New Ensemblists 2026-28

Praised as a "rising superstar" (The Georgia Straight) who performs with “passion and intensity to electrifying effect” (The Vancouver Sun), Canadian violinist Chloe Kim is in high demand internationally. She has appeared in guest soloist and principal capacities with leading period-instrument organizations such as Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Irish Baroque Orchestra, Early Music Vancouver, and Voices of Music, and is regularly on stage with ensembles including Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, The King's Consort, and Florilegium. She currently plays on the 1759 Jeanne Lamon Santo Serafin violin, generously on loan from the Canada Council for the Arts Musical Instrument Bank.

A passionate advocate for period-instrument playing, Chloe is the recipient of numerous accolades, including the 2021 American Bach Society Grant and a Mercury–Juilliard Fellowship. She was named to CBC’s 30 Under 30 list in 2020, and in 2021 was elected a Fellow of The English Concert in America. A respected presence within the Vancouver arts community, Chloe has been invited to serve on multiple occasions as a panelist for the British Columbia Arts Council.

Some favourite past projects include touring an all-women Vivaldi program led by Monica Huggett, concertizing across Scandinavia with Yale Schola Cantorum, and leading Juilliard415 as concertmaster in performances of Dido and Aeneas at Opera Holland Park and the Opéra Royal de Versailles.

In addition to Chloe's debut on the Arcangelo New Ensemblists programme, her upcoming seasons will include extensive touring across Europe with Utopia Orchestra and Teodor Currentzis. She looks forward to returning for engagements at Ottawa Chamberfest and Early Music Vancouver, among others.

Outside of music, Chloe is a linguaphile and cinephile, a devoted reader, and a lover of a well-crafted cocktail. She is deeply grateful to her mentors Heilwig von Königslöw, Elizabeth Blumenstock, and Jeanne Lamon for their generosity and enduring guidance — and to the presence of art and music in her life, through which, in one way or another, she has met everyone she has ever loved.

Miriam Hontana has established herself as one of the most eclectic and outstanding violinists of her generation. Her work as a soloist, concertmaster, chamber musician and collaborator with various orchestras has taken her to renowned festivals and concert halls across Europe, Asia and America.

She studied violin and viola with teachers such as Sergei Fatkulin, Ana María Valderrama and Luis del Valle, and later specialised in Baroque violin and historically informed performance with Olivier Fourés and Hiro Kurosaki.

As a soloist, she has performed major works from the Baroque repertoire in venues such as the National Auditorium of Music in Madrid, the Euskalduna Palace in Bilbao, the Alfredo Kraus Auditorium in Las Palmas or the Auditorium of Tenerife, among others. Her repertoire also encompasses works by Mozart, Brahms, Prokofiev and Piazzolla.

In 2021, she founded her own ensemble OBNI (Objeto Barroco No Identificado). OBNI has taken part in leading festivals such as the Festival Internacional de Arte Sacro de la Comunidad de Madrid, the Innsbruck Early Music Festival, Musika-Música in Bilbao, the Letní slavnosti staré hudby Festival in Prague, as well as the Universo Barroco series of the Spanish National Centre for Musical Dissemination (CNDM). Their first album, Bach & Vivaldi: Violin Concertos, features violin concertos by both composers, together with Bach’s Ciaccona for solo violin. “A highly recommendable abduction.” —Carlos García Reche, Melómano.

She combines her solo career with regular collaborations with ensembkles including La Ritirata, Tiento Nuovo, Forma Antiqva, Il Pomo d’Oro, Accademia del Piacere, Ensemble Jupiter and Conductus Ensemble.

British cellist Joseph Pritchard began his studies at Wells Cathedral School and the Yehudi Menuhin School. A former String finalist in BBC Young Musician, he has been awarded the Raphael Sommer Scholarship, the Elias Fawcett Prize in the Royal Over-Seas League Competition, first prize at the Two Moors Festival and was highly commended in the Pau Casals Award 2020.

Joseph was principal cellist of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, and as appeared as a chamber musician at the Wigmore Hall, King’s Place, Berlin Philharmonie, the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg and the Concertgebouw Amsterdam. He has participated in masterclasses at the Gstaad Menuhin Festival String Academy, Chamberlab Montecastelli, and IMS Prussia Cove, receiving coaching from the likes of Steven Isserlis, Ivan Monighetti, Gary Hoffman, Giovanni Antonini, and Anner Bylsma.

Recent highlights include concerts at the Hamburg Kammermusikfestival, Battements par Musique, Open Chamber Music at IMS Prussia Cove and with O/Modernt Chamber Orchestra. He was also a member of the Festivalcampus Ensemble at Heidelberger Frühling 2025 and 2026, and participated in the 2026 Verbier Festival Academy masterclasses as a guest member of inn.wien ensemble. In November 2023, he made his concerto debut at the Berlin Philharmonie with Capella Amadeus.

Joe is a founding member of Ensemble Textura and has appeared as a guest player with the Berlin Philharmonic, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, and the Balthasar Neumann Ensemble. He is also active as a baroque cellist, playing regularly as part of the Kapelle at the Gedächtniskirche and Pauluskirche in Berlin. He has recently completed undergraduate studies with Nicolas Altstaedt at the Hochschule für Musik „Hanns Eisler“ Berlin. Joe is passionate about improvisation and folk music, and enjoys making arrangements for strings.

Felix Elias Gutschi is an Austrian recorder player whose work bridges historically informed performance practice, contemporary music and improvisation. He is particularly interested in developing innovative artistic concepts and concert formats.

Gutschi studied recorder at the Mozarteum University Salzburg, where he completed his Bachelor’s degree primarily with Dorothee Oberlinger, Walter van Hauwe and Pierre Hamon. He subsequently studied contemporary music in Brescia with Antonio Politano and completed a Master’s degree in recorder at the CNSMD Lyon with Tiago Simas Freire. In 2026, he completed a Master’s degree in Music Theory at the Mozarteum University Salzburg.

From October 2026, Gutschi will co-lead the recorder class at the UdK Berlin with Susanna Borsch. He is also a lecturer in Music Theory at the Hochschule für Musik Dresden and the Mozarteum University Salzburg.

In 2018, Gutschi co-founded Chez Fría with trumpeter Lorenz Widauer. The ensemble brings together Early Music, contemporary music and jazz and has performed at the Potsdam Sanssouci Music Festival, Jazzfestival Saalfelden, Südtirol Jazzfestival, Carinthian Summer, Kultursommer Wien and Porgy & Bess Vienna. He is also the founder of ensemble Astrum, an international Early Music ensemble developing historically informed and progressive concert formats.

As a soloist, Gutschi has performed with the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra and the Neue Bachsches Collegium Musicum under the direction of Reinhard Goebel, and appeared at the Verbier Festival, the Wiener Konzerthaus and the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music. He has also performed with the BR Symphony Orchestra and the Münchener Kammerorchester at the Bayerische Staatsoper. Gutschi is a prizewinner of several Early Music competitions, including the Johann-Heinrich-Schmelzer-Wettbewerb at Stift Melk.