is a new ensemble devoted to the performance of Sephardic music. The group performs with period instruments and features the singing of the dazzling Brazilian countertenor, José Lemos. The colorful instruments include rebec, viola da gamba and vielle played by Mary Anne Ballard, and recorders, krummhorn, gemshorn, and Renaissance and baroque guitars played by Steve Rosenberg. Danny Mallon, percussionist extraordinaire, rounds out the quartet with a smorgasbord of hand drums, tamborines, wood block, castenets, and other exotic items. The music they perform features a panorama of exquisite melodies and exciting dance pieces from early Spain. One hears the influence of Moorish musical practice and the melodic richness which will eventurally evolve into Flamenco. After 1492, this music traveled with the dispersed Jewish community throughout the Mediterranean basin.

Steve Rosenberg (recorders, renaissance and Baroque guitars) has toured five continents as a recorder soloist with chamber orchestra and as a member of the French ensemble Les Menestriers, as well as playing for the Comédie Française. Now Professor of Music at the College of Charleston, he directs the Piccolo Spoleto Early Music Series, and performs in the USA and abroad in recital, and he is a frequent guest artist with the Baltimore Consort. His collections of recorder music have sold more than a half-million copies world-wide and his solo children's concerts have made him "the pied piper of the recorder world." He is director of the Charleston Pro Musica, whose fifth tour of France (2001) was featured in the PBS/SCETV documentary entitled "A Musical Renaissance."

Mary Anne Ballard (rebec, vielle and viola da gamba) currently tours with the Baltimore Consort, with whom she has recorded 14 CDs on Dorian. She is a member of the Oberlin Consort of Viols, and the Baroque ensembles Fleur de lys and Galileo's Daughters. She has also appeared with such groups as the Smithsonian Chamber Players, the Bethlehem Bach Festival, and the Philadelphia Classical Symphony. Formerly, Ms. Ballard directed and coached early music at the Peabody Conservatory, Princeton University, and the University of Pennsylvania, where she founded the Collegium Musicum. A graduate of Wellesley College, she also holds an M.A. in Musicology from the University of Pennsylvania. She is currently on the faculty of Oberlin's summer Baroque Performance Institute.

Danny Mallon (percussion) is an active freelancer in the New York area, playing all styles of music. He has  performed with Jordi Savall's period orchestra, "Le Concert Des Nations," with the NY Collegium, and with Paula Robison and Ken Cooper at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  He tours and records with Chatham Baroque and for the past three summers, has performed at the Piccolo Spoleto festival in Charleston SC, as a member of the Charleston Pro Musica and a solo recitalist. He holds Bachelor and Master of Music degrees in percussion from the Mannes College of Music, where he has been a faculty member since 1991. In addition to his three recordings with Chatham Baroque on the Dorian label, he can be heard on Pifaro's new Dorian recording and on "Perigee and Apogee" by composer Beata Moon.