Biographies of Ensemble Members

Daniel Ryan, co-Artistic Director, cellist, has played with Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Il Complesso Barocco (Venice and Innsbruck), the Camerata Academica of Salzburg, and many ensembles in the Greater Boston area, such as Boston Cecilia, Handel & Haydn Society, and Favella Lyrica, with whom he was featured on the Bank of Boston Emerging Artists Celebrity Series in 1997. As a member of the Boston-based group Renaissonics, he was featured on NPR’s Sound and Spirit program in 2005 and has released a CD for WGBH radio.While attending Boston University, he studied cello with George Neikrug and pursued his interest in historical performance through course work at the Longy School of Music and masterclasses with Anner Bijlsma, the Kuijkens, and Hopkinson Smith. He later studied with Christophe Coin at the Sommerakadamie in Innsbruck. Also an accomplished player of keyboard instruments, Mr. Ryan has been awarded the Associate certificate of the American Guild of Organists and is Organist-Choir Director at Church of the Holy Spirit in Wayland. He has recorded for Titanic, Meridian, and Koch.

Suzanne Stumpf, co-Artistic Director, flutist, has performed in the United States with numerous chamber and orchestral ensembles including the New York Bach Ensemble, Boston Cecilia, Handel & Haydn Society, and Boston Baroque, with whom she has appeared as soloist. She has toured in Germany and Austria with I Vari Flauti and Musicians of the Old Post Road, and has served as guest principal flutist for the Montreal Baroque Orchestra. She has also performed at the Yellow Barn Music Festival, where she worked closely with John Cage. An honors graduate of Wellesley College, where she was awarded several prizes, Ms. Stumpf studied historical performance in Vienna with Nikolaus Harnoncourt and in Zurich with Johann Sonnleitner, and has done graduate work at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. She is a full-time Chamber Music Coach and Flute Instructor at Wellesley College and has presented classes in historical performance for the Greater Boston Flute Association, Clark University, and New England Conservatory. She may be heard on Titanic, Telarc, and Meridian.

Michael Bahmann, harpsichordist, fortepianist, has performed extensively in the U.S. and in Europe. He holds degrees from the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover, the San Francisco Conservatory, and the New England Conservatory. As one of the founding members of Musicians of the Old Post Road, he has appeared at early music festivals in Indianapolis, Regensburg, and Mexico City, and has recorded several CDs for the Meridian label. As a soloist and recitalist, he also performed at the festivals of Radio France, Königslutter, Aix-en Musique, Chicago Symphony Chamber Concerts, Bay Chamber Concerts, Museum Concerts of Rhode Island, among others. He has toured with the Baroque orchestra Musica Aetema of Bratislava, and in 2005, he was invited to direct Handel’s Orlando for the Festival of Antibes. While a member of Music of the Baroque of Chicago, he recorded several concerti for harpsichord for the Fine Arts Radio Network. Mr. Bahmann is artistic director of Musica Maris, a period instrument concert series based in Rhode Island. He is also on the faculty of the Music School of the Rhode Island Philharmonic and is music director and organist at the United Congregational Church of Little Compton. In his spare time, he works as an organ voicer for Fratelli Ruffatti of Padova.

Marcia Cassidy, violist, has performed extensively in the United States, Europe, Canada, and Japan to critical acclaim as a member of the Franciscan String Quartet. Ms. Cassidy pursued her musical training at the University of Texas, University of New Mexico, New England Conservatory, San Francisco Conservatory, and with the Tokyo String Quartet at the Yale School of Music. Her principal teachers have included Geraldine Walther, Burton Fine, Leonard Felberg, and Doris Norton. She is a member of the Bella Rosa String Quartet, the New England Bach Festival Orchestra, and the faculty of Dartmouth College.

Christina Day Martinson, violinist, has twice been a National Finalist and prize-winner in the Canadian Music Competition. Ms. Martinson received her BM from the New England Conservatory, holds a Diploma from the Royal Conservatory in The Netherlands, and received an MM in Historical Performance from Boston University. She has participated in the Spoleto Festival (Italy), the SHIRA International Orchestra (Israel), the Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival, the Scotia Festival of Music (Canada), Aston Magna, and the Carmel Bach Festival. In 1999 Ms. Martinson received the Netherland-America Foundation and Frank Huntington Beebe Award to study violin with Vera Beths at the Royal Conservatory in the Hague. In Amsterdam she served as concertmaster of the Philharmonish Mozart Orkest. Ms. Martinson is a member of Boston Baroque and will serve as concertmaster for part of the 2006-07 season. She is a tenured member of the Handel & Haydn Society and was principal second violin of Philadelphia’s Baroque orchestra Tempeste di Mare. She also performs with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project. She has recorded for Telarc records and has performed Biber’s Mystery Sonatas live on WGBH Radio. In June 2006 she was a soloist with the UNICAMP Symphony Orchestra in Brazil and also performed in Ishihara Hall in Japan.