Artists 2024
Emily Atkinson
Born in the Colorado Rockies, soprano Emily Atkinson studied at the Crane School of Music, New York and the Royal College of Music, London, and now enjoys performing both as a soloist and consort singer. She has sung with many leading consorts, including The Cardinall's Musick, Alamire, The Taverner Consort, and La Grande Chapelle, and has performed with The Tallis Scholars in hundreds of concerts across five continents. She has also appeared in the UK and abroad with period orchestras such as The Academy of Ancient Music, The English Concert, Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, and Florilegium, including performances at the Valletta Baroque Festival, Edinburgh Festival, and BBC Proms.
Emily is proud to be a member of the City Bach Collective, carrying on a decades-long tradition of performing Bach cantatas liturgically at Lutheran services in the City of London. She is often a featured soloist with period chamber groups, and has recorded a CD of Italian cantatas with Concentus VII, with Early Music Review praising her ‘beautifully controlled voice.’ She has also enjoyed singing fusion and contemporary music, including a recent performance in Morocco with Passamezzo and Sufi singer Abdou el-Haak, as well as new music by Jill Jarman with Chelys Viol Consort and world-famous percussionist, Dame Evelyn Glennie, a particular highlight for Emily, herself an amateur marimba player.
Mime Brinkmann
"Her phrasing sounds as natural as breathing...” The Strad
Cellist Mime Brinkmann has won several prestigeous international competitions, such as the Musica Antiqua Brugge in Belgium. She performs regularly worldwide and recent appaerances include that as a soloist in New York's Carnegie Hall. Mime is passionate about creating new interdisiplinary programmes, including text, lighting and pantomime. Her short-film “Mimes dröm” (2021) was produced by the Swedish Television and was praised by critics and viewers alike.
Supported by the Swedish Artist's Board, Mime holds a ten year long grant in in aid of developing her artistic projects.
Magdalena Loth-Hill
British-Polish violinist Magdalena Loth-Hill is a passionate chamber musician and a founding member of the Consone Quartet (BBC New Generation Artists), who in 2022 were awarded a prestigious Borletti-Buitoni Trust fellowship and signed with Linn Records. Magdalena also performs with Ensemble Hesperi - a period ensemble championing rarely heard music. Ensemble Hesperi won first prize at the 2020 London International Festival of Early Music competition, and third prize at the International Van Wassenaer Competition in Utrecht in 2021. Performing on both modern and period instruments, Magdalena is a regular player with the Academy of Ancient Music and Solomon’s Knot and has recorded for the British Library ‘Georgians Revealed’ exhibition and the ABRSM syllabus. Concerto performances include Bach’s E major concerto, Brandenburg Concerti 4 and 5 and the Bach Double Violin Concerto with the RCM Baroque Orchestra as well as the Mendelssohn and Bruch Violin Concerti with the City of Carlisle Orchestra. In 2016, Magdalena travelled to Bolivia, where her two solo recitals as 'Artist of the Festival' officially opened the Misiones de Chiquitos Festival.
Yu-Wei Hu
Flautist Yu-Wei Hu has quickly established herself as one of the most sought after traverso players on the international stage. Her love of early music was born in her native Taiwan and further developed during her studies at the Royal College of Music in the UK. As a resident of London, she has performed at several of the major festivals and concert halls such as the BBC Proms in the Royal Albert Hall, the Southbank Centre and the Royal Opera House Covent Garden.
She is also active as a soloist and chamber musician, not least through Flauguissimo Duo with Swedish Johan Löfving, who together have given acclaimed concerts all over the world and recorded critically acclaimed albums.
Johan Löfving
Since growing up in Lennartsfors, Värmland, Johan Löfving has been praised internationally for his communicative music-making and unique playing style. After taking his first musical steps with Lars Eriksson at Årjäng's Municipal Music School, Johan continued his studies in London and Salzburg. As a soloist, chamber and orchestra musician, he regularly performs worldwide and has appeared on stages such as Wigmore Hall in London and Konzertsaal der Wiener Sängerknaben in Vienna.
Together with Yu-Wei Hu, Johan is the other half of Flauguissimo, one of the fastest rising early music ensembles
Johan's first solo album Fandango! was praised by critics as 'clearly one of the best albums and players of recent times' (This is Classical Guitar).
Dohyo Sol
Dohyo Sol is one of Scandinavia's most sought-after lutenists. He has studied at the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm, Koninklijk Conservatorium in The Hague (Holland) and at the Royal Danske Musikkonservatorium in Copenhagen.
Dohyo plays regularly with ensembles such as Höör Barock, Camerata Öresund (DK), Göteborg Baroque and Concerto Copenhagen (DK). He has also, from his theorb, conducted opera - L´Orfeo by C Monteverdi and Rappresentatione di Anima et di Corpo by E Cavalieri. Dohyo has participated in several opera productions at Malmö Opera, the Royal Theater in Copenhagen, Ulriksdal's castle theater "Confidencen", the Folk Opera in Stockholm and the Gothenburg Opera.
As a soloist, Dohyo has a fondness for German gallant baroque music as well as "the Golden age" - which includes the late Renaissance in England. Dohyo has appeared on around 20 records as a chamber musician, soloist and as a member of various baroque orchestras. In 2021, Dohyo was "Artist of the Year" in the prestigious Naestved Early Music Festival in Denmark.
Emelie Roos
Emelie Roos is one of Sweden´s foremost recorder virtuosos with a diverse musicianship. She lives in Höör in central Skåne, and has put this village on the international classical music map with award winning ensemble Höör Barock. In 2020 Höör Barock won a Swedish Grammy,
In 2022 they released their fourth critically acclaimed album "Baroque Concertos with recorder - Treasures from Swedish collections", with Emelie as soloist. In the spring of 2024, the album "Meetings with Bach - S L Weiss, J S Bach & C P E Bach" will be released on Proprius/Naxos Sweden, with Duo Solroos, featuring Dohyo Sol and Emelie Roos.
Emelie has played with leading baroque ensembles and orchestras in Sweden, such as Drottningholmsteatern, Malmö Stadsteater, Malmö Opera, Göteborgs symfonikerna, GöteborgBaroque, Karlsson Baroque, Arte Dei Suonatori (POL), Camerata Öresund (DK), Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble, Kvinnoorkestern.
Emelie is, together with her husband Dohyo Sol, artistic director of Höör Baroque ensemble and festival. Höör Baroque, with its well-attended annual summer festival (since 2012) and with guest appearances all over the country, and in Denmark, Iceland and Germany, has established itself as one of the leading Swedish baroque ensembles of today.
Emil Duncumb
"A master of gently theatrical timing".... "Elfin dexterity and tongue in cheek charm" - The Gramophone
Fortepianist/Pianist Emil Duncumb performs regularly as a soloist and chamber musician throughout Europe. Highlights include concerts at Wigmore Hall and the major halls in Oslo, as well as broadcasts on WDR3, BBC Radio 3 and NRK.
From the age of 12 Emil gained a keen interest in the fortepiano through studies with Liv Glaser and has since gone on to focus particularly on the chamber music from the 18th and early 19th centuries, also exploring the orchestral repertoire extensively in a smaller format with his chamber group, Pocket Sinfonia. Emil is a prizewinner in the MAfestival fortepiano competition 2019 and recipient of the 2022 Unge Lindemanpris.
Carl Unander-Scharin
Carl Unander-Scharin was born in Stockholm in 1964, studied at the Royal College of Music and at the University College of Opera in Stockholm where he acquired a Master of Fine Arts in Church Music in 1991. He studied organ under Hans Fagius, conducting under Eric Ericson, Gustaf Sjökvist and Jorma Panula, singing for Solwig Grippe, Hans Gertz, Nicolai Gedda, Erik Saedén and Gösta Winbergh.
Between 1991 and 1995, Carl studied at The University College of Opera in Stockholm, where he acquiered a diploma in Operatic singing. Carl also holds a teacher's degree as well as a choral conductor's degree, both from the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. In 2015, Carl defended his PhD thesis "Extending Opera" at KTH The Royal Institute of Technology.
He has a parallel career as a composer and as a lyric tenor. Having sung roles at many Swedish venues such as the Folkoperan, Vadstena-Academy, and the likes, he was during 2000 to 2011 employed as a tenor soloist at the Royal Opera in Stockholm, where he appeared in 25 roles. Carl has participated in 18 CD recordings both as a composer and as a tenor; most recently in recordings of music by Bach (b-minor mass 2015 under the baton of Ingmar Månsson) and the newly composed St John Passion by Fredrik Sixten (conducted by Ragnar Bohlin).
Additionally, Carl is a prolific composer of operas, electronic/ interactive music and spiritual music. His operatic works include 'Mannen på sluttningen' (The Man on the Hillside) and 'Tokfursten' (The King of Fools).
Masumi Yamamoto
Harpsichordist Masumi Yamamoto performs extensively as a soloist and continuo player. She has given solo recitals in the London Handel Festival and Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and will this year appear at King’s Lynn Festival. She has also toured across Europe with such ensembles as the Gabrieli Consort & Players, the Academy of Ancient Music and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Also in demand as a concerto soloist, she has played concertos in the UK, Norway, Japan and Australia. She was a prize winner at the International Harpsichord Competition in Bruges.
Masumi studied at the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University in Australia, Royal Academy of Music in London and then at Trinity College of Music with harpsichordist James Johnstone before completing her PhD at the University of York under Peter Seymour.
Steven Player
Steven has for the past twenty years studied and performed dances of the Renaissance and Baroque periods. He also plays baroque guitar and studied lute at the Royal College of Music in London. This combination of performing as both dancer and musician has made him popular with leading early music ensembles in Europe, where he works regularly with Barokksolistene, The Harp Consort, Akademie for Alte Musik Berlin, The Balthasaar Neumann Ensemble and the trio Los Otros.
He also performs in the Americas, Australia, and Japan. He has taught dance to music students throughout Europe, choreographed for TV and Opera, and acted and performed Commedia dell’Arte. He has been a favorite with Apollo’s Fire audiences for over 10 years, particularly in the holiday program “Sacrum Mysterium – A Celtic Christmas.” Mr. Player enjoys combining the disciplines of art and historical research, while living in the 21st century.