THE CARTHAGE CONSORT

The Carthage Consort (musicians, Dido, Queen of Carthage) is made up of Boston's preeminent players of the viola da gamba. In a city renowned for its active community of performers of early music, these three colleagues appear frequently in all of Boston's major performing venues. Their expertise spans the breadth of the history of the viola da gamba and together as well as individually they have explored every corner of the repertory. They have conceived the score for Marlowe's Dido as an excavation of riches mined from the depths of their experience.

LAURA JEPPESEN - Music Director/ Treble Viol
Graduate of the Yale School of Music, studied the viola da gamba at the Brussels Conservatory. As a player of both viola and viola da gamba, she appears regularly with The Boston Museum Trio, The Handel & Haydn Society, Boston Baroque and Music from Aston Magna. She has appeared in music festivals and concerts throughout the United States, Europe, Australia, and Japan with a number of early-music ensembles, including the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century and Sequentia. She has been a soloist under conductors Christopher Hogwood, Martin Pearlman, Edo de Waart, Grant Llewellyn and Seiji Ozawa. Her extensive discography includes music for solo viola da gamba, the gamba sonatas of J.S. Bach, Buxtehude's Trio Sonatas opus 1 and 2, Telemann's Paris Quartets and Marais' La Gamme et autres morceaux de symphonie. She has been a recipient of awards from the Woodrow Wilson and Fulbright foundations and is a former fellow of the Bunting Institute at Radcliffe College. She is on the faculty of Wellesley College and Boston University.

JANE HERSHEY - Tenor Viol
Studied with Wieland Kuyken at The Hague Conservatory, and at the Longy School of Music with Gian Silbiger. As a viola da gamba player, she began her career with the Boston Camerata, with numerous in the US and Europe. As a violone player, she has played with Smithsonian Chamber Orchestra, Monadnock Music, and the Santa Fe Pro Musica and is currently a member of Arcadia Players of Western. As a gambist, and member of the trio Charivary, she has frequently performed music of the French Baroque at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, as well as in Pittsburgh, Seattle and the Boston Early Music Festival. A frequent guest of the ensemble Hesperus of Washington DC, she pursued her interest in Renaissance music, recording on Dorian and. Ms. Hershey is an active faculty member in the Graduate Program in Early Music at the Longy School of Music and the Powers Music School, and has directed the Early Music Ensemble at Tufts University since 1995.

CAROL LEWIS - Treble Viol (alternate)
Soloist and ensemble player with local early music ensembles, has toured and recorded internationally with Hespèrion, Boston Camerata and Capriccio Stravagante. Recent performances include appearances with viol consort Fuoco e Cenere in Miami, Jacksonville and Montreal (2004). She has recorded on Astrée, EMI, Lyrichord, Harmonia Mundi, Nonesuch, Erato, Atma Classique and Koch International.

EMILY WALHOUT - Bass Viol
Studied baroque cello and viola da gamba at Oberlin Conservatory. She is a member of La Luna, an ensemble of two violins and continuo devoted to the vast and rich repertoire of the 17th-century. From 1987 to 2004 she was a member of the King's Noyse, with whom she played bass violin. She led the bass section of the opera orchestra for the last three Boston Early Music Festivals, and she has played viola da gamba and principal cello for Seattle Baroque, Portland Baroque, Les Violons D Roy, New York Collegium, and Trinity Consort (Portland, OR). She has toured as a chamber musician throughout North America and Europe, and she has recorded extensively with the Boston Camerata, La Luna, and the King's Noyse. A resident of Watertown, MA, Ms Walhout maintains a small studio of private students, coaches several devoted viol consorts, including a student consort at Harvard University.