Mary Springfels
Director of Severall Friends
About
Mary Springfels is a veteran of the American early music movement. She began
her career at the age of 21 with the New York Pro Musica, and has played with most of the major ensembles in the field, including the Waverly Consort…
Elizabeth Blumenstock
Director of Severall Friends
Elizabeth Blumenstock is a long-time concertmaster, soloist, and leader with the Bay Area’s Philharmonia Baroque and American Bach Soloists, concertmaster of the International Handel Festival Orchestra in Goettingen, Germany…
David Morris
Dubbed a “basso continuo wizard” by Gramophone (UK), David Morris has made a specialty of performing 17th- and 18th-c. music on a variety of historical bass instruments including the viola da gamba, baroque cello, bass violin and lirone.
Lawrence Lipnik
Lawrence Lipnik has performed with many acclaimed early music ensembles from Anonymous 4 to Piffaro and the Waverly Consort, and is a founding member of the viol consort Parthenia and vocal ensemble Lionheart.
Mark Rimple
Countertenor and Instrumentalist Mark Rimple has garnered critical notice for his interpretation of early music from national newspapers and journals including the Philadelphia Inquirer, The New York Times, the Chicago Tribune…
Ryland Angel
Born on St Cecilia’s day, the Grammy-nominated British counter-tenor Ryland Angel has built an international reputation on both the opera and concert stage, in repertoire ranging from the Baroque to new operatic commissions at major opera houses…
Gary Wedow
Gary Thor Wedow has established a reputation for historically informed performances with choral organizations, opera companies and symphony orchestras across North America. A frequent guest of Berkshire Chorus International, he has…
Ken Perlow
Treasurer
An immigrant to New Mexico from the flatland of Illinois, Severall Friends Treasurer and General Manager Ken Perlow is a semi-professional gambist who has been a guest artist with the Newberry Consort, Ars Musica Chicago, the Chicago Early Music Consort…
Stephen Redfield
Devoted to chamber music since his youth, violinist Stephen Redfield won top prizes in the Coleman and Monterey Chamber Music competitions and participated in Aspen’s Center for Advanced Quartet Studies. Since then he has performed internationally as a chamber musician…
Kati Kyme
Kati Kyme, violin, enjoys a rich musical life as chamber musician, orchestral player, teacher, and conductor. She has been a member and frequent leader of Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra…
Robert Howard
A native of Atlanta, GA, Robert began studying cello at age 12. Graduate of Rice University and San Francisco Conservatory of Music. He has studied and performed at festivals…
Liana Bérubé
The artistry of violinist Liana Bérubé is inextricably intertwined with self-knowledge and self-compassion. Her openly expressive aesthetic, described as…
Shira Kammen
Multi-instrumentalist Shira Kammen has spent well over half her life exploring early and other intriguing styles of music. A member for many years of the early music Ensembles Alcatraz and Project Ars Nova…
Spiff Wiegand
Spiff Wiegand was born with 2 thumbs on his right hand. He plays over 20 instruments and up to 7 simultaneously as a one man band (videos online). Jimmy Fallon and Brad Pitt have lip-synced to his yodeling…
Tracy Cowart
Tracy Cowart (mezzo-soprano, harp) enjoys a wide range of vocal interests, from twelfth-century polyphony to contemporary art music. Praised by the New York Times as “the real attraction” with a voice that is “light and lithe…”
Vicki Boeckman
Vicki Boeckman‘s career as a professional recorder player has been a highly rewarding journey which has taken her to many exciting places including Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Germany, Austria, Italy, England, Scotland, Hawaii and British Columbia. She has recorded about 15 Cds…
Jonathan Richards
Jonathan Richards has appeared for many years in leading roles on the Santa Fe stage, and was seen this spring in No Man’s Land with the New Mexico Actor’s lab, of which he is a founding member. Film credits include Independence Day: Resurgence…
Wendy Gillespie
Wendy Gillespie was inexplicably attracted to renaissance polyphony long before she knew either word. A string player since childhood, she began playing the viola da gamba more than 50 years ago to pursue her interest, beginning a lifelong exploration of the enormous repertory for the viol…
Kathy McIntosh
Harpsichordist Kathleen McIntosh has appeared in the Esteban Salas Festival in Havana nearly every year since 2002. She
has been featured in the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival since 1996, and in festivals in the United States, Japan, Peru and
Germany.
Emily Noël
Soprano Emily Noël has appeared as a soloist with many leading early music ensembles, including The Folger Consort,
The Gabrieli Players, and the Washington Bach Consort. Recent stage credits include Measure + Dido, …
Michael Leopold
Michael Leopold holds both an undergraduate degree in music and a master’s degree in historical plucked instruments from American Universities as well a degree in lute and theorbo from L’Istituto di Musica Antica of the Accademia Internazionale della Musica in Milan, Italy…