JAMES APGAR (countertenor) is an accomplished musicologist, composer, keyboard artist, and vocalist. Currently a student in the M.A./Ph.D. program in the History and Literature of Music at UC Berkeley, he plans to write a dissertation on music of Elizabethan England under the supervision of Davitt Moroney. In 2008, he was commissioned to compose a new setting of a Latin grace for the Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford. His other works and arrangements have been performed by professional and amateur choirs and orchestras in Baltimore, New Haven, Washington, and Berkeley. Mr. Apgar is also an organist, having held church posts in New Haven and Washington DC and having been a frequent guest organist in Baltimore and Berkeley; he currently serves as Interim Organist of St. John's Presbyterian Church, Berkeley. He also has extensive continuo experience on both organ and harpsichord, playing with the Yale Collegium Musicum, Yale Baroque Opera Project, UC Berkeley Baroque Ensemble, and most recently with His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts. A chorister since age 8, he has sung professionally with countless church choirs and chamber groups in Baltimore, New Haven, and Washington, including the Choir of Washington National Cathedral. In addition to ABS, he currently sings with AVE (Arists' Vocal Ensemble), Pacific Collegium, San Francisco Renaissance Voices, and the Simon Carrington Chamber Singers.