Our current season's soloists
Soprano Hannah De Priest is fast emerging as a “breakout artist” (the Boston Globe) renowned for her fearless and “masterful” (Olyrix) performances. De Priest enjoys a fast-rising global career of concert and operatic engagements. In the 2026-2027 season, she makes return appearances with Haymarket Opera (Ninfa/Proserpina, L’Orfeo), Music of the Baroque (Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass and Charpentier’s Te Deum), Bach in the City (Bach’s Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen and Christmas Oratorio), the Bach Society of St. Louis, Atlanta Baroque Orchestra, and The Newberry Consort. She will record and perform the title role in La Stellidaura Vendicante with the Boston Early Music Festival in Bremen, Germany for the CPO label and make debuts with the Grand Rapids Symphony (Handel’s Messiah) and Saint Joseph Symphony (Holiday Cheer). Hannah currently makes her home in Philadelphia, where she lives with her husband and rescue dog, Teddy. Her “radiant” (Early Music America) debut solo album Arcadian Dreams was released in spring 2026.
Hailed as ”luminous” and ”ethereal” (Washington Classical Review), Mexican-American soprano Andréa Walker can be heard performing across the country with groups like GRAMMY® Award-winning orchestra Apollo’s Fire, Atlanta Baroque Orchestra, and The Thirteen. She is thrilled to be making her debut with Pegasus Early Music, NYS Baroque, Seraphic Fire, Early Music Seattle, Ars Lyrica Houston, and the Boston Early Music Festival in the 2024-2025 season. Ms. Walker is pursuing a Doctorate in historical performance practice at Case Western Reserve University where she has taken scholarly interest in keyboard/vocal music of the German salon C. 1800 and the performance of French Baroque gesture in sacred drama. Prior to her time in Cleveland, she graduated with a Master’s in vocal performance from the Yale Institute of Sacred Music where she specialized in early music, oratorio, and art song.
David Breitman is equally at home with the fortepiano and the modern piano, and enjoys both solo and ensemble playing. His collaboration with the late Sanford Sylvan spanned more than thirty years, with several hundred recitals and four CD’s, ranging from Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin, to the premiere recording of The Glass Hammer, a major song cycle by the Cuban-American composer Jorge Martin. He has recorded the Mozart piano-violin sonatas on historical instruments with Jean-François Rivest, Beethoven’s violin sonatas with Elizabeth Wallfisch and cello sonatas and variations with Jaap ter Linden. In a collaboration of a different sort, he was one of seven fortepianists on the ground-breaking recording of the complete Beethoven piano sonata cycle on period instruments for CLAVES from 1997.
David joined the Historical Performance Program at Oberlin Conservatory in 1991, teaching fortepiano and clavichord as well as courses in performance practice. With his book, Piano-Playing Revisited: What Modern Players Can Learn from Period Instruments which appeared to critical acclaim in 2021, he summarizes a lifetime of experience as a performer and teacher.
Lucas Harris leads a busy freelancer’s life as a lutenist, conductor, continuo player, teacher, lecturer, coach, and researcher. His collection of over twenty plucked-string instruments includes various Renaissance & Baroque lutes/guitars as well as a theorbo, cittern, bandora, an 1831 Guadagnini guitar, an 18th-century English guittar, and a PRS electric guitar with a Floyd-Rose tremolo bar.
Lucas discovered the lute during his undergraduate studies at Pomona College, where he graduated summa cum laude. He then studied early music at the Civica scuola di musica di Milano and at the Hochschule für Künste Bremen before beginning his freelancing career in New York City. For the past two decades he bases his activities in Toronto, where he serves as the regular lutenist for Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra. He is a founding member of the Toronto Continuo Collective, the Vesuvius Ensemble (dedicated to Southern Italian folk music), as well as the Lute Legends Collective (an association of specialists in ancient plucked-string traditions from different cultures). Lucas plays with many ensembles in Canada and the USA and has worked in recent years with the Helicon Foundation, the Smithsonian Chamber Players, The Newberry Consort, Les Délices, and Jordi Savall / Le Concert des Nations. He is also a regular guest artist for Early Music Vancouver, and will be assistant director for EMV’s production of Monteverdi’s Orfeo in 2026 in addition to developing an EMV concert featuring Dowland’s Lachrimae alongside songs about the therapeutic power of music. Lucas teaches graduate students at the University of Toronto and Case Western Reserve University, and is also on faculty at several workshops including the Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Institutes, Oberlin Conservatory’s Baroque Performance Institute, and the Canadian Renaissance Music Summer School. Also a choral conductor, Lucas has been the Artistic Director of the Toronto Chamber Choir since 2014 and has developed and conducted over forty themed concert programs for the TCC. He has also been a guest director for the Pacific Baroque Orchestra, the Ohio State University Opera Program, Les voix baroques, Atalante, and the Toronto Consort. Lucas’s longstanding interest in women composers has resulted in many projects including the reconstruction of 12 solo-voice motets by Chiara Margarita Cozzolani.
Chase Loomer is the Organist and Associate Choirmaster at the Cathedral of St. Philip and an active concert organist who has performed throughout the United States and abroad. He was part of The Diapason’s “20 Under 30” 2025 class and featured as a “NextGen” artist in The American Organist. Chase has been a prizewinner and competitor in numerous competitions of repertoire and improvisation, including first prize in the 2018 Taylor National Competition. He holds degrees from the Eastman School of Music, Yale University, and has completed Doctor of Music coursework at Indiana University. Chase has performed at national conventions of the AGO, AAM, and American Liszt Society, as well as at the Atlanta Summer Organ Festival and East Texas Pipe Organ Festival. His collaborations have included performances with the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra, Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra and Tonos del Sur, and he has been heard on Pipedreams and other radio programs. Chase is also a jazz pianist and composer of organ, choral, and jazz music. He is represented in North America by Phillip Truckenbrod Concert Artists, LLC.
Soloists we have worked with in the past.
Hailed as a “standout” whose “heartfelt invocation of peace in ‘Rejoice greatly’ had listeners dabbing at tears” by the New York Times, GRAMMY®-nominated soprano Margaret Carpenter Haigh captivates audiences with her “flawless intonation” and “perfect vocalism” (Classical Voice North Carolina) in “superbly sung” (Early Music America Magazine) performances. Treasured performances include the North American premiere of Huang Ruo’s Book of Mountains & Seas; David Del Tredici’s virtuosic An Alice Symphony with Portland Symphony and Ballet; Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with the choirs of Trinity Wall Street and Saint Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue; Couperin’s Leçons de Ténèbres in the Easter at King’s Concert Series in King’s College Chapel (Cambridge); and a highly publicized and ground-breaking soprano interpretation of the Evangelista role in Bach’s St. John Passion at the 2024 Baldwin Wallace Bach Festival to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the work’s creation. Recent solo recording credits include Handel’s Israel in Egypt with Apollo’s Fire and Desmarest’s Circé with the Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra. A native of Charlotte, North Carolina, Margaret is a grateful recipient of the Gates Cambridge Scholarship and holds the M.Mus from the University of Cambridge and the D.M.A. in Historical Performance from Case Western Reserve University, where her dissertation was supervised by Susan McClary. She has lectured widely, including at University of Iowa, Harvard University, Peabody Institute, and Indiana University, and has served on the faculties of the Oklahoma Arts Institute at Quartz Mountain and Vocal Fellows Program at Bach Akademie Charlotte. Margaret is a member of The Choir of Trinity Wall Street. More at www.margaretcarpenterhaigh.com
Michaël Hudetz is a sought-after Bach and Handel soloist whose “light, plangent tenor” (Bachtrack) is recognized for clarity, flexibility, and expressive text delivery. He specializes in early music and the sacred vocal repertoire, performing regularly across the United States and Europe.
He joined Bach Collegium Japan for their 2024 European tour, including an appearance at the BBC Proms, and has appeared as a soloist under Masaaki Suzuki at Lincoln Center. Michaël was named a 2025 Virginia Best Adams Vocal Fellow with the Carmel Bach Festival. Recent international highlights include solo engagements with the European Hanseatic Ensemble, the Weckmann Consort, and St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London.
His recording credits include Hyperion Records’ release of Amy Beach’s Canticle of the Sun with Yale Schola Cantorum, featuring him as tenor soloist. In the U.S., he is a core member of The Crossing, a four-time Grammy Award–winning ensemble.
Michaël holds a Master of Musical Arts from the Yale Institute of Sacred Music and a Master of Music from Northwestern University.
Bass-baritone Michael Galvin has been praised as a “distinguished and disarming” performer (Rochester City Newspaper). His 2025/26 season includes appearances with Apollo’s Fire in Dido & Aeneas and Praetorius Christmas Vespers, Atlanta Baroque in Acis & Galatea, and a return to the Boston Early Music Festival for Don Quichotte (Telemann). Recent highlights include Aida and Die Tote Stadt with Boston Lyric Opera and St. John Passion performances with Indianapolis Baroque and BU Marsh Chapel.
A seasoned ensemble musician, Michael maintains active collaborations with the Handel and Haydn Society and The Thirteen, and appears on the Boston Early Music Festival’s recording of Circé (CPO Records).
Beyond traditional concert stages, Michael performs as drag artist Donatella Fermata (@donatella_fermata). As Donatella, he made his operatic debut as the Sorceress in Dido and Aeneas, uniting classical performance with drag artistry to reimagine opera for modern audiences. His work, recognized with a 2024 Live Arts Boston Grant, champions LGBTQ+ visibility and accessibility in the arts.
Jacob Perry, tenor, is lauded for his stylish interpretations of early music. As a soloist, he lends his graceful sense of phrasing and luminous tone to engagements with American Classical Orchestra, Apollo's Fire, Bach Collegium San Diego, Jacksonville Symphony, Pacific Baroque Orchestra, Philharmonia Baroque, Portland Baroque Orchestra, Seattle Bach Festival, Tafelmusik, Tempesta di Mare, Washington Bach Consort, and the Washington National Cathedral. Jacob joined the Carmel Bach Festival in 2022 as the tenor participant in the Virginia Adams Best Masterclass.
Deeply immersed in vocal chamber music, Jacob enjoys active membership in Les Canards Chantants, a soloist-ensemble based in Philadelphia, as well as engagements with ensembles such as the Ampersand, Art of Early Keyboard (ARTEK), Cathedra, Ensemble Altera, The Leonids, The New Consort, Res Facta, and TENET Vocal Artists. He has explored the vocal works by contemporary composers through engagements with Third Practice, hexaCollective, and Great Noise Ensemble. As Co-Artistic Director of Bridge, a genre-defying vocal collective based in Washington, he draws on his instincts for theatricality and story-telling, as the group explores the connections between early masterpieces and ground-breaking new works.
Career highlights include his recent solo debut with the New York Philharmonic singing Handel’s “Israel in Egypt”, headlining the inaugural festival of Western Early Music at the Beijing Central Conservatory of Music with Les Canards Chantants, and “English Orpheus”—a tour de force exploration of love songs and poems from the Elizabethan, Restoration, and early 18th-century periods he performed with Tempesta di Mare.
Michael Dauterman, a Cincinnati native and graduate of the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (BM 2010), began his professional singing career with the Vocal Arts Ensemble and is thrilled to return. He currently serves as director of music and worship arts at Glenn Memorial United Methodist Church on the campus of Emory University in Atlanta, where he leads vibrant choral and worship ministries. Dauterman has sung professionally with ensembles including the Handel & Haydn Society, Skylark, Kinnara (assistant director) and the Atlanta Master Chorale, and he has extensive experience as an accompanist and choral educator. He also holds a Master of Sacred Music and Choral Conducting degree from Boston University (2013).
Brandon Acker is a widely known musician, educator, and content creator recognized for his artistry, versatility, and passion for historical and classical music. He specializes in classical guitar and early plucked instruments such as theorbo, archlute, and Baroque guitar. With over 680,000 YouTube subscribers and 75 million views, he is one of the most-watched classical guitar and lute players on the internet.
As an educator, Brandon founded Arpeggiato, an online music school specializing in “all things that go pluck!” He has also produced several online classical guitar courses with more than 3,600 students enrolled. His performance career spans from early roots in rock guitar to international tours on historical instruments, performing repertoire from the Baroque period.
He has performed with ensembles such as Apollo’s Fire, the Handel and Haydn Society, the Breathtaking Collective with Bruce Dickey, the Joffrey Ballet, the Newberry Consort, and Haymarket Opera Company. Brandon was a laureate in the 2020 Indiana Early Music concerto competition and won first place in the Society of American Musicians competition in 2010.
His recordings include A Wanderer’s Guitar(Schubert lieder arranged for voice and guitar), Corelli Op. 5 Violin Sonatas with Rachel Barton Pine, and Strung Up, featuring minimalist works for harp and guitar. His lute playing also appears on popular video game soundtracks, including Civilization VI, Civilization VII, and Total War: Warhammer III.
Cellist Erin Ellis leads a versatile career as a performer and teacher. She has performed as a soloist and chamber musician across the United States as well as in Canada, Germany, Chile, Italy, and Holland. Her recording of J. Dall’Abaco’s 11 Capricci for solo cello was recently released on Albany Records. As a baroque cellist, Erin has performed with the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra, Indy Baroque Orchestra, and with members of Chatham Baroque. A dedicated music educator, she maintains an active private studio and is the cello professor at West Virginia University, where she teaches cello, coaches WVU’s graduate string quartet (Montani Quartet), and coordinates an active string chamber music program. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, Erin earned Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from the Cleveland Institute of Music. She went on to receive the Doctorate of Musical Arts degree with a minor in Early Music from the Eastman School of Music, where she was recognized with the Graue Award for Excellence in Musicology. She studied the cello with Richard Aaron, David Ying, Alison Wells, Phoebe Carrai, and Martha Gerschefski.
Kathryn Montoya appears with a variety of orchestral and chamber music ensembles including the Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, Tafelmusik, the Wiener Akademie, Pacific Musicworks, and Apollo’s Fire among others. She received her degrees at Oberlin Conservatory and Indiana University School of Music in Bloomington. While at IU, she was the recipient of the prestigious Performer’s Certificate and was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study in Germany. Recent projects include the Globe’s Tony award-winning productions of Twelfth Night on Broadway, concerts and master classes in Shanghai, and tour and Grammy award-winning recording, Charpentier: La couronne de fleurs - La descente d’Orphée aux enfers with the Boston Early Music Festival. Montoya has been broadcast on NPR’s Performance Today and can be heard on the Erato, Naxos, CPO, NCA, Analekta, and Dorian Sono Luminus labels. In her free time, she can be found in Hereford, England converting an 18th-century barn into a home with her partner, James.
Sarah Schilling, is a specialist in period oboes and recorders, and has been teaching at the Interlochen Early Music Workshop since 2016. She is in demand as a period oboist and performance practice specialist. Schilling performs with period instrument groups throughout the Americas including Washington Bach Consort, Chatham Baroque, Forgotten Clefs, Bourbon Baroque, Grand Harmonie, Mallarme Chamber Players, Montana Early Music Festival, and Festival Internacional de Música Sacra. An active scholar in performance practice, Schilling has been published by Mozart Society of America and the International Double Reed Society. She is the director of the Interlochen Early Music Workshop at Interlochen and has been a guest instructor at Grand Valley State University and The Princeton Festival. Sarah writes for WFIU Public Radio’s Harmonia Early Music and is a Director of Outreach at Forgotten Clefs, a Renaissance Wind Band.
Adam Jaffe, an Atlanta native, studied piano performance at Carnegie Mellon University and was the recipient of a Fulbright scholarship to further his education at The Royal Conservatory of The Hague, where he completed his studies in harpsichord under Jacques Ogg. As part of Duo De Jordaan, a keyboard duo that he founded with Anthony Abouhamad, he has toured Australia, North America, and Europe, including concerts in the Engelse Kerk in Amsterdam, the Musical Instruments Museum in Brussels, and the Handel House in London. He has also performed with the celebrated mandolin duo Mike Marshall and Caterina Lichtenberg as part of the Savannah Music Festival and joined the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra on countless occasions. Adam currently pursues a diverse music career that includes media scoring and performances on a variety of keyboard instruments; he additionally is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and works as a psychotherapist specializing in anxiety disorders. He spends his free time doing crosswords and chasing his two-year-old daughter.