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2010 Summer Festival Performers
Artists from Past & Present Seasons Bruce Adolphe – ComposerResident 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.  Allen Blustine – ClarinetAllen Blustine is one of America's most distinguished clarinetists, with an impressive career of performing and recording around the world. Resident in New York City, he has played with virtually every musical organization there and is a member of the New York Chamber Soloists, the Festival Winds and the award-winning 20th-century ensemble Speculum Musicae, of which he is currently President and Executive Director. Allen Blustine is on the faculty of Columbia University. "A smart and beautiful performance..." –The New York Times Back to top  Stephanie Blythe – Mezzo SopranoThe winner of the 1999 Richard Tucker Award, mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe has firmly established herself as one of the finest artists of her generation. She has performed with New York's Metropolitan Opera, the Seattle Opera, Opera Company of Philadelphia, the Paris Opera, the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, and many others. On the concert stage, she has worked with the New York Philharmonic, the Ensemble Orchestre de Paris, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the San Francisco Symphony, the Boston Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Atlanta Symphony and others. Ms. Blythe’s first solo CD of Handel and Bach arias was recently released on the EMI label. "Ms. Blythe’s lustrous, powerful mezzo has prodigious depth and texture, yet such clarity that it never sounds fuzzy or forced." –The Wall Street Journal 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. 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 – PianoEvelyne 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 Back to top 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 the ppIANISSIMO Festival in Sofia, Bulgaria. During this last season, she was a faculty/artist for the Jornadas Musicales de Invierno in Chile and also toured major centers in China as soloist with orchestra. 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, JRI and Summit labels. Currently Professor of Piano at the University of Arizona, Ms. Gibson is also Artistic Director for the Winter Music Festival in Freeport, Grand Bahamas."Mature and eloquent... this was a superb performance." –The Washington Post  Daniel Grabois – French HornDaniel Grabois, Chair of the Department of Contemporary Performance at the Manhattan School of Music, is the hornist in the Meridian Arts Ensemble, a sextet of brass and percussion. With Meridian he performed over 50 world premieres, released ten CD’s, received two ASCAP/CMA Adventuresome Programming Awards, and toured worldwide, in addition to recording or performing with rock legends Duran Duran and Natalie Merchant and performing the music of Frank Zappa for the composer himself. Mr. Grabois is a frequent guest with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and performs regularly in New York and on tour with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, and many other ensembles. He also performs on over 30 CD recordings, and has recorded a concerto written for him by composer David Rakowski. As a teacher, Mr. Grabois maintains a horn studio at The Hartt School, coaches chamber music at the Manhattan School of Music, and teaches courses on the business of music at both institutions. "… a wonderful rendering … punctuated at the end by bravos from the audience." –The Phoenix (Brooklyn) 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 Back to top 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
 Leonard Hindell – Bassoon Leonard Hindell began his bassoon studies while at the High School of Music and Art. After graduating M&A he attended the Manhattan School of Music where he won the Harold Bauer Award. Upon graduation he joined the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and in 1972 became a member of the New York Philharmonic. He retired from the Philharmonic in 2005. Mr. Hindell has given recitals at Carnegie Recital Hall and Merkin Concert Hall where he premiered numerous pieces written for him. He served on the committee that helped establish the Philharmonic Ensembles, a series of chamber music programs featuring members of the New York Philharmonic in its series at Merkin concert hall. Mr. Hindell is on the faculties of The Mannes School of Music and The Steinhardt School of Music at NYU. “a tone of sturdy and robust attractiveness” – D. DeBolt Back to top  Lee Hoiby – Composer/PianoLee 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  Nina Lee, celloAn active chamber musician, Nina Lee has collaborated with many artists such as Felix Galimir, Jaime Laredo, David Soyer, Nobuko Imai, Isidore Cohen and Mitsuko Uchida, and has performed at the Marlboro and Tanglewood Music Festivals. She has toured with Musicians from Marlboro and has participated in the El Paso International Chamber Music Festival. She is the recipient of a Music Certificate from the Curtis Institute of Music, and Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in music from the Juilliard School, where her teacher was Joel Krosnick. Ms. Lee teaches at Princeton University and Columbia University. 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. "A tone of silvery purity..." –The Boston Herald Curtis Macomber – Violin  One of the most versatile soloists/chamber musicians before the public today, Curtis is equally at home in repertoire from Bach to Babbitt. As member of the New World String Quartet from 1982-93, he performed in virtually all the important concert series in this country, as well as touring abroad. He is the violinist of Speculum Musicae and a founding member of the Apollo Trio. His most recent recordings include: a solo recording (“Casting Ecstatic”), on CRI; the complete Grieg Sonatas on Arabesque; and an all Steve Mackey record (“Interior Design”) on Bridge. Mr. Macomber is presently a member of the chamber music faculty of the Juilliard School, where he earned B.M., M.M., and D.M.A. degrees as a student of Joseph Fuchs. He is also on the violin faculty of the Manhattan School of Music, and has taught at the Tanglewood, Taos and Yellow Barn Music Festivals. Back to top  Lois Martin – ViolaA native of York, PA., Lois studied with Arthur Lewis at the Peabody Preparatory School; completed undergraduate work at the Eastman School of Music, where she was a scholarship student of Francis Tursi and was a member of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. Graduate studies at the Juilliard School were under the tutelage of Lillian Fuchs. Martin is a founding member of the Atlantic String Quartet, and a member of the New York Chamber Symphony, Concordia, String Fever, the Salon Chamber Soloists, and the American Chamber Ensemble. Recent performances include appearances with Poetica Musica, the Greenleaf Chamber Players, the Smithsonian Chamber Players and the New York Philharmonic. She has also just recorded the complete string quartets of John Zorn, Milton Babbit's "Play It Again Sam" for solo viola, Irwin Bazelon's "Fairy Tale" for solo viola and eight instruments, and Albert Tepper's "Sonata" for viola and piano. Her continuing commitment to contemporary music includes performances with the Group for Contemporary Music, the ISCM Chamber Players, the Ensemble Sospeso, Ensemble 21, the New York New Music Ensemble, Speculum Musicae, the Composers' Guild, the Da Capo Chamber Players, the Composers Forum, Musicians' Accord, and Steve Reich and Musician. Ms. Martin is on the faculty of the Composers Conference at Wellesley College and has taught at Princeton University.  Kurt Muroki – Double BassKurt Muroki was born in Maui, Hawaii. As a seventeen-year-old, he entered the Juilliard School, going on to win numerous competitions. He is a bassist in several NY ensembles and orchestras, including Speculum Musicae, the American Symphony and Brooklyn Philharmonic as well as the Marlboro Music Festival. He has also performed with the Guarneri, Juilliard, Tokyo, Colorado Quartets and pianists Richard Goode and Mitsuko Uchida. Visit his web site at www.muroki.com. "...a sparkling performance. Kurt Muroki rose splendidly to those moments..." –The Washington Post Nurit Pacht - Violin  Nurit Pacht grew up in Texas, made her first solo public appearance on national television at the age of 12 and made her U.S. solo debut with the Houston Symphony Orchestra in 1990 at age 17. She proceeded to win top prizes in international competitions in Europe and the United States, including the Tibor Varga International Violin Competition in Switzerland and consequently performed in the world's most prestigious venues from The People's Hall of China and Carnegie Hall to Moscow's Great Hall and Washington's Kennedy Center. She toured Europe as the featured musician in Robert Wilson's multi-media piece Relative Light playing solo violin works by John Cage and J.S. Bach and has collaborated with dancer/choreographer Bill T. Jones in one of Europe's greatest Cathedrals, the Duomo in Milan as well as on tour in many U.S. capitals with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company culminating in performances at the Lincoln Center Summer Festival.In the spring of 1996, immediately following the cease-fire, she concertized in six of the worst war-devastated cities of Bosnia to enthusiastic audiences of the three ethnic minorities, with the sponsorship of the United Nations and the European Mozart Foundation. At the invitation of the European Commission she also performed on the occasion of the inauguration of the European Monetary Union in Bruxelles. In the last several years, she was heard at the festivals of Santa Fe, Mecklenberg Vorpommern, Divonne, Stresa, Kfar Blum, George Crumb, Tartini, Monadnock and, at the invitation of Christoph Eschenbach, performed in Ravinia's Rising Stars Series. One of her live performances from Wigmore Hall was released by Nimbus records. Alberto Parrini – Cello  Originally from Padua, Italy, Alberto Parrini’s career spans the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Europe and Asia. Educated at Juilliard and the Curtis Institute, Parrini joined the American Chamber Players in 2004, and he tours regularly with them. Prior to that, he was a member of the St. Lawrence String Quartet in residence at Stanford University, and Assistant Principal cellist with the Richmond Symphony. Parrini also toured extensively with Mikhail Baryshnikov and the White Oak Dance Project, and has performed with Continuum, Lenape Chamber Ensemble, and the Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra. His festival appearances include Tanglewood, Taos, Verbier, Evian, Montreal, San Miguel de Allende, Spoleto U.S.A. and the Piatigorsky seminar."Refined playing..." –The Los Angeles Times  José Pietri-Coimbre – ViolinPuerto-Rican born José Pietri-Coimbre has distinguished himself as an orchestral, chamber music, and solo violinist, and as a tenor soloist. He has held principal positions at the Bronx Opera Orchestra, Puerto Rico Sinfonietta, the National Orchestral Institute Orchestra, One World Symphony, and the Queens Philharmonia. A founding member of Cuarteto Ensueño, he is dedicated to the performance of Spanish and Latin American art music of instrumental and vocal genres. Mr. Pietri-Coimbre is also a member of the Zipoli Ensemble, a New York-based group focused on Baroque Music from the Americas. Mr. Pietri-Coimbre performs regularly as a soloist and chamber musician at the Con Vivo Chamber Players concert series in Jersey City, NJ, and as violinist and tenor for the Luci Toscane Music and Cultural Arts Festival, in Italy and in Wisconsin. He has performed at the Chamber Music Live Series at Flushing Town Hall and the Lefrak Concert Hall, and at in several notable music festival. He served as concertmaster as part of the Siena Summer Session for the Music and the Arts in Italy and Switzerland. Mr. Pietri-Coimbre is on the faculty of Third Street Music School Settlement, where he teaches for their regular program, as well as for its partnership program with public schools of New York City – Music Instruction for the Lower East Side (a.k.a. MILES). He is also a faculty member at the Diller-Quaile School of Music, and maintains a private violin studio in New York City. Back to top  Nathan A. Randall, Musicologist & Guest SpeakerNathan 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.  Mark Rush – ViolinMark 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. "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 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. “...[a] splendid cellist.” - New York Newsday 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. "Delightfully extroverted, Stroke’s playing was splendid" –The New York Times Back to top Matt Sullivan – Oboe  Oboist Matt Sullivanhas performed extensively on four continents and is recognized internationally as a virtuoso performer and master teacher, as well as an important advocate for the modern oboe. As composer, his innovative works created for oboe, English horn and digital horn, along with his performances and compact discs have been featured on WNYC, WQXR and WBAI, and on National Public Radio and Voice of America. Mr. Sullivan began his career at the age of 17 with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and served as principal oboist with the Miami Philharmonic at the at of 21. Soon after coming to NYC, he joined Musicians Accord, the Richardson Chamber Players (Princeton University), Queens Symphony Orchestra, First Avenue, Quintet of the Americas, and joined The Weekend of Chamber Music in 1998. His solo performances include concerts ranging from Cindy Lauper at Carnegie Hall to films including “Miller’s Crossing.” Mr. Sullivan is Director of Double Reed Studies at New York University’s Steinhardt School, and he teaches at Princeton University where he has served as a Visiting Associate Professor. He is a Performing Artist for Boosey & Hawkes Musical Instruments and plays exclusively on Buffet Oboes."...gorgeously lyrical playing..." –The New York Times Double bassist Andrew Trombley,  a native of Monticello and graduate of the Juilliard School, began his double bass studies at the age of 10. Andrew is an alumnus of the Weekend of Chamber Music Artist Coaching Project and internship programs in the Monticello Central School District. He has served as the principal bass under Herbert Blomstedt, Mikhail Pletnev, Bernard Haitink, and most recently under James DePriest in Carnegie Hall. Mr. Trombley premiered David Chesky’s “The Pig, The Farmer, and the Artist,” and Tan Dun’s violin concerto “The Love.” An active chamber musician, he has performed internationally with Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, members of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center for the Alice Tully Hall Opening Night Festival and The American Virtuosi Ensemble. He is principal bass of the Fear No Frontier symphonic ensembles.
 David Trombley, Baritoneholds 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.” 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. “…masterful … with a bold and vibrant baritone voice that commands attention.” – Times Herald Record Baritone Anthony Turner  is enjoying success in a variety of musical venues: from opera to Broadway, from orchestral concerts to solo recitals. Recent performances include the premier of “Shikoku Postcards” by Houston composer Mary Carol Warwick with the Greenbriar Consortium. Written for Mr. Turner, the texts are taken from the poetry of Randall Watson and based on Buddhist teaching and philosophy. His opera/musical theatre roles include: Harry Easter in Street Scene; Alfio in Cavalleria Rusticana; Dappertutto in Les Contes d’Hoffmann; Schaunard in La Bohème; and Dr. Falke in Die Fledermaus. He is an exponent of the classical repertoire of music by black and minority composers, which is consistently included in his concert repertoire. Mr. Turner has toured the United States and Europe with performance artist Laurie Anderson in “Songs and Stories from Moby Dick,” and has been a featured guest on the PBS special GREAT PERFORMANCES SERIES “Aida’s Brothers and Sisters: Black Voices in Opera.” He was also a featured soloist with Jessye Norman in a benefit concert for the Healing of AIDS, presented under the auspices of The Balm in Gilead, Inc.
Robert Wagner – Bassoon  NJSO Principal Bassoonist ROBERT WAGNER has been a member of the Orchestra since 1979. He graduated with his Master of Music degree form the Juilliard School in 1979. Wagner has performed as soloist with the NJSO in the Mozart, Weber, and Vivaldi Bassoon Concertos as well as the Duo Concertino of Richard Strauss. He premiered and recorded the Concerto for Bassoon and Chamber Orchestra by Richard Wilson. His busy schedule includes extensive tours and recordings with Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, performances as a member of the Boehm Quintette and the American Wind Quintet. Wagner is on the faculty at Princeton University and he serves on the boards of the American Symphony Orchestra League and ArtPride New Jersey. He is a resident of Maplewood, NJ where he teaches privately.
 Roger Wagner – Double BassBorn 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.
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