Author Archives: Daniel Light

Joan Tower, composer

Joan Tower’s music is noted for a number of defining qualities: driving rhythms and colourful orchestrations influenced by the sounds and sensations of a childhood spent in South America; approachability for listeners and players alike, resulting from her engagement with the performers of her music (often written with specific musicians in mind) and her own performances as a pianist and conductor...

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Nurit Pacht, violin

Violinist Nurit Pacht was selected as one of the “Stars of the Year 2000” by Le Monde de la Musique and since then her career has blossomed with appearances in London’s Wigmore Hall, Vienna’s Musikverein, Moscow’s Great Hall, Washington’s Kennedy Center, Carnegie’s Weill Hall, The People’s Hall of China in Beijing and at Ravinia’s Rising Stars Series...

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Mari Sato, violin

Violinist Mari Sato has enjoyed a rich and varied career as a chamber musician based in Cleveland. For twenty-four years, she was the second violinist of the award-winning Cavani String Quartet. During her tenure with the Cavani Quartet, Mari gave concerts on major series, including Carnegie Hall, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Festival de L’Epau in France, and the Honolulu Chamber Music Society.

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Lois Martin, viola

Lois Martin, a native of York, Penna., began her viola studies with Arthur Lewis at the Peabody Preparatory School. She completed her undergraduate work at the Eastman School of Music where she was a scholarship student of Francis Tursi. During this time, she was a member of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. She continued her graduate studies at the Juilliard School under the tutelage of Lillian Fuchs....

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Andrew Waggoner, Composer & Violinist

Andrew Waggoner was born in 1960 in New Orleans. He grew up there and in Minneapolis and Atlanta, and studied at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, as well as at Eastman and Cornell. Called “the gifted practitioner of a complex but dramatic and vividly colored style” by the New Yorker, his music has been commissioned and performed by the the Academy of St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the Saint Louis, Denver, and Winnipeg Symphonies...

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Kathryn Lockwood, viola

Kathryn Lockwood has been hailed as a violist of exceptional talents in reviews around the country. The Cleveland Plain Dealer proclaimed, "...Lockwood played the vociferous viola cadenza with mahogany beauty and vivid character". Ms. Lockwood is the violist of the internationally renowned Lark Quartet, and a unique viola and percussion duo with her husband duoJalal...

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Susan Waterbury. violin

Susan Waterbury, violinist, has performed in many parts of the world, including the United States, Europe, Turkey, and China. The New York Times commended Waterbury’s playing, writing, “Waterbury’s songful flights…were especially compelling”. ...

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Tawnya Popoff, viola

Canadian violist Tawnya Popoff enjoys a versatile career around North America, currently based both in New York City and Vancouver. In addition to being principal violist with the Vancouver Opera, she is a founding member of the Athabasca String Trio and Driftwood Duo, performs regularly with the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra in Houston, Texas, tours with Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet and gives solo recitals...

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