Annette Bauer, a native of Germany, studied medieval and Renaissance music at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel, Switzerland, specializing in recorder techniques with Conrad Steinmann (2001). She holds an M.A. in music from UC Santa Cruz (2004), and has been a student at the Ali Akbar College of Music in California since 1998, where she studies North Indian classical music on sarode, a stringed instrument.
Annette regularly performs with Baroque ensemble Les grâces and the Farallon Recorder Consort, and has appeared at the Santa Cruz Baroque and the Carmel Bach Festivals, as well as with Texas Early Music Project, Chamber Music San Francisco, the Catacoustic Consort, and the California Bach Society. She has served on the recorder faculty for the San Francisco Early Music Society summer workshops, Amherst Early Music Festival, as well as for the Texas Fall Toot, and the San Francisco Orff Certification Course. Annette teaches in Oakland, CA, and conducts recorder workshops and classes in medieval notation in the Bay Area. She plays Brazilian percussion with Maracatu Luta, and is the co-founder of Magic Carpet, a duo dedicated to the art of improvisation.
Phoebe Jevtovic performs chamber music, early opera, and experimental music in the United
States and abroad. She has appeared as a soloist with the Waverly Consort, American Bach
Soloists, Musica Angelica, Magnificat, and North Holland Opera. She is the featured soloist of
the baroque ensemble La Monica, with whom she has appeared in international concert series
such as New York’s Music Before 1800, Pittsburgh’s Renaissance and Baroque Society, Houston
Early Music, and San Francisco Early Music Society. Also with La Monica, she has given
acclaimed performances at the Amherst, Berkeley, and Boston Early Music Festivals.
She has performed the roles of Despina in Mozart’s Così fan tutte, Amphitrite in Locke’s
Tempest, Cupid in Purcell’s Timon of Athens, and the title role in Rossi’s Orfeo.
Among Phoebe’s other projects are an art song collaboration with celebrated pianist Robert Thies; touring the US and Indonesia with Gamelan X (a Balinese-inspired hybrid world music ensemble); and singing in Kitka, a Balkan women’s vocal ensemble. She has also recorded a wide range of repertoire for Nonesuch, Wave, and Gothic Records. Phoebe completed her M.A. degree in Early Music Performance at USC, and has edited a book of solo songs by Tarquinio Merula that is due to be published by A&R Editions.
Shira Kammen has spent well over half her life exploring the worlds of early and traditional
music. A member for many years of Ensembles Alcatraz, Project Ars Nova, and Medieval
Strings, she has also worked with Sequentia, Hesperion XX, the Boston Camerata, Teatro
Bacchino, Kitka, and is the founder of Class V Music, an ensemble dedicated to performance on
river rafting trips. She has performed and taught in the US, Canada, Mexico, Europe, Israel,
Morocco, and Japan, and on the Colorado and Rogue Rivers.
Shira happily collaborated with singer/storyteller John Fleagle for fifteen years, and performs now with several groups: a medieval ensemble, Fortune's Wheel; a contemporary music group, Ephemeros; an eclectic ethnic band, Panacea; as well as collaborations with performers such as Anne Azema, Patrick Ball, and Margriet Tindemans. Some of her original music can be heard in a documentary film about the fans of J.R.R. Tolkien.
Tim Rayborn, an acclaimed multi-instrumentalist, plays dozens of musical instruments from medieval Europe,
the Middle East, and the Balkans, including: lutes, plucked strings, flutes, and percussion. He has recorded to
date on nearly 30 CDs for a number of labels, including Gaudeamus, Wild Boar, EMP, and Magnatune.
Tim lived in the UK for seven years, taking his Ph.D. in medieval studies at the University of Leeds, and working as a musician. He has toured the U.S. and Europe extensively (from Ireland to Turkey), performing with the medieval groups Tintagel and Ensemble Florata (including concerts at both the York and Beverley Early Music Festivals, Alden Biesen Castle in Belgium, Bunyloa in Majorca, and the Spitalfields Festival in London). He has given a number of performances for BBC, toured in Canada and Australia, and worked with folk musicians in Marrakech and Istanbul. He has taught at the SFEMS Medieval/Renaissance summer workshop, and has appeared with many early music performers, including Ensemble Alcatraz; Anne Azema; Susan Rode Morris; Peter Maund; Kit Higginson; Tom Zajac; Sinfonye; Wyrewood; and members of the Harp Consort. In addition to his solo work, he currently performs with Patrick Ball, Swedish folk musicians Dråm, and collaborates regularly with Shira Kammen.
