Eloy Cortinez Recorder

Praised for his refinement, virtuosity and unique timbre, Chilean recorder player Eloy Cortinez aims to create rich and vivid interpretations which bring to life music of the past. He has a musical career that has spanned Europe, North America and South America and one of his main focuses has been the research and performance of music that is not frequently heard but rightly deserves a place in the core of the recorder repertory. To this end, he co-founded L’Invenzione. His most recent collaborations include Audivi, the Detroit Opera, Publick Musick and at New York City’s Gotham Early Music Scene with Ensemble Laureate. In 2022, he toured Costa Rica with the celebrated Parisian ensemble Le Baroque Nomade and appeared as soloist with the Grammy award winning Heredia Symphonic Orchestra. Eloy studied music and recorder performance at the Castella Conservatory in San Jose, Costa Rica, the Catholic University of Chile and the Civica Scuola di Musica in Milan, Italy and his teachers include Pedro Memelsdorff and Dan Laurin.

Baroque Violin

Mary Riccardi

Mary Riccardi’s musical tastes were forged in her native city, Detroit, and refined in the concert halls of Europe where she spent the better part of two decades studying and performing. She played and recorded with such renowned groups as La Capella Neapolitana, Il Complesso Barocco, Modo Antiquo and Barockorchester Bremen. Upon returning to North America, she co-founded l’Invenzione with her husband, Eloy Cortinez. As concertmaster of the Michigan Baroque Collective, Mary has helped bring historically informed performances to Michigan, something she is very passionate about doing. She is a regular member of New York’s Publick Musick and has appeared with Apollo’s Fire, Bourbon Baroque, Four Nations and Pegasus. In addition to her performance activities on baroque violin, Mary enjoys coaching young string players and cultivates her varied musical interests through continuing projects with Detroit-based experimental composers.

Baroque Violin

Phoebe Gelzer-Govatos

Violinist Phoebe Gelzer-Govatos holds Bachelor and Master of Music degrees in violin performance from Stetson and Austin Peay State universities where her principal teachers were Routa Kroumovitch and Alvaro Gomez. She received instruction in historical performance through the Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Institute, Oberlin College’s Baroque Performance Institute, the International Baroque Institute at Longy and the Berwick Academy of the Oregon Bach Festival. A founding member of l’Invenzione, she also performs with Bourbon Baroque in Louisville, Chicago’s Ensemble Affect and the Michigan Bach Collective. Phoebe is a frequent guest artist and clinician with early music ensembles at the University of Michigan and Grand Valley State University and has been invited to lead workshops in historical style and technique at Bowling Green and Youngstown State universities. She performs with a number of orchestras throughout Michigan and is an avid chamber musician. Phoebe resides in Ann Arbor where she maintains a private violin studio, coaches chamber music at the Rudolf Steiner High School and likes to involve herself in creative endeavors of all kinds.

Baroque Cello

Debra Lonergan

performs throughout North America as both a modern cellist and early music specialist. She was a longtime member of the Detroit Opera Orchestra, worked with Ann Arbor’s Ars Musica Baroque Orchestra, and played in the Michigan MozartFest – a conference and collaboration under Roger Norrington with ten fortepiano soloists and the University Musical Society. Other associations include Ensemble Musical Offering, Indy Baroque, Audivi, Scaramella, Early Music Alberta, and Bourbon Baroque. Debra has enjoyed opportunities to play basso continuo for numerous soloists in recital, and she was a core member of period ensembles La Gente d’Orfeo, Anaphantasia and Voci dell’Anima as well as l’Invenzione. She founded the Michigan Bach Collective to help foster historically informed performances of larger works. Performances include Michigan’s first Monteverdi Vespers of 1610, J. S. Bach cantatas, the Easter Oratorio and b Minor Mass. She plays an antique English instrument from the Walmsley School with historical copies of bows by Stephen Marvin and Harry Davis.

Harpsichord and Organ

Julia Brown

Projecting “a warmly musical personality”, Julia Brown’s many recordings on Naxos hail her as an “unquestionably first-class artist and superb technician… exceptionally sensitive”. Her organ and harpsichord recordings of W. F. Bach, J. S. Bach, Buxtehude and Scheidemann have gained high critical acclaim. In demand as a historical keyboardist and collaborative artist, Julia’s performances include chamber music, orchestral repertoire, and continuo playing in addition to solo recitals. She has appeared in concert in North and South America and in Europe, having performed at the Oregon Bach Festival, Astoria Music Festival, Chico Bach Festival, American Guild of Organists Regional and National Conventions, Organ Historical Society Conventions, Latin American Organist Conventions, and National Public Radio. Born in Rio de Janeiro, Julia studied piano, harpsichord and organ in her native Brazil before receiving her MM and DMA from Northwestern University as a student of Wolfgang Rübsam. Julia currently works as Director of Music and Organist at Mayflower Congregational Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan and is the accompanist for the Calvin Alumni Choir.

Baroque Violin and Viola

Boel Gidholm

A native of Sweden, violinist/violist Boel Gidholm has devoted herself to historical performance practice for over 20 years, performing throughout Europe and the US as a baroque violinist and violist. She lives in Rochester, NY, with her husband, Christopher Haritatos, with whom she co-directs Publick Musick, performing and presenting period-instrument concerts in the greater Rochester area. Holding degrees from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and the Akademie für Alte Musik in Bremen, Germany, she is on the faculty of the Eastman Community Music School where she teaches baroque violin and leads a period-instrument ensemble.