The Musicians
Ula Kinder
Ula Kinder is a vielle and viola d'arco player who performs as a soloist and with many prominent groups across the US and Europe. They have toured widely, played live for WQXR and BBC Radio 3, and appeared at festivals including Boston Early Music Festival, Bachfest Leipzig and Lucerne Festival; in 2018 they performed on Broadway at the Belasco Theater in the award-winning Globe Theatre production of ‘Farinelli and the King’. A graduate of the Juilliard School and the Royal Academy of Music, where they studied with Nicolette Moonen and Rachel Podger, they have worked with Masaaki Suzuki, William Christie, Laurence Cummings and Ton Koopman, and now continue their studies with Baptiste Romain at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis.
Daniel Scott
Daniel Scott is a recorder and early-keyboard player specialising in medieval, renaissance and contemporary music, currently reading a master’s in medieval and renaissance keyboards at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. He completed his recorder master’s at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam in 2021 and won First Prize in the Wind, Brass and Percussion section of the Royal Overseas League Competition in 2022. Founding member and artistic lead of the UK medieval ensemble Rune — artists in residence at St Bartholomew the Great, London, in 2026 — he is also a member of The Royal Wind Music, with whom he has recorded two CDs, and a regular guest with Luther’s Bach Ensemble, Seldom Sene and Block4. His interest in queer medieval studies shaped the programme ‘Polyphonic Perversities: Queer Music from 12th-Century Notre Dame’, presented at Maastricht University in 2024.
Michela Amici
Michela Amici studied modern and historical harps at the Conservatory G. Rossini of Pesaro and the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague, with teachers including Ernestine Stoop and Christina Pluhar, and is now undertaking a Specialized Master in Historical Harps at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in the class of Flora Papadopoulos. As a soloist and with her ensembles she has appeared at international festivals such as the Dutch Harp Festival, World Harp Congress, Grachtenfestival, November Music, Ravenna Festival and Musica Antica Den Haag, and was an artist in residence at Gaudeamus and the Grachtenfestival in 2022. As a basso continuo player she has performed under Richard Egarr, Alessandro Quarta, Adrián Rodríguez van der Spoel, Tineke Steenbrink and Leonard Evers, among others.
Ivana Sofia Ivanović
Ivana Sofia Ivanović, mezzo-soprano, began her vocal training in the Choeur des Jeunes at the Conservatoire de Bordeaux, taking part in numerous productions at the Opéra de Bordeaux. After studying harpsichord and earning a diploma in choral conducting at the Conservatoire of Rueil-Malmaison, she completed master’s degrees in Musicology and in French Literature at the Sorbonne and the University of Bordeaux. Specialising in Renaissance singing with Véronique Bourin in Tours, she went on to a Master in Medieval and Renaissance vocal performance at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis under Katarina Livljanić, with medieval keyboards as a second study with Corina Marti, where she now continues in vocal pedagogy. Based in Basel, she founded the professional vocal ensemble KIMA, conducts several choirs in Switzerland, and performs as a soloist with Le Miroir de Musique, Sollazzo, Peregrina and La Morra.
