Ian Watson
Ian Watson has been described by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung as “a conductor of fomidable ability,” and by The Times in London as a keyboard performer with “virtuosic panache and brilliantly articulated playing” and “a world-class soloist.” He is Artistic Director of the acclaimed period-instrument ensemble Arcadia Players and Chorus, Music Director of Commonwealth Opera, Principal Guest Conductor of Karlstad Baroque in Sweden and Music Director of the Cathedral of St. Paul, Worcester.

Ian's many prestigious conducting engagements include Monteverdi's Vespers at St. James's Palace in the presence of Her Majesty the Queen; Bach's B Minor Mass at the Rheingau Festival with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Orchestra and Chorus; the opening concerts of the newly renovated Châtelet Theater in Paris with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and tours with Nigel Kennedy and the English Chamber Orchestra of Bruch and Mozart concerti. He was assistant conductor, organ and harpsichord soloist and continuo player for Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s Bach Cantata Pilgrimage, performing all of Bach’s Cantatas on the correct liturgical day in places where Bach lived and worked. He has appeared as organ, harpsichord and piano soloist or conductor with the London Symphony, London Philharmonic and Royal Philharmonic Orchestras, Irish Chamber and Stuttgart Chamber Orchestras, Bremen Philharmonic, Rhein-Main Symphony Orchestra, English Baroque Soloists, and The Sixteen amongst many others. He has also been featured on more than 200 recordings and film soundtracks including Amadeus, Polanski’s Death and the Maiden, Restoration, Cry the Beloved Country, Voices from a Locked Room, BBC‘s David Copperfield, and an award-winning CD with Renee Fleming.

Ian has had a career-long passion for opera, working first as a vocal coach and conductor at Glyndebourne Festival Opera, and subsequently conducting countless performances of over fifty operas throughout England, and internationally at Sadler’s Wells, The Royal Festival Hall, Bremen Opera, Giessen Opera, the Komische Opera, Berlin, houses in France and Scandinavia, and as a Principal Conductor with the Darmstadt State Opera in Germany in repertoire ranging from Monteverdi and Handel to Richard Strauss's Elektra and Birtwhistle‘s Punch and Judy.

David Miller
David Miller has served as the principal violist of the Handel and Haydn Society from the appointment of Christopher Hogwood as music director in the mid-1980s.

A devoted performer of chamber music on period instruments and a pioneer of early music performance in this country, he is a founding member of the Bach Ensemble, Red Cedar Trio and Concert Royal, as well as guest artist with the Aulos and the Theatre of Early Music in Canada.

David has served as principal violist for period orchestras including the Boston Early Music Festival, the New York Collegium, and the American Classical Orchestra. Chamber music appearances at summer festivals include Mostly Mozart at Lincoln Center; Tanglewood; the Festival of Perth, Australia; the Lufthansa Festival of London; the Esterhazy Palace in Eisenstadt, Austria and the Ottawa Festival. His many recordings of solo and chamber works can be heard on BIS, Centaur, Decca, Dorian, EMI, Fleur de Son Classics, Harmonia Mundi, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Smithsonian Collection of Recordings, among others.

Teresa Neff
Teresa Neff received her Ph.D. in Musicology from Boston University. Her research interests center around Gottfried van Swieten, a late 18th century Viennese patron and composer. Teresa’s edition of Swieten’s symphonies will be published by Artaria later this year. She has presented papers at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, the New England Chapter of the American Musicological Society and the Architecture/Music/Acoustics Conference. She presents concert preview lectures for Elderhostel and Boston Lyric Opera, and also teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Boston Conservatory.