Amanda Crider | mezzo-soprano

Mezzo-soprano Amanda Crider, recognized for her “gleaming vocalism” (Boston Globe), “star acting” (Urban Milwaukee), and “deep expressivity” (New York Times), has performed as a soloist with Apollo’s Fire in performances of Handel’s Messiah, Bach’s B Minor Mass, Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, and their celebration of early American Music, Come to the River. …

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Christoph Croisé | cello

Lauded for ‘delicate yet virtuosic’ playing (BBC Music Magazine) and ‘seamless subtleties of tone colour’ with ‘plenty of edge’ (The Strad) , Swiss-French-German cellist Christoph Croisé is quickly building an international reputation as one of the most captivating young concert soloists to emerge in recent years. At the age of …

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Claudio Cruz

Claudio Cruz is music director of the Ribeirão Preto Symphony Orchestra (São Paulo). He studied violin with his father, the luthier João Cruz, and later with Erich Lehninger. As the first violin and founder of the Amazonia String Quartet, he received a Grammy Award in 2002 for an album of …

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Alan Cumming

Alan Cumming is beyond eclectic. Right now he is the political maverick Eli Gold on CBS’s The Good Wife, for which he has received Emmy, SAG and Satellite award nominations, but over the last couple of years he has also: played all the parts in Macbeth at both the National Theater of …

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Sarah Cunningham | viola da gamba (cello)

Sarah Cunningham is recognized as one of the foremost viola da gambists worldwide. She trained at Harvard University, the Longy School of Music (with Gian Lyman Silbiger), and the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, Netherlands (with Wieland Kuijken). In the 1970s she was deeply influenced by the teaching of the …

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