About Us

Edwin Huizinga

Performing both baroque and modern repertoire, Canadian violinist Edwin Huizinga has appeared alongside Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, Renée Fleming, Dawn Upshaw, Mike Marshall, and Stevie Wonder, and has been featured as a soloist with the San Bernardino Symphony, Trinity Alps Chamber Music Festival, and the Banff Summer Arts Festival, and has performed as conductor and soloist with the Guelph Symphony Orchestra. Edwin is a founding member of the baroque ensemble ACRONYM which has released ten full-length albums of previously unknown and unrecorded baroque music. Edwin also performs worldwide with his folk and baroque duo Fire & Grace, and tours extensively with Tafelmusik. Edwin is part of the artistic leadership of Carmel Bach Festival, and serves as the Artistic Director for Sweetwater Music Festival and Big Sur Music Camp. An avid composer, Edwin was commissioned to write a piece for Canada’s 150th anniversary. Edwin is a member of the Juno-nominated indie rock band The Wooden Sky, and is a founding member of the Classical Revolution—an organization dedicated to shaping the future of concerts and jam sessions in alternative locations around the world.

William Coulter

William Coulter is an internationally acclaimed, Grammy award winning master of the steel-string guitar. His most recent solo recording, The Rolling Waves, was released in 2023 and features music from Ireland and Sweden, and beyond. In 2021, Coulter’s duo – Fire & Grace, with Canadian violin virtuoso Edwin Huizinga, released Alma, an eclectic recording of Classical and Traditional music. Fire & Grace tours have taken them around the states and to Europe, New Zealand, Canada, Taiwan and Ireland. Coulter has been Music Director for Tomáseen Foley’s A Celtic Christmas since 1998, and has performed with the Santa Cruz Baroque Festival, Apollo’s Fire and many other ensembles. Collaborations have been a mainstay of his career including tours and recordings with Gourd Music artists Neal Hellman and Barry and Shelley Phillips; a trio with fiddler John Weed and cellist Aria Di Salvio called One Lane Bridge; classical guitar virtuoso Benjamin Verdery, Irish flute wizard Brian Finnegan, and native Irish singer Éilís Kennedy.

Coulter teaches classical guitar, and directs a Celtic Chamber Music ensemble at UC Santa Cruz. He teaches at many summer camps and festivals. Upcoming projects include performances around the US with A Celtic Christmas, and a new recording and concerts with Fire & Grace. Coulter earned degrees from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and UC Santa Cruz.