According to the website given below, Scott Reiss is the founder and artistic director of HESPERUS and also a founding member of the Folger Consort. He has appeared as recorder soloist with the National Symphony Orchestra, Concert Royal, the 20th Century Consort, the Smithsonian Chamber Players, the Washington Bach Consort, the Annapolis Brass Quintet, and Piffaro. Scott Reiss has recorded on several record labels and writes articles on music for periodicals both in the USA and Germany.