A child prodigy on violin and piano, Miroslav Sekera won numerous competitions on both instruments, gaining the attention of Milos Forman who cast him as the child Mozart in the 1985 film Amadeus. Eventually, Mirek chose to concentrate on piano and in 1991 won first prize in the Chopin Competition at Mariánské Lázne. Other awards include first prize from the Prague Academy of Music and the Johannes Brahms International Competition at Portschach, Austria. Sekera has performed and recorded frequently with The Shakespeare Concerts, including both the debut season and recording: What A Piece Of Work Is Man. His recording of Scarlatti piano sonatas, the Brahms piano sonata in f minor, and two bravura Moszkowski works is available under the title Augury of Amadeus.

First Violinist Krista Buckland Reisner has performed from New York City to New Zealand, and has created mullti-media works for herself involving dance and movement. Principal Second Violin of the Canadian Opera Company Orchestra for five years and a member of the Arizona Opera and Santa Fe Opera; she is currently Concertmaster of Opera Boston and the Principal Second Violin of Boston Modern Orchestra Project as well as a tenured member of the Handel and Haydn Society and Boston Baroque period orchestras.

Rohan Gregory, second violinist, has cultivated a wide-ranging expertise in chamber music, new music and world music. He has played with the Apple Hill Chamber Players, the Ancora Ensemble and award-winning Boccherini Ensemble; and was also a founding member of the Arden String Quartet, performing new music concerts in New York, Boston, Amsterdam and St. Petersburg, Russia. On the world music scene, Rohan has toured extensively from Europe to Thailand and India. Locally, Rohan is a member of the Boston Lyric Opera, the New England String Ensemble and Boston Modern Orchestra Project.

After touring the Middle East with the Apple Hill Chamber Players, violist Peter Sulski was asked to become Head of Strings at the Palestinian Conservatory, a position he held for several years, before becoming Principal Violist of the Cyprus Chamber Orchestra. For seven years, he was a member of the London Symphony Orchestra and served on the faculty at the Royal College of Music and Trinity College. Currently, Peter is on faculty at the College of the Holy Cross, Clark University, and University of Massachusetts, Lowell.

Chilean cellist Jan Müller-Szeraws made his debut at the age of twelve with the Orquestra Sinfónica de Concepción and has since been active as a soloist on several continents, appearing with the Orquesta Sinfónia de Chile, Markneugraefler Symphonieorchester, and the Balinger Kammerorchester as well as here in the United States. Jan plays regularly with Dinosaur Annex and Boston Musica Viva. Currently Jan is on the faculty of the Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts.

QX is in its third season with The Shakespeare Concerts and is featured on the Albany Records recording Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day.

Anna Reinersman, harpist, began her harp studies at the age of 7, holding her first position as Principal Harp for the Rocky Mountain Symphony in Utah at the age of 14. Praised by The New York Times as "an elegant harpist", she performs extensively throughout New York and Boston. Ms. Reinersman was the harpist for the entire run of the Broadway smash hit "The Producers", and has performed with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, the Orchestra of St. Luke's, the Mostly Mozart Music Festival, and has toured the country with the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra. She maintains an active career as a chamber musician with the Locrian Chamber Players, a contemporary ensemble, and the Chameleon Arts Ensemble, a Boston based chamber group. Comfortable in a variety of musical settings, she has performed with such contemporary pop artists as Joni Mitchell, Diana Krall, Alicia Keyes, and the indie band Hem. Ms. Reinersman is also cofounder and Artistic Director of the Carolina Chamber Music Festival, and can be heard on the soundtrack of the recent "The Producers" movie.

A native of Australia, Rob Nairn received his Bachelor of music with Distinction from the Canberra School of Music and a post-graduate diploma from the Berlin Musikhochschule by courtesy of a two-year DAAD German Government Scholarship.

Rob's experience covers Contemporary, Jazz, traditional Orchestral, and Baroque and Classical "authentic performance" Ensembles. His teachers have included Klaus Stoll, Tom Martin, and Max McBride. He has performed with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonic, the English Chamber Orchestra, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the London Sinfonietta, The Melbourne Symphony and the Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique. He has acted as guest Principle Bassist with the Halle Orchestra, the London Mozart Players, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and held the position of Principle bass with the Australian Chamber Orchestra and the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra.

In the Early Music world he holds the position of Principal Double Bass with the Handel and Haydn Society in Boston, MA; he also works with the Washington Bach Consort, the Aulos Ensemble of NY and performs regularly in London as a member of 'Florilegium' (Baroque Ensemble-in-residence at the Wigmore hall) and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. He has performed recitals in Europe, the U.S. and Australia and performed in such international festivals as Salzburg, Glyndebourne and the London Proms.

Rob is active in commissioning new works for the Double Bass and has premiered more than thirty compositions for both solo bass and chamber music featuring the bass. As a soloist he has performed several concerti with the Australian Chamber and Adelaide symphony orchestras (including Bottesini's Passiona Amoroso with Gary Karr). His first solo CD is due for release shortly.

Rob Nairn is Professor of Double bass at Penn State University where he also directs the University's Baroque Ensemble and is president-elect of the International Society of Bassists.

Principal French horn with the Springfield Symphony Orchestra, Laura Klock has also performed as guest principal horn with orchestras from Portland, Maine to Portland, Oregon. At age 22, Ms. Klock was appointed to the faculty of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst where she is Professor of Horn, and a member of the Avanti Wind Quintet and the Infinity Brass Quintet. She has been a guest artist in Taiwan and in the U.S. and British Virgin Islands, and can be heard in recording on the Open Loop, Crystal, and Gasparo labels.

Appearing for the second time with The Shakespeare Concerts, Carolyn Cantrell is in her fifth season as Principal horn of the Orchestra of Indian Hill. She is also principal horn of the Boston Landmarks Orchestra, third horn with the Boston Lyric Opera, and second horn in the Portland (ME) Symphony. Ms Cantrell is on the faculty of the Indian Hill Music School.

Kimberly Harriman is third horn of the Orchestra of Indian Hill and has performed with the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, the Vermont and Portland Symphonies. A 2000 fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center and a 1999 fellow at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Ms Harriman is making her second appearance with The Shakespeare Concerts. Ms Cantrell and Harriman premiered Joseph Summer's setting of Sonnet CXXXIII, for horns, harp, soprano and tenor; in 2004.

French hornist Joseph Walker is finishing his Master of Music degree at the New England Conservatory of Music, after undergraduate study at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. This is Mr Walker's The Shakespeare Concerts' debut.