Tesserae's Musicians
Gregório Taniguchi
Tenor
Gregório Taniguchi crafts compelling and unstuffy performances that move audiences. His dedication to rhetoric in music draws listeners to hear historical works as a dynamic and living part of our musical culture, illuminating classics for a modern audience. Contemporary vocal music and new works by emerging composers likewise come alive through his communicative artistry.
YuEun Kim
Baroque Violin
Having earned her Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree from Seoul National University, Ms. Kim received her Artist Diploma, as a Starling Fellow on full scholarship at the USC-Thornton School of Music, under the tutelage of violinist Midori Goto.Since moving to Los Angeles in 2013, she has won first place in USC’s Solo Bach Competition and the Strings Concerto Competition, and was a semi-finalist at the Qingdao International Violin Competition and the Michael Hill International Violin Competition.
Joshua Rubin
Classical clarinet
Joshua Nathan Rubin served as the Program Director and then Artistic Director of the International Contemporary Ensemble from 2011-2018, where he oversaw the creative direction of more than one hundred concerts per season in the United States and abroad. As a clarinetist, the New York Times has praised him as, "incapable of playing an inexpressive note."
Ian Pritchard
Harpsichord and organ
Ian Pritchard, harpsichordist, organist, and musicologist, is a specialist in early music and historical keyboard practices. As a continuo player he has performed with many leading early music ensembles, such as the Academy of Ancient Music, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, and Florilegium
Vijay Gupta
Violin
Vijay Gupta is a violinist, speaker and citizen-artist dedicated to creating spaces of wholeness through music. Vijay’s work embodies his belief that the work of artists and citizens is one: to make a sadhana – a daily practice – of the world we envision. Hailed by The New Yorker as a “visionary violinist…one of the most radical thinkers in the unradical world of American classical music,” Vijay leads a protean career as a thought leader, performer, collaborator and communicator. Vijay is the founder and Artistic Director of Street Symphony, a community of musicians creating spaces of connection for people in reentry from homelessness, addiction and incarceration in Los Angeles. Vijay is also a co-founder of the Skid Row Arts Alliance, a consortium dedicated to creating art for – and with – the largest homeless community in America. For his work in “bringing beauty, respite, and purpose to those all too often ignored by society”, Vijay was the recipient of a 2018 MacArthur Fellowship.
John Lenti
Theorbo & lute
While John Lenti's time is spent doing a great many things on a great many historical plucked instruments and teaching a bit, his most intense musical love is the English golden-age lute song repertoire, and his sincere desire is to become the Gerald Moore of the lute (currently accepting applications for a quiet Fischer-Dieskau with no vibrato), once that becomes remunerative. His repertoire extends from the early 16th century to the present day, but other than something really neat like an electric theorbo concerto, his commitment to the music of our own time is negligible if not actually averse.
Andrea Zomorodian
Soprano
Andrea Zomorodian, a native Seattle soprano, is based in Los Angeles and performs nationally and abroad. Her work in LA is focused on concert, oratorio, early music, and studio singing. Recent solo engagements include: Zelenka & Zumaya arias with Bach Collegium San Diego, Vivaldi Gloria with Long Beach Chorale, A Baroque Christmas with Musica Angelica, Schütz Musikalische Exequien staged by Peter Sellars, Bach St. Matthew Passion (2022) with Musica Angelica, a recital of a James Joyce song cycle Pomes Penyeach at the Huntington, Haydn Lord Nelson Mass with Long Beach Chorale, Handel Dixit Dominus, Purcell & Blow with Bach Collegium San Diego, and Handel's Messiah at Disney Hall and Long Beach Performing Arts Center.
Anna Schubert
Soprano
Described as "luminously expressive" with a "silvery voice" that "moves from innocence to devastation with an actor's ease," Anna is passionate about bringing new voices, stories, and musical ideas to life. She enjoys an eclectic career that takes her all over the world - premiering new works by living composers, performing old favorites by dead ones, and recording a wide variety of sounds for film and television.
Malachai Komanoff Bandy
Viola da gamba, violone
A native of Los Angeles, Malachai Komanoff Bandy has amassed a professional performance record on some twenty instruments spanning over 800 years of music history. He graduated cum laude with Distinction in Research and Creative Work from Rice University's Shepherd School of Music with double bass and music history degrees.
Andrew McIntosh
Violin
Baroque violinist Andrew McIntosh performs regularly with Tesserae, Bach Collegium San Diego and Musica Angelica, and has concertized with the American Bach Soloists, LA Master Chorale, Musica Pacifica, Con Gioia, and the Corona del Mar Baroque Festival.
Leif Woodward
Founding Member : Violoncello
Leif Woodward is an alumnus of the University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music where he was granted the Colburn Foundation Scholarship for studies in Early Music Performance and graduated Pi Kappa Lambda. In addition to holding a Doctorate degree from the University of Southern California, Leif also holds a Master of Music degree and Bachelor of Music degree from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
Corey Carleton
Soprano
Corey Carleton, soprano, studied Early Music at Indiana University where she has a Master’s degree in Voice. As a specialist in Renaissance and Baroque vocal music, she performs with chamber groups and in music festivals throughout the state of California, such as Tesserae Baroque, Marin Baroque, Corona del Mar Baroque Festival, and the Carmel Bach Festival.
Susan Feldman
Founding member: Violin
Susan Feldman, violinist, is an active teacher in Los Angeles and performer throughout the United States. Susan holds a Bachelor’s degree from Illinois Wesleyan University, a Master’s degree from the University of Southern California, where she studied with Robert Lipsett, and a Doctorate from USC in early music performance
Andrew Waid
Viola
Andrew Waid is an exciting and versatile performer on both modern and baroque instruments. Originally from Tulsa, Oklahoma, he completed a DMA in viola performance at Boston University in 2015, and appeared frequently with numerous ensembles in Massachusetts, including the Boston Chamber Orchestra (for a recent tour of Japan), Lexington Symphony Orchestra, and Marsh Chapel Collegium.
Heesun Choi
Violin
Heesun Choi received her Bachelor of Music from Seoul National University in Korea. She completed her studies with Diplom from Duesseldorf Robert Schumann Musikhochschule and with Konzert Examen from Essen Folkwang Musikhochschule in Germany.
Alex Opsahl
Cornetto and recorder
Alex Opsahl has performed with the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra under Ton Koopman, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment under Emmanuele Haim, Boston Early Music Festival, I Fagiolini, Capella Barocca di Mexico, Carmel Bach Festival, Piffaro, and the Green Mountain Project. She performed in Il Ritorno d’Ulisse at the Innsbrucker Festwochen der Altenmusik in 2017, and filmed L’Incoronazione di Poppea with both Oslo Opera and Glyndebourne Opera.
Mike Jones
Tenor
Born into a musical family, Michael Jones is a @GRAMMY award-winning international soloist, chamber musician and clinician. Noted as singing “particularly beautifully” by the Chestnut Hill Local (Philadelphia), Michael has appeared as a soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Choral Arts Philadelphia, Academy of Sacred Drama, Haverford University Choir and Orchestra, Disney’s All-American College Band and Peoria Area Civic Chorale, among several others. Michael has sung at the Finnish National Opera House, Lincoln Center’s Merkin Hall, Los Angeles’ Disney Hall, and Philadelphia’s Verizon Hall at the Kimmel Center, to name a few.