SARAH ADAMS began her musical training in Cleveland where she won the inaugural Cleveland Orchestra String Competition. She studied at the Eastman School and received her BA and MM from Kent State University. Sarah attended the Juilliard School where she received the Professional Studies Certificate. During her tenure as violist of the Cassatt Quartet, the quartet studied with Eugene Lehner, Louis Krasner and members of the Juilliard, Tokyo, America, Vermeer, Orion and Emerson Quartets, going on to become top prize winners at the Banff String Quartet Competition. Ms. Adams is a member of the New York Chamber Ensemble, the resident ensemble at the Cape May Chamber Music Festival, as well as violist of Parnassus and also the Roerich Quartet. She performs frequently with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and has performed and recorded with the Smithsonian Chamber Ensemble. Ms. Adams has been assistant principal violist of the Houston Symphony Orchestra and is currently principal violist of the Riverside Symphony and the Brooklyn Philharmonic. She is a member of the American Ballet Theatre and also performs frequently with the New York Philharmonic, the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, American Ballet Theater and the New York Chamber Symphony. She has served on the faculty of Long Island University and Queens College and teaches viola and chamber music at Columbia University. She lives in Westchester with her four children, Quinn, Eugene, Hannah and Winona and their dog, Buddy.

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ELIOT BAILEN is principal cello of the New York Chamber Ensemble, Westfield Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra New England, Teatro Grattacielo, the Garret Lakes Arts Festival Orchestra and the New Choral Society. Founder and Artistic Director of the Sherman Chamber Ensemble whose performances the New York Times has described as “the Platonic ideal of a chamber music concert.” (July, 2005), Mr. Bailen also performs regularly with the Saratoga Chamber Players, 'Modern Works' and the Sebago-Long Lake Chamber Music Festival and is founder of the Rodeph Sholom Chamber Music Series in New York. He is assistant-principal cello of the Stamford Symphony and appears frequently with leading New York area orchestras such as New Jersey Symphony, New York City Opera, American Symphony and the Orchestra of St. Luke's. He has recorded for Nonesuch, Koch International, Deutche Grammophon, Delos, New World, Beanstalk, BMG and Flying Dutchman Records and has been heard as solo cello in numerous Broadway shows. Mr. Bailen received his Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) from Yale University and is on the cello and chamber music faculty at Columbia University. Graduating in 1977 with High Honors in Music and French Literature from Wesleyan University in Connecticut, Mr. Bailen also holds an M.B.A. in Finance from New York University where he was awarded the coveted Slater Prize for Entrepreneurship. In 2002, he was awarded the Norman Vincent Peale Arts Award for Positive Thinking. Mr. Bailen has also gained national attention as a writer and producer of children's music. Winner of the 1990 Parent's Choice Gold Medal and winner of numerous ASCAP Popular Awards, Mr. Bailen was a featured guest artist on Nickelodeon's "Eureeka's Castle" airing from 1993 through 1997. Mr. Bailen’s "Song to Symphony" project, an extended school residency program that presents children's original work in an orchestral setting, was the subject of a NY Times feature article (Sept. 2006). Mr. Bailen and his wife, the flutist, Susan Rotholz, live in New York City with their twin sons David and Daniel and their daughter Julia.

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ERIC BARTLETT, cello, established himself as an artist of formidable talent and artistic integrity even before joining the New York Philharmonic in 1997. He served as principal cellist of Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival orchestra and co-principal of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra for 14 years. He appeared frequently as a member soloist with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and is featured on several of their Deutsche Grammaphon recordings. Other solo appearances include the Cabrillo Festival, the Anchorage Symphony, the Hartford Chamber Orchestra, the Aspen and Juilliard orchestras, and the New York Philharmonic’s Horizons ‘84 series. Mr. Bartlett is the recipient of a Solo Recitalist’s Award from the National Endowment for the Arts and a special Performance Award as a finalist of the 1987 New England Conservatory/Piatagorsky competition. Recent solo appearances include the Cabrillo Music Festival and the Brattleboro Music Center in Vermont. Mr. Bartlett has participated in over 90 premieres and has commissioned new works for the cello. In 1986 he gave the Warsaw premiere of Elliott Carter’s Sonata for Cello and Piano. He has recorded the cello music of Larry Bell, “River of Ponds,” for North-South Records and has served as either artist-president or vice president of Speculum Musicae since 1982. Mr. Bartlett teaches Orchestral Performance at the Juilliard School.

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EVA BURMEISTER, violinist, grew up in Charlottesville, Virginia where she began violin lessons at age 7. At 14, Ms. Burmeister moved to Boston, Massachussettes to obtain musical training at the New England Conservatory of Music. Ms. Burmeister was one of the first students to complete the prestigious Juilliard/Columbia joint program where she received a BM from The Juilliard School as a student of Joel Smirnoff while simultaneously completing a BA from Columbia University in Art History. While in the joint program, Ms. Burmeister was a rotating concertmaster of the Juilliard Orchestra and a member of the New Juilliard Ensemble for contemporary music. She continued on at Juilliard in the Masters program while teaching classical music in New York City public schools as a Morse Fellow. From 1995-1999, Ms. Burmeister received a full scholarship to study at the Apsen Music Festival where she was the first recipient of the Time Warner Prize. In the winter of 1999, Aspen selected Ms. Burmeister to travel to Japan to represent the festival in recital and masterclass. In 2000, Ms. Burmeister was the first American woman to win a position in the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra in Germany where she was a member for six years. While in Leipzig, Ms. Burmeister was a frequent guest with Ensemble Modern with whom she toured Europe and the Neuisches Bachisches Collegium, a conducterless group specializing in Baroque music. Ms. Burmeister was also a member of the Leipziger Sinfonietta, a 13-member contemporary ensemble. As a chamber musician, Ms. Burmeister performed regularly in the Gewandhaus chamber series. Since returning to the United States in 2006, Ms. Burmeister joined the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra and the Lark Chamber Artists and plays frequently as a guest with The Metropolitan Opera, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and the New England Baroque Soloists.

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RONALD CARBONE, violist, enjoys a diverse musical life encompassing chamber music, recording and solo performances. He is principal violist of the American Ballet Theatre Orchestra; a member of the Orchestra of St. Luke’s as well an associate member of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. For ten years he was an ensemble member of Spectrum Concerts, Berlin and the Composers String Quartet. He is also on the faculty of Vassar College and the Chamber Music Conference at Bennington College. He currently has recordings on Naxos, CRI, Albany, and Reference-Records, Labels. Mr. Carbone was a member of the Portsmouth Chamber Ensemble, the Lexington Trio and the Griffes string Quartet, recipients of the Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund for Music, Inc. award and two Artists International awards. He was also a member of the Atlanta Orchestra Symphony and Barcelona City Orchestra.

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LUCY CHAPMAN, chair of New England Conservatory's strings studio faculty, also served as chair of chamber music from 2002 through 2010. She has had solo and chamber music concerts throughout the USA and in Europe, Korea and Japan. She has held positions as acting associate concertmaster of the San Francisco Symphony and first violin of the Muir String Quartet, and won a Grammy nomination for a recording of Bartok, Stravinsky and Ives with clarinetist Richard Stoltzman and pianist Richard Goode. She has also recorded with Keith Jarrett, whose solo sonata she premiered in Chicago's Orchestra Hall. Recent performances include the Mozart "Sinfonie Concertante" with violist Kim Kashkashian, an all-Mozart concert in NYC with pianist Robert Levin, frequent guest appearances with the Boston Chamber Music Society, and return visits to the Busan Festival in Korea and the Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont. Chapman is a former faculty member of the University of California/ Santa Cruz, Boston and Harvard Universities. She is a graduate of Curtis Institute where she studied with Arnold Steinhardt of the Guarneri Quartet. Her other principal teachers include Dorothy Delay and Marc Gottlieb.

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JUNAH CHUNG is an active chamber musician and soloist. He received his M.M. degree from the Juilliard School where he studied with Lillian Fuchs and William Lincer. Junah has been featured in solo performances at Carnegie's Weill Hall, Lincoln Center's Paul Hall, the Society for Ethical Culture, Meet the Composer, the National Museum of Iceland, Music in Chelsea, Festival of the Arts in South Nyack. He has performed at such festivals as the Bright Lights Music Festival in Iceland, the Rhode Island Summer Chamber Music Festival, Stonybrook Summer Festival, Elan International Festival, Prussia Cove, Holland Music Sessions, Utah Chamber Music Festival, Ramapo Music Festival, Daejeon Chamber Music Festival, and the Lake Winnepesaukee Chamber Music Festival. Junah is currently a member of Trio St. Germain, a recently formed flute, viola and harp group. As an orchestral musician, Junah has held the post of Assistant Principal Viola of the Iceland Symphony Orchestra and performed with the Minnesota Orchestra, Nieuw Sinfonietta of Amsterdam and the Jupiter Symphony. He has performed with the Orchestra of St. Lukes, American Ballet Theatre, and the Mark Morris Dance Group.

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LINDY CLARKE is a graduate of the New England Conservatory. A founding member of the Claring Chamber Players and the New York Baroque Consort, she has been heard widely as chamber musician and soloist. Ms. Clarke is a charter member of the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, and also performs with the St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble, Opera Orchestra of New York, and the Philharmonia Virtuosi. Summer festivals include Caramoor, Summertrios, the New England Bach Festival, Summerkeys and the North Country Chamber Players. She has recorded for DGG, Columbia, Music Master and CRI.

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SARAH CLARKE, viola, is a member of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, which performs extensively in New York and tours widely in the United States, Canada, South America, Europe and the Middle and Far East. She is a founding member of the Claring Chamber Players and a former member of the New Amsterdam Chamber Players. She has been a frequent participant at the Marlboro Music Festival and toured with them 8 times. For many years she was principal violist at the Bard and the OK Music Festivals. She has also performed at the Caramoor and Mostly Mozart Festivals in New York. Ms. Clarke received her Bachelor’s degree from the Curtis Institute of Music where she studied with Michael Tree and Karen Tuttle. She has recorded for Nonesuch, Columbia, ProArte and Deutsche Grammaphon. 

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JACINTHE COUTURE, piano, winner of the Prix d’Europe piano competition and first-prize winner of several other competitions, debuted at Carnegie Hall and subsequently soloed with the Montreal Symphony. She has performed chamber music with such artists as Janos Starker, Chantal Juillet and Christopher Bunting in her native Canada as well as in Europe and the United States. She currently teaches at the Conservatoire de Musique du Québec.

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CHARLOTTE DOBBS, soprano - Praised in Opera Now for her “angelic lyric soprano voice”, Charlotte Dobbs made her European debut in 2009 as Corinna in Il viaggio a Reims at the Pesaro Rossini Festival, and returned to Italy that fall and winter to sing Rosina in the theaters of Jesi, Fermo, and Ravenna.  She also made her debut with the Chicago Opera Theater, singing Servilia in La clemenza di Tito under Jane Glover and the direction of Christopher Alden.  Under the baton of Lorin Maazel, she appeared as Governess in the Chateauville Foundation’s new production of The Turn of the Screw in both 2009 and 2010. Other recent credits include Amina in La Sonnambula, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, the title role in Tchaikovsky's Iolanta, Nuria in Ainadamar, and Countess in Le nozze di Figaro with the Curtis Opera Theater.    In 2008, she appeared in recital with Mitsuko Uchida at the Marlboro Music Festival, performing Schoenberg's Book of the Hanging Gardens.  Also at Marlboro, she gave her first performance of Schoenberg's Second String Quartet.  She has been featured in three programs with the New York Festival of Song, most recently “The Sweetest Path” at Caramoor and Merkin Hall.  Her recent appearances also include the title role in Iphigenie in Aulide, Elettra in Idomeneo, and Juno in La Calisto, all at the Juilliard School.  Miss Dobbs made her Kimmel Center and Carnegie Hall debuts in Nielsen's Third Symphony with the Curtis Symphony Orchestra in 2008, under the baton of Alan Gilbert.  In recent years, she participated in master classes with Wolfgang Holzmair, Matthew Polenzani, and Dawn Upshaw.  She has received an M.M. from both Curtis and Juilliard and a B.A. from Yale, where she studied modernist literature. 

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JOHN FEENEY is principal bass of the Orchestra of St. Luke's and a member of the St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble. He is a member of the Smithsonian Chamber Players and the Grand Tour Orchestra, a period instrument group, and can be heard frequently playing chamber music in NYC's major venues and festivals throughout the U.S. and Europe. Mr. Feeney was first prize winner of the 1980 Concert Artists Guild and the Zimmerman-Mingus International competitions and a medalist and prize winner in the 1978 Geneva and Isle of Man competitions. His numerous performances of double bass concerti include appearances with such orchestras as the American Symphony and St. Luke's at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Weill Recital Hall, the Metropolitan and Brooklyn Museums and Symphony Space. He has recorded extensively for Sony, EMI, CBS, RCA, Telarc, MusicMasters, Nonesuch, BMG, and Arabesque Records. He began his bass studies with Linda McKnight and holds both Bachelor's and Master's degree from The Juilliard School where he was a scholarship student of David Walter. ,

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AARON GRAD, (b. 1980) is a young American composer and guitarist, whose music embraces both his roots in popular culture and his training in the Western tradition. Born in Alexandria, Virginia, he was a listless student of piano and violin from age five. At ten he started fresh on guitar, and was soon writing songs, forming bands, and playing his first jazz gigs. Mr. Grad moved to New York in 1998 to study jazz guitar at New York University, but he was quickly seduced by the “downtown” new music scene. While completing his Bachelor of Music degree in three years, he performed with his own groups at The Knitting Factory and Cornelia St. Café, and founded and directed a concert series at Judson Memorial Church. In the past six years Mr. Grad’s emphasis shifted to composing, and his catalog has grown to include over 80 works. In the fall of 2006, Mr. Grad enrolled at the Peabody Conservatory to pursue a Master’s Degree in Composition in the studio of Christopher Theofanidis. His current project, Mandala of the Two Realms, is a work for large orchestra in which the four movements provide music to accompany live onstage performances of Tai Chi forms. The fall of 2007 will bring two world premieres: Confused Blues, commissioned by the Peabody Jazz Orchestra and featuring bass soloist Michael Formanek, and Re:Porter, a piece commissioned by the Saratoga Chamber Players (NY) for baritone and chamber ensemble, inspired by the songs of Cole Porter and featuring texts by Mr. Grad. The 2005-06 season featured three world premieres for Mr. Grad. On January 22, 2006 the Jolles Duo performed Whiskey & Fred for violin and harp at the Bayard Cutting Arboretum in Islip, New York. On March 19, 2006, members of the Brooklyn Philharmonic offered Creatures of Kings County, scored for flute, clarinet, piano, bass and percussion, with narration written by the composer. This is the first work ever commissioned by the Brooklyn Philharmonic for their Music Off the Walls chamber music series at the Brooklyn Museum’s Cantor Auditorium. In August 2006, the Sherman Chamber Ensemble (CT) presented The Aeolian Harp, for guitar, flute, violin, viola and cello, based on a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Besides these world premiere performances, this season also featured a New York premiere performance of the song cycle Clear White on texts by Charles Wright, performed at St. Paul’s Chapel, as well as Mr. Grad’s recording debut, with the piece Lepidopterology for flute, clarinet and piano appearing on the disc “New American Masters, vol. 1” by the Palisades Virtuosi (NJ). The highlights of 2004-05 included a recital of Mr. Grad’s works at the Rose Studio of Lincoln Center. This concert featured world premiere performances of Portria (tenor, oboe and strings), Coo/Rant and Slash Fantasy (acoustic and electric bass) and the Sonata for Violin and Piano, as well as performances by the composer’s band Q-Diamond (guitar, saxophone, bass and drums) with the composer on guitar. On June 14, 2005, Grad’s Concertino for Clarinet was debuted by Alan R. Kay and the New York Chamber Ensemble at the Cape May Music Festival. This work earned the composer an ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Award in 2006, as well as grants from the American Music Center and Meet the Composer. Mr. Grad previously studied privately with Randall Woolf and Carlos Carrillo, but he credits the bulk of his education and opportunities to his jobs for orchestras in New York. He first worked as the Production Assistant for the American Composers Orchestra, then stepped up to Production Manager for the Brooklyn Philharmonic, and finally served as Production Manager and Librarian for the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. Since 2005, Mr. Grad has been the official Program Annotator for Orpheus, writing program notes and performing interviews that appear in the Carnegie Hall house programs. He is a member of ASCAP, the American Music Center and the American Composers Forum. He currently lives in Takoma Park, Maryland with his girlfriend, Jen and their cat, Fea.

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MARGARET KAMPMEIER, pianist, enjoys a varied career as a soloist, collaborative artist and educator. She is a founding member of the Naumburg award-winning New Millennium Ensemble, and performs regularly with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. She has appeared often with the Kronos Quartet, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Colorado and Cassatt Quartets, Sherman Chamber Ensemble, Saratoga Chamber Players, Richardson Chamber Players, Peter Schickele and many new music ensembles including Sequitur, Newband, Speculum Musicae and Musician’s Accord. A dedicated educator, Ms. Kampmeier teaches at Princeton University, and has presented forums on the music of women composers and contemporary techniques. A recently named Symphony Space “All Star”, Ms. Kampmeier will perform at New York City’s Symphony Space numerous times in the coming seasons. As a recording artist, Ms. Kampmeier can be heard on the Albany, Centaur, CRI, Koch, Nonesuch, Bridge and Deutsche Gramophon labels.

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ALAN R. KAY, clarinetist, is one of the most versatile and respected musicians of his generation. He was honored with membership in the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra in 2002 and serves as Principal Clarinet with New York's Riverside Symphony. He also performs as principal clarinet often with the American Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra of St. Luke's, and at American Ballet Theater. Mr. Kay's honors include a Presidential Scholars Teacher Award, the C.D. Jackson Award at Tanglewood, Juilliard's 1980 Clarinet Competition, and the 1989 Young Concert Artists Award with Hexagon, the piano and wind sextet later featured in the documentary film, "Debut." A founding member of Windscape and Hexagon, he also appears frequently with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and as a guest of numerous string quartets and chamber ensembles, including the Mendelssohn, Rossetti, Miro, and Shanghai Quartets. A guest artist at many of the country's finest summer festivals, Mr. Kay returned last summer for his second season at Bravo! Vail Valley Music and his sixth season at the esteemed Yellow Barn Festival. His accalaimed performance of Weber's Concerto at the 2005 Windham Chamber Festival was heard frequently throughout the U.S. on N.P.R.'s "Performance Today." Mr. Kay serves as Artistic Director of the New York Chamber Ensemble. His series of thematic programs at the Ensemble's Cape May Music Festival draws growing audiences each year. Also a conductor, Mr. Kay studied orchestral conducting as a Bruno Walter Scholar at Juilliard with Otto-Werner Mueller and has led ensembles at Purchase College, Juilliard, in Buck's County (PA), Staten Island, California and New York City. Mr. Kay taught at the Summer Music Academy in Leipzig, Germany in 2004 and teaches at the Manhattan, Hartt and Juilliard Schools. He has served on the juries of the International Chamber Music Competition in Trapani, Italy, the Young Concert Artists International Auditions, and the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition. A virtuoso of the wind chamber music repertoire, Mr. Kay has recorded CD's with Hexagon, Windscape and the Sylvan Winds. He also appears on many other chamber music, orchestral and new music CD's. He lives with his two boys, Noah and Jonathan, ages 12 and 9 in Leonia, New Jersey.

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JEANNETTE KOEKKOEK is a graduate of the Amsterdam Sweelink Conservatory where she studied with Jan Wijn, Holland's most distinguished professor of piano. In 1983, upon earning her performer's diploma, she was a laureate at the prestitious Tromp Piano Competition in the Netherlands. Ms. Koekkoek continued her studies with the late Aube Tzerko in Aspen and Los Angeles and was invited to participate in master classes with Mischa Dichter and Menachem Pressler. She has performed in Europe, the Far East, and the United States with such internationally renowned artists and ensembles as clarinetist Howard Klug and cellist Susan Moses, the Fine Arts Quartet and the Florida Symphony String Ensemble. She is a founding member of the Netherlands Piano Quartet and of the Miami-based Sagee Piano Trio. Her recordings include works for piano and violin by contemporary Dutch composers. Ms. Koekkoek is a member of the faculty of the String Academy at Indiana University in Bloomington.

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KYU-YOUNG KIM is one of the most versatile and accomplished violinists of his generation. Hailed by John von Rhein of the Chicago Tribune for his “flawless musical and technical command”, Kim is an active soloist and chamber musician. He has recently toured throughout North America, Europe and Asia, performing in such prestigious venues as Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, the Seoul Arts Center, the Palais des Beaux Arts (Brussels), and the Beethoven-Haus (Bonn). As a founding member of the Daedalus Quartet, winners of the Grand Prize at the 2001 Banff International String Quartet Competition, he performed in many of the major halls of Europe, including the Musikverein (Vienna), the Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), the Philharmonie (Cologne), the Cité de la Musique (Paris), the Mozarteum (Salzburg), the Festpielhaus (Baden-Baden), and the Megaron (Athens), and was a member of Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s Chamber Music Two Program. He has appeared as soloist with the Korea Broadcasting System (KBS) Symphony Orchestra, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, of which he served as Associate Concertmaster for five years, the Amadeus Chamber Orchestra of Poland, and the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra. As a recitalist, he has performed throughout the U.S. and in Korea, Japan, Germany, and New Zealand. He has also served as guest concertmaster of the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Minnesota Orchestra, and the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, and is the newest member of both the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and the New York City Ballet Orchestra. Mr. Kim is a recipient of the 2007 Martin E. Segal Award from Lincoln Center in recognition of outstanding young artists from the Lincoln Center community. He is also a winner of a McKnight Fellowship as a member of the Soyulla Duo with his wife, cellist Pitnarry Shin. As a former member of the Pacifica String Quartet, Mr. Kim won the prestigious Naumburg Chamber Music Award in 1998 and served as an artist-in-residence for National Public Radio’s “Performance Today.” Mr. Kim’s other chamber music activities have included collaborations with pianist Gary Graffman and the Juilliard String Quartet, and performances with the Chicago Contemporary Players, the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, the DaCapo Chamber Players, and the New Juilliard Ensemble. He has toured on four continents with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and has performed with the Sejong Soloists. Widely recognized for his teaching and musical outreach activities, Kim has served on the faculties of Columbia University, the University of Chicago, the Music Institute of Chicago, and the Interlochen Summer Festival, among others, and has given outreach concerts to young audiences throughout the United States. Mr. Kim has received degrees from the Curtis Institute, the Juilliard School, and the Cleveland Institute of Music, and has studied with Donald Weilerstein, Robert Mann, Jaime Laredo, Yumi Scott and Shirley Givens.

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JILL LEVY is now in her 18th season as Artistic Director and violinist of the Saratoga Chamber Players, bringing together musicians from Europe, Canada, and the U.S. since 1994. She currently serves as concertmaster of the Albany Symphony Orchestra, having joined them in 1993. Her numerous solo performances with them include the December 2008 performance with Jaime Laredo of Bach's "Double Concerto for Two Violins and Orchestra," and the premiere and recording of Evan Chambers' "Concerto for Irish Fiddle and Violin" which was released on the CD Brutal Reality by Albany Records. The New York Times review of the ASO Carnegie Hall appearance in May 2011 praised the "graceful solo from the concertmaster, Jill Levy." Ms. Levy is also featured on the Saratoga Chamber Players CDs of Live Performances. She has performed at the Blossom, Sebago-Long Lake Festivals, with the Pittsburgh Chamber Soloists, the Williams Chamber Players (Williams College), and North Country Chamber Players. She has been a member of the Sherman Chamber Ensemble in Sherman, CT. since 1993. She is a former member of the Pittsburgh Symphony, Brooklyn Philharmonic, and Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Florence, Italy. Ms. Levy is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music where she studied with Jascha Brodsky and Arnold Steinhardt. She has also worked with Franco Gulli at the Academia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, Italy. As a winner of competitions, she twice performed as soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra.

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MYRON LUTZKE is well known to audiences as a performer on both period and modern violincello. He studied at Brandeis University and is a graduate of The Juilliard School, where he was a student of Leonard Rose and Harvey Shapiro. He now serves as principal cellist of numerous orchestras and a chamber player with ensembles touring throughout the world. He is principal cellist of the Orchestra of St. Luke's, the Handel & Haydn Society Orchestra of Boston, the New York Collegium and American Classical Orchestra and is a member of the St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble, Mozartean Players, the Aulos Ensemble, Loma Mar Quartet and the Bach Ensemble. He has performed with Aston Magna and was a faculty member at their academy. For the last twenty summers Mr. Lutzke has been an artist-in-residence at the Caramoor International Music Festival and has appeared as soloist at the Caramoor, Ravinia, Tanglewood, and Mostly Mozart Festivals. He has recorded for Decca, Sony, Harmonia Mundi, EMI, Nonesuch, Musical Heritage Society, Deutsche Grammophon, Dorian, Denon and Arabesque labels. Mr. Lutzke is currently on the faculties of SUNY-Purchase and Mannes College of Music, where he teaches baroque 'cello and performance practice and has taught at the Brixen-Initiative Academy in Italy.

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THOMAS MEGLIORANZA, baritone, hailed for his “vocal distinction and expressive warmth” (The Boston Globe), is one of the country’s most sought-after and unique young singers, displaying a compelling artistry and a remarkably versatile voice that is equally at home in repertoire ranging from Monteverdi, to Schubert, to Babbitt to Gershwin. He was the top male prizewinner at the 2005 Walter W. Naumburg International Competition, and was a winner of the 2002 Concert Artists Guild International Competition, the 2002 Joy in Singing Award and the 2003 Franz Schubert and Music of Modernity International Competition in Graz, Austria. Mr. Meglioranza recently starred as Prior Walter in the North American premiere of Peter Eötvös’ Angels in America (based on the Tony Kushner play) with Opera Boston under the baton of Gil Rose. The current season also includes his debut with the MET Chamber Ensemble with James Levine, performing Milton Babbitt’s Two Sonnets at Carnegie Hall, Erwin Schulhoff’s Cloud Pump at the Ravinia Festival with James Conlon, and solo recitals at Symphony Space, the Neue Galerie and Columbia University’s Italian Academy. With orchestra, he is featured in three different programs with the New York Collegium and sings Messiah at St. Thomas Church Fifth Avenue. Other season highlights include his debut with Chicago’s Music of the Baroque and Nicholas Kraemer in Bach’s St. John Passion, as well as recitals for the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, Pro Musica of Detroit, the Brooks Center for the Performing Arts in Clemson, SC, and the California Center for the Arts, Escondido. Mr. Meglioranza’s 2004-05 season featured the role of Christus in Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with Andrew Parrott and New York Collegium that was “warmly and beautifully” sung, according to The New York Times, as well as his Kennedy Center debut, singing Copland’s Old American Songs with Murry Sidlin and the National Symphony at the Kennedy Center’s 10th Annual New Year’s Gala. He made debut appearances with the Grant Park Symphony (Fauré Requiem), and the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra (Haydn Creation), and sang Messiah in Portland with both the Oregon Symphony and the Portland Baroque Orchestra as well as Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Northwest Florida Symphony. New music performances included two critically acclaimed appearances on the Guggenheim Museum’s “Works & Process” series. He gave his Chicago recital debut on the Dame Myra Hess Series singing an all-Schubert program (broadcast live on WFMT-FM), and he performed Winterreise at the Kosciuszko Foundation in New York City. In March 2004 Mr. Meglioranza starred as Chou En-lai in Opera Boston’s celebrated production of Nixon in China, and was praised by The Boston Globe for delivering his character’s “inner music with quiet rapture.” Other highlights from recent seasons include performances with the Houston Symphony (Messiah and a return engagement that same season for Carmina Burana), Orpheus Chamber Orchestra (Bach Cantata No. 152) and the Baltimore Choral Arts Society (Bach B minor Mass), as well as Carmina Burana with the American Ballet Theatre at the Metropolitan Opera House, and critically acclaimed New York recitals at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall and Merkin Concert Hall. A passionate interpreter of Baroque music, Mr. Meglioranza has performed with numerous period instrument ensembles, including New York Collegium, American Bach Soloists, Philharmonia Baroque, Portland Baroque Orchestra and the Trinity Consorr, and has collaborated with such Baroque luminaries as Andrew Parrott, Nicholas McGegan, Jane Glover, Richard Egarr, Nicholas Kraemer and Bernard Labadie. Recently described in The New Yorker as “an unusually sensitive interpreter of English-language song,” Mr. Meglioranza is also in high demand for his illuminating performances of contemporary music. He has sung John Adams’ Wound Dresser at Tanglewood under Reinbert DeLeeuw, John Harbison’s Words from Paterson at the Bowdoin Music Festival, and Aaron Jay Kernis’ Brilliant Sky, Infinite Sky in Sapporo under the direction of the composer. He has also had many works written for him, including Jorge Martín’s Plundered Hearts (commissioned for Mr. Meglioranza with the assistance of CAG) and a 2006 premiere by Pierre Jalbert, commissioned by the Brooklyn Friends of Chamber Music. On the operatic stage, Thomas Meglioranza’s portrayal of Don Giovanni with the Aspen Opera Theater and Julius Rudel, was hailed by the Denver Post as “a triumph.” Other recent opera performances include Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas (Aeneas) with Atlanta’s New Trinity Baroque (now available on a critically acclaimed CD), and concert versions of Rameau’s Hippolyte et Aricie (Thésée) conducted by Andrew Parrott and Purcell’s King Arthur (all baritone roles) conducted by Bernard Labadie, both with the New York Collegium. In March 2006, Mr. Meglioranza was featured in a special performance at Broadway’s New Victory Theatre entitled Twin Spirits: The Words and Music of Robert and Clara Schumann, directed and conceived by John Caird, and starring Sting and his wife Trudie Styler, portraying Robert and Clara in Words. Mr. Meglioranza, playing Robert Schumann in Song, performed Lieder and duets with soprano Lisa Saffer and pianist Jeremy Denk. This event, which raised over $150,000 for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and Classical Action, also featured violinist Joshua Bell, cellist Alisa Weilerstein and pianist Natasha Paremski. A graduate of Grinnell College and the Eastman School of Music, Thomas Meglioranza is also an alumnus of Tanglewood, Aspen, Marlboro, Bowdoin, the Pacific Music Festival and the Steans Insititute at Ravinia. He is of Thai, Polish and Italian heritage and currently resides in New York City, where his hobbies include pork cookery and running

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RAGGA PETURSDOTTIR, violinist, studied in Iceland, Europe and the USA where she graduated from the Manhattan School of Music. She enjoys an active career as a freelance musician as well as being a sought-after teacher. Ms. Petursdottir is a member of the American Symphony Orchestra and frequently plays with the American Ballet Orchestra, the Westchester Philharmonic and has led the second violin section and played chamber music for the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra. In the spring of 2009 ms. Petursdottir was invited to appear as a guest artist with the TransAtlantic Ensemble on a concert tour in Germany. A former member of the Iceland Symphony Orchestra and the Reykjavik String Quartet, she has played solo and chamber music concerts in Iceland, the US, the Netherland, China, South Korea and Germany. Ms. Petursdottir is a founding member of the Greenburgh Chamber Players and the Jewish Arts Ensemble of New York.

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Flutist SUSAN ROTHOLZ made her New York debut to critical acclaim in 1981 as a winner of the Concert Artists Guild Award. Since then she has performed throughout the world as soloist, chamber musician and orchestral flutist. Ms. Rotholz is principal flutist of the Greenwich Symphony Orchestra, the New York Chamber Ensemble the New England Bach Festival. She has played principal with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, American Symphony, American Ballet Theater, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s and the Stamford Symphony and has been a member of the New York Pops Orchestra since 1981. She also performs regularly with The New York City Ballet, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Little Orchestra Society and others. She was the principal flute for the 2005 PBS broadcast performance of Steven Sondheim’s ‘Passions’ for Live from Lincoln Center, and is the flutist for the 2006-7 Encore! performances at City Center and was the principal flutist for Roundabout Theater’s revival of 100 Degrees in the Shade. In 1988, Ms. Rotholz won the Young Concerts Artists International Competition as a founding member of Hexagon, a chamber ensemble for piano and winds, which made its New York debut in 1989 and was featured on the nationally aired PBS documentary, "Debut," in 1990. Hexagon's CD, Les Petites Nerveux, was released in 1996 by Bridge Records. Ms. Rotholz has commissioned and premiered many new works by such composers as Robert Beaser, Elizabeth Brown and Edie Hill and has recorded George Crumb's Night of Four Moons with the acclaimed soprano, Dawn Upshaw, for Nonesuch Records. Her recording of the J.S. Bach Flute Sonatas and Solo Partita with Kenneth Cooper, forte-piano, released in March 2002 by Bridge Records was described by the New York Times as “irresistible in both music and performance.” Familiar to audiences at music festivals around the country, Ms. Rotholz has performed at Marlboro, Caramoor, Salt Bay Chamber Fest, Portland Chamber Music and Cape May festivals. She is co-founder with her husband, Eliot Bailen, of the acclaimed Sherman Chamber Ensemble in Sherman, CT and the Rodeph Sholom Chamber Music Series in New York and performs regularly with the Saratoga Chamber Players and the Sebago Long Lake Chamber Music Festival. Ms. Rotholz holds degrees from Queens College (BMus) and Yale University (MM) and is on the faculties of Columbia University, Queens College and Manhattan School of Music pre-college division. Her principal teachers were Marcel Moyse, Thomas Nyfenger and Gerald Beal. In 2002, Ms. Rotholz was awarded the Norman Vincent Peale Arts Award for Positive Thinking. Susan and Eliot live in New York City with their twin sons David and Daniel and their daughter Julia.

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VERONICA SALAS, a native of Chile, is a versatile performer and teacher who has been featured as soloist, chamber musician and master class artist throughout the world. As soloist Salas has performed with Mostly Mozart, Aspen Music Festival, USC Symphony, CW Post Orchestra, Colonial and Westfield Symphonies. Under the auspices of the State Department, she has given recitals and master classes in Hong Kong, the Philippines and Taiwan as well as touring the Greek Isles as violist of the Elysium String Quartet. Additional international venues include Japan with Mostly Mozart and New York Pops, Italy as principal violist of the Spoleto Festival and Europe with Barbra Streisand. Salas has performed chamber music with Yoyo Ma, Eric Friedman, Lawrence Dutton, Joseph Fuchs, Stanley Drucker and is a member of Pierrot Consort, Elysium Ensemble, Modern Works, Canta Libre, Bronx Arts Ensemble and Queens Chamber Band in which she also plays concertos on viola d'amore. The release of the Modern Works recording of Ge Gan-Ru String Quartets on the Naxos label, was chosen by the critics of The New York Times as a notable recording of 2009. Other recordings include a Virgil Thomson CD where Salas is a featured artist, and all Mozart CD with Stanley Drucker and the Bach Brandenburg concerti featuring Lukas Foss both on the Elysium label. Salas has performed at the White House as acting principal of the Eos Orchestra and is presently principal violist of American Composers Orchestra, Opera Orchestra of New York, Manhattan Philharmonic, Phantom of the Opera on 'Broadway and Westfield Symphony. She is on the faculties of Long Island University and Bennington Chamber Music Conference. Salas received her BMA, MMA and DMA from the Juilliard School where she studied with Lillian Fuchs.

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THERESA SALOMON, a native of Germany, came to New York in 1993. She has performed at such international festivals as Festival Presence, Paris; Gulbenkian Festival, Lisbon; Prague Spring Festival; Ostfriesland Festival, Germany; Connecticut Early Music Festival; and Ostrava Days for New Music (Czech Republic), where she was a soloist with the Janácek Philharmonic. In New York she performs on both period and modern violin with the Orchestra of St. Luke's, Rebel Baroque Orchestra, New York Collegium, and SEM Ensemble. She also directs a new music series at Music under Construction and plays frequently for Dance under Construction. Salomon has recorded for the Vandenburg and Tzadik labels, among others.

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JUDITH SERKIN Judith Serkin has toured extensively across the US, Japan, France, and Canada. She began her studies in Puerto Rico with Marta Casals Istomin, then continued with David Soyer at the Curtis Institute of Music, and with Mischa Schneider. Ms. Serkin was a founding member of the Guilford Quartet and of the Hebrew Arts Quartet (later known as the Mendelssohn) in New York City, was a member of the Iceland Symphony, in Reykjavik. and played principal ‘cello for many years with Musica Sacra. She has been a participant of both the Yellow Barn and the Marlboro Music School and Festival, and over the years has performed on numerous Music from Marlboro tours. Ms. Serkin is a member of the Trio Belle Scarpe, and makes her home in Guilford, Vermont.

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JOANN STERNBERG, clarinet lives a varied musical life in New York, as a member of the DaCapo Chamber Players, the Riverside Symphony, the Greenleaf Chamber Players and Sequitur, and performing regularly with such ensembles as Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, St. Luke’s Chamber Orchestra, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Musicians from Marlboro and New York Philomusica. Her summer festivals have included Marlboro, Tanglewood and Schleswig-Holstein. After receiving a B.A. in English from Tufts University and a B.M. in Clarinet Performance from the New England Conservatory, Ms. Sternberg continued her studies at Yale University with David Shifrin and at the Juilliard School with Charles Neidich, receiving an M.M. from Juilliard in 1991. In addition to several recordings with Orpheus for Deutsch-Grammophon, Ms. Sternberg’s discography includes recordings on the Nonesuch, Troy, CRI, Archetype and St. Cyprien labels. Ms. Sternberg lives on the Upper West Side with her husband Bill and their young children Joshua and Rebecca.

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ANIKO SZOKODY is a native of Hungary and holds a Master of Music Degree in Piano Performance from Indiana University, having studied with Gyorgy Sebok, a Piano Artist Degree and Teachers Diploma from the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, and an Artist Diploma from the Conservatorio Beethoven in Argentina. She has performed across Europe, Argentina and the United States. Ms. Szokody was Associate Instructor of Piano at Indiana University, served as studio pianist for cellist Janos Starker and has been on the faculty of Chautauqua Institution, New York from 1999-2006. She is currently on faculty at Union College, Department of Music and the College of St. Rose, Department of Music, and teaches privately throughout New York's Capital District.

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JESSICA TROY, a native New Yorker, wears a wide variety of freelance hats. As the violist of the Mark Morris Dance Group Music Ensemble since 1998 she has toured extensively, from Brooklyn to Sydney and has performed throughout the U.S. and Japan with Yo-Yo Ma. On the baroque viola she performs with the Dodd String Quartet, Four Nations Ensemble, Rebel, the Grand Tour Orchestra, Sinfonia NY, Concert Royal and Clarion, and a fun feather in this cap, appeared with Renee Fleming on the David Letterman Show. She has seized the stage from Toronto to Lima with the East Village Opera Company, a rock group; EVOC's most recent CD, on which Jessica performs, just received a nomination for a 2008 Grammy Award. She is a member of both the Brooklyn and Westchester Philharmonics. Wearing headphones she has recorded quartet parts for Ani DiFranco, Lou Reed, 2 Foot Yard and Charming Hostess. A participant at many illustrious chamber music festivals, including Prussia Cove and Marlboro, she can be heard on the latter's 50th anniversary CD in Gyorgy Kurtag's Microludes for string quartet, which she prepared with the composer.

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DIANE WALSH, whose many awards over a 35-year international career include the top prizes at the Munich International Piano Competition and the Salzburg International Mozart Competition, regularly performs solo recitals, chamber music and concertos worldwide. In recent seasons she has played Mozart’s Concerto No. 25 with the Austin Symphony Orchestra, Strauss’s Burleske with the Syracuse and Delaware symphony orchestras, Berg’s Kammerkonzert with Leon Botstein and the American Symphony Orchestra in New York City, and, with David Zinman conducting, Mozart’s Concerto No. 24 in upstate New York at the Skaneateles Festival, where she was the artistic director from 1999 to 2004. Ms. Walsh has also appeared with the radio symphonies of Munich, Frankfurt, Stuttgart and Berlin, the San Francisco Symphony, the Indianapolis Symphony, the St. Louis Symphony, toured with Orpheus and the St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble, and soloed with orchestras in Brazil, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic and Russia. She has given solo recitals at the 92 Street Y, the Metropolitan Museum, Merkin Concert Hall and the Miller Theatre in New York City, the Kennedy Center in Washington, Orchestra Hall in Chicago, Wigmore Hall in London, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Philharmonic Hall in Leningrad, the Rudolfinum in Prague, the Mozarteum in Salzburg and in other major cities in the United States, Canada, Venezuela, Italy, Belgium, Germany, Poland and the Netherlands. Summer festivals where she has performed include Marlboro, Santa Fe, Bard and many others. Her recordings include Sonatas and Preludes, on Bridge Records, which offers piano sonatas by Barber, Bartók and Prokofiev and the Preludes of Frank Martin; works by Copland on Copland, also from Bridge, which won a 2004 Classical Recording Foundation Award and a 2004 Classical Internet Award; and the Bartok Sonatas for violin and piano with Emerson String Quartet violinist Eugene Drucker, on the Biddulph label. She has also recorded for Newport Classic, Sony Classical, Nonesuch, Koch International, Stereophile, CRI, Music and Arts and Book-of-the Month Records. More information about her career and recordings may be found at www.dianewalsh.com.

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STEPHEN WALT is principal bassoonist with the Albany (NY) Symphony and the Berkshire Bach Ensemble and is a member of the Avanti Wind Quintet. He is Artist-Teacher of Bassoon at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where he became a member of the woodwind faculty in 1999 and is Director of Woodwind Chamber Music at Williams College. His primary teachers were Sherman Walt and Arthur Weisberg. As a free-lance musician he has performed with orchestras, opera companies and chamber music ensembles throughout the eastern United States, including performances with the Leontovych, Muir and Shanghai String Quartets. Mr. Walt has been guest artist at the Monadnock, Musicorda and Hampton-Sydney (VA) Festivals, the Music Festival of the Hamptons (NY), Music from Greer (AZ) and has appeared in the Mohawk Trail Concerts and Williamstown Chamber Concerts series. In addition, he is a member of the faculty at the Chamber Music Conference of the East. He has recorded for CRI, Decca, Gasparo, Nonesuch and Albany Records. Mr. Walt is founder and Co-Director of Williamstown Chamber Concerts with his wife, Marlene. Mr. Walt plays on a Heckel bassoon made in 1958 for his father, Sherman Walt, the eminent former principal bassoonist with the Boston Symphony orchestra. The instrument is nicknamed "The Brussels" as it was exhibited at the 1958 World's Fair in that city as an example of German artisanship.

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GERALDINE WALTHER, violist of the Takacs String Quartet, was Principal Violist of the San Francisco Symphony for 29 years, having previously served as assistant principal of the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Baltimore Symphony and the Miami Philharmonic. A native of Florida, she went on to study at the Manhattan School of Music with Lillian Fuchs and at the Curtis Institute with Michael Tree of the Guarneri Quartet. In 1979 she won first prize at the William Primrose International Competition. She has soloed frequently with the San Francisco Symphony and performed numerous premieres. In 1995 Ms. Walther was selected by Sir Georg Solti as a member of his Musicians of the World, an orchestra composed of leading musicians from around the globe, for concerts in Geneva to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the United Nations. She has also served as principal violist with the Mainly Mozart Festival in San Diego and has performed as soloist with other Bay Area orchestras. She has participated in many chamber music festivals, including Marlboro, Santa Fe, Tanglewood, Bridgehampton, Telluride, Seattle, and Music@Menlo. She has collaborated with such artists as Isaac Stern, Pinchas Zukerman, and Jaime Laredo and has appeared as guest artist with such string quartets as the Tokyo, Vermeer, Guarneri, Lindsay, Cypress, and St. Lawrence. She joined the Takacs Quartet as a regular member in the fall of 2005. She is the mother of two grown daughters and lives in Longmont, Colorado with her husband Tom.

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PETER WILEY, a native of Utica, NY, attended the Curtis Institute at just thirteen years of age under the tutelage of David Soyer. He continued his impressive youthful accomplishments with his appointment as Principal Cellist of the Cincinnati Symphony at age twenty after one year with the Pittsburgh Symphony. He has been awarded an Avery Fischer Career Grant and was nominated with the Beaux Arts Trio for a Grammy Award in 1998. As a member of the Beaux Arts Trio he performed over 1,000 concerts and has made appearances with many of the world's greatest orchestras. He continues his association with the Marlboro Music Festival which he began in 1971. He has also been a faculty artist at Caramoor's "Rising Starts" program and has taught at the Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music, the Mannes College of Music and the Manhattan School of Music. Mr. Wiley is also on the faculty at SUNY Purchase and the Curtis Institute of Music and is a member of the Guarneri Quartet and Opus One Piano Quartet.

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MINEKO YAJIMA, violin, has performed in chamber music concerts throughout North America and Japan with the Yajima-Robin Duo and the Hudson Trio. She is the principal second violin of the Mostly Mozart Festival, a member of the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, and the Little Orchestra Society. She is also concertmaster of the Princeton Chapel Camerata and the Berkshire Bach Society Chamber Orchestra. Ms. Yajima spent 15 summers teaching with the late Joseph Fuchs at the Chamber Music Institute at Alfred University. Since 1996, she has been coaching and performing string ensembles during the summer at the Tenri Chamber Music Institute in Japan, which gives her an opportunity to stay in touch with her native culture. Miss Yajima graduated from the Juilliard School of Music as a student of Joseph Fuchs.

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ROBIN ZEH, violin, maintains an active and diverse schedule as a performing artist in the New York City area and abroad. Frequently in demand as concerto soloist, she has appeared with the Bronx Symphony, Centre Symphony, Greenwich Village Orchestra, Hunterdon Symphony, and South Shore Symphony as well as with the Jose Limon Dance Company and New Jersey Ballet. A recently appointed member of the American Ballet Theatre Orchestra, Robin also performs regularly with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s both in Carnegie Hall as well as at Caramoor. As chamber musician she is widely involved in the classic as well as contemporary literature and has performed premiers of works by Dick Hyman and Susan Kander as a member of the Kinor Quartet, with Music From Japan at Merkin Hall, Perspectives Ensemble, Sequitur, American Modern Ensemble, and Bargemusic. Ms. Zeh was one of the last students to work with renowned teacher and chamber musician Felix Galimir at Mannes, where she was also winner of the Concerto Competition. She has been broadcast on the McGraw-Hill “Young Artists’ Showcase” on WQXR and is a three-time recipient of an Arthur Foundation Grant. Robin has recorded for Naxos, Harbinger, Centaur, and Buena Vista Records.

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