The Players

  • Priscilla Herreid

    Artistic director Priscilla Herreid is a musician in the ancient and living tradition of woodwind doubling. Her formative years studying recorder at Philadelphia’s Settlement Music…

  • Héloïse Degrugillier

    Héloïse Degrugillier has worked extensively as both a recorder and traverso performer, and teacher throughout Europe and the United States. She has performed with leading…

  • Grant Herreid

    Grant Herreid began his professional career in his native Portland, Ore, as a classical and jazz trumpet player. An early music specialist for many years,…

  • Greg Ingles

    Greg Ingles attended high school at the Interlochen Arts Academy and went on to graduate from the Oberlin Conservatory. Two days after graduation Greg won…

  • Sian Ricketts

    Sian Ricketts is an early wind player and singer in Brooklyn, NY who is deeply invested and interested in the ways in which early music…

  • Erik Schmalz

    Erik Schmalz, a specialist in trombones and performance from the renaissance to the romantic periods, works internationally with many prestigious ensembles. Among others, these include…

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