About Our Ensemble

Based in Austin, Texas, we perform music from the time of Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, Haydn and Mozart. We use instruments and performance practices appropriate to the period, so you experience the music exactly as the composers experienced it. Winner of multiple Austin Critics Table awards including Best Ensemble, La Follia is, in the words of the Austin American-Statesman, “Baroque done right.”

Meet Our Musicians

Keith Womer, Director

Anton Nel, Guest Artist

Stephen Redfield, Violin, Concertmaster

Joan Carlson, Violin, Soprano

Bruce Colson, violin

James Andrewes, Violin

Marie-Elise McNeeley, Violin

Bruce Williams, Viola

Suzanna Giordano-Gignac, Viola

Stephanie Raby-Noori, Violin, Viola, Gamba

Eric Smith, Cello, Gamba

John Walters, Cello, Gamba

David Dawson, Contrabass

Pedro Funes, Contrabass

Marcus McGuff, Traverso (flute)

Adrienne Inglis, Traverso (flute)

Sarah Davol, Oboe, Recorder

Billy Traylor, Oboe, Recorder

Patty Fagan-Miller, Bassoon

Patrick Hughes, Horn

Joel Ockerman, Horn

Gitanjali Mathur, Soprano

Jenifer Thyssen, Soprano

Meredith Ruduski, Soprano

Robbie LaBanca, Countertenor

Sean Lee, Countertenor

Jeffrey Jones-Ragona, Tenor, Harpsichord

Steven Brennfleck, Tenor

Gil Zilkha, Bass-Baritone

Curt Vaughan, Bass

Awards

La Follia Concerts Listed Among Austin Chronicles Top Ten Classical Music Treasures For The Year

2012: 'Yankee Baroque' (more) - A welcome history lesson in music from the Revolution that played like a mixtape for George Washington.
2011: 'Herd of Harpsichords' (more) - Keith Womer and his trio of collaborators not only revealed the variety of this early keyboard instrument, but with a little help from J.S. Bach, they seduced you with its sounds.

Austin Critics Table Awards

2019: Best Instrumentalist, Stephen Redfield (A World Tour of Baroque Instrumental Masterworks)
2016: Best in Ensemble Performance (Start the New Year with Bach) (more)
2016: Best Instrumentalist, Keith Womer (Start the New Year with Bach) (more)
2015: Best Classical Music singer, Nick Zammit (Bach vs. Handel Smackdown) (more)

Austin Critics Table Award Nominations

2015: Best Classical Music Chamber Performance (Bach vs. Handel Smackdown) (more)
2015: Best Instrumentalist, Keith Womer (Bach vs. Handel Smackdown) (more)
2013: Best Classical Music Chamber Performance (Yankee Baroque) (more)
2012: Best Classical Ensemble Performance (Return of the Herd of Harpsichords) (more)
2011: Best Classical Music Chamber Performance (Bach's Herd of Harpsichords) (more)
2011: Best Instrumentalist, Keith Womer in Bach's Herd of Harpsichords (more)
2010: Best Classical Singer, Gitanjali Mathur as Serpina in Pergolesi's La Serva Padrona (more)