Margriet Tindemans, Artistic Director
Margriet Tindemans has performed and taught medieval music on four continents. She has been called a rare combination of charismatic performing and inspiring teaching, a scholar with a profound knowledge of music, poetry and art of the Middle Ages - a national treasure. Tindemans was a founding member of the German ensemble Sequentia and the Huelgas Ensemble of Belgium. As a player of early stringed instruments, such as medieval fiddle, rebec, and harp, she performs and records with Medieval Strings and is a frequently invited guest with the Folger Consort, the Newberry Consort, and other leading early music ensembles. For the Seattle Early Music Guild she has directed biannual medieval workshops since 1990, including the 1998 Hildegard von Bingen Festival, which attracted students from all over North America and Europe.
Nancy Zylstra, Vocal Coach
Since 1979 Nancy Zylstra has been on the faculty of Oberlin Conservatory's Baroque Performance Institute. She also taught at the Kitchener-Waterloo Baroque and Classical Workshop, Vancouver Early Music Workshop and Cornish College's “Baroque Voice”. She has taught studio voice at the University of Washington, Pacific Lutheran University, and Cornish College. Her 20-year career as a soloist included performances with the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Tafelmusik, and American Bach Soloists. Zylstra is a board member of Early Music America.
Peggy Monroe, Percussionist
Peggy Monroe specializes in historical percussion instruments. She has taught and performed across the USA, and in Canada, England, Spain, and Germany. She has written scripts for musical dramas performed by the Women's Medieval Choir and the Early Music Guild, and her many school appearances earned her Early Music America's Bringing History Alive award in 2004.
Ann Glusker, Soloist
Ann Glusker has many years' experience singing early music, both in Seattle and in her native Philadelphia. She has sung with Ancient Voices under Alexander Blachly, the Oriel College (Oxford) Chapel Choir, and the Sarum Singers. She has also appeared with Pomerium and the Baltimore Consort. In Seattle, she has been a member of the Tudor Choir and Opus7, and currently sings with the Women's Schola and Cantorei of St. James Cathedral. In 2003 she joined the Medieval Women's Choir. She has studied with Julianne Baird, Nancy Zylstra, and Charles Peterson. Ann is an epidemiologist at Public Health-Seattle & King County.
Marian Seibert, Soloist
Marian Seibert is a lifelong musician and devoted ensemble singer. A Seattle native, she sang in the Northwest Girlchoir for nine years and was a member of the children's chorus at Seattle Opera in Turandot and Carmen. More recently, she appeared in Les Arts Florissants with the Benevolent Order for Music of the Baroque (now Baroque Northwest) and in Il Ballo delle Ingrate with the Early Music Guild. Her medieval drama credits include Humilitas in Hildegard von Bingen's Ordo Virtutum and First Angel in The Play of Daniel. She has also sung more recent music, including Poulenc with the Esoterics, Messiaen with St. James Cathedral, and John Tavener with the Tudor Choir.
Linda Strandberg, Soloist
Linda Strandberg has appeared as soloist with the Pacific Northwest Chamber Chorus, the Seattle Choral Company and Choral Arts Northwest. As an early music performer, she is a member of the Tudor Choir and has performed on the Gallery Concerts series. Her opera credits include the West Coast premiere of Philip Glass's A Madrigal Opera at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles as well as leading roles in Hildegard of Bingen's Ordo Virtutum and Menotti's The Old Maid and the Thief, Amahl and the Night Visitors and The Medium. She currently teaches voice at Seattle Community College and directs the children's chorus at Plymouth Congregational Church.