Akiko Enoki Sato received advanced training in harpsichord and figured bass with Hank Knox at McGill University’s Early Music Program. Akiko has been heard as soloist and continuo player in Japan, Canada and US. She is now residing in Boston with her husband, Toshi and their cats, Hana & Momotaro. Akiko is a founder of early music ensemble Les Bostonades. They regularly perform French 17th and 18th century repertoires as well as Italian and German baroque music. She also performs with Boston based ensembles and she regularly plays continuo for graduate students in the Early Music programs at the Longy School of Music and the Historical Performance Department in Boston University. Before she become a harpsichordist, Akiko was an organist and earned a Master’s Degree in Organ Performance from Cleveland Institute of Music and Sacred Music degree from Southern Methodist University. Her principal teachers were Dr. Robert T. Anderson and Karel Paukert.

Emily Walhout grew up playing the cello and piano, but it was not until attending Oberlin Conservatory that her teacher Catharina Meints gave her the best advice she’s ever gotten: take up the viola da gamba. Since then she has enjoyed an active career performing Renaissance and Baroque chamber music on the viol, baroque cello, lirone, and bass violin. Marin Marais is a particular favorite; indeed, The New York Times praised her performance of his music as “soulful and expressive.” As a Certified Music Practitioner, Emily plays healing music on the viol one-on-one in health care settings.She maintains a small studio of private students in Watertown, MA.