Meet Our Artists
Silentwoods Collective is powered by a vibrant ensemble of performers from across the U.S. and beyond. Together, they bring a deep commitment to historical performance, community engagement, and the transformative power of live music.
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Alyssa Campbell
Violin/Viola

Alyssa Campbell
Violin/Viola
Alyssa Campbell is an American violinist based in New York City and The Hague, Netherlands. She has played both violin and viola with ensembles across the United States and Europe, including Les Arts Florissants, The Handel & Haydn Society, Teatro Nuovo, ARTEK Early Music, The American Classical Orchestra, and The Smithsonian Academy Orchestra. Alyssa has been heard at festivals such as Tanglewood, The BBC Proms, Dans de Jardins de William Christie, Festival de Torroella de Montgrí, Arte Solidale, Music Before 1800, Gotham Early Music Scene, and the Bremen Musikfest, and is a founding member of The Fooles, a 17th-century string band based in NYC that presents research-informed performances of music from the early modern period. In 2023, The Fooles were selected for Early Music America’s Emerging Artist Showcase, and have since been heard in NYC, the Boston Early Music Festival, and on WXQR’s Young Artist Showcase.
Alyssa holds a Masters Degree in Historical Performance from The Juilliard School and a Bachelor of Music in Violin Performance from the University of Michigan. In 2023, she was selected as the winner of Early Music America’s Margriet Tindemans Early Strings Scholarship, which allowed her to move to The Netherlands where she received an Artist Certificate from the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague in 2024. Her primary teachers include Enrico Gatti, Kati Debretzeni, Rachel Podger, Elizabeth Blumenstock, and Cynthia Roberts.

Andrew Koutroubas
Cello, Director

Andrew Koutroubas
Cello, Director
Andrew Koutroubas is a cellist and multi-instrumentalist specializing in historical performance. A strong believer in the transformative power of music, Koutroubas is a founding director of New Hampshire-based non-profit, Silentwoods Collective Inc, an organization committed to community building through music and the arts.
Koutroubas has performed and recorded with Grammy winning ensembles, Handel and Haydn Society, Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Opera Series, and has the honor of performing around the US and Europe with Juilliard 415, Les Arts Florissants, Boston Camerata, American Symphony Orchestra, Ars Lyrica Houston, Upper Valley Baroque, New Hampshire Philharmonic and others. Additionally, he has contributed to the formation of newly established early music ensembles Orbis Pictus and The Fooles, the latter winning Early Music America’s Emerging Artist Showcase Award in Boston for their performances of Dario Castello in 2023.
Andrew Studied historical performance at the Longy School of Music of Bard College earning a Master of Music degree in 2021, and The Juilliard School where he earned a Graduate Diploma in 2024. In his spare time he loves to cook, practice, explore the music and culture of Southern Italy and try to keep his antique Jaguar running.

Nicola Canzano
Harpsichord, Composer

Nicola Canzano
Harpsichord, Composer
Nicola Canzano (b. 1991) is a composer, harpsichordist and organist who is recognized for his expertise in historical composition and improvisation. Nicola is instructor of harpsichord at Michigan State University, and the studio accompanist for Historical Performance at The Juilliard School, where he also annually guest lectures on fugal improvisation. He teaches improvisation and composition privately in New York City where he resides, and maintains a busy performance schedule as a continuo player with ensembles throughout the US, as well as presenting on improvisation and pedagogy at universities around the world.

Dani Zanuttini-Frank
Lute/Theorbo

Dani Zanuttini-Frank
Lute/Theorbo
Lutenist Dani Zanuttini-Frank strives to understand the music he performs through the study of music theory, both from our time and from when the music was composed, and by finding musical and historical connections between different repertoires. He is particularly interested in historical pedagogical methods, such as solfeggio and partimento, and their spread across musical cultures. He completed his Bachelors and Masters at Yale, where he studied classical guitar and music theory. He has recently performed as a soloist and chamber musician in the United States, Canada, China, Bolivia and Italy. He most recently completed a Graduate Diploma in Historical Performance at Juilliard, studying with Charles Weaver and Daniel Swenberg.

Ela Kodžas
Violin/Viola

Ela Kodžas
Violin/Viola
Fueled by a dedication to community building through music, Serbian-American violinist Ela Kodžas enjoys a dynamic career as a soloist and collaborator across the United States. Recent features include performances with Theotokos, Clarion Music Society, American Bach Soloists, Smithsonian Haydn Academy, the Carmel Bach Festival Baroque and Classical Academy, and Midtown Concerts at the Gotham Early Music Scene. A native of Rochester, NY, Ela holds degrees from the Eastman School of Music, UCLA and the Juilliard School, where she regularly acted as a concertmaster and soloist with the school’s renowned period orchestra, Juilliard415, in Alice Tully Hall and abroad in China. In her free time, she can be found avidly dog watching or searching for the best iced latte.

Jimmy Drancsak
Violin/Viola

Jimmy Drancsak
Violin/Viola
Jimmy Drancsak is a violinist and violist currently living in New York City. He has performed with various ensembles across Europe and the Americas, including The English Concert, Les Arts Florissants, Juilliard415, New York Baroque Incorporated, and others. He is also the violist in the Arrow Quartet and violinist with In Nomine Ensemble. Having grown up in the North American fiddle tradition, Jimmy is particularly interested in American fiddle styles and improvisation. The crossover between various fiddle styles and 17-18th century repertoire serves as an inspiration towards his musical approach and his leadership as co-director of the Juilliard Fiddle Club.

Kelsey Burnham
Flute/Recorder

Kelsey Burnham
Flute/Recorder
Hailed for her "memorable" and "beautiful playing" (NY Classical Review and Opera News), flute and recorder extraordinaire Kelsey Burnham lives and loves to perform. Kelsey fell in love with early music as a student at Oberlin Conservatory where Michael Lynn first handed her a baroque flute in the winter of 2016. Kelsey quickly threw herself into historical performance by researching, studying, and playing flutes from the Renaissance to the Contemporary periods throughout her time at Oberlin. Since finishing her post-graduate studies at the Juilliard School, Kelsey has been across the pond and back again performing early and new music alike. The Baltimore native also holds a teaching position at The Peabody Conservatory’s Tuned-In Program working with scholarship students of all ages. As an alumni of the program, Kelsey’s teaching philosophy focuses on instilling confidence in her students who sometimes come from difficult backgrounds such as herself.

Elizaveta Kozlova
Soprano

Elizaveta Kozlova
Soprano
NYC-based soprano Elizaveta Kozlova has performed the roles of Doralice (Il trionfo dell’onore) with Amherst Early Music Festival, Anna I (Die sieben Todsünden) with Dell’Arte Opera and Susanna (Le Nozze di Figaro) with New York Lyric Opera. She has appeared as a soloist in Bach’s St John Passion with Juilliard415 orchestra and in Bach’s Magnificat at the Moscow International House of Music. Elizaveta is an avid interpreter of new music, and has performed world premieres in France and the US. She received an Encouragement Award from The Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition and was the finalist of the Concorso di Canto Barocco “Francesco Provenzale” in Napoli, Italy. Elizaveta received the Marin Alsop Entrepreneurship Award at the Mannes School of Music where she obtained her BM and MM Degrees. This summer Elizaveta will appear as Servilia (La Clemenza di Tito) with Dell’Arte Opera.

Jonathan Luik,
Bass

Jonathan Luik,
Bass
A native of Bad Kreuznach, Germany, Jonathan Luik enjoys performing repertoire from the 16th century to the present day on a variety of instruments, from the modern and historical double basses to the violone and viola da gamba.
He is a recent graduate of the Juilliard School, where he studied with Eugene Levinson and Timothy Cobb and performed extensively with the school’s orchestra and period ensemble, Juilliard415. He has performed alongside and under the leadership of such period musicians as Rachel Podger, Robert Mealy, Alfredo Bernadini, William Christie, and Nicholas McGegan and under such conductors as Marin Alsop, Emmanuel Villaume, and David Robertson.
In 2020 he was featured in Early Music America’s Early to Rise series. Jonathan took part in American Bach Soloists’ 2019 Academy and looks forward to performing with ABS in the coming winter.

Emery Kerekes
Baritone

Emery Kerekes
Baritone
Emery Kerekes is a baritone, writer, and arts administrator based in New York City. As a soloist, he's appeared with Juilliard415, Theotokos, and the choir of Manhattan's Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, where he serves as a staff singer. A laureate of the Rubin Prize for Music Criticism, Emery is the founder and publisher of the newsletter All Ears and has contributed articles to Chamber Music, Early Music America, San Francisco Classical Voice, and Opera News. Emery holds a B.A. in Music from Yale University and works in marketing for The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Live Arts department. He spends his free time taking friends to their first operas, experimenting in the kitchen, and scouring New York City for its elusive cheap eats.

Allen Maracle
Cello

Allen Maracle
Cello
Allen Maracle is a Baroque violoncellist and music educator based in New York. A graduate of The
Juilliard School’s Historical Performance program, Allen is currently the orchestra director at the Denzel
Washington School of the Arts in Mount Vernon, NY, where he teaches public middle and high school orchestra
and music theory. He completed his undergraduate studies at SUNY Fredonia, where he earned Bachelor
of Music degrees in Music Education and Violoncello Performance, as well as the Performer's Certificate.
His studies continued at Boston University, where he earned a Master of Music degree in historical
performance. In addition to teaching, Allen is the violoncellist of the newly formed Uptown415, and is on
the administrative team of the Silentwoods Collective Inc