Asteria - Sylvia Rhyne, soprano and Eric Redlinger, tenor and lute. 
Winner of the 2004 Early Music America Competition for Medieval and Renaissance Performance, the New York Times has called their music "intimate and deeply communicative... meltingly beautiful." Asteria is known for its compelling and personal delivery of 15th century vocal and instrumental music from the courts of Burgundy, performed entirely from memory. Since winning the competition Sylvia and Eric have had a busy touring schedule in the US and have appeared in Mexico, France, Germany and Switzerland. They have released three CDs, 'Le Souvenir de vous me tue' , 'Soyes Loyal' and 'Un tres doulx regard' and are now finishing a fourth recording exclusively of 15th century chansons by Binchois. Short videos on their website were filmed on location in the only extant Burgundian chateau, Germolles.

Guido's Ear - The Birth of the Baroque:  Treasures from 17th Century Italy
  Young Australian-born baroque violin virtuoso Aaron Brown leads this dynamic quartet with Dongmyung Ahn, baroque violin, Grant Herreid, baroque lute and guitar, theorbo, and voice and Gabriel Shuford, harpsichord in an engaging program which takes the audience on a journey from rowdy Renaissance dance and song to the dazzlingly sprezzatura sonatas and sublime melodies of the Baroque.

The New York Baroque Dance Company and Concert Royal - Pleasures of the Dance
Catherine Turocy's dance company of five is accompanied by Concert Royal (James Richman on harpsichord, Sandra Miller on Baroque flute, Cynthia Roberts on Baroque violin and Brent Wissick on viola da gamba). This program is a concert of dance and music from early 18th century Europe.  Designed to reach a broad audience, the program features dances of the stage, the ballroom and the commedia dell'arte interspersed with the finest instrumental chamber music. Fully costumed dancers, period instruments and award winning artists of these two companies create an entertainment of passion and beauty from the Baroque era.

Parthenia: A Consort of Viols, Beverly Au, Lawrence Lipnik, Rosamund Morley, and Lisa Terry. 
Parthenia has been hailed by the New Yorker as "one of the brightest lights in New York's early-music scene". This dynamic ensemble explores the extraordinary repertory for viols of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries from Tudor England to the court of Versailles and beyond. Parthenia has released two full CDs and a Sampler CD. Their newest touring program, When Music and Sweet Poetry Agree includes Paul Hecht, actor and Jacqueline Horner, soprano.

The Western Wind - Michele Kennedy, Laura Christian, Todd Frizzell, Elliot Z. Levine, Richard Slade, and William Zukof.
The Western Wind presents the special beauty and variety of a cappella, performing Medieval, Renaissance, Early American, Baroque and Romantic music as well as new works by contemporary composers, pop and jazz arrangements, and imaginative programs presenting holiday music from both Jewish and Christian traditions.  The Western Wind has been acclaimed at many of the world's finest halls—La Grand Theatre de Geneve, Teatro La Fenice, Rome Opera, Carnegie Hall, Tully Hall and the Metropolitan Museum of Art—and have collaborated with prestigious ensembles such as the Folger Consort, Hesperus and the St. Louis Symphony.  The Western Wind has appeared on NBC's Today Show and can be heard annually on radio.  Their holiday specials, which feature narrators Leonard Nimoy, Theodore Bikel, Roma Downey, Tovah Feldshuh, and Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee are distributed by Public Radio International, National Public Radio and the Public Radio Exchange.