Musicians:

Sherezade Panthaki, soprano (August)

Jay Carter, countertenor (August)

Emi Ferguson, flute (August)

Margo McGowan, clarinet (July)

Rachel Juszczak, bassoon (July)

new! Orlando Pandolfi, horn (July)

Arthur Haas, harpsichord (August)

Ariadne Daskalakis, violin (July/August)

EmmaLee Holmes-Hicks, violin (July)

Susanna Ogata, violin (August)

Martha McGaughey, viola da gamba (August)

Paige Riggs, cello (July)

Nathan Whittaker, cello (August)

Kiefer Fuller, bass (July)

Composer: Sebastian Gottschick (July/August),

About Us

Ariadne Daskalakis, Artistic Director

Ariadne Daskalakis leads an international career as violin soloist, baroque violinist and renowned pedagogue. She has collaborated as soloist with fine orchestras like the English Chamber Orchestras, the Athens State Orchestra, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra Munich, the Stuttgart Philharmonic, Dortmund Philharmonic and the New Bedford Symphony. As soloist and leader she also collaborated with the Prague, Cologne and Stuttgart Chamber Orchestras and with Ensemble Oriol Berlin. As baroque violinist she has led projects with the Academy for Ancient Music Berlin, the Norwegian Baroque Orchestra, Concerto Köln and Barokkanerne Oslo. Prizewinner in the International Competition of the ARD Munich and the St. Louis Symphony Young Artists Competition, she also received awards from the Harvard Music Association, the New England Conservatory and the Dortmund Mozart Society. The repertoire ducmented on her many recordings ranges from Biber, Bach and Vivaldi to Lutoslawski and Gottschick. Recently she released Schubert's complete works for violin on the label BIS. Born of Greek parentage in Boston, she studied violin with Eric Rosenblith at the New England Conservatory Prep School and with Szymon Goldberg at the Juilliard School. She holds degrees with honors from Harvard College and the Hochschule der Künste Berlin. She is Professor of Violin at the Cologne Conservatory of Music and Dance.

For more information please visit https://www.ariadne-daskalakis.com

Sherezade Panthaki, soprano

Soprano Sherezade Panthaki enjoys ongoing international collaborations with many of the world’s leading conductors including Nicholas McGegan, Masaaki Suzuki, Martin Haselböck, Mark Morris, Nicholas Kraemer, Matthew Halls, Stephen Stubbs, and Gary Wedow. She is celebrated for her “full, luxuriously toned upper range” (The Los Angeles Times), and “astonishing coloratura with radiant top notes” (Calgary Herald) particularly in the music of Bach and Handel. Recent seasons have included performances with the New York Philharmonic, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Bach Collegium Japan, Wiener Akademie (Austria), NDR Hannover Radiophilharmonie (Germany), the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Boston Early Music Festival, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra (Canada), Minnesota Orchestra, St. Louis Symphony, Calgary Philharmonic, Houston Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Mark Morris Dance Group, St. Thomas Church Fifth Avenue New York, The Choir and Orchestra of Trinity Wall Street, and Voices of Music. Ms. Panthaki is also in demand for her interpretations of Mozart, Haydn, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Poulenc, and Orff, as well as numerous new music premieres. Born and raised in India, Ms. Panthaki holds graduate degrees with top honors from the Yale School of Music and the University of Illinois, and a Bachelor's from West Virginia Wesleyan College. She is a founding member and artistic advisor of the newly-debuted Kaleidoscope Vocal Ensemble - a vocal octet celebrating racial and ethnic diversity in performances and educational programs of early and new music. Ms. Panthaki is a frequent guest clinician and masterclass leader across the United States. She has taught voice to graduate music students at

Yale University, and currently heads the Vocal program at

Mount Holyoke College.

Jay Carter, countertenor

Jay Carter, countertenor, has earned a reputation

as one of America’s leading interpreters of

Baroque repertoire, and frequently appears with

conductors and organizations specializing in

early music. Recent seasons include appearances

with Masaaki Suzuki and Bach Collegium Japan; Nicholas McGegan and Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra; and the Choir of Men and Boys, St. Thomas Church under John Scott and Daniel Hyde. He also frequently appears with modern ensembles in concert repertoire. Past seasons have included performances with the Cleveland Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, Houston Symphony, and the Saint Louis Symphony. As a recitalist, Mr. Carter often presents programs featuring Art Song repertoire from outside the countertenor repertoire. He also works as an ensemble collaborator and conductor, having led Kantorei (Westminster Choir College), and currently leads the Kansas City-based Musica Vocale. He holds degrees in music from William Jewell College, Yale University, and the Conservatory of Music (University of Missouri Kansas City) where he now maintains a studio. He has previously held academic appointments on the voice faculty of William Jewell College and Westminster Choir College.

Arthur Haas, harpsichord

Arthur Haas is one of the most sought-after performers and teachers of Baroque music in the United States today. He received the top prize in the Paris International Harpsichord Competition in 1975 and then stayed in France for a number of years as an active member of the growing European early music scene. While in Paris, he joined the Five Centuries Ensemble, a group acclaimed for its performances and recordings of Baroque and contemporary music. For 30 years, he was a member of the Aulos Ensemble, one of America’s premier period instrument ensembles, whose recordings of Bach, Vivaldi, Telemann, Couperin, and Rameau won critical acclaim in the press, as well as Empire Viols and Gold and Glitter. He has recorded harpsichord music of Jean-Henry D’Anglebert, Forqueray, Purcell and his contemporaries, Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, François Couperin, Bernardo Pasquini, and the complete harpsichord works of Rameau. Most recent concert appearances include 7 performances of Bach’s Goldberg Variations all over the US since 2021. Annual summer workshop and festival appearances include the Virginia Baroque Academy, Portland (ME) Bach Virtuosi Festival, and the Amherst Early Music Festival, where he served as artistic director of the Baroque Academy from 2002 to 2011. Haas is professor of harpsichord and early music at Stony Brook University where he leads the award-winning Stony Brook Baroque Players, and is Visiting Professor of Harpsichord at the Yale School of Music. He was also a founding faculty member of Juilliard’s historical performance program. Most recently he is the 2023 recepient of the Howard Mayer Brown Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Field of Early Music -

the highest honor bestowed by Early Music America.

Emi Ferguson, flute

Emi Ferguson is excited to be back at Music from Land’s End. A 2023 recipient of the Avery Fisher Career Grant, Emi can be heard live in concerts and festivals with groups including AMOC*, the Handel and Haydn Society, the New York New Music Ensemble, and the Manhattan Chamber Players. Her recordings celebrate her fascination with reinvigorating music and instruments of the past for the present. Her debut album, Amour Cruel, an indie-pop song cycle inspired by the music of the 17th-century French court, was released by Arezzo Music in September 2017, spending four weeks on the classical, classical crossover, and world music Billboard charts. Her 2019 album Fly the Coop: Bach Sonatas and Preludes, a collaboration with continuo band Ruckus, debuted at #1 on the iTunes classical charts and #2 on the Billboard classical charts, and was called “blindingly impressive ... a fizzing, daring display of personality and imagination” by The New York Times. A passionate chamber musician of works new and old, Ferguson has been a featured performer at the Marlboro, Lucerne, Ojai, Lake Champlain, Bach Virtuosi, and June in Buffalo festivals, often premiering new works by composers of our time. Emi has spoken and performed at several TEDx events and has been featured on media outlets including the Discovery Channel, Amazon Prime, WQXR, and Vox talking about how music relates to our world today. As part of WQXR’s Artist Propulsion Lab, she created the series “This Composer is SICK!” with Max Fine that explored the impact of Syphilis on composers Franz Schubert, Bedrich Smetana, and Scott Joplin, in addition to guest hosting WQXR’s Young Artists Showcase. This summer, her book co-written with David and Nicholas Csicsko, “Iconic Composers”,

will be released by Trope Publishing, introducing kids, and adults, to 50 incredible composers. Born in Japan and raised in London

and Boston, she now resides in New York City.

Margo McGowan, clarinet

Margo McGowan, clarinet, is a member of the Boston Landmarks Orchestra and the New Bedford Symphony. She performs frequently with the Rhode Island Philharmonic, Symphony New Hampshire, and has also performed with Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, Boston Ballet, Boston Lyric Opera, and the Lexington Symphony. Past positions include principal clarinet with Boston Academy of Music Opera Orchestra and National Lyric Opera. As a chamber musician she was a member of the Northeast Quintet based in Rhode Island, Young Audiences of Massachusetts woodwind quintet North Winds, and the Radius Ensemble. Ms. McGowan has also been a guest artist for the Newport Music Festival. She has performed and recorded with the Kalmen Opperman Clarinet Choir for the Sony/BMG label, Boston Landmarks recordings, and Navona Records. Ms. McGowan is an adjunct faculty member at Brandeis University , Phillips Academy/Andover, and the Prep school at New England Conservatory.

Rachel Juszczak, basoon

Rachel Juszczak is the second bassoonist with Boston Lyric Opera, New Bedford Symphony, and Cape Symphony.

As an active freelancer, she has performed with the Boston Symphony, Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra, Rhode Island Philharmonic, Boston Ballet, Boston Philharmonic, Vermont Symphony, Opera Maine, and other ensembles in the New England area. In addition to orchestral work, Rachel has been a finalist in both the Arriaga (Stamford, CT) and Coleman (Pasadena, CA) Chamber Music Competitions,

is a member of the New England Chamber Players and has collaborated with other local chamber ensembles including Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra and Radius Ensemble.

Rachel is the bassoon instructor at Weston Public Schools, Natick Public Schools, Cape Conservatory, Instrumental Music School of Concord & Carlisle, David French Music Company and additionally maintains a private studio around the Greater Boston area. She was the Bassoon Workshop Assistant at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute from 2015-2019 and former faculty at Westfield State University. Previously, she taught non-degree lessons at Boston University and beginning-advanced lessons through the Butler Community Arts School located in Indianapolis, IN. She holds a Master of Music degree and a Performance Diploma in bassoon performance from Boston University and earned her Bachelor of Music degree in bassoon performance from Butler University, Indianapolis. Her principal teachers include Richard Ranti, Suzanne Nelsen, and Dr. Doug Spaniol.

Other musicians with whom she has studied or participated in masterclasses include Matthew Ruggiero, Richard Svoboda, Judith LeClair, John Clouser, Gustavo Nuñez, Benjamin Kamins, Christopher Millard, and Gilbert Audin.

EmmaLee Holmes-Hicks

Dr. EmmaLee Holmes-Hicks is a freelance musician and educator, passionate about chamber music, orchestral playing, traditional music and improvisation. After receiving her doctoral degree in violin performance from SUNY Stony Brook, EmmaLee moved to Providence to pursue a fellowship with Community MusicWorks, serving as resident musician, teacher and learning about non-profits and social justice.

Dr. Holmes-Hicks is on faculty at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth and the Birch Creek Summer Performance Center. EmmaLee is principal second violinist of the New Bedford Symphony Orchestra, a member of the Cape Symphony, performs regularly with the Southcoast Chamber Music Series and is a member of the new music collective, Verdant Vibes.

A firm believer that music can move people, quite literally, EmmaLee plays in contra dance bands across New England and in the Midwest where her lively fiddle music drives the spirited old-time dancing. She has played fiddle with the Rusty Pickup String Band since she was ten years old and she has taken many championship prizes at

fiddle contests.

Susanna Ogata, violin

Susanna, violinist, is dedicated to exploring historical performance practice, through manifold collaborations. Her playing has been described as “warm, witty, responsive, making the tops of phrases gleam” (GramophoneMagazine), “warm and rich of tone” (Fanfare Magazine), and “electrifying energy, awesome technical command and rollicking dialogue” (Arts Fuse Magazine) where her performance was distinguished as a top performance of the season.

Susanna serves as Assistant Concertmaster of Handel and Haydn Society where she has acted as violin leader under the batons of

such conductors as Raphaël Pichon and Harry Christophers. She

also has performed as chamber musician and soloist with such groups as Sarasa, The Bach Ensemble, Newton Baroque and Ashmont Bach Project. Susanna is currently the violin leader of Upper Valley Baroque under the direction of Filippo Ciabatti. She has made appearances

at the Tage Alter Musik Festival in Regensburg, Germany, the Boston Early Music Festival, and the Connecticut Early Music Festival

among others.

Susanna and keyboardist Ian Watson completed “The Beethoven Project”, recording the entire Sonatas for Fortepiano and Violin of Beethoven on period instruments, receiving praise in such publications as The Boston Globe, where the recording was distinguished as an eminent release of 2017, as well as BBC Music Magazine, Strad Magazine, Gramophone, and Early Music Review. The New York Times praised them for “elegant readings that are attentive to quicksilver changes in dynamics and articulation. Their performance of the Sonata No. 4 in A minor is darkly playful, their ‘Kreutzer’ Sonata brilliant and stormy.” They participated in a two-year residency at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, performing for and working with students there.

Susanna currently coaches students at the New England Conservatory through the Pratt Residency for Early Music.

Sebastian Gottschick, composer-in-residence

Sebastian Gottschick was born to a family of church musicians, and studied violin, composition and conducting in Cologne, Berlin, Hamburg and at the Juilliard School in New York. The broad spectrum of his interests and experience – in contemporary and early music, as conductor, composer and arranger, violinist, violist and teacher at the Cologne Conservatory (HfMT Köln) - is reflected in his compositions and arrangements. Sebastian led the Ensemble Oriol Berlin and was violist of the Manon Quartet Berlin for ten years, respectively. From 1994 through 2003, he was Musical Director of the New Opera Berlin. As conductor he has worked with ensembles including KlangForum Wien/Vienna, MusikFabrik Köln/Cologne, the Kammerakademie Potsdam, the Düsseldorf Symphonikern, the Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and the Radio Orchestras in Frankfurt, Warsaw, Berlin, Stuttgart und Munich. He also appeared at the KonzertTheater Bern, the State Theater Saarbrücken, Teatro Sao Carlos Lisbon, La Fenice in Venice and at the Basel Theatre. He enjoys a longstanding collaboration with the ensemble für neue musik zurich. Numerous recordings with that ensemble include the Charles Ives Songbook I and II, Gottschick’s adaptation of Ives songs. A further CD of Gottschick’s works was released with the label ezzthetics in 2019, and Gottschick’s arrangement of the Musical Offering by Bach was released with Ensemble Vintage Köln on the label Eigenart. His arrangements for the Alliage-Quintet have been released by Sony Classics, including Stravinsky’s „Firebird“ with Sabine Meyer. The CD Dancing Paris, for which Gottschick arranged works by Enescu, Milhaud and Copland, was awarded an Echo Prize in 2010.

Martha McGaughey

Martha McGaughey studied with Jordi Savall and with Wieland Kuijken. She is a founding member of the New York-based Empire Viols, which was in residence at Second Presbyterian Church for almost 20 years, and now performs at the Church of the Transfiguration. She has recorded for the Fonit Cetra and Erato labels, as well as for EMI. She has taught at the Ecole Nationale de Musique in Angoulême (France), at Stanford University, and since 1986 at The Mannes College of Music, where she currently teaches Baroque Performance Practice as well as a Performance Workshop for ESL students. She has twice been a Regents' Lecturer at the University of California. In the 2016-2017 season she was a featured soloist with the China National Symphony in Beijing. More recently, she has given several master classes in France, and appeared with Chatham Baroque in Pittsburgh. She teaches frequently at various early music workshops all over the U.S.

Paige Riggs, cello

Cellist Paige Riggs returns to Music from Land's End from her home in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where she is an active teacher and performer. She serves as principal cellist of the Westmoreland and McKeesport Symphonies, and has been principal cellist and soloist with the Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival for the past 14 years. Currently on the music faculty of Slippery Rock University, Dr. Riggs has also taught at the University of Virginia and Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin. A graduate of the Eastman School of Music, Indiana University and the State University of New York at Stony Brook her major teachers include Paul Katz, Janos Starker, and Timothy Eddy. While a student she received fellowships from the Spoleto Festival, the Bach Aria Festival and the Tanglewood Music Center, which awarded her the C. D. Jackson memorial prize.

Nathan Whittaker, cello

Nathan Whittaker, violoncello, enjoys a unique and diverse career as

a concert soloist, chamber musician, recitalist, teacher, and historical cello specialist with concert stops ranging from New York to Seattle to Dubai. He is the Artistic Director of Gallery Concerts (Seattle), a concert series of chamber music on period instruments, and regularly performs with the Trinity Baroque Orchestra, Pacific Baroque Orchestra, New York Baroque Incorporated, ARTek, El Mundo, Fort Greene Chamber Music Society, Byron Schenkman and Friends, and the Pacific Northwest Ballet. Recent appearances include the Caramoor Music Festival, Seattle

Baroque Orchestra, Vancouver Bach Festival, Pacific Baroque Festival, Pacific MusicWorks, Berkeley Early Music Festival, Ottawa ChamberFest, the Boston Early Music Festival, and as a guest lecturer at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris. An active pedagogue, he has served on the faculty of Cornish College of the Arts and runs a dynamic private studio. He can be heard on recordings by ATMA Musique, Harmonia, and Centaur, as well as live broadcasts by NPR, CBC, and KING FM. Dr. Whittaker holds a Doctorate of Musical Arts from the University of Washington and Bachelors and Masters degrees from Indiana University. He performs on a cello of Mario Gadda from 1957, and a baroque cello of Johann Christian Ficker II from c. 1770.