A freelance musician throughout northern California, violinist Marcia Lotter received her undergraduate training from the University of Washington in Seattle and has studied with such noted teachers as Vilem Sokol, Andor Toth, and Leonard Austria. Marcia performs in chamber groups for concerts and special events and has played in back-up groups for singers such as Smokey Robinson, Judy Collins, and Andrea Marcovicci. She plays regularly in the Santa Rosa Symphony and is a member of the Santa Rosa Symphony String Quintet which presents school assemblies in the Santa Rosa area. Marcia has published an elegant coffee table book of helpful advice for brides getting married on the Mendocino Coast, available at YourMendocinoWedding.com.

Mindy Rosenfeld (early and modern flutes, fifes, whistles, pipes and harp), is a founding member of the highly respected Baltimore Consort, mainstays of the Dorian early music label, and since 1989, of San Francisco’s Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra (“the nation’s premier early music ensemble”—New York Times). Known to North Coast audiences as Principal Flutist and soloist with the Mendocino Music Festival, and as a guest of other nearby orchestras (Ukiah, Santa Rosa), Mindy maintains an active performance schedule both here and abroad, performing with a who’s who of early music ensembles, including, among others, Musica Angelica, Apollo’s Fire, American Bach Soloists, the Catacoustic Consort, and the Bach Collegium San Diego. Mindy’s bicoastal CV includes a BM in Flute Performance from Peabody Conservatory (Baltimore) and an MM in Baroque Flute Performance from San Francisco Conservatory.