Carley DeFranco, soprano , has been described as “sunny,” “supple,” and “soaring.” She has performed with many ensembles throughout New England, including Boston Lyric Opera (a Concert in the Courtyard at the Boston Public Library), Emmanuel Music and Urbanity Dance (a fully-staged Les Illuminations by Britten), Boston Ballet and Lorelei Ensemble (Debussy’s La Mer), VOCES 8 (the premiere of Lost Birds by Christopher Tin) and Boston Opera Collaborative (a site-specific staging of Frauenliebe und Leben). Recent performances included appearances with the Worcester Chorus, Lexington Symphony, Emmanuel Music, Back Bay Chorale, Falmouth Chorale, Monadnock Music, Sarasa Ensemble, Musicians of the Old Post Road, and her German debut at Bachfest Leipzig with Emmanuel Music. Carley is the founder of DeFranco Music LLC, which partners with local schools to offer in-school music lessons. She is a voice instructor in Harvard University’s Holden Voice Program and offers lessons (in-person or online) from her home studio.

Carrie Cheron, mezzo-soprano , is celebrated internationally for having “the voice of an angel.” She is a regular soloist with and member of Emmanuel Music, Skylark Vocal Ensemble, Boston Baroque, Lorelei Ensemble, and folk/Baroque collective Floyds Row. She is a featured soloist on all three of Skylark’s Grammy-nominated recordings. Recent and solo performances include appearances with Plymouth Philharmonic, Boston Landmarks Orchestra, Boston Baroque, Monadnock Music Festival, Portland Bach Experience, and Emmanuel Music’s at BachFest Leipzig. Last December, Carrie performed as a soloist alongside Tony Award-winning actress Christine Baranski and Skylark Ensemble in a performance of Benedict Sheehan’s musical interpretation of A Christmas Carol at The Morgan Library in New York City. As a performing singer/songwriter, she has been celebrated by the John Lennon Songwriting Contest, Great Waters Folk Festival, and Rocky Mountain Folks Fest. Carrie is an Associate Professor of Voice at Berklee College of Music. and made her debut with Musicians of the Old Post Road in 2024.

Craig Juricka, baritone , is also a versatile actor and vocal pedagogue who has performed extensively across various genres, including musical theater, opera, concert, and choral stages. Recent stage credits include Man 2 in Now. Here. This. (Umbrella Stage); Ensemble/Billy Bigelow u/s (Boston Lyric Opera); Harry K Thaw/Ensemble in Ragtime (Boston POPS); King Triton in Little Mermaid (FPAC); Herr Schneider/Ensemble (NYC Workshop, In the Light). He spent two summers as an Apprentice Artist with Des Moines Metro Opera. Described by OperaToday as an “engaging, malleable baritone,” he has performed with the New York Philharmonic, Handel & Haydn Society, Boston Baroque, Boston Lyric Opera, MassOpera, and Boston POPS as both a soloist and chorister. Craig is a faculty member at The Boston Conservatory at Berklee and Walnut Hill School for the Arts, and has guided his students to prominence in various national tours, Broadway productions, regional theaters, and professional choirs across the United States. He holds a Master of Music degree in Vocal Pedagogy from the Boston Conservatory and a Bachelor of Music degree in Vocal Performance from Capital University. Craig is a member of the Actor’s Equity Association (AEA) and the American Guild of Musical Artists (AGMA).

Sarah Darling, violin , enjoys a varied musical career as a performer, educator, and musical co-conspirator. Sarah is a member of the self-conducted orchestra A Far Cry, as well as Boston Baroque, Boston Early Music Festival, Emmanuel Music, the Boston Ballet Orchestra, Les Bostonades, Newton Baroque, the Boston Camerata, and the Carmel Bach Festival. Sarah studied at Harvard, Juilliard, Amsterdam and Freiburg, and received her DMA from New England Conservatory, working with James Dunham, Karen Tuttle, Nobuko Imai, Wolfram Christ, and Kim Kashkashian. She has recorded old and new music for Linn, Paladino, Azica, MSR, Centaur, and Crier Records, including three Grammy-nominated discs and a solo album on Naxos. Sarah is active as a teacher and coach, relishing the opportunity to “translate” between musical worlds while serving on the modern and historical performance faculty of the Longy School of Music, teaching Baroque viola at the New England Conservatory, and co-directing the Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra.

Jesse Irons, violin, enjoys a busy and excitingly diverse musical life in and around his home city of Boston. He is the Assistant Concertmaster of Boston Baroque and appears regularly with Handel & Haydn Society, the Boston Early Music Festival, and with numerous small ensembles including Gut Reaction and Anachronism. He has appeared as soloist with Newton Baroque, Sarasa, Chicago’s Baroque Band, and the City Orchestra of Hong Kong. A member and Co-Artistic Director of the Grammy-nominated ensemble A Far Cry, he has appeared in concerts across North America, Europe, and Central and Southeast Asia. As an educator, Jesse has mentored students on entrepreneurship and chamber music at MIT, Yale, Stanford, Eastman, Peabody, and New England Conservatory.

Marcia Cassidy, viola, is an active chamber music recitalist, teacher, and freelance violist. As a member of the faculty of Dartmouth College, she teaches violin and viola, directs the chamber music program, and is the assistant to the Dartmouth Symphony. Marcia is principal violist of Opera North (NH) and a member of the Juno Orchestra (VT). As the violist of the Franciscan String Quartet, she performed extensively in the United States, Europe, Canada, and Japan to critical acclaim. The quartet received many awards and honors, including first prize in the Banff International String Quartet Competition. Raised near San Antonio, Marcia pursued her musical training at the University of Texas, University of New Mexico, New England Conservatory, San Francisco Conservatory, and with the Tokyo String Quartet at the Yale School of Music. She has participated in numerous summer music festivals including Aspen, Banff, Blossom, Norfolk, and Tanglewood.

Daniel Ryan, Co-Artistic Director and cellist, has played with Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Il Complesso Barocco (Venice and Innsbruck), the Camerata Academica of Salzburg, and many ensembles in the Greater Boston area such as Boston Cecilia, Handel & Haydn, Boston Baroque, and Favella Lyrica, with whom he appeared on the Bank of Boston Emerging Artists Celebrity Series. With the Boston-based group Renaissonics, he was featured on NPR’s Sound & Spirit program in 2005 and released a CD for WGBH radio. While attending Boston University, he studied cello with George Neikrug and pursued historical performance through course work at the Longy School of Music. He later studied with Christophe Coin at the Sommerakademie in Innsbruck. Also an accomplished player of keyboard instruments, Daniel has been awarded the Associate Certificate of the American Guild of Organists and is Music Director at First Religious Society in Carlisle. He has coached chamber music at Harvard University and Wellesley College, where he held the position of Instructor of Early Keyboard for many years. He has also given carillon recitals across New England. He has recorded for Centaur, Titanic, Meridian, and Koch.

Suzanne Stumpf , Co-Artistic Director and flutist, has performed with numerous chamber and orchestral ensembles including the New York Bach Ensemble, Boston Cecilia, Handel & Haydn, and Boston Baroque, with whom she has appeared as soloist. She has toured in Germany and Austria with I Vari Flauti and has served as guest Principal Flutist for the Montreal Baroque Orchestra. She also performed at the Yellow Barn Music Festival, where she worked closely with John Cage. An honors graduate of Wellesley College, where she was awarded several prizes, Suzanne studied historical performance in Vienna with Nikolaus Harnoncourt and in Zurich with Johann Sonnleitner, and has done graduate work at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. She holds the title of Senior Music Performance Faculty Emerita in Flute, Baroque Flute, and Chamber Music at Wellesley College, where she taught for over three decades. She has presented masterclasses and given workshops and presentations on historical performance for the Amherst Early Music Festival, the National Flute Association, University of Utah at SLC, Clark University, Dartmouth College, and New England Conservatory, among others. She may be heard on Centaur, Titanic, Telarc, and Meridian.