indianapolis Symphony and the La Scala Opera Orchestra, and has performed as soloist and with various groups throughout the southeast USA, Italy, Brazil and Peru. In addition to being principal violin and viola soloist with Carolina Baroque, he  performs with the Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle and Manana Barrocco in Peru. He also plays with Angelo Rosati in Spoleto, Italy, and teaches at the Spoleto Study Abroad Program. Last season Pruett was a guest artist at Duke University, the Conservatory of Music in Lima, Peru, and Rollins University.

TERESA RADOMSKI, soprano, is Professor of Voice and Consultant for the Center for Voice Disorders at Wake Forest University, where she has taught in the music department since 1977. A versatile performer, her repertoire extends from renaissance and baroque music to contemporary works, many of which have been composed especially for her. Teresa Radomski made her New York debut in 1987 with guitarist John Patykula, in a program of Spanish songs at the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. She has since received critical acclaim for her performances throughout the United States and abroad, as a recitalist and soloist with numerous ensembles, including Carolina Baroque. A native of New Jersey, Teresa Radomski began her musical training as a pianist and majored in music theory at the Eastman School of Music, where she studied both piano and voice. She completed graduate work in vocal pedagogy and performance at the University of Colorado, and study of the Alexander Technique in London, UK. Several articles by Teresa Radomski and her colleagues, including Laryngeal Biomechanics of the Singing Voice, are accessible via the WFU Center for Voice Disorders website, http://www.wfubmc.edu/voice.  She and her brother James Radomski are co-editors of L’isola disabitata, a Salon Opera by Manuel García (1775-1832), published in 2006 by A-R Editions. Recordings by Teresa Radomski include Dan Locklair’s In the Almost Evening (Opus One label), fourteen CDs of music by Bach, Handel, Telemann and other baroque composers, with Carolina Baroque, www.carolinabaroque.org, Recuerdo triste, songs by Trinidad Huerta, with guitarist Stuart Green and pianist James Radomski, www.harmonicorde.com, www.Amazon.com, and Songs from the Early 20th Century, music by Granados, Ives and Rachmaninoff, with pianist Louis Goldstein

Brent Wissick, baroque cello & viola da gamba,  has taught cello and chamber music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill since 1982, including string quartets, trios, baroque ensembles, cello choir and viol consorts. He also teaches the string methods classes for music education students and team-teaches a first-year seminar on the Physics of Music with Professor Laurie McNeil. Mr Wissick has a special interest in music, instruments and performance practices of the 17th and 18th centuries, but also gives regular performances of 20th century works such as the Britten Suites as well as 19th century variations on opera melodies by cellist composers.

A founder of the faculty group Ensemble Courant at UNC-CH, he now performs with several different groups outside of North Carolina including the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra, Ensemble Chanterelle in Boston , Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, American Bach Soloists in California, Folger Consort in Washington,DC, Dallas Bach Society, Concert Royal in New York, Portland Baroque Orchestra and Collegio di Musica Sacra in Poland. A graduate of the Crane School of Music at Potsdam College, NY and Penn State University ( MM cello, 1978) he also studied with John Hsu at Cornell University and was an NEH Fellow at Harvard in the 1993 Beethoven Quartet Seminar. He has taught at the College of St Scholastica in Minnesota (1978-82), Chautauqua Institution and the 1997 Aston Magna Academy at Yale. He is currently President of the Viola da Gamba Society of America.

Mr. Wissick's concerts and teaching have taken him throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. He can be heard on several record labels including Koch International, Albany and Titanic. His latest CD is "Antonio and Giovanni Bononcini: Sonatas and Cantatas" on the Centaur label.