​Over the last decade a double bass soloist, orchestral performer and chamber musician, PHILLIP W. SERNA ​has emerged among the nation’s leading advocates of the viol – the viola da gamba. Co-founding Black Tulip, New Comma Baroque and ViolMedium, he’s collaborated with a myriad of distinguished historical-performance ensembles, most notably most notably Ars Antigua, the Bella Voce Sinfonia, Burning River Baroque, the Callipygian Players, the Chicago Early Music Consort, Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra, Les Touches, the Newberry Consort, the Second City Musick, Urbana 415 and others. He can be heard on WFMT Chicago, Wisconsin Public Radio, Milwaukee Public Radio, and on releases from Clarion, Cedille, Midweſt415 and Varèse Sarabande Records. Holding degrees from Northwestern University and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Dr. Serna teaches at Valparaiso University and North Central College, formerly at the Music Institute of Chicago and as assistant director of Illinois’ first public-school period-instrument program at Adlai E. Stevenson High School. Furthermore, he serves as music director of Viols in Our Schools, an education initiative that earned him Early Music America's 2010 Laurette Goldberg Award for Early Music outreach. For more information, visit https://ffm.bio/phillipwserna. Phillip Serna performs on a 7-string bass viol ‘Natalia La Reveuse - The Dreamer’ (after Colichon) by Jane Julier, Devon, UK, #129, 2007.