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Joan Parsley, Harpsichord and fortepiano / Artistic Director
 Artistic Director JOAN PARSLEY is known internationally for her advocacy and vision for special projects in the field of early music. Over the past 25 years in Milwaukee, she has been the recipient of the Pro Musica Award by the Milwaukee Sentinel for her Beethoven In Vienna festival and exhibit and the Early Music America Early Music Brings History Alive National Award for her work on the music and life of J.S. Bach and his contemporaries (The American Bach Project). In 2011, under her guidance, Ensemble Musical Offering has been appointed Artists-In-Residence at the Cathedral Church of All Saints in Milwaukee. Her recent travels to Warsaw, Krakow and Dresden influenced her interest and defined research in 18th century Polish chamber music.
Combining the performing arts with the humanities, Joan has been an Honorary Scholar for the Wisconsin Humanities Council and independent study recipient with colleague Sylvester Kreilein, Ph.D. for the National Endowment for the Humanities. With an intense interest in language, history, religion, the decorative and visual arts as well as assembling a broad network of early music conductors, museum curators, and scholars, Parsley co-curated Fashion and Furnishings in the Age of Mozart at the Milwaukee Art Museum, and Beethoven in Vienna: The Second Style Period showcased at the Haggerty Art Museum. An Aston Magna Foundation at Rutgers University scholarship recipient to study the Spanish Baroque, she also created and produced the special project Spain and Its New World Empire, 1550-1750.
In recent years, Joan has been researching and studying the music of the early to mid-1800's in Germany and Austria which allowed Musical Offering to produce In Harmony: At Home with Biedermeier. Her most recent venture, The Vivaldi Project: The Composer's Affinity to the Natural World, will spans the 2010-2012 concert seasons.
Joan has studied 18th century early keyboard performance practice at the Oberlin Baroque Institute and Cornell University, as well as private studies with harpsichordists Edward Parmentier (University of Michigan-Ann Arbor), John Gibbons (Boston, MA), Gustav Leonhardt (Amsterdam) and Tom Koopman (Bussum). Over the years, she has performed with the Racine Symphony, Kenosha Symphony, Sullivan Ensemble, Milwaukee Symphony and Madison Chamber Orchestra.
Christin Hauptly Annin, Baroque Violin
 Baroque violinist CHRISTINE HAUPTLY ANNIN recently located to Milwaukee from Cincinnati, Ohio where she was a member of the Catacoustic Consort, Adastra Duo and Harmonious Blacksmith. She has baroque orchestral experience with Boston's Handel and Haydn Society Orchestra, New York State Baroque, Publick Musick and the Eastman Collegium where she served as guest Concertmaster for several productions. Her modern violin background includes work with the Dayton Philharmonic, Cincinnati Symphony and ProMusica Chamber Orchestras in Ohio. She has attended numerous early music performance institutes such as Oberlin Baroque Performance Institute, International Baroque Institute at Longy and Toronto's Tafelmusik Workshop and has studied baroque violin with Monica Huggett and Lucy van Dael. The 2011-2012 season represents her first season with Ensemble Musical Offering.
Louise Austin, Recorder
 LOUISE AUSTIN has been playing recorders for 43 years with various groups in the Chicago area and in Wisconsin. She served as a board member of the American Recorder Society, and as music review editor for the magazine. She was director of the Early Music Festival in Whitewater for 23 years and founder of the Oak Park Recorder School, Inc. in Oak Park, Illinois. She currently teaches and directs groups in the Milwaukee and Madison areas. In 2011, she was awarded the American Recorder Society's Presidential Special Honor Award. This season marks her first appearance with Ensemble Musical Offering.
William Bauer, Baroque Viola
 WILLIAM BAUER is the artistic director of the (Dallas area) McKinney Kammergild and the St. Louis Baroque Festival and Academy. He has been a member of Milwaukee's Ensemble Musical Offering since 2000 and is an active member of Atlanta's New Trinity Baroque, Chicago's Ars Antigua and The Comic Intermezzo. As a soloist he has appeared at the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, S.C.; in Mexico at the Journadas de Musica Antigua in Gunanajuato, and the Festival de Musica Barocca in San Miguel De Allende; the Iraklion International Festival (Crete); as well as the Lisbon, Boston and Vancouver Early Music festivals. William has programmed and led concerts for special exhibits at The Art Institute of Chicago, The Loyola University Museum of Art, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Detroit Institute of Arts and The Saint Louis Art Museum. His recordings can be found on the Deutsche Grammophon.
Brandi Berry, Baroque violin
 Violinist BRANDI BERRY, whose playing was recently praised as "alert [and] outstanding" by Chicago Classical Review, has appeared with various groups throughout the U.S. and Canada, including King's Noyse, Apollo's Fire, the Newberry Consort, Toronto's Classical Music Consort, the Indianapolis and Atlanta Baroque Orchestras, Milwaukee's Ensemble Musical Offering, and Baroque Band. She has appeared as soloist/concertmaster or section leader of Ars Antigua, the Madison Bach Musicians, and St. Louis' Kingsbury Ensemble. Ms. Berry has performed in numerous festivals throughout North America, including recital performances at the 2010 CMC Springtime Handel Festival; the Dame Myra Hess and Ars Musica Chicago series; the Chicago, Boston, and Berkeley Early Music Festivals; as concertmaster of the Bloomington Early Music Festival Opera Orchestra; Opera in the Ozarks as a principal; Crested Butte MoUNtain Institute; Madison Early Music Festival; and the Tafelmusik and Vancouver early music programs.
Brandi serves on the faculty of DePaul University as co-director of their Baroque Ensembles program. A student of Stanley Ritchie and Cynthia Roberts, she holds degrees in violin performance from Indiana University and the University of North Texas. She is co-artistic director of the Bach & Beethoven Ensemble.
Jonathan Brodie, Baroque Viola, Viola da gamba
 JONATHAN BRODIE studied modern violin with Abraham Chavez and viola with Robert Emile. In Whitefish Bay Public Schools, where he has taught for the past 21 years, he works enthusiastically to incorporate consort music of the 15th and 16th Century into his daily classroom teaching. In 2009, he was named "Music Teacher of the Year" by the Milwaukee Civic Music Association. He has performed, as a baroque violist with several Midwest early music ensembles; St. Louis Baroque, and Shakespeare's Band; in Milwaukee with the Playford Trio, the King's Musick, and most recently, Ensemble Musical Offering. He also plays folk-klezmer violin with the Chai Guys and finds both solace and recreation in playing viola da gamba in various Milwaukee area viol consorts.
Marilyn Fung, Violone
 MARILYN FUNG graduated from the Eastman School of Music, the Juilliard School, and received her Doctor of Musical Arts degree on double bass performance from the University of Michigan. She is a member of the Windsor Symphony, Nota Bene Period Orchestra, and a frequent performer with Bach Collegium Fort Wayne and many other orchestras and chamber groups in southwestern Ontario and Michigan. While attending the University of Michigan, She studied viola da gamba with Enid Sutherland. She has participated in Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Institute, Baroque Performance Institute (Oberlin), the Viola da Gamba Conclave, the Bloomington Early Music Festival, the Grand River Baroque Festival (Ontario) and the Ann Arbor Academy of Early Music series. Marilyn plays both tenor and bass viols as well as violone. She is a founding member of Michigan Baroque and performs with the Montgomery Consort of Viols and Waterloo-based Greensleaves, with which a CD "Polish Popular Music of the 17th Century" was released in 2009.
Clea Galhano, Recorder
 Brazilian recorder player CLEA GALHANO is an internationally- renowned performer of early, contemporary and Brazilian music. Clea has performed in the United States, Canada, South America and Europe as a chamber musician, collaborating with recorder player Marion Verbruggen, harpsichordist Jacques Ogg, Belladonna, Lanzelotte/Galhano Duo, Galhano/Montgomery Duo, Kingsbery Ensemble, and Blue Baroque Band. As a featured soloist, Galhano has worked with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra conducted by Christopher Hogwood, Nicholas McGegan and Emmanuelle Haim, World Symphony, Ensemble Musical Offering, Milwaukee Baroque and Lyra Baroque Orchestra. She is known as a guest performer at such important music festivals as the Boston Early Music Festival, the Tage Alter Music Festival in Germany and at Wigmore Hall in London,Weill and Merkin Hall in New York and Palazzo Santa Croce in Rome, always receiving acclaimed reviews.
Clea was featured in 2006 in the Second International Recorder Congress in Leiden, Holland and in 2007 at the International Recorder Conference in Montreal. She gave her Weill Hall/ Carnegie Hall debut on May 2010 receiving great reviews.
With studies completed at Brazil's Faculdade Santa Marcelina,the Royal Conservatory (The Hague), and the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Clea earned a Fulbright scholarship and support from the Dutch government to study early music. As an advocate of recorder music and educational initiatives, she served for six years on the national board of the American Recorder Society and was featured many years as teacher and soloist at Suzuki and AOSA conferences.
She regularly conducts workshops across the United States, Europe and Brazil. Currently, Ms. Galhano is the Executive Artistic Director of the St. Paul Conservatory of Music and she is on the faculty of Macalester College. Her recordings are available on the Dorian, Ten Thousand Lakes and Eldorado labels.
Marisa Gatti-Taylor, Narrator
 A gifted translator and musician, Dr. MARISA GATTI-TAYLOR has devoted much of her career to spreading knowledge and appreciation of Italian language and culture in the Midwest. She has worked with the Milwaukee Repertory Company, Next Act Theatre, and The Haggerty Museum as translator/interpreter and Italian language coach. In 2008, she introduced authentic traditional Italian hymns to the annual Mass at Festa Italiana and is currently producing a CD of this music for world-wide distribution.
Born in the Republic of San Marino (Italy), Dr. Gatti-Taylor received her Ph.D. with High Distinction in French and Italian from Wayne State University. She has taught both French and Italian at Wayne State University, The University of Windsor (Ontario, Canada), Bowling Green State University, Carthage College, Beloit College, Marquette University and The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She has published articles and book chapters on Italian and French literature and language in books and scholarly journals, such as Renascence: Values in Literature, Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Foreign Language Annals, Romance Notes, Michigan Academician, Essays in Literature.
Rachel Gries, Baroque viola
 RACHEL GRIES (nee Bienemann), Baroque viola, holds both Bachelor of Music and Master of Music Degrees from Indiana University. Her primary instructors include Stanley Ritchie, Atar Arad, and Mimi Zweig.
As an early music specialist, Rachel is the Principal Viola of the Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra. She also performs regularly with various groups throughout the Midwest, including Early Music St. Louis, Bourbon Baroque (Louisville, KY), and Ars Antiqua (Chicago, IL). She has coached and given master classes for the Community Music School of Webster University Baroque String Academy, and will teach at the Midwest Young Artist Summer Music Festival in 2011.
Rachel teaches violin and viola players, ages three through eighteen, at the Indianapolis Academy of Music. In addition, she serves as the Academy's Co-Director and Director of Chamber Music. She also directs the string ensemble at Franklin College. Rachel is a certified Suzuki instructor, and has also received extensive pedagogical training from Mimi Zweig. She has taught for the String Academy of Wisconsin, Bedford Young Violinists program, and the Zionsville school string program. The 2010-2011 season marked Rachel’s debut with Ensemble Musical Offering.
Jakob Hansen, Baroque violin
 JAKOB HANSEN, a native of Chicagoland, earned his bachelor’s degree in violin performance from Northern Illinois University. His principal teachers include Mark Zinger and Mathias Tacke. While at NIU, Jakob was awarded a grant to pursue study in medieval music and string instrument technique at the Newberry Library with Musician-in-Residence David Douglass, and now continues his study of Renaissance and baroque violin and viola with Mr. Douglass. Pursuing a career as a specialist in early music, he performs with many area ensembles including The Newberry Consort, Northwestern University’s Dunbar Festival Orchestra, Madison Bach Musicians, and the Bach and Beethoven Ensemble. In June, 2011, he was selected for EMA's Young Performer's Festival, and performed a program of early 17th century repertoire under the direction of Scott Metcalfe as part of the Boston Early Music Festival. Jakob made his debut with EMO as part of The Vivaldi Project.
Edith Hines, Baroque violin
 Based in Madison, Wisconsin, EDITH HINES performs frequently on Baroque and modern violins. She is adjunct instructor of violin and viola at Ripon College and directs an early music ensemble through the University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Continuing Studies. A member of the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra and Madison Symphony Orchestra, her primary interest is Baroque violin, on which she performs with the Madison Bach Musicians, Bach Collegium Fort Wayne, and violin/keyboard duo Ensemble SDG with harpsichordist John Chappell Stowe. Edith has studied modern violin with David Updegraff, Donald Weilerstein, and David Perry and has had coaching in historical performance from Julie Andrijeski, Robert Mealy, and others. She holds degrees from the Cleveland Institute of Music, New England Conservatory, and University of Wisconsin-Madison. 2010 marked her debut with Ensemble Musical Offering.
Rene Izquierdo, Guitar
 RENE IZQUIERDO is currently a professor of classical Guitar at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. As a concert artist, he has performed throughout North America, Cuba, Puerto Rico and Europe as solo recitalist, chamber musician and soloist with orchestra. He has received wide critical acclaim for his performances, and is recognized as one of America's classical guitar virtuosos. Rene has shared the stage with prestigious guitarists Eliot Fisk, Benjamin Verdery and Jorge Morel, renowned flutist Ransom Wilson, soprano Lucy Shelton, Carlo Aonzo, The Quintet of the Americas, Susanna Phillips, Todd Leavy, David Jolley and recorded with Paquito d' Rivera, among others. Composers such as Jorge Morel and Carlos R. Rivera have dedicated works to him.
A native of Cuba, Rene studied at the Amadeo Roldan Conservatory and Superior Institute of Art in Havana. In the United States, he earned a Master of Music and Artist Diploma degrees from the Yale University School of Music. As one of the world's leading classical guitarist Rene is recipient of numerous awards such as the JoAnn Falletta International Guitar Competition in 2004, Extremadura International Guitar Competition, and Stotsenberg International Guitar Competition among others.
In recent years, Rene and Joan Parsley have collaborated on two solo recitals exploring the music of Carulli for guitar and fortepiano. The 2010-2011 season marked his debut with Ensemble Musical Offering as part of The Vivaldi Project.
Paul Jacobson, Baroque flute
 PAUL JACOBSON, principal flutist and cofounder of The Lyra Baroque Orchestra and flutist for The WolfGang and Ensemble Musical Offering, has performed with many notable ensembles throughout the United States, among them the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra, Oberlin BPI Orchestra, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Chicago Baroque Ensemble, Bach Society of Minnesota, The Schubert Club, The Rose Ensemble, and The St. Louis Baroque Festival Orchestra. He has been a featured soloist for National Flute Association conventions, the International Artists Series of Worcester, Massachusetts, the Iowa Historical Keyboard Association, the UW-EC Baroque Series, the Shrine to Music of South Dakota, and The St. Cloud Chamber Music Society. Known nationally as a proponent for early music, Paul has been a National Flute Association board member, chairperson of its Historical Flutes Committee, and vice-president of the board of directors for Early Music America. His teachers include Martha Bixler, Steven Silverstein, Sandra Miller, Robert Willoughby, Chris Krueger, and Wilbert Hazelzet.
Tedd King, Organ
 Organist TEDD KING graduated from Northern Illinois University (NIU) earning Master Degrees in Music (1978) and Computer Science (1986). Tedd began organ studies with William Voltmer, Organist and Choirmaster at First Luther Church in DeKalb, Illinois, and continued studies with Dr. Robert Reeves at NIU and Oscar Peter at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria. After completing degrees in Music at NIU, Tedd served as organist and choirmaster at First Lutheran Church in DeKalb. He extended his postgraduate education by pursuing degrees in Computer Science at NIU. After completing the Master of Science degree in Computer Science, Tedd moved to Neenah, WI to take a position with Kimberly-Clark. In 1989, Tedd moved to Milwaukee to work for MI Data Services, now known as the FIS, as a Senior Information Technology Architect. Along with his position at FIS, Tedd served as organist and choirmaster at St. John’s Northwestern Military Academy in Delafield, WI and is currently the sub-organist of the Cathedral Church of All Saints, Episcopal, Milwaukee.
Gesa Kordes, Baroque violin
 GESA KORDES performs with numerous chamber ensembles and Baroque Orchestras on both sides of the Atlantic, including the Washington Bach Consort, Ensemble Musical Offering, Muses' Delight, Opera Lafayette, Ensemble Tra i Tempi, and the Rheinisches Barockorchester Bonn, as well as the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra. She has toured as soloist and chamber musician in the U.S., Central America, Europe, and Israel and has recorded for NPR, harmonia mundi, FONO, Dorian, and Naxos. She performs frequently at international music festivals, such as the Bloomington, Berkeley, and Boston Early Music Festivals, the Staunton Music Festival, Troisdorf Barock, and the Carmel and Victoria Bach Festival.
Since 1998, Gesa has been increasingly in demand as teacher and as ensemble director of chamber groups and period orchestras in the U.S. and Europe. After teaching at Indiana University and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, she joined the faculty of the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa in August 2009 as the director of the newly-founded Early Chamber Ensemble program.
Robert Levine, Baroque viola
 ROBERT LEVINE has been the Principal Violist of the Milwaukee Symphony since September 1987. Prior to joining the MSO, Robert was a member of the Orford String Quartet, Quartet-in-Residence at the University of Toronto, with whom he toured extensively throughout Canada, the United States, and South America. He has also served as principal violist of The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and as guest principal violist with the Indianapolis Symphony and the Hong Kong Philharmonic. Robert has been featured as soloist with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Oklahoma City Symphony, the London Symphony of Canada, the Midsummer Mozart Festival (San Francisco), and numerous community orchestras in Northern California, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. He has also been featured on American Public Radio's nationally broadcast show "St. Paul Sunday Morning" on several occasions.
As an active chamber musician, Robert has performed at the Festival Rolandseck in Germany, the Grand Teton Music Festival, the Palm Beach Festival, the "Strings in the Mountains" Festival in Colorado, and numerous concerts in the Twin Cities and Milwaukee. He has also been active in the field of new music, having commissioned and premiered works for viola and orchestra from Minnesota composers Janika Vandervelde and Libby Larsen.
Robert attended Stanford University and the Institute for Advanced Musical Studies in Switzerland. His primary teachers were Aaron Sten and Pamela Goldsmith. He also studied with Paul Doctor, Walter Trampler, Bruno Giuranna, and David Abel. Though he has performed Soler quintets in prior years with Joan Parsley, the 2010-2011 season marked Robert’s offical debut on Baroque viola with Ensemble Musical Offering.
Debra Lonergan, Baroque cello
 DEBRA LONERGAN performs with the early 17th century ensembles Voci dell'Anima, Anaphantasia, La Gente d'Orfeo, the period string quartet Mirabel, and has been a core member of Milwaukee's Ensemble Musical Offering since 1995. She has played continuo in concert for several of today's leading early music soloists, among them, Jaap Schroeder, Stanley Ritchie, Marilyn McDonald and John Holloway, and she concertizes in a variety of settings throughout the United States.
As a long-standing member of the Michigan Opera Theatre Orchestra in Detroit, Ms. Lonergan began to study and specialize in early music in 1985. She then worked extensively with Ann Arbor's American Baroque Ensemble, as well as its predecessor, Ars Musica, and participated in the 1989 Michigan MozartFest with Roger Norrington, as well as a twenty-city national tour celebrating the 1985 Bach anniversary year.
Ms. Lonergan has made an extensive study of string pedagogy, and for nearly a decade was an academic program administrator for Detroit's Center for Creative Studies-Institute of Music and Dance, serving hundreds of students from the greater metropolitan area of Detroit. With nearly 30 years of experience teaching all ages, she maintains an active private studio.
Ivar Lunde, Jr., Baroque Oboe
 Former principal oboist of the Norwegian National Opera, IVAR LUNDE, JR. was educated at the Conservatory of Music, Oslo, Norway, and the Mozarteum, Salzburg, Austria. His teachers of oboe include Kees Lahnstein and Andre Lardrot; of Baroque oboe Grant Moore and James Caldwell; of composition, his father, Ivar Lunde, Sr.; and of conducting Trygve Lindemann, Hermann Scherchen, and Carl Melles. He has taught and performed in Europe and the United States, and appeared as oboe soloist with the Bergen Philharmonic and the Oslo Philharmonic, and many smaller orchestras in Norway, Sweden, Austria, and the United States.
Ivar is a prolific composer and has been awarded numerous prizes and commissions. Several orchestral works have been performed by the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, the Milwaukee Chamber Orchestra, the Oslo Philharmonic (Norway), the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra (Norway) and Eau Claire Chamber Orchestra. Many of his works are published and recorded in the United States and Norway including a CD featuring wind and keyboard compositions released by the Hemera label in Norway, as well as ECCO Tells the Tale with the Eau Claire Chamber Orchestra and a CD with solo sonatas for the oboe (baroque ) by William Babell released by the Tonheim Records label.
He is Professor Emeritus of Music at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire as well as Music Director and former principal oboist with the Eau Claire Chamber Orchestra and former music director and conductor of the Chippewa Valley Symphony and the Chippewa Valley Youth Symphony. In 1988 Mr. Lunde formed a small publishing company, Skyline Publications, to publish art music. Later, Skyline Studios was added to provide audio and video post-production to area artists.
Eric Miller, Viola da gamba
 ERIC MILLER, viola da gambist and baroque cellist, performs actively and eclectically in Southern Wisconsin and Illinois. Regular appearances have been with the Wisconsin Baroque Ensemble and Madison Bach Musicians in addition to various other baroque ensembles. In the 2010 Season, he appeared on stage as a cellist with the renowned American Players Theater and will return in 2011 for the production of the The Gift of the Magi. Having long nurtured a love for improvised music, including jazz and folk idioms, he consistently takes part in performance and recording projects in many styles and traditions. Eric holds his M.M. in cello performance from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and B.M. in Education from Northern Illinois University, where, in addition to cello, he also studied trumpet and began self-directed viola da gamba studies which have since been augmented by the input of many fine gambists and baroque specialists from throughout the country. His primary cello studies have been with Marc Johnson of the Vermeer Quartet and Parry Karp of the Pro Arte Quartet. A registered Suzuki cello teacher, Eric maintains a cello studio in Madison, and also teaches trumpet and viola da gamba. In addition, he teaches strings for the Madison Metropolitan School Distract and has taught viola da gamba at the Madison Early Music Festival for the past three years.
Eric performs on a seven--string bass viola da gamba by Daniel Foster, Blacksburg, Virginia, 2008. His baroque bow is by Louis Begin, Lantier, Quebec.
Rick Murrell, Baroque Trumpet
 Originally from Muncie, Indiana, RICK MURRELL graduated in 1979 from Ball State University with degrees in Music Performance and Music Education. He is currently the Director of the Pittsburgh Ceremonial Brass Quintet, Artists-in-Residence at Fox Chapel Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh, PA and Founder of the Pittsburgh Baroque Ensemble. Rick has also performed with Tempesta di Mare: The Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra and most recently with Apollo’s Fire: The Cleveland Baroque Orchestra.
In 1980, he was offered a position as principal trumpet in the Veracruz Symphony Orchestra in Veracruz, Mexico. Since returning to the U.S., Rick has won positions in many different orchestras and festivals playing with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Loren Maazel, Leonard Slatkin and Charles Dutoit Leonard Slatkin , Charles Dutoit and Marvin Hamlisch.
The 2011-2012 season heralds performances with the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra, Tempesta di Mare, Ensemble Musical Offering - Milwaukee’s Midwest Bande for Early Music, and in Cleveland, with the Apollo’s Fire production of Mozart’s Magic Flute in Severence Hall.
He performs on an Egger “Historic” Model Trumpet reproduction of Johann Ehe II, ca. 1720.
David Myford, Baroque violin
 DAVID MYFORD began his career as a violinist in the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. A decade later he began playing early music on baroque violin as principal violinist in Chicago's first early music orchestra, The City Musick. Subsequently he moved to the east coast and served as principal violinist in early music ensembles in Princeton, NYC, Philadelphia, and Wilmington, Delaware. He performs on a historic copy of an Andrea Amati violin of Cremona built in 2002 by Roger Graham Hargrave of Meyenburg, Germany. He and his wife travel as often as possible to Milwaukee to take in a great city. David made his debut with Ensemble Musical Offering as part of the 2010-2011 The Vivaldi Project.
Patrick O’Malley, Recorder
 Hailed as “distinguished” by the Chicago Tribune, PATRICK O’MALLEY has performed from California to New York, as well as in the Netherlands and the Czech Republic. Locally he has appeared with Music of the Baroque, Chicago Opera Theater, Baroque Band, Bach Week Festival Orchestra, Rembrandt Chamber Players, Chicago Chamber Orchestra, Trio Settecento with Rachel Barton Pine, Lincolnwood Chamber Orchestra, North American Choral Company, harpist Stephen Hartman, many of Chicago’s early music ensembles, and “Live from Studio One” on WFMT.
He has presented the world premiere of “Passacaille” by Isaac Watras and the American premiere of Christopher Ball’s “Concerto for Recorder and String Orchestra.” With Lisette Kielson he has released a 2-disc recording, Telemann: Canons and Duos.
Mr. O’Malley runs a private teaching studio and is on the faculty of the Music Institute of Chicago. Patrick earned a Master of Music degree in recorder from Indiana University, where he studied with Eva Legêne and served as Associate Instructor. As the recipient of a Netherlands Fulbright Fellowship, Patrick pursued further studies with Han Tol at the Rotterdam Conservatory. He has served as board member of the American Recorder Teachers Association. His articles have been published in American Recorder and The Recorder Education Journal.
Laura Osterlund, Recorder
 LAURA OSTERLUND has been a student of early music and the recorder since 1999. Among her teachers are Clea Galhano, Matthias Maute, and Natalie Michaud. Currently, Laura resides in Montréal where she is pursuing a Bachelor of Music degree with major concentrations in Early Music Performance and Music History at McGill University. Laura is an active musician throughout Montreal and Chicago and an avid member of the movement to promote Early Music performance, pedagogy, research, and appreciation throughout North America. She currently works as a writer for the early music radio program Harmonia and the website for Early Music Radio. She is also an instructor at workshops such as the Madison and Whitewater early music summer festivals. In 2011, Laura received EMA’s prestigious Barbara Thornton Memorial Scholarship for medieval music. After the completion of her McGill University degree, Laura will continue her musical studies at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel, Switzerland.
Philip Rukavina, Lute
 PHILIP RUKAVINA studied lute with Hopkinson Smith at the Academie Musical in Villecroze, France and in Basel, Switzerland, and also with Patrick O'Brien in New York, NY. He performs nationally and internationally as a lute and vihuela soloist, ensemble performer, and as a continuo player.He is a founding member of the Venere Lute Quartet, the Chambure Vihuela Quartet, and the Terzetti Lute Duo as well as a regular guest instrumentalist with the early vocal group the Rose Ensemble. Philip has performed with numerous singers and instrumental ensembles including the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the New World Symphony, soprano Carrie Henneman Shaw, and others. He has been a regular member of the faculty at the Lute Society of America's bi-annual Seminars at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, and directed the event in 2008 and 2010. He has also directed the lute program at the Amherst Early Music Festival in New London, Connecticut in 2005, 2007, and 2009.
Three solo lute recordings are credited to his name including his recent 2010 release, Music from the Casteliono Lutebook 1536. A new recording by the Venere Lute Quartet, titled Airy Entertainments, is expected to be released by the Lute Society of America in January, 2011.
Philip Spray, Violone
 PHILIP SPRAY, violone, is a performer with numerous period instrument ensembles across the country and is a co-founder of the Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra under Barthold Kuijken. He leads Musik Ekklesia, a period instrument ensemble dedicated to performance of sacred baroque music, and Pills to Purge Melancholy, a cross-over ensemble that combines period instrument performances with original story-telling. Philip has collaborated with Concordia Publishing (St. Louis) on the recordings Hymns of Luther, now in its third printing, and Heirs of the Reformation . Currently being prepared for release is Musik Ekklesia's first solo recording of 17th c. Scandinavian sacred music along with works Bach, Cruger and Praetorius sung in Norwegian, Danish and Swedish.
Marc Vallon, Bassoon
 MARC VALLON is Associate Professor of bassoon at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Music since 2004. He received his musical education at the Paris Conservatoire, where his teachers were Maurice Allard, Maurice Bourgue (chamber music) and Jacques Merlet (counterpoint and composition).Marc began playing professionally in Paris orchestras at the age of 17, while still a student, and has had the privilege of performing under legendary conductors such as Sergiu Celibidache, Leonard Bernstein, Seiji Ozawa, Karl Boehm, and Lorin Maazel. His interests later lead him to work with contemporary music groups culminating in the 1980s in a fascinating period of collaboration with Pierre Boulez's Ensemble Intercontemporain.
In 1982, at the initiative of the French conductor Jean-Claude Malgoire, Marc started playing the baroque bassoon. He has been the principal bassoon of the the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra for twenty years, principal bassoon of Philippe Herrewheghe's "Orchestre des Champs Elysées" for 12 years and has participated in concerts worldwide with world-top ensembles like Tafelmusik, La Petite Bande, Les Musiciens du Louvre and Concerto Köln.
Marc was the first baroque/classical bassoon teacher appointed by the Paris Conservatoire.
Stas Venglevski, Accordion
 The brilliant artistry and musical virtuosity of STAS VENGLEVSKI afford an expanded dimension in music and an innovative musical adventure to audiences here and abroad. A native of the Republic of Moldava, (part of the former Soviet Union) Stas is a graduate of the Russian Academy of Music in Moscow where he received his Master’s Degree in Music. A two-time first prize winner of the Bayan competition in the Republic of Moldova, we worked under the tutelage of the famed Russian bayanist, Friedrich Lips. He immigrated to the United States in 1992. Stas' repertoire includes his original compositions, a broad range of classical, contemporary and ethnic music. He has performed as a soloist throughout the former Soviet Union, Canada, Europe and the United States including numerous performances with Doc Severinsen, Steve Allen and Garrison Keillor on the Prairie Home Companion Show. He is well known in Milwaukee for his work with Frank Almond of Frankly Music. This season marks his first appearance with Ensemble Musical Offering where he will perform organ works by Johnann Sebastian Bach transcribed for accordion as well as sonatas by the 18th-century Italian harpsichordist Domenico Scarlatti.
The Bach Collegium Choir
 The BACH COLLEGIUM CHOIR premiered during The American Bach project produced by Ensemble Musical Offering from 1999-2003. Core members include soprano Jennifer Gettel, mezzo-soprano Christine Kieffer, tenor William Lavonis, and baritone Rick Kieffer. All well known to Milwaukee audiences and beyond, each has won acclaim with such various organizations as the Skylight Opera, The Milwaukee Mandolin Orchestra, Milwaukee Chamber Orchestra, Lutheran A Cappella Choir, Bach Chamber Choir, Present Music, American Symphony Orchestra, Santa Fe Desert Chorale, Berkshire Choral Festival to name a few. Jennifer Gettel teaches voice at UW-Milwaukee and Wisconsin Conservatory of Music and is currently Director of Music at St. Boniface Episcopal Church in Mequon. You'll find Christine Kieffer active as a soloist/choral artist in various Milwaukee churches including St. Paul's Episcopal, Congregation Emmanu-el B'ne Jershurun and as the alto section leader in the Chancel Choir at North Shore Congregational Church of Fox Point. Dr. William Lavonis holds degrees in voice, opera and musical theatre from the University of Cincinnati, Philadelphia's University of the Arts, and Shenandoah Conservatory. He recently completed his 14th and final year as Professor of Voice and Director of Opera-Musical Theatre at UW-Milwaukee where he produced and directed such stage works as The Crucible, Dialogues of the Carmelites, Marriage of Figaro, Gianni Schicchi, L'Ormindo, West Side Story and The Coronation of Poppea. He has performed over 100 leading and supporting roles in opera and musical theatre throughout the United States. Aside from his work as a soloist with many of Milwaukee-based choral ensembles, Rick Kieffer was also a principal singer in Canticle Consort of Milwaukee. He shares his love of music through his sensitive interpretations of Lieder, French melodie, American and British Art Songs and sacred repertoire. Holding the music of JS Bach dear to his heart, he serves as choral director at Whitefish Bay High School and North Shore Congre gational Church.
Jennifer Gettel, Soprano
 Soprano JENNY GETTEL has served as principal soprano soloist with the Bach Babes and with Ensemble Musical Offering, where she worked with Stanley Ritchie, Marion Verbruggen, Joshua Rifkin, and other Baroque specialists. Ms. Gettel has appeared as soloist with Present Music, Bach Chamber Choir, Lutheran A Cappella Choir, Racine Symphony, and Skylight Opera, where she performed in a cycle of Monteverdi operas under the direction of Stephen Wadsworth. She teaches private voice lessons at UW-Milwaukee, at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music, and at her home in Grafton. She was director of the Jubilate Choir of the Milwaukee Children’s Choir and is currently Director of Music at St. Boniface Episcopal Church in Mequon.
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