Musicians
Līga Zīriņa
vocal, baroque violinLatvian soprano Līga Zīriņa specializes in Early Music. Her repertoire ranges primarily from the Renaissance to the late Baroque period. In 2025, she completed her Bachelor’s degree at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, majoring in Early Music singing with Xenia Meijer and minoring in Baroque violin with Antoinette Lohmann.

Currently she is pursuing a Master’s degree in the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel, Switzerland with voice teacher Ulrike Hofbauer. Līga’s recent activities include collaborations as a soloist and ensemble singer with Música Temprana (artistic director Adrian van der Spoel), as well as with the Belgian Early Music ensemble Vox Luminis, directed by Lionel Meunier. She also regularly participates in masterclasses with artists such as Sébastien Daucé, Damien Guillon, Dorothee Mields, Philippe Herreweghe, Margreet Honig, Emma Kirkby, Andres Locatelli, Elam Rotem, and many others.

 MengHan Wu
baroque violin
 MengHan is a Taiwanese Baroque violinist based in Amsterdam since 2021. He grew up in Taichung, Taiwan, where he picked up the fiddle at the age of seven and has never stopped playing.

He is the co-founder and violinist of Red Table Ensemble, a Baroque ensemble performing rhetorical music, including 17th-century German sacred works and 18th-century Italian cantatas. Since 2022, he has also been a member of Ensemble Suspirium, touring regularly throughout the Netherlands and performing annually in Prague.

MengHan collaborates with various orchestras, including the Nieuwe Philharmonie Utrecht and Musica Poetica, and is frequently invited to serve as concertmaster by Camerata Utricia. He is also the first violinist of the H[É]ros Ensemble. In addition to performing, he composes.

In the field of historically informed performance, MengHan draws inspiration from historical sources while giving space for the present moment and human emotion to speak.

MengHan holds two Master’s degrees, one in baroque violin with Antoinette Lohmann from the Conservatorium van Amsterdam and another in modern violin from the University of Oklahoma (US).

 Isabel Negrín López
harpsichord, organ
 Isabel Negrín began her musical journey at the age of eight at the Conservatory of Valladolid (Spain), where she first studied piano. While her academic path initially led her to earn a degree in Chemistry from the University of Valladolid, followed by Master’s degrees in International Business (Menéndez Pelayo University, Madrid) and Cultural Management (University of Alcalá), her passion for music ultimately drew her back to the stage.

She pursued harpsichord studies at the Faculty of Music of UNAM in Mexico City under the guidance of Norma García González, graduating with distinction. In 2024, she completed her Master’s degree in basso continuo at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, studying with Kris Verhelst (basso continuo) and Menno van Delft (harpsichord).

Isabel currently works as a harpsichord accompanist at the Academy of Arts in Brussels and teaches harpsichord and basso continuo at the Conservatory of Dieppe. She is also the artistic director of the Tilo Ensemble and co-founder and pianist of the Duo Lapislázuli, alongside Mexican violinist Fátima Hernández. With a deep love for historical performance and rhetorical expression, she brings sensitivity and imagination to each project she takes on.
Xander Baker
baroque cello,
viola da gambaXander is a historical cello and viola da gamba player, based between the Netherlands and the UK. Growing up in Wiltshire, Xander studied cello with Elizabeth Anderson and Vladimir Waltham, the latter of whom planted the seed of historically informed performance.

Xander went on to the University of Manchester (2013-16), studying cello with Simon Turner and historical performance with Amanda Babington. After a few years working as a freelance cellist, singer and teacher, Xander decided to take the plunge and move to Amsterdam, studying at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam with Viola de Hoog (historical cello), Mieneke van der Velden (viola da gamba) and Margaret Urquhart (violone, double bass). Due to a propensity for a good bass line and a love of chamber music, Xander is much in demand as a basso continuo player on a variety of historical bass instruments in the Netherlands and the UK.