
Canadian-born soprano
Linda Tsatsanis enjoys an active and diverse
career. Hailed "ravishing" (New York Times) for her performance at the
Boston Early Music Festival and blessed with "crystalline purity"
(Seattle Times) Ms. Tsatsanis divides her time between early opera and
concert performance. Ms. Tsatsanis began her career as a full-time
member/soloist of Canada's leading professional choir, the Elmer
Iseler Singers, working with such greats as Krzysztof Penderecki, Sir
David Wilcox, Bernard Labadie and Helmuth Rilling. During this time
she also enjoyed an active career as a freelance soloist and movie and
television actor. She can be heard on various recordings by the
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and on the new
Norton Anthology recording.
John Lenti has appeared as a solo recitalist and chamber musician on lute,
theorbo and guitar throughout the eastern United States, at the
Bloomington and Boston Early Music Festivals, and at the Magnolia
Baroque Festival in Winston-Salem, NC. Following undergraduate study
of classical guitar at the North Carolina School of the Arts, Mr.
Lenti held a variety of teaching posts and performed both in recital
as a guitarist and lutenist, and as a member of the Whistlepig
Old-Time String Band in concerts, hootenannies and festivals
throughout western North Carolina. Following a season of dividing time
equally between the various instruments and genres, Mr. Lenti made a
definitive transition to the lute in 2001, moving to London towards
the end of that year for regular lute study with Jacob Heringman and
Elizabeth Kenny, returning to the United States in 2002 for study with
Nigel North at Indiana University.