Performer Biographies

Jeffrey Grossman's extensive musical activities include frequent performances as a pianist, harpsichordist, and conductor. Acclaimed for his musicality in many styles, he has been praised as a "sensitive and fluent accompanist" of "flair and conviction" in Fanfare magazine.

The Detroit native holds degrees from Harvard College, The Juilliard School, and Carnegie Mellon University.  Mr. Grossman performs with numerous groups in the New York metropolitan area, including the Sebastian Chamber Players,  PHOENIXtail, Concitato, Fire and Folly, Callisto Ascending, and the Trinity Baroque Orchestra, and he tours parts of the rural United States with artists of the Piatigorsky Foundation.

He can be heard on the Naxos, Albany, Métier, and MSR Classics record labels. He is a resident of New York City.

Daniel S. Lee enjoys a varied career as a soloist, chamber musician, concertmaster, and teacher. His repertoire ranges from the twelfth to the twenty-first centuries. He recently performed concerti with the American Baroque Orchestra and Quodlibet Ensemble, and served as a guest concertmaster for the Trinity Baroque Orchestra, Musica Raritana at  Rutgers, and Yale Schola Cantorum.

He cofounded and directs the Sebastian Chamber Players, whose performance at the finals of 2011 York Early Music International Competition was praised for its "smooth sophistication" (Yorkshire Post) and "well-thought-out articulation and phrasing" (Early Music Review). As a violino piccolo specialist, he has performed Bach's first Brandenburg Concerto  with faculty members of the Yale School of Music, and he has given the modern-day premiere of Johann Pfeiffer's concerto.

Mr. Lee is a member of the violin/viola faculty at Connecticut College, and he holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Juilliard where he was a student of Stephen Clapp.

Ezra Seltzer recently completed his graduate studies with Phoebe Carrai in the Juilliard Historical Performance Program. He has an avid interest in both contemporary and early music, and he has performed numerous times at Yale  University's New Music New Haven series, and as a member of the Yale Collegium Musicum.

As a chamber musician, he has performed at Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival and the Banff, Norfolk, and Aspen music festivals. As a member of the Grammy Award–nominated Yale Cellos, he has toured throughout the world, appearing at the Manchester Cello Festival in England, the Beauvais Cello Festival in France, and numerous concerts in South Korea.

Mr. Seltzer recently toured China with the Yale Schola Cantorum led by Simon Carrington, performing Bach's Mass in B Minor. He also has performed this season in ensembles led by Masaaki Suzuki and Jane Glover. Outside early music, he has appeared on several albums and toured with the Brooklyn-based band, Dirty Projectors.

Mr. Seltzer attended Yale University, where he received his Bachelor degree in History and Master of Music degree in cello performance, studying with Aldo Parisot and Ole Akahoshi. At Yale he was also a postgraduate fellow in early music as a student of Robert Mealy and a member of the Yale Baroque Ensemble.

Priscilla Smith has performed with the Waverly Consort, Early Music New York, Portland Baroque Orchestra, Musica Angelica, Trinity (Wall St.) Baroque Orchestra, the Handel & Haydn Society, Ex Umbris, Concert Royal, the Clarion Society, Juilliard Baroque, and Orchester Wiener Akademie.

She has toured the United States, Europe, and South America and, as a member of Piffaro, has collaborated with such groups as the Concord Ensemble, Capilla Flamenca, Psallentes, the Crossing, the Newberry Consort, Parthenia, and ARTEK. Her performances have been called "spirited" by the New York Times and "particularly fine" by the Washington Post.

Ms. Smith is a graduate of Temple University, where she was a modern oboe student of Louis Rosenblatt, and of The Juilliard School, where she was a baroque oboe student of Gonzalo Ruiz. She is a member of the faculty of Temple University, where she directs the Early Music Ensemble.