Mary Springfels

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, The Folger Consort, Philharmonia Baroque, the Seattle Baroque Orchestra, Musica Sacra of New York, and Pomerium Musices, to name a few. In 1983 she became Musician in-Residence at the Newberry Library, and was the director of the Newberry Consort for 20 years. In 2008, she fulfilled a lifelong dream, and moved to New Mexico. Since then, she has travelled widely, working with Sonoma Bach, the Lobo Baroque Orchestra, the Arizona Bach Society, Ars Lyrica of Houston, The Texas Early Music Project of Austin, and continues to work with Drew Minter, and her beloved colleagues at the Folger Consort. She can be heard on dozens of recordings. Springfels is also a very active teacher and coach. She and Elizabeth Blumenstock are Co-Directors of the newly founded Severall Friends, based in Santa Fe.

Kathleen 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. A resident of Santa Fe, New Mexico, she has appeared on every local concert series, and with the Santa Fe Symphony, Santa Fe Pro Musica and Serenata of Santa Fe. McIntosh is a champion of contemporary music. She appeared regularly with the series 20th Century Unlimited and is part of the McFish Duo. From 1999-2009, she performed with the Vail Valley Bravo! Festival, which commissioned a work by Melinda Wagner especially for her that premiered in the 2005 season. Other premieres have included works by Leo Brouwer, John Steinmetz, Carl Mansker, Alex Shapiro and many others.

McIntosh has been soloist with the Chamber Orchestra Kremlin in Moscow, Vietnam National Symphony in Hanoi, Solistas de La Habana, Santa Fe Friends in Tsuyama, Japan, and with many American groups. She teaches regularly in Cuba as part of the Semana Sacra sponsored by the national cathedral, in Peru at the national conservatory in Lima, and in Opole, Poland at the Diecezjalny Instytut Musyki Koscielnej. In November 2015, she performed the entire Clavier-Ubung of J.S.Bach in five concerts in Los Angeles, California, with organist Ron McKean and harpsichordist Janine Johnson. Ms. McIntosh was a student of John Hamilton and Thurston Dart. She can be heard in recordings from Gasparo and Maricam Studios.