Jonathan William Moyer maintains a dynamic career as organist, pianist, harpsichordist, and conductor. He is organist and director of music of the Church of the Covenant in University Circle and a lecturer in organ and harpsichord at the Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory of Music. Currently pursuing an artist diploma in organ at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, he holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in organ from the Peabody Conservatory of Music. Winner of second prize in the 2008 International Musashino Organ Competition in Tokyo, most recently he performed the complete organ works of Olivier Messiaen in Baltimore. He serves on the executive committee of the Cleveland AGO, and resides in Shaker Heights with his wife, organist Kaori Hongo, and two sons, Christopher Sho and Samuel Kazu. For more information, visit his website.

Ann K. Mullin, mezzo-soprano, is senior program officer at the George Gund Foundation, where she oversees the foundation’s grantmaking strategy for education. A native of Cleveland, she received her Bachelor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Michigan and her Master of Business Administration from the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University. Ann resides in Cleveland with her husband, Doug Vanneste, a Montessori teacher at Urban Community School, and their four young children.

Debra Nagy has been called a “musical polymath” (San Francisco Classical Voice) for her accomplished performances as a singer and historical wind player. As one of the country’s top baroque oboists, Debra frequently performs with Apollo’s Fire (among other ensembles on both coasts), is the founder and director of Cleveland-based chamber ensemble Les Délices, and is a member of Ciaramella. She has also appeared as a guest multi-instrumentalist and singer with such groups as the Newberry Consort, Piffaro, Baroque Northwest, and Blue Heron Renaissance Choir. Debra has recorded for the Capstone, Bright Angel, Naxos, Hänssler, Chandos, and ATMA labels and her live performances have been featured on CBC Radio Canada, Klara (Belgium), NPR’s Performance Today, WQXR New York, WKSU Kent, and WGBH Boston. Debra currently teaches in the Early Music Program and conducts the Collegium Musicum at Case Western Reserve University, where she earned her Doctor of Musical Arts degree. Please visit her personal website for more information.

Praised for her “excellence of style and ease of expression” (Austin-American Statesman), soprano Judith Overcash is known for a repertoire which ranges from medieval song to opera and oratorio to American musical theater. She has appeared across North America and abroad, as featured soloist with leading period and modern ensembles and at international workshops and festivals. In addition to appearing as soloist in large oratorio and dramatic works, she is celebrated for her interpretations of early music and chamber works, and is also active in musical theater. Judith holds both master’s and doctoral degrees in Early Music Performance Practices from CWRU, with additional post-graduate work at the University of Texas at Austin and the Indiana University Institute of Early Music. As lecturer and adjunct faculty, she has taught music history, vocal pedagogy, graduate research methods, and applied voice at Hiram College in Hiram, Ohio, and CWRU in Cleveland.

Lisa Rainsong’s musical life integrates composition, education, vocal performance, and natural history.  She earned her Doctor of Musical Arts in Composition from Cleveland Institute of Music and is a member of CIM’s Music Theory faculty. She is also a professional singer who performs as both a soprano soloist and as a choral musician, singing with ensembles including Quire Cleveland and Ensemble Lautenkonzert. Lisa earned a Naturalist Certificate from the Cleveland Museum of Natural History and now teaches classes on bird song and insect song identification throughout Northeast Ohio.  In addition, she does field research on crickets and katydids—the “singing insects”—for the Geauga (County) Park District and presents seminars and in-service training on her work with the Earth’s first musicians. More information on her musical and naturalist work can be found at her website.

Mezzo-soprano Beverly Simmons is a singer, arts administrator, and graphic designer. Born in Denver, she earned a doctorate in early music at Stanford University, and moved to Cleveland in 1978. Her career includes stints as a Case Western Reserve University music professor, WCLV radio announcer, international artist manager, executive director, and mother of two. She has sung with Apollo’s Fire since its inception; founded the CWRU Early Music Singers, which she directed for 21 years; sang with the Cleveland Opera Chorus and St. Paul’s Episcopal Church Senior Choir; and also sings at Temple Tifereth-Israel. Dr. Simmons was founder/manager of the concert series Chapel, Court & Countryside: Early Music at Harkness and serves as executive director for Quire Cleveland. She is also half of the cabaret duo, Rent-a-Yenta, about which an admirer said, “I’ve seen worse on Broadway!”