Courtney received her Master's degree from the Early Music Institute at Indiana University where she studied Baroque violin with Stanley Ritchie. Her interest in early music developed while attending the University of California, Santa Barbara as a student of musicology. She currently resides in the Seattle area and is an active performer of Baroque music with Seattle Baroque Orchestra and Ensemble Amarelli and has recently collaborated with Baroque Northwest, Seattle Early Dance and Ensemble Mirable. Ms. Kuroda has also performed throughout the U.S. with a variety of period chamber ensembles and orchestras, including Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra, LA Baroque, Ars Antigua in Chicago, and Opera Lafayette in Washington D.C., as well as performing at the Bloomington Early Music Festival and Boston Early Music Festival. She has recorded on the Naxos label with Opera Lafayette on their CD of Antonio Sacchini's opera Oedipe à Colone.
John Lenti has performed on lute and theorbo at the Bloomington and Boston Early Music Festivals, The Festival Guldener-Herbst in Sondershausen, Germany and at the Magnolia Baroque Festival in Winston-Salem, NC. John maintains a busy freelance schedule in Seattle and across the United States in addition to performing with soprano Linda Tsatsanis as the duo Dulces Exuviae, praised by the Seattle Times 'the best new concert series' of the '06-'07 season with John's playing singled out as 'a joy to behold.' John regularly plays continuo for the Seattle Baroque Orchestra and has performed with the Pittsburgh Opera and the Seattle Opera. Following undergraduate study of guitar at the North Carolina School of the Arts, John moved to London to study lute with Jacob Heringman and Elizabeth Kenny. He returned to the United States in 2002 to study with Nigel North at Indiana University. Other significant musical help and inspiration have come from Ricardo Cobo, Ronn McFarlane and Patrick O'Brien.
Jennifer has performed throughout the United States and Europe with ensembles such as the Seattle and Indianapolis Baroque Orchestras, Baroque Northwest, Ensemble Amarelli, Music of the Baroque, the Monte Carlo Philharmonic, Second City Musick, and Bloomington Baroque at the 2006 & 2007 Bloomington Early Music Festivals. She holds masters' degrees in both instruments from the Early Music Institute at Indiana University, studying with Eva Legene and Elisabeth Wright. While a student, she was selected twice as soloist with the IU Baroque Orchestra as winner of the early music concerto competition. She has been featured on Indiana University's WFIU and the nationally syndicated program Harmonia.
Joanna has performed as soloist and continuo player in leading period instrument ensembles throughout the United States and South America. Ms. Blendulf holds performance degrees from the Cleveland Institute of Music and Indiana University, where she studied with Stanley Ritchie, Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi and Alan Harris. In 1998, she was awarded the prestigious Performer's Certificate for her accomplishments on baroque cello from Indiana University. Ms. Blendulf was a principal cellist of The New World Symphony under Michael Tilson-Thomas and has also performed with the Atlanta Symphony. She is currently performing with the Portland, Seattle and Indianapolis Baroque Orchestras, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Musica Angelica and American Bach Soloists and has also been a member of Apollo's Fire Baroque Orchestra and the New York Collegium. Her recording with Ensemble Mirable of the complete cello sonatas of Jean Zewalt Triemer was named runner-up in the 2000 Early Music America/Dorian Competition. Ms. Blendulf is an active chamber musician, touring with ViVaCe, Catacoustic Consort, American Baroque, Ensemble Mirable, Reconstruction, the Streicher Trio and Wildcat Viols. Ms. Blendulf's summer engagements have included performances at the Bloomington, Boston, Berkeley Early Music Festivals, the Aspen Music Festival as well as the Carmel Bach Festival, where she holds the principal viola da gamba position.