The Ensemble

Artistic Direction

Fiona Kizzie Lee

Fiona Kizzie Lee is a Hong Kong-born recorder and early keyboard player based in Basel. She performs internationally as a soloist and director of award-winning ensembles, with appearances at major early music festivals in the U.K., Poland, Salzburg, Italy and Slovenia.

Equally active as a researcher, Fiona is a grant recipient and pursuing a PhD in musicology at the University of Zurich, focusing on early keyboard repertoire. She also teaches and lectures widely, with recent invitations to the Renaissance Music Week (DE) and the International Summer School of Early Music (CZ). As a passionate advocate for early music since youth, Fiona also works to expand its reach in her homeland through concerts, residencies, and education projects in Hong Kong, Macau, and Japan.

She holds Master’s degrees in musicology (King’s College London), supported by the Hong Kong Jockey Club Music and Dance Fund, and in recorder and early keyboard performance (Schola Cantorum Basiliensis). Her instruments include recorder, organetto, clavisimbalum, clavicytherium, pipe and tabor, and more.

Voice

Emilė Ribokaitė

Emilė combines her passion for physical expression with thoughtfulness and wealth of knowledge and touches her audiences with vocal clarity and authenticity. Her love of early music is fuelled by playfulness and the use of the voice as an instrument, a part of the whole.

Coming from Lithuania, Emilė earned a Bachelor’s in classical singing and music pedagogy before completing her Bachelor’s and Master’s in early music at Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (prof. Rosa Dominguez). She also studied conducting and piano. A winner of the 2023 Musikfestspiele Potsdam Sanssouci competition (Orpheus Ensemble Basel), she has performed across Europe in operas, concerts, and multidisciplinary projects.

Fiddle

Vojtěch Jakl

Vojtěch Jakl (*1994) is a Czech baroque violinist and historical instrument player based in Basel, Switzerland, and a graduate of Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. He studied at the Janáček Academy and Prague Conservatory, with guidance from prominent musicians such as Amandine Beyer, Jörg-Andreas Bötticher, Lenka Torgersen, John Holloway. Vojtěch actively performs at renowned festivals all around Europe like Bachfest Leipzig, Salzburger Festspiele, London International Festival of Early Music, Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht, Music Before 1800, Prague Spring, etc. He collaborates with esteemed conductors, including Václav Luks and Jana Semerádová, and is a member of ensembles like Collegium 1704, Collegium Marianum, La Morra, Rýnský and Ensemble Pampinea. Vojtěch has contributed to over 20 CD recordings and will release a debut solo album in 2025 featuring Ignazio Albertini’s violin sonatas.

Medieval Recorder

António Godinho

A Portuguese recorder player, he began his musical studies at the Coimbra Conservatory of Music. In 2021 he completed his degree in Early Music at the Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espetáculo (Porto) with Pedro Sousa Silva and he is currently completing his master's degree with Corina Marti at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (Basel, CH), specialising in Medieval and Renaissance music.

He regularly performs in concerts and has extensive experience on various European stages and festivals, having collaborated with various ensembles, such as the Aut Tace orchestra, Jovem Orquestra Portuguesa and Mundus Inversus. He has also been an active member of the ensemble Arte Minima (PT), directed by Pedro Sousa Silva with two albums released (2021 and 2023) and with several concerts in Portugal; and the ensemble FOWR (CH), a recorder consort directed by Corina Marti, performing in concerts at Muzyka w Raju and at the Filharmonia Narodowa in Poland.

Fiddle

Ūla Kinder

Ūla Kinder (baroque violin/medieval fiddle) performs regularly as a soloist and a member of many prominent groups throughout the US and Europe. They have toured extensively, played live for WQXR and BBC Radio 3 broadcasts and performed in many international music festivals, including Boston Early Music Festival, Bachfest Leipzig and Lucerne Festival. In 2018 they performed on Broadway at the Belasco Theater for the award-winning Globe Theater 'Farinelli and the King' production.

Ūla is a graduate of the Juilliard School and the Royal Academy of Music, having studied with Nicolette Moonen & Rachel Podger. They had the pleasure to work with some of the most notable musicians in the early music world, including Masaaki Suzuki, William Christie, Laurence Cummings & Ton Koopman. Ūla is currently continuing their studies at Schola Cantorum Basiliensis.