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An all-star cast of the best musicians from across the continent, the Sun Valley Music Festival orchestra is comprised of over 100 musicians from major orchestras throughout the United States and Canada. Most musicians return year after year to perform, many bringing their families and friends to enjoy the natural beauty and welcoming communities of Sun Valley.<\/span><\/p>\n","modules_index_page":false,"modules_landing_page":[{"acf_fc_layout":"accordion","accordion_headline":"","accordion":[{"accordion_label":"Violin I","accordion_body":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Jeremy Constant,<\/strong> Concertmaster<\/em><\/td>\nAssistant Concertmaster, San Francisco Symphony<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Juliana Athayde,<\/strong> Assistant Concertmaster<\/em><\/td>\nConcertmaster, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kristin Ahlstrom<\/strong><\/td>\nAssociate Principal Second Violin, St. Louis Symphony<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Daniel Banner<\/strong><\/td>\nSubstitute Musician, San Francisco Symphony<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
James Dahlgren<\/strong><\/td>\nConcertmaster, Real Filharmonia de Galicia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Filip Fenrych<\/strong><\/td>\nDallas Symphony Orchestra<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Vivek Jayaraman<\/strong><\/td>\nThe Florida Orchestra<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Rudolph Kremer<\/strong><\/td>\nHead of Upper Strings, Sun Valley Music Festival Music Institute, Year-Round Programs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Gabriel Lefkowitz<\/strong><\/td>\nConcertmaster, Louisville Orchestra<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Milana Elise Reiche<\/strong><\/td>\nMinnesota Orchestra<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Misha Rosenker<\/strong><\/td>\nDes Moines Symphony<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Erin Schreiber<\/strong><\/td>\nSt. Louis Symphony<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Peter Seminovs<\/strong><\/td>\nToronto Symphony Orchestra<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sylvia VerMeulen<\/strong><\/td>\nHouston Grand Opera\/Ballet Orchestras<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Perrin Yang<\/strong><\/td>\nRochester Philharmonic Orchestra<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","sold_out":"false"},{"accordion_label":"Violin II","accordion_body":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Polina Sedukh,<\/strong> Principal<\/em><\/td>\nSan Francisco Symphony<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Amy Glidden,<\/strong> Assistant Principal<\/em><\/td>\nAssociate Concertmaster, Buffalo Philharmonic<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cynthia Brown <\/strong><\/td>\nFreelance Musician, St. Louis<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sarah Clendenning<\/strong><\/td>\nPittsburgh Symphony Orchestra<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Rebecca Corruccini<\/strong><\/td>\nMinnesota Orchestra<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Elizabeth Field<\/strong><\/td>\nConcertmaster, Bethlehem Bach<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Claude Halter<\/strong><\/td>\nPrincipal Second Violin, Utah Symphony<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mayumi Masri <\/strong><\/td>\nAssistant Concertmaster, Alabama Symphony Orchestra<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Julia Noone<\/strong><\/td>\nAssistant Concertmaster, Louisville Orchestra<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mark Paxson<\/strong><\/td>\nPortland (ME) Symphony Orchestra<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Adrienne Sengpiehl<\/strong><\/td>\nFreelance Musician, San Francisco<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tarn Travers<\/strong><\/td>\nProfessor, DePauw University School of Music<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Shawn Weil<\/strong><\/td>\nSt. Louis Symphony<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Alicia Yang<\/strong><\/td>\nFreelance Musician, San Francisco<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","sold_out":"false"},{"accordion_label":"Viola","accordion_body":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Adam Smyla,<\/strong> Principal<\/em><\/td>\nSan Francisco Symphony<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Joen Vasquez,<\/strong> Assistant Principal<\/em><\/td>\nAssistant Principal Viola, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Deanna Badizadegan <\/strong><\/td>\nPittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (one year position)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Laurel Borden <\/strong><\/td>\nFreelance Musician, Tampa Bay Area<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Allyson Dawkins<\/strong><\/td>\nPrincipal Viola, San Antonio Symphony<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bryan Florence<\/strong><\/td>\nFreelance Musician<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
David Gaudry<\/strong><\/td>\nSan Francisco Symphony<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Maryl\u00e8ne Gingras-Roy<\/strong><\/td>\nPittsburgh Symphony Orchestra<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
R\u00e9mi Pelletier <\/strong><\/td>\nNew York Philharmonic<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Elizabeth Prior<\/strong><\/td>\nNew Century Chamber Orchestra<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cassandra Lynne Richburg<\/strong><\/td>\nNew Century Chamber Orchestra<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ann Roggen<\/strong><\/td>\nOrchestra of St. Luke’s<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Uri Wassertzug<\/strong><\/td>\nKennedy Center\/Washington National Opera Orchestra<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","sold_out":"false"},{"accordion_label":"Cello","accordion_body":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Amos Yang,<\/strong> Principal<\/em><\/td>\nAssistant Principal Cello, San Francisco Symphony<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
David Premo,<\/strong> Assistant Principal<\/em><\/td>\nAssociate Principal Cello, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Richard Andaya<\/strong><\/td>\nSubstitute\/Extra Cello, San Francisco Symphony<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lena Bonhorst Andaya<\/strong><\/td>\nPrincipal Cello, Sacramento Opera<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Alexander East<\/strong><\/td>\nAssistant Principal Cello, Kansas City Symphony<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Eric Gaenslen<\/strong><\/td>\nFreelance Musician, San Francisco Bay Area<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Una Gong<\/strong><\/td>\nDallas Symphony Orchestra<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Anne Lee<\/strong><\/td>\nUtah Symphony<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Si-Yan Darren Li<\/strong><\/td>\nFaculty, Cleveland Institute of Music<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bjorn Ranheim<\/strong><\/td>\nSt.Louis Symphony<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Louis-Philippe Robillard<\/strong><\/td>\nUtah Symphony<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ellen Sanders<\/strong><\/td>\nString Department Chair, Sun Valley Music Festival Music Institute, Year-Round Programs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","sold_out":"false"},{"accordion_label":"Bass","accordion_body":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Stephen Tramontozzi,<\/strong> Principal<\/em><\/td>\nAssistant Principal Bass, San Francisco Symphony<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jeremy Kurtz-Harris,<\/strong> Assistant Principal<\/em><\/td>\nPrincipal Bass, San Diego Symphony<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Andy Butler<\/strong><\/td>\nPrincipal Bass, Opera San Jose<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bill Everett<\/strong><\/td>\nPrincipal Bass, Symphony Silicon Valley<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Joseph Kaufman<\/strong><\/td>\nAssistant Principal Bass, Seattle Symphony<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Patrick Klobas<\/strong><\/td>\nMarin Symphony<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Raymond Vargas<\/strong><\/td>\nFreelance Musician, San Francisco<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Susan Wulff<\/strong><\/td>\nAssociate Principal Bass, San Diego Symphony<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","sold_out":"false"},{"accordion_label":"Flute","accordion_body":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Linda Lukas,<\/strong> Principal<\/em><\/td>\nSan Francisco Symphony<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Catherine Payne<\/strong><\/td>\nSan Francisco Symphony<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Andrea Kaplan <\/strong><\/td>\nAssociate Principal Flute, St. Louis Symphony<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ann Choomack<\/strong><\/td>\nSt. Louis Symphony<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Melanie Keller <\/strong><\/td>\nPrincipal, Vallejo Symphony<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","sold_out":"false"},{"accordion_label":"Oboe","accordion_body":"\n\n\n\n\n\n
Erik Behr,<\/strong> Principal<\/em><\/td>\nPrincipal Oboe, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jason Sudduth<\/strong><\/td>\nFreelance Musician, East Coast<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cally Banham<\/strong><\/td>\nSt. Louis Symphony<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Gina Ford <\/strong><\/td>\nPrincipal Oboe, Dallas Opera<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","sold_out":"false"},{"accordion_label":"Clarinet","accordion_body":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Jason Shafer,\u00a0<\/strong>Principal<\/em><\/td>\nPrincipal Clarinet, Denver Symphony<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ben Freimuth<\/strong><\/td>\nActing Associate Principal\/E flat Clarinet: Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Susan Warner<\/strong><\/td>\nAssistant Principal Clarinet, Lyric Opera of Chicago<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jerome Simas <\/strong><\/td>\nBass Clarinet, San Francisco Symphony<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Roman Fukshansky<\/strong><\/td>\nPrincipal Clarinet, Berkeley<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","sold_out":"false"},{"accordion_label":"Saxophone","accordion_body":"\n\n\n\n\n
David Henderson,<\/strong> Principal<\/em><\/td>\nFreelance Musician, San Francisco Bay Area<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kevin Stewart<\/strong><\/td>\nFreelance Musician, San Francisco Bay Area<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bill Aron <\/strong><\/td>\nPrincipal Alto Saxophone, Golden Gate Park Band<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","sold_out":"false"},{"accordion_label":"Bassoon","accordion_body":"\n\n\n\n\n
Andrew Cuneo,<\/strong> Principal<\/em><\/td>\nPrincipal Bassoon, Saint Louis Symphony<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tariq Masri<\/strong><\/td>\nPrincipal Bassoon, Alabama Symphony Orchestra<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Karl Vilcins <\/strong><\/td>\nRochester Philharmonic Orchestra<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","sold_out":"false"},{"accordion_label":"Horn","accordion_body":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
William VerMeulen,<\/strong> Principal<\/em><\/td>\nPrincipal Horn, Houston Symphony Orchestra<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Christopher Dwyer<\/strong><\/td>\nSt. Louis Symphony<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tod Bowermaster<\/strong><\/td>\nSt. Louis Symphony<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Brian Thomas<\/strong><\/td>\nHouston Symphony Orchestra<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jesse Clevenger <\/strong><\/td>\nHouston Symphony Orchestra<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nicholas Hartman<\/strong><\/td>\nToronto Symphony Orchestra<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
David Griffin<\/strong><\/td>\nChicago Symphony Orchestra<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
W. Peter Kurau<\/strong><\/td>\nPrincipal Horn, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Brian Mangrum<\/strong><\/td>\nPrincipal Horn, Columbus Symphony Orchestra<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dominic Rotella<\/strong><\/td>\nPrincipal Horn, Richmond Symphony<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ryan Little <\/strong><\/td>\nPrincipal Horn, Naples Philharmonic<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","sold_out":"false"},{"accordion_label":"Trumpet","accordion_body":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Andrew McCandless,<\/strong> Principal<\/em><\/td>\nPrincipal Trumpet, Toronto Symphony Orchestra<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Michael Tiscione<\/strong><\/td>\nAtlanta Symphony Orchestra<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Karen Donnelly <\/strong><\/td>\nPrincipal Trumpet, Canada\u2019s National Arts Centre Orchestra<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jeff Biancalana<\/strong><\/td>\nSan Francisco Symphony<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Anthony DiLorenzo<\/strong><\/td>\nThe City Center Brass Quintet<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Douglas Carlsen<\/strong><\/td>\nAssociate Principal Trumpet, Minnesota Orchestra<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Steven Woomert <\/strong><\/td>\nAssociate Principal Trumpet, Toronto Symphony Orchestra<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Micah Wilkinson<\/strong><\/td>\nPrincipal Trumpet, Pittsburgh Symphony<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Aaron Schuman<\/strong><\/td>\nAssociate Principal Trumpet, San Francisco Symphony<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","sold_out":"false"},{"accordion_label":"Trombone","accordion_body":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Gordon Wolfe,<\/strong> Principal<\/em><\/td>\nPrincipal Trombone, Toronto Symphony Orchestra<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Douglas Rosenthal\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\nAssistant Principal Trombone, Kennedy Center Opera Orchestra<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Darren McHenry<\/strong><\/td>\nPrincipal Bass Trombone, Dallas Symphony Orchestra<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Timothy Higgins <\/strong><\/td>\nPrincipal Trombone, San Francisco Symphony<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Michael Maier <\/strong><\/td>\nPrincipal Trombone, Hawaii Symphony<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","sold_out":"false"},{"accordion_label":"Tuba","accordion_body":"\n\n\n
Peter Wahrhaftig,<\/strong> Principal<\/em><\/td>\nPrincipal Tuba, San Francisco Ballet Orchestra<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","sold_out":"false"},{"accordion_label":"Timpani","accordion_body":"\n\n\n\n
Alex Orfaly,<\/strong> Principal<\/em><\/td>\nFreelance Musician, San Francisco Bay Area<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Alex Wadner<\/strong><\/td>\nActing Principal Timpani, Chattanooga Symphony and Opera<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","sold_out":"false"},{"accordion_label":"Percussion","accordion_body":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Marc Damoulakis,<\/strong> Principal<\/em><\/td>\nPrincipal Percussion, The Cleveland Orchestra<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Charles Settle<\/strong><\/td>\nPrincipal Percussion, Toronto Symphony Orchestra<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Joseph Tompkins<\/strong><\/td>\nFaculty, Rutgers University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ian Ding<\/strong><\/td>\nFreelance Musician, Chicago<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Chris Riggs<\/strong><\/td>\nMilwaukee Symphony Orchestra<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
James Ritchie <\/strong><\/td>\nAssistant Principal Timpani\/Percussion, Detroit Symphony Orchestra<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Matthew Decker<\/strong><\/td>\nAssistant Principal Timpani\/Percussion, Seattle Symphony<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","sold_out":"false"},{"accordion_label":"Harp","accordion_body":"\n\n\n\n
Heidi Van Hoesen Gorton,<\/strong> Principal<\/em><\/td>\nPrincipal Harp, Toronto Symphony Orchestra<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Katherine Ventura<\/strong><\/td>\nFreelance Musician, Chicago<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","sold_out":"false"},{"accordion_label":"Keyboard","accordion_body":"\n\n\n\n
Peter Henderson,<\/strong> Principal<\/em><\/td>\nArtist in Residence, Maryville University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Edna Koren<\/strong><\/td>\nPrivate studio piano instructor<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","sold_out":"false"},{"accordion_label":"Organ","accordion_body":"\n\n\n
Charles Rus,<\/strong> Principal<\/em><\/td>\nMusic Director, St Andrew\u2019s by-the Sea Episcopal Church, San Diego<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","sold_out":"false"},{"accordion_label":"Harpsichord","accordion_body":"\n\n\n
Katherine Heater,<\/strong> Principal<\/em><\/td>\nEarly keyboard performer and teacher, San Francisco Bay Area<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","sold_out":"false"},{"accordion_label":"Guitar","accordion_body":"\n\n\n
Mark Hilliard Wilson,<\/strong>\u00a0Principal<\/i><\/td>\nGuitar Orchestra of Seattle<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","sold_out":"false"}]}],"group_of_people_intro":"Meet the Sun Valley Music Festival Orchestra Musicians","group_of_people":[{"people_picker_title":"Violin I","people_picker":[{"ID":2083,"post_author":"16","post_date":"2019-06-07 20:08:12","post_date_gmt":"2019-06-07 20:08:12","post_content":"Jeremy Constant has served as Concertmaster of the Sun Valley Music Festival since 2000. He is Assistant Concertmaster of the San Francisco Symphony and recently retired from his position as Concertmaster of the Marin Symphony. He plays a 1700 ex-Heberlein Stradivarius that was donated for his exclusive use. After winning the grand prize in the 1979 Du Maurier Competition, he studied with the fabled violinist Itzhak Perlman. 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She also has appeared as guest concertmaster for the Houston and Kansas City Symphonies, and Pinchas Zuckerman\u2019s National Arts Center Orchestra in Ottawa, Ontario.\r\n\r\nMs. Athayde has collaborated with artists such as Michael Tilson Thomas, Joseph Silverstein, William Preucil, Anton Nel, and Jean-Yves Thibaudet. The Rochester Philharmonic\u2019s 2010 premiere of Allen Shawn\u2019s Violin Concerto was specifically written for Ms. Athayde.\r\n\r\nA passionate educator, Ms. Athayde is currently Associate Professor of Violin at the Eastman School of Music and a Visiting Teacher at the Cleveland Institute of Music.\r\n\r\nMs. Athayde made her solo debut at the age of 16 performing with the San Francisco Symphony. She performs on a 1948 Celeste Farotte violin and a J.B. 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Her first season with the SVMF was in 2001.","post_title":"Kristin Ahlstrom","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"kristin-ahlstrom","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-05-16 10:02:20","post_modified_gmt":"2024-05-16 16:02:20","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/dev.svmusicfestival.org\/?post_type=people&p=2099","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":2101,"post_author":"16","post_date":"2019-06-07 20:36:24","post_date_gmt":"2019-06-07 20:36:24","post_content":"Daniel Banner has been a regular substitute with the San Francisco Symphony since 1997. Before moving to San Francisco he was an acting member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and assistant concertmaster of the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra, as well as concertmaster of many Boston area groups. He studied at Harvard University and MIT. 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After five years as a member of the San Francisco Opera, James accepted the Concertmaster position of the Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestra and later the position of Associate Concertmaster of the Granada City Orchestra. After arriving in Europe, James has also worked as guest leader with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra among others. 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After receiving her bachelor\u2019s in 2004, she earned her Master of Music from USC in 2006 and was named Outstanding Graduate-Class of 2006.\r\n\r\nIn addition to being a regular substitute with the Pacific Symphony Orchestra, Hellwege was the Assistant Concertmaster of the Santa Barbara Symphony. She was also a member of Germany\u2019s prestigious Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival for five summers, where she served as concertmaster and principal. Since 2023, Hellwege has been playing in the Sun Valley Music Festival Orchestra. Other music festivals previously attended include New York Strings Seminar, Encore School for Strings, and Mimir Chamber Music Festival.\r\n\r\nHellwege began her first season with the SLSO\u2019s First Violin section in the fall of 2009. She regularly plays with the Chamber Music Society of St. Louis, as well as the Ariel Concert series. She is married to Pete, a firefighter, and enjoys woodworking in her free time.","post_title":"Jessica Hellwege","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"jessica-hellwege","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-05-10 14:59:25","post_modified_gmt":"2024-05-10 20:59:25","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.svmusicfestival.org\/staging\/?post_type=people&p=13596","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":2110,"post_author":"16","post_date":"2019-06-07 20:44:47","post_date_gmt":"2019-06-07 20:44:47","post_content":"Vivek Jayaraman was Concertmaster of the Canton Symphony Orchestra from 2015-2017. He currently resides in St. Petersburg, FL where he is a violinist with The Florida Orchestra. Additionally, Vivek is a recurring member of the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra in Switzerland and the Sun Valley Summer Symphony in Idaho. In 2017, Vivek was a guest Concertmaster with symphonies in Shreveport, Knoxville and Vancouver as well as a faculty member for Los Angeles Philharmonic\u2019s National Take A Stand Youth Orchestra Festival. He has frequently performed as concertmaster for St. Petersburg Opera and has appeared with several other local ensembles.\r\n\r\nOriginally from Lansing, Michigan, Vivek received a Bachelor\u2019s degree from the Eastman School of Music studying with Charles Castleman and a Master\u2019s degree in Orchestral Performance from Manhattan School of Music where he studied with Glenn Dicterow, former concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic. Following a four-year fellowship with the New World Symphony, he earned an Artist Diploma in Concertmaster Studies at the Cleveland Institute of Music with Cleveland Orchestra Concertmaster, William Preucil. Vivek plays a modern violin built in 2005 by Roger Graham Hargrave on generous loan from a dear friend. Vivek is thrilled to be back for a third season with the Sun Valley Music Festival.","post_title":"Vivek Jayaraman","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"vivek-jayaraman","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-02-22 13:52:42","post_modified_gmt":"2024-02-22 20:52:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/dev.svmusicfestival.org\/?post_type=people&p=2110","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7589,"post_author":"16","post_date":"2021-05-26 08:38:01","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-26 14:38:01","post_content":"Violinist\u00a0Hannah Ji\u00a0joined the first violin section of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra in 2020 after spending two seasons as a one-year replacement member. Ji\u2019s playing has been hailed by critics as \"engaging, mature, well thought-out, and honed down to the finest details\" (g\u0142os na Wieniawskiego,Polish Radio Journal<\/i>). She holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Curtis Institute of Music, studying with the late Aaron Rosand, a Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School, studying with Ida Kavafian, and an Artist Diploma degree from The Colburn School, studying with Robert Lipsett. She began her musical studies at the age of seven in South Korea and previously attended Manhattan School of Music's Precollege Division, studying with Grigory Kalinovsky.\r\n\r\nAs a soloist, Ji's performances have been widely publicized on NPR\u2019s \u201cFrom the Top,<\/i>\u201d Philadelphia\u2019s\u00a0WHYY<\/i>, Taos\u2019\u00a0KTAOS Solar Radio<\/i>, and \u201cLive from Lincoln Center<\/i>\u201d by PBS, which broadcast throughout North America. She performed in Canada Day concerts with Maestro Pinchas Zukerman in Centre National des Artes, with pianist Jeremy Denk for the non-profit organization, \"The Art of Giving Back,\u201d and a gala concert with cellist Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble at Lincoln Center. Additional venues at which Ji has performed include: The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, David Geffen Hall, Carnegie Hall, Steinway Hall, Walt Disney Concert Hall, and A. Mickiewicz University Hall in Poland. She has also recently performed at the United States Embassy of Canada.\r\n\r\nAs a classical and contemporary chamber musician, Ji has collaborated with renowned groups and artists such as Jamie Laredo, Jennifer Koh, Roberto D\u00edaz, The Borromeo String Quartet, The Calidore String Quartet, and Time for Three. She has worked with members of the Borromeo, Brentano, Shanghai, Emerson, Guarneri, and Orion String Quartets, respectively. Ji has been an active participant in The Juilliard School's ChamberFest and Focus! Festival, which features U.S. and world premieres of works by composers around the world. She was also a contemporary ensemble artist at Atlantic Music Festival. As an orchestra musician, she served as Concertmaster and Principal Second with Symphony in C, Spoleto Festival USA, YMF Debut Orchestra, The Colburn School, The Juilliard School Orchestra, and Curtis Symphony Orchestra. She has been a participant at the Sarasota Music Festival, Music Academy of the West, Artosphere Festival Orchestra, Taos School of Music Festival, Bowdoin International Music Festival, Summit Music Festival, and the National Arts Centre's Young Artist Programme.\r\n\r\nAdditionally, Ji has held Artist Faculty positions at The Danbury Music Centre's Chamber Music Intensive, The Bronx Conservatory of Music, Manhattan in the Mountains, and The Curtis Institute's SummerFest Young Artists Program & Adult Chamber Music Program. She was a substitute faculty member at The Manhattan School of Music Precollege Division, and had a large studio in New York City, the students of which have been accepted to conservatories and summer festivals across the country. She currently enjoys working as a mentor through the SLSO\u2019s Mentoring the Music: Peer to Peer program.","post_title":"Hannah Ji","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"hannah-ji","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-06-01 13:48:49","post_modified_gmt":"2023-06-01 19:48:49","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.svmusicfestival.org\/staging\/?post_type=people&p=7589","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":2113,"post_author":"16","post_date":"2019-06-07 20:47:50","post_date_gmt":"2019-06-07 20:47:50","post_content":"Gabriel Lefkowitz is the newly appointed concertmaster of the Louisville Orchestra, with whom he has just completed his first season. A versatile musician of the 21st century, he is also a conductor and a composer for films and video games.\r\n\r\nDuring the 2016-2017 season (concurrent with his position in Louisville), Gabriel completed a 6 year tenure as concertmaster of the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra. In addition to his orchestral positions, Gabriel is an active soloist, recently performing the concerti of Brahms (Knoxville, TN), Philip Glass (Ocala, FL), and Mozart (Oak Ridge, TN), and will perform as soloist in the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto with the Louisville Orchestra this upcoming season. Gabriel is a frequent recitalist, having founded the series Gabriel Lefkowitz & Friends<\/em> in Knoxville, in which he performed 16 distinct recital programs during his KSO tenure.\r\n\r\nAn active conductor, Gabriel made his conducting debut with the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra during the 2015-2016 season in the form of several light classical & pops \u201crunout\u201d performances at venues throughout Knoxville and East Tennessee. He served as Music Director of the Oak Ridge Community Orchestra during the 2014-2015 season, and has worked extensively with youth ensembles including the Knoxville Symphony Youth Orchestra, the Juilliard Pre-College Orchestra, and the Boston Youth Symphony.\r\n\r\nGabriel holds a bachelor's degree from Columbia University and earned a master's degree at the Juilliard School where he studied with Joel Smirnoff and Masao Kawasaki.","post_title":"Gabriel Lefkowitz","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"gabriel-lefkowitz","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-07-19 20:22:42","post_modified_gmt":"2019-07-19 20:22:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/dev.svmusicfestival.org\/?post_type=people&p=2113","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":12569,"post_author":"16","post_date":"2023-03-16 10:56:42","post_date_gmt":"2023-03-16 16:56:42","post_content":"Dylan Naroff began playing the violin at age three, initially studying with his mother. When he was 13, he toured Chile and Argentina as a member of the San Jose Youth Symphony. Those experiences solidified his love for music and passion for orchestra. Dylan joined the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in 2022. In November of 2023, he was appointed Assistant Concertmaster by Manfred Honeck. Prior to this, he was a member of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra for one season.\r\n\r\nIn 2013, Dylan won the silver medal at the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. He has collaborated with members of the Tokyo and Vermeer Quartets, and has also worked alongside artists such as Joshua Bell and James Ehnes. During the summers, Dylan performs at the Sun Valley Music Festival and Artosphere Festival Orchestra. As a student, he attended the Mozarteum Academy, Keshet Eilon Mastercourse, and the New York String Orchestra Seminar, and also spent three indispensable summers at the Meadowmount School of Music.\r\n\r\nHe was awarded the Young Artist Award from the Interlochen Arts Academy and later received his Bachelor of Music from Indiana University where he studied with Alexander Kerr. As concertmaster of IU\u2019s Philharmonic Orchestra, Dylan worked very closely with Jorja Fleezanis, and collaborated with many of the world\u2019s leading conductors. While at IU, he developed a deep appreciation for opera and in 2018, helped lead the joint world premiere of Mason Bates\u2019 Grammy award-winning opera, The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs<\/em>. Also through the Jacobs School of Music, he was granted the opportunity to work in Germany as a guest musician with the Deutsche Oper Berlin.\r\n\r\nDylan is a certified Suzuki teacher who is committed to his students and their musical journeys. He has worked with the Inner City Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles (ICYOLA) and public school systems of Southern California, in addition to the Three River Arts Young People\u2019s Orchestras in Pittsburgh (TRYPO). His latest book project, Modes and More<\/em>, explores a fresh approach to learning the fingerboard for developing violinists. Born in Raleigh, North Carolina, Dylan grew up in San Jose, CA where he studied with Jenny Rudin. In his free time, he enjoys cooking, chess, and Iyengar yoga.","post_title":"Dylan Naroff","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"dylan-naroff","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-05-20 09:46:01","post_modified_gmt":"2024-05-20 15:46:01","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.svmusicfestival.org\/staging\/?post_type=people&p=12569","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":2142,"post_author":"16","post_date":"2019-06-07 21:34:03","post_date_gmt":"2019-06-07 21:34:03","post_content":"Originally from Worcester, MA, violinist Julia Noone is the Associate Concertmaster of the Louisville Orchestra. She has appeared as soloist with the LO on multiple occasions, including performances of Mozart\u2019s\u00a0Sinfonia Concertante, Korngold\u2019s Violin Concerto, various Baroque concerti, and more.\u00a0In 2019, Julia performed on\u00a0The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon\u00a0<\/em>with LO music director Teddy Abrams, Jim James, and several LO colleagues to promote the orchestra\u2019s new album\u00a0The Order of Nature.<\/em>\r\n<\/em>\r\nJulia has performed as guest Concertmaster with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the Jacksonville Symphony, the Lakes Area Music Festival, and Orchestra Kentucky,\u00a0and as guest Principal Second with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. She has additionally\u00a0performed\u00a0with the Boston, Indianapolis, Pittsburgh, and\u00a0St. Louis Symphony Orchestras as an auxiliary musician. Julia has been a member of the Sun Valley Music Festival since 2016.\r\n\r\nPrior to\u00a0Louisville, Julia was a\u00a0Fellow at the New World Symphony in Miami, where she\u00a0regularly performed as\u00a0Concertmaster and\u00a0was the featured soloist in\u00a0Szymanowski\u2019s Second Violin Concerto after winning the NWS\u00a0Concerto\u00a0Competition. Also\u00a0while at\u00a0New World, Julia traveled to Medell\u00edn, Colombia to perform Tchaikovsky\u2019s Violin Concerto as part of the\u00a0NWS\u2019s exchange with Iberacademy.\r\n\r\nJulia spent multiple summers performing with the Moritzburg Academy, the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, and the Tanglewood Music Center, where she was awarded the Jules C. Reiner Violin Prize and served as Concertmaster regularly, including a performance of Strauss\u2019\u00a0Also Sprach Zarathustra<\/em>.\u00a0Other summer festival engagements include a performance as Concertmaster for\u00a0Bach\u2019s\u00a0St. Matthew Passion<\/em>\u00a0with the Spoleto Festival USA and two seasons as Assistant Concertmaster of Charlottesville Opera.\r\n\r\nJulia received her bachelor\u2019s degree from the New England Conservatory, where she was a student of Masuko Ushioda.","post_title":"Julia Noone","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"julia-noone","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-06-05 09:07:51","post_modified_gmt":"2024-06-05 15:07:51","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/dev.svmusicfestival.org\/?post_type=people&p=2142","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":2115,"post_author":"16","post_date":"2019-06-07 20:49:29","post_date_gmt":"2019-06-07 20:49:29","post_content":"Milana Elise Reiche is a member of the Minnesota Orchestra and has served as Concertmaster of the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra and New World Symphony in Miami Beach. She regularly participates in chamber orchestras and music festivals throughout the country and has appeared as soloist with major orchestras across the United States. Originally from Louisville, Kentucky, she earned a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Minnesota and a Master of Music from Yale University.","post_title":"Milana Elise Reiche","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"milana-elise-reiche","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-05-07 13:18:44","post_modified_gmt":"2024-05-07 19:18:44","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/dev.svmusicfestival.org\/?post_type=people&p=2115","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":2117,"post_author":"16","post_date":"2019-06-07 20:51:08","post_date_gmt":"2019-06-07 20:51:08","post_content":"Misha Rosenker enjoys a diverse career as a solo performer, chamber musician, orchestral player, and teacher. Hailed by the Des Moines Register<\/em> for his \u201cvirtuosic surety and musical integrity,\u201d the Boston Musical Intelligencer<\/em> praised his \u201cwarm, nuanced sound\u201d while the Baltimore Sun<\/em> noted a performance of \u201cterrific music-making \u2013 technically refined, emotionally charged.\u201d Mr. Rosenker has appeared as soloist with the Des Moines Symphony, Spokane Symphony, Mankato Symphony, and the Chicago Chamber Orchestra, performed at music festivals including Brevard, Cape Cod, Carmel Bach, and Sun Valley, and collaborated with members of the Borodin, Brentano, and Tokyo String Quartets. His passion for teaching has led to prior faculty appointments including the University of Georgia, Drake University, and the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University where he replaced Martin Beaver. Mr. Rosenker is currently principal second violin of the Des Moines Symphony. He studied with Josef Gingold and Sidney Harth and earned degrees from Yale and Indiana University.","post_title":"Misha Rosenker","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"misha-rosenker","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-03-30 14:27:37","post_modified_gmt":"2023-03-30 20:27:37","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/dev.svmusicfestival.org\/?post_type=people&p=2117","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":2119,"post_author":"16","post_date":"2019-06-07 20:52:48","post_date_gmt":"2019-06-07 20:52:48","post_content":"Erin Schreiber has studied the violin since age four. She has appeared in recitals throughout the U.S., as well as in London, Sweden, and most recently Neuenkirchen, Germany. She has also appeared as soloist with the Richardson, Gateway, and Alton Symphony orchestras, and has performed for such dignitaries as Colin Powell and former President Jimmy Carter. Schreiber has won the Lennox Young Artist\u2019s Competition, the St. Louis Italian American Federation Young Artists Competition, the pre-college strings division of the Corpus Christi International Young Artists Competition, and the Junior division of the Kingsville International Competition. She has twice been the recipient of the prestigious Buder Foundation Music Grant, as well as three-time recipient of the Anita Crane Music Scholarship. Past teachers have included Roland and Almita Vamos, Elisa Barston, and Robert Lipsett. Erin Schreiber studied with Joseph Silverstein and Pamela Frank at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. She assumed the duties of St. Louis Symphony Assistant Concertmaster in September 2008.","post_title":"Erin Schreiber","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"erin-schreiber","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-05-22 11:18:08","post_modified_gmt":"2023-05-22 17:18:08","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/dev.svmusicfestival.org\/?post_type=people&p=2119","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":15799,"post_author":"13","post_date":"2024-04-25 11:50:25","post_date_gmt":"2024-04-25 17:50:25","post_content":"Violinist Jeanelle Thompson, Principal Second Violin of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, has dedicated herself to symphonic music for nearly two decades. Her commitment to orchestral performance has taken her to many of the world\u2019s most prestigious stages including Carnegie Hall, Chicago Symphony Hall, Elbphilharmonie, Musikverein, Beijing\u2019s National Centre for the Performing Arts, Philharmonie de Paris, Severance Hall and Suntory Hall.\r\n\r\nJeanelle's love for orchestral music began at the age of 9 when she joined the community orchestra in her hometown of Safford, Arizona. Seven years later, she made her solo debut with the Phoenix Symphony. Inspired by her early experiences onstage, Jeanelle went on to earn her undergraduate degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music where she studied with William Preucil and was awarded the Dr. Jerome Gross Prize in Violin. While in school she was a member of the Canton Symphony Orchestra and attended the Aspen Music Festival, Brevard Music Center, Perlman Music Program and the Verbier Festival.\r\n\r\nJeanelle has since performed as a substitute with the Cleveland Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and the Minnesota Orchestra. She has appeared as guest concertmaster with the Bangor Symphony, the Brevard Music Center orchestras, the Cleveland Institute of Music Orchestra, the Lexington Bach Festival and the Youngstown Symphony.\u00a0 As a music educator, Jeanelle served on the Cleveland Institute of Music\u2019s Preparatory Chamber Music faculty from 2018-2022 and maintains a private studio.\r\n\r\n ","post_title":"Jeanelle Thompson","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"jeanelle-thompson","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-04-29 09:29:27","post_modified_gmt":"2024-04-29 15:29:27","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.svmusicfestival.org\/staging\/?post_type=people&p=15799","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":2125,"post_author":"16","post_date":"2019-06-07 20:57:21","post_date_gmt":"2019-06-07 20:57:21","post_content":"Since joining the RPO in 1991, Perrin Yang has served as acting principal second violin and associate concertmaster. Originally from San Francisco, Yang is a high honors graduate of Oberlin College and received his Master's of Music from the University of Michigan.\u00a0 He is a member of the Rochester Chamber Orchestra, where he has appeared as soloist and concertmaster on several occasions. He also performs chamber music, mostly with his string quartet, and has appeared as guest artist at the Fortissimo!, Aspen, Peter Britt, Roycroft, Skaneateles, and Boulder Bach festivals.\r\n\r\nOver the past few years, he has expanded his musical palette by venturing outside of the \"traditional\" classical music genre. He has performed original and cover music of all kinds including folk\/blue grass, blues, rock, and pop. Audiences at a variety of Rochester's festivals and musical venues -from the Rochester International Jazz Fest to the Dinosaur BBQ, have enjoyed the variety of sounds produced by his purple electric violin and collection of effects pedals. He has recorded full CDs with several local Rochester groups such as \"Birds On A Wire,\" \"Right Turn Racer,\" and \"Significant Other.\" Outside of his musical activities, you can usually find him participating in some sport, most likely tennis or pickleball, or spending time with his two energetic cats-Winky and Bandit.","post_title":"Perrin Yang","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"perrin-yang","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-07-19 20:38:01","post_modified_gmt":"2019-07-19 20:38:01","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/dev.svmusicfestival.org\/?post_type=people&p=2125","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}]},{"people_picker_title":"Violin II","people_picker":[{"ID":2127,"post_author":"16","post_date":"2019-06-07 20:58:50","post_date_gmt":"2019-06-07 20:58:50","post_content":"Born to a family of musicians in St. Petersburg, Russia, Ms. Sedukh began studying violin at the age of four, her first teachers being her father Grigory Sedukh and Savely Shalman. She is a graduate of Special Music School of the St. Petersburg Conservatory, and the Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory, where she studied under the guidance of Lev Ivaschenko and Vladimir Ovtcharek. She also holds Artist Diploma from Longy School of Music in Cambridge, MA, where she studied with Laura Bossert and Malcolm Lowe.\r\n\r\nPrizewinner of the International Spohr Competition in Weimar, Germany, Ms. Sedukh made her solo orchestral debut at the age of seven with the Chamber Orchestra of Liepaya, Latvia and has since appeared as soloist with St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra, Boston Virtuosi Orchestra, St.Petersburg Capella Symphony Orchestra, Newton Symphony Orchestra and Weimer State Capella Orchestra.\r\n\r\nMs. Sedukh with cellist, Terry King, presented the world premiere of Vladimir Uspensky\u2019s Double Concerto at the International St. Petersburg Spring Music Festival in 2001. Recent engagements include collaboration with pianist Kirill Gerstein and members of San Francisco Symphony in a performance of Shostakovich Piano Quintet in Davies Symphony Hall. She was also featured in San Francisco Symphony's subscription series concert as the second violin in Beethoven Quartet op. 74, in addition to appearing as a soloist with Russian Chamber Orchestra and San Francisco Academy Orchestra.\r\n\r\nFollowing her passion for symphonic music, Ms. Sedukh pursued a career in major American orchestras, presently being a member of 2nd violin section of San Francisco Symphony since 2009, and having previously served as a member of Boston Symphony Orchestra from 2004 to 2007. Ms. Sedukh has served as a Guest Principal Second violinist at the Sun Valley Music Festival\u00a0throughout 2015 season.\r\n\r\nMs. Sedukh resides with her family in San Francisco Bay Area since 2007.","post_title":"Polina Sedukh","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"polina-sedukh","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-07-18 17:16:08","post_modified_gmt":"2019-07-18 17:16:08","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/dev.svmusicfestival.org\/?post_type=people&p=2127","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":2129,"post_author":"16","post_date":"2019-06-07 21:00:03","post_date_gmt":"2019-06-07 21:00:03","post_content":"Amy Glidden is currently the associate concertmaster of the Buffalo Philharmonic, a position she has held since 2000. A native of Wichita, Kansas, Amy attended the University of Kansas, where she received a B.A. in Biology as well as a B.M. in Violin Performance. Subsequently, she received a Master of Violin Performance degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music. Amy has performed with the Phoenix Symphony, the Toronto Symphony, the Fort Worth Symphony, and the Canadian National Ballet Orchestra. While a resident of San Francisco, Amy served as assistant concertmaster of the Marin Symphony and concertmaster of the Mendocino Music Festival.\u00a0 She travels west each summer with participate in the Sun Valley Music Festival and the Grand Teton Music Festival, where she has been a festival participant for 4 years.\r\n\r\nAmy has often performed as a soloist with the Buffalo Philharmonic, including performances of the Chausson Poeme, Mozart\u2019s Violin Concerto No. 5, and Vaughaun-Williams The Lark Ascending. Other local solo engagements include performances with the Ars Nova Chamber Orchestra and the Amherst Symphony.\r\n\r\nAmy is a founding member of the Clara String Quartet, comprised of BPO musicians, which has performed on many chamber music venues across Western New York. In addition, Amy periodically returns to her hometown of Wichita, Kansas to collaborate in the \u201cChamber Music in the Barn\u201d series. Locally, she performs with the Roycroft Chamber Music Festival and Buffalo Chamber Players. Besides maintaining a private violin studio, Amy is a Suzuki violin instructor and teaches at Orchard Park Suzuki Strings.","post_title":"Amy Glidden","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"amy-glidden","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-05-14 14:02:54","post_modified_gmt":"2024-05-14 20:02:54","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/dev.svmusicfestival.org\/?post_type=people&p=2129","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":16519,"post_author":"13","post_date":"2024-07-09 10:03:52","post_date_gmt":"2024-07-09 16:03:52","post_content":"

Jacob Buhler is a second-year Violin Fellow at the New World Symphony. As an orchestral musician, he has served as a section violinist with the Canton Symphony and as a substitute musician with the San Diego Symphony, Sarasota Orchestra, Cleveland Pops Orchestra, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, and Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Recent summer engagements have included performances with the Bard Music Festival, Artosphere Festival Orchestra. and the Britt Festival Orchestra as their Assistant Principal Second Violinist. Buhler has also performed alongside Judy Collins, as well as Bradley Cooper in Netflix\u2019s Maestro (2023).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Jacob regularly plays chamber music as well, and has performed with IlluminArts in Miami. At the New World Symphony, Jacob had performed chamber music alongside members of the Catalyst Quartet and members of the Cleveland Orchestra, the latter\u2019s performance of Shostakovich\u2019s 9th Quartet which has been lauded as, \u201cthe finest iteration of a string quartet heard by this listener\u2026 in more than 35 years of attending this organization\u2019s Sunday chamber programs\u201d (South Florida Classical Review).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

As a teacher, Jacob believes it is important to serve the community with music. He has served as a Teaching Artist with The Rainey Institute, an El Sistema program based in Cleveland, where he taught daily group lessons to young violinists and cellists. He has also worked with the Pathways Program at the Eastman Community Music School to provide free violin lessons to local students. Most recently, Jacob has served as a faculty member with the Nashville Symphony\u2019s Accelerando Program.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Originally from Lake Grove, New York, Jacob received his bachelor of music degree in Applied Music with Honors and an Arts Leadership Certificate from the Eastman School of Music and his master of music in violin performance from the Cleveland Institute of Music. His principal violin teachers have included Bin Huang, Juliana Athayde, Paul Kantor, Jessica Lee and Philip Setzer.<\/span><\/p>","post_title":"Jacob Buhler","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"jacob-buhler","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-07-09 10:08:22","post_modified_gmt":"2024-07-09 16:08:22","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.svmusicfestival.org\/staging\/?post_type=people&p=16519","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":2135,"post_author":"16","post_date":"2019-06-07 21:27:27","post_date_gmt":"2019-06-07 21:27:27","post_content":"Rebecca Corruccini joined the Minnesota Orchestra\u2019s first violin section in 2008. She served as acting assistant concertmaster from 2014-15, then acting associate principal second for 2015-16. Before assuming her Minnesota post, she performed two seasons with the Houston Symphony, and has also recorded Emmy award-winning PBS All-Star Orchestra episodes as a charter member of the first violin section.\r\n\r\nCorruccini has appeared as guest concertmaster of the Louisiana Philharmonic and Philharmonia Mexico, and as guest associate principal second violin with the Baltimore Symphony. From 2010 to 2014 she was concertmaster of the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra, and with that ensemble she was featured as soloist in Shostakovich\u2019s First Violin Concerto, Mendelssohn\u2019s Violin Concerto, Mozart\u2019s Fifth Violin Concerto, and Vaughan Williams\u2019 The Lark Ascending<\/i>. She has also appeared as soloist in Sarasate\u2019s Zigeunerweisen<\/i> as well as the Berg and Stravinsky violin concertos. In another solo roles, Corruccini was featured in a recital at the Kennedy Center\u2019s Terrace Theater.\u00a0Most recently, she performed the Beethoven concerto with the Oneota Valley Community Orchestra.\r\n\r\nCorruccini has been featured in both chamber music and orchestral performances at festivals across the country, including the Colorado Music Festival, where as assistant concertmaster she performed Anders Koppel\u2019s Tarentella<\/i> with percussion soloist Colin Currie. A member of the Sun Valley Music Festival since 2007, she has also served as a member of the Grand Teton Music Festival orchestra and the Mainly Mozart Festival, and as faculty at the Brevard Music Center.\r\n\r\nCorruccini earned a Bachelor of Music degree with honors at the Cleveland Institute of Music, studying with William Preucil. She received a master\u2019s degree from Rice University\u2019s Shepherd School of Music, where her teacher was Kathleen Winkler. A teacher herself since the age of 12, Corruccini particularly enjoys teaching adult amateurs as well as coaching individuals preparing for auditions. Her non-musical passions include the environment and animals, especially Sunshine, her rescue dog.","post_title":"Rebecca Corruccini","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"rebecca-corruccini","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2020-03-27 08:24:30","post_modified_gmt":"2020-03-27 15:24:30","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/dev.svmusicfestival.org\/?post_type=people&p=2135","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":2137,"post_author":"16","post_date":"2019-06-07 21:29:37","post_date_gmt":"2019-06-07 21:29:37","post_content":"Elizabeth Field is concertmaster of The Bach Choir of Bethlehem, and the Founder and Director of The Vivaldi Project and the Institute for Early Music on Modern Instruments (EMMI). She has served as concertmaster for leading period instrument ensembles such as the Washington Bach Consort, Opera Lafayette and The Spire Chamber Ensemble. Prior to her work with period instruments,\u00a0 Ms Field performed and recorded extensively for Deutsche Grammophon with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. She is currently a member of the ArcoVoce Chamber Ensemble which performs on both modern and period instruments and is a frequent guest artist and soloist with the Mallarme Chamber Ensemble.\r\n\r\nMs Field serves as a performance-practice coach for orchestras, conservatories and universities including, The National Philharmonic and The Curtis Institute of Music. The Vivaldi Project\u2019s current recording of seven unknown18th-century string trios titled: Discovering the Classical String Trio is currently available on MSR Classics records. Field has also recorded for Analekta, Centaur, Naxos, Hungaraton, and Plectra Records. Her collaborative DVD with fortepianist Malcolm Bilson titled Performing the Score, was lauded by Emanuel Ax as \u201ctruly inspiring\u201d. For more information about Elizabeth, please visit www.thevivaldiproject.org<\/a>","post_title":"Elizabeth Field","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"elizabeth-field","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-07-19 20:54:33","post_modified_gmt":"2019-07-19 20:54:33","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/dev.svmusicfestival.org\/?post_type=people&p=2137","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":16105,"post_author":"13","post_date":"2024-05-23 12:13:30","post_date_gmt":"2024-05-23 18:13:30","post_content":"Sydney Hartwick joined the Columbus Symphony Orchestra in 2023 as Fixed Fourth Chair in the first violin section, and recently won the position of Assistant Principal Second Violin. She began her musical studies at age six, and has since enjoyed a varied career. As an orchestra musician, she has performed extensively with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, and has also played with the Utah Symphony, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Ballet Orchestra, and the New World Symphony amongst others.\r\n\r\nAs a soloist, Sydney has performed with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Louisville Orchestra, Muncie Symphony Orchestra, and the American Fork Symphony (Utah). Sydney\u2019s summer studies included attending the Aspen Music Festival and Sarasota Music Festival, both as a fellowship recipient, as well as attending the Domaine Forget International Music Festival. Most recently, Sydney performed a season with the Britt Festival Orchestra.\r\n\r\nGrowing up, Sydney attended the Jacobs School of Music pre-college program where she was a member of the Violin Virtuosi, and toured the US\/Argentina performing both solo and ensemble repertoire. Prior to that, she studied at\u00a0the Gifted Music School in Utah, performing in their chamber orchestra.\r\n\r\nSydney holds a BM and MM degree from the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, as well as a Professional Studies Certificate from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.\u00a0Sydney is passionate about teaching, and currently maintains a private studio. In her spare time, she enjoys running, hiking, and cooking. She is pleased to be participating in the 2024 Sun Valley Music Festival for the first time this summer.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n ","post_title":"Sydney Hartwick","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"sydney-hartwick","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-07-17 19:08:32","post_modified_gmt":"2024-07-18 01:08:32","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.svmusicfestival.org\/staging\/?post_type=people&p=16105","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":2108,"post_author":"16","post_date":"2019-06-07 20:43:12","post_date_gmt":"2019-06-07 20:43:12","post_content":"Named a 2009 Presidential Scholar in the Arts by the U.S. Department of Education, violinist Andrea Jarrett received her Master of Music Degree from the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University in May 2015. While obtaining her degree, Andrea was a student of Kathleen Winkler and served as concertmaster of both the chamber and symphony orchestras. She received her Bachelor of Music Degree from The Juilliard School in 2013, where she studied with David Chan.\u00a0 Andrea was appointed to the second violin section of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra by David Robertson in 2015. \u00a0She made her solo debut with the orchestra in 2019 performing Kreisler\u2019s \u201cLiebesleid\u201d with Music Director St\u00e9phane Den\u00e8ve. Andrea has also performed as a guest with the San Diego Symphony, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, and Minnesota Orchestra.\r\n\r\nPrior to her appointment with the symphony, Ms. Jarrett participated in the 2013 New York String Orchestra Seminar under the direction of Jaime Laredo.\u00a0 While attending Juilliard, Andrea gave the world premiere of composer Neil Rolnick\u2019s concerto for violin and electronics in November 2012, titled \u201cGardening at Gropius House.\u201d Another highlight during her undergraduate years was her performance of the Mendelssohn Octet in the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center\u2019s\u00a0Meet the Music!<\/em>\u00a0Concert Series.\r\n\r\nDuring her high school years, Ms. Jarrett was a member of the Music Institute of Chicago\u2019s Academy program, where she studied with Almita and Roland Vamos. Andrea received the Silver Award in Music\/Violin from the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts in January of 2009. Also a passionate chamber musician, Andrea was a member of Quartet Polaris, Gold Medal Winners of the 2008 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, Junior Division. She performed with Quartet Polaris on NPR\u2019s classical music series \u201cFrom the Top.\u201d A native midwesterner, Andrea performed as a soloist with the Dearborn, Birmingham-Bloomfield, Toledo, and Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestras during her time in high school.\r\n\r\nThroughout her education, Andrea was fortunate to attend many summer music festivals including Taos School of Music, Pacific Music Festival, Music Academy of the West, and Interlochen Arts camp among others. She first performed with the Sun Valley Music Festival in the 2019 season and has been lucky enough to return ever since.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n ","post_title":"Andrea Jarrett","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"andrea-jarrett","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-06-03 10:24:14","post_modified_gmt":"2024-06-03 16:24:14","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/dev.svmusicfestival.org\/?post_type=people&p=2108","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":2141,"post_author":"16","post_date":"2019-06-07 21:32:22","post_date_gmt":"2019-06-07 21:32:22","post_content":"Mayumi Masri is currently the Assistant Concertmaster of the Alabama Symphony Orchestra. Mayumi, who was born and raised in Connecticut, started playing the violin at the age of four. She studied the violin with Syoki Aki, Professor of Violin at the Yale School of Music, Sharon Yamada, member of the New York Philharmonic, and Albert Markov. Mayumi received her Bachelors of Music at the Peabody Conservatory of Music at Johns Hopkins University where she studied under the tutelage of Viktor Danchenko. After Peabody, Mayumi attended the New World Symphony under the musical direction of Michael Tilson Thomas. Mayumi also plays in the Festival Mozaic in San Luis Obispo, CA.","post_title":"Mayumi Masri","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"mayumi-masri","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-05-08 13:04:41","post_modified_gmt":"2024-05-08 19:04:41","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/dev.svmusicfestival.org\/?post_type=people&p=2141","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":16313,"post_author":"13","post_date":"2024-06-03 11:36:50","post_date_gmt":"2024-06-03 17:36:50","post_content":"A native of North Haven, Connecticut, violinist Myles Mocarski holds the position of Principal Second Violin with the Louisville Orchestra. Prior to joining the Louisville Orchestra in the 2024\u20132025 season, Myles held the position of Principal Second Violin with the Richmond Symphony in Virginia during the 2023\u00ad\u20132024 season. As a student, he held section violin positions with the Albany Symphony and the Eastern Connecticut Symphony. He has also been engaged as a substitute violinist with the Washington National Opera.\r\n\r\nMyles began playing the violin at the age of 15 after being first exposed to the instrument and to classical music from an accomplished violin student at his high school. After taking infrequent violin lessons for a year, he was mostly self-taught when he entered the University of Connecticut at the age of 18 as student of speech language hearing science. He successfully auditioned for the UConn music program during the middle of his freshman year, and through the encouragement of his professor, Solomiya Ivakhiv, decided to pursue his dream of becoming a professional violinist.\r\n\r\nHe graduated from UConn in 2016 with a dual degree in music and speech language hearing science. He subsequently earned an MM and DMA from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2019 and 2023 respectively. He feels so excited every day to be working as a professional orchestral violinist and is immensely grateful for the encouragement of all his teachers, mentors, friends, and family.","post_title":"Myles Mocarski","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"myles-mocarski","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-06-03 12:35:05","post_modified_gmt":"2024-06-03 18:35:05","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.svmusicfestival.org\/staging\/?post_type=people&p=16313","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":2144,"post_author":"16","post_date":"2019-06-07 21:35:06","post_date_gmt":"2019-06-07 21:35:06","post_content":"Violinist Mark Paxson enjoys a varied career as an orchestral and chamber musician, concertmaster and teacher.\u00a0 A longtime member of the Portland (ME) Symphony Orchestra, he has also performed with the Boston Symphony, Pops, Ballet, Lyric Opera and Philharmonic orchestras, Opera Boston, Emmanuel Music and the Orchestra of St. Luke\u2019s. Highlights have also included a month long tour of Japan with the American Symphony, performances with the Malaysia Philharmonic and period instrument concerts with the Handel & Haydn Society and Boston Baroque. Mr. Paxson was guest first violinist of the Ives String Quartet in 2003 and has also performed chamber music at the Woodstock Mozart, Warebrook Contemporary and White Mountain festivals, at the Taos School of Music and at Ernen Musikdorf. He has been concertmaster of the Monadnock Music Festival Orchestra, New Hampshire Symphony, Maine Oratorio Orchestra, Boston Academy of Music and the New England Philharmonic. A highly respected teacher, Mr. Paxson\u2019s students have won positions in the MA All-State orchestra and also in regional and state competitions. He has taught at the New England Conservatory\u2019s Extension Division, Northeastern University, Longy School of Music, Sun Valley Music Conservatory and the Rocky Ridge (CO) Music Center.\r\n\r\nMr. Paxson holds degrees with honors from both the New England Conservatory of Music and Indiana University.\u00a0 He also studied with Joyce Robbins in New York City.","post_title":"Mark Paxson","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"mark-paxson","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-07-19 21:04:26","post_modified_gmt":"2019-07-19 21:04:26","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/dev.svmusicfestival.org\/?post_type=people&p=2144","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":4573,"post_author":"16","post_date":"2020-01-31 18:24:16","post_date_gmt":"2020-01-31 18:24:16","post_content":"Benjamin Scott joined the National Symphony Orchestra in 2018 and maintains a lively chamber music career in Washington, DC.\u00a0 He has served as guest concertmaster of the New Orchestra of Washington and in acting title positions with the Eclipse Chamber Orchestra and National Philharmonic.\u00a0 A frequent substitute with The Philadelphia Orchestra and Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and a member of the Verbier, Aspen, and Pacific Music Festival orchestras, Ben has performed for audiences on three continents.\u00a0 You might have heard him in promo music for the Super Bowl or seen him on stage with Aretha Franklin, Ne-Yo, Ben Folds, Chris Thile, or William Shatner.\u00a0 A recent release from the NSO earned a nomination for the 2023 Gramophone<\/i> Orchestra of the Year.\u00a0 Ben also appears on Grammy-nominated orchestral recordings on the Deutsche Grammophon and Reference Recording labels.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nBen values the many ways that music has a positive effect on the community.\u00a0 He is a regular musician for NSO In Your Neighborhood and Sound Health initiatives as well as other organizations with missions of inclusivity.\u00a0 For years, Ben volunteered with Musicians on Call, and he can often be found introducing new audiences to live string quartet music at Candlelight Concerts.<\/span>\r\n\r\nAs a small-business owner and the craftsman behind Atelier Benno, Ben keeps busy designing and creating high quality leather goods by hand.\u00a0 He also loves exploring new corners of the world, learning to cook different cuisines, bothering his cat, and bringing new life to his 1780 Giuseppe Guadagnini violin.<\/span>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n ","post_title":"Benjamin Scott","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"benjamin-scott","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-05-16 14:40:24","post_modified_gmt":"2024-05-16 20:40:24","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.svmusicfestival.org\/staging\/?post_type=people&p=4573","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":2146,"post_author":"16","post_date":"2019-06-07 21:36:28","post_date_gmt":"2019-06-07 21:36:28","post_content":"Adrienne Sengpiehl has been the principal second violinist of Midsummer Mozart since 1996. Since playing with the New World Symphony under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas, she continues her career actively freelancing with Bay Area orchestras: The San Francisco Symphony, San Francisco Opera, Santa Rosa Symphony, Berkeley Symphony and Marin Symphony. As a chamber musician, Adrienne has been heard throughout the bay area from Noontime Concerts and Old First Church in SF to the Napa Valley Opera House. An avid music educator, Adrienne is both former faculty and affiliate teacher for the Virtuoso Program at the San Domenico School, and performer for the San Francisco Symphony\u2019s Adventures in Music Program.","post_title":"Adrienne Sengpiehl","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"adrienne-sengpiehl","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-07-19 21:06:42","post_modified_gmt":"2019-07-19 21:06:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/dev.svmusicfestival.org\/?post_type=people&p=2146","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":2150,"post_author":"16","post_date":"2019-06-07 21:38:22","post_date_gmt":"2019-06-07 21:38:22","post_content":"A native of Chicago, Shawn Weil was appointed to the St. Louis Symphony in April 2005. Prior to his appointment, he played as a contracted member of the orchestra for two seasons. For four seasons, Mr. Weil was co-concertmaster of the New World Symphony. During his tenure at the New World Symphony, he was invited to represent the institution in chamber music performances domestically in Manhattan and the Hamptons, and internationally in Prague, Rome, and Monte Carlo. He has collaborated with Michael Tilson Thomas, David Robertson, Alasdair Neale, and the Miami String Quartet. An active educator and mentor, Mr. Weil is on the violin faculty of Eastern Music Festival in North Carolina. He is frequently involved with the Education and Community Partnership Program of the SLSO. From 2002-03, he served on the faculty of the acclaimed Opus 118: Harlem Center for Strings in Manhattan. Shawn Weil received his Bachelor of Music degree and the Performance Diploma from Indiana University.","post_title":"Shawn Weil","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"shawn-weil","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-01-14 12:51:07","post_modified_gmt":"2022-01-14 19:51:07","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/dev.svmusicfestival.org\/?post_type=people&p=2150","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":2152,"post_author":"16","post_date":"2019-06-07 21:40:51","post_date_gmt":"2019-06-07 21:40:51","post_content":"Concert violinist Alicia Yang regularly appears with renowned ensembles such as the San Francisco Symphony and Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and has performed throughout the United States and Europe. Her training from the Oberlin and New England Conservatories spans genres from Renaissance to contemporary minimalist. She\u2019s recorded a contemporary composition on the Opus One label and specializes in historically informed performances with period instruments. Ms. Yang also enjoys playing chamber music with her husband, cellist Amos Yang, and spending time with their children.","post_title":"Alicia Yang","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"alicia-yang","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-05-10 15:28:51","post_modified_gmt":"2024-05-10 21:28:51","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/dev.svmusicfestival.org\/?post_type=people&p=2152","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}]},{"people_picker_title":"Viola","people_picker":[{"ID":2084,"post_author":"16","post_date":"2019-06-07 20:09:54","post_date_gmt":"2019-06-07 20:09:54","post_content":"Adam Smyla first received recognition at the age of 17, winning the first prize at the National Viola Competition in his native Poland. Within six months, he became the youngest member of the Polish National Radio and Television Orchestra and was invited to join the Penderecki String Quartet. As a member of the quartet, he toured throughout the world for nearly a decade with major performances in cities such as London, Paris, Berlin, Rome, and New York.\r\n\r\nMr. Smyla has participated in numerous music festivals, including the Rome Festival in Italy and the Midem-Classique Festival in France, and has made numerous recordings for radio and television broadcasts throughout the world.\r\n\r\nSince 2000, Mr. Smyla has been a member of the San Francisco Symphony and held the position of Associate Principal Violist from 2006-2009. He is the viola coach of the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra and a faculty member at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. He appears frequently in chamber music concerts throughout the Bay Area, often in collaboration with his wife, pianist Edna Koren.","post_title":"Adam Smyla","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"adam-smyla","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-07-17 17:13:15","post_modified_gmt":"2019-07-17 17:13:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/dev.svmusicfestival.org\/?post_type=people&p=2084","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":11387,"post_author":"16","post_date":"2023-01-19 14:06:54","post_date_gmt":"2023-01-19 21:06:54","post_content":"

Chris Tantillo, a native of Long Island, New York, began playing the violin at the age of seven. He switched to viola while attending the Interlochen Arts Academy, where he completed his high school degree, studying with David Holland. Tantillo received his Bachelor\u2019s of Music degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he studied with Stanley Konopka, and continued his graduate studies with Robert Vernon.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n

\r\n<\/span>Tantillo joined the viola section of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra in 2006. Prior to that, he performed with the San Diego Symphony and the New World Symphony, in Miami Beach, Florida. He is a sought after chamber musician, and frequently collaborates with The Chamber Music Society of Saint Louis as well as The Ariel Concert Series, The Missouri Chamber Music Festival, and The Bach Society of Saint Louis. A major advocate of new music, he frequently performs in the SLSO\u2019s\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Live at the Pulitzer<\/span><\/i><\/span>, the orchestra\u2019s contemporary music series. He first joined the The Sun Valley Music Festival in 2023.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n

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He maintains a large teaching studio and has had students go on to major in viola performance at the Cleveland Institute of Music, the Juilliard School, the Eastman School of Music, and the University of Michigan, among others.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n

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He lives in Saint Louis with his wife, Rebecca, and their son.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Additionally, Laurel was a member of both the Florida Grand Opera and Palm Beach Symphony for five seasons from 2011-2016. Other orchestras Laurel has performed with include the Pittsburgh Symphony, Naples Philharmonic, Southwest Florida Symphony, West Virginia Symphony, Youngstown Symphony Orchestra, Erie Philharmonic, and Canton Symphony.\r\n\r\nDuring the summers, Laurel is the Principal Violist of the Ash Lawn Opera Orchestra in Charlottesville, VA and is a regular member of the Artosphere Festival Orchestra in Fayetteville, Arkansas and the Sun Valley Music Festival in Idaho.\r\n\r\nOutside of the United States, Laurel has had the opportunity to perform in the Dominican Republic, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Spain and Turkey. She has performed with the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra and the Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra. Originally hailing from a family of orchestral musicians in Nashville, TN, Laurel went on to study at the University of Michigan and Manhattan School of Music.\u00a0 Her most influential teachers include Yizhak Schotten, Karen Dreyfus, Caroline Coade, Dan Reinker, and Kathryn Plummer","post_title":"Laurel Borden","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"laurel-borden","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-07-22 21:17:40","post_modified_gmt":"2019-07-22 21:17:40","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/dev.svmusicfestival.org\/?post_type=people&p=2159","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":16360,"post_author":"13","post_date":"2024-06-09 21:22:50","post_date_gmt":"2024-06-10 03:22:50","post_content":"A native of Reno, Nevada, Dustin Budish began his musical training at the age of eight studying the piano, but soon after a suggestion by his middle school strings teacher, he realized his true passion was for the viola.\r\n\r\nBudish studied at Oberlin College and the Cleveland Institute of Music with Jeffrey Irvine where he received his BM in viola performance and then received his MM with honors at the New England Conservatory with Martha Katz. While in college, he worked with and performed alongside members of the Cavani, Tokyo, Vermeer and Cleveland Quartets and received the Russell Award at the Coleman Chamber Music Competition in 2001. As a chamber musician, he has performed at the Ravinia, Norfolk, Cactus Pear festivals and most recently at the Nevada Chamber Music Festival. As a member of the Verbier Festival, Budish traveled across the globe for performances in Europe, Asia, India and was invited to Israel to perform with Maxim Vengerov\u2019s Mozart Project with the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra.\r\n\r\nAs a member of the New World Symphony in Miami Beach, FL he performed in Carnegie Hall with Yo Yo Ma and later was featured as soloist with the orchestra as a winner of the annual concerto competition under Maestro Alasdair Neale\u2019s direction. Also, while in Miami, he served as artistic director for the \u201cFriends\u201d of New World, where he catered custom innovative fusions of classical music with hip-hop, electronic, reggae and funk for private events.\r\n\r\nPresently, Budish is principal viola of the Reno Philharmonic and the Reno Chamber Orchestra. In 2015, he was a featured soloist with the Reno Philharmonic where he performed the Walton Viola Concerto. He has also frequently substituted with the San Francisco Symphony and was a participant of the Sun Valley Summer Symphony (before it was renamed) for almost 10 years.\r\n\r\nBudish has a passion for nurturing the next generations of young musicians and teaches many young violinists and violists privately in the Reno area, many of which have received numerous awards and honors. He is also the conductor for the Reno Youth Concert Orchestra and has regularly programmed fun repertoire from Bach to The Legend of Zelda video game music.\r\n\r\n ","post_title":"Dustin Budish","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"dustin-budish","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-06-13 09:19:31","post_modified_gmt":"2024-06-13 15:19:31","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.svmusicfestival.org\/staging\/?post_type=people&p=16360","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":2160,"post_author":"16","post_date":"2019-06-07 22:17:18","post_date_gmt":"2019-06-07 22:17:18","post_content":"Allyson Dawkins, Principal Violist of the San Antonio Symphony, has won consistent admiration for her playing as both orchestral soloist and recitalist. Critics have praised the \u201cgreat sensitivity and intelligence\u201d of her playing, as well as her \u201cfull-bodied, velvety tone.\u201d\r\n\r\nMs. Dawkins is on the faculty of the University of Texas at San Antonio, and is highly sought after and widely respected as a private teacher. During the summer she serves as Dean of Students, teaches viola and coaches string quartets at the Quartet Program at State University of New York in Fredonia.\r\n\r\nA native of Atlanta, Georgia, Ms. Dawkins received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the State University of New York at Purchase, and a Master of Music degree and the prestigious Performer\u2019s Certificate from the Eastman School of Music.","post_title":"Allyson Dawkins","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"allyson-dawkins","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-05-01 14:27:43","post_modified_gmt":"2023-05-01 20:27:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/dev.svmusicfestival.org\/?post_type=people&p=2160","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":10303,"post_author":"16","post_date":"2022-08-18 10:38:21","post_date_gmt":"2022-08-18 16:38:21","post_content":"Caroline Lee has performed throughout the United States and Canada as an orchestral player as well as a chamber musician and recitalist. She is currently a member of the San Francisco Ballet orchestra and also performs regularly as a sub with the San Francisco Opera Orchestra, Chicago Symphony, and the Philadelphia Orchestra.\r\n\r\nBefore relocating to the Bay area, Caroline was a member of the Kansas City Symphony for eight years. She also performed with the Kansas City Chamber Orchestra as principal violist and New Ear Ensemble, an ensemble dedicated to performing music written by living composers. An active chamber musician, she has performed in Banff, Domaine Forget, and the International Musical Arts Festivals, collaborating with members of the Tokyo, Cleveland and Colorado quartets, as well as artists such as Eric Friedmann, Steve Dann, Ian Swensen, and Richard Stolzman. Along with her sister Aeri, Caroline formed the Lee duo and performs recitals throughout north America, championing less familiar viola repertoire. She is also member of Eos Ensemble<\/a>, performing a wide range of works for chamber ensemble within the SF bay area.\r\n\r\nCaroline received her bachelor in music degree at the University of Michigan and her masters and Artist Diploma at Yale School of Music. She currently lives in Oakland with her husband and two children.","post_title":"Caroline Lee","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"caroline-lee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-08-18 10:38:21","post_modified_gmt":"2022-08-18 16:38:21","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.svmusicfestival.org\/staging\/?post_type=people&p=10303","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":2157,"post_author":"16","post_date":"2019-06-07 22:14:50","post_date_gmt":"2019-06-07 22:14:50","post_content":"Deanna Mustain, a native of Boston, began playing the viola at the age of four. She completed her undergraduate and graduate studies at Stanford University, where she studied viola with Lesley Robertson of the St. Lawrence String Quartet and completed a B.S. in Organizational Design & Engineering and a M.S. in Management Science & Engineering. During her time at Stanford, she was also a student of Jodi Levitz and Paul Hersh at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. She went on to complete a Graduate Diploma with Kim Kashkashian at the New England Conservatory of Music.\r\n\r\nWhile in graduate school, Deanna won a one-year contract with the Pittsburgh Symphony, where she played for the 2018-2019 season and has continued to play as a regular substitute. She has also performed with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, East Coast Chamber Orchestra, and Sejong Soloists, and has been participating in the Sun Valley Music Festival since 2019. Deanna enjoys collaborating as a chamber musician and has performed with the Boston Chamber Music Society, the Borromeo String Quartet, the St. Lawrence String Quartet, and Music for Food, a musician-led initiative for local hunger relief.\r\n\r\nWhen not playing viola, Deanna can be found working on the product team at Duolingo, training for her next half marathon, or exploring local hiking trails with her husband Kyle and dog Harper.","post_title":"Deanna Mustain","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"deanna-badizadegan","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-06-05 09:20:50","post_modified_gmt":"2024-06-05 15:20:50","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/dev.svmusicfestival.org\/?post_type=people&p=2157","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":2165,"post_author":"16","post_date":"2019-06-07 22:20:47","post_date_gmt":"2019-06-07 22:20:47","post_content":"South African native Elizabeth Prior is a prize-winning artist who tours worldwide as a soloist. She currently serves as Principal Viola with Santa Rosa Symphony, as a New Century Chamber Orchestra member, and with the Farallon Quintet, and regularly appears with other major San Francisco Bay area orchestras. Ms. Prior debuted at Carnegie Hall with the Russian Chamber Orchestra and has worked and performed with S\u00fcdwestfunk, Stuttgart Radio, Basel Symphony, and the Mannheim Opera Orchestras.","post_title":"Elizabeth Prior","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"elizabeth-prior","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-08-01 06:45:45","post_modified_gmt":"2024-08-01 12:45:45","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/dev.svmusicfestival.org\/?post_type=people&p=2165","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":2167,"post_author":"16","post_date":"2019-06-07 22:22:19","post_date_gmt":"2019-06-07 22:22:19","post_content":"Cassandra Lynne Richburg is a founding member of the New Century Chamber Orchestra, based in San Francisco, and is an active studio musician in Los Angeles. She has performed on more than 350 motion picture soundtracks and, on many occasions, has been a member of the Academy and Emmy Awards Orchestras and the Grammy Strings.\r\n\r\nRichburg started playing viola at age 10. She is a Presidential Scholar in the Arts and has won many competitions across the nation, including 1st prize in the William Primrose International Viola Competition and a special prize award in the Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition.\r\n\r\nWhile a student at the University of Michigan, she was featured in the video-taped \u201cMaster Viola Series\u201d by Donald McInnes, and she received Bachelor and Master\u2019s Degrees from the University of Southern California, under the guidance of Donald McInnes and Alan DeVeritch.\r\n\r\nRichburg has been a featured soloist with several orchestras, including the Lansing Symphony Orchestra, Calgary Philharmonic, Savannah Symphony, Sacramento Symphony, and the New Century Chamber Orchestra. She has held positions of Assistant and Acting Principal Violist with the Sacramento Symphony, Principal Violist with the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra, and was a member of the Lansing Symphony Orchestra. She has also played and toured with the New York Philharmonic and San Francisco Symphonies as a substitute musician and has participated in the Sun Valley Music Festival since 1998.","post_title":"Cassandra Lynne Richburg","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cassandra-lynne-richburg","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-05-13 11:19:19","post_modified_gmt":"2024-05-13 17:19:19","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/dev.svmusicfestival.org\/?post_type=people&p=2167","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":2169,"post_author":"16","post_date":"2019-06-07 22:23:31","post_date_gmt":"2019-06-07 22:23:31","post_content":"Violist Ann Roggen has been awarded grants from Chamber Music\r\n\r\nAmerica and the National Endowment for the Arts, and as a member of the Orchestra of St. Luke's, has recorded extensively for the Telarc, Sony and Deutsche Gramaphone recording labels.\r\n\r\nShe maintains an active studio at William Paterson University where she is Professor of Viola, Chamber Music and Orchestral Studies, as well as in New York City where she teaches viola and chamber music. As a member of the Bennington College faculty, she has had great success in developing interdisciplinary cultural events designed to combine music with literature, history, dance and language in performance. Ann is a tireless advocate for unique and unusual repertoire for the viola in combination with other instruments and voice. In her role as Vice President of the New York Viola Society, she has been successful in creating numerous performance opportunities in New York City for dedicated violists to explore this repertoire, both old and new. In the fall of 2008, she was elected to the national board of the American Viola Society.\r\n\r\nSome of Ann\u2019s recent creations include \"The Forbidden Music\" of composers banned by the Nazis, an evening of music for multiple violas, with violists of the London Symphony Orchestra, concerts of viola music by film composers, as well as an event presented by the Pen and Brush organization devoted to the life and works of composer Rebecca Clarke.\r\n\r\nHighlights of recent seasons include concerto performances with the Zagreb Chamber\r\n\r\nOrchestra (Croatia), as well as recitals and master classes under the auspices of the American Cultural Centres in Zagreb and Vilnius, Lithuania.\r\n\r\nAnn received her musical training at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University, and the Juilliard School. Her principal teachers and mentors have included Karen Tuttle, Lillian Fuchs, Joseph Fuchs and the Juilliard String Quartet.\r\n\r\n ","post_title":"Ann Roggen","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ann-roggen","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2020-01-23 17:33:40","post_modified_gmt":"2020-01-23 17:33:40","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/dev.svmusicfestival.org\/?post_type=people&p=2169","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":2170,"post_author":"16","post_date":"2019-06-07 22:24:48","post_date_gmt":"2019-06-07 22:24:48","post_content":"Violist Uri Wassertzug has performed professionally in many places around the world including Alaska, California, and Utah in the U.S. as well as the UK, Italy, Japan, and New Zealand. Since 1998 he has been a member of the Kennedy Center Opera House\/ Washington National Opera Orchestra as well as Idaho\u2019s Sun Valley Music Festival. He occasionally serves as Guest Principal Viola with the National Philharmonic. He has also performed with the San Francisco Opera and Symphony, the National Symphony, the Sacramento Symphony, the Cabrillo Festival, and the California Symphony among many others.\r\n\r\nMr. Wassertzug is a member of the National Chamber Ensemble and appears frequently on the Kennedy Center\u2019s Millennium Concerts series. Other chamber music appearances and affiliations have included the New Zealand Festival of Chamber Music, Mozart in Monterey, the Foulger International Music Festival, the Empyrean Ensemble, the Sun Quartet, and the Beau Soir Ensemble.\r\n\r\nMr. Wassertzug is on the faculty of George Washington University. His own studies were at the University of Maryland, the Aspen Music Festival (on a fellowship), and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music (awarded the Germaine Prevost Scholarship). Some of his teachers included the members of the Guarneri Quartet, Isadore Tinkleman, and Robert Becker. An aficionado of coffee, Mr. Wassertzug has been roasting his own coffee beans for several years. He lives in Virginia with his wife, violinist Elizabeth Field, and their son.","post_title":"Uri Wassertzug","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"uri-wassertzug","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-07-22 21:21:45","post_modified_gmt":"2019-07-22 21:21:45","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/dev.svmusicfestival.org\/?post_type=people&p=2170","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5229,"post_author":"16","post_date":"2020-07-14 12:20:58","post_date_gmt":"2020-07-14 19:20:58","post_content":"Shannon Williams lived in several places throughout her childhood but calls Wisconsin, where she spent the most time, her home state.\u00a0 She began playing the violin at the age of five after seeing Itzhak Perlman on Sesame Street and by age seven, had dreams of becoming a member of the Green Bay Symphony.\u00a0 Sadly, that dream was never realized, though she was quite happy to join the viola section of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra in 2005, David Robertson\u2019s inaugural season as Music Director.\r\n\r\nWhile in high school, she studied violin with the great pedagogue, Mimi Zweig, and was concertmaster of the Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra.\u00a0 Gently persuaded by Zweig, Williams gave the viola a try in a chamber music setting.\u00a0 She and some fellow Milwaukee musicians formed what became known as the Dubinsky Quartet, named after Rostislav Dubinsky, an early mentor of theirs and the founder of the Borodin Quartet.\u00a0 The group went on to win several competitions and accolades, including the junior division of the Fischoff Competition and Indiana University\u2019s Kuttner Quartet competition.\u00a0 In 1999, they were one of ten chamber groups worldwide invited to participate in Australia\u2019s prestigious Melbourne Chamber Music Competition and were also prizewinners in California\u2019s Coleman Competition.\r\n\r\nWilliams began her undergraduate studies as a violin student of Miriam Fried at Indiana University but ultimately decided the viola was her true voice, at which point she began studying with Atar Arad and received her Bachelor\u2019s degree in viola performance.\u00a0 She then went to the New England Conservatory where she received her Master\u2019s Degree under the tutelage of Martha Katz.\r\n\r\nWilliams remains an avid chamber musician as a member of the SLSO, performing regularly as a trio with violinist Kristin Ahlstrom and cellist Bjorn Ranheim, and is always eager to tackle the challenging modern repertoire performed at the SLSO\u2019s\u00a0Live at the Pulitzer\u00a0series.\u00a0 She has also been a featured soloist with the SLSO, as a competition winner at Indiana University, and at the Colorado Music Festival, where she spent several summers as their principal viola.\r\n\r\nShe is also a wife and a mother to three beautiful, rambunctious children. She enjoys hiking, biking and relaxing with a giant glass of wine at the end of another crazy day.","post_title":"Shannon Williams","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"shannon-williams","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-05-08 14:27:10","post_modified_gmt":"2024-05-08 20:27:10","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.svmusicfestival.org\/staging\/?post_type=people&p=5229","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}]},{"people_picker_title":"Cello","people_picker":[{"ID":2172,"post_author":"16","post_date":"2019-06-07 22:25:46","post_date_gmt":"2019-06-07 22:25:46","post_content":"Amos Yang joined the San Francisco Symphony in 2007 as Assistant Principal Cello. He was previously a member of the Seattle Symphony. Born and raised in San Francisco, he was a member of the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra and San Francisco Boys Choir and holds bachelor's and master's degrees from the Juilliard School. He has performed as soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States, including regular appearances with the Seattle Chamber Music Society and at the Olympic Music Festival, and from 1996 to 2002 he was the cellist in the Maia String Quartet. He has served on the faculties of the Peabody Conservatory, the University of Iowa, Grinnell College and the Interlochen Advanced String Quartet Institute. 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An active soloist and chamber musician, Mr. Ranheim has toured in the United States, Europe, and Central America, with performances at Carnegie Hall, Boston\u2019s Gardner Museum, Teatro Nacional de Costa Rica, and the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain. 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He has served as Principal cello with the Sacramento Symphony, the Colorado Philharmonic, California Symphony,the National Repertory Orchestra, the Honolulu Symphony and has held positions with the Oakland, San Jose and New Haven Symphonies. Richard performs regularly with the San Francisco Symphony and has appeared as soloist with the San Francisco Conservatory Orchestra, the Colorado Philharmonic, the Camellia Symphony, the National Repertory Orchestra, the California Youth Symphony, the Vallejo Symphony and several times with the Sacramento Symphony. 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Institute, and Bowdoin. She was a member of the Sacramento Symphony for many years and has played with Honolulu, Modest, and Vallejo (as principal), and has soloed with Sacramento, Vallejo, and Camellia Symphonies. An active chamber music performer, she has participated in Chamber Music Northwest, Old First Church Concerts (SF), Chamber Music West, and the Sun Valley chamber music series. Currently Ms. Andaya is principal cellist of the Sacramento Opera and Choral Society as well as the Napa Valley Symphony and plays in the Sacramento Philharmonic. 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In addition to duties with the Music Festival, which often include leading the section as principal for opera, ballet and chamber orchestra performances, East is also heard frequently in recitals and chamber music concerts throughout the Kansas City region and beyond. He has also performed with the Sun Valley (Idaho) Music Festival every summer since 1992.\r\n\r\nIn the Kansas City area, he has performed regularly in groups including Summerfest Chamber Music Concerts (also serving as an Artistic Advisor), the Boulevard String Quartet and newEar Contemporary Chamber Ensemble. Before settling in Kansas City, East spent two seasons as a member of the New World Symphony under the direction of conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, and he was also re-invited to coach the NWS cello section as a guest alumnus.\r\n\r\nEast has been featured as soloist with the Kansas City Symphony, the Kansas City Chamber Orchestra, the Sedalia Symphony, the Erie (PA) Chamber Orchestra and the Fredonia Chamber Players.\r\n\r\nEast received his training at Indiana University where he received a bachelor\u2019s degree and performer diploma, and he earned his master\u2019s degree at the New England Conservatory of Music. His teachers have included Tsuyushi Tsutsumi, Janos Starker, Laurence Lesser and Colin Carr. He performs on an English cello made ca.1800-10 by John Betts of London.","post_title":"Alexander East","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"alexander-east","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-07-19 21:42:13","post_modified_gmt":"2019-07-19 21:42:13","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/dev.svmusicfestival.org\/?post_type=people&p=2179","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":2181,"post_author":"16","post_date":"2019-06-07 22:30:56","post_date_gmt":"2019-06-07 22:30:56","post_content":"Cellist Eric Gaenslen is a freelance musician in San Francisco, a Rossetti Quartet member, and part-time Artist-in-Residence at the University of Washington School of Music. He\u2019s performed in solos, recitals, and small ensembles worldwide. His music study began at age 7, leading to a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University and Master of Music degree from the Juilliard School. A dedicated educator, he\u2019s taught at the Mannes College pre-college in New York and University of California, Santa Cruz.","post_title":"Eric Gaenslen","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"eric-gaenslen","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-07-18 14:34:43","post_modified_gmt":"2019-07-18 14:34:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/dev.svmusicfestival.org\/?post_type=people&p=2181","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":4495,"post_author":"16","post_date":"2020-01-24 22:33:26","post_date_gmt":"2020-01-24 22:33:26","post_content":"After first participating in the 2020 virtual season, cellist Jacob Hanegan is excited to join the musicians of the Sun Valley Music Festival for his second in-person season this summer. Praised for his \u201crobust tone and sensitivity\u201d, and \u201csoulfulness and breathless lyricism\u201d(Chicago Classical Review), Jacob Hanegan serves as the principal cellist of the Illinois Philharmonic. Jacob joined the IPO in 2019, performing live on WFMT for the Dame Myra Hess Memorial concert series with the IPO quartet in 2021, and making his concerto debut with the orchestra in 2022. Hanegan also serves as principal of the Chicago Opera Theater, guest principal of the Chicago Philharmonic Orchestra, and enjoys regular performances with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Seattle Symphony Orchestra, and Detroit Symphony Orchestras.\r\n\r\nA 2018 alum of The New World Symphony, Hanegan spent his time there working with leading cellists and conductors from around the world under Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas. As a lover of opera, he has performed with Seattle Opera and the Des Moines Metro Opera, along with serving as principal of the Aspen Opera Center Orchestra, the Shepherd School Opera Orchestra, and the Eastman Opera Orchestra. He has performed chamber music collaborations with members of the Cleveland Quartet and Emerson Quartet, along with many contemporary music performances in Milwaukee, Chicago, Miami, Houston, and New York. 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He has appeared in solo and chamber music performances at Carnegie Hall\u2019s Stern Auditorium, Weill Recital Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Hall, 92nd Street Y, Kennedy Center, Victoria Concert Hall in Singapore, Izumi Hall in Osaka, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, and National Concert Hall in Taipei. Mr. Li has also performed in many renowned music festivals, including the Ravinia Festival, Verbier Festival and Kronberg Academy Cello Festival. An active chamber musician, he has collaborated with such esteemed artists as Emanuel Ax, Lang Lang, Thomas Quasthoff, Miriam Fried and members of the Emerson, Tak\u00e1cs, Juilliard, Cleveland, Casals, and \u00c9b\u00e8ne quartets. His recording of the Bart\u00f3k string quartets with the Euclid Quartet was highly praised by Gramophone magazine and American Recording Guide.\r\n\r\nMr. Li joined the faculty of the Cleveland Institute of Music (CIM) in 2017 and currently serves as Associate Dean and Chamber Music Program Director. As a dedicated pedagogue, his student ensembles have won top prizes in major international and national competitions, including the Banff International String Quartet Competition, Bordeaux International String Quartet Competition, Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition, Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition, Fischoff Chamber Music Competition, Coltman Chamber Music Competition and Plowman Chamber Music Competition.\r\n\r\nMr. Li holds a Bachelor of Music degree from The Juilliard School and a Master of Music and Artist Diploma from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University.\r\n\r\n ","post_title":"Si-Yan Darren Li","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"si-yan-darren-li","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-08-14 17:45:48","post_modified_gmt":"2023-08-14 23:45:48","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/dev.svmusicfestival.org\/?post_type=people&p=2186","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":2190,"post_author":"16","post_date":"2019-06-07 22:35:54","post_date_gmt":"2019-06-07 22:35:54","post_content":"Born in Montreal, Canada, cellist Louis-Philippe Robillard first came to the United States in 2003 with a performance scholarship to study with Timothy Eddy at the Mannes College of Music in New York City . Graduated with the highest honors and awarded the Prix de conservatoire from Montreal Conservatory, Mr. Robillard has previously studied with Carole Sirois and Dorothy B\u00e9gin, and has worked with Mstislav Rostropovich, Lynn Harrell, David Soyer, Desmond Hoebig, Hans Jorgen Jensen, and Philippe Muller in masterclasses and private lessons. Mr. Robillard has won competitions such as the Canadian Music Competition, the Montreal Conservatory Concerto Competition, and the New World Symphony Concerto Competition. He has been performing as a solo, chamber, and orchestral musician, giving recitals in New York and Montreal, and participating in international festivals such as the Domaine Forget International Music Festival, Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival, Verbier Festival (Switzerland), Pacific Music Festival (Japan), Sun Valley Music Festival and the Canadian National Art Center's Young Artists Programme. Louis-Philippe Robillard has been a member of the New World Symphony and the Fort Worth Symphony before joining the Utah Symphony in 2016.\r\n\r\nMore commonly known as Louis in the United States, Louis-Philippe enjoys spending his free time hiking, swimming, cooking and drinking too much coffee.\r\n\r\n ","post_title":"Louis-Philippe Robillard","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"louis-philippe-robillard","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-07-22 21:26:32","post_modified_gmt":"2019-07-22 21:26:32","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/dev.svmusicfestival.org\/?post_type=people&p=2190","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":2191,"post_author":"16","post_date":"2019-06-07 22:37:03","post_date_gmt":"2019-06-07 22:37:03","post_content":"Ellen Sanders is a cellist, teacher and conductor who lives and plays in Oakland, CA and the Bay Area. She is Principal Cello of Santa Cruz Symphony, Assistant Principal Cello of Opera San Jose and a regular member of the San Jose Chamber Orchestra and an extra musician for the San Francisco Opera. Ms. Sanders is a teaching artist for the San Francisco Symphony\u2019s Education Department where she weekly visits middle and high school music classes to coach cello sections and chamber music groups. In 2015\/2016 she joined H.O.U.S.E. (Home of United String Ensembles) \u2013 a program that brings professional musicians to public schools to coach string music students in Oakland. For 2014\/15 she was Assistant Conductor of The Community Women\u2019s Orchestra (Oakland, CA) where she premiered the first movement of the \u201cConcerto for 4 Bassoons\u201d by June Bonacich. Ms. Sanders has been a member of the Sun Valley Music Festival cello section since 1992. Ellen has coached for the Sun Valley Music Festival's Summer Music Workshops from the start and will conduct its Philharmonia Orchestra for an 11th summer in 2016. Ms. Sanders is a graduate of Oberlin College and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. She has been seen hiking her doggie girl, Toni, in the regional parks of Oakland and surfing the waters of Santa Cruz.","post_title":"Ellen Sanders","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ellen-sanders","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-07-19 21:53:18","post_modified_gmt":"2019-07-19 21:53:18","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/dev.svmusicfestival.org\/?post_type=people&p=2191","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":4436,"post_author":"16","post_date":"2020-01-22 17:53:01","post_date_gmt":"2020-01-22 17:53:01","post_content":"Born in Virginia and raised in South Carolina, cellist Margaret Tait joined the San Francisco Symphony in 1974. Her studies were at the North Carolina School of the Arts, the University of Southern California, and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and she holds a Bachelor\u2019s and Master\u2019s degree in Music. Although she has been engaged throughout her career as an orchestral musician, she has a deep love for chamber music. In 1979 she helped to found the Aurora String Quartet which was a vital force on the chamber music scene for 22 years. With the Quartet, she performed in London, New York, Tokyo, and maintained a series of compelling concerts in the Bay Area. The Aurora Quartet received two commissioning grants from Chamber Music America and did West Coast premieres of works by George Tsontakis, George Perle, Benjamin Lees, David MacBride, and others. They also performed as concerto soloists with the San Francisco Symphony.\u00a0 On the Naxos label, the Quartet recorded the complete Quartets by Mendelssohn and the two Quartets by Prokofieff.\r\n\r\nAs a recitalist, she has performed Beethoven\u2019s complete works for cello and piano with William Corbett Jones. They have also presented programs containing a wide range of repertoire. Tait is a frequent performer on the Davies Hall Chamber series, sponsored by the San Francisco Symphony.","post_title":"Margaret Tait","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"margaret-tait","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-04-25 11:19:25","post_modified_gmt":"2024-04-25 17:19:25","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.svmusicfestival.org\/staging\/?post_type=people&p=4436","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":4498,"post_author":"16","post_date":"2020-01-24 22:43:36","post_date_gmt":"2020-01-24 22:43:36","post_content":"Cellist Emileigh Brooke Vandiver brings people together through the humanity of music, cello in tow. Described by the Boston Musical Intelligencer as a musician who conveys <\/span>\u201c<\/span>a world of emotional meaning to the cello,\u201d Ms. V<\/span>andiver<\/span>\u2019s performances, teaching, and community engagement reflect her desire to reverse the current trend of social isolation and reconnect people across cultures.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nReviewed by the <\/span>New York Times<\/span><\/i> as an \"excellent performer,\" Ms. Vandiver is a versatile musician who has performed with various orchestras across the globe. The 2021-2022 season marked her debut as Associate Principal with the Fort Worth Symphony. During the s<\/span>ummer<\/span> months, she enjoys playing with the Sun Valley Music Festival and Artosphere Festival Orchestra. Previously, she held positions with the Houston Symphony, Dallas Symphony, and Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra. Additional ensemble experiences include touring and\/or performing with the Baltimore Symphony, the Grant Park Orchestra, the Boston Lyric Opera, and A Far Cry.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nCommitted to the sustainability of her art form, Ms. Vandiver is a noted interpreter and advocate of new music. She was the principal cellist in the 21st Century Contemporary Ensemble, part of Carnegie Hall\u2019s professional workshops, directed by John Adams and David Robertson. Ms. Vandiver draws inspiration from and has worked closely with Steve Reich, David Lang, John Adams, Michael Gordon, Andrew Norman, Hans Zender, Robert Honstein, Gunther Schuller, Vinko Globokar, John Heiss, and Julia Wolfe. She has also performed at June in Buffalo with Ensemble Signal and in the Bang on a Can marathon.<\/span> \u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nMs. Vandiver completed her Bachelor and Master of Music degrees and Graduate Diploma at the New England Conservatory and, upon graduation, received the Gunther Schuller President\u2019s Medal. She studied with Paul Katz, Natasha Brofsky, and John Heiss. Her pre-college teachers include Richard Aaron, Hans J<\/span>\u00f8<\/span>rgen-Jensen, Christopher French, and Ann Victor.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nShe is featured as a principal character in the cello documentary,<\/span> Talent Has Hunger,<\/span><\/i> and was subsequently praised by the Hollywood Reporter for making the <\/span>\u201c<\/span>most vivid impression.<\/span>\u201d Additionally, she is a contributor to www.CelloBello.com. Ms. Vandiver is currently writing two solfege textbooks and a cello method book. 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A highly skilled bassist in the classical and jazz fields, Pat is in demand as a performer, producer, clinician and teacher.\u00a0 He received his Bachelor of Music degree in Performance at San Francisco State University, his Masters of Music degree in Performance at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and currently holds the post of Lecturer of Classical and Jazz Double Bass at California State University East Bay.<\/p>\r\n

Mr. Klobas performs with the Marin Symphony, and as section bassist in the Sun Valley Summer Symphony. He is a substitute for the San Francisco Opera, San Francisco Ballet, California Symphony, Oakland East Bay Symphony, Symphony Silicon Valley, The Skywalker Symphony, the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra, Merola Opera, the Turtle Island String Quartet and Quartet San Francisco. Pat was principal bass with San Francisco Opera's touring company Western Opera Theater for 14 years, performing in over 40 states before its final curtain.<\/p>\r\n

In the field of jazz and popular music Mr. Klobas is known in the San Francisco Bay Area as a first call session man. Pat has shared the stage with jazz artists Rosemary Clooney, Michael Feinstein, Warren Vashe, , Quartet San Francisco, San Francisco Chamber Jazz Quartet , American Jazz Philharmonic and Indian Master Tabla percussionist Zakir Hussain. Mr. Klobas can often be found performing in the San Francisco Symphony Pops Orchestra rhythm section as well as the California Symphony Pops and the Sun Valley Summer Symphony Pops.<\/p>\r\n

Performing with Broadway stars and musical theater productions are part of Pat's numerous musical experiences. Some of Pat's favorites shows were with Brian Stokes Mitchell, Michael Feinstein, Tony Danza, Elaine Stritch, Kristin Chenoweth, Bob Hope, the Shorenstein Nederlander world premiere productions of\u00a0White Christmas<\/em>,\u00a0The Producers<\/em>\u00a0with Martin Short and Jason Alexander,\u00a0Les Mis\u00e9rables<\/em>,\u00a042nd Street<\/em>,\u00a0West Side Story<\/em>,\u00a0Ragtime,<\/em>\u00a0and many others.<\/p>\r\n

As a recording artist Pat Klobas' recent list of credits include\u00a0Star Wars Trilogy<\/em>\u00a0with John Williams conducting (Grammy\u00ae nominated), Linda Ronstadt\u00a0Winter Light<\/em>,\u00a0No Gravity<\/em>\u00a0Klobas\/Kesecker Ensemble, recordings for Turtle Island String Quartet, Randy Newman, Kitaro, and the San Francisco Chamber Jazz Quartet. Skywalker Symphony movie soundtracks include\u00a0Spy Kids<\/em>,\u00a0Predator ll<\/em>,\u00a0Ricochet<\/em>,\u00a0Soap Dish<\/em>,\u00a0Why Charlie Brown, Why?,<\/em>\u00a0and many others.<\/p>\r\n

Mr. Klobas has studied with Stephen Tramontozzi, Charles Siani, Shinji Eshima, Joe Lescher, Herman Jobelman and Charles Chandler. 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She\u2019s Associate Principal Bassist with the San Diego Symphony and performs with major orchestras throughout southern California. Her recordings include Hollywood soundtracks, projects with Grammy Award-winning vocalist Dianne Reeves, and \u201cHoops & Yoyo\u201d e-cards with Hallmark. She graduated magna cum laude with a double Bachelor of Music in bass and vocal performance at CSU Sacramento before completing her Master of Music and Advanced Studies at the University of Southern California.","post_title":"Susan Wulff","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"susan-wulff","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-07-18 14:39:55","post_modified_gmt":"2019-07-18 14:39:55","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/dev.svmusicfestival.org\/?post_type=people&p=2206","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}]},{"people_picker_title":"Flute","people_picker":[{"ID":2212,"post_author":"16","post_date":"2019-06-07 22:56:09","post_date_gmt":"2019-06-07 22:56:09","post_content":"A native of Philadelphia, Andrea Kaplan is the Associate Principal Flute of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, a position she has held since 2007. 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It was through the influence of her older brother, an orchestral conductor, and her first experience playing Beethoven\u2019s marvelous Seventh Symphony that awakened her to her calling as an orchestral musician. Since then, she has performed with the Bangor Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago Civic Orchestra, the Binghamton Philharmonic Orchestra, the Verbier Festival Orchestra, the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, and the Music in the Mountains Festival Orchestra. She was invited to perform with the Nashville Symphony Orchestra in the beginning of their 2017-2018 season and joined the NSO family in the spring of 2018 as Piccolo\/Flute III. She joined the Britt Festival Orchestra family in the summer of 2019.\r\n\r\nEqually at home in the world of Broadway and session music as she is on the classical music concert stage, she was recently part of the 2023 Broadway tour of \u201cInto the Woods\u201d and can be heard on various soundtracks of video games and TV shows. She teaches private lessons and has been invited to lead masterclasses at the Vanderbilt University Blair School of Music and the MTSU Flute Studio.\r\n\r\nGloria Yun has studied at the Mannes College of Music and DePaul University, and her teachers include Sue Ann Kahn, Mathieu Dufour, and \u00c9rik Gratton. She has won prizes from the New York Flute Club, Pittsburgh Flute Club, Flute Society of Greater Philadelphia Young Artist Competitions, and the LISMA International Music Competition, and has been featured as a concerto soloist with the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra. 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In 2017, he performed the world premiere of Guggenheim Fellow Adam Roberts\u2019s oboe quartet, which was commissioned for Behr and the Society for Chamber Music in Rochester, where he is Artistic Director with his wife.\r\n\r\nHis playing has been praised by critics as \u201cbold and graceful\u201d (Washington Post<\/em>), \u201cimmaculate\u201d (Sunday Tribune<\/em>), singled out for \u201ctremendous musicianship and sense of style\u201d (Irish Examiner<\/em>), and for \u201cease and eloquence\u201d (Rochester Democrat and Chronicle<\/em>).\r\n\r\nCurrently Adjunct Professor at Roberts Wesleyan College, he has also been a guest oboe teacher at the Cleveland Institute of Music, Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Rice University, the National Orchestral Institute, and Carnegie Hall\u2019s NYO-USA. Behr has served on the oboe faculty at the University of Houston and was a visiting lecturer at Cornell University. 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He moved to Nebraska with his wife Erica after a 5-year tenure in Hawaii as Solo English horn and third oboe with the Honolulu Symphony. Prior to his tenure in Hawaii, Jason was second oboist with the San Jose Symphony, and performed frequently with the San Francisco Symphony, Opera San Jose, and the San Francisco Opera. He has served as Principal Oboe of the Lubbock and Midland\/Odessa Symphonies, in addition to appearing with the Houston Symphony, Houston Ballet, and San Antonio Symphony.\u00a0 Jason received his Bachelor of Music degree with honors from Texas Tech University, and earned a Masters degree from Rice University's Shepherd School of Music, where he studied with Houston Symphony principal oboist Robert Atherholt. 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As a chamber musician she has collaborated with artists such as James Conlon, Lorin Maazel, John Harbison, and Elliott Carter.\u00a0 Ms. Overturf has appeared at numerous summer festivals including La Jolla Summerfest, Mainly Mozart, Tanglewood Music Center, National Repertory Orchestra, and the Aspen Music Festival. Ms. Overturf holds degrees from the Eastman School of Music and the Juilliard School, and is the first oboist in Juilliard history to graduate from the prestigious Artist Diploma Program. Her principal teachers include Elaine Douvas, Pedro Diaz, Nathan Hughes, Richard Killmer, Richard Woodhams, and Rebecca Henderson.\r\n\r\n ","post_title":"Andrea Overturf","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"andrea-overturf","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-05-08 13:40:37","post_modified_gmt":"2024-05-08 19:40:37","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.svmusicfestival.org\/staging\/?post_type=people&p=15797","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}]},{"people_picker_title":"Clarinet","people_picker":[{"ID":2228,"post_author":"16","post_date":"2019-06-07 23:25:29","post_date_gmt":"2019-06-07 23:25:29","post_content":"Susan Warner is Assistant Principal Clarinetist of the Chicago Lyric Opera Orchestra. She has also performed as a substitute musician with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, and the Grant Park Symphony Orchestra. In addition to her position at the operahouse, Mrs. Warner is a member of the Sun Valley Music Festival and the Prairie Winds, a nationally touring wind quintet.\r\n\r\nMrs. Warner has performed at the Tanglewood, Schleswig-Holstein, Heidelberg Castle, Grand Teton, Music Academy of the West, and Aspen festivals. In August 2019 as a member of the Chicago Winds Quintet, she, along with her husband, Chicago Symphony Orchestra hornist David Griffin, toured throughout China where her growing fluency in Mandarin allowed her to deliver spoken introductions during concerts.\r\n\r\nMrs. Warner and her husband live in Oak Park, Illinois; together they have homeschooled their children, allowing for extensive family travels, most recently to Chile, Antarctica, New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia, Panama, and Turkey.","post_title":"Susan Warner","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"susan-warner","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-07-17 10:39:32","post_modified_gmt":"2024-07-17 16:39:32","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/dev.svmusicfestival.org\/?post_type=people&p=2228","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":2232,"post_author":"16","post_date":"2019-06-07 23:27:34","post_date_gmt":"2019-06-07 23:27:34","post_content":"Roman Fukshansky is an acknowledged chamber and orchestra musician, appearing regularly with the San Francisco Symphony and Opera orchestras, as well as other major San Francisco Bay area orchestras. He\u2019s currently Principal Clarinet with the Berkeley Symphony and Symphony Napa Valley and on the faculty of San Francisco Conservatory of Music Pre-College Division and UC Santa Cruz. 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He has also performed with the Cleveland Orchestra, Dallas Symphony, San Francisco Opera, San Francisco Ballet, Sun Valley Summer Symphony, Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra, and the Naples (Florida) Philharmonic.\r\n\r\nMr. Simas is a member of the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble and performs regularly in venues throughout California including the Sierra Chamber Society, San Francisco Symphony chamber series at Davies Symphony Hall, and with symphony orchestras at Skywalker Ranch for various motion picture recording projects. He won grand prize at the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, first prize at the Yellow Springs Chamber Music Competition, and first prize at the International Clarinet Association\u2019s Young Artist Competition, and participated in the Marlboro Music Festival, National Repertory Orchestra, and Tanglewood Music Center. Previously a fellow at the New World Symphony, he is featured in Gershwin\u2019s Rhapsody in Blue <\/em>and Stravinsky\u2019s Ebony Concerto <\/em>on the New World Symphony\u2019s RCA Victor Red Seal recording New World Jazz <\/em>with Michael Tilson Thomas.\r\n\r\nA dedicated music educator, Mr. Simas is professor of clarinet and chamber music at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and is a coach with the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra. Previously he taught at Stanford University, UC Davis, and the University of Akron. He received his bachelor\u2019s and master\u2019s degrees from the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he studied with Cleveland Orchestra principal clarinet Franklin Cohen.","post_title":"Jerry Simas","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"jerry-simas","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-05-08 13:35:38","post_modified_gmt":"2024-05-08 19:35:38","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.svmusicfestival.org\/staging\/?post_type=people&p=5212","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":16568,"post_author":"13","post_date":"2024-07-17 10:46:40","post_date_gmt":"2024-07-17 16:46:40","post_content":"Carmen Izzo has been heard in a variety of concert halls throughout the globe, with his playing hailed as \u201cimpeccably haunting\u201d by Opera Today. He currently serves as Principal Clarinet of the Boise Philharmonic and Assistant Principal Clarinet\/Bass Clarinet of the Las Vegas Philharmonic. As an educator, Carmen is on faculty at the College of Idaho and Northwest Nazarene University and maintains an active private lesson studio.\r\n\r\nIn 2024, Carmen was featured as a soloist performing Carl Nielsen\u2019s Clarinet Concerto with the Boise Philharmonic. Previously, he has served as Principal Clarinet of the Central City Opera Orchestra, Co-Principal Clarinet of the Hyogo Performing Arts Center Orchestra and the Civic Orchestra of Chicago. \r\n\r\nRecently, Carmen has performed in music festivals such as the Artosphere Festival, Music in the Mountains, Mendocino Music Festival, Ballet Sun Valley, and Sun Valley Music Festival. He also appeared with orchestras around the world including the Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra, Kyushu Symphony Orchestra, Macao Orchestra, Pacific Symphony, Music of the Baroque, Virginia Symphony and the Quad Cities Symphony Orchestra. Carmen holds degrees from the University of Southern California and DePaul University. His principal teachers were Julie DeRoche, Larry Combs and Yehuda Gilad.\r\n\r\nCarmen is the first and current President of the Greater Idaho Musician\u2019s Association, Local 423 of the American Federation of Musicians. 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Nicandros endowed chair. Much in demand as an orchestral musician, Sasha has performed as a guest artist with The Cleveland Orchestra ( including 2016 European Tour and 2018 Centennial Gala Concert, televised on PBS Great Performances series New York Philharmonic, Saint Louis Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Israel Philharmonic and as a guest Principal Clarinetist with the Kansas City Symphony and Alabama Symphony ( including ASO Carnegie Hall performance in 2012). As a soloist, Sasha has given recitals in his native Ukraine, Israel and throughout US. He also appeared as a soloist with Tel Aviv Symphony, Israel Camerata, Brooklyn Philharmonic, Houston Chamber Orchestra and Orchestra X Houston, under direction of Itay Talgam, Lucas Foss and John Axelrod. The most recent performances were the World Premieres of \" Twitch\" by Nathan Daughtrey for Solo Clarinet and wind ensemble at 2016 Chicago Midwest Conference and \" The Nail\" by Robert Smith for Clarinet, Piano and bass trombone, performed at the 2017 Texas Music Festival. As a dedicated teacher, Sasha has influenced hundreds of young clarinetists in Texas and around US, giving master classes at Rice University, University of Houston, University of Florida, Cincinnati Conservatory, University of Maryland, Peabody Institute and Buffet Group Showroom in New York City. He was also invited by the current HSO Music Director Andr\u00e9s Orosco-Estrada to teach a week residence with the Colombian Youth Orchestra in Santa Marta, Colombia. He has participated in Tanglewood, Blossom and Bellingham Music festivals. His main teachers were David Weber and David Peck and additional studies with Yehuda Gilad, Mark Nuccio and Michael Wayne. 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In addition, he has performed as a guest principal with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. During the summer, he is Principal Bassoon for the Sun Valley Music Festival, and in 2017, the Bellingham Festival of Music. 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Tariq has a bachelor of music from the Cleveland Institute of Music where he studied with David McGill for five years.\r\n\r\nHe also completed one year of graduate work at the University of Southern California, studying with Stephen Maxym before leaving to take the position in Germany. Tariq has attended numerous summer festivals including two years at the Spoleto Festival.\r\n\r\nAs an orchestral musician, Tariq has performed with the San Francisco Symphony as well as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under various conductors including Pierre Boulez, Christoph Eschenbach, Daniel Barenboim, and Jeffrey Kahane.","post_title":"Tariq Masri","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"tariq-masri","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-01-14 12:52:33","post_modified_gmt":"2022-01-14 19:52:33","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/dev.svmusicfestival.org\/?post_type=people&p=2241","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":4440,"post_author":"16","post_date":"2020-01-22 19:08:07","post_date_gmt":"2020-01-22 19:08:07","post_content":"Bassoonist Ellen Connors enjoys a varied career as an orchestral and chamber musician. She has been Principal Bassoon of the ProMusica Chamber Orchestra in Columbus, Ohio since 2011. Previous to that she served as Principal Bassoon of the Knoxville Symphony. Additionally, she has performed extensively with the Cincinnati Symphony, the Baltimore Symphony, the Saint Louis Symphony, the Grand Rapids Symphony and the Alabama Symphony. She has been a member of the Sun Valley Music Festival since 2011.\r\n\r\nAn advocate for new music, Connors has spent several summers in Lucerne, Switzerland performing exclusively new music, and in 2019 was Principal Bassoon of the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music in Santa Cruz, California. She earned performance degrees from Rice University and Yale University, studying with Ben Kamins and Frank Morelli. 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Martinez began his saxophone studies in the Bay Area under David Henderson of Stanford University and William Trimble, and earned degrees at the University of Minnesota and in France at the Conservatoire \u00e0 Rayonnement R\u00e9gional de Cergy-Pontoise receiving the M\u00e9daille d\u2019Or<\/em> in saxophone and graduating with honors in chamber music. Martinez later completed graduate work at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music under the guidance of Otis Murphy and studied with the esteemed Japanese saxophonist Nobuya Sugawa at the Hamamatsu International Wind Academy and Festival. 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In addition he has also performed with the San Francisco Symphony, Symphony Silicon Valley, San Francisco Opera and Sun Valley orchestras, Philip Glass, San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, the Premiere Saxophone Quartet, the Morosco Saxophone Quartet, the San Francisco Saxophone Quartet, and the Nuclear Whales Saxophone Orchestra. He is currently on the faculty of the University of California at Berkeley, and has also taught at San Jose State University, California State University, East Bay, California State University, Stanislaus, and Chabot College. 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Elizabeth has performed as the featured soloist with the Cincinnati Symphony, Kansas City Symphony, Overland Park Symphony (KS) and the Lakewood Symphony (CO). She has also performed as a guest Principal Horn with the San Francisco Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and the Saint Louis Symphony. From 2000-2003, Elizabeth was the Adjunct Professor of Horn at the University of Missouri in Kansas City Conservatory of Music. She has also given numerous master classes and has done guest teaching at the University of Cincinnati\u2019s Conservatory of Music, Indiana University\u2019s Jacobs School of Music, Dayton University, Ohio State University and the University of Northern Iowa. 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He has performed throughout United States and Canada, and is a frequent guest player with groups including the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Houston Symphony, the San Antonio Symphony, the Richmond Symphony, and the Houston Symphony Woodwind Quintet. He has also performed with the Houston Grand Opera, the North Carolina Symphony, the New World Symphony, and the Louisiana Philharmonic.\r\n\r\nIn the spring of 2012, Nicholas was invited to perform at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC as part of their ongoing Conservatory Project. He was a 2011 and 2012 Tanglewood Music Center fellow, a 2010 National Repertory Orchestra fellow, and in 2009 was invited to Quebec to record the complete Beethoven symphonies with l\u2019Orchestra de la Francophonie Canadienne, which is available on the Analekta label. 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During the summers she performs with the Bellingham Festival of Music and has taught at the Idyllwild Arts Academy. Ms. Caliendo has been a featured soloist with the Charleston Symphony and can be heard on recording projects with the Kansas City Symphony, Rice Horn Studio and Houston Symphony. Ms. Caliendo is also a published composer and has released a collection of 18 Virtuosic Concert Etudes for Low Horn and the Caliendo Warm-Up Routine as well as numerous other arrangements and transcriptions for horn. She received her Masters and Bachelors degrees from The Shepherd School of Music at Rice University and was also a student at the Manhattan School of Music. Her principal teachers include William VerMeulen, Dale Clevenger, Michelle Baker, and Jeffrey Nelsen.\r\n\r\n ","post_title":"Katherine Caliendo","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"katherine-caliendo","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-04-25 11:31:23","post_modified_gmt":"2024-04-25 17:31:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.svmusicfestival.org\/staging\/?post_type=people&p=15792","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":2257,"post_author":"16","post_date":"2019-06-07 23:46:11","post_date_gmt":"2019-06-07 23:46:11","post_content":"","post_title":"David Griffin","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"david-griffin","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-06-07 23:46:11","post_modified_gmt":"2019-06-07 23:46:11","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/dev.svmusicfestival.org\/?post_type=people&p=2257","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":11100,"post_author":"16","post_date":"2023-01-16 10:51:13","post_date_gmt":"2023-01-16 17:51:13","post_content":"Lisa H. 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Born to a pianist mother and singer father, Knudtson found her artistic voice on the horn when she was 16 years old after a coincidental meeting with her first teacher, Wayne Lu.\r\n\r\nIn 2014, Knudtson began studying with Jeffery Nelsen at Indiana University. Thanks to the horn department at the Jacobs School of Music, she also benefited from the orchestral pedagogy of Dale Clevenger and studied early music performance on the natural horn with Richard Seraphinoff. During her undergrad, Knudtson spent six months in Vienna, Austria studying the quintessential and historic style of Vienna horn-playing. In 2018, Knudtson joined the St. Louis Brass (a quintet started in 1964 by then-members of the SLSO) and toured around the country with them until they disbanded during the 2020 lockdown.\r\n\r\nKnudtson began an artist diploma at the Curtis Institute of Music under Jennifer Montone and Jeffery Lang before acquiring the position with the SLSO in 2019. As a soloist, Knudtson performed with the Indiana University Symphony Orchestra and the Yale New Music Ensemble, and frequently appeared in recitals on the Curtis stage. Knudtson was a horn fellow of the Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo, Japan with music director Valery Gergiev in 2018, and the Boston Symphony's Tanglewood Music Center in 2019. Knudtson continues to perform as a guest musician with the renowned all-women\u2019s brass quintet, Seraph Brass, and regularly performs both as a soloist and in chamber groups with the Chamber Music Society of St. Louis, the Ariel Concert Series, and the Live at the Pulitzer series. She ardently enjoys collaborating with composers and performing new music, especially with friends.\r\n\r\nKnudtson also plays a leader\/teacher role in the St. Louis Symphony's Peer-to-Peer program, and serves as a faculty member at Heartland Horn Camp in Carol, Iowa. When not on stage or in the practice room, Knudtson is an avid latin dancer in the styles of salsa, bachata, and Brazilian Zouk, and enjoys getting outside to garden or go for walks in St. Louis's beautiful green spaces.","post_title":"Victoria Knudtson","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"victoria-knudtson","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-06-05 09:33:10","post_modified_gmt":"2024-06-05 15:33:10","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.svmusicfestival.org\/staging\/?post_type=people&p=16327","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":15800,"post_author":"13","post_date":"2024-04-25 11:51:55","post_date_gmt":"2024-04-25 17:51:55","post_content":"A native of Arizona, Martha Sharpe began her musical studies at the age of four on the piano. By age 10 she was ready for a new challenge and began playing the Horn. She progressed through the top bands and orchestras during Jr. High and High School and by her senior year was named principal Horn of the McDonald\u2019s All American High School Band. During her tour with the McDonald\u2019s band she had the opportunity to audition for several elite music schools. She chose to attend the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University in Houston, TX. There she received both Bachelor and Master Degrees in Horn Performance. She was most fortunate to study with three masters of the Horn during her time at Rice: William Caballero, Thomas Bacon, and William VerMeulen. Following her studies at Rice she auditioned for and won a position with the Royal Symphony Orchestra of Seville in Spain. She enjoyed two wonderful years in Spain before marriage and family brought her back to Arizona.\r\n\r\nCurrently Martha enjoys a varied and full freelance career. She is currently principal horn of Symphony of the Southwest, Millennial Choirs and Orchestras, La Forza Chamber Orchestra, and Phoenix Brass Collective. She plays regularly with The Phoenix Symphony, The Tucson Symphony, New Mexico Philharmonic, and is a member of Sego Lily Horns based in Utah. Martha is the Arizona representative and regional Co-chair for the southwest region for the International Horn Society.","post_title":"Martha Thompson Sharpe","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"martha-thompson-sharpe","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-04-26 13:57:34","post_modified_gmt":"2024-04-26 19:57:34","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.svmusicfestival.org\/staging\/?post_type=people&p=15800","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}]},{"people_picker_title":"Trumpet","people_picker":[{"ID":2281,"post_author":"16","post_date":"2019-06-08 00:01:20","post_date_gmt":"2019-06-08 00:01:20","post_content":"Aaron Schuman was appointed Associate Principal trumpet with the San Francisco Symphony in 2018. Mr. Schuman has performed in orchestras across the country including San Francisco Symphony, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Houston Grand Opera, Civic Orchestra of Chicago, and the Aspen Chamber Symphony. A native of Buffalo, New York, Aaron is a graduate of Northwestern University, attended Rice University and was a Tanglewood Fellow for two years. He has studied under Charles Geyer, Barbara Butler, Robert Sullivan and Alex Jokipii.","post_title":"Aaron Schuman","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"aaron-schuman","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-04-25 12:35:31","post_modified_gmt":"2024-04-25 18:35:31","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/dev.svmusicfestival.org\/?post_type=people&p=2281","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":2269,"post_author":"16","post_date":"2019-06-07 23:52:50","post_date_gmt":"2019-06-07 23:52:50","post_content":"Michael Tiscione, originally of Monroe, NY,\u00a0joined the trumpet section of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra during the 2002-2003 season.\u00a0 He left the ASO to join the San Francisco Symphony as second trumpet for the 2010-2011 season and has since returned to the ASO, where he is currently Second\u00a0and\u00a0Acting Associate Principal Trumpet.\r\n\r\nMr. Tiscione has traveled across the US to perform with many notable ensembles, including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Toronto Symphony, Utah Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, and IRIS Chamber Orchestra.\u00a0 During the summer months he serves as second trumpet with both the Sun Valley Music Festival and the Bellingham Music Festival Orchestra.\u00a0 In 2015, he began performing as principal trumpet with Festival Mozaic in San Luis Obispo, CA and in the section at the Strings Festival in Steamboat Springs, CO.\r\n\r\nRecent solo engagements have included appearances with the United States Military Academy at West Point, the Georgia Philharmonic, and with the Georgia Brass Band at the 2012 International Trumpet Guild Conference.\u00a0 An avid chamber musician, Mr. Tiscione has been a member of the Atlanta Symphony Brass Quintet since 2005.\u00a0 He \u00a0performs and records with the Burning River Brass, has recently toured China with the Chicago Symphony Brass Quintet, and performs regularly with the Atlanta Chamber Players as well as at the Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival. He is currently an adjunct faculty member at Kennesaw State University following temporary appointments at the University of Georgia and Georgia State University.\u00a0 Mr. Tiscione is married to the principal oboe of the ASO, Elizabeth Koch Tiscione.\r\n\r\nMr. Tiscione holds degrees from Indiana University (BM) and Northwestern University (MM).\u00a0 His teachers have included John Rommel, Charles Geyer, Barbara Butler, and John Charles Thomas.\r\n\r\n ","post_title":"Michael Tiscione","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"michael-tiscione","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-05-22 11:23:17","post_modified_gmt":"2023-05-22 17:23:17","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/dev.svmusicfestival.org\/?post_type=people&p=2269","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":2271,"post_author":"16","post_date":"2019-06-07 23:53:43","post_date_gmt":"2019-06-07 23:53:43","post_content":"Karen Donnelly\u00a0was appointed Principal Trumpet of the National Arts Centre Orchestra in October 1999 following three successful seasons as Acting Principal Trumpet.\r\n\r\nA native of Regina, Saskatchewan, Karen became hooked on the trumpet in her elementary school band program. While she displayed a natural ability for the instrument, she started her formal training much later at the University of Regina.\r\n\r\nAfter completing her Bachelor of Arts in Music, Ms. Donnelly received a major bursary from the Saskatchewan Arts Board to continue studying at McGill University (Montreal) where she completed a Master\u2019s of Music in 1991. While in Montreal, she quickly became one of the most sought-after trumpet players in the area, performing with premier ensembles such as the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Les Violons du Roy and Les Grands Ballets Canadiens Orchestra.\r\n\r\nFrom 1994-1996, Karen played with Orchestra London (Canada) as Principal Trumpet and performed with many ensembles in southwestern Ontario during this period.\r\n\r\nSince her arrival in Ottawa, Karen has also kept a busy chamber music schedule performing many concerts for CBC (French and English) and with the Ottawa Chamber Music Festival. As a member of the Rideau Lakes Brass Quintet, she is very active in giving educational concerts and workshops in schools. Also a member of the large ensemble, Capital BrassWorks, Karen is very involved in the organization and presentation of this group's highly successful concert series held in Ottawa. The Capital BrassWorks recently released its second CD featuring Ms. Donnelly as soloist.\r\n\r\nTeaching continues to be an important part of her schedule. Through the NAC Music Education programs, Karen Donnelly has given master classes in Switzerland, Mexico, the United States and in Canada from coast to coast. She joined the teaching staff of the School of Music of the University of Ottawa in 2002.\r\n\r\n ","post_title":"Karen Donnelly","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"karen-donnelly","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-07-22 21:57:57","post_modified_gmt":"2019-07-22 21:57:57","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/dev.svmusicfestival.org\/?post_type=people&p=2271","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":2277,"post_author":"16","post_date":"2019-06-07 23:58:39","post_date_gmt":"2019-06-07 23:58:39","post_content":"Steven Woomert joined the Toronto Symphony Orchestra as Associate Principal Trumpet in the 2014\u2013 2015 season. Steven has appeared as the Acting Principal Trumpet of the Canadian Opera Company Orchestra and has also performed with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphony, New World Symphony, Barbados Classical Pops All Star Orchestra, and the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra.\r\n\r\nSteven completed his Bachelor of Music degree at Northwestern University, where he studied with Barbara Butler, Charles Geyer, and Christopher Martin. He continued his studies at the Glenn Gould School, Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto where he studied with Andrew McCandless. In 2013 Steven was the winner of the International Trumpet Guild Orchestral Excerpts Competition and in 2012 was a member of the Northwestern University Trumpet Ensemble that won first prize at the National Trumpet Competition. Steven has participated in many summer festivals, including Spoleto Festival USA, National Repertory Orchestra, Banff Festival Orchestra, National Orchestral Institute, National Youth Orchestra of Canada and the National Academy Orchestra.\r\n\r\nSteven and his father Barton have commissioned and recorded an album of new music for two trumpets and piano entitled, \u201cTandem\u201d. In his free time, Steven enjoys joining some of his TSO colleagues on their volleyball team (The Gustav Bahlers).","post_title":"Steven Woomert","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"steven-woomert","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-03-28 10:16:28","post_modified_gmt":"2022-03-28 16:16:28","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/dev.svmusicfestival.org\/?post_type=people&p=2277","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":11124,"post_author":"16","post_date":"2023-01-16 12:49:58","post_date_gmt":"2023-01-16 19:49:58","post_content":"Anthony Limoncelli is the newly appointed second trumpet of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. A native of New Hyde Park, NY, he received his Bachelor of Music degree from The Manhattan School of Music, where he studied with Mark Gould, and he received a Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School as a student of Raymond Mase. He has also continued his graduate studies at Rice University\u2019s Shepherd School of Music as a student of Barbara Butler and Charles Geyer.\r\n\r\nLimoncelli was the previous Principal Trumpet of the Sarasota Orchestra and has performed as acting principal trumpet of the Houston Grand Opera, Britt Festival Orchestra, and Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra. Limoncelli was also the Binghamton Philharmonic Orchestra's former principal trumpet, where he performed as a soloist in Aaron Copland\u2019s Quiet City. He attended the Tanglewood Music Center during the summers of 2016 and 2017 and the Music Academy of the West during the summer of 2018.\r\n\r\nAs a chamber musician, Limoncelli has performed in Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall and competed in the 9th Osaka International Chamber Music Competition. He can be heard on Linn Records as part of a joint collaboration of Venetian music for brass between The Juilliard School and The Royal Academy of Music. Limoncelli has also performed regularly in New York City and on international tours with The Juilliard School\u2019s Ensemble 415 and The Yale University Cantorum \u2013 ensembles committed to period practice performance on historical instruments.","post_title":"Anthony Limoncelli","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anthony-limoncelli","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-04-25 12:24:30","post_modified_gmt":"2024-04-25 18:24:30","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.svmusicfestival.org\/staging\/?post_type=people&p=11124","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":15801,"post_author":"13","post_date":"2024-04-25 11:52:52","post_date_gmt":"2024-04-25 17:52:52","post_content":"Paul Torrisi joined the Utah Symphony as Second Trumpet in the fall of 2019. Prior to his appointment to the USUO, he served as Assistant Principal\/Second Trumpet in the Grand Rapids Symphony (MI) from 2017-2019. He also played Third Trumpet in the Youngstown Symphony from 2015-2017 as a Masters student at the Cleveland Institute of Music under the tutelage of Michael Sachs and Michael Miller. For his undergraduate degree, Paul attended Southern Methodist University in his home state of Texas, studying with Tom Booth. Paul also participated in the Tanglewood Music Center fellowship program in 2016 and 2017, occasionally getting to play as an extra with the Boston Symphony.<\/span>\r\n

Paul currently lives with his wife Hannah and cat Pepper in Salt Lake City. He spends his free time hiking, snowshoeing, lifting weights, and solving twisty puzzles.<\/span><\/p>","post_title":"Paul Torrisi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"paul-torrisi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-04-26 12:34:18","post_modified_gmt":"2024-04-26 18:34:18","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.svmusicfestival.org\/staging\/?post_type=people&p=15801","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":15791,"post_author":"13","post_date":"2024-04-25 11:27:09","post_date_gmt":"2024-04-25 17:27:09","post_content":"Joseph\u00a0Brown\u00a0plays second trumpet in the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra, a position he has held since 2016. Joe is a member of The Bay Brass and performs frequently with the San Francisco Symphony, San Francisco Opera, and many other Bay Area groups. He has worked with many orchestras around the country, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the St. Louis, Indianapolis, Seattle, Detroit, Atlanta, and San Diego Symphonies. He has also played guest principal trumpet with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra and Hawaii Symphony Orchestra.\r\n\r\nSummer engagements include Tanglewood Music Center and the Mainly Mozart, Classical Tahoe, Britt, and Pacific Music Festivals.\r\n\r\nBefore moving to the Bay Area, Joe was a fellow at the New World Symphony in Miami Beach for three years. Originally from Houston, Texas, he holds degrees from The Colburn School, University of Michigan, and Ithaca College.\u00a0In his free time, Joe enjoys skiing, running, hiking, biking, home brewing, and spending time with his wife, Erika and their dog, Dale and cat, Bailey.\r\n\r\n ","post_title":"Joseph Brown","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"joseph-brown","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-04-25 11:27:09","post_modified_gmt":"2024-04-25 17:27:09","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.svmusicfestival.org\/staging\/?post_type=people&p=15791","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":11115,"post_author":"16","post_date":"2023-01-17 12:48:04","post_date_gmt":"2023-01-17 19:48:04","post_content":"Conrad Jones was appointed principal trumpet of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra in 2016. Prior to this position, he served as principal trumpet of the Tucson Symphony Orchestra ('13-15) and acting 2nd trumpet with the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra ('15-16). During the summer season, he is principal trumpet of the Britt Festival Orchestra in Jacksonville, OR, under Music Director Teddy Abrams, and performs with the Mainly Mozart, Strings, and Grand Teton Music Festivals.\r\n\r\nOutside of Indianapolis, Jones has performed as guest principal trumpet with the Chicago Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Phoenix Symphony, Malaysian Philharmonic, and CityMusic Cleveland.\u00a0 A native of Long Island, NY, he received his Bachelor\u2019s of Music in trumpet performance at the Cleveland Institute of Music before continuing onto the Professional Studies program at the Colburn School Conservatory of Music in Los Angeles, California.\u00a0\u00a0Former teachers include Michael Miller, Michael Sachs, and Jim Wilt.","post_title":"Conrad Jones","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"conrad-jones","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-01-17 13:53:46","post_modified_gmt":"2023-01-17 20:53:46","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.svmusicfestival.org\/staging\/?post_type=people&p=11115","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":16475,"post_author":"13","post_date":"2024-06-25 09:23:37","post_date_gmt":"2024-06-25 15:23:37","post_content":"","post_title":"Alexander Schwarz","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"alexander-schwarz","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-06-25 09:23:37","post_modified_gmt":"2024-06-25 15:23:37","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.svmusicfestival.org\/staging\/?post_type=people&p=16475","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}]},{"people_picker_title":"Trombone","people_picker":[{"ID":2283,"post_author":"16","post_date":"2019-06-08 00:02:52","post_date_gmt":"2019-06-08 00:02:52","post_content":"Gordon Wolfe has been a member of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra since 2001, taking over the role of Principal Trombone in 2006.\u00a0 He was previously a member of the Winnipeg and Victoria Symphony Orchestras, and has also had the privilege of performing recently with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Atlanta Symphony, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and the National Arts Centre Orchestra. Gordon studied with Canadian trombone icons Ian McDougall, Thomas Eadie, and Peter Sullivan at the University of Victoria and McGill University while working through his Bachelor and Master\u2019s degrees in music.\r\n\r\nAn accomplished chamber musician, Gordon was a founding member of the Central Park Brass, a privately funded brass quintet that is dedicated to performing free concerts for young people in the playgrounds of Central Park, and working regularly with under privileged children in the Union Settlements of the Bronx. In Toronto, he performs frequent recitals with BATSO (Brass Artists of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra) as part of the Royal Conservatory of Music\u2019s\u00a0Great Artist Series, and has performed for thousands of young students across Ontario as an ambassador of the Toronto Symphony\u2019s\u00a0Preludes\u00a0programme.\r\n\r\nIn demand as a soloist, Gordon has recently been featured with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Toronto, the Hannaford Street Silver Band and the Idaho State Wind Ensemble. As a highly respected educator, Gordon draws top students from across Canada to his trombone studio at the Royal Conservatory of Music\u2019s Glenn Gould School.","post_title":"Gordon Wolfe","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"gordon-wolfe","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-07-22 22:05:54","post_modified_gmt":"2019-07-22 22:05:54","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/dev.svmusicfestival.org\/?post_type=people&p=2283","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":4443,"post_author":"16","post_date":"2020-01-22 19:17:11","post_date_gmt":"2020-01-22 19:17:11","post_content":"Timothy Smith currently holds the chair of 2nd Trombone with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, a position he has occupied since 2009. He has also performed with the Chicago Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Toronto Symphony, Boston Pops, San Diego Symphony, Jacksonville Symphony, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Grant Park Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony and Opera, and Chicago\u2019s Music of the Baroque.\r\n\r\nIn the chamber music realm, Smith was a founding member of the Second City Brass Quintet, as well as the CT3 Trombone Quartet, winners of the 2005 ITA International Trombone Quartet Competition. Additionally, he is a member of the Buffalo Chamber Players and Great Lakes Trombone Ensemble. Smith is also an avid proponent of new works for trombone, playing a significant role in several new commissions for trombone in mixed environments.\r\n\r\nAs a pedagogue, Smith teaches a private studio in Buffalo, NY and is a frequent recitalist and clinician at universities around the country. 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Mr. Mendiguchia has served one-year appointments with the New York City Ballet Orchestra, the Utah Symphony and, before winning the full-time position through audition, the San Diego Symphony. Mr. Mendiguchia also served as bass trombonist for the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra and ABT Orchestra in New York City. He has performed extensively throughout the United States.\r\n\r\nMr. Mendiguchia has performed with ensembles such as the New York Philharmonic, Metropolitan Opera, Cleveland Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Atlanta Symphony, AIMS institute in Graz, Austria, and The Verbier Festival orchestra in Verbier, Switzerland. In 2013 he recorded Sibelius' Symphonies No. 6 and No. 7 and\u00a0Tapiola<\/em>\u00a0with the Atlanta Symphony on the ASO media label. He has also recorded movie soundtracks in both Los Angeles and New York City.\r\n\r\nMr. Mendiguchia earned a Master of Music degree from the Juilliard School, where he studied with James Markey, and a Bachelor of Music degree from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where he studied with John Engelkes. 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He was previously the acting Second Trombonist with the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, DC.\u00a0 Mr. Higgins, a Houston native, has a Bachelor\u2019s Degree in Music Performance from Northwestern University and has performed with the Chicago Symphony, New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Milwaukee Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, Music of the Baroque, Aspen Music Festival, Grand Teton Music Festival, Sun Valley Music Festival and Washington National Opera.\u00a0 His principal teachers have been Michael Mulcahy (Chicago Symphony), Michael Warny (Houston Grand Opera), and Royce Landon (Des Moines, Iowa).\r\n\r\nIn tandem with a busy orchestra career, Timothy Higgins is a sought-after composer and arranger. He was the sole arranger of the National Brass Ensemble\u2019s recording of the music of Gabrieli. In November 2021, he composed and premiered as soloist in his Concerto for Trombone with Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony. Additional arrangements and compositions have been programmed by the San Francisco Symphony, Chicago Symphony, New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra, Detroit Symphony, Kansas City Symphony, Steamboat Springs Strings Festival, and numerous university brass ensembles. Mr. Higgins\u2019s compositions have been commissioned by the San Francisco Symphony, Detroit Symphony, American Brass Quintet, international tuba soloist Sergio Carolino, and Music City Brass Ensemble. He was the composer-in-residence at Music Academy of the West in 2018, debuting a piece for chamber ensemble and voice featuring soprano Deborah Voigt. His arrangements and original compositions are available through his publishing company, 415Music, established in 2014.\r\n\r\nAs a teacher, Mr. Higgins is currently on the faculty at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and has been a faculty member the Pokorny Seminar at Northwestern University since 2012, the Aspen Music Festival since 2018 and the Pacific Music Festival. He has led masterclasses in Australia, China, Canada, Japan, and the United States, including classes at the Royal Conservatory in Toronto, the New World Symphony, Vanderbilt University, the Manhattan School of Music, and the Juilliard School of Music.\r\n\r\nIn 2005, he won the Robert Marsteller Solo Trombone Competition, as well as the ITA Trombone Quartet Competition with CT3.\u00a0 While attending the Tanglewood Music Center, Mr. Higgins was awarded the Grace B. Upton Award for Outstanding Fellow.\r\n\r\nIn 2013, he released his solo CD, Stage Left<\/em>. Recent albums include two self-produced recordings from 2020 in his Underground series.\r\n\r\nTimothy Higgins is a Bach Artist and an Ultimate Brass Artist.","post_title":"Timothy Higgins","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"timothy-higgins-2","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-05-02 16:13:35","post_modified_gmt":"2024-05-02 22:13:35","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.svmusicfestival.org\/staging\/?post_type=people&p=5215","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":2291,"post_author":"16","post_date":"2019-06-08 00:07:38","post_date_gmt":"2019-06-08 00:07:38","post_content":"Michael Maier is currently Acting Associate Principal Trombone with the Hawaii Symphony Orchestra, and has been playing with the HSO since 2012.\r\n\r\nMaier has performed in a wide variety of groups, including the Seattle Symphony, Oregon Symphony, Colorado Symphony, San Antonio Symphony, Utah Symphony, Virginia Symphony, Malaysian Philharmonic, Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, Florida Grand Opera, Chicago Symphony, and the Tonhalle Orchestra. Since 2014, he has played Principal Trombone for the McCall Summer MusicFest.\r\n\r\nMaier is widely in demand both as a performer, and as a music educator. In 2017 he joined the faculty of the music camp Young Musicians and Artists in Salem, OR. In the Fall of 2015 he guest taught the trombone and euphonium studio at Boise State University and played in the Mirari Brass Quintet, giving recitals and masterclasses around the country.\r\n\r\nIn 2007-2008 he was a fellow in the Zurich Opera\u2019s Academy program. \u00a0As a member of this program, he performed extensively with the Zurich Opera Orchestra. \u00a0He earned his Bachelor of Music from Northwestern University in 2007 and his Master of Music from The Juilliard School in 2011.\r\n\r\nMaier is a native of Cleveland, OH and now lives in Boise where his wife, Lindsay, is a violist with the Boise Philharmonic.\u00a0 He also played the 2017-18 season as acting Second Trombone with the Boise Philharmonic.","post_title":"Michael Maier","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"michael-maier","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-07-22 22:11:44","post_modified_gmt":"2019-07-22 22:11:44","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/dev.svmusicfestival.org\/?post_type=people&p=2291","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":15798,"post_author":"13","post_date":"2024-04-25 11:47:45","post_date_gmt":"2024-04-25 17:47:45","post_content":"Dr. Sarah Paradis is the Associate Professor of Trombone and Euphonium at Boise State University, where she is committed to shaping the next generation of musicians. Paradis earned her doctoral and master\u2019s degrees from Indiana University, and her bachelor\u2019s degree from Ithaca College. Her primary teachers include Peter Ellefson (Seattle Symphony), Carl Lenthe (Bavarian Opera Orchestra), M. Dee Stewart (Philadelphia Orchestra), Per Brevig (Metropolitan Opera Orchestra), and Hal Reynolds (Ithaca College).\r\n\r\nAn avid orchestral trombonist,\u00a0Paradis has played with the Hawai\u2019i Symphony, Spokane Symphony, Aspen Music Festival, Boise Philharmonic, Opera Idaho, and West Virginia Symphony Orchestra. Paradis has performed at the American Trombone Workshop, the International Tuba and Euphonium Conference, the International Trombone Festival, and the International Trumpet Guild Conference. She was\u00a0a prizewinner in the 2012 Susan Slaughter Solo Competition and was awarded the Trombone Fellowship at the Aspen Summer Music Festival.\r\n\r\nAn active chamber musician, Paradis tours, performs, gives master classes, and records with the Mirari Brass Quintet and Tromboteam! Trombone Quintet. As a member these groups, Paradis has performed in over 40 states and China, has been instrumental in several commission projects, and creates educational initiatives that support chamber music for young musicians. Paradis can be heard on Mirari\u2019s two albums Spires<\/em> and Renewed, Reused, Recycled<\/em>, and on\u00a0Last Lap<\/em>, Tromboteam\u2019s album of ten new commissioned works for trombone ensemble. Her debut solo album will release in 2024.\r\n\r\nParadis lives in Boise with her husband and three children. She is a Shires Performing Artist.","post_title":"Sarah Paradis","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"sarah-paradis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-04-26 12:33:22","post_modified_gmt":"2024-04-26 18:33:22","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.svmusicfestival.org\/staging\/?post_type=people&p=15798","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":15795,"post_author":"13","post_date":"2024-04-25 11:40:55","post_date_gmt":"2024-04-25 17:40:55","post_content":"Patrick Herb has been the bass trombonist of the McCall Music Festival Orchestra since 2021. He held the same positions with the Albany Symphony from 2007 to 2015 and the Hartford Symphony from 2007 to 2017. Patrick has performed with The Cleveland Orchestra, The Knights, the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, and the Seattle Symphony and Opera Orchestras. He has recorded numerous soundtracks for movies, video games, and t.v. shows in New York and Seattle.\r\n\r\nIn 2018 he began teaching band in Hailey, Idaho at Wood River Middle and High School. His students have been invited to participate in regional, state, and national honor bands and have placed at Idaho State Solo and Ensemble competitions. Patrick is currently the Brass, Wind, and Percussion Chair for the Sun Valley Music Festival Summer Music Institute and has been since 2019.\r\n\r\nHe spends time in the Summer with his wife Tiffany, and daughters Elisabeth and Isabella sailing on Redfish Lake and exploring the Sawtooth Mountains.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n ","post_title":"Patrick Herb","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"patrick-herb","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-05-02 16:16:44","post_modified_gmt":"2024-05-02 22:16:44","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.svmusicfestival.org\/staging\/?post_type=people&p=15795","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}]},{"people_picker_title":"Tuba","people_picker":[{"ID":10257,"post_author":"16","post_date":"2022-08-08 14:19:13","post_date_gmt":"2022-08-08 20:19:13","post_content":"Mr. Sutherland, a native of Clarence, New York, was appointed to the position of Principal Tubist with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra in 2004. Prior to joining the RPO, Craig served as Tubist with the Charleston Symphony Orchestra, in Charleston, SC. Shortly after receiving his Bachelor's degree in Music Education from the University of Michigan, Craig served as Principal Tubist with the Hofer Symphoniker and Rekkenze Brass Quintet, in Hof, Germany. Upon returning to the States, Mr. Sutherland was awarded a full-scholarship to attend The Juilliard School where he earned his Master's degree. In addition to his tenure with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Craig has also performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, among others. Mr. Sutherland has spent several summers in Santa Fe, NM as a performing member of the Santa Fe Opera Orchestra. Craig is an active committee member with the RPO, currently serving on both the\r\nFinance and Retirement Committees. In the past he has served on the Negotiating Committee, Chair of the Orchestra Committee, and various RPO search committees. Mr. Sutherland is an active music educator in the Rochester area, currently serving as Adjunct Professor of Tuba & Euphonium at Roberts Wesleyan College. Craig is also a faculty member at the Eastman Community Music School and the RPO low brass mentor for the Rochester Philharmonic Youth Orchestra. In past summers, he has served on faculty at the New York State Summer School of the Arts in Saratoga, NY, in conjunction with performances with the Philadelphia Orchestra, and as a performing faculty member at the Brevard Music Center, in Brevard, NC.","post_title":"Craig Sutherland","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"craig-sutherland","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-08-08 14:33:20","post_modified_gmt":"2022-08-08 20:33:20","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.svmusicfestival.org\/staging\/?post_type=people&p=10257","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}]},{"people_picker_title":"Timpani","people_picker":[{"ID":2295,"post_author":"16","post_date":"2019-06-08 00:11:18","post_date_gmt":"2019-06-08 00:11:18","post_content":"San Francisco Bay Area timpanist Alex Orfaly is currently Principal Timpanist of Symphony San Jose, the California Symphony, and the Stockton Symphony. A native of Boston Massachusetts, he has been an active musician from an early age. He served as Acting Principal Timpani of the San Francisco Symphony from 2013 through 2015 and has been the Sun Valley Music Festival\u2019s timpanist since 2007. His past positions include with the Palau de Les Arts in Spain, the New World Symphony, and the Tucson Symphony.\r\n\r\nSince graduating from the Cleveland Institute of Music, Mr. Orfaly has performed with orchestras worldwide, including the Cleveland Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the Frankfurt Radio Orchestra. He has composed a number of works for percussion, including his\u00a0Concerto for Brass and Percussion<\/em>\u00a0and Divertissement No.\u00a0<\/em>2 for timpani soloist and large ensemble. His The<\/em>\u00a0Mean Man\u2019s March<\/em>\u00a0for solo xylophone and orchestra (2010), Cowboy Bill<\/em>\u00a0for narrator and orchestra (2012), and Breaking Light<\/em> for five percussionists and orchestra (2015) were written for and premiered with the Sun Valley Music Festival.","post_title":"Alex Orfaly","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"alex-orfaly","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-06-28 15:18:50","post_modified_gmt":"2022-06-28 21:18:50","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/dev.svmusicfestival.org\/?post_type=people&p=2295","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":2308,"post_author":"16","post_date":"2019-06-08 00:20:36","post_date_gmt":"2019-06-08 00:20:36","post_content":"

James (Jay) Ritchie joined the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in 2016 as Assistant Principal Timpanist and Section Percussionist. Prior to this appointment, he was a regular extra with the Cleveland Orchestra, Principal Timpanist of the Blossom Festival Orchestra and performed frequently with other groups in the Cleveland area. Jay has also appeared with the Minnesota Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra, Ottawa\u2019s National Arts Centre Orchestra, the Malaysian Philharmonic, and the Buffalo Philharmonic.<\/p>\r\n

Jay has participated in a variety of summer festivals, including a Principal Timpanist appointment with the National Repertory Orchestra, as well as the Tanglewood Music Center, the Pacific Music Festival, and the Britten-Pears Orchestra.<\/p>\r\n

A native of Blacksburg, Virginia, Jay began studying piano at age 8 and percussion at age 11. He received his Bachelor of Music from Manhattan School of Music, where he studied with Duncan Patton, Chris Lamb, and She-e Wu, and completed his Master of Music at the Cleveland Institute of Music as a student of Paul Yancich and Marc Damoulakis. 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Prior to accepting the position in Atlanta, he was a member of the New World Symphony in Miami Beach, FL, from 2000-2004. During this time, he also performed as an extra percussionist with the Philadelphia Orchestra.During the 2008-2009 season, Mr. Settle took a one-year leave of absence from the Atlanta Symphony and joined the New York Philharmonic as\r\na Percussionist and Assistant Timpanist, where he toured, participated in recording projects,and performed with the Berlin Staatskapelle Orchestra during their residency at Carnegie Hall.\r\n\r\nHe also performs as a member of the Sun Valley Music Festival in Sun Valley, ID, and has performed with the Chicago Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Seattle and Toronto Symphonies and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. An active educator, Mr. Settle has given master classes at the University of Miami (FL), DePaul University in Chicago, Manhattan School of Music, and The Curtis Institute of Music. He serves as an adjunct faculty member at Georgia State University, teaches privately out of his home in Atlanta, is a faculty member of the Atlanta Symphony Talent Development Program and coaches the Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra. He will make his debut solo appearance in September 2016 with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Robert Spano conducting, in Avner Dorman\u2019s Spices Perfume and Toxins<\/em>. Mr. Settle graduated high school from the Interlochen Arts Academy and received his Bachelor of Music degree from the Curtis Institute of Music, where he studied with Michael Bookspan and Don Liuzzi. He also serves as an Artist and Clinician for Zildjian Cymbals and Freer Percussion products.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n ","post_title":"Charles Settle","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"charles-settle","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-05-08 12:56:31","post_modified_gmt":"2024-05-08 18:56:31","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/dev.svmusicfestival.org\/?post_type=people&p=2301","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":2302,"post_author":"16","post_date":"2019-06-08 00:16:26","post_date_gmt":"2019-06-08 00:16:26","post_content":"Percussionist Joseph Tompkins has performed with the New York Philharmonic, the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, the New York City Ballet Orchestra, and the Orchestra of St. Luke\u2019s, among many others. He has played in twenty one productions on Broadway, and has recorded soundtracks for a number of major films. For seven years he was a member of the percussion trio Timetable, a group committed to commissioning and performing new works for percussion. Tompkins has composed a number of internationally recognized works for snare drum, and has been commissioned as a composer by the New York Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, and Atlanta Symphony percussion sections. He is Area Coordinator of the percussion department at Rutgers University.","post_title":"Joseph Tompkins","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"joseph-tompkins","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-07-22 22:18:58","post_modified_gmt":"2019-07-22 22:18:58","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/dev.svmusicfestival.org\/?post_type=people&p=2302","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":2304,"post_author":"16","post_date":"2019-06-08 00:18:59","post_date_gmt":"2019-06-08 00:18:59","post_content":"Chicago-based percussionist Ian Ding is a versatile performer specializing in contemporary music and orchestral percussion. He is a founding member and co-director of New Music Detroit, a member of the Fulcrum Point New Music Project (Chicago) and the Virgil Moorefield Pocket Orchestra (Zurich), and serves on the percussion faculty at the DePaul University School of Music.\r\n\r\nIan is a frequent guest with major orchestras such as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Cleveland Orchestra and Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and has also performed extensively with chamber ensembles Bang on a Can All-Stars and Alarm Will Sound. Ian is the artistic director and producer of Strange Beautiful Music, New Music Detroit\u2019s annual marathon concert of contemporary and experimental music and is also a former board member of the American Composers Forum.\r\n\r\nIan served as Assistant Principal Percussionist of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra from 2003-2011 and Lecturer of Percussion at the University of Michigan from 2005-2014 and was a fellow of the New World Symphony in Miami from 2001-2003. He is a graduate of the University of Illinois and the Juilliard School where his teachers included Tom Stubbs, Thomas Siwe, Jim Ross, William Moersch, and Gregory Zuber.","post_title":"Ian Ding","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ian-ding","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-07-22 22:20:20","post_modified_gmt":"2019-07-22 22:20:20","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/dev.svmusicfestival.org\/?post_type=people&p=2304","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":2308,"post_author":"16","post_date":"2019-06-08 00:20:36","post_date_gmt":"2019-06-08 00:20:36","post_content":"

James (Jay) Ritchie joined the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in 2016 as Assistant Principal Timpanist and Section Percussionist. Prior to this appointment, he was a regular extra with the Cleveland Orchestra, Principal Timpanist of the Blossom Festival Orchestra and performed frequently with other groups in the Cleveland area. Jay has also appeared with the Minnesota Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra, Ottawa\u2019s National Arts Centre Orchestra, the Malaysian Philharmonic, and the Buffalo Philharmonic.<\/p>\r\n

Jay has participated in a variety of summer festivals, including a Principal Timpanist appointment with the National Repertory Orchestra, as well as the Tanglewood Music Center, the Pacific Music Festival, and the Britten-Pears Orchestra.<\/p>\r\n

A native of Blacksburg, Virginia, Jay began studying piano at age 8 and percussion at age 11. He received his Bachelor of Music from Manhattan School of Music, where he studied with Duncan Patton, Chris Lamb, and She-e Wu, and completed his Master of Music at the Cleveland Institute of Music as a student of Paul Yancich and Marc Damoulakis. 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Ritenauer has performed orchestrally around the country with groups such as The Cleveland Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the Kansas City Symphony, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and the San Francisco Symphony respectively. Aside from orchestral playing, he enjoys chamber music. Along with his two brothers, Kevin has commissioned and performed works for percussion trio.\r\n\r\nRitenauer has spent summers as a fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center, Music Academy of the West and the Roundtop Festival Institute. In 2022 he appeared as Principal Timpanist with the Artosphere Festival Orchestra in Fayetteville, Arkansas.\r\n\r\nRitenauer attended the Manhattan School of Music (BM) and continued his studies at the Cleveland Institute of Music (MM).","post_title":"Kevin Ritenauer","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"kevin-ritenauer","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-03-30 14:54:00","post_modified_gmt":"2023-03-30 20:54:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.svmusicfestival.org\/staging\/?post_type=people&p=12622","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":15793,"post_author":"13","post_date":"2024-04-25 11:34:03","post_date_gmt":"2024-04-25 17:34:03","post_content":"A native of Roanoke, Virginia, Zubin Hathi joined the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra as principal timpanist at the start of the 2022-23 season. Prior to this appointment, he held the same position for one season with the Dubuque Symphony Orchestra. Zubin has participated in a number of festivals, including as principal timpanist with the National Repertory Orchestra and as fellowship recipient in the Pacific Music Festival, National Orchestral Institute, and New York String Orchestra Seminar. He has also attended the Aspen Music Festival and School, and has participated in the Sun Valley Music Festival, St. Barts Music Festival, and ChamberFest Cleveland. Additionally, Zubin has performed with the orchestras of Cleveland, San Francisco, Detroit, Buffalo, Rochester, Columbus, and India, among others.\r\n\r\nZubin holds a bachelor's degree from the Curtis Institute of Music where he studied with Don Liuzzi, Robert van Sice, and Eric Millstein. During his time at Curtis, he consistently made the Dean's List in recognition of academic excellence. He completed his master's degree and additional post-graduate studies at the Cleveland Institute of Music under the tutelage of Marc Damoulakis and Paul Yancich. He also worked with Luke Rinderknecht at Cleveland State University.\r\n\r\nZubin is a proud endorser of Evans Drumheads and Freer Percussion Products. He has recorded with The Cleveland Orchestra, and can also be heard on recordings distributed by the Naxos and Cedille labels.","post_title":"Zubin Hathi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"zubin-hathi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-04-25 11:34:03","post_modified_gmt":"2024-04-25 17:34:03","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.svmusicfestival.org\/staging\/?post_type=people&p=15793","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}]},{"people_picker_title":"Harp","people_picker":[{"ID":2311,"post_author":"16","post_date":"2019-06-08 00:23:03","post_date_gmt":"2019-06-08 00:23:03","post_content":"Harpist Heidi Bearcroft has classical music in her DNA.\r\n\r\nConsider her family tree. Heidi grew up in Pittsburgh where her dad was co-principal oboe with the symphony for over 40 years. Her maternal grandfather was a leading American bassoonist and pedagogue, her paternal grandmother was a concert pianist and her aunt plays first violin with the San Francisco Symphony. To top it off, her great grandfather was in the chorus of \u201cA Night at the Opera\u201d - the 1935 Marx Brothers movie.\r\n\r\nHer mom, who still plays principal harp in Pittsburgh, kept up a busy playing and teaching schedule even when she was pregnant. Heidi believes that by experiencing music in utero, she fell in love with the sound of the harp before she even knew what she was hearing.\r\n\r\nWhile still an infant she travelled the world with her parents when they were touring with the Pittsburgh Symphony - eating baby food on the Great Wall of China, watching locals drink snake blood in Taipei, riding a camel in the Canary Islands.\r\n\r\nHeidi started playing piano at three, harp at seven.\r\n\r\nShe mostly studied with her mom before moving to New York and earning both bachelor\u2019s and master\u2019s degrees from the Juilliard School of Music. While still in her teens, she made her debut as a concerto soloist and won a number of major national competitions.\r\n\r\nToday, Heidi is among the top orchestral musicians in North America, playing principal harp with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. She\u2019s been with the TSO for over a dozen years and has also played with the Pittsburgh, Mariinsky and Manitoba Chamber Orchestras.\r\n\r\nHeidi finds infinite satisfaction in exploring the sound palette of the instrument. Her fingertips make direct contact with the strings; for her, music-making is intimate and visceral. She can feel the sound blossoming from the core of her body and loves being the conduit for this special kind of musical energy.\r\n\r\n\u201cMusic is just wired in my psyche and heart,\u201d she says. \u201cI truly can\u2019t remember a time when I didn\u2019t want to be on an orchestral stage for the rest of my life.\u201d\r\n\r\nWhen not on stage, Heidi teaches privately in her backyard studio and coaches students at the Glenn Gould School at the Royal Conservatory of Music. 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Later that year, she made her international debut in the \u00c9glise de la Madeleine in Paris with the Calgary Youth Orchestra on tour in France to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Claude Debussy\u2019s birth.\r\n\r\nAn enthusiastic orchestral musician, Ms. Powell has performed extensively with orchestras such as The National Arts Centre Orchestra, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra, Aspen Music Festival and School, The Royal Conservatory Orchestra, NYO Canada, and Tapestry Opera.\r\n\r\nPhoebe has been privileged to participate in summer festivals such as the Aspen Summer Music Festival, NYO Canada, and Ticino Musica. 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Henderson is currently Associate Professor of Music and Artist-in-Residence at Maryville University, where he has served on the faculty since 2005. Since 2015, Henderson has been the Principal Keyboardist of the Sun Valley Music Festival Orchestra. In September 2023, he began his tenure as Principal Keyboardist of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra (SLSO).\r\n\r\nDuring January and February 2016, Henderson was the piano soloist in the SLSO's California tour performances of Olivier Messiaen's Des Canyons aux \u00e9toiles\u2026 (From the Canyons to the Stars\u2026)<\/em>. Critics described him as a \"powerhouse soloist\" (San Francisco Chronicle) and praised his Messiaen playing for its \"intense focus and thrilling vibrancy\" (San Jose Mercury News). 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She earned her Bachelor and Master of Music degrees at Indiana University with top honors in both performance and academic achievements, graduating magna cum laude as well as being awarded the prestigious Performer\u2019s Certificate. She continued her musical education with renowned pianist, Peter Frankl at Yale University where she received her Master of Musical Arts degree and pursued her doctoral studies.\r\n\r\nWhile residing in Chicago, Ms. Koren established herself as a prominent soloist, chamber musician and pedagogue throughout Illinois and Wisconsin. She concertized with members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Milwaukee Symphony, the Saint Louis Symphony and the Chicago Lyric Opera. During her tenure as a faculty member at the Merit School of Music in Chicago, Illinois, Ms. Koren\u2019s students won top awards in piano and chamber music competitions throughout the United States. 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