<p>CHARITES A Baroque Music Ensemble www.charitesmusic.com</p><p>Founded in 2006, Charites is a trio committed to the works of early composers and poets, bringing their art to life through bold, historically-informed performances and period gesture. The members of Charites are equally entrenched in scholarship and performance, and seek to blur the lines between these two arenas. Charites’ concerts combine virtuosic singing, poetry, and movement in a spectacle that appeals to many difference audiences.</p><p>PERFORMANCES</p><p>Simsbury High School, Simsbury, CT Et in Arcadia Ego May, 2008 Art Monastery Gala, City College Et in Arcadia Ego April, 2008 CUNY Early Modern Interdisciplinary Conference Et in Arcadia Ego April, 2008 St. Paul’s Concert Series, Columbia University Marvelous Dust: The Dissolution of Beauty February, 2008 Daniel’s Music Foundation From Opera to Rock February, 2008 ARTEK Midtown Concert Series, St. Bartholemew’s Marvelous Dust: The Dissolution of Beauty October, 2007 Make Music New York Festival Marvelous Dust: The Dissolution of Beauty June, 2007 CUNY Graduate Center Recital Series Marvelous Dust: The Dissolution of Beauty May, 2007 CUNY Graduate Center Recital Series Baroque Woman: Sacred and Profane May, 2006</p><p>MEMBERS Brooke Bryant, soprano</p><p>Ms. Bryant is a PhD candidate in historical musicology at the CUNY Graduate Center, where her primary research interests are 17th-century linguistics, optics, and gesture, as well as popular music and feminist theory. She has performed at venues such as Grace Church and the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, and with the ensembles Sendebar and Cerddorian. She has premiered works by composers Bob Lumoski and Dan Shore.</p><p>Brett Umlauf, soprano</p><p>Ms. Umlauf studied voice at Dartmouth College, where she received a degree in classics. She performed with Doc Scantlin and his Imperial Palms Orchestra in Washington, D.C., and is currently soloist at 10th Church of Christ, Scientist, and a member of the Columbia Collegium Musicum and Musique de la Reine.</p><p>Amber Youell-Fingleton, alto Ms. Youell-Fingleton is a PhD candidate in musicology at Columbia University, where she is working on a dissertation on court culture, aesthetics and opera seria in 18th-century Vienna. She is a member of the Columbia Collegium Musicum and recently held a position at the Church of St. Luke in the Fields. </p><p>CONTACT [email protected] • 860-995-7299 357 E 57th St, Apt. 17A, New York, NY 10022</p>