Paul Luchkow is a versatile violinist and violist whose activities cover
the range of music from the 17^th Century to the present day on modern
and period instruments. A regular feature of Vancouver's Early Music
scene, Paul is a long-time member of the Pacific Baroque Orchestra,
appears frequently in concerts for Early Music Vancouver, and Festival
Vancouver, and was a founding member of the Burney Ensemble and of
Vancouver's 17^th century string band "La Cetra". He has performed with
the CBC Radio Orchestra, the Vancouver Symphony, the Vancouver Opera
Orchestra and in studio ensembles, recording for popular music groups,
film, television, and theatre.

After graduating with a M.Mus. degree from the University of British
Columbia,* *Paul moved to Holland where he became a member of the
chamber orchestra "Nieuw Sinfonietta Amsterdam". In addition to
Sinfonietta tours through Holland, France, and South Africa, he played
with the Netherlands Radio Symphony and the Baroque Orchestra of the
Netherlands Bach Society. Since his return to Vancouver, Paul continues
to travel, touring with local ensembles and playing regularly with the
Portland Baroque Orchestra, the Trinity Consort (Portland), and Baroque
Northwest in Seattle Washington.

An active performer of contemporary music on modern violin and newly
written music for period instruments, Paul has performed, often in
premiers, music of Jean Coulthard, Michael Osterle, Peter Hannan,
Bradshaw Pack, Jocelyn Morlock, Linda Catlin Smith, John Abram, Martin
Arnold and Ray Zhuo (to name a few!). Paul has participated in
recordings for the BIS, Koch, Spool, ATMA Classique, CBC Records, and
Artifact Music labels and his concert performances are frequently
broadcast on the CBC (radio and television) and NPR networks.

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Nan Mackie studied cello at the Conservatoire de Musique (Quebec), followed later by a degree from the School of Music, UBC. Here she began studying viola da gamba as well, leading to further study at the Koninklijk Conservatorium in The Hague.

Nan has played with many period instrument ensembles in Canada and the U.S. including New World Consort, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Seattle and Portland Baroque Orchestras, Les Voix Humaines, among others. During tours throughout Canada, the U.S. and Europe, she has been fortunate to play in such venues as New York’s “Music Before 1800” series, London’s Wigmore Hall, Paris, Cologne, Utrecht, Bologna, and has recorded for German Radio, Radio France, BBC, NPR and CBC. She has performed and recorded in instrumental ensembles with choral groups such as musica intima, Vancouver Cantata Singers, Laudate Singers, in productions with Modern Baroque Opera, and with Il Ruggiero in Bologna.

Nan has been a long-time member of Pacific Baroque Orchestra, and Les Coucous Benévôles, both of which regularly commission new works by Canadian and international composers. She is also a member of Vancouver’s Burney Ensemble, the 17th century string ensemble “La Cetra”, the Cantata Players, and plays with Seattle’s Baroque Northwest from time to time. Nan was a faculty member of Early Music Vancouver’s Summer Workshop for many years and frequently appears in EMV’s summer Festival and Festival Vancouver.