Hans-Jürgen Schnoor 
- fortepiano
- harpsichord
- organ
Ingrid Matthews
- baroque violin
Susie Napper   
- viola da gamba
- baroque cello
Bruce Haynes   
- baroque oboe
Jeffrey Cohan
- baroque flute
- renaissance flute
Anna Mansbridge
- baroque dance

INGRID MATTHEWS (Seattle)

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Violinist Ingrid Matthews is the Music Director of Seattle Baroque, and one of today's most respected exponents of her instrument.  She won first prize in the Erwin Bodky International Competition for Early Music in 1989, and performed extensively with numerous leading period-instrument ensembles, including Tafelmusik, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, and Joshua Rifkin's Bach Ensemble, before founding Seattle Baroque in 1994 with harpsichordist Byron Schenkman. In addition she serves as concertmaster for the New York Collegium, under the direction of Andrew Parrott, and has held the same position for the prestigious Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra. Matthews has won international critical acclaim for her extensive discography as a soloist, which ranges from the

early seventeenth-century Italian repertoire to the complete Sonatas and Partitas for unaccompanied violin of J. S. Bach. Ingrid Matthews has served on the faculties of the University of Toronto, the University of Washington, Indiana University, and the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

BRUCE HAYNES (Montreal)

Bruce Haynes' books on the repertoire for oboe ("Music for Oboe"), on the history of pitch ("The Story of A"), and on the history of the oboe ("The Eloquent Oboe") are widely recognized as invaluable resources for oboists and all musicians performing early music. Having exploring the parameters of authentic performance on the hautboy since the 1960's, he still sees the historical instrument as a springboard for new ideas, techniques and repertoire (as well as a very effective catalyst for creating and sharing emotional states). His recent projects include articulation syllables, the "flattement", dynamic inflection and phrasing and original "short" high-note fingerings, and his new book, Authenticity and Happiness: Paradox and Serendipity in Ancient Music.

Bruce Haynes was a student of Frans Bruggen. In 1972, as professor of early oboe and recorder at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, he introduced the hautboy as a major subject in the Dutch curriculum and taught it there until 1983. He has played in baroque ensembles and orchestras in Europe, Israel and the USA, and now lives in Montreal.