ROSA LAMOREAUX, soprano, is hailed for her versatile musicianship and her radiant and effortless singing. She performs with Hesperus, the Folger Consort, Arcovoce, and has toured with Musicians from Marlboro. Ms. Lamoreaux is a frequent soloist at Bach Festivals including Carmel, CA., and Bethlehem, PA.; with the late Robert Shaw and the Atlanta and Cincinnati Symphony Orchestras; at Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, Dorothy Chandler Pavillion; Belvedere Schloss, Austria; and at the Rheingau Festival in Germany. In Washington, DC she has performed at the National Gallery of Art, Library of Congress, Phillips Collection, Washington National Cathedral, the Washington Chamber Symphony, Smithsonian Chamber Orchestra; She is frequently heard on National Public Radio, and has sung recitals and chamber music for festivals throughout Europe, Central and South America. She has recorded Luminous Spirit: chants of Hildegard von Bingen, I Love Lucette, Dancing Day and Spain in the New World, Messe Solennelle of Berlioz, Four Centuries of Song with the National Gallery Vocal Quartet; and Gentle Annie: songs of Stephen Foster and Charles Ives for Koch International Classics. She has also recorded the B minor Mass with the Bethlehem Bach Festival for the Dorian Group.

GRANT HERREID


Neo-Medival

Food of Love

My Thing is My Own

GRANT HERREID is a multi-instrumentalist and singer who performs frequently on winds, strings and voice with Hesperus and Piffaro, and plays theorbo and lute with the baroque ensemble Artek. He also teaches at Mannes College of Music and directs the New York Continuo Collective. Grant has created and directed several theatrical early music shows, including 'Il Caffe d'Amore', a pastiche of early 17th century Italian songs and arias. For the Amherst Early Music Festival he has created and directed a number of productions, featuring German alchemy, English gypsies, French fools, Italian zanies, and Death. But mostly he devotes his time to exploring the esoteric unwritten traditions of early Renaissance music with the group Ex Umbris.