Viola and Violin

Renée Hemsing specializes in chamber music and early music performance on both violin and viola. She earned her doctorate at the University of Colorado where her string quartet (Ajax Quartet) was graduate Quartet-in-Residence with the Takacs Quartet.

Renée earned her masters at the University of North Texas with Emanuel Borok where she also studied baroque violin with Cynthia Roberts, and her bachelors from the University of New Mexico under renowned Brazilian soloist Cármelo de los Santos.

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Flute

Flutist Andrea LeBlanc is devoted to furthering the artistry and expression of the flute by performing on instruments from the baroque, classical, and romantic eras. She has been praised by Early Music America for her “sensitive and beautiful playing, with crystalline tone and execution [that] made you wonder why it was necessary to invent the Boehm system for flute”.

Andrea has performed and recorded with numerous ensembles in the Northeast,

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Violin

Amy Rawstron Watson performs throughout the United States on modern and historical violins in both chamber music and orchestral repertoire. She holds principal positions with the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra, the Pennsylvania Endless Mountain Music Festival and Venice Symphony as well as regular appearances with the South Florida Symphony, Connecticut Early Music Festival and Handel and Haydn Society.

Amy’s many collaborations include Chicago’s Baroque Band,

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Cello

Israeli-born cellist Guy Fishman is active as a concerto soloist, recitalist, chamber musician, and orchestral player. He is principal cellist of Boston’s Handel and Haydn Society, with which he made his Symphony Hall solo debut in 2005. His playing has been praised as “plangent” by the Boston Globe, “electrifying” by the New York Times, and “beautiful … noble” by the Boston Herald. A critic for the Boston Musical Intelligencer,

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Cello

Sarah Freiberg is a tenured member of the Handel and Haydn Society and Emmanuel Music. Cellist for Blue Hill Bach and both the Kennebec and Connecticut Early Music Festivals, she has performed with Boston Baroque, Philharmonia Baroque (San Francisco), Portland Baroque (Oregon), Seattle Baroque and the Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra.

As corresponding editor for STRINGS magazine, she has contributed dozens of articles and reviews.

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Violin

Susanna Ogata’s playing has been described as “warm, witty, responsive, making the tops of phrases gleam” (Gramophone Magazine), “warm and rich of tone” (Fanfare Magazine), and “electrifying energy, awesome technical command and rollicking dialogue” (Arts Fuse Magazine) where her performance was distinguished as a top performance of the season.

Dedicated to exploring music on historical instruments, Susanna has appeared as chamber musician and soloist with the Handel and Haydn Society,

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Music Director, Fortepiano and Harpsichord
The multi-talented Ian Watson has been described by The Times in London as a “world-class soloist”, performer of “virtuosic panache” and by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung as “a conductor of formidable ability.”