Founder and Artistic Director
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.
" ...a rare and beautiful performer... who can transport listeners with a single note. " –The New Yorker

Summer Festival 2008 Artists

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. Gibson has been heard frequently on NPR's "Performance Today," and has been featured on NBC's "Today Show." She and her husband Mark Rush were members of the Monticello Trio, in residence at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, when that ensemble commissioned Nicholas Maw’s Piano Trio. Their recording of the piece 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. Currently Professor of Piano at the University of Arizona, she has also taught at the University of Virginia. Gibson is the Artistic Director of Coyote Consort, and teaches a class of international piano students, many of whom have won top honors in local, state and national competition.
"Mature and eloquent... this was a superb performance." –The Washington Post

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.
"A thrilling performance... sensational playing with a refined elegance" –The New York Times

Szilvia Schranz, soprano
Hungarian-born coloratura soprano Szilvia Schranz captivates audiences across America and Europe with emotive performances and beautifully clear upper ranges, and she is increasingly recognized as an up-and-coming coloratura soprano. She was born in Budapest, Hungary into a family of musicians who immigrated to Boulder, Colorado where she later attended university. She has appeared many times with the London Chamber Soloists, including solo performances of Mahler's Des Knaben Wunderhorn at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, as well as in Mozart's Requiem and Haydn's Creation at St. Martin in the Fields. She has also performed Il Tramonto by Respighi with the Takács Quartet and Schoenberg’s Quartet No.2 with the Columbine Quartet. Schranz was most recently heard in Handel’s Messiah with the Billings Symphony Orchestra and Mozart’s Requiem with the Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra. Upcoming performances include the role of the Queen of the Night with the Hungarian State Opera, Britten’s Les Illuminations with the M.A.V Symphony in Budapest, Pergolesi’s Salve Regina with the Boulder Chamber Orchestra, as well as Beethoven’s 9th Symphony with the Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra in Colorado. She received a Master of Music degree from Manhattan School of Music.
"...her voice was utterly secure... her delivery breathtakingly perfect." –The Register Guard

Sunghae Anna Lim – Violin/Viola
Raised in Hawaii by Korean parents, Lim played her first concert with the Honolulu Symphony at the age of five. She was educated at Harvard and at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, and won the 1995 Concert Artists Guild Award. Now a sought-after chamber musician, she is a founding member of the award-winning Laurel Trio, and violinist with the New Millenium Ensemble, the Naumburg Award-winning, contemporary music sextet. In that ensemble, she has premiered and recorded more than 50 new works by living composers. As a soloist, Lim has participated in major music festivals from Ravinia to Tanglewood, and appeared with the Princeton Symphony Orchestra, the Delaware Valley Philharmonic and the Harvard Radcliffe Bach Society. Lim also toured Japan with the Viennese Chamber Orchestra, "Ensemble Nine." She teaches violin at Princeton University, where she is a member of the Richardson Chamber Players.
"A tone of silvery purity..." –The Boston Herald

Mark Rush – Violin
A soloist, chamber musician and teacher, Mark Rush’s diverse career encompasses many interests and musical disciplines. Educated at Yale School of Music, his many honors include a Fulbright Award to study in Brussels. Since 1981, he has collaborated with his wife and long time duo partner, pianist Tannis Gibson, in recitals and in various chamber music ensembles, most notably with the Monticello Trio. Rush has performed in Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, the Corcoran Gallery, the Phillips Collection, the Gardner Museum and the National Gallery of Art, and his festival credits include Killington Music Festival, Sunflower Music Festival, the Bath Festival in England, the Banff Festival for the Arts, and Bang-on-a-Can in New York City. Rush is currently Professor of Violin at the University of Arizona, and co-Artistic Director of the Coyote Consort, an innovative ensemble presenting experimental multi-media concert events. He is often heard on NPR's "Performance Today," and has performed on many radio programs across the country, including WGBH Boston and WQXR New York. Last year not only saw him in China on an extended recital and teaching tour but also, to very favorable reviews, the publication of his book “Playing the Violin: An Illustrated Guide” on which he collaborated with the photographer Dana Duke.
"Performed with ardor and passion." –San Francisco Chronicle

Caroline Stinson, cello
Winner of the 2007 J.B Watkins Prize from the Canada Council for the Arts, cellist Caroline Stinson appears in Canada, the United States and Europe each season as a soloist and chamber artist. Caroline dedicates equal time to traditional and contemporary repertoire and has become known for her expressive and personal interpretation of new works. In addition to solo and recital engagements, Caroline is active with Open End, a new music and free improvisation ensemble which she founded in 2004 with her husband, composer Andrew Waggoner, and with whom she has appeared in the US, France and Italy.

In 2006, Caroline joined the Contrasts Quartet, and began a recording project of works by American composer Aaron Jay Kernis, including his Ballade for cello and piano for Phoenix Records. As a member of the Cassatt String Quartet until 2003, Caroline concertised throughout the U.S. and Canada, and taught and performed extensively as Artist-in-Residence at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, the State University of New York at Buffalo and the Setnor School of Music at Syracuse University.
Her recordings include Pulitzer Prize Winner Steven Stucky's String Quartet on the Albany Label, the Popper Requiem for three celli and orchestra with Maria Kliegel on the Naxos label, among other recordings on Bridge, Koch and Phoenix Records.
“...[a] splendid cellist.” - New York Newsday

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.

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.
"...gorgeously lyrical playing..." –The New York Times

Adrienne Foutz – Oboe
Adrienne Foutz is currently pursuing her Doctoral degree in oboe performance at Rutgers University, studying with Matt Sullivan. She works professionally as an instructor and performer in the New York/New Jersey area.

Jose Franch-Ballester, clarinet
Born in Moncofa, Spain into a family of clarinetists and Zarzuela singers, Jose Franch-Ballester has been called “that rare find, an artist whose brilliant mastery of his instrument is matched by sound and secure gifts as a musician," by The News-Gazette (Illinois). Franch-Ballester came to the U.S. to The Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where he graduated in 2005 and studied clarinet with Donald Montanaro and Ricardo Morales and chamber music with Pamela Frank. He is also on the roster of Astral Artistic Services in Philadelphia, having won first prize at their 2004 National Auditions, and performs with the woodwind quintet Astral Winds.
A member of Lincoln Center's Chamber Music Society Two, he is in demand as a chamber musician for numerous festivals, including Chamber Music Northwest (OR), Saratoga Performing Arts Center (NY), and the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival among others, as well as festivals in Germany, Switzerland, Colombia, and Tokyo.

Among his many awards, is the First Prize in the 2004 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, and The New York Sun raved, “Young Concert Artists has a winner!" He performs recitals and educational residencies across the United States. Franch-Ballester was also selected for Carnegie Hall's Professional Training Workshop with Emanuel Ax and Richard Stoltzman in December 2007.

Anna Maria Baeza – Clarinet
Clarinetist Anna Maria Baeza is an active solo and chamber musician heard in recital throughout the United States, Canada, France, the Czech Republic and Hungary. Baeza has a strong interest in the music of living composers, and has premiered works written for her by Anthony Vazzana, David Bartel, Carlos Carrillo and Isabel Soveral. With support from the Concert Artists Guild, Baeza commissioned two chamber works by Carlos Carrillo. She holds a Doctor of Musical Arts in clarinet from SUNY Stony Brook, and two degrees from the University of Southern California. She is on the faculties at Manhattanville College, Third Street Music School Settlement, the Brearley School and the Rudolf Steiner School in NYC.

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.
"… a wonderful rendering … punctuated at the end by bravos from the audience." –The Phoenix (Brooklyn)

Adam Schommer – French Horn
A New York freelance hornist, Adam Schommer holds performance degrees from the Cleveland Institute of Music (CIM) and from the University of Cincinnati: College Conservatory of Music, where he studied with Randy Gardner, former second horn of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Schommer played as principal horn of the Opera Circle of Cleveland, and performed with the Canton Symphony, Erie Philharmonic and the Cleveland Pops Orchestra, among others. He also taught Suzuki Theory in the CIM Preparatory Division. Schommer won the Lucca Opera Theater Concerto Competition in Italy, and has performed under the baton of Miguel Harth-Bedoya and in a Master Class with David Jolley. His recent concerts have been with the Albany Symphony, Hudson Opera Theatre and as principal horn with the Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra.

Leonard Hindell – Oboe
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.
“a tone of sturdy and robust attractiveness” – D. DeBolt
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Music From China
Susan Cheng / Wang Gouwei / Sun Li
Music From China performs traditional and contemporary Chinese music to audiences throughout the U.S. and internationally. Established in 1984, the ensemble’s numerous appearances include Princeton, Duke, Pittsburgh, Yale, Wisconsin, Dayton, Bucknell, Vermont, Colgate Universities, Eastman School of Music, Bard College, Peabody Conservatory, UMKC Conservatory, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Weill Recial Hall at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, San Diego Museum of Art, Chautauqua Institution, the 92nd Street Y, Freer Gallery of Art with Yo-Yo Ma, Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Boston Early Music Festival, the Library of Congress, and performances in England and Italy. Music From China is recipient of an “Adventurous Programming” award from Chamber Music America and ASCAP, as well as numerous commissioning and performance grants for new music.

Frank Cassara, percussion
A proponent of new and classic, western and world percussion music, Frank Cassara has premiered many works with as many diverse groups. As percussionist for the Philip Glass Ensemble, he has performed around the globe, as well as recording Glass' music and film scores, such as "Naqoyqatsi" and "Shorts", He can be heard on recordings such as Philip Glass' "Hydrogen Jukebox" and most recently the new Glass work "Orion" on CD, plus the Grammy nominated Gavin Bryars' "Jesus' Blood," Chou Wen-Chung's "Echoes From The Gorge," and on film scores such as "Roving Mars", "Taking Lives", and "Secret Window".

He has also performed around the world with Steve Reich and Musicians, with a recording of his work "Dance Patterns." As a member of the New Music Consort/PULSE Percussion Ensemble, he has appeared at major festivals in the US, Asia and Mexico, and has toured extensively with the Newband/Harry Patch Ensemble.

Cassara has performed with Music From China, Manhattan Marimba Quartet, Talujon Percussion Quartet, North/South Consonance and Parnassus. Principal percussionist of the Connecticut Grand Opera and member of the Riverside Symphony and Hudson Valley Philharmonic, he has also performed with many area orchestras and has played for Broadway shows. He also heads the percussion departments at Long Island University, Vassar College, and Brooklyn College.

Paul Austin, Narrator
Paul Austin is the Founder and Artistic director of The Liberty Free Theatre. He has had a long and distinguished career acting and directing On and Off-Broadway, in regional theaters, summerstock, and in television and films. Local audiences may have seen him in the films Tunein Tomorrow and Sommersby. His many TV appearances include Law and Order, The West Wing, Kate and Allie, and The Cosby Show.

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WCM Musicians

William Anderson – Guitar

Allen Blustine – Clarinet

Stephanie Blythe – Mezzo Soprano

Roger Chase – Viola
Educated in London, Chase debuted with the English Chamber Orchestra in 1979, and has since performed throughout the UK, USA, Canada, Australia, Japan, the Middle East, India, most of Europe, and Scandinavia. Chase has been a member of the Nash Ensemble, the London Sinfonietta, the Esterhazy Baryton Trio, Hausmusik of London and the London Chamber Orchestra, among others. As guest principal viola, he has performed with many orchestras in North America and Europe, including the Berlin Philharmonic. He has recorded for EMI, CRD, Hyperion, Cala, Virgin and Floating Earth Records. A professor at Oberlin College in Ohio, Chase has also performed with a folk group on amplified viola; as soloist on an “authentic” instrument, and is an exponent of the avant-garde.
"Chase and 'the Monty' (his viola) have been together for a number of years. . . anyone who has heard them, in concert or recital, will appreciate that they make up one of the most powerful fusions of man and instrument on the musical scene." –John White

Evelyne Crochet – Piano
Evelyne Crochet was educated in her native country of France. She arrived in the U.S. by invitation of the late pianist Rudolph Serkin, and made her orchestral debut with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Crochet was hailed for her 2002 recording of the complete J. S. Bach "Well-Tempered Clavier". She has held artist in residence and faculty positions at Brandeis, Rutgers, Boston, and Georgia State Universities. She also served on the faculty of the New England Conservatory in Boston.
"Crochet is musical to her fingertips and endowed with an impeccable keyboard technique." –The London Times

Ann Ellsworth – Horn
Hornist Ann Ellsworth is solo horn of the Grammy-nominated Absolute Ensemble, the Manhattan Brass, the Graham Ashton Brass Ensemble and the alternative horn ensemble Confluence. As artist-in-residence at the New School in New York, she has led groundbreaking interdisciplinary performances, and she enjoys performing on early instruments, recently presenting a lecture recital at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on the original instruments in that collection. As a freelancer, Ms. Ellsworth records for film and television, and performs with such artists as Aretha Franklin, Diana Ross, Shakira, Tony Bennett, the late Ray Charles, and can be heard on Chaka Khan's new album, "Classikhan." She recently recorded Eric Ewazen's new Horn Concerto with the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra, a work she premiered in New York in 2004. She is currently recording the Frank Zappa’s music with the Absolute Ensemble, the brass music of David Dzubay with the Manhattan Brass, and multi-cultural compositions with the Graham Ashton Brass Ensemble. Ms. Ellsworth is a graduate of the Eastman School and is on the faculty of the Juilliard Pre-College.
"...outrageous. Splendidly projected" –The New York Times
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Aaron Engebreth - Baritone
Aaron Engebreth maintains an active solo career in opera, oratorio and recital, and has been featured with groups such as the American Bach Soloists, Santa Fe Pro Musica, Miami Bach Society, the Boston Early Music Festival and the Melrose Symphony. A committed interpreter of contemporary music, Engebreth collaborates frequently with composers, appearing with Ned Rorem at the 2004 Boston premiere of his evening-length song cycle, Evidence of Things Not Seen with the Florestan Recital Project. Engebreth is a regular at several recital series. He sang music by Richard Rodgers in the Concerts at Copley Square, with Boston Pops conductor Keith Lockhart at the piano. On the operatic stage, Engebreth’s roles range from Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro to Schaunard in La boheme. He is on the voice faculty at Boston Conservatory, and is artistic director of Florestan Recital Project.
"…beauty of voice and eloquence" –Boston Globe

Nancy Green – Cello
Nancy Green is an international recording artist whose Tovey/Kodály solo disc on the JRI Label was chosen by Fanfare Magazine as among the top recordings of the year. Her numerous CDs are broadcast both in the United States and abroad and her performances have earned rave reviews internationally. Reviews have likened her to such cellists as Mstislav Rostropovich, Yo-Yo Ma, and Jacqueline du Pré. She has performed on stage and for radio and television in the United States, Europe and the Far East. As a soloist, Green has performed in Boston's Symphony Hall, New York's Alice Tully Hall, and noted halls in London, Munich, Shanghai, Taipei, and Seoul. She made her concerto debut at Lincoln Center, and was named Musical America’s Young Artist of the Year. She won the Concert Artists Guild Award, a Rockefeller grant for study in London, and the Schmolz-Bickenbach Award in Germany.
"Her sure intonation, rhythmic nuance and expressive shading put her in the elite of today's concert cellists."
- Fanfare Magazine
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Marianne Gythfeldt – Clarinet

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.

Lee Hoiby – Composer/Piano
Lee Hoiby is one of the leading contributors to the American lyric stage, and his immense contribution to the song repertoire is recognized by American singers everywhere. He was introduced to opera by his teacher Gian Carlo Menotti, who  involved him closely in the famed Broadway productions of The Consul and The Saint of Bleecker Street in the early 1950s. Hoiby's one-act opera, The Scarf, was recognized by Time Magazine and the Italian press as the hit of the first Spoleto (Italy) Festival, and Natalia Petrovna, was praised by the distinguished Washington critic Paul Hume. His setting of Tennessee Williams' Summer and Smoke was declared "the finest American opera to date" by Harriet Johnson of the New York Post. Hoiby's style is an elegant and unobvious bridging of the lyrical worlds of Gershwin and Verdi, which can be profoundly moving or smoothly good-humored, but generally skirts modernistic obsessions. The great American soprano Leontyne Price introduced many of his best known songs and arias to the public. Hoiby has also made significant contributions to the piano repertory, including two piano concertos and a volume of solo piano works published by G. Schirmer, and his choral music is widely performed in churches throughout the USA and in Great Britain.
“Hoiby is that rarity among American composers…unashamed to weave melody into his musical fabric…”
– Douglas Watt, New York News

Käthe Jarka – Cello
Cellist Käthe Jarka has performed in major concert venues across the United States, Canada and in Europe. While a member of the Shanghai Quartet, she toured extensively, appearing at the Tanglewood, Norfolk and Ravinia festivals. She performs and conducts master classes around the country as a member of the Broyhill and Goliard chamber ensembles. Ms. Jarka has collaborated with such artists as Yo-Yo Ma, Ruth Laredo and the Juilliard Quartet. She appeared several times with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and coaches the Young Musicians Program of its education division.

Susan Jolles – Harp

Lois Martin – Viola

Kurt Muroki – Double Bass

NACL: North American Cultural Laboratory
NACL is a New York theatre company founded in 1997 by American director Brad Krumholz and Canadian performer Tannis Kowalchuk. NaCl is also the chemical formula for Sodium Chloride, or Salt. The NaCl molecule is essential to human life, but on an atomic level, its elements can be deadly. NaCl has the power to melt ice, to disintegrate iron, to make wounds sting. NaCl also brings out the natural flavor in food, and acts as a preservative.

Brad Krumholz is co-founder & artistic director of NACL Theatre. Since founding the company in 1997, he has directed The Secret Storey, A Canon for the Blue Moon, The Passion according to G.H., ASPHYXIA & Other Promises, Arca Nova, The Time Cycle, an outdoor stilt show entitled Invisible Neighborhood, & TERROTICA, which played at The Catskill Festival of New Theatre & at the Ohio Theatre in New York City.  He has toured to Canada, Italy, Serbia, Bulgaria, & Romania with NACL as director & teacher. Krumholz was a founding member of Cleveland’s Theatre Labyrinth, with whom he developed & performed major roles in Pinocchio Rising, Inanna’s Descent, & Transformations of Lucius. He holds a BA in English Literature from the University of Pennsylvania, & his essay, “The Problem of Movement Theatre” was published in the Allworth Press book, Movement for Actors. Recently, he was a collaborating actor on NACL’s newest production, The Mystery of Lakewood House, an environmental theatre performance which premiered in 2005 at The Catskill Festival of New Theatre.

Tannis Kowalchuk is co-founder, actress & artistic director of NACL Theatre, & co-producer of The Catskill Festival of New Theatre in Sullivan County, NY. She has created & performed lead roles in NACL performances of The Secret Storey, A Canon for the Blue Moon, ASPHYXIA & Other Promises, Arca Nova, The Time Cycle, Invisible Neighborhood, & 10 Brecht Poems, a collaboration with Strike Anywhere. Her one-woman performance, The Passion according to G.H. has played in New York, Toronto, Cleveland, Washington, DC, Maine, Philadelphia, Halifax, & Montreal. With NACL she has toured to Canada, Italy, & Balkan Europe. She most recently created The Confessions of Punch & Judy with director Raymond Bobgan & actor Ker Wells, & in 2004/05 toured the show to Cleveland Public Theatre, HERE Arts Center (New York City), Theatre Centre (Toronto, Canada), On the Waterfront Festival (Halifax, Canada), & The Network of Ensemble Theatre’s Festival & The Mad River Festival (CA). In 2005, Kowalchuk was a guest lecturer at Rutgers University where she played the role of Mother Courage in Mother Courage & Her Children, & was a collaborating artist/performer on The Mystery of Lakewood House at NACL Theatre.
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Dov Scheindlin – Viola

David Trombley – Baritone

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