Apollo's fire
Named for the classical god of music and the sun, Apollo’s Fire was founded in 1992 by the award- winning young harpsichordist and conductor Jeannette Sorrell. Sorrell envisioned an ensemble dedicated to the baroque ideal that music should evoke the various Affekts or passions in the listeners. Apollo’s Fire is a collection of creative artists who share Sorrell’s passion for drama and rhetoric.
Les Délices
Les Délices delights, inspires, educates, and expands audiences for music on period instruments through innovative programming and world class performances. With deep roots in our Northeast Ohio community, Les Délices is building a national reputation as a leader in the field of early music, advancing its relevance and sustainability by welcoming collaboration, embracing digital media, and proactively working to support diversity and inclusion among our peers and repertoire.
the crumhorn collective
Rebecca Reed is a member of the Crumhorn Collective, a band of multi-instrumentalists dedicated to bringing engaging concerts to young people. Started in 2009 as an educational group at Rice University in Houston, Texas, they have shared their enthusiasm for historical music and instruments to over 100,000 people in the last eight years. Their most recent collaborations have been with Young Audiences and Ars Lyrica Houston, who helped them expand their outreach through programs at the Hobby Center and in schools throughout the city of Houston.
Music in familiar spaces
The MFS Artist Collective is an artist cooperative developed by Steuart and Michelle Pincombe, the founders of the MFS movement. Steuart and Michelle spent one year traveling North America in their vintage trailer bringing classical concerts to breweries, cafes, bookstores, homes – any place where people felt comfortable to engage with this often-unfamiliar art form. They built up an arsenal of resources, relationships with “familiar” venues who want to continue hosting classical music concerts, and creative program ideas that engage with particular spaces. These resources are shared with – and expanded by – members of the Artist Collective, equipping each musician to present their own grassroots MFS concerts.