The Wren Masters met through their involvement in early music performance at the College of William & Mary. Tom Marshall has taught keyboards there since 1981; Ruth Griffioen joined the faculty in 1994 to teach music history and also founded the William & Mary Early Music Ensemble. Sarah Glosson first took up the viola da gamba and baroque cello as a student in that ensemble in its first year, going on to play professionally. Susan Via added baroque violin to her repertoire after joining the William & Mary performance faculty in 1997. The group takes its name from its favorite place to perform, the incomparably beautiful and resonant 17th-century Wren Chapel at the heart of the campus of the College of William & Mary.

Sarah Gentry Glosson (cello and gamba) is a graduate of The College of William and Mary. She has studied early music performance at various international workshops such as Orvieto Musica, and the International Baroque Institute at Longy. She has performed since 1997 with the Governor's Musick, the full-time resident ensemble of Colonial Williamsburg. She performs on cello, baroque cello, viola da gamba, and oud (Middle Eastern lute). Ms Glosson has been the conductor of the Peninsula Youth Orchestra and Orchestra Director at the Appomattox Regional Governor's School for the Arts and Technology (ARGS) in Petersburg, where she also taught music history and theory. Sarah studied conducting with Eckart Preu, now the Music Director of the Spokane Symphony. She is currently a graduate student in American Studies at the College of William & Mary, researching the musical treasures of Shirley Plantation.

Thomas Marshall (harpsichord) joined the music faculty at the College of William & Mary in 1981 where he teaches organ and harpischord performance. He has performance degrees from James Madison University and from the University of Michigan. For over 25 years he was harpsichordist for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation where he gained unique insights into the performance of early music using their extensive collection of historic keyboard instruments. He has been featured on numerous CW recordings and recently completed a CD of the solo organ transcriptions of concerti by Vivaldi and Ernst as arranged by J.S. Bach. The featured organ for this recording is the new all-mechanical organ by Petty-Madden in the Presbyterian Church of Wolcott, NY. Mr. Marshall also served as consultant and inaugural recitalist for this project. As half of the duo "Les Deux Clavecins," he travels frequently to perform the keyboard literature written for two harpsichords. Mr. Marshall also plays harpsichord with many chamber ensembles, and frequently performs with the Virginia Symphony. He served as organist for the Williamsburg Presbyterian Church for 27 years, and is now organist for the Williamsburg United Methodist Church.

Ruth van Baak Griffioen (recorder) studied music at Calvin College, recorder at the University of Michigan, and musicology at Stanford University (PhD, 1988). She spent two years in Utrecht on a Fulbright Fellowship, researching the music of the 17th-century Dutch carillonneur and recorder virtuoso Jacob van Eyck; the resulting book is now in its third printing. She has taught early music history and performance since 1994 at William & Mary. Her latest publications have been a "Listener's Guide to Bach's St Matthew Passion" and the book "Storms, Ice, and Whales", her translation of a first-person account of a 1923 Antarctic whaling adventure, written and illustrated by her ancestor, the Dutch landscape artist Willem van der Does.

Susan Via (violin) is currently on the music faculty at the College of William and Mary. Formerly the associate concertmaster of the Virginia Symphony and Virginia Opera, she has also performed with the North Carolina Symphony, Greensboro Symphony, Colorado Music Festival, and served on the faculties of the Eastern Music Festival, Virginia Governor's School for the Arts, and the Duke University String School. A graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music, Ms. Via is an active chamber musician having performed in the US and abroad, and is now the associate concertmaster of the Williamsburg Symphonia.