Philip Spray performs with period instrument ensembles across the country in concerts and recordings. Co-founder of the Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra under Barthold Kuijken, he also is founding director of Musik Ekklesia whose first recording, The Vanishing Nordic Chorale, was nominated for Best Classical Producer, 2010 Grammy awards. He has long maintained interest in writing, composing and arranging. His current ensemble Alchymy Viols presents both traditional literature for the viola da gamba and—as the name implies—the mixing of viols with various, diverse elements as in his most recent project with countertenor Michael Walker: traditional African American Spirituals, Deep River.