Violinist Cynthia Roberts has served as concertmaster of the New York Collegium, the Clarion Music Society, and Les Arts Florissants. She performs regularly with the Trinity Baroque Orchestra, Tafelmusik, and the Carmel Bach Festival, and has appeared with the London Classical Players, the Taverner Players, the American Bach Soloists, and the Smithsonian Chamber Players. She was featured on the soundtrack of the film Casanova, toured as concertmaster of the ensemble Musica Angelica with John Malkovich in The Infernal Comedy: Confessions of a Serial Killer, and has appeared as soloist with Michael Tilson Thomas and the New World Symphony. Roberts teaches at Juilliard, the University of North Texas, and the Oberlin Baroque Performance Institute. Her recording credits include Sony, Analekta, and BMG/Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.

Phoebe Carrai, a native Bostonian, completed her post-graduate studies in Austria with Nikolaus Harnencourt, after studying with Lawrence Lesser and  receiving her B.M. and M.M. at New England Conservatory of Music. She became a member of Musica Antiqua Köln in 1982, making over 40 recordings for Deutsche Gramophone and touring the world.

Ms. Carrai’s teaching career in historical performance started at the Hillversum Conservatory in the Netherlands and spending 16 years on the faculty of The University of the Arts in Berlin, Germany. She is presently on the faculties of The Juilliard School and The Longy School of Music. She started “New Years Resolution Baroque Cello Bootcamp” 15 years ago and it is still one of her greatest joys each year! In the summers, when not at her favorite spot on Cape Cod, she can be found teaching at Amherst Early Music, Aria Camp, The Bach Cello Suites Workshop and at Juilliard sponsored courses in Montisi, Italy and Brugge, Belgium.

Along with her solo and chamber music concerts, she directs Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra and performs regularly with Philharmonia Baroque, The Arcadian Academy, Juilliard Baroque, The Boston Early Music Festival and the Göttingen Festival Orchestra.

Ms. Carrai has released recordings of the Bach Solo Cello Suites, a duo recording of Frederich August Kummer, and has now also released “Out of Italy” for Avie Records. She has also recorded for Decca, Deutsche Gramophone, Aetme, Telarc and BMG. She plays on an Italian cello from ca. 1690.

Peter Sykes is a core faculty member and principal instructor of harpsichord in the Historical Performance Department of the Juilliard School in New York City and teaches organ and harpsichord at Boston University. He has taught at the University of Michigan, the New England Conservatory, and the Longy School of Music; he was Chair of the Historical Performance Department at the Longy School (1988-2005) and Boston University (2006-2021) and Co-Chair of the Organ Department at the New England Conservatory (2001-2003). He has been Music Director at First Church in Cambridge since 1986. He holds degrees from the New England Conservatory (BM, MM)  and Concordia University (Artist Diploma) in Montreal. A founding board member and current president of the Boston Clavichord Society as well as past president of the Westfield Center for Historical Keyboard Studies and board member of the Cambridge Society for Early Music, he is the recipient of the Chadwick Medal (1978) and Outstanding Alumni Award (2005) from the New England Conservatory, the Erwin Bodky Prize (1993) from the Cambridge Society for Early Music, and the Distinguished Artist Award (2011) from the St. Botolph Club Foundation.