David Gresham, Conductor

David Gresham serves as Director of Choral Activities at Brevard College. During his tenure, he has greatly increased participation in the choirs and has overseen a significant influx of voice majors at the College. He is a frequent guest clinician with choirs of all age ranges, and he enjoys helping singers work toward a vibrant and healthy vocal tone while exploring the musical demands of choral literature. 

In Brevard, he also serves as Artistic Director and Conductor of the Transylvania Choral Society, Minister of Music at the Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd, and summer faculty with the Brevard Music Center. 

Dr. Gresham has composed, edited, and arranged several pieces for choir. In addition to his conducting and composing, Dr. Gresham is an active singer and studio teacher. He has served as President and District Governor of the North Carolina Chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing and has had students perform for that organization at the state, regional, and national levels. As a singer, he has been most active as an oratorio soloist and recitalist, performing with churches, civic choruses, and professional organizations.  

Dr. Gresham holds the Bachelor of Music degree, two Master of Music degrees (one in conducting and one in vocal performance and pedagogy), and the Doctor of Musical Arts degree.

Jeanne Johnson, Concertmaster

Baroque violinist Jeanne Johnson’s music can be heard around the world, from Brazil to Indonesia, Sweden to Turkey. Jeanne is a founding member and prior co-concertmaster of Atlanta Baroque. She has been concertmaster for the Washington Bach Consort, and has performed, toured and recorded with numerous groups including Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Tafelmusik, Portland Baroque Orchestra, Chatham Baroque, Asheville Baroque (including a concert at the Viola da Gamba Society 2018 Conclave), Bach Akademie Charlotte, North Carolina Baroque Orchestra, Nashville Chamber Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony, Atlanta Opera and Ballet, Charleston Symphony, Savannah Philharmonic, Asheville Symphony, and Chattanooga Symphony.

A winner of an Early Music America Professional Development Award in 2002, Jeanne gave a recital at the Yale University Collection of Musical Instruments in 2005, and has been featured on several radio broadcasts including Harmonia, Performance Today, and WNYC. 

Performances by her Baroque trio Music of the Spheres include The Frick Collection, the Tage Alter Musik Festival in Germany, the Berkeley Early Music Festival mainstage, and the San Francisco Early Music Society. In 2016, Centaur Records released Jeanne’s recordings of violin works by Johann Jakob Walther and Jean-Fery Rebel with Eco dell’Anima. She has also recorded for Koch, Magnatune and the Canadian Broadcasting Company, and has served as orchestra director and violin faculty at Clayton State University. Find her webste at www.jeannespheres.com.

Lindsey Tootle, Violin

Known for her rich storytelling, warm stage presence, and imaginative interpretations of early music, Baroque violinist Lindsey Tootle captivates audiences with performances that are as vibrant as they are historically informed.

Artistically, Lindsey splits her time between her current base in Cincinnati, Ohio, and her home state of Alabama. In Cincinnati, Lindsey is the principal Baroque violinist of Seven Hills Baroque and collaborates frequently with colleagues for performances throughout the region. In Alabama, she co-founded Bama Baroque, among the state’s first and only professional early music ensembles. Her work there is especially focused on exploring the space where Baroque and folk traditions meet.

Further performance credits include Harmonie Universelle (USA), members of New Trinity Baroque and the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra, and with musicians of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. She also serves on Early Music America’s Emerging Professional Leadership Council (EPLC) and was elected the EPLC’s secretary in 2025. 

Lindsey studied Baroque violin with Gesa Kordes, modern violin with Jenny Gregoire, and historical performance practice with Dr. Don Fader at the University of Alabama, where she graduated cum laude with a B.M. in violin performance.

Outside of music, Lindsey works as an immigration paralegal at a Cincinnati law firm. She is a lifelong history enthusiast, an experienced runner, and a devoted Alabama Crimson Tide football fan. She’s married to her college sweetheart, John, and they have made Cincinnati their home since 2021 alongside their very silly cat, Pepper.

Edith Gettes, Violin

Edith Gettes started violin lessons at age 5. She majored in Music Performance at UNC Chapel Hill, where her teacher was Richard Luby. While she studied with him, Luby founded Ensemble Courant, one of the nation’s first Period Instrument groups, and taught Edith techniques for playing Baroque, as well as modern violin. She went on to receive a Masters of Music degree from Indiana University, studied pedagogy in Japan with Shinichi Suzuki, and participated in the Solo Studies Program at London’s Guildhall School. 

She has taught and performed throughout the United States, including in the North Carolina and Asheville Symphonies, Spoleto Festival, Victoria Bach Festival, Colorado Music Festival, and Asheville Baroque Concerts. 

Part of a musical family, Edith especially loves playing with her sister, cellist Gretchen Gettes. They freelanced together for many years, providing their specially arranged duos for countless weddings, anniversaries, retirements, birthdays and other festivities. When not playing music, Edith can be found walking her dogs, writing, gardening or practicing psychiatry at Asheville’s Pisgah Institute. 

Dana Duncan-Davis, Violin

Violinist and violist Dana Duncan-Davis is a native of Augusta, GA and received a Bachelor of Music degree at Augusta State University and a Master of Music degree at The University of Akron. She has participated in Brevard Music Festival, Meadowmount School for Strings, and The Encore School for Strings. Additionally, she completed a certificate in Arts Management with the National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts. 

Her musical career has spanned over three decades and has included directing a community music school, private studio teaching of beginners through standard repertoire, directing a high school orchestra and college level teaching of violin, viola and string orchestra, as well as maintaining positions as an orchestral violinist with numerous symphony orchestras in the Midwest, southern Texas and the Southeast regions. 

In addition to a busy performance and teaching career, Dana has served on the boards of musical non-profit organizations, most recently including Lauda Musicam of Atlanta, a community early music ensemble, where she also plays the viola da gamba and baroque violin and viola.

Hunter Harris, Viola

Hunter Harris is a violist/violinist who specializes in early and contemporary music. His music experience began at an early age with piano lessons. In 2000, he decided viola was the instrument for him. Attaining a BM from the University of South Carolina, he specialized in music education where he gained teaching experience through the University of South Carolina String Project, and student teaching.

In graduate school at the California Institute of the Arts, through the Community Arts Partnership, Hunter gained valuable teaching experience to better serve the music community. His experience as a violist/violinist has allowed him to collaborate and perform with notable musicians such as: Erika Duke-Kirkpatrick, Lorenz Gamma, Malcolm Goldstein, Susan Allen, Tisha Mabee, Allan Vogel, Mark Menzies, and Wolfgang von Schweinitz. An advocate for early music, he has immersed himself into the world of historical performance practice by studying baroque violin and viola with notable baroque violinist, Susan Feldman.

Not limited to early music, he also advocates for works by modern and contemporary composers, including Tigran Mansurian, Luciano Berio, György Kurtág, Eitan Steinberg, Betty Olivero, Toshio Hosokawa, and Mauricio Kagel. In 2013, he recorded at Capitol Records, in Hollywood, for the California Institute of the Arts Jazz CD, produced by David Roitstein. Also in 2013, he performed with Mexican avant-garde theater company Teatros de Ciertos Habitantes, at Radar L.A. 2013, an international festival of contemporary theater. His teachers have included Constance Gee, Mark Menzies, Susan Feldman, and Tish Oney. 

He currently performs with the North Carolina Baroque Orchestra and may also be found in various lofts and balconies on Sunday mornings singing countertenor. His other interests include Renaissance mensural notation, Cantare super librum (a form of Renaissance vocal improvisation), as well as providing his cats a life of recreation and leisure.

Gretchen Gettes, Cello

A perfect day for Gretchen Gettes would include playing music with friends, going on a long walk, and eating cheese and crackers. Ms Gettes earned an undergraduate degree from Duke University and a Masters of Music in cello performance as a student of Lynn Harrell at the University of Southern California. She has been on the faculty of Baltimore School for the Arts, Peabody Preparatory, and Goucher College and held playing positions in the Pacific Northwest Ballet Orchestra, Baltimore Opera orchestra, Orchestra of St. John’s, and Bach in Baltimore orchestra. 

Ms. Gettes recently moved to Philadelphia and can be heard performing on viola da gamba and baroque and modern cello around the country. A passionate believer in life-long learning, she is working towards her teaching certificate in yoga and feels indebted to all the teachers in her life.

Mia Mangano, Violone

Mia Mangano started cello at an early age of 6 years old and studied at the Higher Institute of Arts of Cuba (among others), where she majored in Cello and Double Bass performance with a specialty in Baroque Cello and Viola da Gamba. Her former teachers include Vladimir Drovach and Arelis Saldivar. 

In Cuba, she worked as a teacher at various schools including the Vocational School of Arts and the National School of Music as well as a full-time cellist in the renowned orchestras, Villa Clara Symphony Orchestra, Solistas de la Habana, The National Ballet and Opera Orchestra, and the Cuban National Symphony Orchestra. In Mexico, she was a teacher for the symphonic project, Esperanza Azteca, and head of the contrabass cello department at the Trinitatte Philharmonie Academy of Music. She also performed as a viola-da-gamba soloist with the ancient music group, Los Tiempos Pasados. 

In 2016 she moved to Georgia where she has been part of groups such as the Gwinnett Symphony, the Michael O'Neal Singers, and Georgia Philharmonic. She is a member of the American Viola da Gamba Society and is very active in the field of historical interpretation.

Rosalind Buda, Bassoon

Rosalind Buda is an orchestral and chamber bassoonist and Celtic instruments musician based in Asheville, NC. She performs and teaches throughout the US.

Rosalind holds an MM from The New England Conservatory of Music where she studied bassoon performance with Boston Symphony principal Richard Svoboda. She studied with Benjamin Coelho at the University of Iowa where she earned her BM.

Rosalind is in demand as a performer and gifted teacher, offering instruction to students of all levels and ages in her Asheville studio and through online lessons and classes. She brings a unique voice to her music through her artistry and deep connection to both classical and folk traditions.

As a bassoonist, Rosalind performs with the Asheville Symphony, Spartanburg Philharmonic, Greenville Symphony, Brevard Philharmonic, and Hendersonville Symphony, as well as other area orchestras and chamber ensembles.

As a multi-instrumentalist chamber musician, Rosalind performs with The Eclectic Collective, Atlanta, GA, Pan Harmonia, Asheville Baroque Concert Series, Asheville Amadeus Festival, Asheville, NC, South Carolina Bach Orchestra, the Early Music Ensemble Istanpitta, and has performed for the Raleigh Chamber Music Guild, Raleigh, NC. In Early and Celtic genres Rosalind has performed with the Brevard Music Center Orchestra as a bagpipe soloist, The Reel Sisters, The Atlanta Celtic Christmas, Jamie Laval’s Celtic Christmas, The Red Clay Music Foundry, and with the Brezius pipe band among other folk groups.

As an educator, Rosalind is sought after as a private lesson instructor of bassoon and Celtic winds and is in demand as a nation-wide Celtic music workshop instructor serving on the faculties of the Mountain Collegium Early Music and Folk Music Workshop (Maryland), The Pipers Gathering (Connecticut), Upper Potomac Piper’s Weekend (West Virginia), The Celtic Arts Foundation (Washington), and Càirdeas bellows pipe school (Vermont).