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Brian trained as a musicologist at St Andrews University in Scotland, and has been a freelance editor and typesetter since 1989. His customers include King's Music, The King's Consort, JOED Music, and some of the world's leading early music ensembles, as well as opera houses and standard orchestras.

Carlos is a lawyer by training, but has had plenty of experience in large organisations and is in charge of the day to day running of the business side of the company. Although he enjoys baroque and classical music, his preference is definitely for the Romantic period, and for the more modern sounds of his distant homeland.

Dennis Collins lives in France and works as a translator and musician. His speciality is early 17th-century Italy, and we sell editions by him of music by Donati, Grandi, Monteverdi, Rovetta, Rigatti, Barbara Strozzi and Isabella Leonarda. His own website, Celesti Fiori, gives full details of his editions.

Kim Patrick Clow, a native of Hampton, Virginia, fell in love with early music as a teenager, after hearing David Munrow's score to the BBC series "The Six Wives of Henry VIII." Encouraged by his parents Frances and Les, Kim's love of baroque music lead him in 1983 to research Christoph Graupner's music. After moving to New York City in 2000, Kim currently works as a freelance editor and typesetter, championing the music of the neglected masters such as Graupner, Telemann, Fasch and Stölzel.

Lutenist Richard Stone has performed as soloist and accompanist worldwide. He is founder and co-director of Philadelphia baroque orchestra Tempesta di Mare. In addition to accompanying, Stone also conducts, leading performances from the theorbo in repertoire ranging from Monteverdi's Poppea to Handel's Judas Maccabeus. He is soloist on the world-premiere CD of Weiss lute concerti with Tempesta di Mare on Chandos. Other recording and broadcast credits include Deutsche Grammophon, Polygram, NPR, the BBC and Czech Radio. Richard Stone is instructor of baroque lute and theorbo at the Peabody Conservatory.

Juliane Peetz-Ullman studied musicology in Würzburg; her Masters essay was an edition of David Pohle's sacred vocal works. From 2005 to 2008, she has been working with a database catalogue project for the Düben collection in Uppsala, and now she is employed at the Department of Musicology at Greifswald University, and after a project which will see extracts from The Whitelocke manuscript recorded, she is planning a series of editions of music from 17th- and 18th-century Gdánsk.

Dr Gottfried Gille works as Kantor and Organist in Bad Langensalza, Germany, where he also teaches Religious studies. Having studied church music and religion, and worked for a time, he went to the University of Halle/Saale, where he gained a diploma in musicology. His thesis was on the Life and Works of David Pohle.

The late Jean-Luc Gester worked at the Sorbonne in Paris and specialised in 17th- and 18th-century music in Alsace. For Prima la musica! he edited motets by the Swiss composer, Johann Melchior Gletle.

Nigel Springthorpe studied music at University of Surrey and a took a postgraduate course in conducting and piano at the Royal College of Music. A specialist interest in the 18th century oratorio Passion, resulting from the conducting of several important UK premieres, led to research culminating in the completion of a fellowship thesis on the Passion tradition in Hamburg and a doctoral thesis on the passion tradition in the court of Anhalt-Zerbst. This has led to an ongoing project creating a catalogue of the works of the brothers Johann Georg and Johann Christian Röllig.

Tarsi-Mimi Loustas was born in Thessaloniki, Greece, and holds a PhD in Musicology in the field of historical musicology from King’s College, University of Cambridge. Her PhD thesis, entitled ‘The overture in England from the Restoration to the mid-eighteenth century’ was the first in-depth study in this field. BA (Hons) in Music, MPhil in Musicology, and MA from Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, followed studies in music theory, harmony and piano at the State Conservatoire of Thessaloniki. Two articles (the first an analytical study of Leo Janácek’s The diary of one who disappeared, and the second on H. Purcell’s and J.-B. Lully’s overtures) are to be published by the Greek musicological journals Mousikologia and Mousikos Logos respectively. Since 2007 has lectured at the School of Fine Arts at the University of Western Macedonia, Greece.

Richard Maunder is the author of Mozart's Requiem (Oxford, 1988), Keyboard instruments in Eighteenth-Century Vienna (Oxford, 1998), and many articles in musicological journals, mainly on the history of instruments and historical performance practice. His latest book is The Scoring of Baroque Concertos (Boydell & Brewer, 2004), in which he surveys the whole concerto repertoire up to about 1750, and shows that most of it was played as chamber music, one to a part. Richard has also published many editions of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century music, including thirteen volumes of J. C. bach's Collected Works (New York and London, 1984-90), and radical new versions of Mozart's Requiem, K. 626 (Oxford, 1988), and C minor Mass, K. 427 (Oxford, 1990). He plays the baroque/classical viola and violone, and was the conductor of the first modern staged performance of J. C. Bach's Endimione (Cambridge, 1994).

Berna Can was born in Istanbul, Turkey and lives in New York. Originally trained as a painter, her love of the visual arts of the Italian Baroque led to a deep interest in the era’s music.. Berna has worked in various corners of the classical music industry since 2002, and currently writes reviews of early music recordings for the publication Early Music America. A devotee of the music of Antonio Caldara, she has been working on editions of the composer’s sacred music for Prima la musica!

Pierre Pascal wrote his thesis on string ensemble music in Salzburg, and he has so far supplied editions of sonatas by Heinrich Biber. Future plans include music by Schmelzer, Muffat and other late 17th-century composers.

Maxwell Sobel M.D. became interested in early music and editing during high school. While pursuing a degree in Biological Sciences at Indiana University, he played violin and renaissance woodwinds. After finishing a residency in Psychiatry, he returned to his earlier interest in music editing and research, and founded his own music publishing company, Concerto Editions. A special area of interest is the repertoire of the Dresden orchestra, with its multiple woodwinds. Two CDs based upon his edition of Bonporti’s complete works have been released, and many other CDs containing music edited by Dr. Sobel are currently available.