L.A. Camerata is directed by Marylin Winkle. In addition to L.A. Camerata, Marylin has performed Early Music (on baroque cello, viola da gamba, vielle, and voice) with the Desert Baroque Festival, Boston Camerata, Musica Transalpina, and Musica Angelica. She serves as the Early Music Ensemble Director in the Musicology Department at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. Her musicological scholarship centers on works by early modern women, and she has presented her research at conferences worldwide. She holds a DMA in Early Music from USC Thornton School of Music, where she studied baroque cello and viola da gamba with Bill Skeen. Outside of Early Music, Dr. Winkle teaches cello at CalState LA and general music  at Citizens of the World Elementary (Hollywood). She is on a mission not only to tell women’s stories, but to make storytelling spaces engaging and accessible to all audiences, including the youngest among us.

www.marylinwinkle.com

Donnie Smith is co-founder and Production Manager for L.A. Camerata and a classically-trained film, theatre, and voice actor. In addition to frequent appearances with L.A. Camerata, he starred as Rupert Cadell in the L.A. Stage Alliance Ovation-recommended Rope at Actors Co-op in Hollywood.  Other Los Angeles credits include the award-winning (LADCC and Stage Raw - Ensemble & Production, Ovation nominated Ensemble & Production) West Coast premiere of Ike Holter’s Hit the Wall (LA LGBT Center), the West Coast premiere of Daniel MacIvor’s House (LA Weekly nomination - Solo Performance) and the world premiere of Small Engine Repair (Ovation, LADCC, Backstage Garland & LA Weekly awards) at Rogue Machine Theatre, where he has been a company member for seven years. He also starred in William Mastrosimone’s Sunshine (Gangbusters Theatre Company at Hollywood Fringe) and was featured in the world premiere of Sunny Afternoon (Gangbusters Theatre Company at Hollywood Fringe & Theater Asylum). www.donniesmith.org

A Chicago native and Los Angeles local, Corryn Cummins has worked extensively on-stage in both cities, with credits that include Steppenwolf, Lookingglass, Rogue Machine, Theatre @ Boston Court, Skylight, The Blank, The Odyssey, Padua Playwrights, Ojai Playwrights Conference, Illinois Shakespeare Festival, Timeline, Famous Door, Mary-Arrchie, A Red Orchid, Coachella Valley Rep and L.A. Camerata among many others. She is the recipient of numerous Ovation, Joseph Jefferson, L.A. Weekly and L.A. Drama Critics Circle awards and nominations. Corryn holds a B.F.A. in Acting from the School of Theatre at Illinois State University and also works in film, television and voiceover.

Sarah Reynolds is a singer, voice teacher, and songwriter based in Los Angeles. Equally at home in concert and opera, she has performed with LA Opera, LA Master Chorale, De Angelis Vocal Ensemble, and Long Beach Opera. She is also an artist and co-producer for L.A. Camerata. An art song enthusiast, Sarah has been a featured recitalist for concert series by Pasadena Conservatory of Music, Denver Art Song Project, and LA’s UnSUNg. A frequent concert soloist, her credits include the Bach Magnificat and Vivaldi Gloria with Redlands Symphony, Jenkins Stabat Mater with Musica Sacra of Sarasota, FL, and Brahms Alto Rhapsody with Artes Vocales. Sarah received her Bachelors in Vocal Performance from The College of New Jersey and Masters in Vocal Performance from The New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, MA and has studied and performed at Napa Music Festival’s Baroque Opera Program and the Early Music Vancouver and Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival Baroque Vocal Programs. Sarah teaches private voice lessons to students of all ages out of her home studio in Eagle Rock and is a Vocal Coach for the Los Angeles Children’s Chorus. She has been interviewed by Shoutout LA and Voyage LA and featured as a Backstage Magazine Reader’s Choice Nominee for LA Vocal/Singing Coach and as one of their “8 Vocal Coaches to Know in NYC and LA.” Sarah released her debut pop rock EP Adolescent in April of 2024.

Soprano Marisa De Silva is an active performer, voice teacher, and Certified Teacher of the Alexander Technique based in Southern California. She received her Doctorate of Musical Arts at the University of Southern California with emphases in early music performance, musicology, opera directing, and vocology. A versatile singer, her interests also include Iberian and Japanese song repertoires, new music, and working on session and recording projects. She has been a featured Early Music soloist with L.A. Camerata, the USC Early Music Ensembles (Baroque Sinfonia and Collegium Workshop) at both the Berkeley and Boston Early Music Festivals, and the American Bach Soloists Academy. She also performed as featured soloist with the Joe Hisaishi Symphonic Orchestra performances at Carnegie Hall and Microsoft Theater.

Dr. De Silva is on faculty at Loyola Marymount University, where she serves as Assistant Professor of Voice and Opera. Her diverse research interests include Musician’s Performance Anxiety, Alexander Technique in music education, and rhetorical gestures used in performance practice. With Marylin Winkle, Marisa is currently working to expand the biography of Camilla de Rossi (fl. 1700-1710); their research has been presented at conferences in Rome and Florence, IT. In 2016, she received a grant from the Early Arts Guild of Victoria to further study the art of gesture under the tutelage of Helga Hill, OAM in Victoria, Australia and she hopes to be able to include ideas of rhetorical gestures in the process of future opera directing projects. She is a member of the American Society for the Alexander Technique, the National Association of Teachers of Singing, and the Screen Actors Guild  (SAG-AFTRA).

Ashley Salinas received her DMA in viola performance through the University of North Texas.  She earned MM from UNT (2011) and BM from Sam Houston State University (2009).  Her primary teachers include Susan Dubois, Cynthia Roberts, Paul Leenhouts, and Lisa Burrell.   

While living in North Texas, Dr. Salinas performed frequently with regional symphony and theater orchestras.  In addition to modern viola engagements, she also participated regularly with various Baroque ensembles including Dallas Bach Society, Denton Bach Society Players, La Novella Baroque, La Follia (Austin), and the Orchestra of New Spain.  Through her Baroque experience, Ms. Salinas has participated in the Victoria Bach Festival, Boston Early Music Festival, Cervantino Festival of Mexico, and Siglo d'Oro Festival in El Paso, Texas.  

Dr. Salinas has participated in various summer chamber music festivals including Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival, Bowdoin International Music Festival, Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music, Marian Anderson String Quartet’s Chamber Music Institute, and Performing Arts Institute of Wyoming Seminary.   During her undergraduate studies, her string quartet was selected to perform a concert tour in China and Mexico and she also featured as a soloist with the SHSU Chamber Orchestra and Intersection Contemporary Music Ensemble in 2008.

From 2006-2009, she served as Coordinator/Conductor of the Huntsville Youth Orchestra where she assisted in the expansion of the program to three orchestras and established a solo and chamber music component for advanced students.  Dr. Salinas was awarded a Teaching Fellowship teaching undergraduate string classes at UNT and also maintained a private studio in the Dallas area until moving to Los Angeles in May 2016.

A longtime bit player in the Southern California early music multiverse, Amy Wang has performed with the usual suspects—the original Los Angeles Baroque Orchestra, Musica Angelica, Tesserae, Bach Collegium San Diego, L.A. Camerata—as well as a smattering of Bay Area groups including California Bach Society and Voices of Music. About a million years ago, as a film studies undergrad at UC Berkeley, she began the permanent switch from modern to baroque violin performance under the guidance of David Tayler and Elizabeth Blumenstock, and subsequently performed at the Berkeley Early Music Festival as a semifinalist in the American Bach Soloists International Young Artists Competition. At USC, she played in the Early Music Ensemble led by James Tyler while getting her MFA in screenwriting at the School of Cinematic Arts.

Scholar-performer Sonia Lee has given performances, talks and masterclasses in nearly 150 cities on four continents. Her performances have been praised by critics as "masterly" (Aliénor News & Notes), "nicely rendered" (Early Music America Magazine), "full of elegance and expression" (Cleveland Classical), and possessing "grace and flair" (Sounding Board).  She is a laureate of the Mae & Irving Jurow International Harpsichord Competition, the Montréal Baroque Galaxie-CBC Rising Star Competition, and the Canadian Music Competition.

A performer on the modern piano and various historical keyboards with a versatile repertoire spanning from the 16th to the 21st century, Lee has appeared as soloist and collaborative artist at numerous festivals and venues, among them: the early music festivals of Utrecht, Boston and Costa Rica, Rome Festival, Nordic Historical Keyboard Festival, Early Keyboard Music Cycle of Buenos Aires, Midtown Concerts of New York, Milwaukee Museum of the Pianoforte, Schubert Club, Handel House Museum of London, KEK-Japan Concerts, the Early Music Colorado Fall Festival, National Music Museum of Vermillion, Hong Kong Cultural Centre, Taipei National Concert Hall, and the Olympus Hall of Seoul. As director or guest director, she has led the University of Illinois Collegium Musicum, Dulces Exuviae, Musicerend Gezelschap, the Phantasie String Orchestra, and La Réunion Musicale. Her discography includes collaborations with the Classical Chamber Players, La Donna Musicale, and La Réunion Musicale on Mark Records, Arabesque, W. W. Norton, and other labels.   

A sought after adjudicator, Lee has been invited to judge at numerous international and regional competitions and festivals, including the Antelope Valley Symphony Orchestra Bach Piano Competition (California), Calgary Performing Arts Festival (Canada), and the Gianni Gambi International Harpsichord Competition (Italy). Her recent residencies and masterclasses include Conservatorio Statale di Musica "Gioachino Rossini” (Italy), Alfrēda Kalniņa Cēsu Mūzikas Vidusskola (Latvia), Conservatory of Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam), La Napoule Art Foundation (France), Universidad de Costa Rica (Costa Rica), Temple University (Pennsylvania), Irvine Valley College (California), and University of Cambridge (UK).

Currently Editor of the Early Keyboard Journal and the Historical Keyboard Society of North America (HKSNA) Newsletter, Lee has taught music history and performance at Illinois Wesleyan University and the University of Illinois. She is the Immediate Past President and a member of the Board of Directors of HKSNA, and has served as a board and advisory member for numerous regional and international arts and social-service organizations. She resides in Pasadena, CA. Visit www.sonialeemusic.com.

Dr. Ianthe Marini is an AEA actress, AGMA singer and flutist, and DMA conductor. The American Prize Winner in Conducting (2019) and Best Actress in a Musical by Boston Broadway Awards (Anita, West Side Story), she has been celebrated as “the one to watch, and, an unmatchable and dynamic force who engages in each moment to the fullest. Her presence on stage is palpable.” (My Theater World Boston). She has had leading roles with L.A. Camerata, The Industry Opera, Will Geer's Theatricum Botanicum Equity Playhouse, regional theatre houses from Boston to Atlanta, and has appeared with Musica Angelica, San Francisco Opera, and the Springer Opera House. She has been an invited conductor (Carnegie Hall), and Chorus Master (National Symphony Orchestra at Kennedy Center and Baltimore Symphony Orchestra at Meyerhoff Hall) for multiple subscription performances. Her research and methodology regarding the intersection of choral music and acting has been published in multiple books and journals. She was the first female conductor of the University of Maryland Men's Chorus, and the former Paul S. and Jean R. Amos Distinguished Chair for Choral Activities at the Schwob School of Music at Columbus State University. www.ianthemarini.org

Tamzin Elliott is a composer and harpist based in Los Angeles. Tamzin’s music stems from their love of immersive, world-building experiences and the process of learning music by rote, often incorporating elements of early European music and living folk music such as polyphony from the Republic of Georgia. As a harpist they specialize in historical performance practice, performing European Renaissance repertoire as well as 17th- to 18th-century Irish and Scottish repertory on the wire-strung cláirseach. The work, reconstructing this repertory from Ireland and Scotland, with the tutelage of harpist and scholar Siobhán Armstrong, has played a major role in the development of Tamzin’s current composition project, Meidelant: an opera on the Maidenhood of Morgan le Fay. Tamzin holds a doctorate in composition from the University of Southern California, studying under Ted Hearne, Don Crockett, and Sean Friar.

Jillian Risigari-Gai is a native Los Angeles freelance artist. She is currently the Principal Harpist & Co-Founder of the Los Angeles Chamber Music Co. (LACMC), a nonprofit providing audiences with exceptional and affordable chamber and collaborative arts concerts that inspire and promote our sense of passion, community, and diversity. Jillian is on the faculty as a harp professor at the University of Redlands. Jillian was featured as a performing artist for Emmy Award-winning PBS “Artbound Special Episode: Invisible Cities,” a Wireless Headphone Opera performed at LA’s Historic Union Station. Jillian holds principal positions with the Redlands Symphony Orchestra, Dream Orchestra, Pacific Opera Project, and The Contemporary Performance Collective. She is currently Director of Music with the House of Bards Theatre Company and Assistant Director for UCLA’s Early Music Ensemble.

Praised by the LA Times as a “versatile violinist,” Rachel Iba is a Los Angeles-based musician, conductor, composer and performance artist who works within a broad range of musical traditions spanning the classical, contemporary, jazz, folk and cross-cultural repertoire. From performing and lecturing at Walt Disney Concert Hall, to showcasing her distinct blend of stand up comedy and performance art in clubs across the city—it’s safe to say that Iba’s unique artistic voice transcends traditional boundaries.  Rachel is passionate about using art as a way to examine larger systemic imbalances. In her original work, she integrates music, standup comedy and clownwork to explore intersectional feminism, environmentalism, classism, and performance psychology. She has performed at the Kennedy Center, REDCAT, the Troubadour, Walt Disney Concert Hall, ArtShare LA, the Lyric Hyperion, and numerous other venues within the US and abroad.

Erin Young is a classical guitarist based in Los Angeles. She received both her Bachelor and Master of Music degrees in Classical Guitar Performance at the University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music where she studied with Scott Tennant, Brian Head, and Jason Yoshida. She has performed in masterclasses for Pepe Romero, Dimitri Illarionov, Álvaro Pierri, SoloDuo, Roland Dyens, Gaëlle Solal, and The Kupinski Duo among others.

Erin has a passion for early music and is an active member of L.A. Camerata. She is pursuing a DMA in Early Music from the USC Thornton School of Music, where she performs in the USC Baroque Sinfonia, a period-instrument ensemble specializing in music from the seventeenth- through mid-eighteenth century, and the USC Collegium Workshop, which specializing in music from the Middle Ages and Renaissance. She performed with the USC Collegium in the Early Music America’s 8th annual Young Performers Festival in Bloomington Indiana. She also frequently plays with the Delirium Musicum ensemble and performed with the ensemble Ciaramella at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).

Erin is actively involved with the Guitar Foundation of America, where she works as an instructor for the annual GFA Guitar Summit. In addition to pursuing a performance career, Erin works in online music education as Guitar Operations Manager for tonebase.co.

Amy K. Harmon was thrilled to make her L.A Camerata debut in their world-premiere staged-reading of La Mirtilla by Isabella Andreini (1588). LA Stage credits include: A Night of Grand Guignol ( Schuyler Helford) Lord of The Underworld's Home For Unwed Mothers (Skylight Theatre ) Nice Things ( Rogue Machine) Dirty ( dir. Shannon Cochran) All Your Hard Work (dir. Michael Matthews), Summer in Hell ( BSTC) Leiris/Picasso ( BSTC) TV/ Film credits include: Suit Up ( FOX), Scandal (ABC), Castle (ABC) Private Practice (ABC), The West Wing (NBC), American Splendor ( HBO). Amy is a graduate of the School at Steppenwolf ( Chicago, IL) & Emerson College. In addition to L.A. Camerata, she is a member of Rogue Machine & Brimmer Street Theatre Co. and also an active  Los Angeles Theatre Director.  More at www.amykharmon.com 

Violinist Courtney Kuroda is an active performer of early music in Southern California with period ensembles L.A. Camerata, Musica Angelica, Bach Collegium San Diego and Opera Neo.  She has also performed throughout the U.S. and Canada with ensembles including Portland Baroque Orchestra, Seattle Baroque, Pacific Baroque in Vancouver, B.C., Ensemble Mirable, Indianapolis Baroque and has recorded with Opera Lafayette in Washington D.C under the Naxos label. She has participated in both the Bloomington and Boston Early Music festivals as well as the Pacific Baroque Festival in British Columbia and the Oregon Bach Festival.  She received her Master’s degree in Historical Performance from Indiana University Jacobs School of Music where she studied Baroque violin with Stanley Ritchie.

Andrew Justice, baroque viola, holds degrees from Oregon State University, the University of Oregon, and Syracuse University. He has performed with L.A. Camerata, Musica Angelica, Opera Neo, New York State Baroque, Tempesta di Mare Baroque Orchestra, Dallas Bach Society, Orchestra of New Spain, La Follia Austin Baroque, and the Denton Bach Players (of which he was founding artistic director). When not performing, Mr. Justice is an academic music librarian who has worked at Cornell University and the University of North Texas: he is currently the Head of the Music Library at the University of Southern California.

Robert Wang aspires to challenge the traditional representation of classical guitar while juxtaposing music of the early and the contemporary. As a classical guitarist and composer, his extensive repertoire features works from the Renaissance to the 21st century, often appearing in adventurous and multi-sensory pairings. Robert is versed in playing basso continuo and solo on theorbo, lute, and baroque guitar. He is primarily devoted to ensemble playing and has performed with Early Music Vancouver (Vespers of 1610), Ensemble Flame, The Golden Bridge, OperaNEO (Ariodante), Shunske Sato Sibelius Academy Baroque Orchestra (King Arthur), and the USC Thornton Opera (Actéon). He is also a member of the USC Thornton Baroque Sinfonia, featured on CBS Sunday Morning. With Ensemble Flame, he played theorbo in their recent album, O Mother What Shall I Do.

Robert is pursuing an MM in Classical Guitar Performance at the University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music, where he also earned his BM. He studies classical guitar with William Kanengiser, Scott Tennant, and Pepe Romero, early plucked string instruments with Jason Yoshida, composition with Veronika Krausas, harpsichord with Ian Pritchard, and conducting with Jacob Sustaita. He has performed in The Getty, Jordan Hall, and Phillip T. Young Recital Hall.