Nedra Eileen Bickham (Transverse flute, bass Viola da Gamba) received a B.A. in Music Performance and Education at the University of New Orleans and completed her post-graduate studies on the flute in Salzburg, Innsbruck, and Vienna, Austria where she performed extensively on the Renaissance, Baroque and modern flutes.  In 1989 and 1990 Nedra received a Fulbright Exchange Fellowship to teach in the schools in Austria.  She has since completed a Master's degree in Early Music performance at the Longy School of Music where she studied Transverse flute with Christopher Krueger and Viola da Gamba with Jane Hershey.  She is a member of the ensembles Les Flûtes Evocatifs and is the founding member of the Splendid Century.

Susan Harris (mezzo-soprano),  is a native of the Boston area and a graduate of Harvard College.  She specialized in early music while getting her Masters at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge.  Ms. Harris was a winner of the 1996 Honors Contest at Longy.  She currently studies with Elisabeth Phinney.  Most recently, she appeared in the role of Melissa in the world premier of Denise Bacon's The Legend of St. Nicholas  at St. Andrew's Church in Wellesley.  She has also recently sung the alto arias in Bach's Weihnachts-Oratorium  with Musica Sacra, and the role of Maria in Respighi's Laud to the Nativity  with the Arlington-Belmont Chorale.

Ronald Dynneson (harpsichord), has performed widely in the Boston area on organ and harpsichord, including recitals at the MIT Chapel and the Center for Arts in Natick, and performances with Boston Virtuosi, the Cambridge Madrigal Singers, and the Tufts Chamber Chorus.  He received a Masters degree in 1997 from the Longy School of Music where he was a winner of the 1996 Performance Honors Contest.  He studied organ and harpsichord at Longy with Peter Sykes and Frances Conover Fitch and at the Oberlin Baroque Performance Institute with Patrick Allen and Webb Wiggins. Mr. Dynneson has held Organist/Music Director positions at the Old North Church in Boston and St. John’s Episcopal Church in Arlington, and is a founding member of the chamber ensembles Cantata à Trois and La Fête Musicale.

Hendrik Broekman (harpsichord) attended the Mannes College of Music where has was a recipient of a Harpsichord Music Society Scholarship for study with Sylvia Marlowe. He has both directed and performed in many ensembles and solo performances in Boston and Hanover, New Hampshire, including La Donna Musicale.  Mr. Broekman studied harpsichord-making with Wallace Zuckermann, Eric Herz and Frank Hubbard and later maintained his own harpsichord shop in Hanover, New Hampshire.  Currently, Mr. Broekman is a technical director for Hubbard Harpsichords, Inc.  He plays on a double-manual harpsichord by Hubbard & Broekman (1998) after examples of H. A. Hass, Hamburg, second quarter of the 18th century.

Laurie Israel (baroque ’cello) studied at Barnard College and the University of California, where she received a Masters’ degree in Music; she has studied cello at the Manhattan School of Music, as well as with George Ricci and Phoebe Carrai. Laurie has performed with the  Harrisburg Symphony, the Boston Philharmonic, the Boston Chamber Ensemble, and a number of other groups.  In addition to performing with the Splendid Century ensemble, she is also a member of the Heliotrope Consort.  She is currently studying violin with Scottt Metcalfe.  Laurie performs on an anonymous English cello (circa 1790) modified as a baroque instrument, and a baroque replica bow made in 1997 by Louis Begin of Montreal and a Dodd-style classical bow replica made by Boyd Paulsen.