Daniel Meyers

A versatile multi-instrumentalist, Dan Meyers is a flexible and engaging performer of both classical and folk music; his credits range from premieres of contemporary chamber music, to headlining a concert series in honor of Pete Seeger at the Newport Folk Festival, to playing Renaissance instruments on Broadway for Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre Company. He is a founding member of the early music/folk crossover group Seven Times Salt, and in recent seasons he has performed with the The Folger Consort, The Newberry Consort, Hesperus, Dünya, The Henry Purcell Society of Boston, Early Music New York, Amherst Early Music, The 21st Century Consort, In Stile Moderno, and the Cambridge Revels, making concert and theatrical appearances in NYC, Washington DC, Chicago, Minneapolis, Memphis, Santa Fe, at the Yellow Barn Festival in Vermont, and at at the “La Luna e i Calanchi” festival in Basilicata (Italy).

He enjoys playing traditional Irish music with the bands Ulster Landing and Ishna, as well as eclectic fusion from around the Mediterranean with the US/Italy-based group Zafarán; he also played winds and percussion for over a decade with the award-winning Italian folk music group Newpoli. As an educator, he has taught historical wind instruments for the Five Colleges Early Music Program in Massachusetts, at Tufts University, and at festivals and workshops around the Northeast.

www.danmeyersmusic.com

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 at the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington DC; Davenant’s Macbeth at the Folger Shakespeare Theatre; The Merchant of Venice at the Wanamaker Theatre at Shakespeare’s Globe in London; Vaughn Williams’ Riders to the Sea at the Amsterdam Grachtenfestival; and Verdi’s Rigoletto at Ente Concerti Città di Iglesias in Sardinia, Italy. This summer will mark Emily’s tenth year singing with the Santa Fe Desert Chorale. A passionate educator, Emily has served on the faculties of Franklin and Marshall College, Notre Dame of Maryland University, and The Community College of Rhode Island. She currently teaches at Otterbein University, where she directs the Cardinal Singers.