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 Biographies of the musicians Music Director
Violins Claire Jolivet, concertmaster, has performed extensively in North America on both modern and baroque violin. She is a member of The Four Nations Ensemble, and has played with period instrument ensembles such as Concert Royal, the New York Collegium, Opera Lafayette and Sarasa. On modern violin, she has performed with the Stamford Symphony, the Orchestra of St. Lukes, Eos Orchestra and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. She has recorded for the Deutsche Harmonia Mundi and ASV - Gaudeamus labels. Theresa Salomon, a native of Germany, came to New York in 1993. She performs with reknowned period and modern instrument ensembles such as Ensemble Rebel, Artek, the New York Collegium, the Orchestra of St. Luke's. Her international festival appearances include - Festival Presence, Paris, Gulbenkian Festival, Lisbon, Prague Spring Festival, Takemitsu Memorial, Tokyo, Ostfriesland Festival, Germany and the Connecticut Early Music Festival. In 2003, Ms. Salomon was soloist with the Janacek Philharmonic at the Ostrava Days For New Music. Marike Holmqvist, a native of Finland, started her violin studies at the age of seven and made her solo debut with Mendelsohn’s violin concerto at sixteen. Her interest in historic performance practices led to her acceptance into the European Union Baroque Orchestra where she worked with the prominent Early Music conductors, Ton Koopman, Andrew Manze and Roy Goodman. She has since graduated with two Masters degrees from the Department of Early Music and Performance Practice at the Royal Conservatory of Music in The Hague, The Netherlands and toured throughout Europe and the Americas serving as Concertmaster of Concerto d'Amsterdam, Baroque Opera Amsterdam, the Netherlands Historical Dance Theater, Cambridge Concentus (MA), Early Music Foundation New York, and Sinfonia New York. Recently Marika has taught Baroque string playing techniques at Rutgers University (NJ). She can be heard on the Naxos, Ex Cathedra and Brilliant Classics labels. Amelia Roosevelt has performed throughout Europe and the Americas with groups such as Musica Antiqua Köln, Concerto Köln, La Stagione Frankfurt, La Cappella de' Turchini, and Musica Ad Rhenum. European festival appearances include those in Utrecht, Bruges, Graz, Lisbon, Istanbul, Pite (Sweden), and Bergen. Amelia works frequently with Ensemble Rebel, the Four Nations Ensemble, and the New York Collegium. She has recorded for MDG, New Classical Adventure, Albany Records, Deux Elles, Linn Records, Hänssler Classic, Electra, and Capriccio. Aaron Brown Owen Dalby Andrea Schultz currently performs and tours with a wide array of groups, including the Cabrini Quartet, Sequitur, New York Chamber Ensemble, Trio of the Americas, and several of New York City’s leading orchestras, including the Orchestra of St. Luke’s and the Brandenburg Ensemble. Andrea was a member of the Mark Morris Dance Group Music Ensemble for four years, touring the United States, Britain, Japan, and Australia. She has also appeared as guest with the Casssatt String Quartet, Apple Hill Chamber Players, Da Capo Chamber Players, Sospeso, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and the Limon Dance Company and has recorded chamber music for the Albany, New World, and Phoenix labels. Viola Jessica Troy (principal) has been the violist of the Mark Morris Dance Group Music Ensemble since 1998, touring extensively, from Brooklyn to Australia; with the Ensemble she has performed throughout the U.S. and Japan with Yo-Yo Ma. She is a member of the Brooklyn and Westchester Philharmonics, and has performed with the New York City Opera and American Composers Orchestra. With Sequitur and the Meridian String Quartet she has performed and recorded new works. On the baroque viola she has performed with The Four Nations Ensemble and Concert Royal. A participant at many illustrious chamber music festivals, including Prussia Cove and Marlboro, she can be heard on the latter's 50th anniversary CD. Alissa Smith holds music degrees from the Australian National University and the Juilliard School. Her five-year tenure as violist of the award-winning Canberra String Quartet included recitals at Carnegie Hall and the Gardner Museum in Boston; performances at the Park City, Aspen, Bravo! Colorado, and Steamboat Springs music festivals; and a residency with the Emerson String Quartet. Alissa has performed with the American and Houston Symphony Orchestras, and is a member of the Gotham String Trio. As a baroque violist, she has appeared with The New York Collegium, Four Nations Ensemble, American Classical Orchestra, Concert Royal, Tempesta di Mare, the Carmel Bach Festival, and The Magnolia Baroque Festival; and on recordings with Apollo's Fire and the San Francisco Bach Choir. Violoncello Loretta O'Sullivan (principal) has been a member of the Four Nations Ensemble since 1989 appearing with them on the Great Performers Series at Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center and the Metropolitan Museum, as well as the Mostly Mozart festival, and Tema Culturais in Brazil. She also served as the cellist with the Haydn Baryton Trio and the Classical Quartet with whom she performed throughout the U.S. and Canada as well as at Wigmore Hall and Esterhazy Palace. Ms. O'Sullivan has also played and toured with the Aston Magna Festival in Germany and Italy. Her orchestra works includes the Bethlehem Bach Choir, Opera Lafayette, the N.Y. Collegium, and the Smithsonian Chamber Orchestra and the Orchestra of St. Luke's. Ms. O'Sullivan can be heard on the Dorian, Harmonia Mundi, Titanic and ASV record labels. Lindy Clarke is a founding member of the Claring Chamber Players and the New York Baroque Consort, she has been heard widely, both as chamber musician and soloist. Ms. Clarke is also a member of the Orchestra of St. Luke's, and also performs with the St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble, Opera Orchestra of N.Y., the Gotham City Orchestra, and the Philharmonia Virtuosi. She has recorded for DGG, Columbia, Music Masters and CRI, and lives in N.J. with her husband, oboist Stephen Taylor, and their son Jesse. Bass John Feeney (principal) is principal bass of the Orchestra of St. Luke's and a member of the St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble. He is a member of The Smithsonian Chamber Players and can be heard in NYC's major venues and festivals throughout the U.S. and Europe His numerous performances of double bass concerti, with orchestras such as the American Symphony and St. Luke's, include engagements at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Weill Recital Hall, and the Metropolitan and Brooklyn Museums. He has recorded extensively for all the major record labels. Harpsichord Andrew Appel is artistic director of the Four Nations Ensemble. He has performed in many festivals including Italy's Spoleto Festival, New York's Mostly Mozart Festival, and the Redwoods Festival. As recitalist, Mr. Appel has performed at Carnegie and Avery Fisher Halls in New York, as well as halls from the Music Academy of the West to the Smithsonian in Washington DC. Besides his work with The Four Nations Ensemble, he has joined the Smithsonian Players, Orpheus, The Violins of Lafayette, and several European chamber orchestras. He has enjoyed critical acclaim for his recording of Bach works with Bridge Records and presently records for ASV and Smithsonian recordings. Appel's most recent recording with ASV includes works by Bach, LeRoux, and Marchand. Appel's edition of the complete works of Gaspard Le Roux will be published by L'Oiseau Lyre, Monaco.
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Charles Brink began his flute studies with Jacob Berg in his native St. Louis. He received his Master's Degree at the New England Conservatory in Boston where he studied with Fenwick Smith. In 1993 Mr. Brink was a Fellow at the Tanglewood Festival. In 1995 he was awarded a Fulbright Grant to study with Wilbert Hazelzet and Rien de Reede at the Royal Conservatory of Music in The Hague, Netherlands where he earned certificates in 1997. Since devoting himself solely to historical flutes in 1998, he has toured and recorded with his own Bouts Ensemble, the Hannoverische Hofkapelle, the Capella Leopoldina, and the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra. Since 2001 Mr. Brink has been a member of the Four Nations Ensemble (New York City) with whom he has performed at many venues in the United States, among which are the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Great Performers series at Lincoln Center and the Boston early Music Festival. Mr. Brink has also served as principal flute in the Chursächsische Philharmonie (Saxony, Germany) which specialized in music of the classical and romantic periods. In the summer of 2003 Charles Brink was co-conductor of Ariodante by G. F. Händel at the Opera da Camera Linz Festival in Austria. His recordings can be heard on West German Radio, Middle German Radio, Dutch Radio and Television, Austrian Radio and the EMI, Raumklang (Germany) and Fuga Libera (Belgium) labels.
