Barbara Schlick is a German soprano who is particularly admired for interpretations of the concert literature of the baroque era.
Lorenzo Ghielmi is an Italian organist and harpsichordist.
Dorothee Mields is a German soprano concert singer of Baroque and contemporary music.
Ludger Rémy was a German harpsichordist, conductor and musicologist.
Elisabeth Scholl is a German soprano and academic teacher.
Marek Štryncl is a Czech conductor, violoncellist, choirmaster, and composer. He is the founder and leader of Baroque music ensemble Musica Florea.
The MA Festival Brugge, short for the festival Musica Antiqua Bruges in Bruges, Belgium, is a festival of early music and historically informed performances, started in 1960. The program includes concerts, master classes, conferences, visits in the region, exhibitions, instrument market, and international competitions that concentrates in a three-year cycle on organ, harpsichord, pianoforte and other period instruments, vocals, and baroque ensembles. The specialised festival is part of the Festival of Flanders.
Knut Schoch is a German tenor in opera and concert as a specialist in the field of historically informed performance, and an academic voice teacher.
Johanna Koslowsky is a German soprano and vocal coach in the field of historically informed performance.
Karel van Steenhoven is a Dutch recorder player and composer.
Britta Schwarz is a German contralto from Neubrandenburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Between 1980 and 1983 she studied vocals at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" under Christa Niko, and then studied at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber with Christian Elßner and Hartmut Zabel. She has performed with notable orchestras such as the Dresden Staatskapelle, Dresdner Philharmonie, Berliner Philharmoniker, Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam and Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields, and conductors such as Kent Nagano, Marek Janowski, Milan Horvat, Michel Plasson, Jörg-Peter Weigle and Philippe Herreweghe. Her singing is mainly centred on Baroque music, and is an interpreter of J. S. Bach. She has sung with ensembles such as the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Freiburger Barockorchester, Musica Antiqua Köln, and Cantus Cölln.
Dorothee Oberlinger is a German recorder player and professor.
Philippe Pierlot is a Belgian viola da gamba player and a conductor in historically informed performance. He is also an academic teacher at the royal conservatories of The Hague and Brussels.
Hans Michael Beuerle was a German choir- and orchestra director.
Ralf Otto is a German conductor, especially known as a choral conductor and academic teacher. He founded the Vokalensemble Frankfurt, focused on contemporary music and winning competitions including Let the Peoples Sing. Since 1986, he has been director of the Bachchor Mainz, with a tradition of performing Bach cantatas in broadcast church services. He added late romantic and contemporary works to their repertoire and made international tours with them. They made world premiere recordings of some cantatas by Bach's oldest son, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, among other recordings. Otto was professor of choral conducting at the Folkwang Hochschule from 1990 to 2006, when he took the same position at the Hochschule für Musik Mainz.
Anne Schumann is a German violinist and docent in Baroque music.
Anne Bierwirth is a German contralto, focused on concerts and recordings of sacred music, appearing internationally. Besides the standard repertoire such as Bach's Christmas Oratorio, she has explored rarely performed Baroque music such as Bach's St Mark Passion and Reinhard Keiser's Passion oratorio Der blutige und sterbende Christus.
Cornelia Osterwald is a German harpsichordist and docent for early music.
Robert Ehrlich is a Northern Irish recorder player and university professor. From October 2015 until 2019, he was rector of the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin. Previously, he was rector of the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig from 2006 to 2015.
Evgeny Sviridov is a Russian violinist and academic teacher based in Germany who turned from the Russian romantic style to the Baroque violin which he studied in Cologne. He has been concertmaster for the ensemble Concerto Köln beginning in 2015, and has lectured Baroque violin at the Hochschule für Künste Bremen from 2018.
