Current Artists

Chicago-based violinist Amelia Sie is sought-after for her exuberant, fiery performances and diverse programming. Previous engagements include a solo recital with Gotham Early Music Scene, The Bohemians: Musician’s Club of New York,and Early Music America, as well as solo performances with the Albany Symphony, Seattle Symphony, and Juilliard415. This 2025-26 season, Amelia looks forward to performing with Ars Music Chicago and Bach in the City, as well as performances in with The Cambridge Society of Early Music as first violinist of the Arrow Quartet. She received her Bachelor and Master of Music in Violin Performance from New England Conservatory, and her Master of Music in Historical Performance from The Juilliard School. Amelia proudly performs on a Peter Westerlund modern violin and a Timothy Johnson baroque violin.

Madison Barrett is a mezzo-soprano based in Madison, Wi. She was recently seen performing with the Ohio Light Opera, the Middleton Community Orchestra, the University of Wisconsin- Madison Opera Theatre, the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, and Middleton Player’s theatre. Recent role credits include Songbird (Songbird), Margaret (Light in the Piazza), Lady Jacqueline (Me and My Girl), Ilene Cavanaugh (The Arcadians), Endimione (La Calisto), and Flora (La Traviata) among others. She is currently pursuing her Doctorate of Musical Arts degree in Voice Performance at the University of Wisconsin where she holds the prestigious Collins Fellowship. Madison is also an active educator and teaches voice at Beloit College.

Micah Behr received his Doctorate in Viola Performance at UW Madison where he studied viola with Sally Chisholm and collaborative piano with Martha Fischer. His original compositions and transcriptions have been premiered by the Madison Bach Musicians and the Stoughton Chamber Music Players. He also composes music for Geneva Campus Church where he serves as Worship Director and Artist-in-Residence.

Praised for his “gripping performances” by The New York Times, baritone Ryne Cherry is a regular with various professional Early Music and Choral ensembles from around the country. Ryne’s current season includes performances of Handel’s Saul and Messiah with Handel and Haydn Society, Bach’s B Minor Mass with Madison Bach Musicians, Bach’s St. John Passion at University of Chicago’s Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, and performances with Lyra Baroque in Minneapolis, MN. Recent highlights include his solo debut with Handel and Haydn Society in Handel’s Israel in Egypt with Jonathon Cohen at Symphony Hall in Boston, Bach’s St. Matthew’s Passion with Bernard Labadie and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s at Carnegie Hall and Mozart’s Requiem with La Chapelle de Quebec and Bernard Labadie at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, Canada, and a national tour of Wayne Shorter and Esperanza Spaulding’s jazz-opera Iphigenia. Ryne was a 2022 Virginia Best Adams Vocal Fellow at Carmel Bach Festival, a Tanglewood Music Center Fellow from 2016-2018, and 3rd prize winner of the 2020/2021 Lyndon Woodside Oratorio Competition in New York City. Ryne is currently in his 4th year as Vocal Director of Just Bach Concerts, a Baroque ensemble based in Madison, WI.

May Kohler graduated with an M.M. and B.A. in Vocal Performance from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she studied under Dr. Julia Rottmayer. Her favorite role credits include Calisto (La Calisto) and Franca (The Light in the Piazza) with UW Madison. Additionally, May maintains a voice studio with Academy of Sound in Oregon, WI, and has sung with the Madison Bach Musicians for their performances and workshops.

Eleanor Mayerfeld is a soprano from Madison hailed for her “free, clear top range and finely pointed phrasing” (South Florida Classical Review). She currently tours the upper Midwest as Pamina in Opera for the Young’s adaptation of The Magic Flute. She has also performed Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro), Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel), and Papagena (The Magic Flute).
Concert soloist appearances include Caccini’s Alme luci beate and Vedrò’l mio sol (Middlebury Bach Festival), Strauss’s Saüsle, liebe Myrthe (AIMS-Graz), and the world premiere of Salve Regina, a commission from the Middlebury Commun ity Chorus by Ukrainian composer Dmytro Malyi.

Anna Rasmussen (violin) has been a faculty member at the Wisconsin
Conservatory of Music since 2016. She has played Baroque violin with Sonata a Quatro, Musica Maxima, Just Bach, New Milwaukee Consort, and other Baroque ensembles in Milwaukee. She is principal second in the Menomonee Falls Symphony Orchestra and has played in orchestras in Wisconsin, Connecticut, North Carolina, and Texas, including the Sheboygan Symphony Orchestra, Norwalk Symphony Orchestra, Western Piedmont Symphony, Raleigh Symphony Orchestra, Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra, and Waco Symphony Orchestra. Ms. Rasmussen received her Master’s in Violin Performance at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Music Education from Baylor University. Her primary teachers include Julia Hardie, Eka Gogichashvili, and Fabian Lopez.

Charlie Rasmussen is a cello faculty member and Suzuki area chair at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music in Milwaukee. He performs historical cello and viola da gamba with the Wisconsin Baroque Ensemble and the New Milwaukee Consort. He is the Instrumental Director at Just Bach and serves on the board of Early Music Now. Mr. Rasmussen has recorded Tommaso Giordani’s Cello Duos (Centaur Records, 2020) and 11 Capricci by Joseph Dall’Abaco (Centaur Records, 2018). As an early music teacher, he has served on faculty at the Madison Early Music Festival and currently teaches viol at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.

Anton TenWolde, cellist, originally from the Netherlands,  studied with Sylvain van Amerongen, cellist with the The Hague Philharmonic Orchestra (Residentie Orkest). While earning his degree in Applied Physics at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, Anton performed with Ton Koopman, and toured with the Netherlands Student Chamber Orchestra and the Netherlands Student Baroque Orchestra. In 1973 he moved to Madison, Wisconsin, where he worked for 27 years as a Research Physicist and Project Leader at the Forest Products Laboratory. For many years he played principal cello with the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra. He is the founding member of the Wisconsin Baroque Ensemble and regularly performed with the Madison Bach Musicians and the Fort Wayne Bach Collegium. Anton recorded his first CD, together with Charlie Rasmussen, of Tommasso Giordani’s Six duos for two cellos, opus 18. This is the first recording on period instruments of all six sonatas.