Elisabeth Reed, treble viol

Elisabeth Reed teaches viola da gamba at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where she is co-director of the Baroque Orchestra. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer described her playing as, “intense, graceful, suffused with heat and vigor.” A member of the American Bach Soloists, Voices of Music, and Wildcat Viols, she has also appeared with the Seattle, Portland, and Philharmonia Baroque Orchestras, and at the Boston Early Music Festival, the Berkeley Early Music Festival, the Ohai Festival, the Whidbey Island Music Festival, and the San Luis Obispo Mozart Festival. A graduate of the North Carolina School of the Arts, the Oberlin Conservatory, the Eastman School of Music, and Indiana University's Early Music Institute, Elisabeth also teaches baroque cello and viola da gamba at the University of California at Berkeley. She is a Guild-certified practitioner of the Feldenkrais Method of Awareness Through Movement, with a focus on working with musicians and performers.

Farley Pearce, tenor viol

Farley Pearce is a San Francisco musician who plays viols, violone, cello, and contrabass. He has performed with the Baroque orchestras of Vancouver, Portland, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, and is a member of the Voices of Music ensemble and the Sex Chordae Consort of Viols. He also has appeared with American Bach Society, Archetti, Magnificat!, Musica Pacifica, Marin Baroque, and the Albany Consort, as well as symphony orchestras in the Bay Area and the Spoleto Festival in Italy. His frequent recitals have featured old and new music for period contrabass as well as late 18th century music for viol and fortepiano.

David H. Miller, tenor viol

David H. Miller is a musicologist, a performer, and an Assistant Professor of Practice at the University of California, Berkeley, where he directs the University Baroque Ensemble. As a performer, he focuses on early bowed instruments (including the viola da gamba, violone, and Baroque double bass) and the music of the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. David has performed with the Handel and Haydn Society, Arcadia Players, Trinity Wall Street, and New York Baroque Incorporated, and collaborates often with Seven Times Salt. He holds a Ph.D. in musicology from Cornell University, and is a member of the American Musicological Society, the Society for American Music, the Viola da Gamba Society of America, and the Association of Anglican Musicians.

David Morris, bass viol and Baroque cello

David Morris has performed across the U.S., Canada, and Europe. He is a member of Quicksilver and the Bertamo Trio and has been a continuo player for the Boston Early Music Festival since 2013. He is a frequent guest performer on the New York State Early Music Association and Pegasus Early Music series and has performed with Tafelmusik, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and the Mark Morris Dance Group. He has been a guest instructor in historical performance practice at Cornell University and Oberlin College and has recorded for Harmonia Mundi, CBC/Radio-Canada, and New Line Cinema.

Yuko Tanaka, organ

Yuko Tanaka, a native of Tokyo, Japan, is active as soloist and ensemble performer on harpsichord, fortepiano and chamber organ. Yuko performs with ensembles including Bertamo Trio, Music of the Spheres, Archetti, Musica Pacifica, and has recorded with Moscow Chamber Orchestra and American Bach Soloists. She also performed with the San Francisco Symphony and the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra, and most recently with the Seattle Symphony performing Bach’s D major Harpsichord Concerto. For 15 years, Yuko was a soloist at the Carmel Bach Festival. Yuko directs Music Discovery Workshop (a program of San Francisco Early Music Society), maintains a private studio, conducts master classes, and appears as guest lecturer at various universities. Notable engagements include performances at the Frick Collection (New York City), Tage Alter Musik Regensburg (Germany) and the Istanbul International Music Festival. Yuko received a Doctor in Musical Arts (DMA) in early music from Stanford University and has studied with Margaret Fabrizio at Stanford University, Gustav Leonhardt in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and Ketil Haugsand in Oslo, Norway.