Visiting Artists

2025-26 Featured Visiting Artists

April, The Chase!/Acteon will feature

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Danielle Reutter-Harrah, (formerly Danielle Sampson)

Danielle has performed with BCOC many times in our 20 years. She began performing with BCOC in its early years, when she was an undergraduate. Danielle Reutter-Harrah has performed at the Boston Early Music Festival, with Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Seattle Opera, California Bach Society, American Bach Soloists, Baroque Chamber Orchestra of Colorado, Alabama Symphony, and Early Music Vancouver, among others. She most recently sang the role of Belinda in Baroque Chamber Orchestra of Colorado’s semi-staged rendition of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas. Her repertoire spans Brahms, Bach, Monteverdi, Handel, Clara Schumann and Fanny Mendelssohn, and she is a founding member of the voice and plucked strings duo Jarring Sounds, with Adam Cockerham on guitar, theorbo, Baroque guitar and lute. She sings frequently with Seattle’s Byrd Ensemble and Pacific MusicWorks. Danielle received her Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Denver’s Lamont School of Music and her Master of Music degree from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

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Hannah McGinty

Hannah McGinty, soprano, is a Denver-based specialist in historical performance. She is an active member of St. Martin's Chamber Choir, Quorum, a staff singer at St. Andrew's Episcopal, a frequent organizer of chamber music concerts, and has sung with many groups around town, including Ars Nova Singers, the Baroque Chamber Orchestra of Colorado, Seicento, Gaudium Verum, and more. She previously served as principal soloist and chorusmaster for Austin Baroque Orchestra & Choir, and was a member of the Texas Early Music Project, Ars Longa Ensemble, Austin Cantorum, and directed and sung in the Burgundian Consort and the University of Chicago Camerata, chamber choirs dedicated to well-researched performances of Renaissance choral music. Hannah received her B.A. in Musicology with Honors at the University of Chicago, her Masters of Music in Voice, specializing in Historical Performance, and her Master of Arts in Musicology at the Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University. In addition to her singing, Hannah also plays piano, violin, and harpsichord, and enjoys fiber arts, yoga, cooking, and reading fiction from all over the world.

Kristin Gornstein

Kristin Gornstein

American mezzo-soprano Kristin Gornstein is increasingly recognized for her "rich-voiced" timbre and "uncannily silky legato" (New York Times) across the US. With a career spanning historically informed performance and contemporary premieres, she brings a “deep, spacious sound” (Parterre) and rigorous stylistic integrity to the operatic, concert, and recital stage.

Specializing in the works of the late Baroque era, Ms. Gornstein has earned particular acclaim for her interpretations of Johann Adolph Hasse. Her portrayal of Piramo in Piramo e Tisbe (The Little Opera Theatre of New York) was described by Opera News as "masterful... a truly flawless lyric mezzo." Recently she has appeared as Antonio in Hasse’s Antonio e Cleopatra with the Baroque Chamber Orchestra of Colorado, and alto soloist in Hasse’s Laudate Pueri with Crescendo Baroque.

A versatile ensemble artist and soloist, Ms. Gornstein is a member of both the Philharmonia Baroque Choir and Lorelei Ensemble, and has sung with Grammy-winning ensemble Seraphic Fire. Her concert experience includes the alto solos in Händel’s Messiah (Naples Philharmonic), Vivaldi’s Gloria (Sacred Music in a Sacred Space), and Mozart’s Mass in C Minor (American University of Beirut). As an ensemble member she has appeared at Lincoln Center with the New York Philharmonic (Jeanne d’Arc au Bûcher) and toured with the Mark Morris Dance Group in their acclaimed production of Dido and Aeneas.

May, Musical Bridges will feature 

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Carlos Cuestas, Guitar
Classical guitarist and early plucked instrumentalist Carlos Cuestas is an active performer based in New York City. His musical versatility has allowed him to perform as a soloist and in chamber, orchestral, and traditional music ensembles on different plucked instruments in the United States, Mexico, Colombia, and Ireland. As a guitarist, Carlos has done in-depth studies of eighteenth and nineteenth-century guitar repertoire, particularly music for keyboard and guitar, and the art of improvisation in the style of the early Romantic period. As a continuo player, he has participated in numerous projects including opera and oratorio productions in New York City, New Jersey, Boston, Philadelphia, Seattle, and San Francisco. Carlos has also delved into the centuries-old son jarocho tradition from Veracruz, Mexico, playing a consort of traditional instruments, and was a member of New York City ensemble Radio Jarocho. He is also a member of the Cline/Cuestas Duo with flutist Jenny Cline. Their debut album "Facets" is available on Amazon music.
Carlos, a Colombian national, is a PhD Candidate in Ethnomusicology at the City University of New York, The Graduate Center researching the effects of environmental change in the poetic and musical practice of son jarocho.