Paul Jacobson has been flutist for Ensemble Musical Offering since the end of the second millennium. He is principal flutist and executive director for The Lyra Baroque Orchestra and a member of The WolfGang. He has performed with the Bach Society of Minnesota, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Schubert Club, Ex Machina Baroque Opera Company, the Rose Ensemble, the Oberlin BPI Orchestra, the Chicago Baroque Ensemble, the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra, and the St. Louis Baroque Festival Orchestra. He has been a featured soloist at three National Flute Association conventions, the International Artists Series of Worcester, Massachusetts, the Shrine to Music of South Dakota, and elsewhere throughout the states and in Spain. He vice-president of the Board of Directors for Early Music America and is recorded on the Glossa and the Tronheim Record labels.

A member of EMO since 2001, violinist GESA KORDES performs with numerous chamber ensembles and Baroque Orchestras on both sides of the Atlantic ,including The King's Noyse, Opera Lafayette, Bach and the Baroque, Ensemble Tra i Tempi, and the Kurpfälzische Hofkapelle Mainz, as well as the Indianapolis and Atlanta Baroque Orchestras.  She has toured as soloist and chamber musician in the U.S., Central America, Europe, and Israel and has recorded for NPR, harmonia mundi, FONO, Dorian, and Naxos. Since 1998, Gesa Kordes has been increasingly in demand as an ensemble director of chamber groups and Baroque and Classical orchestras in the U.S. and Europe, most recently at the Magnolia Baroque Festival in Winston-Salem, N.C.  In August 2006, she joined the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro as the director of the School of Music’s newly-founded Baroque Ensemble. In 2007, her activities also include recitals and recordings with keyboardist Andrew Willis, as well as concerts at the Bloomington Early Music Festival, the Victoria Bach Festival, the Boston Early Music Festival Fringe, the Carmel Bach Festival, and a residency at the University of Louisville, KY.

Gesa Kordes received her Baroque violin training from Stanley Ritchie and John Holloway at Indiana University's Early Music Institute, where she served as Lecturer for Baroque violin.  She holds a master's degree in violin and musicology from Indiana University, where she is currently a doctoral candidate in musicology.  As a musicologist, she has presented papers and lecture-demonstrations at conferences in the U.S., Canada, and France and published articles on topics ranging from Bach cantatas to serialism.  Her dissertation research explores early-seventeenth century Italian instrumental music and its place in the liturgy.

William Bauer began his baroque studies on the viola d’amore under Joseph Ceo (University of Rhode Island). Subsequently, he has studied baroque violin with Reinhard Goebel (Musica Antiqua Koeln) and Richard Gwilt (London Baroque). He is a member of the Chicago Baroque Band, the Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra, and the Mirabel String Quartet. He has been a member of Milwaukee's Ensemble Musical Offering since 2000.

Cellist DEBRA LONERGAN was already a long-standing member of the Michigan Opera Theatre Orchestra in Detroit at the time she began to specialize in early music. She then worked extensively with Ann Arbor’s American Baroque Ensemble, as well as Ars Musica, during the time of its 1989 Michigan MozartFest and a twenty-city national tour celebrating the 1985 Bach anniversary year. Ms. Lonergan also served as an academic program administrator for Detroit’s Center for Creative Studies-Institute of Music and Dance, and as an artist representative for Donna Zajonc Management in Ann Arbor. She has made an extensive study of string pedagogy, and maintains an active studio in Ann Arbor.

Currently a member of La Gente d’Orfeo and Anaphantasia as well as Mirabel, Ms Lonergan has been a member of Ensemble Musical Offering since 2000. She plays a modern copy of a Collichon bass viol, and an antique English cello from the Walmsley School with a copy of a transitional bow from a private collection made by Stephen Marvin.

Emi Tanabe, baroque violin

Ms. Tanabe began her violin study in the Suzuki Violin School at the age of three, receiving special Suzuki awards twice.These awards allowed her the privilege of playing in a master class under Dr. Shinichi Suzuki at the age of six as well as a being a member of the Suzuki string orchestra, serving as a concertmaster for seven years. Ms. Tanabe attended Eastman School of Music, University of North Texas, and Roosevelt University in Chicago to study violin with Oleh Krysa, Julia Bushkova, Cynthia Roberts and Shmuel Ashkenasi, etc. Her performance experience includes Cleveland Baroque Orchestra (Apollo's Fire), Civic Orchestra of Chicago, Richardson Symphony Orchestra, Atlanta Baroque Orchestra, San Francisco Bach Choir, University of North Texas Baroque Orchestra, and Henri Mancini Chamber Orchestra serving as a concertmaster. She also has done studio recordings such as: a violinist for a soundtrack for a motion picture produced by Film Academy of Prague, a violinist for music of "Voyage" theatre play, and a studio session musician for record level "Rosehip Records Inc." Ms. Tanabe has been a member of a rock- band “About a girl” and two pop-bands “Eden Music Group” and “Al Sofia." She also has been a guest solo violinist for an Irish Choir “ANUNA” for their 2007 U.S. tour and their PBS TV Christmas Special “Christmas Memories” in 2008.  In 2008, Ms Tanabe joined the Midwest Early Music Bande, Ensemble Musical Offering, based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Classical Guitarist Rene Izquierdo, a native from Cuba, graduated from the Amadeo Roldan Conservatory and Superior Institute del Arte in Havana, where he studied with renowned guitarist Jesus Ortega. In the United States, Mr. Izquierdo earned a Master of Music and an Artist  Diploma degrees from the Yale University School of Music, where he studied with Benjamin Verdery. While at Yale he represented the university in an exchange program with the Conservatoire National de Musique et de Danse du Paris and worked with guitarists Olivie Chassain and Roland Dyens.

Rene has appeared as a guest soloist and in chamber music concerts throughout the United States, Cuba and Europe. He has shared the stage with prestigious guitarists including Eliot Fist, Benjamin Verdery and Jorge Morel, as well as renowned flutist Ransom Wilson, soprano Lucy Shelton, David Jolley (French Horn), and Paquito d’Rivera. Renowned composers such as Jorge Morel and Carlos R. Rivera have dedicated works to him. Mr. Izquierdo is a recipient of numerous awards. He is a winner of JoAnn Falletta International Guitar Competition in 2004, Extremadura International Guitar Competition, Schadt String competition, Stotsenberg International Guitar Competition among others.

Izquierdo is currently a professor of classical guitar at the Wisconsin State University in Milwaukee and an active solo performer and chamber musician. Rene has studied with Leo Brouwer, David Russell, Shin-Ichi Fukuda, Eli Kastner, Pepe Romero, Angel Romero, Carlos Barbosa-Lima, David Starobin, Eduardo Fernandez, Jorge Morel, Robert Beaser and Anthony Newman among others.  Together with Artistic Director/fortepiano Joan Parsley of Ensemble Musical Offering, the two performers are exploring the piano and guitar works by the nineteenth century composer Ferdinando Carulli.

Cornelia Beilke, mezzo-soprano, comes from an extended family of musicians in Leipzig, Germany. Ms. Beilke studied voice and vocal pedagogy at the Musikhochschule "Hans Eisler" in Berlin, Germany, and holds a Master of Music Performance from Loyola University College of Music. She toured throughout Europe and Japan with the Gächinger Kantorei conducted by Helmut Rilling, with whom she also recorded the complete works of Bach. Performance credits in Europe include the International Bach Festivals in Potsdam and Berlin, the Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin, and the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, and the Komische Oper Berlin.

In the United States Ms. Beilke sang with the Washington Opera, the Wolf Trap Opera, the Washington Bach Consort, the Washington Cathedral Choral Society, and numerous chamber ensembles.  n New Orleans, she has been a featured soloist with Tulane University's Music at Midday concerts, the Trinity Artist Concerts, the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, the LPO Symphony Chorus, the Acadiana Symphony in Lafayette and the Brentwood Baroque Consort in Massachusetts. A favorite with New Orleans audiences, she was heard as a soloist with the Symphony Chorus in Händel's Messiah, Beethoven's 9th Symphony, Bach's Cantata 124, Mozart's Requiem, and Händel's Judas Maccabeaus. Until August 29 of 2005, Ms. Beilke maintained a busy studio at Loyola University, teaching voice, performance master classes and courses in German diction. After evacuating with her family to Massachusetts, Ms. Beilke took a teaching assignment with the Cape Cod Conservatory. Most recently, she moved with her family to Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, and made her debut with the Milwaukee early music producer, Musical Offering, Ltd. in May 2007 as the featured guest soloist in "Mozart to Moonlight."

Brazilian recorder player Clea Galhano is an International renowned performer of early, contemporary and Brazilian music. Galhano has performed in the United States, Canada, South America and Europe as a chamber musician, collaborating with recorder player Marion Verbruggen, Jacques Ogg, Belladonna, Lanzelotte/Galhano Duo, Galhano/Montgomery Duo, Farallon Quartet and Blue Baroque Band. As a featured soloist, Galhano has worked with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra conducted by Christopher Hogwood, Nicholas McGegan and Emmanuelle Haim, World Symphony, Milwaukee Baroque and Lyra Baroque Orchestra.

Among other important music festivals, Ms. Galhano has performed at the Boston Early Music Festival, the Tage Alter Music Festival in Germany and at Wigmore Hall in London, Merkin Hall in New York and Palazzo Santa Croce in Rome, always receiving acclaimed reviews. Ms. Galhano was featured in 2006 in the Second International Recorder Congress in Leiden, Holland and in 2007 at the International Recorder Conference in Montreal.

Galhano studied in Brazil, the Royal Conservatory (The Hague), and the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, earning a Fulbright scholarship and support from the Dutch government. As an advocate of recorder music and educational initiatives, she served for six years on the national board of the American Recorder Society and was featured many years as teacher and soloist at Suzuki and AOSA conferences.

A popular teacher and ensemble director, Galhano regularly conducts workshops across the United States, Europe and Brazil. Currently, Galhano is the Executive Artistic Director of the St. Paul Conservatory of Music and she is on the faculty of Macalester College.

Ms. Galhano has recordings available on Dorian, Ten Thousand Lakes and Eldorado labels, and is artist-in-residence at the prestigious Schubert Club in St. Paul, Minnesota.