Known for his intense soulful playing and a broad range of repertoire, he enjoys an active career as soloist, chamber musician, recording artist, champion of new music, and educator. Hailed by John Williams, Grammy award winning composer, as 'an outstanding cellist and truly dedicated artist', Emmanuel Feldman has emerged as one of the most innovative cellists of his generation. She teaches at the Longy School of Music, Tufts and Brown Universities and Rivers School of Music. Since 2001, she has been the artistic director of the Boston Bass Bash, an international festival dedicated to the double bass. She has recorded chamber works with the Albany, Archetype, Arsis, AFKA and CRI labels. As co-founder of Cello e Basso with cellist Emmanuel Feldman, they have concertized in the US and in Europe and have released a new CD on Synergy Classics. Petersburg, Borromeo and Lark String Quartets. She has collaborated with Midori, Joel Smirnoff, Virginia Eskin, Victor Rosenbaum, Dawn Upshaw, the St. who produced an entire range of orchestral effects', she has soloed with the Merrimack Valley Philharmonic, North Shore Philharmonic, Greensboro Festival Orchestra, among others. Called by the New Music Connoisseur as having 'technical certainty and musical imagination' and by The Phoenix as 'a gifted colorist. Pascale Delache-Feldman, double bassist, was a prizewinner at the Prague International Chamber Music Competition, received first prize at the Paris Conservatory with honors and an Artist Diploma from the Curtis Institute of Music. She studied recorder with Heiko ter Scheggett, Saskia Coolen, and Pedro Memelsdorff. She has completed her studies in the Alexander Technique and has a Masters in Music from the Utrecht Conservatory in the Netherlands. She is the president and music director of the Boston Recorder Society.

Heloise also enjoys an active teaching career, working with the Amherst Early Music Festival, the Texas Toot, Pinewoods Early Music Week, and others. She has performed with leading period ensembles, including the Boston Early Music Festival Opera, Handel and Haydn, the Boston Camerata and Tempesta Di Mare. Heloise Degrugillier has worked extensively as both a recorder and traverso performer, and teacher throughout Europe and the United States.

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