Abraham Ross, organ and fortepiano

Abraham Ross enjoys an active career as a concert organist and harpsichordist, presenting imaginative programmes informed by the most recent research on performance practice, technology, and musicological context.

His diverse research interests inspire detailed studies in a range of topics, from American organ music of the nineteenth century to his recent doctoral thesis on contrapuntal organ improvisation in early modern Italy. In addition to solo concerts throughout North America, Abraham recently featured in concerts with Musica Angelica (Los Angeles) and the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal lead by Masaaki Suzuki. He will appear as a semi-finalist in the 2024 Canadian international Organ Competition in Montreal, QC. 

Simon Poirier, natural horn

First prize winner of the International Horn Society's natural horn competition in Ghent, Belgium, hornist Simon Poirier enjoys an active career on the early music scene both in Europe and North America. He regularly collaborates with ensembles such as Europa Galante and Il Pomo d'Oro (Italy); Das Freiburger Barockorchester and Balthasar Neumann (Germany); Les Siècles and Les Musiciens du Louvre (France); Concerto Copenhagen (Denmark); The Orchestra of the 18th Century (Netherlands); Arion Orchestre Baroque, Caprice Ensemble and Pacific Baroque Orchestra (Canada). Recently, Simon joined John Eliot Gardiner's Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique on its European tour of Berlioz's Les Troyens. He also brilliantly took on the solo horn part in the most recent production of Mozart's Mitridate at the Staatsoper unter den Linden in Berlin with Marc Minkowski's Musiciens du Louvre. Being equally at ease on modern instruments, Simon regularly collaborates with ensembles such as Orchestre Métropolitain, Les Violons du Roy, I Musici and the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne. The 25-26 season will see his debut with the Belgian group Collegium Vocale Ghent, in a South Korean tour of Bach’s B minor mass.