Artistic Direction
Fiona Kizzie Lee
Basel-based performer and musicologist Fiona Kizzie Lee is frequently praised by critiques for her exceptional versatility, demonstrating equal artistry on recorders—including pipe and tabor and double recorder—and early keyboard instruments such as organetto and clavisimbalum. Her performances, as the director of Ensemble Pampinea, but also with various other early music ensembles, have taken her across Europe and beyond in Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Germany, Poland, Czechia, Slovenia, Italy, Lithuania, Austria, the Netherlands, and Canada.
Alongside her performing career, Lee is an active educator and speaker in the field of early music. She has taught at the Renaissancemusikwoche in Sondershausen (Germany) and the International Summer School of Early Music in Valtice (Czech Republic), as well as given guest lectures and workshops at the Education University of Hong Kong, the University of Calgary, and the Ljubljana Academy of Music.
A Scholar of The Jockey Club Music and Dance Fund and The UZH Candoc Grant, Lee combines artistic excellence with meticulous scholarship. She obtained two Master’s degrees in Medieval/Renaissance recorder and early keyboard performance in the class of Corina Marti at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Switzerland. Her doctoral dissertation, “15th-Century Central European Keyboard Tablatures in Context,” was awarded summa cum laude at the University of Zurich.
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
António Godinho is a Portuguese recorder player active in the European early-music scene. He studied at the Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espetáculo (Porto) with Pedro Sousa Silva and at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis with Corina Marti.
Based between Basel and Portugal, he performs repertoire from the Middle Ages through the early Baroque in projects ranging from intimate chamber music to larger ensemble work. He collaborates with groups including the Aut Tace orchestra, Jovem Orquestra Portuguesa and Mundus Inversus. He has also been an active member of the ensemble Arte Minima (PT), Musurgia Ensemble, FOWR and Gli Incogniti, and is also the founder and artistic director of Terebinthus.
