Ana Vasić – Baroque violin
Ana is violinist born in Slovenia, Postojna in 1992 to Bosnian parents. She lives in Amsterdam since 2011, where she graduated from BA classical violin with teachers Ilya Grubert and Kees Koelmans. She then completed her Master's degree with summa cum laude at the ESMUC in Barcelona under the guidance of Emilio Moreno in historical violin performance. She is a freelance musician playing with various orchestras and ensembles in the Netherlands and abroad, such as Concerto d'Amsterdam, Music Amphion, Corelli Collective, Belvedere string quartet, Ensemble Antiphonus, Odyssee Ensemble etc.
Currently she is playing on a Klotz violin from 1780, Mittenwald.
Galit Zadok – Recorder and Dulcian
Galit is a graduate of the Israeli Conservatory of Music - Tel Aviv at the recorder class of Chana Reuven and Flute class of Yaara Wayne. She holds a bachelor diploma from The Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance in the recorder class of Ms. Drora Bruck and from The Conservatorium van Amsterdam in the recorder class of Mr. Jorge Isaac where she is
currently following historical bassoon studies with Mr. Benny Aghassi.
In 2010 Galit was a semifinalist at the Paul Ben-Haim competition, she had won the American-Israel Scholarship for the years 2010-2012, and also received The Avi Fellowship Scholarship foundation for the year 2012-2013 and the Siday Fellowship for Musical Creativity for the years 2016-2017. In 2018 she was accepted and followed the Erasmus programme at the Conservatorio di Milano where she studied historical bassoon with professor Alberto Grazzi.
Valeria Sanchez – Violone
Valeria performs through the Netherlands and in Europe as a freelance double bassist. Played in several ensembles like The Bach, Choir and Orchestra of the Netherlands o.l.v Pieter-Jan Leusink, Ensemble t' Kabinet (Westerkerk Amsterdam) Concerto Barroco. She has performed under the guidance of notable figures such as: Alfredo Bernardini, Teunis Van Der Zwart, Sigiswald Kuijken, and Enrico Onofri.
Valeria started her double bass studies in Mexico and graduating in 2009. And in 2011 she moved to Amsterdam to specialize in Historical Performance Practice obtaining her 2nd bachelor degree in 2015. She graduated in 2017 from the master program in Amsterdam Conservatory. Experienced as a chamber and orchestral musician, Valeria plays the 8' and 16' violones.
Punto Bawono – Baroque guitar
Punto is currently studying theorbo, lute, and baroque guitar with Mike Fentross and Joachim Held at the Royal Conservatoire of the Hague and with Paul Beier at the Civica Scuola di Musica Claudio Abbado, Milan, Italy. Punto has played in master classes for many renowned musicians, including Hopkinson Smith, Peter Croton, Michael Chance, Emma Kirkby and David Miller. He also received coaching in the field of historical performance practice and chamber music by specialists such as Alessandro Quarta, Frank de Bruine, Lucia Swarts, Wilbert Hazelzet, Lorenzo Ghielmi, and Shunske Sato.
Punto performs regularly as a soloist, accompanist and a basso continuo player. He is playing on a baroque guitar built by luthier Ivo Magherini and it is a copy of an instrument by Giovanni Tessler from 1620 (coll. Museo degli Strumenti Musicali Antichi, Rome).
Galit Zadok – Recorder and Dulcian
Galit Zadok – Recorder and dulcian Galit Zadok is a graduate of the Israeli Conservatory of Music - Tel Aviv where she had obtained a diploma in both recorder and flute. She holds a bachelor diploma in recorder from The Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance and from The Conservatorium van Amsterdam. Where she has completed her baroque bassoon bachelor with Benny Aghassi. Starting in September 2020, Galit will be following the masters programme at the Royal Conservatoire - The Hague, where she will be studying with Donna Agrell and Wouter Verschuren.
In 2010 Galit was a semifinalist at the Paul Ben-Haim competition, she had won the American-Israel Scholarship for the years 2010-2012 and also received The Avi Fellowship Scholarship foundation for the year 2012-2013. Galit has received the Siday Fellowship for Musical Creativity for the year 2016-2017 and in 2018-2019 she was accepted to the Erasmus programme at the Conservatorio di Milano for historical bassoon with Alberto Grazzi.
Julie Stalder – Treble Viol & Viola da Gamba
Julie Stalder was born in Switzerland. She studied modern double bass at the Geneva Conservatory and moved to the Netherlands to study early music, namely violone with Margaret Urquardt and viola da gamba with Mieneke van der Velden. She lives in Amsterdam-Noord and works as a freelancer in the Netherlands and other countries of the European Union. She is also a regular member of the Swiss orchestra Geneva Camerata.
Michal Bitan – Soprano
Michal Bitan’s musical flexibility is informed by a kaleidoscope of interests. From rhetoric and historical theater, through filming, to the construction of historical garments, these art forms instruct her decision making to form a miniature theater experience in each performance. Since making her debut with the New Israeli Opera as 1st Child of Mozart in Die Zauberflöte, , she has come to specialize in the works of the late French, Italian and German 18th century masters, as well as historical acting. Further training has based her in Europe, where she completed Bachelor and Masters Studies in early music at the Royal Conservatoire Den Haag. Michal sang the roles of Dorinda (G.F.Handel: Orlando) at Theater Aachen, Königin der Nacht (W.A.Mozart: Die Zauberflöte) with the Lüneburger Symphoniker, Armide (Lully), Queen Orasia (Telemann: Orpheus), Vespetta (Telemann: Pimpinone) and Mrs. Ford (Salieri: Falstaff) at the Royal theater The Hague. Michal collaborates as a singer- actress with various ensembles and orchestras, such as Musica Poëtica, with whom she portrayed the roles of Ariadne (G. Benda: Ariadne auf Naxos) and Portia (Shakespear: The merchant of Venice). She is the artistic director of the ensemble A Dialogue on a Kiss, since 2010.