Erik Rydvall is a virtuoso musician with a strong curiosity and a personal expression. In his interpretations of Bach's cello suites as well as sonatas and partitas for violin, he combines musical presence and curiosity with the unique sound of the nyckelharpa. 

In addition to chamber music, he has also participated as a studio musician in several international film and series productions, including Lord of the Rings – The Rings of Power, Loki and Obi-Wan Kenobi – projects that have taken his nyckelharpa into the world beyond the conventional scenes.

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.

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).

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). 

In 2003 Erik Dippenaar obtained the degree BMus (cum laude) from Stellenbosch University and was awarded a MMus (with distinction) by the Royal College of Music (RCM) in London in 2007. The following year he completed an Artist Diploma in Performance at the RCM. His teachers included Margaret Phillips (organ), Robert Woolley, Terence Charlston and Jane Chapman (harpsichord) and Geoffrey Govier (fortepiano).

From 2005 to 2011 Erik was based in London, where he worked on a regular basis with Florilegium, The London Handel Players, English Touring Opera, the Little Baroque Company and Ensemble Serse. Erik was one of the official accompanists for the annual London Handel Singing Competition and during 2008/2009 he was appointed as Mills/Williams Junior Fellow at the RCM.

Erik is currently Artistic Director of the Cape Town Baroque Orchestra, Artistic Director of the annual Cape Town Baroque Festival, and an adjunct lecturer in organ and harpsichord performance, as well as Western music history and historical performance practice, at the University of Cape Town (UCT). His conducting highlights include the first South African period performance of Handel’s Messiah in 2013, as well as Cape Town Opera’s first production to use a period instrument orchestra: Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo in 2016.

In 2021 Erik was awarded a PhD in music by UCT, with a dissertation focusing on the role historical domestic keyboard instruments played in the colonisation process in Southern Africa. Since 2024 he continues his research journey as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Africa Open Institute for Music, Research and Innovation at Stellenbosch University.

Erik divides his time between Cape Town and Oslo (Norway), where he works as a freelance harpsichordist and organist. He regularly works with Nivalis Barokk, Oslo Circles, Barokkanerne, Stavanger Barokk, the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, the Norwegian Radio Orchestra and Ensemble C4.

American soprano Emily Atkinson was born in Colorado and studied at the Crane School of Music in New York and the Royal College of Music in London. She has had a wide-ranging international career as a soloist, chamber musician and chorister. Emily has sung with several leading consorts such as The Cardinall’s Musick, Alamire, The Taverner Consort and La Grande Chapelle. As a long-standing member of The Tallis Scholars, she has sung hundreds of concerts on five continents. She has also appeared with the established baroque orchestras The Academy of Ancient Music, The English Concert, Freiburg Baroque Orchestra and Florilegium at, among others, the Edinburgh Festival and the BBC Proms.

Emily is a proud member of the City Bach Collective, which has been keeping alive the tradition of singing Bach's cantatas liturgically in Lutheran services in central London for decades. Her numerous recordings include Concentus VII and Flauguissimo, the latter with arias by the 'father of Swedish music' Johan Helmich Roman. 

In addition to this, Emily enjoys singing fusion and contemporary music, including recently in Morocco with Passamezzo and Sufi singer Abdou el-Haak, as well as newly written music by Jill Jarman with the Chelys Viol Consort and world-renowned percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie, a special experience for Emily as she also plays the marimba with great enthusiasm!

Steven has spent decades immersed himself in dance and music from both the Renaissance and Baroque periods. After studying guitar and lute at the Royal College of Music in London, he has become known for his unique stage presence that combines music, singing and dancing with rarely seen intensity. He regularly performs with leading European groups such as the Barokksolistene, The Harp Consort, Akademie for Alte Musik Berlin, The Balthasaar Neumann Ensemble and the trio Los Otros. 

He is also frequently seen in America, Australia and Japan. He has taught historical dances and been a choreographer for both TV and opera, as well as performing Commedia dell’Arte. In many ways, he is a bard from a bygone era and a completely ordinary modern person - at the same time!

"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.

Sara Uneback graduated from the Gothenburg Academy of Music and then supplemented her education with baroque violin studies with Enrico Parizzi at the Conservatorio dall'Abaco in Verona. After her baroque violin studies in Verona, she was selected to play with EUBO, the European Union Baroque Orchestra, and is regularly engaged by the Italian baroque orchestra Ensemble Cordia, conducted by Stefano Veggetti. Sara is based in Gothenburg where she is concertmaster of the Gothenburg-based baroque orchestra Karlsson Barock, conducted by Göran Karlsson. Sara's violin playing is reflected by great joy, passion and playfulness, something she perhaps brought home from Italy!