L. Mark Slawson (harpsichord) received a BA degree in composition from Union College and a masters degree in harpsichord from New England Conservatory. He has performed with Cantorum Baroque Ensemble, Boston Renaissance Ensemble, La Sonnerie de St. Botolphe, among other baroque groups. He is currently organist and music director at Second Parish, Hingham. Mark is on the board of the Cambridge Society for Early Music and the Society for Historically Informed Performance (SoHIP).

Laurie Israel (violoncello) specializes in baroque cello performance practice. She received a masters degree in musicology/theory from University of California. Laurie has performed in the SoHIP concert series with Complesso Soave and The Splendid Century, and also has performed a solo unaccom-panied cello series entitled "Bach, Bach & Beyond". Laurie has created a book of arrangements of nine baroque keyboard pieces for unaccompanied cello, violin, and viola which is now available. See Bach, Back & Beyond portion of this website for information. She is also a visual artist, appearing in a number of shows in Massachusetts and New England.