Lawrence Lipnik
Music Director Lawrence Lipnik performs and records with many acclaimed early music ensembles and is a founding member of the viol consort Parthenia and vocal ensemble Lionheart. In addition to performing, his busy teaching schedule has included early music performance instruction at Wesleyan University, collegium director at Amherst Early Music, national and international festivals including the Benslow Music Trust in the UK and Tibia Adventures in Music Recorder Workshop in Tuscany, Italy. He is currently co-director of the Viol Sphere 2 workshop in Arizona, Viols West Workshop, and Road Scholar National Early Music Workshop in California.
Recent performance highlights include concerts with lutenist Paul O’Dette of Dowland’s complete Lachrimae at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, concerts at the Venice Biennale and Berkeley Festival, appearances with the Venice Baroque Orchestra, Folger Consort, and ARTEK, as well as early opera residencies at Carnegie Mellon University. He is a contributor to The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Contemporary Dramatists, and The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare. Lawrence has been teaching at Bloom since 2008.
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Rainer Beckmann
German born recorder player Rainer Beckmann performs with a large variety of early music ensembles in the Philadelphia Tri-State area and is a founding member of New World Recorders and La Bernardinia Baroque Ensemble. Recent appearances include performances with Tempesta di Mare, The Clarion Orchestra, The Bach Choir of Bethlehem, Brandywine Baroque, Pennsylvania Sinfonia Orchestra and Vox Ama Deus.
Rainer teaches at Amherst Early Music workshops, coaches the recorder players of Temple University’s Early Music Ensemble, and serves as the music director of the Philadelphia Recorder Society. He is a graduate of the Utrecht Conservatory in the Netherlands where he studied recorder and historical performance practice with Heiko ter Schegget, Baldrick Deerenberg and Marion Verbruggen.
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Rosamund Morley
On treble, tenor, and bass violas da gamba and their medieval ancestors, Rosamund Morley has performed with many renowned early music ensembles as diverse as ARTEK, The Boston Camerata, The Crossing, Les Arts Florissants, Piffaro, The Venice Baroque Orchestra, and Sequentia. She is a member of Parthenia, New York’s premiere consort of viols, with whom she plays early and contemporary music. For many years she toured worldwide as a member of the Waverly Consort.
A sought-after teacher, Ms. Morley is co-director of the Viols West Workshop in San Luis Obispo, California, and has taught in Canada, the UK and Italy. She also teaches online. In her 4-year term as music director of the Viola da Gamba Society of America, she created the first totally online summer workshop for the VdGSA. She teaches at the Neighborhood Music School in New Haven and in her Brooklyn, New York, studio.
Larry Lipkis
Larry Lipkis is Composer-in-Residence and Director of Early Music at Moravian University in Bethlehem, Pa, where he just celebrated the 50th anniversary of his founding of the Early Music program in 1976. The program consists of four ensembles: the Collegium Musicum, the Baroque Ensemble, the Monterdi Ensembe (aka the Monties), and WIRE (“Weird Instrument Renaissance Ensemble,” consisting of krummhorns and gemshorns).
Since 1986, Larry has been a member of the Baltimore Consort, an internationally acclaimed early music ensemble specializing in popular music of the Renaissance and Baroque eras. The group has made seventeen recordings on the Dorian & Sono Luminus labels and maintains an active touring schedule. Larry is also a faculty member of the Amherst Early Music Festival, a longtime music director for the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival and sits on the Board of Managers of the Bach Choir of Bethlehem. In the summer of 2026, his recording entitled “Pierrot and Friends: Four Commedia Concerti” was released on the Naxos American Classics label.