Consort Cambiata performs vocal and instrumental European music, circa 1400-1700. Its programs are drawn from the immense repertoire of popular songs, sacred music, and instrumental works preserved in manuscripts and printed books of the fifteenth through seventeenth centuries. The ensemble strives to sing and play in accordance with what is known of historical practice and to give performances similar to those the composers may have heard. Instruments employed are meticulous copies of the best surviving originals, which reside in museums or private collections. While the primary motivation of the ensemble is the satisfaction of recreating centuries-old music, a secondary goal is to increase familiarity with great Renaissance composers, regrettably lesser-known to the public than their counterparts in literature, architecture, and the visual arts. Listeners may experience a musical aesthetic quite unlike that of more recent music, one in which all parts are equally important and in which symbolism, word-painting, and rhetoric play prominent roles. Claudia Ayer (soprano) has performed as soloist with the Chorale Univrsitaire de Lige (Belgium), Vernon Chorale, Danbury Concert Choir, Danbury Symphony Orchestra, and Alta, A Renaissance Wind Trio. She is a longtime member of CONCORA (Connecticut Choral Artists) and soprano section leader for the Hartford Chorale and Trinity Episcopal Church Choir (Hartford). She holds a Bachelors Degree in Music and the Performers Certificate in Voice from the Crane School of Music (State University of New York at Potsdam) and a Masters Degree in Vocal Performance from the Yale University School of Music. Joseph Ricker (tenor) leads the innovative ensemble Duo Orfeo, which performs classical and modern music on vintage guitars. He maintains an active guitar studio in Northampton, Massachusetts, and is Assistant Music Director of the Happy Valley Guitar Orchestra. For several years he has served as tenor soloist and section leader for the Trinity Episcopal Church Choir (Hartford). He received his Bachelors Degree in Music from The Hartt School (University of Hartford), concentrating on classical guitar performance and composition, and studied with Phillip de Fremery, protg of legendary Spanish guitarist Andrs Segovia. Monika Kinstler (stringed instruments) is a violinist in the Manchester Symphony Orchestra and a manager in the Materials and Processes Engineering Department of Pratt & Whitney. By profession an engineer with several patents and an international thirty-year career in the aerospace industry, she has performed on historical and modern instruments with orchestras and early music ensembles in the United States and Germany. She holds the unusual combination of Bachelors Degree in Music History and Masters Degree in Metallurgical Engineering, both from the University of Cincinnati.

Bert Landman (keyboard instruments) is Director of Music Ministry at Trinity Episcopal Church in Hartford, Connecticut, where he is also Director of the Choir School of Hartford, which he helped to establish. As church organist and choir director he held posts in Virginia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, Tennessee and Georgia. He earned his Bachelors Degree in Music and the Certificate in Organ Performance from the Shenandoah Conservatory of Music and his Masters Degree in Music from Westminster Choir College. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Royal School of Church Music in America. Charles Turner (wind instruments) studied musicology with Rebecca Baltzer, Robert Snow, Samuel Pogue, and Hans Tischler, lute with Thomas Binkley, recorder with Eva Legne, played concert tours of the Southwestern United States and Mexico, and received the Crane Award in the Arts. His published research covers a wide array of subjects, including isorhythm, proportions, canons, notation, lute song, discography, early jazz, and music of colonial America. He holds Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Music from the University of Texas and a Doctor of Musical Arts with a minor in Medieval Studies from Indiana University. After many years in academia he returned to playing the music he loves.

Gwendolyn Winkel (wind instruments) is a founding member of Alta, A Renaissance Wind Trio, now in its thirtieth year, and principal clarinetist of the Connecticut Valley and Farmington Valley Symphony Orchestras. She studied in Italy at Orvieto Musica and Sessioni Sienese and at Amherst Early Music with Marian Verbruggen, Dan Laurin, Saskia Coolen, and Wouter Verschuren. She received her Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Music from The Hartt School (University of Hartford) and Boston Conservatory, respectively, as well as the Artist Diploma in Clarinet Performance from the former, where she was a student of Charles Russo. She is a dedicated teacher of instrumental music in the Simsbury School System.