ROBERT MEALY (violin) is one of America's leading historical string players; his playing has been praised by The Boston Globe for its “imagination, taste, subtlety, and daring.” He is a frequent leader and soloist in New York, where he was recently appointed concertmaster of Trinity Wall Street’s resident baroque orchestra. He has recorded and toured in a wide variety of repertoires with many early music ensembles both here and in Europe, including Sequentia, Ensemble Project Ars Nova, the Newberry Consort, the Folger Consort, Tragicomedia, Les Arts Florissants, and the Handel & Haydn Society. He recently led the orchestra for the Mark Morris Dance Group in a tour to Moscow, and has accompanied Renée Fleming on the David Letterman Show. Mr. Mealy has served as concertmaster of the Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra in three Grammy-nominated recordings and many performances, including a special appearance last fall at Versailles. A devoted chamber musician, he is a member of the Renaissance violin band The King's Noyse, which has recorded eleven CDs for Harmonia Mundi, and directs the new 17th-century ensemble Quicksilver. For over a decade he was an instrumental soloist with the Boston Camerata. Through his interest in earlier repertories, he co-founded the medieval ensemble Fortune’s Wheel, which has appeared at early music festivals throughout the Americas, and at the Cloisters and the Frick Museum in New York. He was recently appointed Professor of Early Music at Yale University, where he directs the Yale Collegium and the Yale School of Music's new postgraduate baroque ensemble. He is also on the faculty of the new historical performance program at Juilliard. Prior to joining Yale, he founded and directed the Harvard Baroque Orchestra. In 2004 he received Early Music America’s Binkley Award for outstanding teaching and scholarship. He has recorded over fifty CDs on most major labels.