David Trombley, Baritone
David Trombley holds music degrees from SUNY Fredonia and Ohio State University, and his career includes opera and concert performances across the United States. He created leading roles in the world premieres of Philip Glass’ “the Fall of the House of Usher” and Hugo Weisgall’s “He and She.” Trombley also sang a lead role in the world premiere of “Skull and Bones,” an oratorio by Henry Brandt. Among the companies he has performed with are American Repertory Theatre, Columbus Opera, the Opera Ensemble of New York and the Delaware Valley Opera, and he appeared at the Metropolitan Opera House with the Netherlands Dance Theatre. Mr. Trombley is director of the Sullivan County Community Chorus and an elected member of The National Association for Teachers of Singing. He is an All-State Voice Adjudicator for the New York State Music Educators Association, and a member of the National Guild of Piano Teachers and the American Choral Directors Association.

Nathan A. Randall, Musicologist & Guest Speaker
Nathan A. Randall has served as Artistic Director of Princeton University Concerts and Concert Manager of Princeton University since April, 1988. He holds degrees in musicology from Tufts, Smith College, and Princeton, bringing broad musical knowledge to bear on such innovative programming as this season’s Britannia’s Invitation (Princeton University Concerts) and Patronage Appreciated (The Richardson Chamber Players); From the New World: A Celebration of American Music (The Richardson Chamber Players 2005-06); Berlin: Three Centuries of Chamber Music (The Richardson Chamber Players 2004-2005); and The Search for Xochipilli (2004). Last season, he produced Music on Mercer Street: A Celebration of Music in the Life of Albert Einstein presented at Wolfensohn Hall by The Historical Society of Princeton, Institute for Advanced Study, and Princeton University Concerts. As narrator, he appears with soprano Susan Narucki and pianist Alan Feinberg on the Americus label’s Extraordinary Vistas: Words and Music of the MacDowell Colony, reading literary selections by James Baldwin, Willa Cather, and others. At Princeton, he appeared with Mr. Feinberg in a performance for Princeton University Concerts of Richard Strauss’s Enoch Arden; and with The Richardson Chamber Players in performances of Façade by William Walton (with Judith Pearce); and A Soldier’s Tale by Igor Stravinsky. Mr. Randall has been the program annotator for Princeton University Concerts for more than twenty-five years.

Bruce Adolphe – Composer
Resident Lecturer and Director of Family Programs of the Chamber Music Society, Bruce Adolphe is also an eminent composer, having written music for Itzhak Perlman, David Shifrin, the National Symphony, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the Beaux Arts Trio, Sylvia McNair and the Brentano Quartet, and other musicians and organizations, including The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.  As composer, author, actor, pianist, and scriptwriter, he creates the CMS Meet the Music!, a concert series for family audiences, and has earned a national reputation in the field of music education. His many compositions for family audiences include Tyrannosaurus Sue: A Cretaceous Concerto, Tough Turkey in the Big City, and Red Dogs and Pink Skies. The founding director of PollyRhythm Productions, an innovative music education company, he has written three books: The Mind's Ear: Exercises for Improving the Musical Imagination; What to Listen for in the World; and Of Mozart, Parrots, and Cherry Blossoms in the Wind: A Composer Explores Mysteries of the Musical Mind. His weekly radio program, part of NPR’s Performance Today, is now in its third year and heard in over 200 cities. Recently commissioned by the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia and the Chicago Humanities Festival to create a chamber work based on Eric Rohmann's book, Time Flies, other newly completed works include a violin concerto, a chamber sextet inspired by six contemporary painters, and a setting of Iroquois poetry for soprano and piano trio. A recording of his music on the Naxos American Classics series was one of five CDs winning a Grammy award for its producer, David Frost. He has appeared on Live From Lincoln Center telecasts and on New York's Metro Arts for PBS. Mr. Adolphe lives in New York with his wife, pianist Marija Stroke, their daughter Katja, and PollyRhythm, his opera- and jazz-loving parrot.

Katja Stroke-Adolphe, Actor
Ten-year-old Katja is the daughter of Bruce Adolphe & Marija Stroke.

Roger Wagner – Double Bass
Born in Honolulu Hawaii, Roger Wagner is active as both soloist and chamber musician. He studied at the Juilliard School with Homer Mensch and David Walter, and won the job as solo bassist with the Munich Chamber orchestra in 1985, a position he held for four years.  Wagner toured extensively with the Soviet Émigré Orchestra and became principal bassist of the Orchestra of St. Ignatius Loyola and Philharmonia Virtuosi. He appears with chamber and symphony orchestras all over the tri-state region including The Brooklyn Philharmonic, Stanford Symphony, The North Eastern Philharmonic, and The Westchester Philharmonic to name a few. He has performed on recordings on both sides of the Atlantic, and has played on sound tracks for several major Hollywood motion pictures. This summer will be Wagner’s seventh season as guest artist at the Indian River Music Festival on Prince Edward Island, Canada. He plays an instrument made by Henry Lockey Hill of London in 1787.

Andrew Waggoner – Composer
Born in New Orleans, Andrew Waggoner studied at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, the Eastman School of Music and Cornell University. Among the award-winning composer’s accolades are the Lee Ettelson Composer’s Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005, and the 2007 Roger Sessions Prize by the Liguria Study Center in Bogliasco, Italy, where he was in residence during the spring of 2008. His numerous commissions and performances include the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Denver Symphony, the Syracuse Symphony, the Winnipeg Symphony, the Academy of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, and the Cassatt, Corigliano, Miro, and Degas Quartets. Two CD’s on CRI are available on the New World label, and his music can be heard on the Vienna Modern Masters Music From Six Continents series. He is Composer-in-Residence at Syracuse University, and recently formed Open End with his wife, cellist Caroline Stinson.

Matt Sullivan – Oboe
Oboist Matt Sullivan has performed extensively on four continents and is recognized internationally as both a virtuoso performer and teacher, as well as an important advocate for the modern oboe. The New Yorker has called his inventive programming “the cutting edge.” As composer, his compositions for oboe, English horn and digital horn, and his solo and chamber music performances and compact discs, have been featured on National Public Radio and Voice of America. In addition to his active teaching and solo recital schedule, he is a member of Quintet of the Americas, Musicians Accord, the Richardson Chamber Players (Princeton University), the Westchester Chamber Orchestra, First Avenue, and Heliosphere. He serves on the faculties of New York University, Long Island University C. W. Post, the European Mozart Academy (Warsaw), the Manhattan School of Music Prep Division, Rutgers University and he teaches oboe at Princeton University where he has also served as a Visiting Associate Professor. Matt Sullivan is a Performing Artist for Boosey & Hawkes Musical Instruments and plays exclusively on Buffet Oboes.

Marija Stroke – Piano
Pianist Marija Stroke has performed throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Russia and Hong Kong. She performs at such chamber music festivals as Caramoor, the City of London Festival, Soirées des Junies in France, Chamber Music Virginia, the Moab Festival in Utah, Juneau Jazz and Classics, La Jolla Summerfest and Chamber Music Northwest. Her solo performances have included recitals throughout the former Soviet Union, France, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, the United States and Canada, and concerto appearances in the United States, France, Germany and Austria.

Ms. Stroke is a founding member of the Apollo Trio, formed in 1997, which has appeared in Europe and the United States, including New York performances at Bargemusic, Caramoor, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and the Mostly Mozart Festival. Founding member of Elastic Band, and a co-artistic director of the Garden City Chamber Music Society, Ms. Stroke has also performed with the Brentano, Miami, Daedalus, Ciompi, Borromeo and Cassatt string quartets. She has appeared in New York recitals at Weill Hall at Carnegie, Merkin Concert Hall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Alice Tully Hall, Avery Fisher Hall and the 92nd Street Y’s Kaufman Concert Hall.

Marija Stroke performs with the PollyRhythm Players, with whom she recorded Oceanophony in 2004. Other recordings include chamber music of Bruce Adolphe with the Brentano String Quartet on a CRI disc, Turning, Returning, released in 1997, and the three sonatas for violin and piano of Edvard Grieg, with violinist Curtis Macomber, released in 2002 on the Arabesque label.

Caroline Stinson - cello
Winner of the 2007 J.B. Watkins Prize from the Canada Council for the Arts, cellist Caroline Stinson was born in Edmonton, Canada and lives in New York City. As a performer, she appears throughout Canada, the United States and Europe as a soloist and chamber music artist. Known for her expressive and personal interpretation of new works, Ms. Stinson is sought after by orchestras and fellow musicians for performances of both traditional and contemporary repertoire. Caroline moved to New York in 2000 (performing with the Cassatt String Quartet until 2003) and in the last two seasons has been twice a soloist with the Syracuse Symphony under Daniel Hege, and has appeared in recital in Italy, France and Canada. She has performed at the Manchester Cello Festival in England, at the Lucerne Festival in Switzerland with Pierre Boulez conducting Elliott Carter’s Triple Duo, and as a returning featured artist for the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra's International New Music Festival, where she appeared in multiple performances broadcast nationally on CBC Radio.
In collaborative settings, Caroline has been invited to perform in New York and on tour with Accroche Note of France, the Bang On A Can All-Stars, Continuum, the Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players, Sequitur, Ensemble Pi and NewBand (the Harry Partch Ensemble), and has been fortunate to perform with many leading artists in the field including Pierre Boulez, Pinchas Zukerman, guitarist Bill Frisell, violinist Andrew Dawes and pianist Gloria Cheng. As an advocate of new music she has worked with composers Ross Bauer, George Crumb, Peter Eötvös, John Harbison, Aaron Jay Kernis, John Link, George Rochberg, Steven Stucky, Andrew Waggoner, Anna Weesner and Joan Tower, and has recorded for Albany, Koch, Phoenix and Naxos. Caroline is excited to join the Lark Quartet and Chamber Artists this season and continues as a founding member of Open End (a new music and improvisation group founded with her husband, composer Andrew Waggoner), CELLO and Contrasts. Her teachers were Alan Harris (Cleveland), Maria Kliegel (Germany), Joel Krosnick (Juilliard) and Tanya Prochazka. Caroline is a teaching assistant to Joel Krosnick at the Juilliard School and is on faculty and coordinates the chamber music program at the Setnor School of Music at Syracuse University.

Mark Rush – Violin
Mark Rush has participated in the Weekend of Chamber Music since the festival’s first season. In a musical career now spanning three decades, Rush
has appeared as a soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States as well as in Canada, Europe and China. He is also a noted violin teacher, currently as an Associate Professor at the University of Arizona and an author. His recent book, Playing the Violin: An Illustrated Guide, on which he collaborated with photographer Dana Duke, received very favorable reviews and has enjoyed brisk sales. Rush has recorded for both CRI and ASV and a recent recording project of music for violin and percussion instruments will soon be released by Albany records. In addition to musical endeavors, Rush is an avid hiker and backpacker as well as a staunch proponent of relocalization movements and peak oil awareness.

Judith Pearce - Flute
Founder and artistic director of Weekend of Chamber Music, Pearce is chamber musician of distinction with a career that spans Europe and America. Her work encompasses collaborations with some of this era’s most notable musicians, from Simon Rattle and Peter Maxwell Davies, to Kathleen Battle and Cleo Laine. Pearce has played in many great concert halls, including the Lincoln and Kennedy Centers, London’s Festival Hall, La Scala Milan, Berlin’s Philharmonie, the Beethovenhalle, Bonn, and the Sydney Opera House. Educated in London and Paris, Pearce has performed with the Nash Ensemble, Fires of London, London Sinfonietta, the Monticello Trio & the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, to name a few. Her discography lists the RCA, Deutsche Grammophon, EMI and ASV labels, & includes a recording of Nicholas Maw’s Flute Quartet, nominated for a Gramophone Award. A New York resident since 1985, Pearce is a member of the Richardson Chamber Players of Princeton University, where she also teaches flute.

Tawnya Popoff – Viola
Canadian violist Tawnya Popoff enjoys a versatile international career as a chamber musician, soloist, and coach. In addition to being principal violist with the Vancouver Opera (Canada), she is a founding member of the Athabasca String Trio, and members of the trans-media VisionIntoArt, the New York Miniaturist Ensemble, Monadnock Music (NH) and the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra (TX). She has a keen interest in interdisciplinary collaborations and is currently working on projects with Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet and Cherylyn Lavagnino Dance in New York City. Ms. Popoff gives solo recitals throughout North America, and has served on the faculties of Bowdoin International Music Festival, University of Pennsylvania and Syracuse University, among others. She is devoted to performing music by living composers, and is vitally involved (a member of the Cassatt Quartet until 2006) in commissioning, premiering and recording leading American works. She can be heard on the Koch, Tzadik, Albany and New World labels.

Sunghae Anna Lim – Violin/Viola
Violinist Sunghae Anna Lim has performed extensively throughout the United States, Central America, Europe and Japan. She is a founding member of the Laurel Trio, which won the Nathan Wedeen Award at the Concert Artists Guild Competition in New York. The Trio has performed to critical acclaim across the country, and has served as ensemble-in residence at numerous music festivals and organizations, including WQXR and the Tanglewood Music Festival.

As violinist of the New Millennium Ensemble, Ms. Lim won the Naumburg Chamber Music Award and gave a debut recital at Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center. She is actively involved in contemporary music, premiering and recording numerous works by living composers. Recent highlights include the premiere of the Second Violin sonata by the late Donald Martino, and a recording of Alexander Steinert’s violin sonata of 1921.  Ms. Lim has participated in music festivals such as Marlboro, Ravinia, Prussia Cove, Tanglewood, the Portland Chamber Music Festival, the Wellesley Composers’ Conference, Monadnock Music Festival and Bennington Chamber Music Conference.

She currently teaches violin at Princeton University, and earned a B.A. from Harvard University in German History and Literature, and completed her Diploma at the Mozarteum in Salzburg under violinist Sandor Vegh.

Maureen Hurd - Clarinet
A soloist, chamber musician and orchestral clarinetist, Maureen Hurd has appeared in concerts throughout Europe, Asia and North America. Highlights include performances with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in New York’s Alice Tully Hall, at New York’s Merkin Hall, at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, and in a Mitteldeutsche Rundfunk radio broadcast of American music in Germany. She earned graduate degrees from the Yale School of Music, where she also worked with the Benny Goodman Papers of the Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, resulting in an ongoing research/performance project on Goodman’s commissions and career. She also frequently performs recitals, master classes, lectures and clinics at clarinet festivals and universities, and often performs works composed by her husband, Evan Hause. She also teaches and serves as chair of woodwinds at Rutgers University in New Jersey.

Leonard Hindell – Bassoon
Leonard Hindell has played with the New York Philharmonic since 1972. He studied with Stephen Maxym at the Henry Street Settlement Music School and later at the Manhattan School of Music, where he won the coveted Harold Bauer Award, and joined the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra upon graduation. Mr. Hindell has frequently given solo recitals at Carnegie Hall and Merkin Concert Hall, often including new music for the bassoon composed for him by contemporary composers such as Alvin Brehm, Howard Rovics, Ludmila Uleha, Charles Wuorinen, Ronald Roseman, and Katherine Hoover. He has appeared with outstanding chamber music ensembles throughout New England, and served on the committee that established the Philharmonic Ensembles, a series of chamber music programs featuring members of the New York Philharmonic, and often participating in its series at Merkin Concert Hall. Mr. Hindell toured Japan and Hong Kong with the New York Symphonic Ensemble as soloist in Mozart's Bassoon Concerto, and has participated in many recordings. He was also invited by Zubin Mehta to join the Israel Philharmonic's South American summer tour. Recent engagements include a Carnegie Hall concert and a Lincoln Center Great Performers concert with violinist Vladimir Spivakov, and he is on the faculties of the Mannes School of Music and SUNY Purchase.

Annie Hat – Voice
Annie Hat is a vivid performer in a variety of styles from early folksong to jazz, to rock. She released two albums on CBS with her group Mormos and toured Africa and Europe extensively. She performed songs by Gershwin and Cole Porter for the New York Public Theater's production of David Mamet's The Water Engine, and since 1994, has collaborated regularly with The Weekend of Chamber Music.

Kenneth Hamrick – Harpsichord/fortepiano
Conductor, keyboard soloist and musicologist Hamrick has been featured and a top prizewinner at many major festivals and competitions. With The American Virtuosi and as Director of the Baroque Opera Institute, his innovative performances and recordings have been critically acclaimed, including new stagings of 17th and 18th century operas. He has performed with soloists and ensembles from the NY Philharmonic and the Metropolitan Opera, and has also collaborated with tap legend Savion Glover and the Limón Dance Company on projects involving both baroque harpsichord concertos and jazz improvisation. In that role, he is music director and harpsichord soloist in concertos by Vivaldi, Piazzolla and Bach mixed with jazz improvisation. He participates in an international scholar exchange program in Budapest and Moscow, and has received two Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities.

Daniel Grabois – French Horn
Daniel Grabois maintains an active horn career in chamber music, new music and orchestral performances. He is a member of the Meridian Arts Ensemble, brass and percussion sextet that has recorded 7 CDs, performed in 49 states and abroad, and commissioned and premiered over 50 new works. Grabois is the principal horn player in Sequitur, a new-music chamber orchestra that commissioned a new concerto for him from David Rakowski, available on CD on Albany Records. The New York Times called his premiere of the work “assured and vividly colored.” Among many New York orchestral experiences, a highlight was a series of concerts he performed with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center of Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 1, also recorded on the Delos label. Grabois has performed with the Metropolitan and New York City Operas, and the New York City Ballet and American Ballet Theater, and is on the faculties of the Hartt School of Music and Princeton University. A native of the Berkshires region, he attended Yale and the Manhattan School of Music, and lives in Brooklyn with his wife and young son, Charlie.

Tannis Gibson – Piano
Tannis Gibson has performed in concert halls throughout the U.S., Canada, and Europe including Weill Recital Hall (Carnegie), the Kennedy Center, Merkin Concert Hall, the Corcoran Gallery, National Gallery of Art and the Gardner Museum. She has appeared at numerous festivals including the Bath Festival in England, Bang-on-a-Can in New York and more recently, the ppIANISSIMO Festival in Sofia, Bulgaria where she presented several concerts and a radio broadcast. Gibson has been heard frequently on NPR's “Performance Today,”and has been featured on NBC's “Today Show.” As pianist with the Monticello Trio, in residence at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville until 1994, Gibson was active in commissioning numerous composers to write piano trios for the group.  The Monticello Trio's recording of the Trio by Nicholas Maw on the ASV label earned rave reviews, and was nominated for a Gramophone Award in 1995. Gibson’s discography also includes the CRI and Summit labels.  A recording of cello/piano sonatas by Strauss, Kodaly and Dohnanyi with cellist, Nancy Green will be released in September under the JRI label. Currently Professor of Piano at the University of Arizona, she has also taught at the University of Virginia. Gibson is a dedicated teacher whose class of international piano students has won top honors in local, state and national competition.