Praised as “fiery, wild, and dangerous” (Classical Voice North Carolina) with “a talent for character portrayal” (Chicago Classical Review), soprano Margaret Carpenter Haigh captivates audiences with her “flawless intonation” and “perfect vocalism” (CNVC).

Treasured musical performances include the American premiere of Huang Ruo’s 12-voice tour de force of vocal-theatre and puppetry Book of Mountains & Seas with Basil Twist and Beth Morrison Projects, Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with the combined choirs of Trinity Church Wall Street and Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue, a newly choreographed ballet performance of David Del Tredici’s virtuosic and whimsical masterwork An Alice Symphony with Portland Symphony and Ballet in Maine, and Couperin’s Leçons de Ténèbres in King’s College Chapel in Cambridge.

Margaret has been a featured soloist with the Choir of Trinity Wall Street, Beth Morrison Projects, Saint Thomas Choir of Men and Boys, Arizona MusicFest Orchestra, Evansville Philharmonic, Oregon Bach Festival, Baldwin Wallace Bach Festival, Newberry Consort, and Memphis, Portland, and Winston-Salem Symphonies.

A grateful recipient of the Gates Cambridge Scholarship, Margaret holds advanced degrees from the University of Cambridge and Case Western Reserve University, where her dissertation was supervised by Susan McClary. She is a proud graduate of the UNC-Greensboro School of Music.

Praised for her “crystalline tone and delicate passagework” (San Francisco Chronicle), soprano Arwen Myers captivates audiences with her timeless artistry and exquisite interpretations. Transmitting a warmth and “deep poignancy” (Palm Beach Arts Paper) onstage, Arwen shines in solo performance across the US and beyond. With outstanding technique and mastery of a wide range of vocal colors, Arwen’s dazzling oratorio and solo appearances feature repertoire from the baroque to modern day, and everything in between.

Her history and upcoming performances includes appearances with Portland Baroque Orchestra, Early Music Vancouver, Pacific MusicWorks, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, & Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, working with such notable conductors as Nicholas McGegan, Monica Huggett, David Fallis, John Butt, David Hill, Scott Allen Jarrett, Erick Lichte & Matthew Dirst. Of her title role in Handel’s Semele with American Bach Soloists Academy in 2018, San Francisco Classical Voice noted, “some of these star turns were shiny indeed, with soprano Arwen Myers leading the way... her musicality and demure demeanor remained a renewable pleasure.”

Laura Atkinson is a Louisville native who has carved out a career as a professional singer and music educator in this country and in Europe. She completed her teacher training in the foothills of Appalachia at Maryville College and her masters degree in Vocal Performance and Early Music at Yale University. In 2010 she was awarded a Fulbright Grant to study at the Mendelssohn Music Conservatory in Leipzig, Germany. She spent the subsequent near-decade enjoying Berlin as a freelance singer with her husband, who sang with the Komische Oper Berlin.

In Europe, she made several important debuts, including guest roles at the opera houses in Leipzig, Braunschweig and Rheinsberg; in Dvorak’s Requiem at the Konzerthaus Berlin; in Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde in Leipzig; on tour throughout Europe with the Bach Akademie Stuttgart; and in Schoenberg’s Book of Hanging Gardens at the Schumann-Haus. Since relocating back to Louisville with her husband and two small children, Laura has begun a career as a public radio host for Louisville’s classical music station, 90.5 WUOL; you can hear her every weekday evening from 6-9pm. She continues to work around the country as a professional ensemble singer and soloist.

Praised by Opera News for his “charm, sharp diction, and ping,” tenor Chance Jonas-O’Toole is committed to engaging audiences through passionate storytelling. In the summer of 2023 Chance will return to the Merola Opera Program to sing Male Chorus in Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia. In 2022, Chance sang Monostatos in The Magic Flute at Merola, and in 2021, Chance joined Opera Theatre of St. Louis as a Gerdine Young Artist. In the 2019/2020 season, he performed the role of Jo the Loiterer in Virgil Thomson’s The Mother of Us All with Met Live Arts and The Juilliard School at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. In the summers of 2017 and 2018,

Chance was a tenor fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center, where he sang in multiple world premieres and song recitals, as well as concerts of Bach cantatas under John Harbison. Chance is a graduate of The Juilliard School with both a Bachelor of Music and Master of Music in Vocal Performance. Chance is a recipient of the Novick Career Advancement Grant from the Juilliard School. He is currently based in Boston, MA.

Tenor Nick Karageorgiou has established himself as a formidable chamber musician and soloist. A resident of New York, Nick is a member of the Trinity Wall Street Chorus, performing a wide array of choral repertoire, from baroque gems to new commissions, including Huang Ruo’s Book of Mountains and Seas, staged by Basil Twist.

He can also be heard singing in ensembles like Seraphic Fire, Variant Six, and Clarion Music Society. Previous engagements have also included ensembles like Pegasus Early Music Society, True Concord, The Crossing, Spire, The Thirteen, and The Rose Ensemble. Outside of a busy performance season, Nick is frequently seen with needles and yarn, biking through the park, or going on a hike. This is Nick’s first season with Bach Akademie Charlotte.

A conductor praised for his “precision and clarity,” and performances hailed as “enlightened,” North Carolina native Christopher Gilliam is the Director of Choral Activities at Wake Forest University, director of the Winston-Salem Symphony Chorus, and Director of Music at Highland Presbyterian Church in Winston-Salem, NC.

Christopher Gilliam received the Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in Voice Performance and Master of Music degree in Choral Conducting from the University of Kansas in 2003 under the tutelage of Simon Carrington. Prior to accepting the post at Wake Forest, he served as Director of Choral Activities at Davidson College in Davidson, NC, from 2012–2020. As director of the Winston-Salem Symphony Chorus, he has regularly taken the podium to conduct choral masterworks for the Symphony.

Of his solo performances, critics have written, “magnificent,” “a well-modulated voice with a pleasant timbre,” “…commanding baritone,” and “…marvelous, with strikingly rich tone and impeccable diction.” Gilliam has been a soloist for the Winston-Salem and Memphis Symphonies, and he is on the rosters of the Oregon Bach Festival and Charlotte Bach Akademie. Gilliam has published music with Alliance Music Publications, Beckenhorst Press, Lorenz, and E.C. Schirmer.

Edmund Milly’s “perfect diction” (Los Angeles Times), distinctive “delicacy and personal warmth” (Boston Classical Review), and “rich and resonant” sound (KC Metropolis) have recently been featured by the Bach Choir of Bethlehem, Washington Bach Consort, the Oregon Bach Festival, the Baltimore Choral Arts Society, the Thirteen, and the American Pops Orchestra. His 22/23 season includes debuts with Bach Collegium San Diego, Seraphic Fire, and TENET, as well as Messiah solo engagements with Tempesta di Mare and Ensemble Altera.

This season also sees Edmund’s return to the Choir of Trinity Wall Street, and a national tour with his quartet, the Polyphonists, featuring a commission by Jonathan Woody. Mr. Milly is a graduate of the American Boychoir School, McGill University, and the Yale Institute of Sacred Music. A veteran of the U.S. Army Band “Pershing’s Own,” Edmund has been a soloist at the White House, the Pentagon, and the U.S. Supreme Court. For a full calendar of upcoming performances, see www.edmundmilly.com.

A unique and dynamic violinist, Aisslinn Nosky has captivated audiences around the world with her innovative interpretations and impeccable technique. Her fierce passion for early music and skill as a soloist, director, and conductor has generated robust appreciation by press and audiences alike. Hailed as “superb” by The New York Times and “a fearsomely powerful musician” by The Toronto Star, widespread demand for Aisslinn continues to grow.

Aisslinn was appointed Concertmaster of the Handel and Haydn Society in 2011. Other groups with which Ms. Nosky collaborates include the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, the National Cathedral (Washington, DC), Holland Baroque and the Charlotte Symphony. She was a member of Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra from 2005 to 2016 and served as Principal Guest Conductor of the Niagara Symphony from 2016 to 2019. Aisslinn is currently Artist-in-Residence with the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra.

A passionate educator, Aisslinn has been on faculty at Amherst Early Music Festival, the International Baroque Institute of Longy and The Banff Centre. Aisslinn is currently Instructor of Violin at Mount Holyoke College.

Violinist Fiona Hughes holds degrees from Oberlin Conservatory and Cleveland Institute of Music. Artistic Director of Three Notch’d Road: The Virginia Baroque Ensemble, she is a versatile performer of both modern and baroque violin, appearing with Apollo’s Fire, Washington Bach Consort, Bach Akademie Charlotte, Boston Baroque, and the Richmond Symphony. Fiona has performed in numerous music festivals, including Kinhaven, Encore, Brevard Music Center, National Repertory Orchestra, Banff (Canada), Staunton Music Festival, and Pacific Music Festival (Japan).

With Boston’s GRAMMY AWWARD®-winning Handel and Haydn Society she has recorded 10 CDs for release on the Coro label, and worked with conductors Harry Christophers, Masaaki Suzuki, Richard Egarr, Jonathan Cohen, and Scott Allen Jarrett. She looks to Stephen Rose, Adam DeGraff, and Marilyn McDonald as mentors. Fiona’s period bows are by David Hawthorne and Richard Riggall. Her primary violin is the ex-Vieuxtemps Claude Pierray (1720 Paris).

Guy Fishman is heard as a soloist, recitalist, chamber, and orchestral musician on period and standard cello. Guy has played with Dawn Upshaw, Gilbert Kalish, Eliot Fisk, Daniel Stepner, Lara St. John, Vadim Gluzman, Richard Egarr, Kim Kashkashian, Mark Peskanov and Natalie Merchant in recital, performs with ensembles such as Bach Akademie Charlotte and Serpahic Fire, and appears at summer festivals such as Boulder Bach, Colorado Music Festival, and Connecticut Early Music. His teachers include David Soyer, Peter Wiley, Julia Lichten, and Laurence Lesser of the New England Conservatory, where he earned a Doctorate and also serves on the faculty.

In addition, he is a Fulbright Fellow, mentoring with famed Dutch cellist Anner Bylsma in Amsterdam. His recordings appear on Olde Focus, Centaur, CORO, Telarc, Titanic, and Newport Classics labels. Guy plays a rare cello made in Rome in 1704 by David Tecchler.

Nicolas Haigh serves as Associate Organist at Saint Thomas Church in New York City. Originally from the United Kingdom, Nicolas previously held positions with the multiple Gramophone Award-winning Choir of New College, Oxford, and York Minster. He is a recipient of the coveted Limpus Prize from the Royal College of Organists and held the Sir William McKie Organ Scholarship at Clare College, Cambridge.

Active as a historical keyboardist, continuo performer, and conductor, Nicolas appears regularly with American Bach Soloists, Oxford Bach Soloists, and Bach Akademie Charlotte. He is also the co-founder of early music consort L’Académie du Roi Soleil with which he has performed throughout the United States and the United Kingdom.

Nicolas has been privileged to perform as both a soloist and accompanist to countries including Australia, France, Italy, Hong Kong, The Netherlands, and Israel. He can be heard on numerous CDs including Veni Emmanuel and Imogen Holst: Choral Works (Harmonia Mundi USA) and has performed frequently on radio (BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio 4). Nicolas’ teachers have included Malcolm Archer, Clive Driskill-Smith, James McVinnie, and Jonathan Moyer.

Deborah Fox is a lutenist with a span of repertoire ranging from medieval to baroque music, as a soloist, chamber music player, and baroque opera continuo. She has performed with the major early music ensembles and festivals from Newfoundland to Australia, including the Carmel Bach Festival, Glimmerglass Opera, Les Violons du Roy (Montreal), Spoleto Festival, Opera Atelier (Toronto), Pinchgut Opera (Sydney), Concert Royal (NY), Haymarket Opera and Third Coast Baroque (Chicago), and others.

She graduated cum laude from Smith College, and received the Certificate of Advanced Studies in Early Music at London's Guildhall School, specializing in the improvised accompaniment practices of the baroque. Her teachers have included Paul O'Dette, Pat O’Brien, and Nigel North. She has been a Teaching Artist for the Aesthetic Education Institute. She is the founder and director of Pegasus Early Music in Rochester, NY, and the director of NYS Baroque in Ithaca and Syracuse, NY.