Joëlle Morton performs professionally on violas da gamba, violone and double bass. Active primarily as a soloist and chamber musician, she works in the US, Canada and Europe, directing the Scaramella chamber series in Toronto, as a founding member of Sympatica in New York City, and making regular appearances with Tafelmusik, the New York Collegium, the Musicians in Ordinary, Parthenia—A Consort of Viols, Artek, Philomel, Concert Royal, Brandywine Baroque and Ensemble Soleil. In addition to performing and teaching, Joëlle is much in demand as a musicologist and clinician, presenting lecture/demos on the history and development of string instruments at conservatories and universities throughout the US. Her scholarly articles have appeared in the JVdGSA, Double Bassist magazine and Bass World; she has published several editions of music for lyra viol (available from PRB Productions) and she serves as general editor for the publications of the International Society of Bassists. Joëlle studied viola da gamba with Wendy Gillespie, Mary Springfels and James Tyler and earned her Doctorate in Early Music Performance at the University of Southern California, and she may be heard on recent recordings with Concert Royal, Musica Viva, Ensemble de'Medici, the Los Angeles Baroque Orchestra and Celtic harpist Lynette Johnson.

• General Editor, The International Society of Bassists, 1999-present
• Young Players' Perspective: Careers for Gambists in the 21st Century.
  VdGSA News, Sept. 2005
• My Turn: Careers for Bassists in the 21st Century. ISB 2005 XXIX 2
• William Cranford, Simon Ives, Jo. Bosley and Joseph Shirley,
  Dance Music for Two Lyra Viols, PRB, 2003
• Chamber Music: An Art of Speaking and Listening Simultaneously. Journal of the America String Teachers Association, Vol. 52, #4, November 2002
• Evolution Theory: A Bass By Any Other Name. Double Bassist Magazine,
  Vol. 21, Summer 2002
• John Maynard's Lyra Viol Pieces from The XII Wonders
  of the World, 1611, PRB, 2000
• Back to the Future: The Renaissance of the Violone,
  Double Bassist Magazine, Vol. 12, Spring 2000
• The Early History and Use of the G Violone,
  JVdGSA, Vol. 36 (1999)
• Christopher Simpson - Six Ayres for Lyra Viol and Bass
  from A Compendium of Practical Musick, 1678,
  PRB, Viol Consort Series #37, 1999
• Haydn's Missing Double Bass Concerto. ISB, 1998 XXII 3
• Performance Practice and the Viola da Gamba in Italian Ensemble Music of the 16th Century, Journal of the Southern California Early Music Society, November 1996 XXI 3
• International Society of Bassists Journal Index
  1967-1995, ISB, 1996 XXI 1
• Frantisek Posta: Czech Double Bass Virtuoso,
  ISB, XVIII 3, 1993