Priscilla Herreid is a musician in the ancient and living tradition of woodwind doubling. Her formative years studying recorder at Philadelphia’s Settlement Music School led her to the High School for Creative and Performing Arts. She studied oboe with Louis Rosenblatt at Temple University, where she began playing renaissance wind instruments in Temple’s Early Music Ensemble, directed by Bob Wiemken. Further studies in baroque oboe with Gonzalo Ruiz took her to The Juilliard School where she received her MM in Historical Performance. Priscilla became a member of Piffaro in 2007. Artistic Director since 2022-2023, Priscilla has the honor of continuing Piffaro’s mission of bringing the renaissance wind band and its repertoire to ever wider audiences. Priscilla is also an avid educator, teaching at the Madison and Amherst Early Music Festivals and coaching existing ensembles in the art of playing renaissance polyphony – a form she believes is inherently satisfying for amateurs and professionals at every level. Priscilla regularly performs on renaissance winds, early oboes, and recorder with many other prominent early music ensembles. Her appearances include The Handel + Haydn Society, Tenet Vocal Artists, Trinity Baroque Orchestra, The Waverly Consort, The Metropolitan Opera, Tempesta di Mare, The Gabrieli Consort, The City Musick, The Dark Horse Consort, Philharmonia Baroque, The Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, Boston Baroque, American Bach Soloists, Choral Arts Philadelphia, Night Music, Arion Baroque, Portland Baroque, Venice Baroque, Ex Umbris, The Bishop’s Band, New York Baroque Inc., The Sebastians, Les Delices, Ruckus, and Mr. Jones & the Engines of Destruction. She also accompanies silent films with Hesperus, sings the Latin Mass around New York City, and was part of the onstage band for the Broadway productions of Twelfth Night and Richard III starring Mark Rylance. Priscilla’s playing has been called “downright amazing” by The Philadelphia Inquirer, and The New York Times has praised her “soaring recorder, gorgeously played.”