Administrative Team
Holly Knoch, Personnel Manager & Concertmaster
Holly Knoch is a violinist from Dallas, Texas. She began her musical studies at the age of five. Holly holds a Bachelor of Music for violin performance from the University of Houston, and a Masters of Music for violin performance from the California Institute of the Arts. She most recently studied under the tutelage of Andrew McIntosh at CalArts, and has previously studied with Kirsten Yon of the University of Houston, and Martha Walvoord of the University of Texas at Arlington. While earning her degrees, Holly played with many orchestras including the Galveston Symphony Orchestra and the American Youth Symphony. She also participated in many collaborative group performances with The Ensemble at CalArts, REDCAT, and the CalArts Period Instrument Ensemble. Holly was LAB’s first string apprentice in 2023-24 and the team was delighted to renew Holly’s apprenticeship for a second season, 2024-25, with her formally taking on the position of LAB’s Concertmaster.
Cathy Newman, Development Director
Cathy Newman has played the flute and piano since a child, taking the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (ABRSM) graded exams on both instruments in London, England, where she grew up. As an adult she gained an ABRSM Diploma in Flute Performance and was also a member of many choirs and choral societies over the years. She worked in London for a nonprofit, organizing and running conferences in the U.K. and overseas for financial executives. After moving from the U.K. to Connecticut in the late 90s with her husband and three young children, Cathy continued playing the flute in chamber groups and church orchestras. While living in CT, she was on the board and executive committee of the Norwalk Symphony Orchestra and was involved in fundraising activities. She also volunteered as assistant to the music director at First Presbyterian Church in New Canaan, CT, helping to run the church’s music program and producing the annual musicals.
Cathy fell in love with the sound of the baroque flute 15 years ago, while studying with Adrianne Greenbaum in CT, an historical flute and Klezmer specialist. The baroque flute is now her primary instrument and it has been a huge joy to discover LAB and to make music with others playing historical instruments under Lindsey’s inspirational direction.
Zenovia Edwards, Adminstrative Director
(from Summer 2026), previously Marketing Director
Zen has played baroque violin and viola for over 25 years, most recently since relocating from London in 2014 with UCLA’s Early Music Ensemble, Los Angeles Baroque, Musica Transalpina, and for Pomona College’s performance of Bach's Magnificat. Her specialist training began under Peter Holman (Music Director, Parley of Instruments) and Judy Tarling (baroque violin) at the yearly Suffolk Villages Festival in the U.K., for which she played from 1997 to 2013. Edwards has a 1st class (Hons) Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Birmingham, U.K., in musicology and viola. In her professional arts administration life she has worked in creative planning and production roles in international artist management (Harrison/Parrott Ltd., 1995-2001) and recorded music (EMI Classics International, 2001-2011) and for small music nonprofits on both sides of the pond. When not playing in LAB and helping out behind the scenes in a voluntary capacity for the organization, she enjoys being a section community viola player and active board member of Santa Monica Symphony; working as Executive Director of the Baroque Music Festival, Corona del Mar; supporting her teenage children’s musical activities; and camping in the Western States’ beautiful National and State Parks.
Joan Lounsbery, Founding Managing Director
From its inception in 2016 until her retirement in Spring 2026, Los Angeles Baroque was honored to have veteran Arts Administrator Joan Lounsbery as its voluntary Managing Director. Thank you Joan!
Following graduation from UCLA with a degree in Music History, Joan moved to New York City where she served as Carnegie Hall’s Programming Manager for five years. She was the first administrator of the Hall’s International Festival of Visiting Orchestras. In the early 1970s she moved to Madison, Wisconsin, serving as the national Association of Performing Arts Presenters’ first Associate Director. In Milwaukee from 1970 to 2000 she held top management positions with Skylight Opera Theater and Artist Series at the Pabst. In addition she ran her own management/consulting business: JLMS. During that time she also served on the Board of the National Association of Performing Arts Presenters, on the faculty of its basic workshop and as chair of its national conference. She has also served on the board of Opera America, on ten review panels for the National Endowment for the Arts, and on review panels for Chamber Music America and Arts Midwest. From 1989-92, as a member of the management assessment team for the NEA’s Challenge Program, she conducted 65 on-site management audits of applicant organizations throughout the United States. In l989 she was appointed to the National Task Force on Touring and Presenting. She has held faculty posts in arts administration at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, where she directed the undergraduate program in arts administration from 1989-92. In 1999 she returned to her native California as Executive Director of the Santa Rosa Symphony and subsequently as Executive Director of Music in the Vineyards. In 2007 she returned to project-based consulting, and in 2016 became Managing Director of Los Angeles Baroque.