Instructors and Special Guests
This page is frequently updated throughout the year.
Special events roster
Skip and Kimberley Holmes
Special guests of Trad Ensemble for Old-Time tunes, March 2025
Stefan Ekedahl
Three special events Oct. 2024: Swedish Traditional Music; Swedish Early Music; and Traditional Instrument Makers
David Greenberg
Cape Breton Fiddle Workshop May 14, 2023
Phoebe Durand-McDonnell
Introduction to Baroque harp Nov. 19, 2022
Betsy MacMillan
Viola da gamba lessons, Nov. 15 2022 and Mar. 2023
Cathy Ann MacPhee
Gaelic Song - Dec. 18, 2022
Some of our guests in previous 1-2 years included:
Sophie Larivière
Special Topics in Early Music
Marcel Nazabal Amores
History of the Piping Traditions of Northern Spain
Mohammad Sahraei
Classical Music and Instruments of Iran
Marie Bouchard
Special early music group coachings and harpsichord
Andreas Ralsgård and Markus Tullberg
Scandinavian Traditional Music
Emma Rush
19th Century Female Composers for Guitar
regular faculty
Anthony Rissesco - Fiddle, Co-Director of Trad Ensemble
Adrianne Greenbaum - Klezmer
Skip Holmes - Guitar, Banjo
Sophie Larivière - Baroque and Renaissance Recorders
Garth MacPhee - Harpsichord/Organ/Continuo
Ellen Gibling - Harp
Kirsty Money - Baroque Violin/Viola, Swedish Nyckelharpa
Andre Pretzel - Baroque Violin/Viola, Brazilian Music
Hilary Brown - Cello/Continuo
Max Kasper - Bass/Continuo
Marcel Nazabal Amores - Galician/Asturian & Cuban Music
Andrew Pickett - Voice (Early Music)
Jennifer Publicover - Irish/Trad and Baroque Flutes, Co-Director of Trad Ensemble, HITEM Owner & Director
Karen Langille - Baroque Violin
Ros Morley - Viola da gamba