Irvin E. Gilman, co-founding member (with Mary Lou Saetta) and flutist with Capitol Chamber Artists holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Oberlin College Conservatory of Music and a Master of Music degree from the Manhattan School of Music. He was 12 years assistant principal flutist with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, 15 years principal flute with the Albany Symphony Orchestra and Professor of Music at the State University of NY at Albany and Bennington College. Mr. Gilman has performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Symphony of the Air, American Ballet Theater, Royal Ballet Orchestra. He may be heard in solo and chamber music recordings on Centaur and Albany Records. Mr. Gilman was in residence two summers with Capitol Chamber Artists at the JAZZ TO CLASSICS FESTIVAL in Fairbanks, Alaska. Irvin Gilman is a published poet. Gilman’s poetry inspired by music is featured in his collection, IMAGINE A FLUTE. Mr. Gilman performed in Boston with CCA as a winner of SoHIP (Society for Historically Informed Performance).  --Photo by Ron Barnell

Mary Lou Saetta, violinist and co-founding member (with Irvin Gilman) of Capitol Chamber Artists holds a Bachelor and Master of Music from the Eastman School of Music. Her teachers include Joseph Knitzer, Carroll Glenn, Robert Gerle and Aaron Rosand. Saetta was a Tanglewood Fellow. Saetta is a past faculty member Union College and the College of St. Rose. She has performed with the Vermont Symphony, NY City Ballet Orchestra, Saratoga Performing Arts Center Orchestra, Rochester Philharmonic and Rochester Opera Under the Stars Orchestra, Lake George Opera Orchestra, Charlotte (N.C.) Symphony Orchestra and the Albany Symphony Orchestra. Saetta may be heard in solo and chamber music recordings for Centaur and Albany Records. Saetta was in residence two summers with Capitol Chamber Artists at the JAZZ TO CLASSICS FESTIVAL in Fairbanks, Alaska. Ms. Saetta performed in Boston with CCA as a winner of SoHIP.

André Laurent O’Neil, cello, has extensive experience as both soloist and continuo player. He works with New Trinity Baroque, Boston’s Handel and Haydn Society and has played with the European groups Les Perruques d’Amsterdam, and L’Orfeo Barock Orchester. André has also performed with the period instrument chamber ensembles Repast, Duo Seraphim, Bacchanalia, Ars Antiqua, Arc’Angelo. During the summer he regularly performs in Robert Conant’s Festival of Baroque Music in upstate New York, where a reviewer has praised “his lustrous ringing tone, facile technique and strong convincing grasp of the baroque style.” He has presented Bach’s six solo suites at the University at Albany. André graduated from Yale with honors and from the Early Music and Historical Performance Practice Program at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, Netherlands, where he studied with Jaap ter Linden. He has given baroque performance practice presentations and masterclasses at Columbia University, the University at Albany and the Brooklyn-Queens Conservatory of Music. André plays an original John Morrison violoncello (London, 1800), using a reconstruction of a c.1700 English bow.  --Photo by Richard Calmes

Dan Foster, pianist, organist, tenor: was trained at Westminster Choir College. He sang for three years at the Spoleto Festival International and for two years at Austria’s Pitten Festival. For the past four years he has been pianist/organist with the Antioch Chamber Ensemble. He has toured in Taiwan, Korea, France, Holland and Italy, and performed and recorded extensively with the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Orchestra of Saint Luke’s and the early music ensemble, Fuma Sacra. He is founding artistic director of the Aoede Consort.