The Ensemble artists

Maryse Carlin has performed throughout the United States and abroad, both as a pianist and harpsichordist. She made her debut recital at Carnegie Hall in New York under the auspices of Jeunesses Musicales. Since then, she has appeared at the Whitney Museum in New York, in Jordan Hall and on the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, under the auspices of the Westfield Center for Early Keyboard Studies, and as guest artist with the Boston Musica Viva, Fromm Foundation Concerts at Harvard University, and the Marlboro Music Festival.

As soloist with orchestra, she has collaborated with conductors such as Leonard Slatkin, Nicholas Mc Gegan, Roger Norrington and Jeffrey Kahane. In 1992 she performed as fortepianist on the Great Performers at Lincoln Center: Mozart Marathon at Alice Tully Hall. Her performance of the Goldberg Variations was proclaimed one of the most memorable performances of the year by the Saint Louis Post-Dispatch. Maryse Carlin has appeared on French Television and on radio stations such as WGBH and WBUR in Boston, WQXR in New York, as well as on public television in Saint Louis. Recent concert appearances have taken her to Austria, Switzerland and Germany and Italy. She has recorded music of Rameau and Forqueray on the harpsichord, as well as Schubert four hands works with Seth Carlin on the Naiad label.

American countertenor Jay Carter is quickly gaining recognition as one of the nation's finest, lauded for his luminous tone and stylish interpretations especially in the music of Bach, Bernstein, Handel, Purcell and Vivaldi. Equally at home in the modern recital repertoire, he has gained acclaim for programs of modern classics typically outside the standard countertenor repertory by composers such as Quilter, Brahms, Britten, and Hahn. Carter is a featured soloist on recordings of Bach's Magnificat in D, Mendelssohn's Magnificat, and Buxtehude's Membra Jesu Nostri, all of which will be released commercially in late 2008. His 2008-09 season included his Carnegie Hall debut in Messiah with Musica Sacra/Kent Tritle, Tavener's Lament for Jerusalem with the Choral Arts Society of Washington/Norman Scribner, Vivaldi, Handel and Bach with the Louisville Bach Society and the title role in Handel's Solomon with the Omaha Symphony.

He has worked with noted conductors including Owen Burdick, Simon Carrington, Arnold Epley, Paul Goodwin, Stephen Layton, Sir Philip Ledger CBE, Nicholas McGegan and Helmuth Rilling.

A native of Albuquerque, New Mexico, Kenneth Kulosa is currently in his twelfth year playing with the St. Louis Symphony. Kenneth came to St. Louis from Chicago where he played with the Chicago Symphony, the Grant Park Symphony, and the Chicago Chamber Musicians. At the same time, he held the post of principal cellist for both the South Bend and Northwest Indiana Symphonies. A graduate of the New England Conservatory and the University of Houston, Kenneth studied with Laurence Lesser and Hans Jorgen Jensen, later becoming Mr. Jensen's assistant at Northwestern University.

Passionate about period performance, Kenneth performs with the Kingsbury Ensemble here and in France during the Festival de Musique Ancienne in Saint-Savin, in the Pyrenees. He has also performed with Early Music St. Louis, Bach at the Sem, and has served on the faculty of the Baroque String Academy of the Community Music School of Webster University in Saint Louis.

Marc Thayer performs regularly with the Kingsbury Ensemble and is Artistic Producer for the Music at Whim Estate Concert Series in Frederiksted, St. Croix. Marc performed with the New World Symphony (NWS) in Miami Beach, FL, from 1995-98 and spent the 1998-99 season in France performing with the chamber/opera orchestra of the Festival International d'Aix-en-Provence. From 2001-2002 he was a founding member and concertmaster of the Ars Flores Chamber Orchestra in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. Marc received a BM and MM in violin performance from the Eastman School of Music where he studied with William Preucil, Jr., and Zvi Zeitlin. An active violinist and teacher, Marc has performed with the San Diego, Syracuse, and Youngstown Symphony Orchestras, and as concertmaster of the Schlossfest Opera Orchestra in Heidelberg, Germany Marc is currently Vice President for Education and Community Partnerships with the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra.

Violinist Margaret Humphrey maintains a vibrant performance schedule in her Twin Cities residence of Minneapolis and St Paul and around the country. She has performed solo and in ensemble with the Rose Ensemble, Lyra Concert, Ex Machina Baroque Opera Company, Minneapolis Chamber Symphony and Musica da Camera, since graduating with a performance degree from the University of Michigan. As recent guest in Philadelphia's Tempesta di Mare, Pittsburgh's Bach society, and St Louis's Kingsbury Ensemble, Ms. Humphrey has performed in such distinguished venues as Seattle's Early Music Guild, The Renaissance and Baroque Society of Pittsburgh, the Shrine to Music Museum, Early Music Now series and the San Diego Early Music Series. A founding member of the baroque ensemble Belladonna, she has performed with them at the Boston Early Music Festival, and the Early Music Festival of Regensburg, Germany. Belladonna has recorded two CD's, Folias Festivas on the Dorian label, and Gathering on the Ten Thousand Lakes label.

Paul Thompson, flute, was born in Manchester, England and commenced his studies with Rainer Schuelein at the London College of Music, and with Alain Marion, professor at the Paris Conservatoire on a French Government Scholarship. Subsequently, he received his Master's in Performance with Robert Goodberg at the Institute of Chamber Music at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

During the summer of 2009, Paul was a featured soloist in the Southeast Missouri Symphony Orchestra's tour of China, gave a masterclass at Shanghai Normal University, and subsequently performed at the Festival de Musique Ancienne in Saint Savin, France. As a Baroque flutist, Paul has studied with Christopher Krueger, Konrad Hunteler, Barthold Kuijken and Jed Wentz. He has been a participant at the Oberlin Baroque Performance Institute on four occasions, and in 2008 attended the International Baroque Institute at the Longy School of Music. He appears with the period instrument groups, the Southeast Baroque, St. Louis Baroque, and the Kingsbury Ensemble.

Italian Cantatas and Sonatas (GF Handel and Caldara)