Tracy Richardson,
Harpsichord

Tracy Richardson, harpsichord & organ, is a recipient of an Individual Artist Fellowship awarded by the Delaware Division of the Arts.  After earning degrees from the Oberlin and New England Conservatories, she spent two years in Amsterdam as a special student at the Sweelinck Conservatorium/Amsterdam Conservatory.  She is co-artistic director and the executive director of Mélomanie.  She enjoys working with contemporary composers and has premiered works of composers Mark Hagerty, Chuck Holdeman, Chris Braddock, Mark Rimple, Ingrid Arauco, and Sergio Roberto de Oliveira, among others.  She appears frequently as concerto soloist with orchestras in the region and is a regular guest artist with numerous ensembles.  Ms. Richardson has played solo recitals across the northeastern United States and The Netherlands, as well as an all-contemporary program in Rio de Janeiro.  Ms. Richardson is Master Faculty at The Music School of Delaware.  She can be heard on the Lyrichord and Meyer Media labels, most recently with two new CDs on Meyer Media released in 2011: Florescence with music written for Mélomanie for harpsichord and ensemble, and Soliloquy, with three solo harpsichord suites by Mark Hagerty.

Kimberly Reighley,
Baroque & Modern Flute

Kimberly Reighley, baroque & modern flute, is Associate Professor of Flute at West Chester University and enjoys a very versatile performing career in the Delaware Valley and throughout the United States.  She plays principal flute with the Delaware Symphony and OperaDelaware, and piccolo with the Reading Symphony.  She is a substitute with the Philadelphia Orchestra and has performed with the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, the Pennsylvania Ballet Company, Network for New Music, and in theater productions at the Merriam Theater, Forrest Theater, Walnut Street Theater and Academy of Music in Philadelphia.  In addition, for 15 years, she performed at the internationally acclaimed Carmel Bach Festival in Carmel, California.  She is a member of the Quintsylvania Winds, faculty woodwind quintet at West Chester University.  This ensemble gave its debut performance at Weil Recital Hall in Carnegie Hall in May 2008, performing American Wind Music.

Winner of a Delaware State Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship, Ms. Reighley has performed as a guest artist with Brandywine Baroque, Pro Musica Rara, and Le Triomphe de l’Amour, and has appeared as a soloist on baroque flute, modern flute, piccolo and alto flute at the Carmel Bach Festival, the National Flute Association Convention, and with the Delaware Symphony and Reading Symphony.  Reviews of her solo performances have included the following: “Flutist Kimberly Reighley…playing a Baroque wooden flute produced a sound almost unearthly in its purity and transparency…There was such a lovely effortless quality about Reighley’s music making that I never wanted this performance to end…It would be difficult to imagine this sonata played any better.” (Carmel Pinecone) “Reighley’s technique was dazzling, her playing sheer joy.” (Reading Eagle) She can be heard on the Lyrichord label performing works of Telemann and on the Meyer Media label, performing on Mélomanie's new CD, Florescence.

Douglas McNames,
Cello

Donna Fournier,
Viola da Gamba

Donna Fournier, viola da gamba, is a member of Le Triomphe de l’Amour, Mélomanie and La Bernardinia Baroque Ensemble.  She has performed on gamba and baroque cello with Tempesta di Mare, Philomel, Brandywine Baroque, The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, and The Philadelphia Classical Symphony.  She specializes in repertoire from the French Baroque period as well as works featuring solo viola da gamba by J.S. Bach.  She holds music degrees from Connecticut College and West Chester University.  She studied privately with Laurence Dreyfus supplemented by master classes with John Hsu and Wieland Kuijken.  Ms. Fournier is affiliate faculty at Temple University where she coaches viol players from the Early Music Ensemble.  She has recorded Buxtehude cantatas on the PGM label, Telemann trio sonatas on the Lyrichord label, Boismortier trio sonatas on the A Casa Discos label and can be heard on Mélomanie's new CD, Florescence, recorded on the Meyer Media label.

Christof Richter,
Violin

Christof Richter, violins, obtained his Bachelor and Master of Music degrees in Violin Performance at the Peabody Institute.  He furthered his studies in Vienna at the Konservatorium der Stadt Wein and has participated in the Taos Chamber Music Festival, the New England Bach Festival, Baroque Performance Institute at Overlin and the Institut fur Musik und Kirche, Bressanone, Italy.  A frequent performer in the Washington, Baltimore and Philadelphia areas, Christof regularly returns to his native Columbia, South America for recitals and concerto appearances.  He is the concertmaster of the Haendel Choir Period Instrument Orchestra of Baltimore, and the Artistic Director and Founder of La Rocinante.  He performs with many period instrument ensembles throughout the Northeast as well as with the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra.  In Spring 2008, he traveled to La Paz, Bolivia as a Cultural Envoy for the State Department to teach young musicians, to perform Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante with the El Alto Youth Orchestra, and to serve as Guest Concertmaster for the La Paz Symphony.  Currently, he is a faculty member of The Music School of Delaware and is the newest member of Mélomanie.