DANIEL RYAN
Co-Artistic Director, cellist
Daniel Ryan, co-Artistic Director, cellist, has played with Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Il Complesso Barocco (Venice and Innsbruck), the Camerata Academica of Salzburg, and many ensembles in the Greater Boston area such as Boston Cecilia, Handel & Haydn Society, Boston Baroque, and Favella Lyrica, with whom he appeared on the Bank of Boston Emerging Artists Celebrity Series. With the Boston-based group Renaissonics, he was featured on NPR’s Sound and Spirit program in 2005 and released a CD for WGBH radio. While attending Boston University, he studied cello with George Neikrug and pursued historical performance through course work at the Longy School of Music. He later studied with Christophe Coin at the Sommerakademie in Innsbruck. Also an accomplished player of keyboard instruments, Mr. Ryan has been awarded the Associate Certificate of the American Guild of Organists and is Music Director at First Religious Society in Carlisle. For many years he taught harpsichord and coached chamber music at Wellesley College where he was also a member of the Guild of Carillonneurs. He has recorded for Centaur, Titanic, Meridian, and Koch.
Suzanne Stumpf
Co-Artistic Director, flutist
Suzanne Stumpf, co-Artistic Director, flutist, has performed with numerous chamber and orchestral ensembles including the New York Bach Ensemble, Boston Cecilia, Handel & Haydn Society, and Boston Baroque, with whom she has appeared as soloist. She has toured in Germany and Austria with I Vari Flauti and has served as guest principal flutist for the Montreal Baroque Orchestra. She also performed at the Yellow Barn Music Festival, where she worked closely with John Cage. An honors graduate of Wellesley College, where she was awarded several prizes, Ms. Stumpf studied historical performance in Vienna with Nikolaus Harnoncourt and in Zurich with Johann Sonnleitner, and has done graduate work at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. She holds the title of Senior Music Performance Faculty Emerita in Flute, Baroque Flute, and Chamber Music at Wellesley College, where she taught for over three decades. She has presented masterclasses, lectures, and workshops in historical performance for the National Flute Association, Amherst Early Music Festival, Clark University, Dartmouth College, University of Utah at Salt Lake City, and New England Conservatory, among others. She may be heard on Centaur, Titanic, Telarc, and Meridian.
Sarah Darling
violinist and violist
Sarah Darling, violinist and violist, enjoys a varied musical career that spans many centuries and styles. Sarah studied at Harvard and Juilliard, and in Amsterdam and Freiburg (as a recipient of the Beebe, Paine, and DAAD grants), and is currently finishing a doctorate at New England Conservatory with Kim Kashkashian. She holds a variety of leading and directorial roles with A Far Cry, Boston Baroque, the Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra, Gut Reaction, Musical Offering, Les Bostonades, and the Arcturus Ensemble. She also performs with the Boston Early Music Festival, Carmel Bach Festival, Emmanuel Music, the Bach Ensemble, and Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, and has recorded old and new music for Naxos, Linn, Paladino, Azica, MSR, and Centaur. As a chamber musician, Sarah has performed in the Ravinia, Lucerne, Larzac, Sarasota, and Yellow Barn festivals, and has collaborated with members of the Juilliard, Takacs, Borromeo, Ying, Orion, and Cleveland quartets. She is active as a teacher and coach, with a special interest in body mechanics and musical rhetoric.
Jesse Irons
violinist
Jesse Irons, violin, enjoys a busy and excitingly diverse musical life in and around his home city of Boston. He is the Assistant Concertmaster of Boston Baroque and appears regularly with Handel & Haydn Society, the Boston Early Music Festival, and with numerous small ensembles including Gut Reaction and Anachronism. He has appeared as soloist with Newton Baroque, Sarasa, Chicago’s Baroque Band, and the City Orchestra of Hong Kong. A member and Co-Artistic Director of the Grammy-nominated ensemble A Far Cry, he has appeared in concert across North America, Europe, and Central and Southeast Asia. As an educator, Jesse has mentored students on entrepreneurship and chamber music at MIT, Yale, Stanford, Eastman, Peabody, and New England Conservatory.
Marcia Cassidy
violist
Marcia Cassidy, viola, is an active chamber music recitalist, teacher, and freelance violist. As a member of the faculty of Dartmouth College, she teaches violin and viola, directs the chamber music program, and is the assistant to the Dartmouth Symphony. Marcia is principal violist of Opera North (NH) and a member of the Juno Orchestra (VT). As the violist of the Franciscan String Quartet, she performed extensively in the United States, Europe, Canada, and Japan to critical acclaim. The quartet received many awards and honors, including first prize in the Banff International String Quartet Competition. Raised near San Antonio, Marcia pursued her musical training at the University of Texas, University of New Mexico, New England Conservatory, San Francisco Conservatory, and with the Tokyo String Quartet at the Yale School of Music. She has participated in numerous summer music festivals including Aspen, Banff, Blossom, Norfolk, and Tanglewood.