Performers

  • Steve Bloom
    Steve Bloom
    Steve has played percussion professionally in thousands of performances and recordings in Middle Eastern and Persian, Cuban, Latin, Brazilian, Sephardic, Jazz, Blues, Gospel, New Age, and Celtic styles. He has performed and/or recorded in over...
  • Joe McCarthy
    Joe McCarthy
    Joe has lead a diverse career which has taken him from Symphony Orchestra and Big Band, to Afro Cuban, Bebop, and beyond. Joe is the leader/founder of Afro Bop Alliance, an Afro Cuban Jazz Ensemble...
  • Hesperus Team Member Tina
    Tina Chancey
    Tina is a founding member and director of HESPERUS. She plays medieval fiddles, violas da gamba, and renaissance, Old Time and Irish violin on roots music from Sephardic and blues to early music and jazz...
  • Hesperus Team Member Grant
    Grant Herreid
    Grant has become a versatile musician/director/teacher on the early music scene. He has toured much of the world with Hesperus, Piffaro, Early Music New York, the Newberry Consort, and My Lord Chamberlain’s Consort, and he...
  • Hesperus Team Member Nell
    Nell Snaidas
    Nell has been praised by the New York Times for her “beautiful soprano voice, melting passion” and “vocally ravishing” performances. Of Uruguayan-American descent, Nell began her career singing leading roles in zarzuelas at New York...
  • Hesperus Team Member Priscilla
    Priscilla Smith
    Priscilla has performed with The Waverly Consort, Early Music New York, Portland Baroque Orchestra, Musica Angelica, Trinity (Wall St.) Baroque Orchestra, The Handel & Haydn Society, Ex Umbris, Concert Royal, Baroque Band, the Clarion Society,...