Mezzo-soprano Sophia Faltas discovered early music as a singer with the Dutch National Choirs. Projects with conductors such as Jordi Savall, Sir John Eliot Gardiner and Ton Koopman sparked her interest in early repertoires and their historically informed performance. She developed as a soloist at the conservatoires of Groningen, Amsterdam and The Hague, working with groups such as Sollazzo Ensemble, Collegium Vocale Gent and Cappella Amsterdam. Alongside her musical activities, she is pursuing Middle Eastern Studies at Leiden University.
Fiddle and Renaissance viol player Anna Danilevskaia grew up surrounded by early music in Metz, France, and began her musical training at the age of six. She is a specialist in repertoires from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries. She studied with Pedro Memelsdorff, focusing on medieval fiddle, and completed her studies with a master’s degree in early viols with Paolo Pandolfo. In 2014 she founded Sollazzo Ensemble, a group dedicated to the music of the Middle Ages and the early Renaissance.
Emma-Lisa Roux discovered the Renaissance lute at the age of six with her first teacher Claire Antonini, who also introduced her to singing. She studied lute at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis with Hopkinson Smith and Peter Croton and also completed a master's degree in pedagogy in 2022. Emma-Lisa Roux has worked as a lutenist and singer with ensembles such as Ensemble Phoenix Munich, Phaedrus, Per-Sonat and the Casulana Lute Consort, and also regularly performs solo, singing and accompanying herself on the lute.
