MARGHERITA BUSETTO, Violin
Margherita Busetto graduated from the Benedetto Marcello Conservatory in Venice with Stefano Zanchetta in 2005. She has performed in the international Alpe Adria and in the regional orchestra of the conservatories of Veneto for three years. She has played in the Giovannni Angeleri Orchestra of Venice, with the Italian String Orchestra of Mario Brunello, with the Offerta musicale di Venezia, and with the Filarmonia Veneta. She has attended master classes with Stanley Dodds (of the Berlin Philharmonic), Cristiano Rossi, Francesco Manara, Cinzia Barbagelata (baroque violin), and Giovanni Guglielmo. She has also studied chamber music at the S. Cecilia Academy in Rome. She was a soloist with the Teatro La Fenice Orchestra of Venice in 2006.

PIER PAOLO CIURLIA, Theorbo and Iute
Pier Paolo Ciurlia has devoted himself to early music performance practice studying lute and theorbo with M° Tiziano Bagnati, and graduated with honors and magna cum laude at the Conservatory of Venice. He has studied Counterpoint and Composing with Maestro di Cappella of Basilica of Saint Mark in Venice, Marco Gemmani, and is still improving himself in the field of Prepolifonia with M° Lanfranco Menga.
He has performed as continuo player with orchestras directed by international prestige conductors as Ton Koopman Stefano Montanari, Attilio Cemonesi.
He also played in very famous ensembles as:
"Accademia Bizantina" of Ravenna (Szymanowski Philharmonic of Krakow,
"Teatro La Fenice" of Venice,
"Cappella Marciana", Saint Mark, Venice.
M° Ciurlia also steadily collaborates with:
- Romano Valentini's Creator Ensemble of Faenza
- MusicalIncanti Ensemble conducted by Maestro M. Vincenzi
- Musica Venezia Ensemble
- VeniDilecteMi
- Musici della Serenissima.
During three consecutive years he has played at Festival Internazionale di Venezia "Claudio Monteverdi". He has also collaborated with colleagues on cutting albums of concerts, cooperated on acting in Italian and International feature films and played for different Italian and foreign record companies.

MARIJA JOVANOVIC, Harpsichord
Marija Jovanovic, born in Belgrade, completed her studies in organ and organ composition at the University of Belgrade and then at the Benedetto Marcello Conservatory of Venice with E. Bolzonello Zoia and R. Padoin. In 2005 she graduated with maximum grades in harpsichord with M. Vincenti. She is now in the post-graduate program at the Conservatory in Venice, specializing in harpsichord . Because of her strong interestin Baroque and Renaissance music, she has attended courses with professors H. Vogel, P. Crivellaro, L. Ghielmi, H. Faghius, U. Torni, and F. Cera in Italy, Germany and Holland. In 2005 she was a finalist in the “Gianni Gambi National Harpsichord Competition” in Pesaro. She is active as a soloist on organ and harpsichord and in the basso continuo in various chamber groups and has recently performed as soloist with the Orchestra of the Teatro La Fenice of Venice. Since 2001 she has been resident organist of the Anglican St. George Church in Venice.

LIESL ODENWELLER, soprano
American by origin American and a resident in Italy for many years, her professional debut was at the age of 16 as protagonist of The Pirates of Penzance by Gilbert & Sullivan and in Oklahoma by Rogers & Hammerstein. She has sung the roles of Adrina, Gilda, Konstance (The Abduction from the Seraglio), Bastienne, Violetta, Pamina, Prima Damigella, Queen of the Night and Cunegonde (Candide – performed at Teatro Piccolo di Milano, the Teatro la Fenice, the Teatro Olimpico di Vicenza, the Teatro San Carlo of Naples, and in opera houses in Europe and the United States. She alternates opera performances with many concerts and recitals, with a repertoire which includes solos in Mozart’s Mass in C Minor performed in Carnegie Hall in New York, Brahms’ German Requiem, Mozart’s Requiem, and Szymanowski’s Stabat Mater, performed with the Orchestra Verdi di Milano conducted by Romano Gandolfi. In 2008 she played the role of Cleopatra in Giulio Cesare, sang in Mozart’s Vespri Solenni in Carnegie Hall and has performed in concerts and recitals in Europe and all over the United States. Her jewelry and dress are from Gualti di Venezia.

Adriano Iurissevich, actor
Actor, director, translator and teacher in Italy, France, Spain, England, and Israel. Actor with Benno Besson (“Love for Three Oranges,” “The Causcasian Chalk Circle,” Peter Greenaway (“The Children of Uranium”), José Sanchis Sinisterra (“Reader Ore”), Giampiero Solari (“The Mandrake”), il Gran Teatro di Carlo Cecchi, la compagnia Telemaco (Madrid), The Gaslit Theatre Company (London), The Habamah Theatre of Jerusalem, il Tag and Venice film and television. He teaches for major universities and European drama schools (Insitut del Teatre de Barcelona, Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, ENSATT in Lyon, Habimah National Threatre in Tel Aviv, Real Escuela de Arte Dramatico in Madrid, and others) and on several occasions “Before the Theater” – a European school for actor training. He founded and directs Venezia Inscena–Training Center and Theater Production,” and in 2007 the “Casa della commedia” (House of Comedy), center for the study and production of Commedia dell’Arte. Athough he does not disdain excursions into contemporary theater, his specialty is Commedia dell’Art, which he has taught and practiced for over twenty years. Twelve Directors of theater groups have recently formed an important international laboratory of Commedia dell’Arte that annually attracts numerous Italian and foreign students and two from “Centro internazionale della maschera” (International Mask Center). He translates and publishes texts by José Sanchis Sinisterra and Juan Mayorga, contemporary Spanish authors.

Bruce Wilson, voice actor
A man of many talents, Bruce Wilson has performed on stages across 5 continents, not just as an actor specializing in creating characters using his unique vocal possibilities, but especially as a singer; indeed his first contact with Italian was singing madrigals and Renaissance music at the age of 17, then Bach and Gabrielli, and Leonard Bernstein’s music; more recently the avantgarde jazz of Bobby McFerrin and Jay Clayton, artists with whom he has trained.
He continues to write lyrics and music for his own groups. He used to play the part of Harlequin acting in the Commedia dell’Arte in the squares of Venice.
Born in Los Angeles, Bruce could not have grown up ignoring Hollywood, though he prefers acting off camera, recording voice-overs as a narrator in documentaries and in animated films, taking advantage of the 6 languages he speaks. After graduating from the University of California, he moves to Europe to nurture his artistic growth. Currently a professor at the Institute of Theatre, Music and Cinema of the University of Venice, he recites primarily in his native language modern poets, his own writing, and William Shakespeare’s masterpieces.