Daniel Swenberg plays a wide variety of lutes and guitars: baroque, renaissance, classical/romantic--small, medium, and large. He has been a regular with the Dryden Ensemble for over 15 years. Daniel schleps instruments throughout North America and Europe to play with a wide range of ensembles: the Metropolitan Operan, Carmel Bach Festival, Jordi Savall and Le Concert des Nations, on Broadway with Mark Rylance in Farinelli and the King, Mr. Jones & the Engines of Destruction, Opera Atelier/Tafelmusik, The New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, Catacoustic Ensemble, Handel & Haydn, and many others. He has also accompanied Renee Fleming and Kathleen Battle at Carnegie Hall.

Daniel is on faculty at Juilliard’s Historical Performance program. He received awards from the Belgian American Educational Foundation (2000) for a study of 18th century chamber music for the lute, and a Fulbright Scholarship (1997) to study in Bremen, Germany. His programing integrates and emphasizes music with the history, sciences, economics, politics, and broader culture of its time—from Weiss to vice.

 Clara Rottsolk has been lauded by The New York Times for her “clear, appealing voice and expressive conviction.” She specializes in historically informed performance practice, singing with the American Bach Soloists, Santa Fe Pro Musica, Colorado Bach Ensemble, Trinity Wall Street Choir, and Seraphic Fire. She has performed at the Carmel Bach Festival, Philadelphia Bach Festival, and Boston Early Music Festival. A native of Seattle, Ms. Rottsolk earned music degrees at Rice University and Westminster Choir College and was awarded recognition for musical excellence by the Metropolitan Opera National Council. Currently she is based in Philadelphia and teaches voice at Swarthmore, Haverford, and Bryn Mawr Colleges.

Arnie Tanimoto, viola da gamba. Gold medalist and first-ever American laureate of the International Bach-Abel Competition (2018) Arnie Tanimoto has established himself as one of the foremost viol players in the United States. He has performed and recorded with Barthold Kuijken, Enrico Gatti, the Boston Early Music Festival, and the Smithsonian Consort of Viols. In 2017 he was awarded with a Frank Huntington Beebe Fund Fellowship and subsequently finished his studies at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. His principal teachers include Paolo Pandolfo, Christel Thielmann, and Catharina Meints. He also holds degrees from Oberlin Conservatory and the Eastman School of Music.